The House vote sustained that view.
The court can take official action with as few as six judges joining in deliberation, and a majority vote of the entire court is decisive; a tie vote sustains a lower-court decision.
In the new Senate, Republicans will have only a two-vote majority, and if those two votes sustain the objection, the tie-breaking vote goes to Vice President Joe Biden.
The New York Court of Appeals then affirmed by a four-to-three vote, expressly sustaining the constitutionality of § 744(b), 24 N.Y.2d 196 , 247N.E.2d2533 (1969).
Having played along so far with the grand Bush strategy, Mr. King is alarmed now and threatening to vote against sustaining future vetoes.
It is also a vote for sustaining high rates of abortion and maternal deaths from unsafe abortion, and for undermining the world's fight against AIDS.
The vote was 3 to 3, "and so the Chief Judge voted against sustaining the complaint because it was the first such complaint and he thought a close vote was too slender a reed upon which to proceed.
"As long as I am a chairman, I will vote to sustain the committee system". It takes 41 yes votes to withdraw a bill from committee.
Cruz, in a more than 21-hour filibuster-like speech, interviews and more floor speeches, had insisted that the vote to move ahead on the bill was tantamount to a vote to sustain the healthcare law.
Today, in announcing that he would vote to sustain Mr. Gaffney's veto, William J. Lindsay, a Democratic lawmaker who was not in office when the initial vote was held, said he was less concerned with the breaking of laws than he was about jobs' being lost, especially if the economy sours.
