Sentence examples for votes to proceed from inspiring English sources

Democrats needed 60 votes to proceed.

Harry Reid, the majority leader, needed 60 votes to proceed.

The vote was 58-40; the bill needed 60 votes to proceed.

The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, needed 60 votes to proceed.

In the Senate, allowing more opportunities for votes to proceed without requiring a super-majority of sixty senators to cut off debate would obviously help.

They have forced the Democrats to assemble 60 of 100 senatorial votes to proceed with legislation a record number of times this congressional session, according to a tally by the Associated Press.

But the commissioners must vote to proceed.

The Senate voted to proceed with the bill.

It ordered the secret-ballot vote to proceed, and the workers voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers.

Four of the village's five trustees, including Ms. Jasmin and Mr. Desmaret, voted to proceed.

Another half-dozen Republicans who voted to proceed on the bill remain ambivalent.