On that day, the U.S. Senate confirmed by voice vote the promotion of NSA chief, Lt.
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That was a voice vote, and basically, he said: You give me this, I'll vote for it in committee.
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Chief among them was Clinton's call during Wednesday's roll call of the states to give Obama the nomination by voice vote.
John Cornyn objected to a voice vote, demanding a roll-call vote instead.
Last week it sailed through the Agriculture committee by a voice vote.
Brooks' expulsion from the state Assembly came by voice vote following a recommendation from a bipartisan panel that met largely behind closed doors.
After a preliminary voice vote approved the amendment, it will wind its way through the sausage-making process that is known as legislating a budget.
Palin was nominated earlier Thursday on a voice vote that Sen.
His letter to Reid was sent only about an hour before the Senate approved, by voice vote, legislation that would force Terri Schiavo's case into a federal court.
Last month, the committee approved the report by voice vote.
The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was adopted 403-0 in the House on November 19th and by a unanimous voice vote in the Senate on the following day.
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Language is a kind of informal plebiscite: when we adopt a new word or alter the usage of an old one, we're casting a voice vote for a particular point of view.
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That threat is now off the table, though an amendment asking all Senators to donate 20 percent of their own salaries to a charity of their choice did pass by a voice vote.
The U.S. decision to withdraw comes following a surprise move late Wednesday in which the chair of the conference called a voice vote on controversial proposal that encourages governments to help expand global Internet access.
If there are non-controversial, non-ideological nominees at the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Treasury, that are not going to be opposed either in cloture or in the process, the tradition has been that unanimous consent is provided and an up or down vote, or even a voice vote, is done on these nominees.
The Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act of 1988, which provided increased penalties, passed unanimously (410-0) in the House and by voice-vote in the Senate.
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"Of course everyone is entitled to a peer group that they enjoy, " Burk, who is also the author of "Your Voice, Your Vote: The Savvy Woman's Guide to Power, Politics, and the Change We Need, " said.
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In America, we think a vote is a sufficient measure of voice.
They say that Wisconsin's voice doesn't count, that your vote doesn't count.
And so, in battleground states where women out-vote men in the hundreds of thousands, the female voice becomes even more powerful than that of her sisters in solidly blue or red states.
Although Mr Weidmann has just one vote on the 23-strong governing council at the European Central Bank, his voice as Bundesbank president carries great weight among other eurozone policy makers, especially from northern countries.
"If you're one of the millions of Americans who have yet to cast your vote in this democratic process, beginning on Feb. 5 and moving beyond, your voice will be heard, and we will be there with you every single step of the way, " Edwards told supporters.
Not only can voters freely voice - and check out - their worries about money politics, but enough among them now value their vote sufficiently not to sell it.
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