He warned that a yes vote would leave the Ulster Unionist party fatally wounded and he displayed his young party colleagues, voting on mass against the agreement, as the way forward.
In a statement, the party's disciplinary committee said Mr Weir had been found guilty of six charges, including voting with the anti-agreement Democratic Unionists, against his own party on 10 occasions.
In a report published last year, the Constitution Unit, a group of academics and former civil servants, decided that the only way of dealing with this problem was to stipulate that the Scottish parliament can change its voting system only with the agreement of Westminster.
In addition, each Voting Cayman Entity has entered into an administration agreement with AIML pursuant to which AIML is authorized to vote the voting stock of CHCL held by such Voting Cayman Entity.
Instead of acting by mutual agreement it will have voting rights, with an 85% majority needed for emergency action.
What impact will the divisions over the agreement have on unionist voting patterns?
Casino owns 37% of the company and has the option to take a majority of voting rights next year under a previous agreement.
And Democrats might very well insist on a condition before voting for a new AG: an agreement with the White House that whoever succeeds Gonzales install a special prosecutor to investigate why those U.S. attorneys were really fired.
But his Westminster vacillation has caused him grief on the campaign trail, with Mr Paisley and others delighting in the spectacle of the most likely first minister in the new legislature voting against the first Westminster trial the agreement has faced.
While the text of the new collective bargaining agreement is still being drafted and NFLRA members will not begin voting to ratify it until Friday, the NFL did release several terms included in the new agreement.
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The trade agreement and the banana accompanying measures were approved during the daily voting session on 11 December 2012, despite an attempt by the left-wing GUE group to block the agreement.
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Some officials maintain even so that it is the existence of majority voting, not its use, that makes agreement easier.
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The House was voting on CAFTA, the Central America Free Trade Agreement.
The compromise agreement was overwhelmingly approved by MEPs during the daily voting session from 11am on 19 January 2012.
At the voting session on 15 December 2009, MEPs voted to approve a compromise agreement by 516 votes to 82.
The agreement was given the green light on 19 April 2012 with 409 voting in favour, 226 against, and 33 abstentions.
So it is quite possible to imagine a rainbow coalition across the parties voting down any attempt to kill the Puttnam amendment. (Remember the Coalition agreement between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems doesn't cover this issue, so a break in collective responsibility would be possible - although every breach of this kind adds to Coalition tensions).
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