"Not one contract was signed without the unanimous consent of the board, " he says.
So Mr. Reid moved under "unanimous consent" to allow nine amendments, each with a 60-vote threshold.
The House and the Senate could, through a procedural agreement, basically do this through unanimous consent.
Sensing the futile fight ahead, lawmakers folded and the amendment was withdrawn with unanimous consent.
Republican Whip Jon Kyl on Thursday blocked the Senate's attempt to pass by unanimous consent a similar bonus-tax bill.
Sometimes after 10 months of waiting, that unanimous consent is gotten and the approval of the nominees is unanimous.
At the pro forma session, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), presumably standing alone, will call for unanimous consent to pass the bill.
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And what I mean, be allowed to take it up, meaning simply getting unanimous consent to have a debate and a vote.
In the end, the legislation was tacked onto a package of House bills that were approved by unanimous consent in the Senate.
The proposals need unanimous consent to become law, and such legislation would affect Luxembourg the most, said Richard Murphy, founder of consultancy Tax Research.
The House passed the measure by a 354 to 67 vote, while the US Senate approved it on Friday afternoon by unanimous consent.
On 21 occasions, unanimous consent was blocked in order to -- and cloture had to be invoked to get somebody a vote -- 21 occasions.
And the Senate passed nearly 30 by unanimous consent last night.
Since nearly everything in the Senate depends on unanimous consent, the main business of the place is a continuous negotiation between these two supremely unsentimental men.
Senator TED STEVENS (Republican, Alaska): I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed with immediate consideration of House Bill 5946, which it has received from the House.
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE BOB GOODLATTE (R-VA): I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I ask unanimous consent that a letter received from Senator Bob Dole date today be placed in the record...
She was referring to Senate Rule XXVI, Paragraph 5, which requires unanimous consent for committees and subcommittees to hold hearings after two in the afternoon while the Senate is in session.
Pursuant to my discussion with Mr. Cardin by unanimous consent, each member of the committee will have 15 minutes to question in the first round rather than the 5 minutes provided by the House.
But under the rules that brought the bill to the Senate floor tonight, the unanimous consent of the Senate would have been needed to make any changes, which, Democrats made clear, wasn't going to happen.
But during the December 23 pro forma session, the Senate overrode the prior unanimous consent agreement by unanimous consent to allow the Senate to pass a temporary extension of the temporary 2 percentage point payroll tax reduction.
Instead, the Democrat majority Senate led by Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid entered into a unanimous consent agreement providing that the Senate would meet in pro forma sessions every 3 business days from December 20, 2011 through January 23, 2012.
The White House event followed the Senate's vote by unanimous consent on legislation that seeks to end inconsistencies in disability pay by providing for a special review of cases in which service members received low ratings of their level of disability.
An unknown senator, thought to be a Republican member who didn't like the way the hearing was unfolding, evoked a rarely used Senate rule that requires that any hearing taking place during a regular session do so only with the unanimous consent of the Senate.
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.
For Congress to act, to pass -- to come to an agreement, because of the nature of the recess there and they have the capacity to pass a unanimous consent measure that would allow an extension to be passed, which is the same kind of extension that has been passed 20 previous times just since 2007 that would send those Americans back on the job.
Under a unanimous-consent agreement reached last October, Lott first offered his "paycheck protection" legislation Monday.
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