We think the Senate can vote in the majority for energy proposals that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and reduce the pressure on gas prices.
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In the past five years, a five-vote conservative majority in the court has attempted to push back what it sees as an over-expansion of federal power at the expense of the states.
Eric Garcetti, 42, and Wendy Greuel, 51 - both veterans of city hall - have been cited as mayoral candidates who might face each other in a run-off vote in May if no candidate wins a majority of the vote in Tuesday's election.
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In the wake of two successive electoral defeats and the likelihood of a 60-vote Democrat majority in the Senate, what does it even mean to be a Republican today?
The fact is, is we have enormous urgent problems in front of us that have to be addressed, and they have to be addressed in a way that will get 60 votes in the Senate, a majority vote in the House, and something that the president will sign.
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It was passed via a 60-vote majority in the Senate that the electorate never intended the Democrats to have.
The British Prime Minister wants a nine-vote majority in the 15-member Security Council as a shield against his Labour Party critics.
The Lib Dems held the seat with a 3, 864-vote majority in 2010.
With the constant threat of the filibuster against almost any piece of legislation, almost every bill requires a 60-vote super majority in the Senate.
Still, the House popular vote in the large majority of districts 368 in 2012, 369 in 2004 not dominated by blacks or Hispanics was almost the same in those two years.
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The Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard just managed to squeak out a two-vote parliamentary majority in lower-house elections, and only then by horse trading with a few independents.
White House press secretary Ari Fleischer acknowledged in his afternoon briefing that Bush was speaking of a simple majority vote in the Senate, should the bill be brought up for a vote.
But speeches from other members of the MPC such as deputy governor Charlie Bean suggest that it would take a "significant deterioration" in the economy, perhaps as a result of the eurozone, for a majority to vote in favour of more QE.
By contrast, he said, the CWU had secured a majority vote in favour of industrial action.
The Dutch presidency's draft treaty had proposed letting the EC make laws by majority vote in new areas such as working conditions and worker consultation.
After years of virtuous pleading for more decisions by majority vote in Euro-councils, the chancellor shocked his partners by what seemed like a sharp change of tack.
Changing the constitution, which is necessary to allow foreign companies to take a stake in the country's ample hydrocarbon reserves and for Pemex to enter into joint ventures, requires a two-thirds majority vote in Congress.
Oxfam has been advocating to bring the arms trade under control for more than a decade and played a crucial role in the campaign to deliver an Arms Trade Treaty that was passed by overwhelming majority vote at the United Nations in April this year.
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In Scotland, polls several months before the vote showed a two-to-one majority in favour of devolution.
If no presidential candidate wins a majority of the vote in the first round, a runoff will be held later this month.
If no candidate gets a majority of the vote in the first round, the top two will progress to a runoff to be held June 16-17.
This amendment has to receive a two-thirds (or more) majority of the vote in both the House and the Senate and then be ratified by the legislatures of 38 states before it can become part of the nation's fundamental law.
His centre-left bloc won the lower house vote but failed to secure a majority in the Senate.
It seems clear that after Sunday's vote there will be a clear majority in the Catalan parliament in favour of independence.
Her People's Alliance, which has a majority of only one vote in parliament, is divided over what policy to follow, and its members will themselves have to face an election next year.
One example might be accepting that it would be wrong in principle to impose new financial regulations by a majority vote against the wishes of the country with the biggest financial-services industry in Europe.
Now, a majority vote of no-confidence in the government brings the prime minister down but it automatically brings the Knesset down too.
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In the cloture vote, he received a majority of the U.S. Senate.
Once Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty certifies Franken's election certificate, Democrats will have the 60-vote super majority needed to break a filibuster in the Senate.
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