Word: vote
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...council seemed equally thrilled by the developments. For about a half-hour before the vote, councillors complimented State Rep. Jarrett T. Barrios '90, State Sen. Robert E. Travaglini, the city manager, and the Friends of Magazine Beach for completing a new joint management and license agreement between the city and the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) to renovate facilities at the beach...
...members of the Local 254 of the Service Employees International Union, will convene in Science Center E to vote on the tentative terms of the contract, agreed to in writing on Saturday by the union's negotiating team and the Harvard administration...
...Senate Judiciary Committee, his nomination to a Federal District Court post on hold. During a 1998 re-election campaign, Missouri's slightly less conservative senator, Kit Bond, said White had the "necessary qualifications and character" for the position and pledged to bring his nomination to the floor for a vote...
After a furious lobbying campaign, White was rejected by the full Senate in October on a party-line vote. Bond decided to vote with his fellow Republicans against the judge he had earlier called "a man of the highest integrity and honor," as did presidential candidate and Judiciary chairman Orrin G. Hatch, who had previously called White "a fine...
However, the spurious charge of racism obscures a greater threat. Ashcroft began his campaign against White by arguing that he had voted to overturn a death penalty 14 times. Later, the tactics became more sophisticated, and White's votes were compared to others on the court (some of whom, Ashcroft appointees, had voted against more death penalties than he), but the count-the-numbers approach betrays a cynical assumption that any vote to reverse the death penalty is suspect, that the courts should rubber-stamp death sentences instead of conducting meaningful review...