Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important vote of the evening was the vote to reconsider--reversing prior decisions the developer didn't like. Reconsideration requires six votes; supporting reconsideration were Councillors Danehy, Saundra Graham, Sheila Russell, Walter Sullivan, William Walsh and Vellucci...
...speaker gave no indication whether the vote would also repeal raises for federal judges and top executive branch officials. Members of Congress would see their annual salaries jump from $89,500 to $135,000 under the proposal...
...House vote will require coordination with the Senate, which voted 95-5 for a more complicated rejection measure last Thursday that included a plan to roll back the increase for Congress and the executive branch officials...
Gray said members feared a vote to end yesterday's debate and adjourn "was going to be interpreted as a vote on the pay raise." He said any vote to increase lawmakers' salary now would fail. Even "if it's a vote on 4 percent, it ain't going to pass," Gray added...
...vote and Wright's subsequent announcement came after Majority Leader Thomas Foley (D-Wash.), presiding over yesterday's session, refused to recognize a pay-raise opponent who wanted to introduce a resolution calling for a vote on the hike...