Word: voting
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...other side of the aisle, candidates are trying to gain a fifth seat for the independents. School Committee members Alfred B. Fantini and Timothy Toomey are both running, as is businessman Alan Bell. Generally, independents on the council vote as a bloc and favor tightening rent control restrictions...
WASHINGTON Speaker of the House Jim Wright caved in yesterday to opponents of a 51 percent congressional pay raise, conceding "the majority has spoken" in demanding a vote that will likely keep senators and representatives from getting any increase...
Wright had planned to let the raise take effect tomorrow, then have the House vote the next day to scale it back to 30 percent...
Yesterday, however, after opponents won a dramatic vote to keep the issue alive on the House floor, he relented and said the chamber will vote today...
...majority will rule," he said, promising a vote that "will be plain,...pretty damn simple...