block a bill造句

• By Senate custom, any senator can block a bill, at least temporarily.
• Under the Parliament Act, the Lords could block a Bill for only three sessions.
• Any senator can block a bill, forcing supporters to muster 60 votes to break the filibuster.
• In June he issued his first veto to block a bill slashing spending previously approved for this fiscal year.
• Bank shares suffered heavy losses amid worries that opposition parties may block a bill designed to clean up bad loans.
• Under Senate procedures, any member can privately block a bill by placing a " hold " on it.
• Those rules effectively allowed a minority of the Senate to block a bill or nomination through the technique of the filibuster.
• Republicans in the Senate are trying to block a bill that would permit a global free-trade agreement to go into effect.
• The threatened second veto would block a bill that Congress has passed but waited until late on Monday to send to the White House.
• The House on Wednesday voted, 206-167, to block a bill that would have opened the government through Jan . 12.
• The lobbyist, Donald Moon, turned to McCain to block a bill that would have scotched the land swap, according to the report.
• Tazawa reportedly promised Naohiko Okubo, a senior member of the Komei Party that he would help block a bill to revise the religious corporations law.
• After a marathon debate, leftist lawmakers defeated a conservative bid Wednesday to block a bill that would give legal status to homosexuals and other unmarried couples.
• Finally, if senators wished to block a bill or nominee after the motion to proceed, they had to be present in the Senate and debate.
• But their prospects are much murkier on the Senate floor, where a small minority of opponents can use procedural tactics to block a bill's progress.
• The second veto blocks a bill that would have provided temporary authority to keep government offices open until Congress and the White House could agree on a permanent budget.
• Orthodox Jews pressed for a law requiring health insurance plans to cover infertility treatment, as environmentalists tried to block a bill permitting cellular phone towers with no environmental review.
• Crapo had agreed to not block a bill that Lott wanted _ and the Senate passed _ to exempt junk yards and other scrap metal recyclers from the Superfund law.
• India's lower house of Parliament ended its winter session Wednesday amid chaotic scenes and vociferous protests by socialist lawmakers unable to block a bill for creating a new state.