Seven years ago, 49 Republican senators backed a plan to require a supermajority to pass tax increases. |
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It was only in 1917 that the Senate adopted Rule 22, establishing a procedure by which a supermajority could invoke cloture and end a filibuster. |
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And requiring a two-thirds supermajority vote of the state legislature to pass a budget in effect paralyzes government. |
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In addition, California is one of only two states mandating a two-thirds supermajority of both legislative bodies to pass a budget. |
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Options which do not have an explicit supermajority requirement have a 1:1 majority requirement. |
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In addition, a supermajority of three quarters of the shares represented at the relevant shareholders' meeting is required. |
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For votes requiring a supermajority, the actual number of Yes votes is used when checking whether the quorum has been reached. |
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If a supermajority is required the number of Yes votes in the final ballot is reduced by an appropriate factor. |
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The details must be agreed on by a supermajority of senators, all of them opinionated and some of them nervous about re-election. |
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But they fell three votes short of the supermajority required to send the package to Congress. |
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The Democrats were filibustering, and the Republicans needed a 60-vote supermajority to end the filibuster and bring the proposal to the floor for a vote. |
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If a UNA wishes to require a supermajority for any of these issues, then it may implement this requirement through its governing principles. |
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But if the Republicans succeed in blocking the bill, they may end up electing a supermajority of Democrats in November. |
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Moreover, of those attending a General Meeting, a supermajority of three quarters would be needed to approve such changes. |
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But within a year, using its supermajority, Fidesz changed the constitution and disallowed the Constitutional Court from repealing budgetary and tax-related laws. |
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It used smaller nominating groups that were reduced in number by the drawing lots and required a supermajority for election. |
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In some cases it must be unanimous, while in other jurisdictions it may be a majority or supermajority. |
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Despite democratically voting to join the Teamsters, both elections required a supermajority rule for Local 14 to obtain certification. |
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The Governing Body of the Treaty could also develop and adopt rules of procedure that would allow for decision-making by majority or supermajority vote in certain circumstances. |
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The European Union expresses the expectations that Guatemalan lawmakers would not override president Colom's decision with a two-thirds supermajority. |
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Fresh parliamentary elections on July 29 produced a parliament in which no single party had a majority, much less the 61-seat supermajority necessary to elect a new president. |
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The supermajority vote requirement can therefore enable management to protect itself from proposals it does not approve, to the detriment of the shareholders and the other stakeholders. |
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But the majority fell one vote short of the required 18-vote supermajority, so the proposal failed. |
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The proposals seek to remove the company's supermajority vote requirement and to allow directors to be elected annually. |
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The supermajority gives the opposition a strong hand in trying to wrest power from President Nicolas Maduro after 17 years of socialist rule. |
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Democrats control the body by a 24-14 margin, but decades-old reforms require them to cobble together a two-thirds supermajority to pass a budget or raise taxes. |
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He was tested two years later, when Texas voters put a Republican supermajority in power. |
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He has done this, procedurally, by using the coalition's supermajority in the lower house in order to ram through legislation opposed by the upper house. |
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Last month the Senate blocked a proposal for a bipartisan commission on deficit reduction: the yeas outnumbered the nays by 53 to 46, but failed to reach a supermajority. |
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As of Friday afternoon, the USA Freedom Act was expected to fall just shy of the 60 vote supermajority needed to proceed with debate under Senate rules. |
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California's state finances are still unwieldy, thanks largely to Proposition 13, which famously caps property-tax rates and mandates a two-thirds legislative supermajority to raise any taxes. |
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