the issue on the floor

Late today, House members brought up the issue on the floor.

The House is to take up the issue on the floor, a move expected this month.

He said later he was doing so only to keep the process moving and to put the issue on the floor.

Durbin said in a telephone interview before raising the issue on the floor of the Senate.

They say Senate Republicans are keeping the issue on the floor because they have no legislation ready to offer.

Despite such public pronouncements of confidence, other officials said in private that they expected "political fireworks" over the issue on the floor of the House.

After losing in the platform committee, which advocated a national referendum on the question, he raised the issue on the floor of the convention.

They said they would raise the issue on the floor of the House if the committee bill did not prohibit "C.I.A. covert activities to influence the elections in Nicaragua."

State House Speaker Michael E. Busch said his chamber wouldn't see the issue on the floor again this year, even though the state Senate passed it last month by a vote of 25 to 21.

He said he had written three times to Mr Brown asking him to investigate - as well as raising the issue on the floor of the Commons - but so far had not received a substantive reply.

Adam Winkler, a UCLA law professor who has written extensively about the politics surrounding guns, said it was not surprising that states had acted while the U.S. Senate was just preparing to take up the issue on the floor.

The issue on the floor is what this does or does not do to the golden (but slightly suspect) aura of Armstrong, who has spent recent days returning fire at his former teammate — at least, when he wasn't picking himself up after a crash.

Bryant, who was chastised by the Commons Speaker last week for raising the issue on the floor of the house, told BBC Breakfast: "I am sure there are some countries in the world where having a visiting royal makes a difference, it makes it possible to have some meetings which wouldn't otherwise be possible.

The House – the chamber that has typically seen greater opposition to the Patriot Act than the Senate – has barely debated the issue on the floor, although FBI Director Robert Mueller held a closed-door briefing with House Republicans earlier this month and with Democrats on Tuesday morning.