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Second reading

noun

The second presentation of a bill in a legislature; to approve its general principles (Britain) or to discuss a committee's report and take a vote (US).

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"Second reading" Quotes from Famous Books

... letter had been read, and Lena had asked for a second reading, Polly put it back into its envelope, and they talked ...

— Princess Polly's Playmates • Amy Brooks

... the news of the Catholic question being carried in the House of Lords, by a majority of 105 upon the second reading. This is decisive, and the balsam of Fierabras must be swallowed.[291] It remains to see how it will work. Since it was indubitably necessary, I am glad the decision on the case has been complete. On these last three days I have finished my review of Tytler for Lockhart and sent it off by this ...

— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

... arising from the sale of their lands, between the Ohio and Lake Erie, should be appropriated to increase the salaries of the ministers of the gospel and the masters of schools;' and another bill (for its second reading) 'To provide for those poor and sick negroes, who having been freed from slavery might be unprovided for; and that till the master was exculpated, by receiving a certificate from the state, that negro was discharged ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various

... it seemed as if Mr. PROTHERO, in moving the second reading of the Corn Production Bill, was going to adopt the modern attitude of insouciance, for he spoke of it as "bristling with controversial points" (as if it were intended to promote the growth of quite another kind of corn), and observed that he himself had originally ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 2, 1917 • Various

... the Home Rule and Land Bills at a meeting of Liberals held at the Foreign Office, May 27th. He stated that the Government at present only asked for an endorsement of the leading principles of the two measures; and in closing the debate afterwards on the second reading of the Home Rule Bill, in the House of Commons, he made an eloquent appeal for Ireland. But all parties were preparing for the conflict, and members of opposite parties were consolidating themselves for opposition. "The Whigs, under Lord ...

— The Grand Old Man • Richard B. Cook

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