How to Use voice vote in a Sentence

voice vote

noun

• The bill passed the Senate 23-9 and passed the Assembly on a voice vote.
  — Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2024
• The House gave the bill initial approval on a voice vote last week.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2024
• He was confirmed by the Senate in June 2018 by a voice vote.
  — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2019
• She was confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate for both posts.
  — Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2021
• The bill passed unanimously in the Senate and by voice vote in the House.
  — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
• But come May, a voice vote took less than 20 minutes to push her out for good.
  — Se Cupp, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
• An earlier version of the bill had passed the House by voice vote in 2020.
  — Lindsay Wise, WSJ, 26 May 2022
• The Senate vote was unanimous; the House whooped it through on a voice vote.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
• The bill passed the House by a unanimous voice vote, and the same is expected in the Senate.
  — Eddie Pells, Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
• But the bills require more than two-thirds support in the House to be brought to the floor and are often passed by voice vote.
  — Emily Brooks, Washington Examiner, 30 Mar. 2021
• The rules were approved by voice vote after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
  — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
• But late Thursday, by a voice vote, the House changed the bill to include the end of the extra benefits.
  — Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2021
• Bolding asked for a voice vote on whether he should be silenced.
  — Dustin Gardiner, azcentral, 25 Apr. 2018
• The bill was passed by voice vote and now goes to President Biden to be signed into law.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2022
• The resolution on the new map was approved in a voice vote.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 8 Dec. 2021
• That bill advanced in the full House on a voice vote Monday with no debate.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
• The bill was passed by voice vote and now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
  — Kevin Freking, Baltimore Sun, 14 Dec. 2022
• Even with his backing, there was a contentious floor voice vote.
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 15 May 2018
• The bill was passed on a voice vote by the Assembly in February, but failed to come to a vote in the Senate.
  — Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
• But the two Democrats failed to get enough Senators on board, and the amendment died during a voice vote.
  — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Feb. 2023
• The Assembly passed the bill on a voice vote last week and the Senate approved it 28-2 on Tuesday.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2021
• The Senate last year unanimously passed a version of the bill in a voice vote.
  — Jason Silverstein, CBS News, 4 June 2020
• The more than $2 trillion aid package passed by voice vote on Friday.
  — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2020
• The bill passed on a voice vote in the Senate and with 61 votes in the Assembly, five short of what would be needed to override the veto.
  — Scott Bauer, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• The rebuke of Cornyn was a resolution passed by voice vote.
  — Eric Fayeulle, ABC News, 19 June 2022
• The House passed a motion to adjourn by voice vote on Tuesday, with the chamber gaveling back in at noon.
  — Juliegrace Brufke, Washington Examiner, 4 Jan. 2023
• An agreement was reached early Tuesday and the Senate passed it by voice vote that day.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• Gay said there was initially a voice vote that passed, but someone asked for a role call vote which failed on a tie.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• The House of Representatives passed its version of the bill by voice vote last month.
  — Josh Rogin, The Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2019
• The measure breezed through the Council in a voice vote with overwhelming support.
  — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024