voice vote

基本解释

We shall take a voice vote on this problem.
我们将口头对这一问题做个表决。
Last week, Reid whistled through the Senate, by voice vote, a bill to put us on that escalator.
上周，瑞德在参议院通过口头投票迅速通过了一项置我们于那台直升电梯的议案。
It's like a voice vote in one ofour own meetings, only a little bit more colorful.
这就像我们自己现在的一些会议中的呼声表决，只是他们的略微更有趣一点而已。

Committee chairman Democrat Howard Berman supported an amendment on the subject Burton proposed, with some changes, which was approved by voice vote.
I believe the choice should be clear." Though foreign affairs committee approval, which occurred by voice vote, is a significant step toward a vote by the full House of Representatives, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act remains subject to consideration by two other House panels.
"If senators refuse to debate about a profound crisis affecting every single citizen, the nation must ask 'What do you fear?' ,'And whose voice do you speak and whose interest do you vote?" Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky disagreed, saying the bill will make soaring health care costs go even higher, and place a greater burden on average Americans.

On that day, the U.S. Senate confirmed by voice vote the promotion of NSA chief, Lt.
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a vote taken in a legislative body by calling for the ayes and the noes and estimating which faction is more numerous from the volume of the noise