The Democrats who control the Assembly rejected the idea immediately.
At the caucus, Democrats rejected the idea of taking a straw vote, insisting they knew too little even for that.
Yet in 1992, Democrats, sensing that the president was vulnerable, rejected it as too little, too late.
The Democrats rejected the second proposal as well, for many reasons.
In 1994 he proposed some cuts in military programs and intelligence services that even many Democrats rejected.
Republicans and some Democrats rejected the call for a new vote, saying the authority granted to the president by Congress last fall was sufficient.
The Democrats, who hold a better than 3-to-2 majority in the House, will reject this idea, too.
In the end, 106 Democrats and 137 Republicans rejected his argument.
But the Democrats, who control both houses of the Legislature, rejected the idea.
Democrats rejected its introduction, saying it did not solve many other problems.