Sentences with phrase «democrat said the purpose»

The Democrat said the purpose of the law is to keep assault weapons and high capacity magazines out of the hands of criminals and mentally ill people.

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«Apple has sought the holy grail of tax avoidance: offshore corporations that it argues are not, for tax purposes, resident anywhere in any nation,» then - Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, who was the subcommittee chairman, said at the 2013 hearing.

The second paragraph of the WSJ story states, «' I don't want to have a national debate about freedom of religion when my whole purpose was to defend a strong and wonderful and appropriate city ordinance,» said Ms. Parker, a Democrat and the city's first openly gay mayor.»

Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat, questioned Cuomo's budget director about it at a recent hearing on the governor's spending plan, saying she's concerned it could be «potentially stripping the entire purpose of the legislature in budget negotiations».

Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle says Democrats had some concerns over a purposed commission to design new teacher evaluations, and instead now want the Board of Regents, which is in charge of education policy, to do the job.

The former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, the MP for North East Fife, who made a similar recommendation for a new Scottish conference in 2012, said it would be «a remarkable opportunity for Scotland as a whole — not just the political parties — to create a relationship with the rest of the UK which to all intents and purposes would be federal».

State Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat, said he is sponsoring a bill to strip the president's name from Donald J. Trump Park, a 436 - acre property straddling Westchester and Putnam counties, because the alienating leader's rhetoric is at odds with the inclusive purpose of a park.

«It's hard to enforce, and that's the purpose of this bill - to actually strengthen what's already on the books,» said Rep. Robyn Porter, a liberal Democrat from New Haven who co-chairs the labor committee.

Democrats in New York State government and the Westchester County Board of Legislators are said to be furious with Latimer for misrepresenting the purpose of the trip to them.

Shortly before the debate was due to start this evening, the Lib Dems circulated copies of bank statements, which they say: «demonstrate that all donations paid to Nick Clegg's account were matched by payments out to the Liberal Democrats for the purpose of part payment of a researcher.»

Rep. Emil «Buddy» Altobello, a Meriden Democrat, and others said there is little purpose for bump stocks for recreational shooters.

«The purpose of our coalition wasn't to turn Democrats into Republicans and Republicans into Democrats, it was to find common ground and get things done,» Klein said.