Sentences with phrase «party over a bill»

The vote reflected the fierce divide between both major parties over the bill (SB 7026), which also sets up a «guardian» program allowing trained school employees to carry guns in schools.

In December, he was among 10 Republicans who split with the party over a bill that would have blocked the first nationwide rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.

This time, the conflict was within the Republican Party over a bill in the House that would have banned abortions beyond 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Not exact matches

Senate Democrats and a handful of Republicans blocked a bill to fund the government after the two parties failed to break their deadlock over immigration.

The bill was not pursued when Paul Martin took over the helm of the party and the Harper government has since dropped the idea entirely, moving in the opposite direction.

The government says that proposed legislation, Bill 8, could require credit - reporting agencies to give consumers free online access to their current credit score at least twice a year and to disclose information in a credit report about any scores that were given to third parties over the past 12 months.

If a customer's payments are overdue by a matter of months instead of weeks, it might be time to consider turning over those bills to a collection agency or third - party collections service.

In 2013, political elites of both parties favored an immigration bill that primarily increased low - skill immigration, even though the unemployment rate for low - skill workers was over 10 percent.

«Regardless of which party takes the Congress next fall, orthe White House in» 08,» says Bill Clinton, «we're stuck with this bigdeficit [projected to be $ 3.3 trillion over the next decade].

Martin Horwood, undeterred by the Tories surrounding him, says the bill is «papering over the cracks in the Conservative party itself».

The measure would presumably end arguments over whether a certain bill would pass in an up - or - down vote in the chamber, but is being bottled up on the legislative calender by the chamber's majority party leadership.

So the pluralist challenge for Caroline Lucas is whether she is going to strongly back the Yes campaign, which is seen as positive by most - longstanding pro-PR voices across various campaigns or parties, or continue to argue after the next few weeks over the Bill that there is nothing much at stake, so that through to next May her primary point is that it doesn't really matter if its not PR.

Examples (based on my observations over the years): In countries like the U.S. that have two major political parties, almost no new idea (or bill) gets past Congress.

Ministers were forced to abandon a key vote guaranteeing the passage of the Lords reform bill through the Commons over a 14 - day period after it became clear it would have been roundly defeated by Tory rebels voting with the Labour party.

The state Independence Party has endorsed Republican Matt Doheny's challenge to Democratic Rep. Bill Owens in NY - 23 — a move that could prove significant in the GOP's effort to win back the North Country seat it had held for over a century until last year's special election loss.

Left - leaning activists rallying in Manhattan called Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo «a demon,» «a thief,» «Albany's top thug» and «phony as a three - dollar bill» over his alleged threat to defund members of a political party that endorsed his challenger.

WASHINGTON — New York Republican Peter King is boycotting a state party dinner tomorrow night featuring Sen. Ted Cruz over the Texas conservative's efforts to defeat a Hurricane Sandy bill earlier this year.

With one other non-IDC Democrat named Simcha Felder, these 9 Democratic State Senators chose to abandon their party for a «majority coalition» with the minority Republicans, giving them control over what bills come to a vote, who gets important committee posts, and makes it impossible for any progressive legislation to become law.

Things got heated on the New York State Senate floor this week over a debate on bills that majority party Republicans say will improve school safety.

Rep. Mario Diaz - Balart, a Florida Republican working on a House immigration bill, spoke briefly in Spanish at the McMorris Rogers event and was heckled by one of the tea party protestors who had wandered over and yelled, «Learn English!»

However, for reasons which are still entirely unclear, the leadership of the Liberal Democrats has chosen to ignore hundreds of party members, ride roughshod over party policy, overlook reasoned argument, and rely instead on shoddy logic and misleading arguments to support this unfair, unnecessary and unbalanced Bill.

Over the weekend, Dan Padernacht, the candidate who had refused to heed Samuels» call and pressure from a plethora of Rivera backers (WFP, 1199, NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, state Demoratic Party Executive Director Charlie King et al) to quit the race, finally decided to throw in the towel, saying King had played a key role in helping him get there.

The strength of feeling in the party against this Bill has been evidenced by the hundreds of letters, emails and messages of support we have received over the past seven months.

Party insiders say that's enough to keep operations running (payroll, general bills etc.) through the end of the summer, and that doesn't leave much — if anything — left over for the elections in what is supposed to be a great year for Republicans.

This is something backbenchers have been pushing for over the past year — and there are more than 100 of them by one count — so not only would a Bill help the party on the doorstep when it comes to the European elections in 2014, but it will also cheer up MPs.

Given Simon Hughes» comments today that the problem is with Andrew Lansley and his presentation rather than the Bill itself, I hope the SLF will increase the pressure on the Parliamentary Party to drop the bill, not pull some bait - and - switch trick over Lansley's positBill itself, I hope the SLF will increase the pressure on the Parliamentary Party to drop the bill, not pull some bait - and - switch trick over Lansley's positbill, not pull some bait - and - switch trick over Lansley's position.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is at odds with his ally, the Working Families Party, over Wall Street.

WFP State Director Bill Lipton credited Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whom the party backed over hometown favorite Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary, for energizing the progressive movement — an energy Lipton says continues and carried over into local races.

And, as the party's state director Bill Lipton writes in a fundraising email, the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 is now at the forefront of the national political dicussion.

President Obama's recent signing of the FAA Reauthorization Bill — over the protests of at least 19 major trade unions including the UAW, Steelworkers, Transportation Communications Union (IAM) and Teamsters — shows once again the current administration's true nature, say supporters of Jill Stein's Green Party presidential campaign.

Mr Blair also announced a draft bill on party funding would be presented in the Commons next week to «ban foreign donations and ensure that donations over # 5,000 are disclosed».

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said that the real scandal over the Buffalo Bills is not that Astorino prefers the Miami Dolphins but that the new owner made his fortune fracking for natural gas and contributing to climate change.

The comments from Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, leave Nick Clegg's party politically isolated over its controversial decision to withdraw support for the Medical Innovation Bill.

So that's a Conservative Party split * and * and a Coalition split over Raab / Immigration Bill.

He has also pledged to take a tougher line on opposition to the government's welfare reforms, following a split within the party over its stance not to oppose the welfare bill.

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Shadow health minister Lord Hunt also defied his party over the issue last month, backing an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill which would give voters the chance to either rubber stamp the final Brexit deal or reverse the UK's exit from the EU.

Though the business community has disagreed with Cuomo over the minimum wage bill and his recent executive actions raising the wage for fast food workers, Briccetti says she understand the governor has political considerations with the left of his party.

Quinn, a vice chair of the state Democratic Party and Cuomo supporter, denounced Nixon for endorsing Bill de Blasio over her in the 2013 Democratic primary for mayor.

A Republican lawmaker says GOP leaders have discussed scheduling House votes on two immigration bills as a way of ending the party's internal battle over the issue.

I trust just as the Commons has twice now voted to uphold a Manifesto promise of the governing party against Lords amendment over press issues, so we will do the same to the amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill that seek to slow down, water down or prevent Brexit.

The news comes as Labour appeared to be in disarray over the Budget plans, with a quarter of the party rebelling against Harriet Harman's demand that they abstain from a vote on the welfare bill last night.

Ed Stradling's report on two Lib Dems, former election candidate Jo Shaw and Islington Councillor Greg Foxsmith, speaking out following their resignation from the party over the coalition's Justice and Security bill, which will allow judges in civil trials to hear evidence in secret in certain cases.

And then there were the four Republican state senators who bucked their party to nudge the bill over the line, 33 to 29.

A Buffalo curator and artist is suing the weekly Art Voice over unpaid bills stemming from a 2015 anniversary party.

Nick Clegg has promised «substantive» changes to the NHS reform bill, as he tried to steady his party over the issue.

Two state Assembly members from Syracuse — Bill Magnarelli and Pam Hunter — today endorsed Colleen Deacon over her two Democratic rivals in the race for the party's designation for the NY - 24 seat.

The bill was granted a second reading by 3444 votes to three, but several Tory MPs stood to cast doubts on the existence of climate change, raising concerns over the party's commitment to the environment.

WFP State Director Bill Lipton told Lovett that the party has «huge respect for all of our over 30 affiliates as well as our allies,» and he also insisted that the WFP has «never been in a stronger position than it is now» — organizationally, politically and financially — despite suffering a spate of union defections.

This is why when your party won power in 2016 I felt that the hassle and struggles of yesteryears to get the bill passed were over.