Sentences with phrase «republican opponents of the bill»
In remarks at the White House, Obama rejected arguments by Republican opponents of the bill that it will increase the federal deficit.
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During the campaign, Trump and other Republicans vigorously criticized a meeting between then - Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton, husband of Trump's general election opponent.
Texas and South Carolina are home to leading opponents of the bank, including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Tea Party favorite and Republican presidential candidate; Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, who, as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has defied Speaker John A. Boehner and refused to bring any bank bill to a vote in his panel; and Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, a leader among conservatives in the House.
Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign zeroed in two of the donors to his likely Republican opponent Nicole Malliotakis: Robert and Rebekah Mercer.
A fundraising email from the campaign of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday criticized his likely Republican opponent Nicole Malliotakis for meeting with Donald Trump in 2013.
His potential primary opponent, Rachel May, disagrees and says Valesky and his renegade colleagues have allowed Senate Republicans to block progressive legislation passed in the Assembly, including a series of bills aimed at early voting and automatic voter registration.
Republican mayoral candidate Joseph Lhota outraged Democrats this week by releasing a commercial linking his opponent Bill de Blasio to the supposedly criminal - friendly policies of the Dinkins administration, for which de Blasio worked early in his career.
Schumer's opponent, Republican Wendy Long, argues any federal representative of Western New York should and would have fought for the Bills.
He opposed the bill, as would his Republican opponent, former University of New Hampshire business school dean Dan Innis, who called the bill «a beast» Friday.
Republican Nassau County executive candidate Jack Martins is criticizing his Democratic opponent's use of a political consulting firm involved in controversies surrounding New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio easily defeated a field of longshot Democratic primary opponents Tuesday night, setting up a general election race against Republican Nicole Malliotakis.
Washington (CNN)- Backers of a bipartisan Senate immigration reform plan Thursday defeated an attempt by Republican opponents to alter the border security requirements in the bill, which could have significantly undermined support for the compromise legislation.
Democrats note that Republican advertising this year focuses not on Ms. Stewart - Cousins» reign, but on the failings of her predecessors and on the liberal specter of the Mayor Bill de Blasio, meaning that even her opponents can find little to fault her for.
The fate of the bills is far from clear in the legislative session and may depend on what incentives Mr. Cuomo can offer to the Republican opponents.
Democratic Senate candidate Leslie Danks Burke on Monday released a TV ad knocking her Republican opponent Tom O'Mara over a bill that would make it easier for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits.
Levi told Dicker legislators should be aware of the «new political calculus» in Albany, noting two longtime opponents of gay marriage — Republican Frank Padavan and Democrat Bill Stachowski — were successfully ousted in 2010 and replaced with «yes» votes (Democrats Tony Avella and Tim Kennedy, respectively).
The winner, Democrat Bill Foster, focused heavily on the troubled state of the economy and hit his Republican opponent — dairy magnate Jim Oberweis — as a willing advocate for the President Bush and the administration's policies on Iraq.
Congressman Bill Owens has released the first television advertisement of his re-election campaign — a day after his Republican opponent Matt Doheny did.
One of her opponents in the hotly contested battle that could determine which party controls the Senate, Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy, immediately sent a fundraising appeal to supporters saying the allegation «isn't actually surprising because Senator Landrieu has represented DC values for a long time.»
The company netted tens of thousands of dollars of work for literature boosting Republican senators Bill Larkin, Carl Marcellino and George Amedore of Rotterdam, or knocking their opponents, according to the invoices.
Republican Nassau County executive candidate Jack Martins is criticizing his Democratic opponent's use of BerlinRosen, a political consulting firm involved in controversies surrounding New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Though Assemblyman Bill Nojay took his own life last week, a majority of Republican voters in his Assembly district backed him over opponent Rick Milne in Tuesday's primary.
Former health care executive Rick Scott released an ad Tuesday tying his opponent, Florida Attorney Gen. Bill McCollum, to the disgraced former chairman of the state's Republican Party.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, kicked off the block party outside the center, which was attended by hundreds of supporters carrying flags and cheering any time they heard Clinton had a lead in any state — even as projected results indicated that her opponent, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, was leading her.
In Washington, New York Senator Chuck Schumer is talking up a Federal legalization bill, and former pot opponent John Boehner, long time Republican Speaker of the House has joined the advisory board of Acreage Holdings, a company that cultivates, processes and dispenses cannabis in 11 U.S. states.
Despite this support, however, the bill is not expected to pass through the Republican dominated Congress, and opponents have already begun to appear out of the woodwork to fight against it.
Republican opponents of climate legislation have been telling the public that a cap - and - trade bill would impose a «light switch tax.»
As I noted here, opponents claim the bill is a political move by the Republican controlled legislature to avoid giving the Democratic governor the power to fill interim vacancies set to occur as several members of the court are forced into mandatory retirement in the next few years.