Sentences with phrase «republican votes for»

This table compares the 2016 Democratic & Republican votes for each State Senate District.

So, if a Republican votes for a black woman to represent them in public office, it is a token.

Giving Republicans more Benghazi information, like that demanded by Graham, «would probably win at least some Republican votes for Mr. Brennan,» say Shane and Mazzetti.

Since the bill can only lose two Republican votes for it to pass, the margin for error is incredibly thin.

Although the bill drew bipartisan support in the Senate, with 14 Republicans voting for it, it will almost certainly face a tougher fight in the Republican - controlled House of Representatives in the weeks to come.

It passed the House on Thursday with a similar partisan breakdown — all but one Republican voted for it, while no Democrats did.

A majority of Senate Republicans voted for upfront legalization and increased low - skill immigration, but that only tells part of the story.

Too many Republicans voted for Roy Moore — conservative voters are embracing the progressive spirit of transgression and rebellion.

-- In 1865, the 13th Amendment was passed with 100 % of the Republicans voting for it and only 23 % of the Democrats voting for it.

Every single voting Republican voted for the Amendment, no Democrat voted for it.

While Democrats may have voted against it, some Republicans voted for it.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) said the Senate plan, like the House bill, would harm middle and upper middle - class taxpayers on Long Island and in suburbs across the country — and warned House Republicans voting for their bills they could face defeat next year.

Generally speaking, all the Democrats vote for the Democratic candidate and all the Republicans vote for the Republicans and whoever wins leads the chamber.

And that lack of notice, they say, cost them: None of 29 sitting Republicans voted for the bill, and one potential Republican supporter, Phil Boyle of Long Island, was absent from the chamber that day.

The next time Republicans vote for a shutdown, many Democrats will be limited in the criticism that they can make.

The data shows that whereas only 1 % of self - identified Democrats voted for a presidential candidate other than President Obama and Mitt Romney, and only 1 % of self - identified Republicans voted for a presidential candidate other than Obama and Romney, 5 % of the self - identified independent voters voted for another presidential candidate.

None... real Republicans voted for the Next Governor of New York State Mr. Warm & Fuzzy Carl.

Unfortunately, our amendment was voted down by Assembly Democrats while every Assembly Republican voted for it.

Senate Republicans were deeply torn on the issue, but ultimately approved the measure (the political calculation hinged on having all Republicans vote for the bill out of solidarity, making attacks on the measure's approval for an individual lawmaker all the harder).

No Republicans voted for the amendment in 2010.

The bill required a supermajority and only 12 Republicans voted for the act, which proposed giving as much as $ 7.4 billion to people who were exposed to Ground Zero toxins, including first responders, firefighters, rescue workers, police officers, EMTs, cleanup workers, area residents and schoolchildren.

Time to talk about the Ryan Plan so more, since all of the Republicans voted for it, while this debt crisis comes to a head.

In May, he and other upstate Republicans voted for the House's version of a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

In the party - line vote, 239 Republicans voted for Ryan and 189 Democrats voted for Pelosi.

In May, Reed and other upstate Republicans voted for the House's version of a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

The American Action Network, which has been conducting a national campaign to prod Republicans toward tax reform, is releasing a 29 - district robocall to voters in areas in which House Republicans voted for the measure.

Democrats kept their promise after the vote, immediately launching a national digital advertising campaign in 30 congressional districts across the nation where vulnerable Republicans voted for the GOP bill.

And (like those programs) the Dems will be very happy to «own» health care reform, and to point out for decades to come that not a single Republican voted for HCR.

While most Republicans voted for the bill, Katko and two other GOP members — U.S. Rep. Robert Dold of Illinois and U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna of New York — opposed it.

But the absence of Republicans from the dias at today's Capitol Hill event was a reminder that not a single House of Representatives Republican voted for the Recovery Act back in February because of fears that the $ 787 billion stimulus package would break the bank.

Six Republicans voted for the bill; four Democrats opposed it.

Walker in a statement thanked the committee for its actions after the package was approved 12 - 4, with all Republicans voting for and all Democrats voting against.

The vote went along party lines for the most part with notable exceptions of Republicans voting for cloture: Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Orrin Hatch (Utah), John Thune (S.D.), Norm Coleman (Minn.), Susan Collins (Maine) and Richard Lugar (Ind.).

Every Republican voted for the measure, while six swing - vote Democrats joined them.

In the end, the bill passed largely along party lines, with 51 Democrats, 2 independents and 7 Republicans voting for it.

Fifteen Republicans voted for that amendment, including Paul, making him the only 2016 contender to go on record as saying that human beings contribute to climate change.

Republicans voted for that in trade for Democrats allowing an immediate end to a 40 - year ban on crude oil exports.

The vote was 58 - 42, with all but one of the Senate's 55 Republicans voting for him.

Despite some last - minute disagreement within the Republican party — primarily from high - tax states like New York and California — the majority of Republicans voted for the elimination of the popular State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction.

Not exact matches

Even Democrats» least controversial demand, for disaster funding, faced pushback in 2017, with many Republicans in the House voting against various packages for hurricane and wildfire relief.

The changes to Medicaid were the sticking point for many Republican senators who had concerns about the bill going into the vote.

The Senate left open a previous vote for more than 40 minutes as it appeared Republican leaders attempted to persuade McCain to change his vote.

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Republican Study Committee, North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker, said Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen should step down as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee for voting against the final version of the GOP tax reform plan that passed Tuesday afternoon.

Update: House Republicans delayed their vote for the next Speaker of the House, after would - be candidate Kevin McCarthy dropped out.

That fact is adding urgency to the task of electing cooperative Republicans — a need underscored last month when Cruz forced McConnell to scramble for votes on a deal to lift the debt limit.

On the one hand, it could help her gain votes from Republicans looking for an alternative to voting for Trump; on the other, it could upset some supporters of Bernie Sanders who view Clinton as leaning too far to the right as it is.

When the bill came up for a vote on Dec. 24, 2009, not a single Senate Republican backed it.

(After the March 24 failure, it would be nearly unthinkable for the Republican leadership in Congress to call for a vote without being sure of the count ahead of time.)

It asked 2.4 million people whether they planned to vote for the incumbent Democratic president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, or his Republican challenger, Alfred Landon.

Republicans pulled their health care bill Friday after failing to garner enough votes to pass Donald Trump's plan intended to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaving the law better known as Obamacare in place for now.