Sentences with phrase «republicans against the contract»

Two fiscally conservative Democrats, John Hampton of Simsbury and Danny Rovero of Killingly, voted with 69 Republicans against the contract.

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He injected himself into the Senate coup in 2009 just long enough to accrue a fancy title, and then escaped the charges filed against his compatriots; he had weathered investigations into the Aqueduct bidding contract, and a questionable nonprofit called New Directions; and somehow, despite that, he had succeeded again this spring, when he managed to cut a favorable deal for himself with the Independent Democrats, who at the time were badly in need of a non-white member to join their coalition with the Senate's (also entirely white) Republican conference.

The biggest argument against such a move is that voters are looking for the minority party to stand against what they believe to be President Obama's wrong - headed agenda rather than offer an entire alternative set of policies and, by unifying behind a «Contract», Republicans will be handing Democrats something to shoot at this fall.

At the time Democrats also were voting against borrowing in an attempt to force Republicans to hire an inspector general to oversee county contracts.

Republican County Executive Edward Mangano and the county legislature's GOP majority say an investigations commissioner who is hired, and can be fired, by Mangano is an appropriate safeguard against contracting abuse.