Sentences with phrase «republicans blocked their effort»

Democrats walked out of the Senate in protest yesterday after Republicans blocked their effort to oust the majority leader, Dean Skelos, following his arrest on federal corruption charges.

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With Congress stalemated over immigration, Flake earlier this week sought to force a Senate vote on temporarily protecting «Dreamer» immigrants from being deported, while financing Trump's border wall for three years, but another Republican blocked Flake's effort.

Republican Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins joined Democratic lawmakers to block an effort to scrap the rule in May.

Early on, Mr. Levitt also went to war with Congress, blocking a Republican effort in 1995 to eliminate the S.E.C.'s Investor Education Department.

In last week's down - to - the - wire budget battle between the White House and Republican leaders, for example, it was a GOP effort to defund Planned Parenthood — a longtime enemy of Christian conservatives — that emerged as a final stumbling block.

Then you have the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which lead the Republicans into dominating the south after the Jim Crow Democrats were unable to block Republican efforts to bring equality to blacks in the south.

A once - quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington yesterday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months — mounted an all - out attack on the Senate's embattled health care legislation hours before Republicans postponed a vote.

For too long Trump's allies in the Senate Republican Majority have blocked efforts to protect Roe v. Wade in New York and pass the Reproductive Health Act, as well as legislation to ensure access to contraception.

«This session is perhaps most notable for the fact that, so far, it seems the Republican Senate majority will once again block any substantive effort to regain the public trust that has been so thoroughly tarnished.

This session is perhaps most notable for the fact that, so far, it seems the Republican Senate majority will once again block any substantive efforts to regain the public trust that has been so thoroughly tarnished.

Squadron's efforts to at least bring the bill to the floor for an up - or - down vote were blocked by the Senate Republicans.

The NYP and Fred Dicker's «Assembly Republican blocks coup effort against Sheldon Silver» item make one thing perfectly clear — Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R - Rensselaer), has had enough of Speaker Sheldon Silver and may provide the leadership necessary to force the soon to be federally indicted speaker to resign from his Assembly Speaker post.

Does Republican congressional candidate Dan Donovan support congressional Republican efforts to block the use of social security retirement taxes to fund social security disability payments?

Schneiderman's proposal comes as state lawmakers prepare to debate once again a public financing of campaigns on the state level that could see the adoption of a matching program based off the New York City system (Senate Republicans have blocked efforts to institute public financing).

Republicans in the New York state Senate have blocked an effort by Democrats to force a vote on four gun control bills.

This was an action the governor promised to take after a broader legislative effort was blocked earlier this year by Republicans in the state Senate.

Democrats in the mainline conference in the state Senate on Wednesday blasted majority Republicans for blocking their effort to have a vote on their own budget resolution.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Republicans in the New York state Senate have blocked an effort by Democrats to force a vote on four gun control bills.

Since March, Democrats have voted to block hundreds of millions in borrowing for capital projects in an effort to force Republicans to create an independent office to investigate county contracts.

ALBANY - Senate Republicans in Albany blocked an effort by Democrats Wednesday to force a vote on four gun control bills.

The $ 2 billion tax increase follows months of efforts by Assembly Democrats to hike taxes on the wealthy despite promises by Cuomo, also a Democrat, and the Senate's Republican majority that they'd block any increases in one of the nation's most heavily taxed states.

White House adviser John Podesta, back at the White House podium, said congressional Republicans will not be able to block the president's climate regulations, despite numerous legislative efforts to do so.

In the recall elections, state Democrats object to Republican legislators» support of the collective bargaining law while Republicans are critical of Democratic lawmakers who left the state during negotiations in opposition to Republican Gov. Scott Walker's agenda, in an effort to block the bill.

As if there was any doubt that Congress was on the verge of devolving into a carnival atmosphere, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic majority leader, on Thursday proposed doing cartwheels down the center aisle of the Senate chamber to draw attention to Republican efforts to block legislation.

While New York is among just two states in the U.S. to charge 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults, previous efforts to end the practice were blocked by Senate Republicans.

ALBANY — Senate Republicans in Albany blocked an effort by Democrats Wednesday to force a vote on four gun control bills.

Versions of both bills had been introduced in previous Congresses, and their revival was widely expected as part of Republicans» continuing efforts to block key parts of Obama's environmental agenda.

A concerted effort by Republicans in Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act hit a surprising road block earlier this year: strong pushback against cuts to Medicaid.

Republican House lawmakers successfully banded together Tuesday morning in an effort to block a proposal put forward by school voucher champion Rep. Paul «Skip» Stam that would have set up the state's new school voucher program for expansion.

But there appeared to be growing discontent among some Republican lawmakers over the school voucher program, as Rep. Bryan Holloway led efforts to block Stam's proposal by telling his colleagues they «might find it interesting» to look at what kinds of schools voucher students are picking and choosing.

However, these efforts have essentially always been blocked, and it's almost always been along party lines... with the Republicans on the wrong side of the issue.

The Republican Party has often blocked efforts to address climate change in recent years, including a sweeping climate bill in June 2008.

Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey — two senior Democrats with solid green credentials — recently charted all the votes taken so far this year and calculated that the Republican - led House has voted to «stop,» «block» or «undermine» efforts to protect the environment 110 times since January.

Republicans in the state Senate blocked an effort by Democrats to force a vote on four gun control bills.

The repeated efforts to tap the fund, however, have been blocked by a coalition of Republicans and fiscally conservative Democrats.