Sentences with phrase «about voting against»

This ridiculous little kabuki about voting AGAINST Alito and FOR cloture is a sham, and if NARAL is going to look the other way they no longer deserve to be the guardians of a woman's right to choose in this country.»

I think it's not about voting against another.

Not exact matches

HARWOOD: I just want to ask you about that in light of two votes you made recently: one for a partisan tax bill that increased the deficit, the other against a bipartisan spending deal that also increased the deficit.

McCain voted against tax cuts under President George W. Bush due to concerns about its effect on the deficit.

Influential shareholder advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) had advised shareholders to vote against the remuneration policy, expressing concern about planned increases in fixed pay.

The 30 sandwiches came from a list of about 200, which executives had previously voted either for or against based on just their names.

Liz Hutchins of Friends of the Earth, was among about 500 people demonstrating against the drilling proposal outside the Preston town hall while the vote was being taken.

With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.

Mittleman has agreed that until July 1, 2019 it won't take any actions against Aimia, including soliciting proxies, voting any shares, calling a special meeting, proposing the removal of board members, engaging in short selling or making disparaging comments about the company.

Iger was also awarded an equity grant that could be worth about $ 100 million in 2021, according to proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services, which urged investors to vote against the pay resolution.

Interestingly, Sen. John McCain, who the day before complained about Republicans» method of «trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle,» voted against the Democratic amendment to send health - care back to the starting line in committee.

Macquarie chairman Peter Warne was quick to defend Mr Moore's remuneration on Friday even after concerns last year about the company's pay practices and opaque structure led to a 15 per cent protest vote against the remuneration report.

The Left Platform, which holds about 40 seats in parliament and is composed of former communists and others closely aligned with labor unions, could defeat the government if its members vote against the plan.

It is getting tiresome hearing everyone on the radio yapping about how voters were conned by the slick campaign machinery to vote NDP; or that we voted against the PCs rather than for the NDP; or that we were angry and so made rash decisions that we will promptly regret because everyone knows what a hash the NDP have made wherever they have reigned.

I'm so tired of pastors want to tell their people don't vote, I don't believe in this, or that look who are we to judge anyman if he gay that's between him and his God, what about the thief, liar, cheater, should we stand against them to?

This is not about trying to force churches to accept us or to marry us, this is about religion waging a campaign against the gay community to demonize us in order to get their voting congregation to pass laws that deny us equal rights.

A brief history lesson - whenever 2 candidates go against each other in our country, about half vote for one candidate and about half for the other.

Chad, think about this: The GOP is against abortion and that makes many evangelical Christians feel they MUST vote for them because, if they do not, they are supporting murder.

In my service of about thirty - five years in Congress I have undoubtedly made many mistakes, but my vote against the declaration of war was not one of them.

Think about it they are voting against their own best interest because of his faith.

The auditor of the Sacred Palace drew up a summons requiring Fr Martin Luther to come to a personal hearing in Rome and requested the commissioner of the Palace, seventy - year - old Sylvester Prierias (the only man in the Curia to vote against Reuchlin), to draw up a text about the theological points.

While it can be important to be involved in our democratic processes, whoever and whatever we vote for or against will never completely bring about the freedom we desire.

This is about gays getting their civil right to marry and it has people talking because those that are voting against it show how clueless they are about the facts on this subject.

Millions of voters knew about Todd Akin's comments on abortion and rape but had never heard about Barack Obama's vote against an Illinois law to protect newborns that survived botched abortions.

I am extremely excited about this opportunity and can only hope I will receive enough votes to fly to New York on November 19th (yes, the day after WFC) and compete against 3 other bakers for a grand prize of a professional video shoot for my recipe!

Mention was also made of the poll among WCT surfers about whether to return to Jeffreys Bay in 2016, when Medina was one of only two to vote against it.

Mostly, they're just a bunch of people who think a vote for Jack Morris is a vote against Alan Trammell or Tim Raines, and who are persistent in their frustration that, no matter how many facts they marshal in response, another voter will pop and spout a bunch of bullshit about Morris just knowing how to win.

And I will say this about Morris: I don't vote for him, but the level of discourse against him, by certain segments of the sabermetric community right now, is over the top.

Just recently, Robin van Persie's first time volley against Aston Villa in 2013 was voted the best goal of the Premier League so far, but not much has been said about Rooney's fabulous 50 yard cross-field pass that set RVP up to score.

Trustee Dwight Walton, who voted against the nature sanctuary proposal, said that after hearing complaints about the additional traffic and noise problems that would face the Lake Arlington neighborhood, he could not vote for the plan.

awesome, although i did my vote wrong as i didn't think about jason and ben being up against one another!

How can we take Klein seriously when (1) he has no qualms about selling special Senate attention to folks able to pay $ 50,000 a pop (sounds like influence peddling to me) and (2) he doesn't have the cojones to vote against something that's illegal.

And that's not the worst of it - Labour's manifesto has precisely nothing to say about the welfare cap, which has hit households with 200,000 children, and which Corbyn was propelled to the leadership by voting against in 2015.

@fishinear: Not sure about the US in particular, but in many countries there's a serial number on the ballot paper, which can be matched up against the same serial number on a separate record to establish identity and eligibility to vote.

``... another thing remarkable he did not ask the whole of Ghana to vote for Nana Akufo Addo; of course being an NPP stalwart, it is expected that he would ask people to vote against President Mahama... but he did not ask the people of Ghana to vote for Nana Akufo Addo; it is extremely instructive; it raises a very serious issue... If I were an NPP member, I would be extremely worried about this grave omission,» he noted.

The change corresponds with Clinton's drop in the national popular - vote lead: from a 5.7 - percentage - point lead in our estimate on Oct. 28 to a 2.9 - point lead now — so a swing of about 3 points against her.

There's a lot of nonsense being spoken about the supposed democratic disgrace of the unelected House of Lords voting against the elected Commons this afternoon.

Ironically Jacob Rees - Mogg, who has also talked about his Catholic faith, voted against the Dubs amendment but has rarely been criticised for doing so, even though this goes against any notion of Catholic teaching one can imagine.

After millions of dollars of spending on his behalf, much of it by the charter school crowd, Carl Marcellino was finally declared the winner of his race by about 1500 votes against a woefully underfunded opponent.

Theresa May is expected to approve the creation of about 10 Conservative peers and at least one for the Democratic Unionist party, perhaps as early as Friday, in an attempt to improve her position in the House of Lords, which has voted 15 times against her government over Brexit.

While I can't say much about the West Coast races, I voted for Teachout against Cuomo in the last election.

Maria Miller must have been holding her breath throughout, and although she had a firm and embarrassing telling - off by Bercow for giving a lengthy statement rather than answering topical questions, she was lucky no one asked her about how appropriate she was as the new equalities minister, considering she has voted against the criminalisation of hate speech.

The businessman earned about 40 percent of the vote running against Weiner last year.

-- Vote against the finance bill after listening to the people's concerns over issues like the 10p tax rate (assuming the bill remains talking about retrospective taxation)-- Recognise the much bulkier and more vast argument against 42 days legislation and support the rebellion against this legislation rather than supporting the PR men and the policy writers to the hilt regardless of the realities of the situation.

«Tonight's vote sends a clear message that the City of New York is determined to provide relief for its residents, unlike Gov. Cuomo and Albany who recently enacted detrimental rent laws that could eliminate about 90,000 affordable housing units due to deregulation over the next four years — units that do not just provide an affordable price point for tenants but offer protections against arbitrary evictions as well,» he added.

The by - election consolidated Nick Clegg's hold on power, sparked new rumours of leadership bids against David Cameron, saw a surge in support for Ukip and raised questions about Ed Miliband's ability to win votes in the south - east.

(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.

All 52 of the party's MPs who voted against beginning the Brexit process are understood to have just received a formal warning about their future conduct from Labour chief whip Nick Brown.

I mean his personal popularity across the UK plummeted to it's lowest level ever in the autumn but, and this may come as a genuine shock to some, he is a Conservative prime minister at the end of the day, and more than this, he is a Conservative prime minister addressing Scottish people, 83 % of whom voted against him at the General Election and many of whom are still a bit miffed about that whole poll tax business.

Mr. Williams, a former Democratic National Committee official, only won about 10 percent of the vote against Mr.