Sentences with phrase «actually voted on the issue»

But if people actually voted on the issue, politics could drive change in education.

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Such conversations can reveal which issues your shareholders actually care about — maybe board diversity isn't even on their radar, and won't be a deal - breaker come vote time.

Despite talking for a month about an option to bypass leadership's stonewalling on DACA legislation and saying he had the votes to do so, California Republican Rep. Jeff Denham refused to say if he would actually use it at a press conference on the issue Wednesday.

You also have people who can register as a specfic party and run on a ticket to strengthen their careers and yet they only espouse one or two things that could count them into the party in the first place.There's also a huge issue of people really thinking that a vote for a 3rd party candidate is a waste, If the only way you feel your vote matters is by voting for one of 2 parties (even if you are unsatisfied with both) does it actually matter?

When you pro-life contradictions stop acting like life begins at conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged cause.

Maybe the media should focus on the real issues instead of the religion of the candidates we might actually get some info to use for making an intelligent decision in the voting booth.

The founders of Black Lives Matter refute these 11 stated misconceptions about their movement; they ignore Black on Black crime, they're leaderless, they have no agenda, they're a one - issue movement (Police brutality), they don't respect their elders, they reject the Black Church, they don't care about Queer / Trans lives, they hate White people, they hate Police officers, politically speaking their focus should be the vote, and they're not actually a movement.

When they know that we'll show up on voting day and make our voice heard, they'll be far more likely to address the issues that concern us when they're actually in government.

Because everyone has to vote, the whole country may become more politically literate and they might actually learn what their positions on different issues are, allowing them to make very informed decisions about their choice.

While New York City Democrats would likely be the most frustrated if there's no agreement in 2016, there are dozens of lawmakers throughout the state who had to grapple with the issue on the campaign trail this year, and thus suffered a political headache for voting in favor of a budget bill that included a provision which didn't actually wind up raising their salary.

Comparatively few Labour MPs actually voted for the Lib Dem motion but an awful lot of people sat on their hands as a way of showing their determination to finish this issue.»

What actually happened was that Tories under Dominic Grieve - who has a poor voting record on these issues - supported a wrecking amendment that had been moved by the Tory peer Lord Waddington in May 2008.

They can vote in Parliament on issues like stem cell research and policy on mad cow disease, they can pass the Government's science budget without even knowing what it says, but they can not actually engage with the scientific community.

See http://www.cfr.org/climate-change/candidates-climate-change/p14765 which says that «McCain has been one of the most outspoken members of Congress on the issue of climate change» and he «managed to force the first real Senate vote on actually doing something about the largest environmental peril our species has yet faced.»