Sentences with phrase «along partisan lines»

While the district was made slightly more Republican in the 2001 redistricting process, it's still relatively evenly divided along partisan lines.

Whether it's surprising that no one learned from that history is probably an assessment that falls along partisan lines.

American cultural debate today quickly breaks down along partisan lines.

Commenting on the exchanges, Drew Altman, president and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation says, «Governors are largely splitting along partisan lines on the exchanges.

The bill creating the committee passed in June largely along partisan lines with most Republicans backing the legislation and most Democrats opposed.

No less important is the fact that opinion on many key education issues does not polarize the public along partisan lines.

Americans are divided along partisan lines on federal and state authority on immigration laws

The Pew Research Center's report on «Partisan Polarization Surges in Bush, Obama Years» contended that, «As Americans head to the polls this November, their values and basic beliefs are more polarized along partisan lines than at any point in the past 25 years.»

The bill passed along partisan lines at 227 for and 203 against.

With 32 votes required, the final Senate vote of 30 - 29 on Monday represented a narrow margin of defeat along partisan lines — and a stinging setback for advocates.

That court is largely made up of Democrats, and the judges» questioning appeared to break along partisan lines.

«Americans are deeply divided along partisan lines in their evaluations of these movements,» according to the survey report, «although Republicans are significantly more likely to say the Tea Party shares their values than Democrats are to say the Occupy Wall Street movement shares their values.»

We've really not come far from those days, sadly, in our locker room talk or our propensity to compartmentalize our moral outrage along partisan lines.

One would search in vain for Catholic teaching that requires these policy positions; of the positions that are disputed along partisan lines, the USCC typically comes down on the Democratic side; and the competence of bishops to speak on these questions is, to say the least, not self - evident.

Wolf's comments quickly opened a divide, largely but not entirely along partisan lines, over the limits of comedy and comity under a president who rarely hesitates to attack the press.

The legislation passed in the Assembly along partisan lines and when it came up for a vote in the state Senate it was defeated with 30 Senators in support and 29 against.

But rather than cleaving along partisan lines, Democrats and Republicans — incumbents and challengers alike — came down on both sides of the issue depending on their states and districts, suggesting national party committees aren't likely to take up the vote in their national messaging.

Typically people answer these questions along partisan lines — Tory voters pick the Tory leader, Labour voters pick the Labour leader, the best PM lead ends up being similar to the voting intention lead.

Rather, her record is largely defined by her years in the state Assembly minority conference, during which she voted mostly along partisan lines, often against the legislation that moved through the heavily Democratic house that is dominated by New York City representatives.

That allocation, which represented a $ 6 billion increase above FY 2017 levels as mentioned above, was adopted along partisan lines, 29 - 22.

Long a bone of contention along partisan lines, the law has so far opened up of some 350 million acres of public land across the western U.S. to virtually unchecked mining.

EPA funding is typically among the most divisive along partisan lines, and it remains a target for controversial policy riders, the AAAS analysis notes.

Partisan polarization has given special interests and small minorities the power to twist public sentiment along partisan lines, even when bipartisan majorities support the substance of what is being proposed.

The business - backed, conservative American Legislative Exchange Council has crafted model bills similar to the one (SB 1718, HB 1191) now on its way to the Senate floor in Florida; the House approved an identical measure last week along partisan lines.

THE debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the education reform act that will be 10 years old in January, has fallen along partisan lines even though school improvement is one of the few examples of bipartisan cooperation over the last decade.

I'm glad the climate change bill was approved by the Maryland Senate but sorry to see it passed strictly along partisan lines («Climate change bill passes Senate on party line vote,» March 10).

If you fail to do so, I willing to bet 1000 to 1 you will never see large - scale, legit action on climate change and carbon emissions so long as the sides remain divided and the American public resorts to infighting along partisan lines, destroying the needed public will to act.

Environmentalists believe the likelihood is that Democrats in the Senate will not allow the riders to pass but it is further evidence of green issues being used along partisan lines as negotiators in wider discussions in Congress.

Despite the ABA's rarely given «unqualified» rating of soon - to - be Judge Grasz, the 50 to 48 vote cut along partisan lines, much like the Senate Judiciary Committee's 11 to 9 vote.

More worryingly for Facebook, Zuckerberg will be pressed along partisan lines from two opposing sides, each of which are convinced that Facebook has wronged them in different ways.

One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's great fears is that the federal judiciary will start to be seen as just another political branch of government divided along partisan lines like Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court justice said Tuesday.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he wasn't surprised that his Moreland Commission investigating public corruption was split along partisan lines on the question of taxpayer funding for campaigns.

In a legislative body with record levels of polarization, the science committee is even more polarized along partisan lines than the House as a whole.

In other words, a broad consensus remains with respect to national standards, despite the fact that public debate over the Common Core has begun to polarize the public along partisan lines.

Overall, the reaction seemed largely divided along partisan lines, with Republicans backing it and Democrats opposing it — with some exceptions — despite the fact that infrastructure was once touted by both parties as something that could be a bipartisan initiative.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton acknowledged this morning that Mayor Bill de Blasio may have lost the trust and confidence of «some officers» in the police department — but said the tension surrounding the mayor's role in the murder of two cops is falling along partisan lines.

The Senate Budget Committee signed off on the bill (SB 1718), already passed by the Florida House, largely along partisan lines with a single Republican — Sen. Evelyn Lynn of Ormond Beach — joining Democrats in opposition.

«If the question of impeachment dominates the news this fall, like so many other voter concerns, it breaks along partisan lines,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

The hearing quickly divided along partisan lines, Democrats pressing for details on the status of the FBI's investigation while Republicans focused on news coverage and possible improper disclosures of classified information developed through surveillance.

Public opinion on the president's reaction was split along partisan lines, with 37 percent of registered voters — including two - thirds of Republicans — saying his remarks were either very or somewhat appropriate, while 46 percent found them very or somewhat inappropriate (including 70 percent of Democrats).

The three Democrats and three Republicans currently serving on the commission — the FEC requires that «no more than three commissioners represent the same party» — can not agree on most enforcement issues, with key votes divided along partisan lines.

It was split along partisan lines, with Republicans and Democrats and conservatives and liberals developing their own software and databases.

A broad majority of New Yorkers continue to support Cuomo's two - year - old gun control law known as the SAFE Act, but they are split along partisan lines.

Thirty - six percent of voters approve of the way President Donald Trump is handling his job in his first week, according to a new Q poll that reflects a sharp divide along partisan lines.

Answers to the latter question remain very split along partisan lines — a majority of Labour and Lib Dem voters want Osborne replaced, amongst the Conservative party's own supporters 29 % think that Osborne should go, 47 % that he should stay.

Leutkemeyer said in a press release that his amendment, which passed 244 to 179 largely along partisan lines, represented «a victory for taxpayers.»

The divide along partisan lines was stark, with 24 percent of Catholic Republicans agreeing that global warming is caused in part by humans.

«The study participants were deeply divided along partisan lines, with about 50 % saying they do believe in human - caused climate change and 50 % saying they don't,» said Dan Kahan, professor of law and of psychology at Yale Law School and the lead researcher on the study.