Sentences with phrase «along party lines»

What we have to do then is instead of voting along party lines — vote your conscience.
The 57 - to - 36 vote, which fell largely along party lines, came during debate on a Democratic education - reform bill.
The committee split along party lines, voting 11 to 9 in favor.
The question is now at the forefront of national debate, and the answer often divides along party lines.
Almost without exception, bills are politically - driven and passed along party lines.
In many cases, disparities in mail spending appear to fall along party lines.
The bill won the motion 85 - 30 and was approved along party lines.
My analysis is that most people voted strictly along party lines and paid no attention to the issues or the candidates themselves.
The bill had made it out of the labor committee by a 7 - 6 vote, also along party lines.
Wide disparities occur along party lines regarding many questions about science.
The amendment was rejected along party lines by a vote of 19 to 15.
These sites are for singles looking for love along party lines.
The budget passed 19 - 10 in a vote that was split along party lines.
Education doesn't always divide along party lines, but current differences between leadership of the two parties are vast.
Legislators voted largely along party lines in approving a package of 12 appropriations bills that would provide about $ 1.23 trillion in 2018 for so - called discretionary programs.
Most of the area members of Congress split along party lines on the health care vote that passed in the House on Thursday; Republicans Chris Collins and Tom Reed voted for the measure, Democrat Louise Slaughter voted against it.
The Ways and Means Committee's 15 - 8 vote was largely along party lines with Republicans in favor and all except one Democrat, Sen. Gary Siplin, against.
The vote broke along party lines, and in many ways, the selection reflects the yawning chasm that defines American politics and government in 2018.
Most analysts think the final bill will end up looking more like the Senate's version, since the GOP holds 52 seats in that chamber and therefore can afford only two defections to pass a tax bill along party lines.
The Senate voted largely along party lines Wednesday to confirm a former Marylander as President Donald J. Trump's head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The vote went along party lines for the most part with notable exceptions of Republicans voting for cloture: Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Orrin Hatch (Utah), John Thune (S.D.), Norm Coleman (Minn.), Susan Collins (Maine) and Richard Lugar (Ind.).
Tax reform cleared its first major hurdle in Congress on November 16 when the House passed its version of the bill by a 227 - to - 205 vote mainly along party lines.
At the Federal Election Commission, which often deadlocks along party lines, commissioners would have to vote to open a campaign - finance investigation.
Divided along party lines as recently as Monday, Congress decided to go through with the $ 700 billion bailout due to the prevailing sense that the economy had no other effective route to recovery.
The Education Committee adopted Assembly Amendment 3 on a 9 - 5 vote, that ran along party lines with the exception of Rep. Kitchens who voted «No.»
Meanwhile, R. Shep Melnick explains that the federal regulation of education under Title IX is an issue that does not fall neatly along party lines, and looks to the future of federal guidance on sexual harassment.
The vote went along party lines, the move was viewed as partisan in general, and it which went down to a nearly 2 - 1 defeat in the November 2006 elections.
Americans are divided along party lines over the issues of school spending and teacher tenure, however.
The Appropriations Committee passed it Tuesday along party lines.
Drawing Along Party Lines: Looking at Pennsylvania's new congressional - district map, one thing is clear: It's impossible to scrub politics from map - making.
SEC commissioners split along party lines today over a package of new rules governing investment advice, but all cited a lack of specifics in the rules despite its 1,000 - plus pages.
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers appeared to secure enough votes on Friday to pass the most sweeping tax overhaul in decades, putting them on the cusp of their first significant legislative victory as leaders geared up to pass a $ 1.5 trillion tax cut along party lines and send it to President Trump by Christmas.
The big gun control case that went to the supreme court, Columbia vs Heller in 2008 actually came down on the side of the right with a (not unusual for the supreme court), 5/4 decision along party lines.
Intervening, President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, posed the question but the senators responded along party lines.
(The now - optional Medicaid expansion as part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act has split governors along party lines, and is causing debate in Florida.
Hon. George Ayisi Boateng's comment is purported to create divisiveness and draw a wedge between Ghanaians in South Africa along party lines,» they wrote.
There are differences along party lines with Conservative and Liberal Democrat voters being more positive about politicians (47 % and 45 % agree respectively) than Labour voters are (34 % agree).
(NOTE: I stand corrected, the resolution passed almost along party lines.
Under the coalition government's stated plans to establish the same proportions along party lines as in the Commons, the chamber's membership would increase to 1,100.
If the elections do once again put the Democrats in power, Cuomo, by not making endorsements along party lines, won't end up on the wrong side of that outcome.
Lawmakers voted along party lines last month to amend County Executive Edward Mangano's $ 2.99 billion budget by removing increases to a traffic ticket surcharge and to real estate transactions fees.
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