Sentences with phrase «along party lines for»

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.).

Republican Jeb Hensarling voted along party lines for several important policies.

This incendiary offering is apt to be appreciated or reviled along party lines for it paints a most unflattering picture of George W. Bush as a spoiled - rotten nincompoop who has been a miserable failure at his every endeavor.

Not exact matches

Despite widespread, bipartisan support for those protections, the Republican - dominated FCC voted along party lines in December to eliminate them.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- A Senate committee voted along party lines Wednesday to advance President Donald Trump's picks for key posts at the Environmental Protection Agency over the objections of Democrats who pointed to the nominees» past work for corporate clients they would now regulate.

In 2017, for example, Republicans largely voted along party lines to do away with an Obama - era regulation designed to keep guns out of the hands of some people with severe mental illness (Republican senators were joined by four Democrats in this vote).

Along those lines, he advocates for finding a solution to the problem of the frozen tokens so that the parties which lost access to them are incentivized to continue supporting the current version of the Ethereum blockchain.

The revived center - left Social Democratic Party (SPD), led by the courageous Kurt Schumacher, made proposals for a planned economy, something along the lines adopted by post-war Britain, and not terribly dissimilar to those it supported during the Weimar period.

Voting 242 - 184 and largely along party lines, the US House approved the Pain - Capable Unborn Child Protection Act on Wednesday, the second anniversary of abortionist Kermit Gosnell's conviction for murder.

-- Makes it easier for the state Board of Elections enforcement counsel to launch an investigation, no longer requiring the commissioners, who are equally divided along party lines, to vote in order to launch a probe.

Long Island's delegation to Congress split along party lines in their reactions to Obama's national address on terrorism, with Democrats generally backing his approach and Republicans panning the speech for offering no new strategies.

ICYMI... I wrote this morning about former Gov. George Pataki's fury with his longtime communications director, Mike McKeon, for crossing party lines to head up «GOPers for Cuomo,» along with a number of fellow Republicans who say they've seen the writing on the wall and don't believe their party can beat the Democratic AG.

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.

Repealing the payroll mobility tax, passed along strict party lines as part of the 2009 MTA funding package, is a top priority for many suburban State Senate candidates, especially Republicans.

Along with Virgil Goode, and their Constitution Party allies, the Indy Greens collected 14,350 signatures for former congressman Goode to file for the ballot line for President in Virginia.

perhaps along the lines of «Gordon is an autocratic little sod, who never let us have any money when he was chancellor, and is surely leading the labour party into the political wilderness for the next 20 years, so he should really do the right thing and bugger off»

«As we look forward to a vigorous political agenda for 2012, including a Presidential primary, a US Senate race, and newly drawn line for Congressional and legislative districts, this leadership team, along with our tremendous staff in Albany and New York City, ensures that our State Party is fully prepared to meet the challenges ahead,» Cox said.

Mr. Bellone joined Legislator Bridget Fleming, Suffolk Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory, Matt Cohen, vice president of the Long Island Association, Laureen Harris, president of the Association for a Better Long Island, Gina Coletti, co-chairwoman of the Suffolk County Alliance of Chambers, and small - business owners in Hauppauge yesterday to announce his opposition to the plan, which took an important step toward passage on Tuesday when the Senate Budget Committee voted along party lines to approve it.

Also there may be proposals to reduce the say of Labour Party members in general, including along the lines of David Miliband's proposal of «primaries» for candidate selections.

Along party lines, not surprisingly, Democratic voters overwhelmingly back Cuomo with 88 % reporting they would cast their ballot for him.

That's a problem for a governor whose core political narrative is steady competence — that he makes the trains run on time and can wring accomplishments from a legislature split along party lines.

Lawmakers voted 19 to 9 (along party lines) to supply 3 million dollars for MCC to purchase and renovate several buildings at the site.

In his blog, Tall said: «Like many in the party I'd heard rumours along the lines of those which have now surfaced against Chris Rennard for years.

The letter must have been sent before the Judiciary Committee voted along party lines, 8 - 10, last week to advance the RMA, because the HRC press release accompanying the letter credits it for moving the ball down the court.

The procedural vote, which passed 52 to 48 along party lines, put the Senate on track for a final vote later this week.

But the final allocation is expected to shake out largely along party lines, with state Assembly Democrats lobbying for more education spending while Republicans in the Senate have called for fiscal restraint paired with a series of tax cuts.

Tory minister Priti Patel, who is the MP for Witham in Essex, said the result was disappointing but said people «don't necessarily vote along traditional party lines» at by - elections and Mr Carswell had benefited from being the incumbent.

He pointed out that newly minted Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said all along he'll let Republican senators vote with their conscience, rather than insisting on a party - line vote — but that says nothing of getting the bill itself introduced for a vote, which, if it turns out the coup that happened today is legal, will be up to him to do.

Democrats in the Senate for a second time proposed gun control bills, including banning teachers form carrying firearms at school, but the amendments were voted down, mostly along party lines.

Along those same lines, will the progressive Working Families Party buckle and endorse Cuomo for a third time or put up a more leftist candidate that could reduce his vote total and potentially make him more vulnerable in the general election?

All six candidates vying for the new Queens congressional seat appeared at a tame forum at the Flushing branch of the Queens Public Library Monday night, where most of the political differences were along party lines.

And under the House's version of the Affordable Health Care Act, passed in May along party lines, Medicaid would shift from an open - ended entitlement program to a program in which states receive a fixed amount of federal funds for each beneficiary.

The ceremony at the Tribeca Grill was the 13th Annual Anti-Corruption Awards, along with Carrion and Quinn, also included State Senator Malcolm Smith, a Democrat who has met with local Republican chairmen about the possibility of running for mayor on that party's line.

The federal legislature (Congress), the legislatures in all states except for Nebraska, and many county and city legislative bodies are divided along party lines and have whips, as well as majority and minority leaders.

Alternatively, it could be that people are just lined up along EU divisions — for now, the Conservatives are the party that's delivering Brexit, so those who want Britain to leave are sticking with the Tories.

The 2018 contest among Democrats could break down along similar lines with the party establishment pushing for an electable moderate and grassroots activists seeking a more ideologically pure progressive standard - bearer.

As a way around that, MPs will now get to select a shortlist of leadership candidates for the membership to vote on, along similar lines to the system operated by the Conservative Party - candidates will need to be nominated by at least 15 % of Labour MPs.

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.

On 1 August, the panel voted along party lines to approve a subpoena for raw data from the Harvard Six Cities Study and an American Cancer Society study known as «Cancer Prevention Study II.»

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

Efforts were further stalled last week when the U.S. Senate split along party lines and failed to pass a $ 1.1 billion spending bill that included a significant boost in money for researchers around the country — many of whom have dropped other work to focus on Zika.

Along the same line, I had a casual dinner party for family and friends last Tuesday night and served fried red snapper battered with coconut flour.

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Although public backing for charters is polarized along party lines, the level of support remains high overall, at nearly 2 - to - 1 margins.

In a chaotic and hostile election season — rupturing political parties, incessant name - calling, and growing dissention along racial and class lines — it may be tempting for educators to discourage political talk at school.

One note: Whether we're talking about teachers unions backing political candidates or across - the - aisle support for parent trigger laws, it's become abundantly clear that education policy doesn't always fall along clear party lines.

The Joint Finance Committee took up K - 12 education this week, passing along party lines a Republican omnibus motion representing a mixed bag for public schools in the state budget.

After closely following Common Core resistance for the last two years, my answer to this question until recently would have been that the anti-Common Core coalitions seemed basically divided along party lines with little communication between them.

A House appropriations subcommittee voted along straight party lines to maintain funding for key K — 12 education programs at current levels while completely eliminating three of the Obama administration's signature reform initiatives.