Sentences with phrase «along party lines in»

The Senate voted late Tuesday night, winning along party lines in a 51 - 48 vote, and the House voted again on Dec. 20 after the provisions in question were amended by the Senate.

True, there is a split along party lines in the US, but the question to be asked is whether the split is based on green ideology or whether green ideology is what splits the political vote (do you support AGW meme because you are a Democrat, or are you a Democrat because you support the AGW meme?).

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.

The comment comes after the Commons media committee split largely along party lines in its report into whether parliament had been misled by News International.

The budget passed along party lines in the House, with four Republicans voting against the proposal and 189 Democrats casting no votes.

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.

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

The net - neutrality laws passed during the Obama administration, formally known as the 2015 Open Internet Order, were approved in a 3 - 2 vote along party lines in February 2015, after months of heated debate and public outcries.

Not exact matches

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.

Overall, 44 % of Americans are very concerned and 26 % are moderately concerned that withdrawing from the agreement will hurt the country's standing in the world, with that concern also dividing along party lines.

On March 28, Congress voted along party lines to kill a set of rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in October that would've forced your internet service provider, or ISP, to ask you before it collected certain personal information.

Surprisingly, this was hardly a vote along party lines — a lot of Democrats voted in favor of the redaction.

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 voteIn 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 votein this vote).

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.

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.

The Senate passed the corrected version of the bill in the early morning hours of December 20, voting 51 - 48 along party lines.

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.

Sentiment remains sharply divided along political - party lines, reflecting the deepening partisanship in Washington and growing polarization of the populace.

At Barash's break fast and another such meal in New Jersey on Wednesday night, the opinions about Netanyahu's red lines fell, not surprisingly, along party lines.

Not only do such actions represent a radical departure from past times in America, when government refused to legitimate ethnic - group rights and claims, but they also encourage a polarization rather than unification of our diverse population — a trend that can result only in the eventual creation of de jure ethnic and racial geographic enclaves and political parties, with the appointment and election of individuals mandated along racial, religious and ethnic lines.

If this election tells us anything it is there any many moderates in our country and we don't vote along party lines.

In the U.S. House, debate over dismantling the USDA's lunch program has been rancorous and split along party lines, observers say.

-- 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.

He also promised «an awful lot of people are going to get hurt in the process» if legislative leaders go along with the governor's idea of scrapping third party officials» power to hand - pick who runs on their ballot lines — a pledge that no doubt sent shivers up the spines of not a few Senate Republicans.

In the U.S. Congressmen are not required to vote along party lines.

Dinowitz, who chairs the Bronx Democratic County Committee (not to be confused with the county leader title, which is held by Assemblyman Carl Heastie), said he had «heard a rumor several weeks ago» that someone at state party HQ might try something along these lines, but he wasn't kept in the loop.

The furlough budget extender bill was approved in the Senate along party lines (32 - 29); it passed the Assembly 82 - 56.

He said Sharpton made an analogy about his decision to stick with an ally being much along the lines of President Obama's snub to Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio out of loyalty to his opponent, independent candidate Lincoln Chafee, who (as a Republican) crossed party lines to endorse Obama over GOP Sen. John McCain in 2008.

Pro-Corbyn party members believe their man's politics hold the key to defeating the SNP but Davidson's success (remember, the Tories were supposed to be extinct in Scotland) has surely proved that, north of the border, political parties are divided along constitutional lines rather than left v right ideological ones.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

But somewhere along the line the party did what many governing parties do and started to retreat from the civil liberties positions it held in opposition.

(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.

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 yearIn 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 yearin the party I'd heard rumours along the lines of those which have now surfaced against Chris Rennard for years.

Kaleh says two amendments offered by county Democratic legislators, one to offset a drop in salaries of the probation department and one to add additional resources to child care services were defeated along party lines.

He was the main cheerleader of David Miliband, whose loss in the Labour leadership race threatened to split the party along fraternal 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.

A Senate committee voted along party lines to send the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general to the full Senate floor, after a contentious hearing in which Democrats questioned the Alabama Republican's ability to show independence from the White House.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul recalled her time playing softball during her congressional tenure in 2011 and 2012, when the women split into a team of House and Senate members, while the men, regardless of legislative house, split themselves along party lines.

Opinions fall along party lines with three in four Republicans (75 %) supporting it and nearly eight in ten Democrats (79 %) opposing it.

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.

Meanwhile, he formed a new ballot line, the Women's Equality Party — and appeared in an ad touting it along with his girlfriend and his daughters.

The one - term mayor whose administration is marked by reform, revitalization, and controversy, ended Thursday night when upstart candidate Steve Noble took the party line by a wide margin, along with most of his supporters in the ward races.

There was varying reactions, much of it along party lines, to the testimony of former FBI Director James Comey in Washington on Thursday.