Sentences with phrase «also voted against the measure»

Mayoral hopeful Tony Avella also voted against the measure, apparently as a sympathetic reaction to the forced removal of «blighted» business from Willets Point into his district.

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Lawmakers have also been working on other measures, including devising a banking plan for the industry as well as voting against allowing cannabis businesses to deliver their products via drone.

The 30 - member Senate Republican conference is poised to vote en masse against the bill that would keep state parks open and also has issues with a measure that would boost the charter cap from 200 to 460, GOP sources confirm.

Cuomo — who has also vowed to work against the re-election of Faso and a half - dozen other Republican members of Congress who oppose gun control measures — said Faso's personal «no» vote on did not get him off the hook.

The endorsement of Grisanti was announced in a matter - of - fact way by ESPA, which also endorsed Sen. Joe Addabbo, a Queens Democrat who had initially voted against same - sex marriage in 2009, but became a «yes» vote in the lead up in the measure's passage.

He also attacked her for voting against de-funding the group ACORN, a measure that was later ruled illegal.

He's also seemed to establish a record as a Republican moderate, even sometimes being among a small handful of members voting against measures supported by the rest of his party.

U.S. Rep. John Katko pledged to vote against any effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, unless there's an alternative measure ready to replace the law.

«I'm kind of geeked up about it,» Representative Brian Baird (D — WA and Ph.D. in clinical psychology) told reporter David Rogers, who also notes that the measure passed 391 - 10, which makes you wonder who voted against pi.

Members of the Citizens Council on Women's Education (ccwe), a project of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, also endorsed the civil - rights act of 1984 — the measure tabled by the Senate last week — and urged participants to vote against legislators who failed to back that and other legislation affecting equity in education.

These measures will be included in the income trust bill, so voting against income trusts also means rejecting these other measures.