Sentences with phrase «bill along party lines»

Republicans can afford only two defections to pass the bill along party lines.

Earlier this month, the House passed a bill along party lines that would de-fund the president's recent executive actions to delay deportation of up to five million undocumented workers and grant them work permits.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The bill, which is the last remaining piece of the budget aside from the revenue bill, which won't be live until just after midnight, passed along party lines: 32 - 29.

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

As Vice President Mike Pence presided, the bill was approved with members voting 51 - 48 along party lines to adopt the conference report on the landmark legislation at close to 1 a.m.

The bill passed along party lines.

The House Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines to advance a Republican tax reform bill, moving the GOP a step closer to its goal of overhauling the American tax system.

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.

The bill had made it out of the labor committee by a 7 - 6 vote, also along party lines.

The GOP - controlled Assembly Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform voted 6 - 3 along party lines to approve the bill.

Lawmakers voted largely along party lines, with just seven Democrats voting in favor of the bill and four Republicans against.

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.

Smith's bill, with a provision to end a lottery that allowed unskilled workers to earn permanent residency, passed the House on 30 November largely along party lines.

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.

Kline and Alexander, who was ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee at the time, each had draft bills that stood in opposition to Senate Democrats» proposals, and the House passed Kline's bill in the summer of 2013 along party lines.

The final vote in the senate was largely along party lines, with one Republican opposed and one Democrat voting in favor of the bill.

The 57 - to - 36 vote, which fell largely along party lines, came during debate on a Democratic education - reform bill.

The bill passed largely along party lines, with five Republicans — Chuck Clemons of Newberry, Tom Goodson of Rockledge, Sam Killebrew of Winter Haven, Kathleen Peters of Treasure Island and Rene Plasencia of Orlando — voting against it.

Just yesterday in the Indiana legislature, the House Education committee voted along party lines to expand pre-school education opportunities but also forwarded language in the same bill to allow for the largest expansion of vouchers in the USA beginning with pre-school students and their siblings.

On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Senate voted along party lines to approve a bill that would prohibit local communities from issuing their own rules on plastic bags and other containers.

Part of an emerging national trend, the Wisconsin Senate voted along party lines to approve a bill that would prohibit local communities from issuing their own rules on plastic bags and other containers.

Many are skeptical about the bill and the Hill.com's Jim Snyder defines the complications as: «a Jenga - like quality to the delicate work of constructing national energy policy, where votes fall along regional lines as much as party affiliation,» he writes.

In the end, the bill passed largely along party lines, with 51 Democrats, 2 independents and 7 Republicans voting for it.

The bill won the motion 85 - 30 and was approved along party lines.

But part of that hope was dashed hours later, when the Republican - controlled House voted 71 - 36 along party lines against bringing up a bill that would ban assault weapon sales and magazines of more than seven rounds, all but killing the measure for the year.

The bill passed the Judiciary Committee last month with a bipartisan 33 - 5 vote, though amendment votes during the markup fell more closely along party lines.