Sentences with phrase «bill lost their seats»

There's no hiding the House Democrats» bloodbath, with more than two dozen members who voted for the Pelosi - led climate bill losing their seats, and more likely to fall as the final tallies come in.

Don't be mistaken: Even Democrats who voted against the climate bill lost seats.Here's an inconvenient truth you won't see highlighted in stories about the takeover of the House by a seemingly inexhaustible army of climate zombies: While more than two dozen incumbents who voted for the climate bill lost their seats, even more Democrats who voted against the climate bill lost theirs.

In 2006, five senators who had voted against the stem - cell bill lost their seats.

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Trump said Wednesday that it was «important» to vote on the tax bill next week, but not only because the GOP lost a seat in Alabama.

Activist investor Bill Ackman loses his bid for ADP board seats after a high - profile proxy fight with the company.

Republicans control 52 votes in the 100 - seat Senate, meaning they can only lose two members if they want to pass a bill without Democratic support.

James Wharton, who shot to fame when he tried to pilot the first EU referendum bill from the backbenches, lost his Stockton South seat and his job as an international development minister on 8 June.

With fears of losing a congressional seat, a Rhode Island state representative has created a bill to lure people to the state, proposing to pay «middle class» families up to $ 10,000 in tax credits or incentive payments to become residents for a year.

Bill Rammell - Labour The armed forces minister also lost his seat of Harlow to the Conservatives after a swing of 5.9 per cent.

PRIMARY EDUCATION: Sen. Bill Perkins, a school choice opponent, could lose his seat after alienating charter parents.

The word «spoiler» has been tossed around a lot in the NY - 23 race, with Dohney accusing Hoffman, who has refused to say he'll get off Row D if he loses the GOP primary, of being more interested in his own political ambition than in helping the Republicans win back the seat they lost to Democrat Bill Owens last fall after holding it for a century.

[6] Roe had previously run for the seat in 2006 when 10 - year incumbent Bill Jenkins announced his retirement, but lost to Davis in that year's primary.

Hoffman lost his bid for the seat last year to Rep. Bill Owens, D - Plattsburgh.

As a result, the deputy prime minister said he would instruct his MPs to vote against another bill which would have cut the number of MPs by redrawing the constituency boundaries — a change opposed by many of the 57 - strong Lib Dem MPs since it is expected they would lose 15 or more seats.

One of the four Republicans who support the same - sex marriage bill, Sen. Roy McDonald of Saratoga County, lost his seat in a bitter GOP primary, based to a large degree on his vote.

In Dudley, UKIP lost six of the seats it was defending, including the Sedgley ward of MEP Bill Etheridge.

«People have incredibly comfortable incumbencies, and so they get cocky and start looking for other things to do,» says Basil Smikle, a Democratic strategist who ran for a State Senate seat in 2010, losing to entrenched incumbent Bill Perkins.

«Given that a cogent political analysis indicates that the loss of control of the House of Representatives by the Democratic Party was the result of their passing the unpopular cap - and - trade bill in 2009 - in the 2010 election they lost 64 seats - you would think that this is kind of a political hot potato,» he continued.