Sentences with phrase «case on both sides of the aisle»

He said he views his school aid proposals with the most optimism because powerful teacher unions will make the case on both sides of the aisle.

Not exact matches

In any case, Ruskin said, «both sides of the aisle were getting the impression that the bureau was not acting completely objectively, and the agents blamed it more on Comey because he seemed to waffle.»

Even during joint legislative budget hearings, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were unable to get much in the way of detail out of members of the Cuomo administration, though they did — in some cases — get more than what the governor included in his budget documents.

«Lawmakers on both sides of aisle call on Sheldon Silver to quit in bombshell corruption case», New York Daily News, Jan. 22, 2015

Unfortunately, the mainstream media and politicians on both sides of the aisle are parroting the hype, claiming — in Obama's case — that unconventional oil can play a key role in an «all of the above» energy strategy and — in Romney's — that increased production of tight oil and tar sands can make North America energy independent by the end of his second term.

In any case, Pickens can't even bring anybody on his side of the aisle to support renewables, which he believes in, so I can't imagine how he could bring in any conservative support on climate legislation, which he doesn't believe in (see Pickens: «You don't want to turn it over to the greenies, or what'll happen is they'll want to shut down every coal plant»).

As we noted in an earlier post, even some lawyers who are on his side of the aisle in the case consider his tactics to be crazy.