Sentences with phrase «crucial votes needed»
Gov. Andrew Cuomo blasted Reps. Chris Collins and Tom Reed as modern - day «Benedict Arnolds» for casting crucial votes needed for a controversial tax overhaul he contends will harm middle - class New Yorkers while enriching the wealthy.
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In the run - up to this crucial moment, we need clarity as to what the options are and what will happen in the event of a vote to remain or to leave.
Some pro-gay-marriage GOPers have confessed that they're afraid to go public because they don't want to wind up being the crucial 32nd vote needed for passage, a potentially suicidal political position.
Two - thirds of the British people who live in Europe couldn't vote in the 2016 referendum, so it's crucial that they get the guarantees they need to protect them from a Brexit which is very much being done to them without any say.
During the last two weeks of the session — a crucial time, during which in 2011 the governor as able to wrangle votes needed to pass same - sex marriage — the governor took a trip to Niagara Falls and appeared in New York City for an airport groundbreaking and, away from the Capitol, a speech on ethics legislation.
This is a small improvement on our current system of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart of our democracy which is that a party's share of seats in parliament does reflect the number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions of wasted votes and a shameful system of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.