Sentences with phrase «emotional floor speeches»

There had been emotional floor speeches against the bill and organized opposition from interests groups, and we always came up short.

After years of close votes in the House and emotional floor speeches against the bill, there was very little fanfare to be found.

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Schneiderman won kudos from the group for voting to pass the Hate Crimes bill and SONDA, sponsoring the Dignity for All Students Act, which recently passed the Senate, and delivering a «passionate and emotional speech» on the floor before voting «yes» on same - sex marriage last December.

Sayward, an observant Catholic, gave an emotional speech on the Assembly floor that day, describing how she had come to terms with the fact that her son, Glenn, is gay.

You may recall Duane's powerful, emotional speech on the bill on the Senate floor from July of last year.

U.S. Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, in an emotional speech on the Senate floor, announced that he would resign from Congress, the most prominent figure in a growing list of lawmakers felled by charges of sexual harassment or indiscretions.

The program for the party, to be held in the Plaza's grand ballroom, was released a day after Rangel gave an emotional and sometimes rambling speech on the House floor challenging his colleagues to try him without delay on the ethics charges.

But as his meandering, choked speech on the floor suggested, his appeals to his resistant colleagues were emotional, and not aimed at their colder sense of prudence.