Sentences with phrase «even voted against the bill»

Some liberal members of Congress, like Sens. Paul Wellstone, D - Minn., and James M. Jeffords, I - Vt., even voted against the bill because they view the funding level as insufficient to help the reforms really take hold.

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Even among Catholic parliamentarians only a handful voted against the bill, as the pro-life Norman St John - Stevas MP noted at the time:

Even the Republican state senator who sponsored the bill said that «none of those who voted against [the bill] favored infanticide.»

Brown was reported to be looking for a way out of this impasse: the Telegraph claimed that «the Cabinet revolt has forced him to think again» and that «One solution now being considered is giving MPs the option of abstaining in the key vote on the Bill»: but, «Some staunch Catholic MPs say even being allowed to abstain is not enough and instead want to be free to vote against the Bill, or amend it to remove somemeasures».

Two Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky — that they would vote against even debating the health care bill, joining Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, who made the same pledge on Friday.

For this reason alone, Tory MPs should vote against the bill this evening in good heart.

But even though Faso and Stefanik voted against their party on the tax bill, in October 2017 they voted in favor of a budget bill that paved the way for the tax measure to pass the Senate on GOP votes alone — without a filibuster.

Fourteen Conservative MPs voted against David Cameron's proposals on press regulation earlier this evening - or, rather, against the amendments to the Crime and Courts Bill which set out proposals for exemplary damages in relation to newspapers and websites that refuse to be regulated by the new regulator.

The senator said he doubts that the Senate will even vote this year on Sen. Brad Hoylman's bill, which would allow victims to file lawsuits over child sexual abuse incidents that occurred before 2006, in many cases decades ago, against abusers and their employers.

The impact of this was also clearly demonstrated the last time the Conservatives were in government: even though the newer cohorts of Conservative MPs were then the most Eurosceptic in their attitudes, they were also the least likely to vote against the Maastricht Bill.

Assemblyman Walter Mosley, a Democrat from central Brooklyn, said he would vote against a bill that did not contain the provision, even if that meant letting the 421 - a program sunset on June 15.

A majority might even have voted against him if it had been put to a vote: Bernard Jenkin, Graham Stuart, John Redwood, Bill Cash and Stewart Jackson are only the most vocal opponents.

She has also led the charge against «hard Brexit» and has even refused to say that she would definitely vote for May's «Great Repeal Bill».

The Senate Democrats seen as the most likely contenders to challenge Trump in 2020 — including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — all voted against the bill to reopen the government, even though most Democrats agreed to end the stalemate over immigration and fund the government again.

As long as gay marriage passes, I doubt that gays will care about how Shelly voted even if he votes against the bill when it finally.

He is seen as different from his competitors, even more so after the recent vote on the welfare bill in which the majority of Labour MPs abstained rather than vote against Tory austerity.

With just one exception, Pryce sided with the new Democratic majority on every major bill and rule change that came to a vote in the past two weeks, even voting against her party on a procedural vote, a move considered heretical in the years of GOP control.

Even senior Conservatives appeared prepared to rebel yesterday, with environment secretary Owen Paterson voting against the bill and defence secretary Philip Hammond and attorney general Dominic Grieve abstaining.

New York State Senate Majority Leaders Dean Skelos, a Republican, has long said he'd allow a vote on a marriage equality bill and not block it from the floor, even though he himself is against it.

Candlelight vigils are being held this evening to urge Representatives Paul Tonko, Bill Owens and Chris Gibson, and Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, to vote against bombing Syria.

He is even taking small, principled stands, voting against bills that strike him as unwise — including a proposal to allow dogs within the outdoor dining areas of restaurants.

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 theEven 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 theeven more Democrats who voted against the climate bill lost theirs.