Sentences with phrase «floor speeches against»

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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CREW filed a complaint against Rep. Michael Grimm for what he said was an «accidental» and «inadvertent» use of a floor speech for political purposes.

extensively uses footage from his lengthy speech on the Senate floor on May 20 against bulk data collection and surveillance in the PATRIOT Act.

Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) announced his resignation in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday after accusations of sexual misconduct against him surfaced over the past month and he lost the support of his Democratic colleagues.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D - Mass., called for bipartisan action against Equifax during a Senate floor speech on Tuesday, criticizing the credit bureau for waiting several weeks after a massive data breach to reveal it to the public.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D - Mass., called for bipartisan action against Equifax during a Senate floor speech on Tuesday, criticizing the credit bureau for waiting several weeks after a massive data breach to reveal it to the public.

A team of speakers, including Julian Spalding (author of The Eclipse of Art), made impassioned speeches in the motion's favour, and even those against seemed so half - hearted that Peregrine Worsthorne was moved to inquire from the floor: «Is there an argument here?»

But there's little to laugh at in a floor speech warning against restored relations delivered a few days before Obama's Cuba trip by Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat who is the son of Cuban immigrants.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island who has endorsed the use of RICO against fossil fuel industries since May, made a similar argument in his weekly climate speech, delivered Tuesday on the Senate floor.