Sentences with phrase «issue come voting»

While he may champion his economic policy in Texas, his environmental policy could prove to be a warning bell for those who consider the environment to be a real issue come voting time.

Not exact matches

It's often hard to pigeonhole a generation of business owners, but as a voting block they do seem to come together — at least on one issue.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

Such conversations can reveal which issues your shareholders actually care about — maybe board diversity isn't even on their radar, and won't be a deal - breaker come vote time.

The snap ballot came only days after Mrs Merkel changed her long - held stance on the issue by allowing members of her conservative coalition a free vote on the matter.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

When it comes to voting though I tend to give more weight to fiscal issues rather than social.

Is it possible the political right wing pushing the «birther» issue in the US and other fringe agendas, might be pushing the Vatican through various shady channels in order to scare US nuns who support the poor in America, thereby hoping to squeeze a few anti-Obama votes come November?

This is not to say that we can not come to impassioned, principled positions about how to vote, particularly when dealing with issues as important as sexual assault, bigotry, racism, responsible foreign policy, religious liberty, and the dignity of human life at every stage in its development.

The gay issue will come up with ANY president... do they really think voting for the dinosaur will stall progress?

According to polling data, a significantly larger fraction of African - American and Hispanic voters have right - leaning policy preferences when it comes to size of government issues than voted for Romney.

Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo has said gay marriage will be a priority for his first year in office, but the issue is really going to come down — yet again — to whether there are enough votes in the Senate to pass it.

«While I have co-sponsored numerous bills to address these issues, it is no secret that only the Senate Republicans can allow these reforms to come to the Senate floor for an actual vote,» Panepinto said.

«I came to Albany to enact real reform and the SOLE Act will bring a lot of issues up for a vote that have stalled out in past years,» Johns said in a statement.

Thompson, a Buffalo Democrat, told me in no uncertain terms that he's not going to leave his colleague, Sen. Bill Stachowski, «out to dry like that» when it comes to balking on the revenue bill, which leaves at least two solid «no» votes until the Assembly decides to deal on this issue.

The mayor's words of support come as Johnson is being targeted, along with Deputy Senate Majority Leader Jeff Klein, by the AFL - CIO for his «yes» vote on charter schools, as well as a host of other issues with which the union is displeased.

This means that we could have the odd situation where the big Unions vote against the McDonnell Amendment at the NEC but then issue instructions to delegates to vote for it when it comes to the conference hall.

The coalition set up the McKay Commission shortly after coming to office to look into the issue of English Votes for English Laws.

I suggested to him that this doesn't make much sense for the Democratic primary since the bulk of the vote comes out of NYC, which explains why all of the Democratic hopefuls — particularly Sen. Eric Schneiderman — are running so hard to the left and playing up issues like Rockefeller Drug Law reform, which has zero to do with the AG's office.

The day after the referendum, Cameron raised the issue of «English votes for English laws», with Miliband criticising the move as a simplistic solution to a complex problem, eventually coming out in favour for a constitutional convention to be held after the general election.

If he is not prepared to put his career on the line by only voting slavishly in line with the whip then there can not be any complaints about his lack of credibility when it comes to raising issues regarding his party's policy failures.

A coalition of liberal groups is releasing new polling to show that health care could be a key issue in the midterms, and that a vote for the Republican health care plan last year could come back to hurt GOP incumbents.

But rather than cleaving along partisan lines, Democrats and Republicans — incumbents and challengers alike — came down on both sides of the issue depending on their states and districts, suggesting national party committees aren't likely to take up the vote in their national messaging.

For once, not a LibDem issue, but a broader one where UKIP came third in the popular vote and may have one MP whereas the SNP is significantly overrepresented in the UK Parliament according to its share of vote.

The campaign releases themselves (a typical headline: «Amedore Voted For 96 Tax Increases In Last 2 Years») come as Democrats hope to compete in suburban and upstate districts in which taxes could be a key issue for moderate voters.

Schneiderman's legislation comes after his office conducted a review of voting in New York, identifying issues with registration and participating in party primaries.

You might think about that check when it comes time to vote on an issue important to that donor.

Orthodox Jews tend to be more on the conservative side — particularly when it comes to issues of public safety — and they tend to vote in a bloc.

Following Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos» comments yesterday about ongoing talks on a public campaign finance system, state Conservative Party is upping the ante on the issue, warning Republican lawmakers that they could lose a crucial endorsement if they vote «yes» should a bill come to the floor.

«And we are moving towards an elected system that will, presumably, and hopefully, have to be based on some form of proportional voting, so that issue is going to come back quite quickly.»

The vote also comes as a number of high - profile education issues come to a head this year in Albany, including withering criticism of the state's rollout of the Common Core assessments.

A bill in the Democrat - dominated state Assembly, which will be ripe for voting on Monday, represents a fallback course if a larger deal on the housing issues does not come together.

Two quite separate issues need two quite separate ballot papers A better system would make sure that all votes counted equally when it came to determining which party formed the Government.

Had the leader's office wished to influence the outcome it would have been sufficient to persuade a reasonable number of front - benchers to vote only for John Healey (the one candidate who could be relied upon to back Ed Miliband in any issue where he needed it) to guarantee his election and a fairly small number to back Steve Rotherham who may have been seen as preferable to Dennis Skinner, in order to ensure that he came second.

Republicans control which bills come to the floor to a vote, and while some IDC members are sponsors on GENDA and DREAM, those issues are unlikely to come to a vote due to their arrangement with Republicans.

Writing in the Telegraph, Chris Grayling said that there can not be a situation where Scottish MPs «come to Westminster and vote on English - only issues», influencing the destiny of health, education, justice, environment and probably taxation in England, «potentially against the wishes of most English representatives».

If the voting age is to be lowered, it should come about as a result of general acceptance in society, a campaign from backbenchers in Parliament, and / or being prominently placed in the manifesto of a winning party - all of which would follow a period of serious consideration of the issue.

The primary results came after a day marred by problems with the old lever voting machines and other issues including last - minute changes to polling sites and voters» names not appearing on official rolls.

It will fall to the campaigns and outside interests to bring out these potential voters, which is where an enthusiasm gap, Mayer's name recognition and a handful of other variables — as trivial as the weather to as unlikely as the issues — will determine who actually comes out to vote.

An impending Brexit and issues surrounding concerns over social care, health care and education could all be influencing factors when it comes to an early election vote.

Stating that during Brexit talks it would be more important than ever to have elected MPs who were asking the right questions to ensure a good deal for Britain, Mr Blair added: «This requires the electorate in every constituency to know where the candidates stand; and the mobilisation of the thousands in each constituency to make it clear that for them this issue counts when it comes to their vote.

In March, Will voted against allocating $ 42,000 for the C.T. Male study when the issue came before the council's Finance Committee.

This victory for the Conservatives may mean the Conservatives will now abstain when the issue comes to a vote.

Last month Will voted against allocating $ 42,000 for the C.T. Male study when the issue came before the council's Finance Committee.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — In a rare agreement Friday between Monroe County Legislature Republicans and Democrats, they voted unanimously to take a step toward dissolving local development corporations, but not everyone's happy with how the issue came up in the first place.

The statement comes as Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are still trying to line up votes for the health care bill, which has stalled over the last several months, but revived after conservative groups pushed for action on the issue.

I can't think of another issue where I've had more communication and it's unprecedented for so much of that to come from England and what people have been saying to me is if what you meant during the election that you cared about more than Scotland, you wanted to hold out a hand of friendship to people in England, build progressive alliances where you could, if you meant that, then please on this issue vote with us to retain the ban on foxhunting.

Because the issue is so contentious, MPs will have a free vote when it comes before parliament some time before Easter.

At no point in time during our deliberation was the issue of who to vote for in this year's election came up for discussion.

The debate and vote at the board came after a sustained push from good - government advocates as well as left - leaning organizations like the Working Families Party to raise the issue of having a non-legislative solution to the LLC issue.