Sentences with phrase «largely along party lines»

The Senate's 68 - 31 vote was split largely along party lines, with Democrats unanimously supporting Sotomayor along with nine Republicans.

In the end, the bill passed largely along party lines, with 51 Democrats, 2 independents and 7 Republicans voting for it.

New Jersey Spotlight reports that the 23 - 15 Senate vote fell largely along party lines, with Democrats voting for the mandate and Republicans against it.

The bill passed largely along party lines, with five Republicans — Chuck Clemons of Newberry, Tom Goodson of Rockledge, Sam Killebrew of Winter Haven, Kathleen Peters of Treasure Island and Rene Plasencia of Orlando — voting against it.

The 57 - to - 36 vote, which fell largely along party lines, came during debate on a Democratic education - reform bill.

The final vote in the senate was largely along party lines, with one Republican opposed and one Democrat voting in favor of the bill.

The 50 - to - 46 Senate vote was split largely along party lines, although five Republicans supported the measure and eight Democrats...

Smith's bill, with a provision to end a lottery that allowed unskilled workers to earn permanent residency, passed the House on 30 November largely along party lines.

Legislators voted largely along party lines in approving a package of 12 appropriations bills that would provide about $ 1.23 trillion in 2018 for so - called discretionary programs.

Lawmakers voted largely along party lines, with just seven Democrats voting in favor of the bill and four Republicans against.

on a 228 to 191 vote, largely along party lines.

In every case the Conservative shadow was prefered to the Labour incumbent, but as one might expect, people's responses were largely along party lines.

The Republican - controlled Ulster County Legislature defeated a sanctuary policy, largely along party lines.

But the final allocation is expected to shake out largely along party lines, with state Assembly Democrats lobbying for more education spending while Republicans in the Senate have called for fiscal restraint paired with a series of tax cuts.

The comment comes after the Commons media committee split largely along party lines in its report into whether parliament had been misled by News International.

The vote was largely along party lines, 52 - 47, with only centrist Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia voting yes.

Voting 242 - 184 and largely along party lines, the US House approved the Pain - Capable Unborn Child Protection Act on Wednesday, the second anniversary of abortionist Kermit Gosnell's conviction for murder.

The legislation, which passed 51 to 47 largely along party lines, is the latest Republican rebuke of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The Senate voted largely along party lines Wednesday to confirm a former Marylander as President Donald J. Trump's head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Not exact matches

Overall, the reaction seemed largely divided along partisan lines, with Republicans backing it and Democrats opposing it — with some exceptions — despite the fact that infrastructure was once touted by both parties as something that could be a bipartisan initiative.

In 2017, for example, Republicans largely voted along party lines to do away with an Obama - era regulation designed to keep guns out of the hands of some people with severe mental illness (Republican senators were joined by four Democrats in this vote).

While a description of largely peaceful conversations gives a fairer overall impression than any division into schools or parties, there are of course divisions along various fault lines.

The chamber largely voted along party lines, with the exception of four Republicans who voted with Democrats.

The race is officially nonpartisan, but support in Evers» past two runs has largely broken down along party lines.

Unsurprisingly, the survey confirmed climate change to be a largely politicized issue, viewed too often along party lines instead of according to factual analysis (and both parties are guilty of this, in different ways — there are plenty of liberals who proclaim their allegiance to the fight against global warming without a basic education on the issue).

The vote in the House largely split along party lines, with Democrats opposed.