Sentences with phrase «mostly party line vote»
The moves came in a series of amendments to a 2016 spending bill for the Department of Commerce, home of the Census Bureau, and several other agencies that passed last night on a mostly party line vote of 242 to 183.
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The vote was split mostly between party lines in the committee, with eight Republicans voting against the bill and seven Democrats voting for it.
The 29 to 21 voted proceeded mostly on party lines, as leaders of the Senate Democratic conference pushed approval the bill, which was drafted by Gov. David Paterson and passed the Assembly late last month.
On a mostly party - line vote, the measure easily passed, 231 - 198, although 14 Republicans voted no.
The votes mostly fell along party lines.
Democrats in the Senate for a second time proposed gun control bills, including banning teachers form carrying firearms at school, but the amendments were voted down, mostly along party lines.
«His votes over time have been in line with the mostly moderate traditions of the Republican Party in Connecticut,» the editorial board wrote.
The Bronx, for example, doesn't have a single Republican elected official, and the local party apparatus is mostly relegated to appointing patronage positions at the Board of Election and a vote to let non-Republicans run on their party's line — the sort of vote that is at the heart of the Smith scandal.
► On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the controversial America COMPETES Act (H.R. 1806) in a mostly party - line vote, and Mervis wrote about it.
The House passed the bill May 14 on a 275 - 155 vote, split mostly down party lines with Democratic support and Republican opposition.
The vote was 50 to 49, mostly along party lines.
On November 16th, the U.S. House of Reps. passed tax legislation 227 - 205 mostly along party lines, with 13 R «no» votes.