Sentences with phrase «not vote against a budget»

Until now, it had been assumed Ms Sturgeon's party could not vote against a Budget without triggering a vote of no confidence and another General Election.

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DeFrancisco said that if the measure wasn't linked to other budget items, he would have voted against it.

A number of state Senate Republicans weren't happy with a breakaway group of Democrats aligned with them after they voted en masse against a GOP budget proposal last week that included many initiatives the independent Dems had sought.

He's not without his critics, however, who point to a vote by McLaughlin against a budget bill that would have provided funding for environmental and clean - water programs.

Legislator Tom Barraga (R - East Islip), who spent over 20 years in Albany as an assemblyman, voted along with legislators Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk) and Tom Cilmi (R - Bay Shore) against the county Legislature's budget — pointing to past bailouts in New York City and Nassau County as evidence the legislation would not be much of a risk at all.

Pointing to the police revenue sharing defeat, the decision not to fund VEEB, and the loss of additional hotel / motel revenue — as well as use of the sewer stabilization funds — Mr. Schneiderman voted against the budget for the first time in 10 years.

He added that she has «straight As» from the National Rifle Association and voted against Democratic Gov. David Paterson's «bloated» budget this year (Burns conceded there were other issues on which the Republican has problems with conservatives in her party: she is pro-abortion, voted for gay marriage and, while not endorsing the controversial «card check» provision in the Employee Free Choice Act, she does support «reform in workers» ability to organize» — a stand not too different from that of AFL - CIO President Rich Trumka when he said he could support EFCA without card check).

The Independent Democratic Conference has repeatedly said it would vote against a budget that doesn't deal with the issue.

He added that Labour would vote against any «emergency Budget» from George Osborne in the wake of the referendum, saying: «Labour will not allow any instability to be paid for by the working people of our country.»

He said he is considering possibly voting against the House Democratic budget proposal because it does not currently include tax hikes on the wealthy and instead offers spending cuts for programs for the poor and middle classes.

Now, after Hurricane Maria, we Puerto Ricans are seeing our brothers and sisters suffering: hospital's without lights, half of the island without electricity for more than five (5) months and the U.S. Congress voting against a budget that includes some aid to the island of Puerto Rico just because that was not D.A.C.A.

A parliamentary system would protect against a theoretical US shutdown caused by presidential veto of a budget from a Congress that didn't have enough votes to override it - but that's not what happened here.

At the center of the debate is whether the deficit is really $ 62 million or $ 80 million, except in Meyers» case, as he believes the deficit to actually be more than $ 80 million, and voted against the bond because he does not think his colleagues are serious about balancing the budget.

A number of state Senate Republicans weren't happy with a breakaway group of Democrats after they voted against a GOP budget proposal last week that included many initiatives they had sought.

She did not «split with the GOP» by voting against the budget.

Tustin Unified voted against the school's proposal, citing concerns that the charter school proposal had an incomplete instructional program and lesson plan specifics, its budget was not realistic and that teachers did not have the credentials the charter school requested.

Given the reality of depressing prospects for school budgets in Wisconsin in the foreseeable future, it is hard not to conclude that the Tech Plan adopted by the MMSD Board of Education in 2014 is unaffordable (I was the lone vote against, joined by Luke Gangler, the student Rep).

While some Democrats are pushing for the additional charter school money to be reduced or eliminated, some said the issue alone would not cause them to vote against the entire budget that funds scores of agencies, nonprofit organizations, and departments that operate everything from state prisons to the attorney general's office.

After voting against the 2015 budget, Rep. Barton said, «This bill does not address in, any substantial way, runaway government spending.

GOP state Rep. Ross McGregor (one of the seven GOP Representatives who voted against the budget) denounced the budget for creating new abortion restrictions saying, «This is an area where government doesn't need to be inserting itself.»