Sentences with phrase «on both sides of the aisle in»

«Because of his personality: he's calm, he's centered, he's thoughtful, he's widely regarded with respect on both sides of the aisle in the United States,» Stavridis said in an interview.

Even if the Democrat, Todd D. Kaminsky, is declared the winner of the special election to succeed Mr. Skelos, officials on both sides of the aisle in Albany said little, if anything, would change between now and November, when the full Senate will be in play.

He engineered the drawing of new lines around Burling's upstate district in 2012, said well - placed sources on both sides of the aisle in Albany.

Millions of dollars were spent on both sides of the aisle in New York's new 21st district in the North Country, but the representative will remain the same.

Legislators on both sides of the aisle in the U.S. House of Representatives say they love science, which is seen as engine for innovation and economic growth.

But he believes that «there is significant interest in the administration and on both sides of the aisle in Congress in getting as much as we can out of the labs, and there are a lot of small changes they could make to start.»

Bill Nye found friends of planetary science on both sides of the aisle in DC.

In fact, opposition to energy rationing schemes is one of the very few issues that enjoys support on both sides of the aisle in the Congress.

I plan to work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the committee to determine how we can craft a workable legislative proposal to achieve what the president has set out as his goal.

As we noted in an earlier post, even some lawyers who are on his side of the aisle in the case consider his tactics to be crazy.

The magazine IP Law & Business is out with its annual survey of patent litigation, revealing the busiest law firms on both sides of the aisle in patent litigation.

Alas for impatient legislators on both sides of the aisle in Edmonton and Ottawa, and for Kinder Morgan's owners in Houston, that means we're going to have to wait for the courts to rule on it.

Not exact matches

In fact, one needn't look far from the 2016 presidential election to find some superlative counter-examples on both sides of the aisle.

Fwd.us sought to avoid getting caught up in partisan politics by adopting a strategy of backing lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who support an immigration overhaul.

On the other side of the aisle, the Democrats will push for a big revenue - raiser in exchange for lower rates, possibly including a new consumption tax or VAT.

In any case, Ruskin said, «both sides of the aisle were getting the impression that the bureau was not acting completely objectively, and the agents blamed it more on Comey because he seemed to waffle.»

Both sides of the aisle weighed in on New Balance's Facebook page.

Many politicians on both sides of the aisle are raising questions about Facebook following revelations about its role in the 2016 election and, more recently, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

In the days following election, numerous boycotts are floating around on both sides of the aisles as comments made by a number of executives win praise or condemnation taking some sort of stance as it relates to the election.

In other words, if it became — if we stop looking for terrorists and we started looking for people with — on the other side of the aisle.

Trump's initial Aug. 12 remarks on the events — in which he cast blame «on many sides» — drew stern rebukes from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle as GOP leaders distanced themselves from the comments.

2018's first quarter was a volatile one for several senators, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seeing significant changes in levels of support from their constituents, according to the latest Morning Consult Senator Approval Rankings.

Hauling Zuckerberg before Congress was the culmination of a monthslong reevaluation of Big Tech in Washington D.C. on both sides of the aisle.

However, the bipartisan introduction of H.R. 835 at a time when the country is in the midst of a polarized presidential election, can signal legislators on both sides of the aisle to believe that federal regulation of virtual currency and blockchain technology is necessary to ensure that consumers obtain the full benefit of these innovations.

Had Trump taken the measures suggested repeatedly by ethics experts on both sides of the political aisle, he would by now have put his assets in what's called a blind trust, which would entail turning over his empire to a third party with whom he will have no contact, who would sell off the properties and reinvest the resulting money in other assets without providing the president any information about the sales or the purchases.

The provisions on TPP are almost certainly moot, as congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle say the deal will not come up for ratification in the lame duck congressional session.

In the U.S. Senate there are two powerful senators who are Mormons but sit on either side of the aisle.

The subtlety of the Second Vatican Council's statement in Nostra Aetate that the «Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in [other] religions» has often been missed by Catholics on both sides of the ecclesial aisle.

I think it's clear that of all the other candidates on both sides of the aisle, Romney's faith plays a greater role in his day to day life and his life's history than any of them.

His stance can be a little too conservative for my taste (mostly on social issues) but he is articulate and has some well thought out plans, not to mention he is pretty moderate and I think in this day and age we need a centrist, someone who isn't afraid to work with both sides of the aisle instead of just playing party politics and only pandering to one half of the country.

You sat in the third row, on the window side of the classroom, four seats from the aisle.»

And yes, some do end up in Congress on the republican side of the aisle.

Not only do the vast majority of teens surveyed think Americans are divided, but they basically embrace the divide: Three in four «already have a party preference,» and only around 25 percent think they have «a lot in common» with people on the other side of the political aisle.

At least some Republicans of conscience tried to urge their political brethren to choose a plausible, competent alternative to a narcissistic vulgarian; I haven't heard anything analogous on the other side of the aisle, and the seemingly tongue - tied Catholic Democrats in the blogosphere are no exception to that default.

Rather, it is precisely those on the other side of the ideological and political aisle who devalue government, which Scruton describes well as «an expression of those extended loyalties over time, which bind generation to generation in a relation of mutual commitment.»

No matter what side of the aisle we were on — or even if we were sitting on the sidelines or in the middle — we all wanted something better for our country these past 18 months.

On the other side of the aisle are people in serious relationships.

Representatives from both sides of the aisle are currently in discussions to determine how to legislate universal background checks and the scenarios where a person can not purchase a gun because they've been wrongly put on a watch list.

So in 1994, Ford's went to their first International Fancy Food Show as a seller on the other side of the aisle, debuting Bone Suckin» Sauce to 50,000 buyers around the world.

This message will be key in reminding legislators on both sides of the aisle that a clean environment is part and parcel of a healthy economy.

I have been on both sides of the nursing aisle, pumping and bottle feeding when our babies where in the NICU and nursing our little ones after their bottle days.

In a «Dr. Phil» show that aired in November 2003, working moms and stay - at - home moms were seated on opposite sides of the aisle and encouraged to hurl insults across the dividIn a «Dr. Phil» show that aired in November 2003, working moms and stay - at - home moms were seated on opposite sides of the aisle and encouraged to hurl insults across the dividin November 2003, working moms and stay - at - home moms were seated on opposite sides of the aisle and encouraged to hurl insults across the divide.

Gibson noted that he has been working with the bipartisan group No Labels in hopes of convincing the more dug in members on both sides of the aisle to agree to a negotiated solution in which no one gets everything they want.

«The desire to get together in a bipartisan way now that repeal has failed is large on both sides of the aisle,» Schumer told reporters in Albany on Monday.

What's really at work here is something members don't like to discuss: Monserrate's involvement in the 2009 Senate coup soured members on both sides of the aisle and set them against him, making it all the more easy to expel him from their ranks.

Even during joint legislative budget hearings, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were unable to get much in the way of detail out of members of the Cuomo administration, though they did — in some cases — get more than what the governor included in his budget documents.

Cuomo's office in recent days has been trying to resurrect a potential special legislative session that would pave the way for the first lawmaker pay raise since 1999, legislators on both sides of the aisle said.

To answer the second part of your question about other seating arrangements: The British House of Commons is set up in a rectangle, with each party on one side of the rectangle and the speaker sitting in between the two aisles.

A number of big names on both sides of the aisle have been making appearances on behalf of statewide and congressional candidates in recent weeks.

Candidates on both sides of the political aisle have benefited from the arrangement, though Gov. Andrew Cuomo has raked in the lion's share of the contributions.