Sentences with phrase «on partisan lines»

Republicans and Democrats found themselves on partisan lines at a heated debate on the Hill this week as the industrialisation of the Grand Canyon was put on the table.

That vote failed on partisan lines, but Rep. Rosa Gill, a Wake County Democrat and retired math teacher, cautioned lawmakers against expanding voucher spending in the absence of data that suggest the program has been successful.

At first, it looked liked Common Core support split on partisan lines.

Today, the U.S. Senate narrowly voted 50 — 49 on partisan lines to confirm Representative Jim Bridenstine (R — OK) to serve as NASA's 13th administrator.

This week, the U.S. Senate narrowly voted 50 — 49 on partisan lines to confirm Representative Jim Bridenstine (R — OK) to serve as NASA's 13th administrator.

``... the time is right, to take democratic principles fully into local governance, local officials must become accountable to their local electorates, District Chief Executives should be directly elected if need be on partisan lines just like members of parliament and the president.

According to Akufo - Addo ``... the time is right, to take democratic principles fully into local governance, local officials must become accountable to their local electorates, District Chief Executives should be directly elected if need be on partisan lines just like members of parliament and the president.

On partisan lines, the National Labor Relations Board this week changed the way it defines a joint employer, essentially holding large franchises like McDonald's responsible for the employees that work for individual franchisees.

Though support for the Taylor rule has become largely split on partisan lines, there is another monetary rule that has growing support from across the ideological spectrum.

Not exact matches

The hearing quickly divided along partisan lines, Democrats pressing for details on the status of the FBI's investigation while Republicans focused on news coverage and possible improper disclosures of classified information developed through surveillance.

Public opinion on the president's reaction was split along partisan lines, with 37 percent of registered voters — including two - thirds of Republicans — saying his remarks were either very or somewhat appropriate, while 46 percent found them very or somewhat inappropriate (including 70 percent of Democrats).

The sermon ought to offer more than another partisan line on current political controversies.

This is seen most clearly in Faith and Order's emphasis on reconciling the churches and the alternative talk about «a partisan church of the poor» which would divide Christians in a new way along social and political lines.»

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.

Cuomo had previously pledged to veto any lines drawn by LATFOR, on the grounds that the process was inherently partisan, and therefore didn't meet his standard for nonpartisan lines drawn by an independent commission.

Cuomo endorsed some democrats, but mostly be press releases issued over a weekend, and he also boosted the profile of the Senator Skelos, by bringing the Republican Leader with him on a trip to Israel, and speaking often of his bi partisan successes in the legislature to hold the line on spending and taxes.

In November, voters will be able to approve a constitutional amendment that will require district lines to be drawn by an independent, bipartisan commission and at least three members who were not appointed by the majority conferences in either house must approve a plan before the Legislature votes on it, a key barrier to partisan gerrymandering.

Cuomo purposefully gave away the Senate to the Republicans when he reneged on vetoing partisan district lines in 2012.

If anything, the move shows Republicans are moving an overture to Gov. Andrew Cuomo that their revised lines are less «hyper - partisan» in the hope he'll sign off on their plan.

Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (D - N.Y.) has called on Senate Democrats to be on the floor at 9:30 Wednesday morning to hear what, if anything, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)

First, they were permitted to draw the new Senate district lines in a manner widely viewed as favorable to the GOP, after Governor Andrew Cuomo backed off on a threat to veto what he said were «hyper political, hyper partisan lines».

Cuomo says the proposed constitutional amendment still does not offer enough protections for the drawing of non partisan lines in the future, and he's counting on a yet to be settled accompanying statute to clarify that.

Education groups control the state's biggest super PACs, and while reformers and unions will likely take sides along most partisan lines in November, supporters of charter schools and tax credits for donations to private schools have focused on targeting eight incumbent Democrats in the primaries, forcing the New York State United Teachers to play defense in support of allies.

I deliberately excluded that from my answer for tactical reasons (I didn't want to hurt an extensive answer by downvotes from many P.SE users who vote on pure partisan lines), but there's enough evidence to post a separate answer showing that Trump has a strong basis for claiming there may be fraud - how impactful, if of course impossible to quantify at the moment.

Losing two rungs on the ballot ladder doesn't seem to be enough for them... instead, McKay gets to singlehandedly sell out the party line to a partisan crony.

It's also worth noting that legendary levels of dubious activity cross partisan lines there: After the Republican Party lost the majority in the state Senate in 2008, Democrats spent the first few months of their abbreviated stint in power basking in new information about how Republicans spent the legislature's money on items like a special van for the man who was then their majority leader, Joe Bruno, who went on to be sentenced to two years in prison on federal corruption charges.

Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (D - N.Y.) on Saturday lauded former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara after the high - profile federal prosecutor said he was fired earlier in the day.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he wasn't surprised that his Moreland Commission investigating public corruption was split along partisan lines on the question of taxpayer funding for campaigns.

«If you go back to 2005, I think it was, I think I spent $ 7 million of my own money trying to convince everybody that we should have nonpartisan elections,» said Bloomberg (who has very much played the partisan game when he's needed to, and contributed millions of dollars to the controversial Independence Party, which provided him a crucial non-major-party line to run on).

He signed the budget already instead of using his budgetary line item veto power on the partisan redistricting plan that was in the budget.

Late last night, the governor and legislature reached a deal on redistricting that essentially allows the State Senate's and Assembly's partisan majorities to put in place gerrymandered lines for the next decade, and creates the framework for a constitutional amendment to govern future redistrictings that creates a bipartisan commission to submit lines to the legislature for approval.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has been inching away for a while now from his earlier blanket promise to veto any congressional and district lines drawn by the legislature, expressing a preference for a an agreement on acceptably partisan lines drawn by lawmakers over a court - controlled solution.

«The study participants were deeply divided along partisan lines, with about 50 % saying they do believe in human - caused climate change and 50 % saying they don't,» said Dan Kahan, professor of law and of psychology at Yale Law School and the lead researcher on the study.

Here is Michael on Science Friday «Conveying Science Across Partisan Lines» 17 minutes re his appearance at the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

No less important is the fact that opinion on many key education issues does not polarize the public along partisan lines.

With the Republicans taking a tough line, that may leave the President with no option but to stand by the most partisan of his friends in the legislative branch, who are hoping to put congressional Republicans on that electrified Social Security rail.

The Senate Budget Committee signed off on the bill (SB 1718), already passed by the Florida House, largely along partisan lines with a single Republican — Sen. Evelyn Lynn of Ormond Beach — joining Democrats in opposition.

The business - backed, conservative American Legislative Exchange Council has crafted model bills similar to the one (SB 1718, HB 1191) now on its way to the Senate floor in Florida; the House approved an identical measure last week along partisan lines.

The House education committee approved Chairman John Kline's (R - MN) legislation to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) on a strictly party - line vote, indicating a partisan split on key aspects of fixing NCLB.

Commenting on the exchanges, Drew Altman, president and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation says, «Governors are largely splitting along partisan lines on the exchanges.

Mirroring national opinion, mayors» views on climate change and environmental policy were sharply divided along partisan lines.

I think one problem here is that in contrast with the UK, in America the whole AGW debate has become polarised on the usual, extremely bitter, partisan lines.

Some recent statements by Chris Christie and Rand Paul [^ 1] have raised the prospect that vaccination, or, more precisely, policies that impose costs on parents who don't vaccinate their kids, may become a partisan issue, with Republicans on the anti-vax (or, if you prefer, pro-freedom) side and Democrats pushing a pro-vaccine, pro-science line.

The court's decision to take on the legally dubious King v. Burwell case, she writes, positions the court on «the front lines of a partisan war,» and puts «not only the Affordable Care Act, but the court itself» in peril.Greenhouse contrasts this case with the previous challenge the court took up to Obamacare, pointing out that this time what's in question isn't the constitutionality of the law, but its statutory interpretation — what did Congress intend and did the government interpret and implement the statute correctly.

Americans are divided along partisan lines on federal and state authority on immigration laws