Sentences with phrase «on party line votes»

With two skeptical Republican senators falling in line Friday, the GOP appears set to have the support to push the bill through next week on a party line vote.

The House on Thursday voted 211 - 186, on a party line vote, to table the privileged resolution that would have implicated the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee with violating «Clause 1 of Rule XXIII of the Code of Official Conduct, which states that «A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, Officer or Employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.»

That GOP proposal was also defeated on a party line vote.

The Senate vote is coming a week after the state House of Representatives approved the agreement on a party line vote of 78 to 72.

The deal was approved 78 to 72 on a party line vote.

Like the House SS&T committee, last year the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee approved a bill on a party line vote.

The resolution doesn't contain punitive measures included in the Republican - supported bill that passed the Assembly on a party line vote of 61 - 36.

Not exact matches

«What has changed is that while there used to be a modicum of congressional bargaining across major policy developments, the party in power now tries to pass legislation on straight party - line votes,» says Mr. Jillson.

Like the Affordable Care Act, it was passed on a purely party - line vote, via a truly ugly process, with little time for legislators to figure out what's in it.

Why she could vote no: Murkowski previously helped bring down the GOP push to repeal and replace Obamacare, so she has a track record of voting against the party - line on contentious issues.

On March 28, Congress voted along party lines to kill a set of rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in October that would've forced your internet service provider, or ISP, to ask you before it collected certain personal information.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

On a party - line vote, Trump - appointed chairman Ajit Pai and two other Republican commissioners voted in favor of revoking the rules, while the two Democrats on the commission voted against the movOn a party - line vote, Trump - appointed chairman Ajit Pai and two other Republican commissioners voted in favor of revoking the rules, while the two Democrats on the commission voted against the movon the commission voted against the move.

Feinstein offered a similar version of the amendment in December, a day after an extremist couple killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, but the Republican - run Senate rejected the proposal on a near party - line vote.

The process allows Republicans to avoid a Democratic filibuster and pass the bill on a party - line vote, but it comes with strings attached.

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recast the digital landscape.

In party - line votes on Tuesday, Brady's tax committee voted down eight Democratic amendments that would have preserved or expanded tax breaks for the middle class, nullified the tax legislation if it increased the deficit in future years and maintained taxes on foreign profits of U.S. corporations.

The committee approved the legislation last month on a party line 34 - 26 vote.

The state Senate on Wednesday passed the second of two House bills defining residency for voting, HB 1264, in 14 - 10 party line vote.

House Republicans managed to break the sit - in long enough to vote on the override, which passed on a party - line vote of 239 - 180, but fell short of the two - thirds vote needed to override the president's veto.

On Tuesday night, the Republican tax reform bill passed the Senate upon a party - line vote, clearing the way for it to be signed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Tax reform cleared its first major hurdle in Congress on November 16 when the House passed its version of the bill by a 227 - to - 205 vote mainly along party lines.

Just seven days ago, Republicans on the committee voted not to release Schiff's memo in a party - line vote.

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers appeared to secure enough votes on Friday to pass the most sweeping tax overhaul in decades, putting them on the cusp of their first significant legislative victory as leaders geared up to pass a $ 1.5 trillion tax cut along party lines and send it to President Trump by Christmas.

I consider myself somewhat conservative and generally in line with alot of republican views — and alot of democratic ones too — I think I am TYPICAL of the YOUNGER GENERATION that is SICK OF MUD SLINGING from BOTH PARTIES and i VOTE INDEPENDANT — I VOTE THE CANDIDATE NOT THE PARTY — and i AM WHITE and I am INSULTED by YOUR RACIST COMMENT on wanting an «all white» country!!

The vote will be along party lines, not on justice or serving the people of this country.

Elisabetta Gardini, from the European People's Party (EPP) said: «Today «s vote is in line with the spirit of the international standards on marketing and mothers «milk substitutes developed by the World Health Organization, which aim to ensure that there is no form of advertising or promotional material for substitute products of mother «s milk.

The House Appropriations Committee approved the waiver request on a party - line vote.

«Each vote on the Working Families Party line shows that in New York, people - power can still trump big money,» said WFP Executive Director Dan Cantor.

On Monday night, after Reps. Sean Patrick Maloney and Dan Maffei voted «yes» on a measure that would have repealed the Obamacare carve - out for Congress and delayed the individual insurance mandate for a year, the party sent its members an email alert with the subject line: «You thought we weren't going to find out?&raquOn Monday night, after Reps. Sean Patrick Maloney and Dan Maffei voted «yes» on a measure that would have repealed the Obamacare carve - out for Congress and delayed the individual insurance mandate for a year, the party sent its members an email alert with the subject line: «You thought we weren't going to find out?&raquon a measure that would have repealed the Obamacare carve - out for Congress and delayed the individual insurance mandate for a year, the party sent its members an email alert with the subject line: «You thought we weren't going to find out?»

That total is nearly 60,000 votes higher than the previous record of 183,672 set by Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2010 (Gillibrand, who was running to fill the remaining two years in the term of her predecessor, Hillary Clinton, received 182,624 on the WFP line that year), and approximately 80,000 over the party's highest 2008 statewide total, which was 159,613 for President Obama.

Ten per cent of respondents said Labour's tougher line on cuts would make them more likely to vote for the party but 13 % said it would make them less likely.

@SoylentGray: I think what Chirstian is trying say here is that the individual elected members of a party are not beholden to vote party line on any bill before them.

Not surprisingly, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long is not at all pleased with the talk in Albany these days of going away with so - called fusion voting by repealing or amending the Wilson - Pakula statute that requires candidates who aren't enrolled in a particular party to get permission from that party's leaders to run on their ballot Party Chairman Mike Long is not at all pleased with the talk in Albany these days of going away with so - called fusion voting by repealing or amending the Wilson - Pakula statute that requires candidates who aren't enrolled in a particular party to get permission from that party's leaders to run on their ballot party to get permission from that party's leaders to run on their ballot party's leaders to run on their ballot line.

Lazio on the Conservative ballot creates the awful choice for Conservatives of voting for Paladino to defeat Cuomo versus voting the Conservative line to give the party its needed 50,000 votes thereby helping Cuomo by taking away a vote from Paladino, the only candidate who can beat Cuomo.

Caputo also threatened to outspend Lazio «five or six times over» on Paladino's independent Taxpayers Party line, which he said was «designed to completely take away the vote that would be going to the Conservative line under any other circumstances» and «destroy» the Conservative Party.

He says he last voted against his party on a three - line whip in the 1970s - and when he did so, two years later Margaret Thatcher appointed him to her government.

But in exchange for getting the popular Democratic gubernatorial candidate on its line — thus ensuring it would well surpass the required 50,000 - vote mark to live another four years (the party ended up moving to Row D)-- the WFP had to agree to Cuomo's «New NY Agenda,» which included a slew of agenda items — the property tax cap, no new taxes to close the budget deficit etc. — that the left had opposed.

Given that he is a proven vote getter, a Paladino candidacy on the Conservative Party line would be deeply problematic for Republicans.

Senators elected as Democrats who vote for a Republican Majority Leader are traitors to the party — pure and simple — and should be expelled from the party and never given the opportunity to run on a Democratic line again.

McDonald was one of four Republicans who crossed party lines to vote «yes» on same - sex marriage at Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's urging in 2011, and he ended up paying a steep political price as a result.

Barron, who hopes to receive at least 50,000 votes on the Freedom Party line, establishing a new third party that will have automatic ballot status in the 2014 elections, told me the vast number of signatures he has amassed should serve as the equivilent of a political «no trespassing» sign to any of his detracParty line, establishing a new third party that will have automatic ballot status in the 2014 elections, told me the vast number of signatures he has amassed should serve as the equivilent of a political «no trespassing» sign to any of his detracparty that will have automatic ballot status in the 2014 elections, told me the vast number of signatures he has amassed should serve as the equivilent of a political «no trespassing» sign to any of his detractors.

(Reuters)-- Battle lines were drawn for South Africa's ANC on Monday as voting began to elect a new leader to succeed President Jacob Zuma as head of a party that has ruled since the end of apartheid but faced scandals and corruption allegations.

Though Rosen's connection is tenuous to the Obama administration, Republicans used the line as a counter punch to the so - called «War on Women» as both parties vie for that voting bloc this year.

Despite the recent attempt by the Cuomo campaign at a rapprochement with the Rev. Al Sharpton, the prominent black leader publicly announced over the weekend that he will be voting for NYC Councilman Charles Barron for governor on the Freedom Party line.

The influential Erie County Democratic Town Chairs Association has unanimously called for ending the power of party leaders to enable candidates from other parties to run on their lines — otherwise known as fusion voting.

The Wilson Pakula threshold for anyone not enrolled in the party who wants to run on the line, as you'll recall, is just over 50 percent of the weighted convention vote — more than twice the 25 percent necessary for party members to get onto the ballot.

Astorino and his running mate, Chemung County Sheriff Chris Moss, received the needed 50,000 votes on the line to give the party ballot status in the current election cycle.

The party needs to receive at lest 50,000 votes on its line in the race for governor in order to maintain ballot status for the next four years.

The Lib Dems have little to loose on the issue and a lot to gain as getting the anti-Brexit camp to break party lines and vote for them would be a big win.