Sentences with phrase «only house republicans»

With a vote of 221 to 207 on July 19, 2013 — with only House Republicans in favor — the U.S. House approved the Student Success Act, the ESEA (NCLB) reauthorization bill that passed out of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in June.

Hanna, a third - term congressman from Oneida County, was joined by fellow New York Rep. Chris Gibson, R - Kinderhook, and Rep. Ileana Ros - Lehtinen, R - Fla., as the only House Republicans to support a constitutional right to gay marriage.

Not exact matches

For example, when political newcomer David Brat successfully challenged House Republican majority leader Eric Cantor to represent Virginia in the U.S. Congress, it came as a surprise only to those reporters who didn't bother to go to Virginia and talk to «actual humans,» as Rutenberg observes (echoing an earlier analysis by Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi).

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R - WI) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) have signaled a willingness to return before Sept. 6, but only if Democrats drop their objections to the Republican - crafted bill.

Only one in five Americans approve of the Republican - backed health care bill that the House of Representatives passed last week, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

House Republicans have a proposal that would lift the statutory debt limit, but only until Nov. 22.

The invitation - only Experts and Enthusiasts (E2) Summit in Park City, Utah, will feature a number of prominent Republicans, including Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain, both vocal GOP critics of President Donald Trump, and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who was Romney's running mate in 2012.

Kudlow will bring the perfect mix of star power and old Reaganite - GOP ideological nonsense Trump needs in his White House to make Republicans like Paul Ryan (and only Republicans like Paul Ryan) sleep better at night.

The administration and House leadership can only afford to lose about 20 votes from Republican ranks.

As the House tax committee weighed amendments to a bill that Democrats have blasted as a giveaway to corporations and the rich, the Washington tax reform debate was fast shifting to the Senate, where Republicans hold only a slim majority.

And Trump just ousted his only top White House aide with deep links to the Republican Party.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives forged ahead on Tuesday with legislation to reshape the federal tax code, while a top credit - ratings agency said the bill would balloon the budget deficit and give only a temporary boost to the economy.

WASHINGTON, Nov 7 - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives forged ahead on Tuesday with legislation to reshape the U.S. tax code, while a top credit - ratings agency said the bill would balloon the budget deficit and give only a temporary boost to the economy.

Because of the raising of the standard deduction and other changes like the reduction of the SALT deduction only around 5 % of filers will itemize deductions under the new Republican tax plan, (7 million filers estimated in linked Tax Policy Center report, page 7, in analysis of previous House version).

Democrats, who have put forward a spate of gun safety bills only to see them left unaddressed by Republicans, who control the House and Senate, seethed with frustration.

The House passed the measure last December, but only after it was attached to a dramatic expansion of the right to carry concealed firearms virtually anywhere in the country — long sought by Republicans and the National Rifle Association.

Congress gave final approval to a giant $ 1.3 trillion spending bill that ends the budget battles for now, but only after late scuffles and conservatives objected to big outlays on Democratic priorities at a time when Republicans control the House, Senate and White House.

But Mr. Tucker says he thinks Mr. Obama is trying to wrap up TPP talks by the middle of 2015 and that the White House will push hard for an ambitious deal because the Republican - dominated Congress will only approve one that significantly slashes trade barriers.

The Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Pennsylvania's Rep. Galusha Grow, managed the Act through Congress and echoed a point made years earlier by former President James Madison that population growth would eventually make obsolete a broad - based property ownership policy limited only to the ownership of land.

A number of Republican House members insisted on only a partial repeal in the House bill, but the Senate has gone for a full repeal in an effort to raise more money to pay for tax cuts elsewhere.

But no matter what happens, the release of the Nunes memo only serves to escalate the conflict between the FBI and the Department of Justice and Trump's Republican allies on Capitol Hill and in the White House itself.

Not only do they represent an immigration position to the right of many Republicans (especially if the White House actively opposes citizenship for DACA recipients), but they are demands being made by a White House that has something of a track record of caving to Congress.

The STOP School Violence Act might be just that, although House Republican leaders voiced some support for the Senate's Fix NICS Act, which would only reinforce existing laws requiring state and federal agencies to report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

With Republicans in control of the House, Senate and White House, they would totally «own» such a shutdown, which citizens detest, and this could only hurt them in the November, 2018 elections.

It's bottled up anger for a black young lawyer and «community organizer» (only in the republican party where community organizer is a derogatory word) who was able to reach new heights and be the leader of the white house.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

In particular, more than half of those surveyed knew who ran the oil well that exploded in the Gulf, that the budget deficit is larger now than in the 1990s, that Republicans were the big winners on November 2nd (though fewer than half know that they'll only control the House and fewer still can identify John Boehner as Speaker), that the U.S. has an international trade deficit, and that unemployment is pretty close to 10 percent.

Liberal groups accuse Republicans in Washington of pulling a bait and switch on social issues, saying the GOP took back the House last November by campaigning on fiscal issues, turning to hot buttons like abortion only after taking office.

Of the 293 Republicans in both houses of Congress, only two do not identify as Christian and are Jewish.

Nancy Pelosi publicly said: «Republicans claim they want to «drain the swamp,» but the night before the new Congress gets sworn in, the House GOP has eliminated the only independent ethics oversight of their actions.

Republicans historically have been fiscally reckless and only become conservative when a democrat is in the white house.

Aides say that calls for Perry to consider a White House run came only after other big - name Republicans, like Mike Huckabee, Mitch Daniels and Haley Barbour, announced they would not run.

The only question is whether the House Republican leaders have heard — whether they can hear — from anyone else.

After re-reading Fifty Shades of Grey every House Republican will only be thinking of one thing when they have Susan Rice in front of them.

Only two Chicago and eight Downstate Democrats voted for the park district bill in the Republican - controlled Senate, and it is expected to face a fight in the Democratic - controlled House.

Only two House members from upstate, and 53 nationwide, have signed on to support the bill authored by Rep. Peter King, a Long Island Republican, the dean of New York's GOP congressional delegation.

Only three years ago, pundits and political scientists saw the 2008 American presidential election as the beginning of a new era in Washington: the rise of President Obama and a strong Democratic majority in both houses of Congress meant that after eight years away from Pennsylvania Avenue, liberals could again implement political programmes and reforms free from Republican meddling.

Attorney Wendy Long so far is the only one of Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's three Republican challengers to weigh in on the budget plan proposed by the House Budget Committee chairman, Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan earlier today.

It was only after the administration's tax cut deal with Congressional Republicans enraged liberal Democrats that repealing DADT became a last - minute priority for the White House, which badly needed a legislative victory to soothe its progressive base.

Excluding resolutions sponsored by Republicans, he also supported every piece of legislation that came before the house in the three preceding years, the only years for which comprehensive records have been compiled.

But only two of of New York's House Republicans ended up backing Trump.

Of New York's nine House Republicans, only Rep. Chris Collins, R - Clarence, of Western New York has endorsed Trump.

Hurd would be the only African - American Republican in the House.

As one Republican strategist admitted to me recently, if his party fails to take back the Senate next month it will only lead observers to conclude Democratic campaign operatives are far superior to the GOP's, and Republicans don't have a chance of winning the White House in 2016.

(They're not at the RNC meeting because they're attending a members - only retreat of House Republicans).

Republican Rep. Chris Lee was the only member of the New York congressional delegation to vote «no» on the Zadroga bill that passed the House earlier today.

That seat was held by Michael Grimm, the only Republican House member from New York City.

She's one of only 22 Republican women in the House — compared to 62 Democrats.

Any Republican House candidate can participate in the program, but only those who meet certain benchmarks are elevated through the ranks.

Only five House Democrats and three Senate Democrats broke ranks and voted for the Republican budget proposal that Malloy vetoed.