Sentences with phrase «party line vote h.r.»

The chamber's 51 - 48 party line vote just before 12:45 a.m. Wednesday in Washington brought President Donald Trump to the brink of his first major legislative victory.

In another party line vote, the FCC moved to scale back the scope of its Lifeline program, which offers subsidies for low - income Americans to purchase landline and mobile phone plans and broadband internet services.

That 2014 proposal SB 6088, was approved by the Senate Law & Justice Committee on a 4 - 3 party line vote on February 4 and sent onto the Senate Rules Committee.

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law took the first steps in reversing language in the 2005 bankruptcy law related to private student loan debt by approving on a 6 - 3 party line vote H.R. 5043, the Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act.

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The House may consider the new definition of a «first class school district» today, and with a party line vote expected, congratulations to DPS and the teachers» union on your victory.

After several minutes of procedural confusion, the Senate cast a party line vote of 18 - 12 to adjourn their session without a debate, infuriating minority Republicans.

On a 5 - 2 party line vote, with two Republicans opposed, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to send AB 5, the bill rewriting the teacher evaluation law, to the full Senate for a vote next week.

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.

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

The moves came in a series of amendments to a 2016 spending bill for the Department of Commerce, home of the Census Bureau, and several other agencies that passed last night on a mostly party line vote of 242 to 183.

If it follows the party line vote seen in the House, Newton expects it to pass and Republican Governor Bill Haslam to sign it into law.

The move was defeated on a 54 - 39 party line vote.?

So if there's a party line vote in that chamber, Democratic Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman would have to break the tie, in order to approve the deal.

The deal was approved 78 to 72 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.

After several minutes of procedural confusion, the Senate cast a party line vote of 18 - 12 to adjourn their session without a debate, infuriating minority Republicans.

The measure voted down by a largely party line vote on April 11th would have been the first step toward forcing a vote on the property tax cap in the Assembly.

Despite GOP warnings that the bill would be ruled unconstitutional, the Democratic House majority pushed the legislation through on a straight party line vote after nearly five hours of debate.

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

«I'm not an automatic party line vote by any means,» he said.

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.»

In a party line vote, the state Senate Codes Committee voted down the proposed Children's Weapon Accident Prevention Act, which would make it a felony if a gun owner fails to safely store a loaded weapon and the gun is used by a child under 18 to kill or injure a child.

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

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.

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

Straight party line voting is not a leadership position.

The bills that have been passed were approved in overwhelmingly party line votes with widespread support from Republicans.

Not exact matches

But this latest effort may not succeed given the tight time constraints and skepticism from Senators like Arizona Republican John McCain, who has been insisting that any health care legislation go through a bipartisan committee process in regular order (rather than a pure party - line vote).

«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.

But without the votes, Democratic opponents and a handful of Republicans who crossed party lines to oppose the measure, were left only to deliver emotional pleas to block it.

A measure designed to provide financial incentives for companies to hire new employees looks set to pass the Senate, after five Republicans, including newly elected Senator Scott Brown, crossed party lines and voted with the Democrats.

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 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.

She said she would cross party lines and vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton instead.

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

Surprisingly, this was hardly a vote along party lines — a lot of Democrats voted in favor of the redaction.

The Senate rejected it last December by a near party - line vote, a day after an extremist couple killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif..

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.

The net - neutrality laws passed during the Obama administration, formally known as the 2015 Open Internet Order, were approved in a 3 - 2 vote along party lines in February 2015, after months of heated debate and public outcries.

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.

Despite widespread, bipartisan support for those protections, the Republican - dominated FCC voted along party lines in December to eliminate them.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- A Senate committee voted along party lines Wednesday to advance President Donald Trump's picks for key posts at the Environmental Protection Agency over the objections of Democrats who pointed to the nominees» past work for corporate clients they would now regulate.

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

In 2017, for example, Republicans largely voted along party lines to do away with an Obama - era regulation designed to keep guns out of the hands of some people with severe mental illness (Republican senators were joined by four Democrats in this 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.