Sentences with phrase «party line vote after»

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.

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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.

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

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.

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 Sean Patrick Maloney and Dan Maffei voted «yes» on a measure that would have repealed the Obamacare carve - out for Congress and delayed the individual insurance mandate for a year, the party sent its members an email alert with the subject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?»

Cuomo had endorsed or offered to support two Republicans in 2012 who had voted in favor of the measure: Sen. Stephen Saland, who lost a three - way race, and Sen. Roy McDonald, who had retained the Independence Party line after losing his primary, but ultimately declined to compete in the general election.

Boehner directed the House general counsel to defend DOMA against litigation after the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group on March 9 voted 3 - 2 along party lines to take up defense of the statute.

On Tuesday, the BOE voted to refer the actions of a Grimm campaign operative to local, state, and federal prosecutors after Grimm's aide, Joe Shikhman, filed an extra petition for Donovan that could have gotten the incumbent thrown off the Reform Party Line.

After Astorino received more than 50,000 votes on the line, the party gained permanency to last through the current election cycle.

For the second consecutive year, Democrats and Republicans joined together after agreeing that they could not pass a party - line vote.

But labor leaders have advised Cuomo to not take the WFP's ballot line in September anyway after the Sept. 13 party primary — a move that could hamper the WFP's ability to garner votes in the general election and maintain its ballot status.

Hoffman, running on the Conservative Party line in a special election last year, came within 4,000 votes of defeating Owens after Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of the race on the weekend before Election Day.

Many Party members will take the same line as LabourList and want to convince themselves that elections in our Party are fair and above board.Sadly this is not the case.Last year after the CAC Election a number of delegates, from several different Regions, came forward and said full time officials encouraged them to vote against Katy and myself.This is totally against the Code of Conduct and, to me, is little different to ballot rigging.An investigation is underway.We have a good idea who was behind it.LeftFutures will keep you updated.

While Cuomo is still expected to win over Republican challenger Rob Astorino, it's possible that the Green Party could win Row C on the ballot, after the Democratic and Republican lines, if Hawkins garners enough votes on Tuesday.

A City Council hopeful who came within a couple hundred votes of scoring an upset against Chinatown Councilwoman Margaret Chin is gunning for a rematch after unexpectedly winning the Independence Party line.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has crossed party lines and offered a political endorsement to Republican state Senator Roy McDonald, who lost a primary this month after voting to support same sex marriage in 2011.

It's a move that comes after the Conservative Party's executive committee formally voted to oppose the formation of the new ballot line, which was formed out of the Stop Common Core ballot line created last year.

A Senate committee voted along party lines to send the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general to the full Senate floor, after a contentious hearing in which Democrats questioned the Alabama Republican's ability to show independence from the White House.

The day after Cuomo made his intentions perfectly clear by asking his email list to vote for him on his fake Women's Equality Party line, he referred to WFP as the «Working Short People» party and «fringe.&rParty line, he referred to WFP as the «Working Short People» party and «fringe.&rparty and «fringe.»

John Perry, his town's former assessor and a longtime fixture for his coaching of local kids» sports teams, will be the new town supervisor in Hurley after the counting of absentee ballots on Monday, November 20 gave him 13 more votes than former Woodstock supervisor and now West Hurley resident Tracy Kellogg, who was making her third run for the position on Democratic, Green and Working Family party lines.

BP, under fire nationally for all the obvious reasons, was a player pushing against an Albany bill to reduce the level of of sulfur in home heating oil sold in the state to the levels in diesel trucks - a measure that narrowly passed the state Senate after a party - line vote against it by the GOP minority.

Almost five months after Governor Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Party garnered the more than 50,000 votes it needed to retain a ballot line in future elections, the party still has no formal leadership or bylaws, a spokesman for the state Board of Elections Party garnered the more than 50,000 votes it needed to retain a ballot line in future elections, the party still has no formal leadership or bylaws, a spokesman for the state Board of Elections party still has no formal leadership or bylaws, a spokesman for the state Board of Elections said.

The Green Party, which obtained its ballot line in 2010 after Howie Hawkins received more than 50,000 votes in his unsuccessful run for governor, does not cross-endorse candidates because the two major parties accept corporate donations....

(Lipton, whose criticism came after polls had closed, was referring to the governor's creation of a new Women's Equality Party, which narrowly won the 50,000 votes to guarantee a future ballot line.)

Lawmakers voted along party lines to pass the $ 2.99 billion budget after removing increases to Nassau's traffic ticket surcharge and to two real estate transactions fees.

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

During a news conference after the meeting she said the district lines and Republican measures to require photo IDs at the polls and limit early voting have created «roadblock after roadblock» for her party.

She had sought to run on the Working Families Party line, but a majority of W.F.P. delegates voted to endorse Cuomo after he committed to join efforts to flip the state Senate into Democratic hands.

After a series of increasingly desperate pleas for gubernatorial votes on their line — including an email blast from Executive Director Dan Cantor titled «Imagine a state with no WFP» — the party had picked up more than 108,000 votes for Mr. Cuomo as of this writing, more than double the 50,000 needed to cling to the ballot for four years.

The final party - line vote — 32 to 28 — arrived after the sun had set on a dizzying day of last - minute negotiations, one - house bills that have almost no chance of passage in the Assembly, and frenzied efforts to round up two Democratic senators who spent much of the day missing in action.

It was defeated in a 9 - 3 vote after some Democratic Party members said the NOW's city chapter was out of line and unworthy.

Minutes after the vote, Mr. Levy was defiant as he addressed reporters, saying he could not yet support Mr. Lazio because he, like Mr. Paladino, was weighing creating a Tea Party - influenced third - party line to ruParty - influenced third - party line to ruparty line to run on.

The bill then passed the committee, also on a party - line vote, after a startling moment when committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D - WV) inadvertently voted against it.

Inching one step closer to fulfilling the G.O.P. «Contract With America,» the House Subcommittee on Human Resources approved the measure on an 8 - to - 5 party - line vote, after altering it to address some concerns raised by Republican governors.

The House Education Committee passed a GOP bill on a party - line vote, but it was yanked from floor debate in February after conservative GOP lawmakers said it didn't go far enough to shrink the federal role in education.

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.

In line with his Republican party, House Representative Michael Burgess voted for tying interest rates to the private market in 2013 after he voted against the federal student loan takeover in 2009.

Smith's first subpoena came only after a contentious debate and party - line vote in the committee.

After the bill passed the House on a near party - line vote, Republicans in the Senate did everything they could to gum up the works and delay the bill — refusing to work nights or weekends, demanding that all bills be read out loud (seriously), even walking off the job last week.

Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas was confirmed to an ambassadorship on Wednesday after a six - month after V.P. Mike Pence broke the Senate split 49 - 49 vote along party lines on the nomination of the Republican.

The Senate Budget Committee approved the bill on a party - line vote of 12 - 11 Tuesday, but only after Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee said he bargained for adding a controversial provision: a so - called revenue trigger that would impose tax increases if the tax bill's cuts raise the federal deficit.

The Senate voted late Tuesday night, winning along party lines in a 51 - 48 vote, and the House voted again on Dec. 20 after the provisions in question were amended by the Senate.