Sentences with phrase «party line vote against»

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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 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.

In a 51 - 49 vote following party lines, the Senate approved its version of the tax reform bill during a marathon session, with only one Republican, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker, voting against the measure.

Basically you'd want to have only one vote against the «party line», so that you don't end up defeating yourself if 20 voters got the same idea.

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.

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.

The Democratic Senate candidates who are challenging incumbent Republicans are in an even worse fix, especially if they happen to be unfortunate enough as to be running against one of the three GOP members who crossed party lines at Cuomo's request last summer to vote «yes» on same - sex marriage.

His Shadow Cabinet disintegrated; his Parliamentary Party passed a huge Vote of No Confidence against him — something that would have ended any other leader's time in office then and there — while large numbers of councillors, the Labour London Mayor and the Party's Leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, all lined up to condemn his ideas, or his performance, or both.

BP lobbied against the measure, which narrowly passed the Senate in a party - line vote with all the Republicans voting «no.»

The Labour leader has made a virtue of voting against his party line for many years.

Another example would be when elected officials vote against the party line for the sake of publicly standing when a bill is unpopular (conversely, popular) in their constituency, all while knowing that the majority is comfortable enough that a few dissenting voices (or a few more votes) won't matter.

Unmentioned is the fact that Cuomo, whose victory over Republican Rob Astorino in November is even more likely without a WFP candidate in the race, would probably seek some sort of retaliation against the WFP — assuming, that is, that the party managed to get 50,000 votes for Teachout on its ballot line in the November general election and maintained its official status.

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.

The budget passed along party lines in the House, with four Republicans voting against the proposal and 189 Democrats casting no votes.

Labour was planning to vote against the programme motion, which allowed 10 days for line - by - line debate in a committee of the whole house, but party sources indicated around 20 - 25 days may be regarded as sufficient for the issues to be adequately aired.

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.

Stephen Kinnock followed the party line in abstaining, but 48 of his colleagues voted against ministers» plans to cut # 12bn from the welfare budget.

«I think some of Mike's decisions in choosing to become a whip, when he couldn't vote against the party line... people see as rather odd.»

Nine Republicans crossed party lines and voted against it.

The vote was split mostly between party lines in the committee, with eight Republicans voting against the bill and seven Democrats voting for it.

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.

It's also feasible there are some voters with philosophical distastes for certain third parties who will vote against candidates who receive the WFP or Conservative lines.

The bomb - throwing Buffalo builder got enough votes on the Conservative line in his disastrous gubernatorial campaign against Democrat Andrew Cuomo to secure the No. 3 spot on the ballot for the right - leaning political party, which had once been written off by political observers.

... Indeed, the whole of the last Parliament — covering five years - saw just 39 divisions in which at least one Liberal Democrat voted against their party line; in just over five months, the total for the 2010 Parliament has already reached 31.

The first is that, whilst being willing to vote against the party line isn't a requirement to be seen as effective, it does help.

Graham Allen, however, will vote against the party line, but only does so rarely (just six times so far this parliament) and is another who is currently utilising the select committee system to good effect.

As someone who's spent a long time — and probably far too long — studying the willingness of MPs to vote against their party line, I'm often asked the question: is it effective?

«Jeremy has been denounced by many embittered old Blairites for having voted against the party line.

Other frontbenchers who voted against the party line, and whose futures are now in doubt, include Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner and Tooting MP Rosena Allin - Khan.

The fact the bill passed 9 - 1 in July, with one legislator missing, gave Morton confidence he could override the decision, but Thursday, the vote was split on party lines with every Democrat against it.

The split vote sent the issue to State Supreme Court, where Andrew Zweben, a politically active attorney who serves as unofficial house counsel to Kingston's Democratic Committee, argued against Brown's right to appear on the Republican Party Line.

By any count, Donovan did better against Ryan than he did four years ago, when Donovan got 68 percent of the vote, even though Ryan had the Conservative Party line this year.

Three of the six Democrats seeking the party's ballot line against Rep. Elise Stefanik in Upstate New York's 21st Congressional District said Wednesday that they would not vote for Pelosi for speaker.

This week, two Republicans went against the party line, bringing the bill within one vote of Senate passage.

Mr. Faso puts himself forward as one who would not waste time on pointless party - line votes against the Affordable Care Act or for defunding Planned Parenthood.

Barrow and Furness MP Mr Woodcock pointed out that imposing a three - line whip to abstain would be forcing Labour MPs to vote against their own party policy, which is currently in favour of renewal.

The budget narrowly passed 216 - 212 along party lines, with all Democrats voting against the plan last Thursday.

Mr. Faso puts himself forward as one who would not waste time on pointless party - line votes against the Affordable Care Act or for defunding Planned

In the Commons debate on intervention against ISIS in Iraq held on 26 September 2014, Bacon again voted against his own party, [4] becoming one of only 6 Conservatives to defy the three - line whip imposed on Conservative MPs.

In order to protect against one ‐ party dominance in the drawing of lines, if one party controls both houses of the legislature, approval of a plan requires a 2/3 affirmative vote in each house.

I am essentially a supporter of Starmer's & Corbyn's line on the EU and believe that Labour needs to reserve the right to vote against a final deal if it is clearly contrary to the interests of British people as the party sees it, though complete opposition to Brexit at this stage would in my view be wrong.

Maroney and Jobson were presumably so scared of not receiving the one - man - band Conservative Party line in November handed out by Lettre to his puppets, that they voted against their own Republican caucus to spend another $ 2.5 million of taxpayers» money and send the Conservative Party Chairman home happy.

Lawmakers voted largely along party lines, with just seven Democrats voting in favor of the bill and four Republicans against.

Knowing that his amendment was fated to lose on the same party - line vote as the other amendments, Lipinski told ScienceInsider that he withdrew it so that the committee's Republicans did not have to publicly vote against the higher spending level for NSF.

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

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.

Ultimately, 12 Republicans crossed party lines to vote against the provision.

Two Republican senators from large rural states where school choice is logistically impossible (Maine and Alaska) crossed party lines and voted against DeVos, and both said they did so due to enormous pressure from constituents.

The bill passed largely along party lines, with five Republicans — Chuck Clemons of Newberry, Tom Goodson of Rockledge, Sam Killebrew of Winter Haven, Kathleen Peters of Treasure Island and Rene Plasencia of Orlando — voting against it.

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.