Sentences with phrase «party voted against»

It's Part of a Political Game — while the Labor Party voted against the Preamble in Parliament, they will not campaign against it.

Conservative Party voted against it, saying it's being rushed through Parliament.

Does it mean explaining why their party voted against Democratic legislature limiting jobs from being sent overseas??? Because they can talk all they want about the jobs Obama isnt creating, but they sure cant answer why they are the reason there are no jobs in the first place...

Three lawmakers from his own party voted against him.

«This comes after the senators from the party voted against the senate moving a motion calling on the presidency to pay the N5, 000 allowance.

One hundred and thirty six Tory MPs opposed the bill against 123 in favour, meaning a majority of the Conservative party voted against the legislation.

The government originally wanted increase the time terror suspects can be held without charge from 14 days to 90, but this was reduced to 28 after 49 Labour MPs and opposition parties voted against it, giving Tony Blair his first Commons defeat.

With Corbyn a lifelong CND member, but the party still officially backing Trident renewal, Reed explains: «We have the prospect right now of a leader of the Labour party voting against his own party's policy in a matter of national security, that's uncharted territory.»

The decision had cross-party support in the Senate vote, passing by 39 votes to 32, with only the Labor and Green parties voting against repealing the carbon pricing scheme they introduced, and which took effect two years ago.

The decision had cross-party support in the Senate vote, passing by 39 votes to 32, with only the Labor and Green parties voting against repealing [continue reading...]

All opposition parties voted against Bill 62 not because it would discriminate against Muslim women but they claimed it did not go far enough and should extend to law enforcement and the judiciary.

Not exact matches

Sen. John McCain stunned much of the US and his party leaders on Friday, when shortly before 2 a.m. ET he voted against against a «skinny» plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act.

One big unknown — particularly in London — is the impact of EU citizens, who Curtice warned could «scupper» the Tories if they turn out in big numbers and vote against the party.

Now a political independent, Bloomberg considered making a third - party run for president this year before opting against a campaign, expressing worry he would siphon away votes from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and inadvertently help elect Trump.

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.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

But while Amash's conservative record is strong, he has occassionally bucked his party, most notably by voting against Paul Ryan's budget and against the deal to raise the debt ceiling.

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 2013, he voted with his party against comprehensive immigration reform, an issue that's critical to the growth of the agricultural and tech sectors.

On behalf of the Lesser of Evils Party, may I suggest you tell your supporters to just plain vote against Stephen Harper?

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

As a result, the Opposition parties will likely vote against the bill and the Harper Government will again use this against them during the upcoming election campaign.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United Stparty — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United StParty, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United StParty in the United States.

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.

This impression is supported by the fact that around half of the French electorate voted against the established political parties.

The divided PC government caucus also missed an opportunity to send a clear message that they embrace 21st century values by singling out the opposition Wildrose as the only party to unanimously vote against the motion — and remind Albertans of the infamous Lake of Fire.

Rep. Juan Vargas, a California Democrat who voted against the omnibus because it lacked protection for Dreamers, said his party has to keep proving itself to Dreamers after disappointing in the budget process.

of the vote on Sunday following months of bitter campaigning that pitted him against all major opposition parties, including the anti-system 5 - Star Movement.

Unfortunatly, the party of ME (republicans) have a lot of people brainwashed to think of no one but themselves and even in that case they have the people voting against their best interests and their own families best interests, it is too bad we have such selfish people in the U.S.

But if he is chosen to represent his party, I will carefully weigh his ideas against those of President Obama (for whom I voted the last go round).

The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renomination.

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

Only a self - destructive person would vote for someone who plans to remove the safety net, legislate against women, and whose party has done everything it could to suppress the vote.

He fears that one committee, left to itself, might vote against God; another against the prayer book; and the third against the Republican party.

We will vote against the Teapublican party for sure.

In Europe, establishment parties on the left and right frequently cooperate to fend off anti-establishment challengers — not always successfully, as recent votes for Brexit and against Italian constitutional reform indicate.

Both parties did, and had all the Dems voted against it, it would not have passed.

See for example Sunlight Foundation's PARTY TIME or any of their work mapping voting decisions against financial contributions.

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.

If Cuomo wins because Lazio and the Conservative Party splits the vote against Cuomo, Paladino voters will blame Lazio and the Conservative pParty splits the vote against Cuomo, Paladino voters will blame Lazio and the Conservative partyparty.

He told me he has nothing against Wilson, but questioned whether the former hudge fund manager and newcomer to GOP politics would be able to make sufficient inroads among the party rank - and - file to get 25 percent of the weighted convention vote.

Those who voted against Lords reform are «not fit to be MPs», the Green party said in a scathing statement today.

For instance regulations that are going to cripple the coal industry were voted against by Democrats from coal mining areas, despite their party's significant support for 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.

She helped save the Labour Party by voting as a member of Labour's national executive committee against the expulsion of Nye Bevan.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

Europe minister David Lidington has hit out against Conservative eurosceptics ahead of Wednesday's likely vote by telling them to focus on issues other than the in / out referendum tearing his party apart.

The reason for this is that there are many more liberal parties in the UK Parliament than Conservative, and chances are that during motions that have to carry in parliament that need a majority conservatives will have a hard time passing laws if the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all vote against the Tories» motions.

In a parliamentary career of 29 years, I have only voted once against my party, over the Options for Change defence programme.

«I would not, as Jeremy has done, vote against my party 500 times.