Sentences with phrase «progressive opposition to the bill»

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat who led the progressive opposition to the bill, which she nicknamed the «Bank Lobbyist Act,» argued it will increase risk in the financial system and make another devastating economic crisis more likely.

Not exact matches

Faith leaders» opposition to the Assisted Dying Bill shows how they are much less progressive than their flocks.

«My committee recommended the withdrawal of the bill based on the strong opposition to it across the country, Umar, an All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator from Niger state said while presenting the report.

He previously defied New York Democrats» backing of Clinton in 2008 in favor of Barack Obama, and has backed progressive candidates like Bill de Blasio, occasionally in opposition to the party's preferred choice.

Ms. Lewis's group, the Black Institute, collected thousands of signatures in opposition to the bill and received support from the American Progressive Bag Alliance — which, according to its chairman, changed its name in recent years from the Plastic Bag Alliance.

Among the beneficiaries of the union's largesse: Progressive Majority, which was given $ 50,284 in 2011 - 2012, another $ 20,000 to Campaign for America's Future, which bills itself as a social justice group (which is quite in line with what the NEA is trying to do as part of a new strategy to preserve its declining influence), and $ 135,000 to the old - school People for the American Way (which given both group's opposition to expanding school choice through school vouchers, makes quite a lot of sense).