Sentences with phrase «publicly against the amendment»

Out of 226 members of parliament, only 5 have come out publicly against the amendment.

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Republicans have publicly said they can not support the amendment, and Democrats don't want to risk angering the gay community by speaking against it, or endangering the immigration reform bill by supporting it too strongly.

This amendment was narrowly defeated by Democratic party politicians who said they were «personally against abortion», but consistently voted to legalize and / or publicly fund abortion.

Cuomo has hired prominent First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams to defend him against a federal lawsuit challenging a new law that requires politically active non-profit organizations to publicly disclose their donors.

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.