Sentences with phrase «senators voted against the measure»

While 2011 would see all seven Queens senators vote in favor of the bill, in 2009 five of Queens» senators voted against the measure: current state Sens. Shirley Huntley (D - Jamaica) and Joseph Addabbo Jr. (D - Howard Beach) and former Sens. George Onorato, Hiram Monserrate and Frank Padavan.

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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.

Skelos» legacy as majority leader includes allowing senators to vote for the first time on bills that legalized gay marriage and the NY Safe Act, a strict gun control measure, although Skelos personally voted against both laws.

Earlier this year, every Republican in the chamber as well as Democratic Senator Ted O'Brien voted against the measure, which fell two votes short of passage.

The three Democratic senators — Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. and Shirley L. Huntley of Queens and Carl Kruger of Brooklyn — all voted against the measure in 2009, when it failed by a wide margin.

But all Republican Senators present voted against the measure, as did two Democrats — Simcha Felder of Brooklyn and Ted O'Brien of Rochester.

The senators represent Midwestern and coal - producing states from which many of the 44 Democrats who voted against the measure in the House come from.