Sentences with phrase «side of the aisle in»

«Because of his personality: he's calm, he's centered, he's thoughtful, he's widely regarded with respect on both sides of the aisle in the United States,» Stavridis said in an interview.

Stewart - Cousins had spoken with Felder to urge him to switch to the other side of the aisle in the Senate.

And it could arise this time on the Left side of the aisle in opposition to Trump because they may be worried about his potential for demagoguery or worried about mob justice or the federal government just being too powerful in general.

Even if the Democrat, Todd D. Kaminsky, is declared the winner of the special election to succeed Mr. Skelos, officials on both sides of the aisle in Albany said little, if anything, would change between now and November, when the full Senate will be in play.

He engineered the drawing of new lines around Burling's upstate district in 2012, said well - placed sources on both sides of the aisle in Albany.

I can't imagine that agreeing to a nonpartisan redistricting commission is going to be something that endears any of these candidates to either side of the aisle in the state Senate and House delegation.

Millions of dollars were spent on both sides of the aisle in New York's new 21st district in the North Country, but the representative will remain the same.

In the Assembly, Speaker Carl Heastie rattled off a list of Democratic agenda items in his opening remarks to kick off the session in the chamber, chastising federal policies that those on the left side of the aisle in Albany say already are having serious repercussions for the state.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the U.S. House of Representatives today voiced their displeasure with the Trump administration's proposed $ 5.8 billion cut next year to the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Legislators on both sides of the aisle in the U.S. House of Representatives say they love science, which is seen as engine for innovation and economic growth.

But he believes that «there is significant interest in the administration and on both sides of the aisle in Congress in getting as much as we can out of the labs, and there are a lot of small changes they could make to start.»

Bill Nye found friends of planetary science on both sides of the aisle in DC.

State education leaders from both sides of the aisle in California agree.

In fact, opposition to energy rationing schemes is one of the very few issues that enjoys support on both sides of the aisle in the Congress.

I plan to work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the committee to determine how we can craft a workable legislative proposal to achieve what the president has set out as his goal.

As we noted in an earlier post, even some lawyers who are on his side of the aisle in the case consider his tactics to be crazy.

The magazine IP Law & Business is out with its annual survey of patent litigation, revealing the busiest law firms on both sides of the aisle in patent litigation.

Alas for impatient legislators on both sides of the aisle in Edmonton and Ottawa, and for Kinder Morgan's owners in Houston, that means we're going to have to wait for the courts to rule on it.

Not exact matches

In fact, one needn't look far from the 2016 presidential election to find some superlative counter-examples on both sides of the aisle.

Fwd.us sought to avoid getting caught up in partisan politics by adopting a strategy of backing lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who support an immigration overhaul.

On the other side of the aisle, the Democrats will push for a big revenue - raiser in exchange for lower rates, possibly including a new consumption tax or VAT.

In any case, Ruskin said, «both sides of the aisle were getting the impression that the bureau was not acting completely objectively, and the agents blamed it more on Comey because he seemed to waffle.»

Both sides of the aisle weighed in on New Balance's Facebook page.

Many politicians on both sides of the aisle are raising questions about Facebook following revelations about its role in the 2016 election and, more recently, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

In the days following election, numerous boycotts are floating around on both sides of the aisles as comments made by a number of executives win praise or condemnation taking some sort of stance as it relates to the election.

Legislators from both sides of the aisle were receptive to this work, and were set to consider the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, called «the most significant anti-trafficking legislation to come before the Senate in over a decade.»

In other words, if it became — if we stop looking for terrorists and we started looking for people with — on the other side of the aisle.

Trump's initial Aug. 12 remarks on the events — in which he cast blame «on many sides» — drew stern rebukes from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle as GOP leaders distanced themselves from the comments.

So in September, when Cain unveiled his 9 -9-9 tax plan as the panacea for America's economic ills, both sides of the political aisle were quick to scoff at its simplicity.

2018's first quarter was a volatile one for several senators, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seeing significant changes in levels of support from their constituents, according to the latest Morning Consult Senator Approval Rankings.

Hauling Zuckerberg before Congress was the culmination of a monthslong reevaluation of Big Tech in Washington D.C. on both sides of the aisle.

However, the bipartisan introduction of H.R. 835 at a time when the country is in the midst of a polarized presidential election, can signal legislators on both sides of the aisle to believe that federal regulation of virtual currency and blockchain technology is necessary to ensure that consumers obtain the full benefit of these innovations.

Had Trump taken the measures suggested repeatedly by ethics experts on both sides of the political aisle, he would by now have put his assets in what's called a blind trust, which would entail turning over his empire to a third party with whom he will have no contact, who would sell off the properties and reinvest the resulting money in other assets without providing the president any information about the sales or the purchases.

«Any action at this point instead of just complete stagnancy and blaming the other side of the political aisle would be a step in the right direction,» he added.

The provisions on TPP are almost certainly moot, as congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle say the deal will not come up for ratification in the lame duck congressional session.

There's rarely enough nuance or context provided in these arguments because both sides of the aisle seem to portray the other side as being the enemy in the passive versus active debate.

In the U.S. Senate there are two powerful senators who are Mormons but sit on either side of the aisle.

They launched the campaign this week in Chicago, where the side of a bus now proclaims, My jihad is making friends across the aisle, what's yours?

The subtlety of the Second Vatican Council's statement in Nostra Aetate that the «Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in [other] religions» has often been missed by Catholics on both sides of the ecclesial aisle.

I think it's clear that of all the other candidates on both sides of the aisle, Romney's faith plays a greater role in his day to day life and his life's history than any of them.

His stance can be a little too conservative for my taste (mostly on social issues) but he is articulate and has some well thought out plans, not to mention he is pretty moderate and I think in this day and age we need a centrist, someone who isn't afraid to work with both sides of the aisle instead of just playing party politics and only pandering to one half of the country.

You sat in the third row, on the window side of the classroom, four seats from the aisle.»

And yes, some do end up in Congress on the republican side of the aisle.

Not only do the vast majority of teens surveyed think Americans are divided, but they basically embrace the divide: Three in four «already have a party preference,» and only around 25 percent think they have «a lot in common» with people on the other side of the political aisle.

Anger will rise in both side of the aisle and it will just lead to nothing but trouble

At least some Republicans of conscience tried to urge their political brethren to choose a plausible, competent alternative to a narcissistic vulgarian; I haven't heard anything analogous on the other side of the aisle, and the seemingly tongue - tied Catholic Democrats in the blogosphere are no exception to that default.

Rather, it is precisely those on the other side of the ideological and political aisle who devalue government, which Scruton describes well as «an expression of those extended loyalties over time, which bind generation to generation in a relation of mutual commitment.»

No matter what side of the aisle we were on — or even if we were sitting on the sidelines or in the middle — we all wanted something better for our country these past 18 months.

This year, hundreds of LGBT Christians, family members, friends, ministers, and more will come together in Portland for the singular purpose of transforming how we engage with both Side A Christians (who support same - sex relationships / marriage) and B Christians (who pursue or encourage celibacy) across the church aisle.

On the other side of the aisle are people in serious relationships.