Sentences with phrase «split along party lines»

The vote in the House largely split along party lines, with Democrats opposed.

The committee split along party lines, voting 11 to 9 in favor.

True, there is a split along party lines in the US, but the question to be asked is whether the split is based on green ideology or whether green ideology is what splits the political vote (do you support AGW meme because you are a Democrat, or are you a Democrat because you support the AGW meme?).

In decisions that split along party lines, the justices have upheld conservative redistricting maps, turned North Carolina's consumer protection law on its head, weakened Fourth Amendment search and seizure protections and sustained the private school voucher program.

Efforts were further stalled last week when the U.S. Senate split along party lines and failed to pass a $ 1.1 billion spending bill that included a significant boost in money for researchers around the country — many of whom have dropped other work to focus on Zika.

Today's 14 - 13 decision to take up a vote in the full Senate was split along party lines.

County legislators often split along party lines.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- New York's Board of Elections has split along party lines on closing the so - called «LLC loophole» in campaign finance rules, leaving it intact.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul recalled her time playing softball during her congressional tenure in 2011 and 2012, when the women split into a team of House and Senate members, while the men, regardless of legislative house, split themselves along party lines.

But since votes on contentious matters like public financing of elections and the DREAM Act — a proposal to extend state tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants — would likely split along party lines, Perkins» departure would make their passage all - but impossible.

Reactions to Schulkin's comments have similarly split along party lines.

That's a problem for a governor whose core political narrative is steady competence — that he makes the trains run on time and can wring accomplishments from a legislature split along party lines.

Long Island's delegation to Congress split along party lines in their reactions to Obama's national address on terrorism, with Democrats generally backing his approach and Republicans panning the speech for offering no new strategies.

If half the voters are left and half are right, and half the right voters like the other candidate, but the other 75 % do not, 25 % popularity can win a primary and then a 50/50 split along party lines can win the office.

In the U.S. House, debate over dismantling the USDA's lunch program has been rancorous and split along party lines, observers say.

SEC commissioners split along party lines today over a package of new rules governing investment advice, but all cited a lack of specifics in the rules despite its 1,000 - plus pages.

Not exact matches

(The now - optional Medicaid expansion as part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act has split governors along party lines, and is causing debate in Florida.

He was the main cheerleader of David Miliband, whose loss in the Labour leadership race threatened to split the party along fraternal lines.

The comment comes after the Commons media committee split largely along party lines in its report into whether parliament had been misled by News International.

Answers to the latter question remain very split along partisan lines — a majority of Labour and Lib Dem voters want Osborne replaced, amongst the Conservative party's own supporters 29 % think that Osborne should go, 47 % that he should stay.

The 50 - to - 46 Senate vote was split largely along party lines, although five Republicans supported the measure and eight Democrats...

Financial debts will have been split along responsible party lines.

The Senate's 68 - 31 vote was split largely along party lines, with Democrats unanimously supporting Sotomayor along with nine Republicans.

Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas was confirmed to an ambassadorship on Wednesday after a six - month after V.P. Mike Pence broke the Senate split 49 - 49 vote along party lines on the nomination of the Republican.

The debate about syndication of listings to third - party websites tends to split along broker - agent lines.