Sentences with phrase «to vote against the amendment»

«They wouldn't have been able to do that after voting against my amendment,» he explains.
They [the Senators who voted against the amendment] worried that a vocal minority of gun - owners would come after them in future elections.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro), pictured here milking a cow at the 2015 Essex County Fair, has been criticized by the Adirondack Farmers Coalition for voting against an amendment to the PROSPER Act that would have made farmers and veteran service organizations eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
Woodridge trustees David Pittinger and Gregory Abbott voted against the amendment to the TIF ordinance last month.
Five Lib Dem MPs, three Plaid Cymru MPs and 51 SNP MPs also voted against the amendment stating that the Government must trigger Article 50 by the end of March next year.
The 37 - 61 vote against an amendment by Democrat Mark Udall of Colorado came after Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D - Mich.)
Councilwoman Inez Barron, who represents a different portion of the area affected by the proposed East New York rezoning, voted against both amendments on Thursday and said the changes aren't «deep enough or broad enough.»
All Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted against an amendment that states that global warming exists, regardless of cause.
When Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk enters the voting booth next week, she plans to vote against the amendment designed to change the state's redistricting process.
If the Lib Dems voted against an amendment for full PR, they'd look ridiculous.
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, on June 16, cast a deciding vote against an amendment that sought to stop the military from enlisting undocumented youth.
Labour leader votes against amendment extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples after appeal by Tory whips
Nigel Lawson voted against the amendment because he didn't want to «stir up fear» in EU residents.
However, Glyn Davies, a Eurosceptic, told Vaughan Roderick on Sunday Supplement on BBC Radio Wales he would vote against any amendment expressing regret that there was no EU referendum Bill in last week's the Queen's Speech.
Lib Dem amendments laid down in the House of Commons are now being brought forward by Tory peers in the Lords, forcing Lib Dem peers to vote against amendments moved by their party colleagues in the lower house.
Councilor - at - large Timothy Rudd voted against the amendment, as did Councilor Joseph Carni, of the 1st district, and Councilor Chad Ryan, of the 2nd district.
The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, said this demand was «beyond parody», given that Labour peers recently voted against an amendment to the article 50 bill in the House of Lords that would have required the government to keep the UK in the single market.
Today's development in the story is that Downing Street will reportedly vote against the amendment.
Republicans managing the bill confirmed an agreement with GOP opponents to vote against amendments proposed by Democrats before voting against the final bill.
Going against the grain of his party, Congressman Bass voted against both amendments, knowing that each is important for conservation and coastal community job security.
«Clearly, Cuomo and the Assembly Democrats who voted against our amendment are more concerned about appeasing the public sector unions that get them elected than they are about doing what is right for the developmentally disabled.»
Some village trustees said the recreation center would boost economic activity in the area, but trustees David Pittinger and Gregory Abbott voted against an amendment to allow a community center at the site.
Alongside McDonnell and Dodds, Shadow International Trade Secretary Barry Gardiner and shadow Treasury colleagues Peter Dowd and Jonathan Reynolds also voted against the amendment.
Katko was among 26 Republicans to vote against the amendment on a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security through September.
The approval came hours after the same committee voted against an amendment that would have banned weapons like the AR - 15 rifle used by Nikolas Cruz in the Parkland shootings.
Within four weeks after the Bill is passed, a majority of the Parliamentarians who voted for the proposal prepare a «Yes» case (the arguments for making the amendments); and a majority of those who voted against it prepare a «No» case (the arguments for voting against the amendments).
The statement urged the House of Representatives to vote against the amendment to «preserve the useful role of FISA's Section 702 authority plays in protecting American lives.»
Soon enough, with the college graduates we have in the state (look at the map of the counties who voted in correlation to those who voted against the Amendment), we will be greater than 35 %.
Ilford South MP Mike Gapes hinted that he would be voting against the amendment, saying he not was «not going to vote for a pig in a poke».
Ministerial aides in the Commons, whose membership of the «payroll» vote becomes unclear whenever the whips sense a potential defeat, will be allowed to vote against the amendment.
Labour is likely to vote against the amendment, meaning the chances of the government actually being defeated is negligible.
I'm calling to urge you to vote against Amendment One on Tuesday May 8,» Clinton says in the recording.
could vote against the amendment.
Niebel was the only legislator to vote against the amendment, which passed by a vote of 16 to 1 (legislators PJ Wendell of Lakewood and Mark Tarbrake of Jamestown were absent).
«We voted against an amendment that would have taken away any safety net against a no deal Brexit,» he wrote.
Stefanik also received the «Supporter of Nature» Award from the Nature Conservancy, and just last week, crossed party lines to vote against an amendment that would block the EPA's methane rule.
«A vote no against this amendment essentially preserves the status quo, and the status quo involves the Legislature drawing its own lines and continuing a decades - long practice of partisan gerrymandering,» Citizens Union executive director Dick Dadey told journalists during a Tuesday conference call.
The gay marriage bill has been saved after Ed Miliband agreed at the last minute to vote against an amendment to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples that had prompted government warnings that it would derail the entire measure.
In an astonishing display of utter disregard for Connecticut's public students and parents, Connecticut's two United States Senators, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, voted against an amendment that would have recognized a parents» right to protect their child from the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core testing scam.
Find your Pennsylvania state senator and urge him or her to vote against the amendments and support the bill, H.B. 2525, in its original form. Tell your senator that you vote.Â
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