Sentences with phrase «to vote against the measure»

Even the four council members who voted against the measure did not disagree with that.
He's also seemed to establish a record as a Republican moderate, even sometimes being among a small handful of members voting against measures supported by the rest of his party.
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.
Hanna was among 23 Republicans who joined 182 Democrats in voting against the measure because it did not include the strengthened victim protections.
The amendment tabled by the rebel Tory backbencher Dominc Raab was defeated 241 to 97 votes after Labour and the Liberal Democrats voted against the measure.
The vote was 137 - 10, with only some Republicans voting against the measure.
Several ministers, including Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, voted against the measure which was carried by a majority of 254.
Ms Morgan voted against the measure last year, and Benjamin Cohen, publisher of gay current affairs site PinkNews, said of her appointment: «It is unfortunate that the new Minister for Women opposes the rights of some women, lesbians, to have the right to marry.
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.
According to reports of the affair, moves to expel Frostenson were frustrated by the Academy's dominant conservative male faction, led by Allén and literary scholar Horace Engdahl (also a former permanent secretary), which voted against the measure on the grounds that it would be unfair to punish Frostenson for the perceived crimes of her husband.
Frankly, there was little more collateral damage that could have been inflicted to the Labour brand by voting against the measures.
Patricia Gbur voted against the measure, saying that her constituents do not reside within the Wood Dale Park District boundaries and would not directly benefit from the land deal.
But Wilson said that board members were told after the unsuccessful November referendum proposal for construction of a community center that many people voted against the measure because they did not agree that a fitness center should be included.
But McKinley, the sole vote against the measure, said the board did not give Grant a chance to correct those problems by formally discussing their concerns with him.
As was the case when he was a rank - and - file member, Heastie voted against measures that would have expanded their use in New York.
Ten days before Albany approved the state's gay marriage law, it held a City Hall press conference claiming there were between 30 and 32 firm votes against the measure.
Kolb had said he was going to vote against the measure earlier in the day, but as the governor phoned, the 32 Republicans in the Senate were leading the way to its unanimous approval in that chamber.
Only six nurses voted against the measure, with thirteen abstentions.
«The sad truth is that despite leaving Britain with its worst deficit in living memory, Labour is now voting against the measures this government is bringing forward to reduce our debts.
Only six members of the council voted against the measure, including Democrats Dan Garodnick, David Greenfield, Paul Vallone, and the Republican members Vincent Ignizio, Steven Matteo, Eric Ulrich.
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.
In the end, all of the House Democrats in New York voted against the measure, as did Republicans Peter King, Lee Zeldin, John Faso and Elise Stefanik.
Though Skelos voted against the measure, he did vote yes for a religious exemption amendment to the bill, helping clear the way for its eventual passage.
Tenney criticized Hanna in 2015 for voting against a measure that would strike down a part of President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan.
Welch said the board is not opposed to looking at other models, and had even been talking about revamping the management model before Councilwoman Katie Nightingale voted against the measure at a town board meeting on Dec. 5.
The Democrat worked for more than two years to strengthen the law for consumers, but when the bill back came from the Senate, Tonko voted against the measure.
Mr. Zeldin later voted against that measure, helping to overturn a large part of the tax.
Why did Labour vote against measures by Stockport and Derby Lib Dems to punish people when they could have protected people — why did Labour do the same for private tenants in the noughties 11.
But all Republican Senators present voted against the measure, as did two Democrats — Simcha Felder of Brooklyn and Ted O'Brien of Rochester.
Drake was one of the 25 legislators who voted against the measure first introduced by Latham Democratic Legislator David Mayo last year after controversy surrounding the 2016 county budget.
He has amassed praise from some Western conservation groups in large part because he has repeatedly voted against measures to sell off public lands.
It might have passed had 38 Republicans not voted against the measure.
he asked Senator James S. Alesi, a suburban Rochester Republican who voted against the measure in 2009 and was the first to break party ranks this year.
The bill passed by a vote of 81 - 17, with three Democrats and 14 Republicans voting against the measure.
Proponents of the measure had argued that the London Whale loss showed that Dimon and other bank executives needed more objective oversight from a board of directors with an independent chairman.Many shareholders who voted against the measure were concerned that Dimon might leave and that JPMorgan stock would fall if he lost that vote.
Eight Democrats from states Trump would go on to win in 2016 voted against the measure: Tester, Brown, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters of Michigan, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin.
Appalled by Tsipras's volte - face, an estimated 35 Syriza MPs signalled on Tuesday night that they would vote against the measures, arguing that the «recessionary policies» will only worsen the record levels of poverty and unemployment Greece has already suffered.
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.
57 voted against the measure.
I had a phone call this week from some right wing group that wanted me to call my congresswoman and ask her to vote against some measure the EPA supports.
Members of European Parliament (MEPs) voted in favour of stronger regulations, with 466 votes for and 124 votes against the measures, and 50 abstentions.
I mean, even if the party has only one member, if it succeeds it will have X MPs, and if they do not agree with Mr. Wilders policies they can vote against his measures and ever expel him from the PM position, isn't that right?
Sanders at the time said he voted against the measure because he believed it would have ultimately driven down wages for low income workers — echoing the arguments of some Republicans at the time.
U.S. Rep. Bill Owens, D - Plattsburgh, whose district includes Oswego and Madison counties, was among only 19 Democrats to vote against the measure.
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