Sentences with phrase «tough vote»

It forces them to take tough votes on issues that they wouldn't necessarily support while hamstringing their negotiations.

Some Democrats also took tough votes.

Cuomo said it was a very tough vote for politicians - because powerful gun advocacy groups opposed it.

I told Senator Grisanti when I first met him after a very tough vote that I would be there for him.

If Trump does decide to take a risk and lead the charge on an issue that would require tough votes by conservative lawmakers — perhaps on strengthening background checks for gun purchases — it would be a departure for his presidency

«It's tough votes when you get a big ugly and it certainly is a big ugly,» DeFrancisco said.

That's in part because lawmakers want to focus on campaigning and are back home more than usual, and party leaders tend to want to shield vulnerable members from tough votes.

But primary candidates don't do tough votes, so Fast Eddie Obama threw the workhorse duties under the truck.

The gun control law isn't the first tough vote that Cuomo has asked state legislators to take over the last two - plus years.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nevada, and other top Democrats have been considering holding the votes in response to Vitter's attempt to force a politically tough vote on whether to strip federal healthcare support from lawmakers and staff.

Some of the groups are gearing up for the legalization of gay marriage in other states and a McDonald victory would bolster their argument for other state lawmakers and officials to make a similarly tough vote.

«This is a man who knew he was taking tough votes.

«I didn't go to Washington to go wobbly on the tough votes.

It's the tough votes that count.»

Once again, Cuomo insisted that his endorsements would come on an individual basis and that he would pick candidates based on either tough votes they've taken and on their character and «personal background.»

Michael Long, chairman of the Conservative Party of New York, said he understands Upstate Republicans are in a precarious position, but he's not willing to give them a pass on tough votes.

«He's got the toughest vote of his career coming,» a colleague says of the New York Democrat, who insists he's undecided.

«He's got the toughest vote of his career coming.»

He's taken some very tough stances on some tough votes, and he's hung in there... So we're here earlier than we've ever done.»

«I know this is a tough vote,» he said.

Schaefer argued that ---- given GENDA's strong polling and the progress made this year on educating senators ---- if Senate leadership were willing to step up, there is no reason GENDA could not win approval next year, despite the customary assumption that tough votes are best avoided during an election year.

The number two Republican in the Senate, called it a «tough vote.»

On the other side, there's political heft for supporters facing a tough vote.

Councilor Bob Dougherty said it was «the toughest vote I've had to make.»

Strategists on both sides of the issue acknowledge that the repeal effort is pure theater, aimed at fulfilling a Republican campaign promise to hold the vote and, hopefully, having the helpful side effect of pushing a few Democrats into another tough vote on the health care law.

And according to the Associated Press, Pence is planning «a torrent of campaign events across the county in the coming months, aiming to raise money for Trump's re-election, reward incumbents for tough votes and help former colleagues from his 12 years in Congress.»

Two real people in the mix (Graham and Harding), and a tough vote.

Any big piece of legislation requires moderates to take tough votes to enact it.

Zimmer added, «This is a tough vote for us.

The presence of LEE members, who were the only educators in attendance supporting the legislation, led to the Senate Education Committee being fully engaged and making a tough vote to pass HB79.

But with the public uninterested in climate change, interest groups mostly advocating for the status quo, and moderate Democrats unwilling to take another tough vote, he's not going to get much.

We applaud the members of the General Assembly in both parties who took the tough vote to try to end this impasse.

It was a tough vote for me!