Sentences with phrase «unanimous democratic»

And when DeVos was confirmed by a vote of 51 to 50, over unanimous Democratic opposition, Senator Cory Booker went on Facebook, «frustrated and saddened,» to sound a sorrowful note: «Somewhere in America, right now, there is a child who is wondering if this country stands up for them.»

With nearly unanimous Democratic opposition, the House and the Senate last Thursday passed the $ 1.8 trillion budget resolution for fiscal 2001, a nonbinding document that is designed to guide action on spending and tax bills.

Yesterday's unanimous Democratic vote might have been a display of party unity, but it also demonstrated a willingness to vote for almost anything.

Now, the DCCC is helping him out, and this is a pretty low - cost district, so I would not be surprised if Mike Callaghan makes it a unanimous Democratic Congressional delegation by beating Shelley Moore Capito.

The GOP will not be able to lose more than 22 of its members in order to pass the American Health Care Act in the face of unanimous Democratic opposition.

There are just 52 GOP senators and unanimous Democratic opposition is likely.

Nine Republicans joined a unanimous Democratic caucus in supporting her nomination.

Note the strong backing for Clinton from blacks and Hispanics, Jews and other Non-Christians (the unanimous Democratic vote here is a statistical artifact).

Not exact matches

The SEC ruling was not unanimous, and the sole vote against it was Democratic Commissioner Luis Aguilar who said in a statement, «I am disappointed and saddened by the reckless adoption [of the rule].»

As recently as 1993, the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act was passed by a nearly unanimous Congress and signed by a Democratic president.

Polarization took over, and by the time the Democratic Party (with the almost unanimous support of mainline liberal churchpeople) had reformed itself enough to take the presidential nomination from traditional liberals and bestow it on a more radical candidate, the crusade's tactics had doomed the movement to minority status.

Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) submitted a map to the Democratic - controlled Legislature, which passed it even with unanimous Republican dissent over concerns over racial gerrymandering.

Members of DC 37, New York City's largest public employee union, have upheld their executive committee's May 22 unanimous vote of NYC Councilman Charles Barron, handing him his lone union endorsement in his Democratic primary battle with Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries in NY - 8.

Democratic leaders expect unanimous opposition from their own members.

That there was no move to render H - Rod's hair's - breadth Democratic majority unanimous could have been the product of festering sore losers.

Togbui Adrakpanya said the unanimous decision to enstool Former President Rawlings who is a son of the land as Nutifafa fia has been informed by the fact that he was a military ruler who relinquished dictatorship and embraced democratic rule by making a peaceful handover after his term.

Democrat Frank A. Sedita III and Republican Emilio Colaiacovo are assured election to two state Supreme Court seats in November, following the unanimous votes in favor of cross endorsement deals at the Erie County Republican convention and near unanimous at the Democratic conclave.

ALBANY — The buzz around Albany is that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is positioning himself for a possible run for the White House, but the reaction from state Democratic Party leaders elsewhere around the country is unanimous:

These economic royalists are unanimous in their hatred for me — and I welcome their hatred... The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.

On Friday, during the process of securing the state Democratic Committee's unanimous nomination, Gillibrand was clearly lining up with the Bernie Sanders / Elizabeth Warren wing of the national Democratic party.

In 2013, the city's largest labor union, Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, placed a risky bet on Bill de Blasio, offering a unanimous endorsement early in the crowded Democratic primary.

Though many Democrats have posed behind the scenes as being super-angry at Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland), at last Thursday's Democratic convention the incumbent received the unanimous endorsement of the Rockland County Democratic Party as their official nominee for the 38th State Senate District.

Sen. Coburn got the Democratic leadership in the senate to cut out tens of billions of dollars of pork and waste, and passed the bill with unanimous consent.

Meanwhile, the Erie County Democratic Party Executive Committee recently took a unanimous vote opposing a con - con.

Congrats to East Greenbush Town Justice Mary Pat (Murphy) Donnelly who tonight earned the unanimous backing of the Rensselaer County Democratic Party's Executive Committee for the office of District Attorney.

Williamsville Mayor Brian J. Kulpa announced his candidacy in January and on Monday received the unanimous backing of the town's Democratic Committee.

Whether such an idea would find a majority of votes in the Assembly — the measure passed in the Senate, with almost unanimous Republican support and some Democratic opposition — is unclear.

Cuomo's challenger, Fordham Law School Professor Zephyr Teachout, managed to win over one - third of the vote against the incumbent governor, despite Cuomo's multi-million dollar war chest and near unanimous support from the state's Democratic political establishment, from Hillary Clinton to local mayors.

Cuomo's challenger, Fordham Law School Professor Zephyr Teachout, managed to win over a third of the vote against the incumbent governor, despite Cuomo's multimillion dollar war chest and near unanimous support from the state's Democratic political establishment from Hillary Clinton to local mayors.

The Democratic - dominated legislature's unanimous override of the Republican governor's veto, part of a $ 250 million package of cuts to the $ 20.8 billion state budget for fiscal 2000, touched off an intense debate about Mr. Cellucci's commitment to the 1993 Education Reform Act.

And at a meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors in June, Democratic mayors joined Republican ones in a unanimous endorsement of so - called parent trigger legislation, about which unions have serious reservations.

The most notable part of the act is that it was passed without debate with both Democratic and Republican senators having a unanimous voice.