Sentences with phrase «unpopular measure passed»

Maloney's efforts are part of a Democratic Adopt - A-District plan to focus attention on what has so far been an unpopular measure passed by the House Republicans last week to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Not exact matches

Additionally, the popularity measure must be right before the law is passed (e.g. presumably, Prohibition would be rather unpopular if polled today, doesn't mean it wasn't popular when passed).

This year alone, the groups saw major elements of their platforms come to pass, such as tying teacher evaluations more closely to test scores, adding hurdles to earning tenure and increasing the number of charter schools, measures all unpopular with the unions.

A 36 percent sharp and sustained increase was also observed in June 2011, when the Greek government again passed unpopular austerity measures.