Sentences with phrase «vote against a bill which»

There is now no excuse for his Tory colleagues to vote against a bill which is, he says, not just a Lib Dem measure.

As a result, the deputy prime minister said he would instruct his MPs to vote against another bill which would have cut the number of MPs by redrawing the constituency boundaries — a change opposed by many of the 57 - strong Lib Dem MPs since it is expected they would lose 15 or more seats.

In 2007, he voted against a bill which would have required the Army Corps of Engineers to consider global warming in planning water projects.

Not exact matches

Sen. Bob Corker was the only Republican to vote against the bill, which, among other things, proposes to cut the corporate rate to 20 % while changing individual tax brackets and significantly undercutting portions of the Affordable Care Act.

If that seems a little hysterical, consider The Catholic Herald's account of an interview given by Ed Balls on the Today programme, a few hours before the House of Commons passed, by 268 votes to 177, its Sex Education Bill (against which, Catholics should note, the Tories voted):

We limited those coercive powers, I'm happy to say — not with any help from the government, because the government voted against the amendment to limit the coercive powers, which was ostensibly the intended purpose of the bill.

Board member Bill Diaz voted against it because the bond sales include money for refurbishing the Central Square building, which is owned jointly by the park district, the City of Lockport and Lockport Township and is where all three have their offices.

While there might be more stops by the former president in the future, it's possible Arcuri's «no» vote on the health care reform bill, which cost him the WFP line and labor support, might be a mark against him.

The opposition will whip its MPs through the «aye» lobby when it comes to the general second reading vote, but vote against the programme motion which seeks to restrict the amount of time the bill will be debated for.

Long wouldn't say whether the bill's passage — which 18 Republicans in the conference ultimately voted against — would ultimately mean a loss of support from the influential Conservative Party or from the National Rifle Association.

Chiavacci Farley says Gillibrand should have fought harder to protect the state against the federal tax bill, which Gillibrand and all other Senate Democrats voted against.

Democrats are expected to unanimously vote against the bill, which was drafted in secret without their input.

At the end of a debate over a measure to institute a monitor in the troubled East Ramapo school district, for example, Silver voted against the bill, which passed.

Assemblyman Robin Schimminger and freshman Assemblywoman Monica Wallace also voted against the bill, which among other things, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from detaining individuals based on immigration status and would provide for legal representation for people without documentation who otherwise couldn't afford it.

Sanders has recently argued that he voted against the bill because of guest worker program provisions which he believed would have created vulnerabilities for workers and exploitation.

In particular, the video cites Faso's «yes» vote on the health care reform bill, which has been a flashpoint for the left that is organizing against the Republican lawmaker.

Unite which represents 100,000 health care professionals is calling on MPs to vote against the Health and Social Care Bill when it goes through its second reading on 6th and 7th September.

But yesterday he voted against that (this is Jeremy Hunt and the care bill, which allows him to close hospitals).

Fourteen Conservative MPs voted against David Cameron's proposals on press regulation earlier this evening - or, rather, against the amendments to the Crime and Courts Bill which set out proposals for exemplary damages in relation to newspapers and websites that refuse to be regulated by the new regulator.

In a statement, Zephyr Teachout, who is running against Cuomo in a Democratic primary, faulted the governor for working with Senate Republicans, who have refused to hold a vote on the abortion plank, which none of their members publicly support, but twice passed the nine other women's equality items as separate bills.

That was why I found it absolutely disgraceful that he came in the other night to vote against the referendum lock in the European Union Bill, which is going through the other place.»

«The numbers are against us and if we face repeated defeats when the withdrawal bill returns to the Commons, the only alternative will be to kick over the table and trigger a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister, which will likely lead to another general election.

But Molinaro took issue with Cuomo's lobbying effort against the tax bill, which has included harsh words for Republican members of Congress — five of the state's nine GOP members — who voted for it.

Bright kept in close touch with Joseph Chamberlain, his colleague in the representation of Birmingham, and in June after much coming and going he voted with 92 other Liberal members against Gladstone's Home Rule Bill, which was defeated by 341 votes to 311.

Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his record against Sal Albanese, the former city councilman, in the first Democratic primary debate in the race for mayor, which NY1 hosted, with partners NYC Votes, WNYC, POLITICO New York, the Citizens Union, the Latino Leadership Institute, Civic Hall, and Intelligence Squared US.

The senator said he doubts that the Senate will even vote this year on Sen. Brad Hoylman's bill, which would allow victims to file lawsuits over child sexual abuse incidents that occurred before 2006, in many cases decades ago, against abusers and their employers.

The government then suffered its biggest Tory rebellion to date, in which one ministerial aide was sacked and one resigned as they joined colleagues to defy a three - line whip to vote against the second reading of the Lords reform bill.

Three days later, Heseltine was one of around two dozen Conservative MPs who defied the whip to abstain rather than vote against the second reading of the 1968 Race Relations Bill (which banned racial discrimination).

All 18 of the state's Democratic representatives voted against the bill, which passed 227 - 205.

He paired the emergency money with structural cuts, loading the bills — each of which kept government running for a week — with farther - reaching measures to correct the deficit, and dared legislators to vote against them, thereby shutting down government.

The GOP, which voted in a bloc against the marriage bill in spite of advocates» claims that there was support from four or more minority conference members for the legislation, is unlikely to engaged it fragile hold on the majority — if it manages to wrest it back from the Democrats — by taking up this controversial bill.

The amendment to the same - sex marriage bill, which is expected to include broader religious exemption language, could be included in the «big ugly» omnibus bill, making it difficult for Republican lawmakers to vote against.

The group, which lobbied against the bill heavily in the weeks and months leading up to the vote, said the fund is being set up for town clerks like Laura Fotusky, the Barker, Broome County official who resigned rather than approve gay unions who could face «harassment, denial of rightful promotion, or unfair termination.»

Assemblyman Charles Barron, a Brooklyn Democrat who also voted against the bill, said he would prefer passing a law to extend mayoral control for one year, during which a panel of experts could come up with a better system of governance.

Brindisi responded to the question by saying that one of the biggest reasons he received the favorable NRA rating was his vote against the SAFE Act, which he attributed to the lack of time he had to read the bill.

They have already voted against another bill, known as the Dream Act, which would provide aid for college students who are undocumented immigrants.

North Country Republican Elise Stefanik (R - Wilsboro) voted against the plan, saying it didn't do enough to preserve state and local tax deductions, which the final bill capped at $ 10,000.

Faso and Stefanik were among 12 Republicans, most from New York, New Jersey and California — all high - tax, high - expenditure states — to vote against the bill, which House Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wisc., said would produce «more jobs, fairer taxes, and bigger paychecks.»

He is seen as different from his competitors, even more so after the recent vote on the welfare bill in which the majority of Labour MPs abstained rather than vote against Tory austerity.

As NJ notes, this would set up the bill to be voted on when the Senate returns in January, and would represent a «bold act of defiance against the administration, which was still begging lawmakers this week to sit back and wait to see whether a comprehensive agreement can be reached.»

In March, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic House leadership scrambled to find the votes necessary to ensure the passage of the health care bill, one of the most important parts of the political calculus was which of the most vulnerable Democrats would be allowed to cast their votes against the legislation, thereby increasing their chances of reelection in 2010.

That means eight senators who voted against cloture (or were absent, which in a cloture vote is the same as a no vote) vote for the bill itself.

Lib Dems have already helped to get the Academies Bill (which helps to pave the way for free schools) through parliament it doesn't mandate MPs to vote against a coalition measure.

When the bill to which the amendment is attacked comes back to the Commons, it's been confirmed today that Lib Dem MPs will vote AGAINST the Tories to overturn the redrawing of the electoral map begun by Nick Clegg in this parliament.

The council voted 41 in favor and 6 against on two bills that will largely end cooperation with the federal government when it requests an immigration detainer — which asks Corrections or the NYPD to hold a person for 48 hours when they might otherwise be released so that the person can be handed over the the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.

In July, congressional Republicans threatened to attach an amendment barring undocumented immigrants from receiving WTC health payments; Democrats feared they were being trapped into a vote that could be used against them in attack ads, provoking Anthony Weiner's infamous rant on the House floor, in which he screamed that the Republicans were «cowardly» for hiding behind procedure instead of voting against the bill because they thought it was a bad idea.

In addition, Katko and Donovan voted against the House health care bill, which was another reason they were left off the list, a source said.

It measured each state legislator based on two tiers, which include whether legislators voted for or against bills that would create or eliminate government agencies, programs, and regulations, and bills that would impact the free market in a positive or negative way.

While Reps. Gregory Meeks (D - Jamaica), Joseph Crowley (D - Jackson Heights) and Carolyn Maloney (D - Astoria) voted to approve the bill, Reps. Gary Ackerman (D - Bayside) and Anthony Weiner (D - Forest Hills) strongly opposed and voted against the legislation, which passed the House by a vote of 277 - 148.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the Cold Spring Democrat who represents much of the Lower Hudson Valley, said in he voted against the bill because of its «wide variety of cuts and programmatic changes which failed to adequately address the needs of Hudson Valley farmers.»