Sentences with phrase «voted against both amendments on»

Councilwoman Inez Barron, who represents a different portion of the area affected by the proposed East New York rezoning, voted against both amendments on Thursday and said the changes aren't «deep enough or broad enough.»

Katko was among 26 Republicans to vote against the amendment on a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security through September.

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accountants, FOR the advisory vote on executive compensation, FOR the amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and AGAINST each of the shareholder proposals.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

Today, Members of Parliament have voted against a proposed amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill on abortion counselling.

As Lord Harries of Pentregarth and Iain McLean have pointed out, and as the Guardian recognised at the time; in the main debate on the civil partnership bill in 2004, six bishops voted in favour of (and one against) a wrecking amendment.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, on June 16, cast a deciding vote against an amendment that sought to stop the military from enlisting undocumented youth.

She voted against the federal spending bill for the Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency and related agencies, and split with the party on 22 related amendments.

Anthony Weiner, memorably ripped apart his GOP colleagues on the House floor when they voted against the Zadroga bill after attaching controverisal amendments to it that the Democrats opposed.

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.

Individual members of parliament can push amendments and in some limited cases a small party (or a small group within one party) can threaten to vote against their block on an issue that's very important to them but there is none of the «getting the votes» one - by - one that seems to be going on in the US.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

MPs are now voting on a Labour amendment that would stop the bill reducing opportunities to appeal against deportation orders.

The Times» Oliver Wright has posted on Twitter a copy of a letter from Lord Heseltine to Theresa May following his dismissal as a government adviser for voting against the Tory whip on an amendment to the article 50 bill in the Lords.

«After collecting thousands of dollars in checks, Mr. Crowley returned to the floor of the House just in time to vote against a series of amendments that would have imposed tougher restrictions on Wall Street.»

However, Glyn Davies, a Eurosceptic, told Vaughan Roderick on Sunday Supplement on BBC Radio Wales he would vote against any amendment expressing regret that there was no EU referendum Bill in last week's the Queen's Speech.

Writing on Twitter after the vote, Gardiner called amendment «illiterate» as he explained why he voted against it.

Ms Cooper, who said she sympathised with the amendment, said ministers «sat on their hands» instead of voting against Mr Raab's amendment because they were worried about their backbenchers.

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.

142 Republicans and 3 Democrats voted against the funding and imposition on the 2nd Amendment.

In October 2016, he was appointed Shadow Pensions Minister [6] he resigned in December 2017 after voting against the Labour whip on an amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill.

UPDATE #HouseofLords votes 247 for, 218 against amendment on the European Economic Area, so change to the #EUWithdrawalBill is made.

«Lib Dems defeating Tories» is, therefore a curious situation; a situation made all the more curious when Lib Dem MPs (in government) join forces with Labour MPs (in opposition) to «defeat» Conservatives (in government) who on the whole voted against the amendment.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. John Katko broke ranks with House Republicans on Wednesday, voting against a GOP amendment to roll back President Obama's recent changes to immigration policy.

All Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted against an amendment that states that global warming exists, regardless of cause.

Knowing that his amendment was fated to lose on the same party - line vote as the other amendments, Lipinski told ScienceInsider that he withdrew it so that the committee's Republicans did not have to publicly vote against the higher spending level for NSF.

The constitution and bylaws and the Standard of the breed may be amended at any time provided a copy of the proposed amendment has been mailed by the Corresponding Secretary to each voting member in good standing on the date of the mailing, accompanied by a ballot on which a choice for or against the action to be taken shall be indicated.

Gallup polls show that it's now issue number 14 out of 15, it's no longer issue, we've really won on that issue,» Inhofe boasted after voting against an unsuccessful amendment stating the fact that human activities affect climate change.

MPs will also vote on an amendment that would force publishers to pay claimants» costs, win or lose, in any data protection action brought against them, unless they are a member of a state - backed regulator.

I am voting against the petition for rehearing because the views of the American people on the death penalty for child rape were, to tell the truth, irrelevant to the majority's decision in this case.The majority opinion, after an unpersuasive attempt to show that a consensus against the penalty existed, in the end came down to this:» [T] he Constitution contemplates that in the end our own judgment will be brought to bear on the question of the acceptability of the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment.»

Assault rifle amendment: The Senate on March 3 voted against including a ban on assault rifles in their gun legislation.

On Monday night, Liberal MP Ken Wyatt told ABC TV's Q and A program that he would be prepared to cross the floor to vote against the proposed RDA amendments because he knew the pain that racism causes.

The National Indigenous Working Group on Native Title absolutely opposes the Native Title Amendment Bill, calls upon all parliamentarians to cast their vote against this legislation, and invites the Australian Government to open up immediate negotiations with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples for coexistence between the Indigenous Peoples and all Australians.