Sentences with phrase «voted against the bill because»

Lawmakers like Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democrat from Orlando, voted against the bill because it did not include a ban on assault weapons or other broad measures sought by survivors of all the shootings.

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.

«Mr. Kolb expressed to the governor his entire caucus was going to vote against the bill because they opposed raising any revenue for the state,» Vlasto said.

Several moderate Republicans like Reps. Leonard Lance of New Jersey, John Katko of New York, Ileana Ros - Lehtinen of Florida and Fred Upton of Michigan voted against the bill because of policy provisions in it.

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.

Jonathan Heppner, a spokesman for Gipson, said the freshman senatorfrom Rhinebeck voted against the bill because «he has been consistent in his position not to vote for stand - alone tax increases.»

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.»

Some liberal members of Congress, like Sens. Paul Wellstone, D - Minn., and James M. Jeffords, I - Vt., even voted against the bill because they view the funding level as insufficient to help the reforms really take hold.

The Aboriginal women senators voted against the bill because it did not fulfill its stated purpose.

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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.

Councilmember Brad Lander said he would vote against Torres» bill because it disregarded the wishes of police reform advocates who helped push for the bill in the first place.

Loughton is an unlikely political partner of Tatchell because he voted against the second reading of the equal marriage bill.

David Cameron has been delaying the next stage of the debate on the immigration bill for weeks, because he knew that the report stage debate would see dozens of Tory MPs trying to vote against the government and in favour of a much tougher stance on immigration.

, who said he would vote against the jobs bill because he doesn't think it's worth the money, is not opposed to raising taxes on millionaires, per se.

«Mr. Grimm must have trouble understanding the legislative process because I voted against the bill not once, but twice despite calls from colleagues and organizations on the left to vote in favor of it,» McMahon said.

Mr. Crespo's 2011 vote against same - sex marriage is notable because the bill passed the Assembly with relative ease and was overwhelmingly supported by New York City lawmakers.

i would vote against Bill owens because he has no backbone.

Latimer explained that he voted against Tier VI because the bill was presented to him after midnight in the early hours of Thursday morning and he was asked to vote just hours later.

Cuomo claimed a bill that would name the Tappan Zee Bridge after his late father was unusual because it passed without a single vote against it.

Some believe he is staying under the radar because Downing Street is scared of a fight - but by doing so he encourages Tory Mps to vote against the bill.

In today's interview, Saland said he's views on gay marriage started to turn in 2009, but he voted against the December bill because of the lack of religious carve outs.

«Nobody wanted to trade on anything, certainly not on that, since it's not our primary focus,» said Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat who voted against the bill on Monday because she opposes mayoral control generally.

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R - East Aurora), stoked the controversy again yesterday in a video posted on Facebook, saying he would vote against two budget bills because they contain two provisions that, in his view, fund the SAFE Act:

«The truth is that John Faso voted against the tax reform bill because he believed it did not do enough to help New York families and taxpayers, and will continue to fight for a bill that will lower their taxes and promotes economic growth,» Faso said.

, saying he would vote against two budget bills because they contain two provisions that, in his view, fund the SAFE Act:

«It really is a head - spinner,» Faso said, «because he attacked the people who voted for the bill and he attacked people who voted against it.»

Murphy initially voted against the health care bill in the House last November, because he said «it did not adequately address the fundamentally flawed system,» but he supported the final health care bill in March, saying «it will stop the out of control growth of health care costs, protect our local industries and jobs from unfair taxes, and help small businesses create jobs.»

In 2011, she voted against gay marriage because, «I thought the bill would have the unintended consequences of lawsuits against religious institutions that did not want to perform the marriages,» she said.

He voted against the 2013 gun bill because, he said, it didn't do enough to address handgun violence in cities — opposing the good because it wasn't perfect.

He has explained he votes against the «aid to localities» bill because it contains funding he doesn't agree with, such as public money for the Buffalo Bills football team.

Long Island's congressional delegation, including Republican Reps. Peter King of Seaford and Lee Zeldin of Shirley, said they plan to vote against the final bill because it caps the deduction at $ 10,000.

The 70 Tory rebels who have signed Monday's letter say they are going to vote against this, and Labour has said it will join them (because it says the government is not allowing enough time for the bill to be debated in the Commons).

Representative Lee Zeldin, a Long Island Republican, voted against the House tax bill because of the elimination of the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

Malliotakis argues that her critics take her votes out of context, such as her vote against a 2011 bill to bar discrimination based on race, gender, or national origin, which she said she opposed because it is redundant to existing state and federal law.

«I voted against the tax bill when it first came before the House because it did not provide enough relief for New Yorkers.»

The League of Conservation Voters gives McMorris Rodgers a 4 percent lifetime score out of a possible 100 in their environmental scorecard because she has voted against bills that would have required the federal government to account for the social cost of carbon in administrative actions and required federally funded projects to be resilient to the impacts of climate change.

Looking at the overlay of GBP pairs above, the pound dipped slightly at the start of the week, likely because of Brexit - related jitters when British PM Theresa May warned over the weekend that the U.K. faces a «cliff edge» if MPs vote against the E.U. Repeal Bill.

All opposition parties voted against Bill 62 not because it would discriminate against Muslim women but they claimed it did not go far enough and should extend to law enforcement and the judiciary.