Sentences with phrase «voted against the bill when»
As long as gay marriage passes, I doubt that gays will care about how Shelly voted even if he votes against the bill when it finally.
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A day after the bill's prospects wavered somewhat, Republican leaders notched two victories on Friday, when Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said he would vote yes after gaining a more generous child tax credit in the final bill and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who voted against the initial Senate bill over deficit concerns, said he would support the legislation.
Dr Barry Morgan, along with the incoming Children's Commissioner Professor Sally Holland and other prominent Welsh figures, urged politicians to repeal the legal defence of «reasonable punishment» when they vote on the Violence Against Women bill.
For example, the general support of the working classes for the Reform Bill of 1832 gains in significance when placed against their bitterly disappointed aspirations for voting rights and their increased awareness of class discrimination.
Then, when the later bill failed in the House of Representatives and the conservative backlash became too severe, Rubio said he would have voted against the reform bill if he had to do it over again.
Of note: In November, a lesbian lawmaker in Hawaii made national news when she voted against a draft of her state's bill legalizing same - sex marriage, citing religious freedom concerns.
This very aspect of the bill drove lords to vote against the government earlier this month, when it emerged Grayling had misled the Commons by saying the courts retained discretion in exceptional circumstances.
The prime minister has said MPs will be given a free vote against the specific use of hybrid embryos, so - called «saviour siblings» and IVF reform when the bill first enters the Commons.
Here's Sen. John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, railing against a pension sweetener bill that Democratic Sen. Diane Savino was forced to pull off the floor this afternoon when it became clear it did not have sufficient votes to pass.
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.
(¶ 15) When the House of Lords reconsidered the bill after the Commons rejected the amendments, eight bishops voted against a similar wrecking amendment, but the statement issued after passage of the bill was not unconditional in its support:
He said it would be hard to vote against the bill «when you add the ability to make the American workforce more competitive.»
However, when the plan came to a vote, the Tea Party's Freedom Caucus would vote against the bill and it would fail.
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.
Since becoming an MP he has generally voted against benefit cuts, but did not vote against the 2015 welfare reform bill, when Labour's mass abstention was seen as helping propel Corbyn to the Labour leadership.
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.
«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.
[19] When the Commons voted on the bill of pains and penalties against Atterbury, nearly ninety per cent of Tory MPs voted against it.
Another example would be when elected officials vote against the party line for the sake of publicly standing when a bill is unpopular (conversely, popular) in their constituency, all while knowing that the majority is comfortable enough that a few dissenting voices (or a few more votes) won't matter.
When I asked whether he'd vote for or against the legislature's maps, Gottfried replied, «We don't know what the final bill will look like.
A two - step prototype hit the ground running in September 2009 when Progressive Caucus co-chairs sent a public letter to Obama on behalf of the caucus — pledging to vote against any healthcare bill «without a robust public option.»
But they do not occupy most positions of power, nor when they are in positions of power (say party president or deputy leader) do they exercise power in the way the left of the Lib Dems might expect (by voting against the Welfare Uprating Bill for example).
«At one time I thought civil unions afforded the opportunity to provide the ability for same sex couples to attain the status they wanted,» says Saland, who voted against same - sex marriage when a similar bill was defeated in 2009.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio scored a rare win against his longtime frenemy Cuomo when the MTA board decided to delay a vote on the governor's $ 1 billion subway station improvement plan after members appointed by de Blasio objected.
When Governor Paterson announced that, in order to save money, he would add a one - day - a-week furlough for 100,000 state workers to the next emergency budget bill, legislators had a choice: vote for the bill and pass the furloughs they opposed, or vote against it and shut down state government.
Former Cabinet minister John Moore and Baroness Trumpington voted against the frontbench for the first time ever when the referendum bill came before them.
He has said he regretted his 2009 vote against same - sex marriage — when it was clear the bill would fail and every Republican would go along for the ride.
Republican bills, for some time now, have risked losing votes from both ends, the «it's not centrist enough» side and from the «it's not far right enough» side, like when Rand Paul joined John McCain and Susan Collins voting against this version of a new healthcare bill.
Jeremy Corbyn says Labour against giving ministers broad powers when MPs vote on repeal bill, calling for «total accountability»
Labour is set to vote against the Government's flagship Brexit bill when it reaches its final stages in the Commons this week, Jeremy Corbyn has said.
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.»
Nick Clegg said we would be doing so last summer, when the votes of almost half of the Conservative parliamentary party were cast against Lords reform, making progress on the Lords reform bill impossible.
One insider expressed surprise that Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan pushed all his members to remain unified in voting for the bill rather than allowing most of the conference to vote against it with the knowledge it could pass with mostly Democratic votes as occured under former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos when he allowed the gay marriage and SAFE Act bills to the floor.
Kruger is a reported closet case, and cast a vote against marriage equality last year when the bill came up.
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 Democrat worked for more than two years to strengthen the law for consumers, but when the bill back came from the Senate, Tonko voted against the measure.
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.
Around 60 Labour MPs are set to defy the party leadership by voting against Article 50 when the bill is brought to parliament, a report has said.
Stec, who has positioned himself as the state legislature's leading voice on stripping corrupted officials of their pensions, theorized something happened when three men went into a room on March 31, and hours later, the assembly opted against voting on their pension forfeiture bill.
Council members who initially voted against the bag fee bill when it passed last month were divided over the extension.
(Hochul cited her votes against portions of the bill when running for reelection in 2012.)
As you may recall, Monserrate is a Democrat from Queens who voted against the marriage equality bill when it came up late last year.
Norman, dubbed the Captain Sensible of the rebels, put these qualities to deadly effect on Tuesday night when he managed to organise 91 Tory MPs to vote against the second reading of the House of Lords reform bill.
Initially, the odds of him winning were around 100 - 1, but his campaign was boosted when he won the support of two of the biggest unions, Unite and Unison, and became the only candidate to vote against the Conservatives» welfare bill while the others abstained.
When the New York State Senate voted 44 to 17 in June to pass a bill that would allow ride - share services to operate in Buffalo and the rest of upstate, Sen. Marc Panepinto, a Democrat from Buffalo, was one of the few upstate senators to vote against it.
«When I vote for or against a bill, I read through these pieces of legislation and in many of them I find language that changes the entire meaning of the bill, and you have to keep that in mind.»
«I voted against the tax bill when it first came before the House because it did not provide enough relief for New Yorkers.»
When I was in the Virginia Senate, I co-sponsored a bill urging our congressional delegation to vote against NAFTA.
The bill then passed the committee, also on a party - line vote, after a startling moment when committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D - WV) inadvertently voted against it.
The apparent U-turn bore similar hallmarks to one made by education secretary Nicky Morgan when it was revealed upon her appointment as minister for women in April 2014 that she too had voted against the bill.