Sentences with phrase «voted against the party»

One big unknown — particularly in London — is the impact of EU citizens, who Curtice warned could «scupper» the Tories if they turn out in big numbers and vote against the party.

Why she could vote no: Murkowski previously helped bring down the GOP push to repeal and replace Obamacare, so she has a track record of voting against the party - line on contentious issues.

«I would not, as Jeremy has done, vote against my party 500 times.

He says he last voted against his party on a three - line whip in the 1970s - and when he did so, two years later Margaret Thatcher appointed him to her government.

Though normally voting with the Labour Whip, Thornberry voted against her party's government on national security matters, regarding the detention of terror suspects without charge for 90 days in the Terrorism Act 2006, on the same matter for 42 days in the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, and against the renewal of Trident.

She voted against the party nine times in support of preserving funding for programs or regulations intended to address climate change.

But even though Faso and Stefanik voted against their party on the tax bill, in October 2017 they voted in favor of a budget bill that paved the way for the tax measure to pass the Senate on GOP votes alone — without a filibuster.

Whereas some NDC members in constituencies «boiling» since the primaries are in court challenging their outcome, others are said to have decided not to take any action but will remain noncommittal or possibly, vote against the party's elected parliamentary candidates in the November 7 elections.

But unless Conservative MPs turned out en masse to vote against the Party's right - an unlikely course of action, given the»22 Executive results - Liberal and Labour support for less spiky candidates provides the only comprehensible explanation of the results.

The Labour leader has made a virtue of voting against his party line for many years.

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.

Matheson's plight is similar to other moderate - to - conservative Democrats who voted against the party's health care bill in March and, as a result, have drawn primary challengers.

For those who like to see not only those who voted against their party whip in the two crucial votes on possible military intervention in Syria yesterday, but also those who abstained or were absent, we have compiled a complete list.

«I think some of Mike's decisions in choosing to become a whip, when he couldn't vote against the party line... people see as rather odd.»

The result should remain unchanged, since a vote against party A is the same thing as a vote for party B.

It's a free vote but they are still voting against their party leadership.

Burnham, who is not persuaded by the case for air strikes, warned that colleagues who voted against the party's proposed position would be «thrown to the wolves» and said that he would not be a part of a «sham shadow cabinet».

... Indeed, the whole of the last Parliament — covering five years - saw just 39 divisions in which at least one Liberal Democrat voted against their party line; in just over five months, the total for the 2010 Parliament has already reached 31.

The first is that, whilst being willing to vote against the party line isn't a requirement to be seen as effective, it does help.

Since then, Maloney has focused on building a record as a pragmatist who is willing to both vote against his party when necessary and reach across the aisle to work with Republicans to get things done.

Graham Allen, however, will vote against the party line, but only does so rarely (just six times so far this parliament) and is another who is currently utilising the select committee system to good effect.

As someone who's spent a long time — and probably far too long — studying the willingness of MPs to vote against their party line, I'm often asked the question: is it effective?

«Jeremy has been denounced by many embittered old Blairites for having voted against the party line.

Other frontbenchers who voted against the party line, and whose futures are now in doubt, include Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner and Tooting MP Rosena Allin - Khan.

Teather says she does not enjoy voting against her party.

«It's not like Maastricht, when MPs voted against their party because it was a case of ratifying a treaty.

With just one exception, Pryce sided with the new Democratic majority on every major bill and rule change that came to a vote in the past two weeks, even voting against her party on a procedural vote, a move considered heretical in the years of GOP control.

However, others said Dorries had voted against her party on dozens of occasions during previous administrations.

Nadhim Zahawi, one of Norman's main allies, made clear that he did not want a single vote against the party to sour relations with their whips and the leadership.

But the Commons still voted 326 to 293 to approve the government's plan without amendment, with just seven Conservative rebels voting against their party and a few more abstaining.

A group of suspended polling station officers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Akropong constituency have vowed to vote against the party's parliamentary candidate, Nana Yaa Dokua.

-- In March 2015, Katko was among only 17 Republicans to vote against his party's fiscal 2016 budget.

Don't forget, Jeremy Corbyn built his own career by being a serial rebel, voting against his party leader again and again and again.

Like Professor Johnson and his colleagues, they concluded that the more questions a Justice asks, all else being equal, the more likely the Justice will vote against the party, and the greater the difference between total questions asked to each side, the more likely a lopsided result is.

(Mr. Harper's insistence that «the people» must decide reflects his apparent wish to be President and not Prime Minister and tends to overlook that more people voted against his party than for it.)

Not exact matches

Sen. John McCain stunned much of the US and his party leaders on Friday, when shortly before 2 a.m. ET he voted against against a «skinny» plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act.

Now a political independent, Bloomberg considered making a third - party run for president this year before opting against a campaign, expressing worry he would siphon away votes from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and inadvertently help elect Trump.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

But while Amash's conservative record is strong, he has occassionally bucked his party, most notably by voting against Paul Ryan's budget and against the deal to raise the debt ceiling.

On a party - line vote, Trump - appointed chairman Ajit Pai and two other Republican commissioners voted in favor of revoking the rules, while the two Democrats on the commission voted against the move.

In 2013, he voted with his party against comprehensive immigration reform, an issue that's critical to the growth of the agricultural and tech sectors.

On behalf of the Lesser of Evils Party, may I suggest you tell your supporters to just plain vote against Stephen Harper?

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

As a result, the Opposition parties will likely vote against the bill and the Harper Government will again use this against them during the upcoming election campaign.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United Stparty — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United StParty, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United StParty in the United States.

In a 51 - 49 vote following party lines, the Senate approved its version of the tax reform bill during a marathon session, with only one Republican, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker, voting against the measure.

This impression is supported by the fact that around half of the French electorate voted against the established political parties.

The divided PC government caucus also missed an opportunity to send a clear message that they embrace 21st century values by singling out the opposition Wildrose as the only party to unanimously vote against the motion — and remind Albertans of the infamous Lake of Fire.

Rep. Juan Vargas, a California Democrat who voted against the omnibus because it lacked protection for Dreamers, said his party has to keep proving itself to Dreamers after disappointing in the budget process.

of the vote on Sunday following months of bitter campaigning that pitted him against all major opposition parties, including the anti-system 5 - Star Movement.