Sentences with phrase «votes on issues like»

Not exact matches

«Canadians might not like them as politicians — they may not vote for them because they're too conservative on social issues — but they're not the kind of governors that make trouble for Canada.»

The country voted against joining the euro zone in a referendum in 2000 and last December opted to retain its exemption from EU rules on issues like asylum and border control.

Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.

Hopefully stop voting on nonsensical issues like the President's religion and abortion topics, and start voting for the guy that will run this country the best.

When you pro-life contradictions stop acting like life begins at conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged cause.

Sanders also cited the oft - stated civil rights positions of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, who like Douglas was called upon to vote on cases that concerned issues that were personally important to him.

We will need to cast our votes at the ballot box to help decide how public policy should be formulated on many issues like this.

With 96 percent of the votes tallied Tuesday night, Park Ridge District 64 looked like it was heading for victory on a $ 23 million bond issue to build a new middle school and to upgrade technology, and on an education fund property - tax increase of 59 cents per $ 100 of equalized assessed valuation to pay for operating expenses.

Even those who are nominally pro-life (like Bob Casey, Jr.) vote pro-choice on the few active issues (Supreme Court nominations and support for Planned Parenthood).

The party may very well not represent many of their views (those ~ 20 % libertarians are among the examples you list, who largely disagree with Republicans on social issues like gay marriage - yet, they tend to vote Republican, over other issues like fiscal policy)

«New Yorkers are frustrated with the lack of progress on issues like voting reforms, gun violence prevention, women's rights, and so many more that have been held up by the Senate Republicans for far too long.»

In interest of brevity I will stop here but obviously there are lots of ideas applicable here: if you don't like how your representative voted on some issue you can change your vote manually if voting is still in progress... people should be allowed to easily switch their representative on a monthly / yearly level... etc

Thompson, a Buffalo Democrat, told me in no uncertain terms that he's not going to leave his colleague, Sen. Bill Stachowski, «out to dry like that» when it comes to balking on the revenue bill, which leaves at least two solid «no» votes until the Assembly decides to deal on this issue.

In addition, a LOT of «independents» (e.g. people who don't nearly automatically vote for a candidate of «their» party) don't pick their votes based on detailed analysis of issues, but on important things like likability.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein has countered in recent days will calls for votes on key liberal issues such as abortion rights and protections for transgender New Yorkers, inferring the bills still wouldn't pass amid opposition from lawmakers like Sen. Ruben Diaz, a socially conservative Democrat from the Bronx.

On fundamentally moral issues like euthanasia or abortion, MPs are given the chance to vote with their hearts.

«Many of my colleagues who have been in the Commons for longer than I have and who, like me, have never rebelled, are considering voting against on this issue.»

The Norwich South MP said Labour MPs should reach out to colleagues in other parties on issues like voting reform.

While Cuomo received almost 62 percent of the vote, Teachout's strong showing demonstrated voter unhappiness with the governor's performance on issues like school funding and hydrofracking, and disappointment in his Moreland Commission scandal.

The IDC had previously called for votes on key liberal issues in the Senate through a «call the roll» campaign — indicating that even with a Democratic majority, the votes on concerns like abortion rights and campaign finance reform may not be there.

In the statement from Executive Director Geoff Berman, Republicans are blamed for a lack of success on issues like early voting, bolstering abortion rights, the Dream Act and the Child Victims Act.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said that he would like to finish voting on all the issues today.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

Similarly, Conservative colleagues who plan to vote against the changes (after voting for them, John Kerry - like) will face the same awkward questions and unprecedented pressure from the whips on this most existential issue for the Conservative Party (and I've been there!)

But the issue also polls well in New York State, and it's an easy way to wedge Republicans who are less - than - eager to cast a vote — any vote at all — on a controversial issue like abortion.

~ 17 % of the electorate voted leave, ~ 70 % did not cast a vote on an important issue like that.

Sure, we can believe Sen. Skelos on this issue, just like we could beleive him when he said he was giving Republicans carte blanche to vote however they liked — even as he secretly locked every one of them into a «no» vote.

Don't expect you can buy legislative votes with your lobbyists on an issue like this.

The conventional wisdom as to why Senate Republicans allowed a vote on the same - sex marriage bill went like this: Removing the issue and the well - financed groups who backed pro-gay marriage candidates would only help, not hurt their cause in keeping the majority.

Ideally, I'd like a separate count for actual votes on bills, and one on clear positions taken on issues that did NOT get an official vote count.

Lazio promised Conservative Party chairman Mike Long months ago he would remain on the line, and the big issue now is making sure the party gets enough votes to maintain ballot status (party leaders would also like to get enough to retake Row C, and push past the Independence Party).

«My opposition on the issues that are important to the mayor like congestion pricing, like nonpartisan voting, like school governance, like lifting the charter school caps without any reforms... is a real problem for them,» Parker said.

Typically though the main factors in voting intention are things like party identification, perceptions of the leaders and the parties's perceived competence on whatever voters see as the important issues of the day.

Reformers believe that getting issues like early voting or campaign finance reform passed would require an aggressive public campaign from Cuomo, like the ones he undertook on same - sex marriage and minimum wage.

A combined 96 seconds of his 92 - minute speech were spent on issues like campaign finance, outside income rules, term limits and early voting.

The leadership won all the key votes, Clegg's allies, like Danny Alexander and David Laws, are riding high and Alexander (41) has been smacking down Cable (70) on issues like Help to Buy and the possible break - up of the coalition with a confidence and authority that he did not have two years ago.

Leasing of town land is subject to permissive referendum, which gives the public 30 days to submit a petition demanding the town to hold a public vote on the matter much like a bond issue.

Under narrow Republican control, the chamber has forced Democrats to compromise on key issues like the minimum wage and taxes, while also stymying efforts to make it easier to vote and bar a woman from having a seat at the budget negotiating table.

«Partnering with Republicans has resulted in progressive bills not coming up for vote,» said Mr. Chowdhury, whose website lays out his position on issues like affordable housing, safe streets and single - payer health care.

With Rob Astorino waging an upstate campaign (there are few Republican votes in the big city) based on hot - button issues like repealing the Safe Act, economic deprivation and mandate relief, the tide, even in Democratic districts like the 46th, will probably be running toward the GOP.

Godfrey, one of only 10 legislators who voted on the tax in 1991 and remains at the Capitol today, said there has been no issue like it since.

In the Senate, a string of Democrats introduced hostile amendments, trying to force a vote on issues — like gun control and early voting — that had fallen out of budget negotiations in recent days, and their remarks mixed anger over the lack of action with wisecracks about the late hour.

«We can not send more politicians to Washington who wear the Republican jersey on the campaign trail, but then vote like Democrats in Congress on issues like card check and taxes,» Pawlenty said in the statement.

There will have been Tory remainers who could have defected in areas like Stoke Bishop, but I suspect the Brexit effect here was quite small, and the election turned on some other issues where Labour activated their potential vote.

The state constitution requires bills to age three days before they are voted on in order to facilitate public review, but Cuomo, like many governors before him, has taken to issuing «messages of necessity» to bypass the otherwise - mandated waiting period.

MPs know what the grassroots are thinking about issues like last week's EU debate and on the other side of the coin we can keep track of how they are voting.

Remember that you are their boss, and it's your civic responsibility to let them know how to represent your interests, so feel free to contact them and let them know how they're doing, how you'd like them to vote on the issues and how they can support the causes dear to you.

Grieve's exit has cleared the way for the Conservative party to clash more directly with the European court of human rights as he had cautioned over defying the Strasbourg authority on issues like prisoner voting.

Democrats speculated that Skelos was holding back a vote until a deal could be reached on other outstanding issues, like an extension of rent regulations.

Deacon also chastised Katko for sticking with the Republican Party on a number of issues, like voting to defund Planned Parenthood and voting against bringing a bill to the House floor that would have banned people on the suspected terrorist watch list from purchasing guns.