Sentences with phrase «voting against his department»

Justice secretary Chris Grayling is the first Cabinet minister to attempt to exclude Scottish MPs from voting against his department's controversial changes.

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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.

A funny thing happened when we asked readers to tell us whether they still supported Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel after criticism of his department's reaction to the Stoneman Douglas shooting and a police union's no - confidence vote against the sheriff.

Gillibrand, who has denied an interest in the presidency in the past, was especially critical of Trump's nominee for the Department of Education, Betsy DeVos, whose confirmation hangs by a thread with at least two Republican lawmakers ready to vote against her.

Throne - Holst and Calone mentioned Zeldin's votes against funding for the Department of Homeland Security and student loans and Pell grants as signs that he is out of touch with the district, and Democrats have indicated they will attempt to paint the foreign policy hawk and only Jewish Republican in Congress as too extreme for the moderate swing district.

He even went so far as to upset his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, by voting against the majority leader's wife, Elaine Chao, a relatively uncontroversial pick to run Trump's Department of Transportation.

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.

Senior figures, including Mr Clegg and Danny Alexander, wanted to drop the policy of scrapping tuition fees but the party's campaign department ordered every candidate to sign the NUS pledge to «vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament».

We also are stepping up with respect to how we are using codes court and bringing in a paralegal which was supported by the council, however I believe Councilman Commisso voted against the budget, but a position that was supported in the codes department so that we have stronger codes cases and get the property owners into court and accountable.»

The U.S. Department of Justice, for instance, announced Wednesday that it will be sending inspectors to monitor voting in the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan, following reports of discrimination against Spanish - speaking voters during the Rangel - Espaillat race.

The Buffalo News praises WNY Rep. Chris Collins for being one of only 75 Republicans to vote to fund the Department of Homeland Security rather than hold a critical governmental office hostage to a suicide charge against President Obama's administrative orders on immigration.

The U.S. Justice Department announced it filed a motion to join a lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections, alleging that the board's Brooklyn office violated federal voter registration law by erasing more than 117,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls before the primary election simply because they had not voted in previous elections.

Mr. Ghosio said he respected the work of Mr. Russell and those in the town's finance departments to put together a budget, but decided to vote against the budget because of comments made at public hearings by struggling North Fork residents who said the tax hike would represent a high burden.

New York Police Department commissioner Bill Bratton said Thursday that the White House's proposed cut of about half the money New York City gets for anti-terror funding may be «political payback» against Senator Chuck Schumer, who voted against President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.

In a debate on Time Warner Cable television, both said they'd vote to repeal the new federal health care law, call for the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki over revelations of mismanagement, support Fort Drum against defense department cuts, and join Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer in calling for more money to combat the heroin epidemic.

The Treasury Department announced sanctions against a top Socialist Party official in Venezuela, part of a campaign to press the government over antidemocratic moves ahead of Sunday's vote.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The New York City Council has voted to pass bills that will create an outside watchdog for the nation's biggest police department and make it easier for people to file profiling claims against it, overriding mayoral vetoes.

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

City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn came out against a bill Wednesday that would prohibit the Police Department from profiling on the basis of race, religion and gender — but for the very first time in her tenure, said she would nonetheless allow the controversial plan to go to vote.

Powell, appointed by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., said he got the «cold shoulder» from Department of Education brass in February 2015 after casting the lone no vote against a five - year, $ 1.1 billion contract for computer hardware and software services.

Republican Legislator Carey said he had very great concerns about the project and would vote against it since he was misled by the purpose of the funding and it appeared to be illegal to co-mingle sewer and police department needs.

Some 2016 presidential candidates — for instance, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who voted against the earlier Senate bill in July — have called for getting rid of the federal Department of Education altogether.

But the bill was scheduled for a vote the same week as a debate over Department of Homeland Security funding erupted, and anger from the far right against House leadership was running high.

While some Democrats are pushing for the additional charter school money to be reduced or eliminated, some said the issue alone would not cause them to vote against the entire budget that funds scores of agencies, nonprofit organizations, and departments that operate everything from state prisons to the attorney general's office.

In the mid-1990s, concerned by reports of ocean pollution in other countries, a few scientists in the Environmental Health Division of the county's Department of Public Health asked for money to monitor the ocean water off our shores, but the Board of Supervisors consistently voted against them.

An audience of senior lawyers from law firms, chambers, and inhouse legal departments voted definitively against the motion that «the European Court of Human Rights is Undermining Democracy» at the third debate in the Thomson Reuters Legal Debate Series last Thursday evening.

«As security threats against election systems have increased, the Department has grown more vigilant regarding potential threats against voting equipment.