Sentences with phrase «voting against them yesterday»

A particularly stressful week for farmers has come to a relieving end with the Greens today supporting the federal government's proposed 15 per cent backpacker tax after voting against it yesterday.

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Perth - based Amcom Telecommunications has pushed back its scheme meeting to vote on the Vocus Communications takeover deal by two weeks, after Sydney competitor and Amcom's major shareholder TPG Telecom yesterday said it would vote against the proposal.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins said yesterday that she will vote against Senate Republicans» latest attempt to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.

Yesterday, the US House of Representatives unanimously voted that ISIS is committing genocide against Christians (and other minorities) in Syria and Iraq.

George Demos, one of three Republicans fighting to take on Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop in NY - 1, tried to make yesterday's gubernatorial vote at the GOP convention into an issue in his own race, in which he's facing off against state Chairman Ed Cox's son, Chris.

Only yesterday, the Christian Council of Ghana capped months of protestations against the practice of homosexuality with a strongly worded message against the practice and courting Ghanaians not to vote for any politician who believes in the rights of homosexuals.

«If anyone votes against that resolution or tries to veto it, that should be on their conscience,» Mr Cameron warned yesterday.

But yesterday he voted against that (this is Jeremy Hunt and the care bill, which allows him to close hospitals).

Brooklyn Councilman Vincent Gentile yesterday sought to explain and exculpate his 2002 vote against a major piece of gay rights legislation to members of a Staten Island Democratic club — who subsequently endorsed his longshot bid for Congress.

Tory whips in difficult place yesterday because they'd told potential rebels not to vote against the Programme... but Second Reading instead.

In a 15 - 1 vote, yesterday with Legislator Jim Denkenberger voting against, lawmakers approved Boyden to lead the Legislature.

Of the two Tory abstainers, as a PPS until yesterday, Lee Scott, has no history of rebellion; meanwhile, Tracey Crouch, who also abstained, has still never actively voted in a division lobby against the government line.

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.

After a tense few hours of Labour's National Executive Committee meeting yesterday, the party's ruling body decided by 18 votes to 14 that Jeremy Corbyn would have an automatic right to be on the ballot in the leadership election against Angela Eagle.

Yesterday, Hikind ran against a no - name Republican who spent only $ 400 yet managed to garner nearly 40 % of the vote.

Whether you think the Labour leader's last - minute gauntlet yesterday at «tea - time» - as many commentators have so quaintly described Miliband's 11th hour (ie 5.15 pm) threat to vote against the government's initial motion to intervene in Syria - was politicking or boldness in the national interest, it may not necessarily be the reason behind the suddenly watered - down vote.

In a letter sent to the NYC Council yesterday, Bloomberg attorney Michael Best implored council members to vote against a bill that would expand the definition of «biased - based profiling.»

Yesterday, the International Narcotics Control Board, the UN's thug enforcer for global anti-drug laws, launched a remarkable broadside against the US for daring to allow its states a free vote on cannabis laws.

House Speaker Paul Ryan scratched plans for a fund - raiser yesterday that was to benefit the re-election campaign of Rep. Lee Zeldin after the Long Island Republican voted against the sweeping tax overhaul that cleared the House this month.

But as of late yesterday, roughly 30 Republicans had said they either would vote against the measure or had not made up their minds.

Yesterday House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) urged his colleagues to vote against the bill despite Obama's personal appeal to both House and Senate GOPers.

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 below letter from William Hague to fellow Conservatives, urging them to help the party ensure a vote against AV in the May 5 referendum, was leaked yesterday to Rupert Read.

In a letter sent to the council yesterday, Bloomberg attorney Michael Best implored council members to vote against a bill that would expand the definition of «biased - based profiling.»

Yesterday they debated unilateral nuclear disarmament (they voted against).

Analysis of yesterday's vote by the Liberal Democrat whips» office shows over 20 Labour MPs failed to vote against the government, allowing it to win by 294 votes to 276.

The Independence Party's decision comes on the heels of an announcement yesterday from the state Conservative Party that it, too, had voted to back Donovan, who will face off against Democratic Brooklyn Councilman Vincent Gentile in two months.

A total of 47 Labour MPs - including 15 frontbenchers - defied Mr Corbyn to vote against the Government's Article 50 bill yesterday.

Yesterday Sarah Teather, the Lib Dem former education minister, also said she would vote against the bill.

If Labour's failure to vote against the 50p rate cut they've criticised was yesterday evening's Commons farce, a small number of Conservative MPs helped to provide the serious fare.

Harriet Harman's announcement on the Sunday politics yesterday, that Labour would not be voting against the welfare bill, nor would they oppose child tax credit cuts or the Tories new benefits cap, has rightly drawn condemnation from different sections of the Party, and now both Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham have joined Jeremy Corbyn (who -LSB-...]

Harriet Harman's announcement on the Sunday politics yesterday, that Labour would not be voting against the welfare bill, nor would they oppose child tax credit cuts or the Tories new benefits cap, has rightly drawn condemnation from different sections of the Party, and now both Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham have joined Jeremy Corbyn (who launched a petition last night) calling for opposition to the child tax credit cut.

Even senior Conservatives appeared prepared to rebel yesterday, with environment secretary Owen Paterson voting against the bill and defence secretary Philip Hammond and attorney general Dominic Grieve abstaining.

Yesterday's decision suggests that the younger of the Miliband brothers is emerging as the favourite candidate of trade activists, which will boost his vote but will be used against him by the Tories if he wins.

He has also voted against the Government on tuition fees and yesterday voted against air strikes on Islamic State militants.

The SNP yesterday confirmed it will vote against the move, and Labour is also expected to oppose it.

Representative Anthony D. Weiner conceded the 2005 Democratic mayoral nomination yesterday to Fernando Ferrer, the top vote - getter in the race, in hopes of averting a potentially destructive runoff election and strengthening Mr. Ferrer's hand as he begins the final eight - week campaign against Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

City comptroller candidate Scott Stringer went for the jugular yesterday against rival Eliot Spitzer as a new poll showed the Democratic primary race in a statistical tie with just five days to go before the vote.

Yesterday, Stabenow, who voted against Zinke, told reporters that such a bureaucratic reshuffling would be «a very bad idea.»

At the polls yesterday, 49.2 % of voters supported Proposition 29, and 50.8 % voted against it.

Five other senators who abstained from yesterday's vote had previously voted for or against the legislation just a week before.

Yesterday the Stuckists, whose co-founder Charles Thomson is standing against Culture Secretary Chris Smith in Islington, opened five exhibitions all called Vote Stuckist across London, to vie with the Turner announcement, which they described as «a national joke».

A lot of great commentary on yesterday's decision in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, upholding as against a facial challenge Indiana's requirement that people present a government - issued photo ID in order to vote.

This was revealed on the same day (yesterday) that MPs voted against a motion brought by Labour that sought to reverse criminal legal aid reforms.