Sentences with phrase «voting history on»

The candidate also attacked what he said was Mr. Grimm's poor voting history on union issues, but was still unable to provide details.

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The hard - charging former CIA director was confirmed on a 57 - 42 vote — one of the slimmest margins for the job in recent history.

The history was made under a new rule passed a day earlier that permitted newborns of senators on the floor during votes.

Apple Inc. shareholders could make history next year by deciding whether the company should be forced to increase the number of non-white executives and directors, with a vote on a proposal the iPhone maker has tried to squelch.

Catharine Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, argued against women's suffrage on the grounds that «women could influence public affairs very satisfactorily without recourse to the ballot box, by the simple expedient of influencing the opinions and outlook of those who did have the vote — their husbands and sons» (Reay Tannahill, Sex in History, [Stein & Day], 1980, p. 389).

Laws based on religious beliefs have had a long history in the United States: segregation, anti-abortionism, not giving women the vote, Sunday laws (look them up) and other blue laws.

The majority of Californians, including two - thirds of the state's black voters, have just had their core civil right - the right to vote - stripped from them by an openly gay federal judge who has misread history and the Constitution to impose his views on the state's people.

Our own history has proven that which is why the people voted to have their government work on the problem.

Following a huge prolife march and rally on 6th October 2006 — reportedly the largest march of any kind ever in Nicaragua's history — the Nicaraguan National Assembly on 26th October voted (52 in favour, 0 opposed and 9 abstentions) to close a legal loophole which allowed thousands of abortions every year.

With the nominees now having been announced for the 2014 Golden Boy award, voted on by journalists and handed to the best player under 21 in Europe, we decided to take a look back through the history of it and the 11 players who have been voted as the winner in its short history.

Now I am not directly involved in the history site and Tony is out for a few days to look for some sunshine but otherwise he could have given you a list of teams that got voted in to higher leagues without having to play for it on the field.

Unlike some commercial targeting, politics relies stringently on a specific set of vote history and polling data.

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal - conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives.

I.e., if you're breaking voters into groups based on their demographics and behavioral history (voting history, response to canvasser questions, etc), you'll also need to have content designed to move those niche audiences.

But according to the House Minority Whip's office, some 280,000 people voted online or via text on the particular measure they'd like to see deleted from the federal budget, in what Cantor's new media guy described as «the most direct use of technology to establish a more direct democracy in the history of the federal legislature.»

Sturgeon has launched what she describes as «the biggest listening exercise in our party's history»: a three - month consultation with more than two million Scots from September to 30 November — St Andrew's Day — to try and build a consensus view on Scotland's post-Brexit vote future.

Demand to register to vote in the referendum has put the vote on track to be the most widely participated in throughout Scotland's history.

Watch for ads using this content to target women, perhaps with different variations based on age, income, location or past voting history (upscale Republican women may be a particularly receptive audience, for instance).

Yet those who want to change our voting system to make it fairer should be careful what they wish for, and would do well to reflect on history.

«With today's rent freeze, common sense prevailed at the Rent Guidelines Board, and tenants made history,» said Adams on Monday after the board voted.

Yesterday, for example, during the City Council's vote to overturn Mayor Bloomberg's veto of the stop - and - frisk and police oversight bills, it was startling to hear Barron, following his customary sit - in during the Pledge of Allegiance, stand up and pay tribute to Viola Plummer, his former chief of staff: «There wouldn't be no today if it weren't for Viola Plummer, the December 12th Movement, Rev. Herbert Daughtry, who put it on the line, to make this day history.»

The vote in Congress represents a referendum of sorts on the work of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who has wielded more power than any other federal education official in the nation's history.

There has been more constitutional reform over this period than really ever in history, both in the Lords and in the introduction of different forms of voting than First Past the Post in the European elections and local elections in some places and so on.

With some effort, though, you should be able to get your hands on this really valuable data, which will tell you the party affiliation of each voter and should give you a sense of their voting history over the last few years.

The party contested the 2009 European elections around the slogan of «Make Greed History», campaigning for a Europe - wide tax on millionaires, [23] and also achieved a higher vote share than in the Scottish Parliament election.

A Senate Democratic spokesman said he did not believe Democrats targeted government mailings based on voting histories.

The Feingold campaign sent a fundraising email under Silverman's name, in which she calls the Democrat a «progressive rock star» and «one of the very few totally righteous politicians who has always voted on the right side of history.»

Her son also said her vote margin was the widest in history, which he attributes to her performance on the bench.

«For the first time in the history of the Commission, citizens who have attained the voting age of 18 years and those who could not register during the previous CVR exercises, now have the opportunity to do so on a continuous basis as envisaged by the Electoral Act.

Gildernew's claim to the seat rested on a majority of four votes in 2010 — one of the lowest winning margins in post-war UK electoral history.

«That was the biggest flip in state history and we're going to need the same historic change in the New York legislature in 2012 to guarantee the people the ability to vote on this issue.»

In 1998, 348,272 votes for Governor George E. Pataki were cast on the Conservative line, over 20,000 more than in 1994, an anomaly in political history.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy waged a filibuster in an attempt to force a vote on gun control legislation three days after 49 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

On Sunday, the Lib Dem delegates flouted party history and voted in favour of building more nuclear...

Katrina vanden Heuvel provides a history lesson on fusion voting, noting this isn't the first time the establishment has taken aim at third parties.

Please pledge to vote for me and Kathy Hochul on the Women's Equality Party line on November 4th and together we'll make history.»

Let's be on the right side of history and let's vote for this bill today,» she says.

While NOM insists Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin's «yes» vote on gay marriage could cost him the race, HRC stresses that no matter who wins tonight (assuming it's not too close to immediately call, which is a distinct possibility, given the history of past NY House specials) marriage equality «did not play an influential, even modest, role in the outcome.»

The state Adirondack Park Agency will take up the largest state land classification package in its history later this week, and while Boreas Ponds is drawing all the attention, there are 99 other parcels the agency board will vote on classifying.

On Sunday, the Lib Dem delegates flouted party history and voted in favour of building more nuclear power stations — energy secretary Ed Davey having told them this is vital to fight climate change — and also voted to support fracking, albeit with an amendment to ensure pollution levels were closely monitored and those local to fracking sites were properly consulted.

No excuses: every single one must take to the streets, knocking on doors every possible night that you can, getting the message across, ensuring that on election day there's the biggest get out the vote operation in the history of British democracy.

According him, the NPP has a rich history of delivering on its electoral promises, and is no doubt that voting for Nana Akufo - Addo will only bring progress and prosperity to his people.

On Monday night, history was made when the Rent Guidelines Board voted for a rent freeze for the first time in NYC, a decision that will affect 1 million rent - stabilized residents in the city.

The DNC's system, known as the Voter Activation Network is a mammoth, ongoing database that has been tracking the interests, voting histories, family circumstances and much more on more than 150 million voters since 2006.

A number of the proposals the governor presented echoed mayor's ideas, including his $ 650 million life sciences initiative, voting reforms such as early voting and same - day registration, adopting salary history blind hiring practices and requiring state contracts to disclose data on gender, race and ethnicity of employees.

Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: Understanding the history behind today's expected, and weighty, vote in Congress on NSA surveillance; the GOP's new «50 - state strategy,» a la Howard Dean's Democratic Party; and more in today's round - up of news about technology in politics from around the web.

Sean Henry, who focused some of his campaign on his own history of being a former homeless teen, came in third with 12.5 percent of the vote in the district, which also includes parts of Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin and Sheepshead Bay.

On November 5th, for the first time in state history, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to vote on whether to amend the State Constitution and permit limited commercial casinos for regions in upstate New YorOn November 5th, for the first time in state history, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to vote on whether to amend the State Constitution and permit limited commercial casinos for regions in upstate New Yoron whether to amend the State Constitution and permit limited commercial casinos for regions in upstate New York.

Cuomo, who arm twisted state Senators to win the same sex marriage vote in 2011, said in a statement that the court «is on the right side of history.»

Cuomo said New York «refuses to perpetuate the myth voter fraud played a role in our election» and is turning down a request to give the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity the names, addresses, birth dates, voting history and last four digits of the Social Security numbers of every registered voter in the state.