Sentences with phrase «who vote no on a floor»

Look, Republican senators who vote NO on a floor vote, likely won't face the fury of the LGBT community, BUT Republican senators who keep it from even coming to a vote will.

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Well inside this figure you can go progging for lobsters at Silver Seas, a place that puts on floor shows complete with donkeys, chickens, goats and an impresario named Lord Composer who votes under the cognomen of Roy Muddle.

Reproductive rights groups are ramping up their own attacks on Senate Republican incumbents who oppose the WEA, claiming the conference's refusal to allow the legislation on the chamber floor for a vote flies in the face of public support for legal abortion.

But it's not just Republicans holding it up — the «democrat» members of the IDC (Independent Democratic Conference), who often align with Republicans in the Senate despite running on Democratic platforms, refuse to bring these to the floor for a vote.

He has repeatedly voted in favor of legislation criminalizing keeping firearms available for self - defense in the home, voted in favor of various firearm and ammunition prohibitions and attacked those who disagree with him on the floor of the Assembly

When pressed by Gov. David Paterson today on why they won't simply vote the executive budget up or down and call it a day, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos replied he considered the question moot, since the Democrats who control the Legislature won't bring the plan to the floor in the first place.

«That's one of the challenges of Ryan announcing that he was not going to seek reelection: Now everybody is kind of looking to [McCarthy],» said Rep. Mike Simpson (R - Idaho), who has not signed on to the bid to force a floor vote on DACA but would like to see the situation resolved.

Savino has said she believes there are 39 «yes» votes for the measure if the act makes it to the floor for a vote, and GOP Senate Leader Dean Skelos, who opposes the idea of letting people smoke marijuana, has suggested a vote might be possible before the session's scheduled end on June 19.

But Hoylman expressed optimism during a CapTon interview that will air this evening at 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. that this legislation still has a shoot at making it to the floor for a vote, and while he has no GOP co-sponsors, he said he has had conversations with Republican senators who might be willing to vote «yes» on the bil.

Russell appeared on CapTon last night and offered the following advice to her colleagues across the Capitol who might be struggling with how they'll vote on a same - sex marriage bill if it comes to the floor:

Don't be at all surprised to see the Rochester Republican, who was the first member of his conference to announce he would vote «yes» on same - sex marriage, hit the road ASAP if the bill comes to the Senate floor and passes.

While the governor got the Senate GOP to put the gay marriage bill on the floor, it was mostly Democrats and members of the Independent Democratic Conference, who provided the actual yes votes.

I asked the senator if his newfound activism on this controversial topic would extend to his colleagues in the Senate majority, who have so far not opted to follow his lead and declare their willingness to vote «yes» when — and if — the bill comes to the floor.

With Sens. Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsDem rep to launch discharge petition to force net neutrality vote in House Hillicon Valley: Senate votes to save net neutrality Senate panel breaks with House, says Russia favored Trump in 2016 Latest from Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Lawmakers push back on helping Chinese tech giant Overnight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — ObamaCare premium wars are back MORE (R - Maine) and Jack ReedJohn (Jack) Francis ReedOvernight Defense: Trump aide's comment mocking McCain sparks outrage Haspel gets another «no» vote Pompeo floats North Korea aid for denuclearization Politicians, media explode over White House aide's comments Senate Dems urge Trump to remain in Iran deal ahead of announcement MORE (D - R.I.), who are spearheading the legislation, opposed to Paul's amendment, Paul pledged that he would block leadership from trying to speed up procedural votes, as well as block any other amendment from getting queued up for floor time.

A liberal program he opposed had been stalled, and, officially, he wasn't the one who stalled it: It was a Republican from Nassau County who did so, by declaring he would not assent to a floor vote on a tax that requires his chamber's approval.

Mike Boland, the operative who left the party to run Teachout's campaign, and Bertha Lewis, who nominated Teachout from the floor of the W.F.P. convention, have both gone on record urging Teachout voters to hold their noses and vote W.F.P. as a way of keeping liberal pressure on Cuomo, reminding them of the party's successful pushes on items like paid sick days and the minimum wage.

New Yorkers who watched the tears and emotions on display on the State Senate floor today might have concluded that the vote on same - sex marriage came down to ideology, religion, and conscience.

Delegates are the people who will actually vote on the floor of the Democratic and Republican conventions to select their party's nominee.

Though opposition to abortion rights is held by some mainline Democratic senators in the narrowly divided chamber — Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr. chief among them — NARAL's ad takes on Skelos, who does not want to hold a floor vote on the bill (Cuomo is yet to release bill language on his women's agenda, first unveiled at the State of the State, and he says he's still piecing together the abortion rights proposal with women's groups).

Just days after receiving our demand to repeal the SAFE Act from Senator Kathy Marchione, and what amounted to a small patriot army, the governor, exhibiting a lack of respect, wisdom and discretion, cut a closed - door, back - room deal with Senator Dean Skelos, who then opened NY's Senate floor for a vote on a bill that would divide Republican Senators upstate from downstate and create a separate, unequal class of citizens: the law enforcement officer class.

Robinson's nomination now heads to the floor of the House and Senate for a vote, along with Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's last batch of 30 superior court judge nominees who had hearings on Monday.

Supporters of the SOCE measure, who also pressed for a vote, voiced strong confidence they would have won on the Senate floor, with sponsor Brad Hoylman, an out gay West Side Democrat, pointing to public support for the measure from Republicans.

«The people of New York are entitled to know where their senators stand on this critical issue right now,» said Senator Michael N. Gianaris of Queens, the deputy minority leader, who led the effort to force a vote on the Senate floor.

That reasoning did not stop Senate Democrats, who are in the minority in that house, from attempting to place the bill on the Senate floor for a vote, in what's known as a hostile amendment.

In the state Senate, the measure was sponsored by Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island), who spoke on the floor before the vote about her parents, both of whom suffered from lung cancer.

Senate Republicans, who run the chamber in a power sharing agreement with a few Democrats, say they won't put the abortion provision on the floor for a vote.

Supporters of a nursing «safe staffing» bill are urging Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, who represents Kenmore, to allow the bill out of committee and on to the Assembly floor for a vote.

Assuming that the Republican conference is roughly 50 members and the Democrats» roughly 100, if Silver gets the 51 votes within his conference and wins his parties nod for Speaker, what are the odds that 26 Democrats who voted against Silver in conference will join 50 republicans on the floor of the assembly and vote for someone other than Silver for Speaker?

Sen. Adriano Espaillet, a Democrat who represents parts of Manhattan and the Bronx, says he believes there is enough support for passage, but he says the Republican leadership has not put the bill on the floor for a vote.

Senator Adriano Espaillet, a Democrat who represents parts of Manhattan and the Bronx, says he believes there is enough support for passage, but he says the Republican leadership has not put the bill on the floor for a vote.

, who has pledged a first - ever floor vote this year on a climate bill.

«Well, we're at the brink,» said Senator Barbara Mikulski (D - MD), who heads the spending panel that oversees NIH's budget, on the Senate floor after the vote.

As the appropriations bill heads for a possible House vote this week, Representative Ernest J. Istook Jr. (R - OK), who wrote the language, and House Labor / HHS subcommittee chair Ralph Regula (R - OH) are preparing to issue a statement on the House floor that would modify the directive.

The sharply partisan nature of the debate on the House floor this afternoon — only 16 of 146 Republicans supported its passage, along with all 212 Democrats who voted — signaled that the new Republican House leadership won't take kindly to bills that promise large increases in federal spending, no matter how worthy the cause.

-- Woodrow Wilson The room on the first floor of the Barbour County Courthouse in the little town of Eufaula, Alabama, was normally the County Clerk's Office, but after it had closed for the day on August 2, 1957, it was being used by the county's Board of Registrars, the body that registered citizens so they could vote in elections — not that the Board was going to register any of the three persons who were applying that day, for the skin of these applicants was black.

After walking out about 12 p.m., hundreds who were wearing black T - shirts sat on the floor and listened to student organizers talk about registering to vote, so they can support the «Never Again» movement that survivors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School started.

It was a very packed agenda, during which I learned the «ropes» of 1) networking with other council reps who might share our society's interests, 2) understanding how to bring questions to the floor (long lines at the microphones), 3) getting the electronic voting gizmo to work, and 4) appreciating the enormous challenge of parliamentary procedure as varied interests war on the floor.

And questions need to be raised about donations he receives from mining magnates and others and how that affects his vote on the floor as a polly who is supposed to represent farmers and rural communities.