Sentences with phrase «who vote on this issue»

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«They're women who vote not on traditional «women's issues» — education, abortion, etc. — but on foreign policy,» the Post's Naomi Schaefer Riley said.

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

Pressing the issue further, Ms. Pelosi and the next two highest - ranking House Democrats sent a letter to Mr. Ryan noting their desire for the government to remain open and imploring him to make a public statement about the scheduling of a vote on legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants who are now shielded from deportation by the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.

The documents were presumably provided by Wylie (pictured below), who has also handed email and other documentary evidence to the DCMS committee investigating online disinformation in political campaigning, as well as to the UK's data watchdog and Electoral Commission — both of which are also probing digital political campaigning issues (including around the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum vote, which Wylie alleges CA also worked on).

Meanwhile, those who oppose stricter gun laws are simply more likely to make it the one issue they'll vote on.

All those who vote for or against him will convince themselves that they are voting on the issues.

Simply put, the assumption is that the best route to the truth is to assemble a wide variety of persons who have some personal involvement with aspects of a particular issue, hold hearings and meetings, write papers, and then vote in committee and convention on what the Christian position ought to be.

As to those conservative women who feel strongly enough to vote Republican on this issue alone, who ya gonna vote for?

You also have people who can register as a specfic party and run on a ticket to strengthen their careers and yet they only espouse one or two things that could count them into the party in the first place.There's also a huge issue of people really thinking that a vote for a 3rd party candidate is a waste, If the only way you feel your vote matters is by voting for one of 2 parties (even if you are unsatisfied with both) does it actually matter?

I don't know any Christians that are looking to establish a Theocracy, but I know a great many that are looking to elect someone who will represent their vote on important issues which, of course, is the point of a representative government.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

These issues will not affect them at all, yet they decide who they will vote for based on these issues.

The pastor, who had been quiet up till then, suddenly declared, «You will not vote on this issue.»

Similarly, I hope that if you've decided to vote for Clinton, you've spoken out concerning the ongoing ethics problems that go back decades and now continue to surface every day, and her stance on abortion and many more issues that defile all people who are made in the image of God.

When those who have won the day on this issue (and by «the day» I mean every denominational vote on the issue since 1972) and are gaining more and more power in the denomination offer the possibility of a just separation, why do those who claim to be on the side of the oppressed want to maintain the oppressive status quo?

I consider myself a moderate who votes conservatively on budget and defense issues but usually more liberally on social issues.

The Catholic vote will go to one who realizes that most American Catholics don't really believe in the authority of the Catholic hierarchy on issues important to them.

It is now 6 noes and 5 yeses, the noes win, because they each technically got more than one vote, even though there are an even number of people on both sides of the issue, who all should have been free to practice according to their own beliefs, That; s why the organizations «beliefs» must be secondary to individuals.

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.

Universal is universal, period / Secondly — if only the Catholics who have never benefited from birth control (either directly or indirectly) were allowed to vote on this issue, that would be a very small population of voters.

In the past I've been critical of «one - issue» voters who routinely base their vote solely on a candidate's position on abortion, but I've recently toned down my criticism as I continue to speak with earnest and compassionate friends who have every right to base their decision on what touches their hearts the most.

Anyway, you were a little off topic, I'm assumng you are one of those people who votes Republican everytime primarily on the issue of Abortion even when your Republican leaders salivate at the chance to send our children in to harms way via war.

One method by which they attempted to rally support for politicians who supported their particular causes was by endorsing a «rating» system which collated scores for each individual legislator according to how that legislator voted on several issues considered by the broadcasters to be «Christian» issues of the election.

How many of those guys do you think would be willing to re-invest in the clubs transfer fund, how many do you think would want to recouparate their money and how many would want to sack the man in charge... I remind you of Usmanov who promised millions in transfer money to Arsenal, but its not his call to make... till the board votes unanimously on the issue or one invididual buys out the other board members for all the controlling shares... we are limited to how much we can spend because its not one persons money its all of theirs.

But I didn't vote in favor because I necessarily think that introducing helmets into the women's game is a good idea (as anyone who follows the sport of women's lacrosse knows, the issue has been the subject of furious and often heated debate in recent years, well - chronicled in a recent article on the US Lacrosse's website, which also contains a very helpful discussion of how the ASTM standard now being voted on was developed).

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 organization has also championed — endorsing and raising money for — the handful of Assembly Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting «yes» to pass the marriage bill on the other side of the Capitol, protecting these lawmakers on a potentially difficult issue (and one that, as it turned out, didn't lead to anyone's ouster, but did contribute to Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava getting pushed out of the NY - 23 special election by conservatives who argued she was too moderate).

Northern Ireland has Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) who sit in the Northern Ireland Assembly and can only vote on devolved issues.

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)

Sen. Bill Stachowski is fighting back against Fight Back PAC, the political action committee created with the sole purpose of replacing senator who voted «no» on gay marriage with candidates who will vote «yes» on the issue.

According to him, Ghanaians will do themselves a great deal of disservice if they vote for such a divisive leader who is not ready to accept any contrary views to his position held on issues.

Flanagan in the op / ed also criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo for emphasizing liberal - friendly issues such as allowing those on parole to cast votes, writing «I no longer recognize the person who occupies this office.»

The woman will only get the votes of those naive enough to think they can change the system, and those who are sexist enough to cast their vote based on sex instead of issues.

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.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

It also creates issues with Luddite citizenry such as the Amish, who on matters of religion do not use certain technologies, including cell phones and the internet, so an alternate way of re-deligation would need to be established for them (perhaps a service that will hold their votes in a way that can be trusted to vote in their interests).

Expenditure is «controlled» if it is spending on election activities which «can reasonably be regarded as intended to influence voters to vote for or against political parties or categories of candidates including those parties and categories of candidates who support or do not support particular policies or issues».

But Carl E. Heastie, a Bronx Democrat who is the Assembly speaker, said his chamber was not ready to vote on the issue so quickly.

As recently as last week, Pataki, who was a Rick Lazio supporter, was refusing to say whether he would support Paladino — or even vote for him — saying he was holding out to see if the Buffalo businessman would be able to stop putting his foot in his mouth and start focusing on «issues.»

So who or which group decides when Congress votes on what issues and how flexible is this process?

Why would the outcome of a state senate race in NY matter one whit to a voter in Maryland or Minnesota who is voting directly on the issue of marriage.

It will be silly to vote for anyone who was in office that didn't resolve the number - one issue in East Hampton, who served on the town board and didn't stop the torture and torment.

«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 shadow chancellor dismissed suggestions the party's leadership was trying to quash debate on the issue, after pro-EU MPs, who are pushing leader Jeremy Corbyn to commit to permanent membership of the single market, failed in an attempt to stage a vote.

«What we did last year, with the creation of the Women's Equality Party, the first state in the nation to say that women's issues are so significant that we believe that women — people should have the right to vote for a candidate who is on that line.»

«The staff people who lack the competence to fix these problems need to be replaced with staff that can do the job,» he said, discussing the issue of the full - time BOE staff, which only begins to touch on the issue of the election day provisional staff who administer voting throughout the city and often commit mistakes.

For the sake of public trust in British democracy, will the Minister who is standing in for the Deputy Prime Minister therefore agree that any legislation put before the House on this vital issue should be the subject of a free vote?»

Gun groups exert power on politicians by having huge mailing lists of «single - issue voters» who will vote against anyone who wants to pass gun control.

Justice Okon Abang, in a judgment on Monday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately issue a certificate of return to the plaintiff, Uche Ogah, who polled the second highest number of votes in the primary.