Sentences with phrase «who voted against it»

Let's ask all the Benchers who voted against the LPP pilot program in 2012, as reported nationwide by The Globe And Mail: «Some within the Law Society have criticized the program — 20 of 56 council members voted against it.

They won bipartisan backing in the Judiciary Committee (except for one Republican who voted against Wynn).

The reason I say this case might be of good help is because the only Judge who voted against the ECHR decision was the portuguese Judge Pinto de Albuquerque.

Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, one of two Manhattan council members who voted against the ban, agreed with Rand's assessment, according to a spokeswoman.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., who voted against his nomination, observed that even Roberts» opponents called him «one of the best advocates, if not the best advocate, in the nation.»

However, Republicans are expected to be stronger in the next (112th) Congress, and several Democrats who voted against the Murkowski resolution support West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller's weak - sister alternative, which would prohibit EPA from regulating stationary sources of greenhouse gases for two years.

Koch Industries contributed a total of $ 947,950, since 2000, to the senators who voted against the climate change amendment that Sen. Schatz introduced last year, compared to the $ 29,600 to the senators who voted in favor.

The senators represent Midwestern and coal - producing states from which many of the 44 Democrats who voted against the measure in the House come from.

«Our hearts go out today to the millions of people who voted against bigotry and hate and now have to accept the fact that the man who ridiculed and threatened them for months is now President - elect of the United States,» said Greenpeace USA Executive Director Annie Leonard.

Malcolm has dealt savagely with everyone who voted against him, dumping the PM and ministers to the back bench.

Some senators who voted against the Bill nevertheless spoke in favour of it.

There is no evidence any of those who voted against defense ran away.

Of those who voted for Brexit, 43 % confessed that they were worried about the future of the economy, whilst 78 % of those who voted against had the same concerns.

Talk to those council members who voted against your bill and find out why.

On this occasion, 58 % voted no, compared with 93 % who voted against an even tougher plan in the first referendum.

Ms Morgan was one of 175 MPs from across the political spectrum who voted against the motion for gay marriage.

Her main opponent is Assemblyman Tom Torlakson, D - Antioch, who voted against them.

For example, Republican Rep. Chris Gibson, a moderate from New York who voted against the bill in 2013, said Thursday he plans to do so again.

Somewhere in the middle of the jeers from charter proponents, a woman with the Central Mississippi Tea Party allegedly shoved Rep. Reecy Dickson, an African American Democrat from Macon who voted against the bill.

The six senators who voted against the bill were Konni Burton (R - Colleyville), Troy Fraser (R - Horseshoe Bay), Bob Hall (R - Rockwall), Don Huffines (R - Dallas), Van Taylor (R - Plano), and Brandon Creighton (R - Conroe).

That's code for «those who voted against me are dim and second rate».

«That money could be used for natural gas distribution lines and creating jobs,» said Rep. Darren Jackson, a Wake County Democrat who voted against the bill.

«These are our children, and we intend to fight for them and resist what they are trying to do,» said Jonathan Hodges, a longtime member of the advisory board who voted against the proposals.

Rep. Kreg Battles, D - Vincennes, who voted against the bill, says he's concerned private schools will increase their tuition if more voucher money is available.

Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Co-chair of the Notre Dame High School Parent Council Michelle Watt said: «Parents whose children are at the high school and parents of children at the other feeder school in St Ninian's, who voted against any consultation, are very surprised by the timing of this.

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.

Some of the legislators who voted against the bill expressed uncertainty about the impact it would have on the public school system and the state's general fund.

I also worked for a congressman who voted against it and an SEA that received an ESEA waiver.

But judging by this year's audience reactions to the sold - out showings of both Martin McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and Dee Rees» «Mudbound,» maybe sentiment concerning matters involving the verbal and physical abuse of women, hate crimes and violence directed at those of different races or creeds and the rise of white supremacy has affected more than just those who voted against the GOP candidate.

«The very slight increases in dystrophin production didn't seem to me reasonably likely to predict the possibility of clinical benefit,» says internist Aaron Kesselheim of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, who was one of the FDA advisory committee members who voted against recommending approval of eteplirsen.

UPDATE, June 10, 2014: This article was updated with the names of the two members who voted against the bill and a link to the Congressional Record page where the full roster of votes is available.

Don't be mistaken: Even Democrats who voted against the climate bill lost seats.Here's an inconvenient truth you won't see highlighted in stories about the takeover of the House by a seemingly inexhaustible army of climate zombies: While more than two dozen incumbents who voted for the climate bill lost their seats, even more Democrats who voted against the climate bill lost theirs.

But opposition deputy Christine Boutin, who voted against the bill, warned that it would strengthen science's hold over society.

«I'm kind of geeked up about it,» Representative Brian Baird (D — WA and Ph.D. in clinical psychology) told reporter David Rogers, who also notes that the measure passed 391 - 10, which makes you wonder who voted against pi.

The five - term congresswoman was best known, according to a CNN report, as an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq and was the only representative from the Ohio delegation who voted against the war.

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

Martin, one of the commissioners who voted against paying to finish the project, said the commissioners had already gotten what they were looking for: general recommendations for how to mitigate potential health effects.

Weiner, who was one of just seven House Democrats who voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in 2007 to protest the lack of protections for transgender workers, recently faced questions over two occasions at which he failed to speak out against homophobic statements made in his presence while he was campaigning.

«I would argue that this extender is of business - as - usual in Albany, an extender of lack of transparency in Albany, an extender of budgetary dysfunction in Albany,» said Senator Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat who voted against the extender bills and ridiculed the manner in which they were introduced — nearly 1,800 pages delivered in the wee hours of Monday morning.

During the House of Commons vote in October 2011 on a backbench motion for a bill to be introduced in the next parliamentary session to enable a referendum to be held on Britain's continued membership of the European Union, Mosley was one of 81 Conservative MPs who voted against the Government Whip to support a referendum.

Of those Labour members you know who regret voting for Corbyn, and those who voted against, have any left the party?

«I don't think you have to be smarter than Bonzo the chimp to figure out what's going on,» City Councilmember Peter Vallone, who voted against the bill, said before the meeting.

Those who voted against the contract were Terry Niebel (R - Sheridan), Bob Scudder (R - Fredonia), Lisa Vanstrom (R - Ellicott), PJ Wendel (R - Lakewood), and David Wilfong (R - Jamestown).

The author JK Rowling, who voted against independence, has implied she may now rethink her position, and Salmond said major Scottish employers and companies such as the whisky giant Diageo would consider whether Scottish independence within the EU would ensure their continued access to the European single market.

Commissioner members who voted against giving the two organizations an exemption said a clear showing that donors faced an actual risk of reprisal would be needed to justify special treatment.

But those who voted against the override say that stop - and - frisk should remain as is because it's effective.

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?

To the apoplexy of the whips, he was for a time the only person appointed to government who voted against the Iraq War.

President Obama needs to redline stimulus components going to the districts of the Red Bushies who voted against the bill.

Inez Barron is known for her advocacy on police brutality issues, and was among the Council members who voted against the Right to Know Act, a package of police reform bills that were revised as part of a compromise with de Blasio, Mark - Viverito and the NYPD.