Along Party Lines

Wednesday, 29 March 2023

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House budget plan clears committee along party lines

Union Leader 29 Mar 2023

CONCORD — A two-year $14 billion state budget cleared the House Finance Committee, 14-11, almost entirely along party lines Wednesday ... The House plan would spend nearly $6.4 billion from state taxes and fees or $84 million more than the proposal Gov. Chris Sununu had proposed in February ... Rep ... One Democrat breaks with party ... Rep ... State Rep ... Rep ... ....

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State Senate sends elections bill to Kemp's desk

Longview News-Journal 29 Mar 2023

Senate Bill 222 cleared the Senate 32-21 along party lines. The House passed the bill on Monday in another primarily party-line vote ... Ed Setzler, R-Acworth, told his Senate colleagues Wednesday. “This issue is one of basic fairness,” he said ... “You can get all the third-party funding you choose from the SEB,” Burns said ... ....

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Budget certainty is good, but so is bipartisanship

Bangor Daily News 29 Mar 2023

The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee, which took dozens of unanimous votes on parts of the budget, broke down along party lines late last week when the committee’s Democratic leaders did not include this language about tax cuts and welfare reform in the biennial budget.

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NC Senate moves quickly to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of pistol permit repeal

Johnson City Press 29 Mar 2023

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Senate voted Tuesday along party lines to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of gun rights legislation that includes a repeal of the state’s permit requirement for buying handguns ... Support for the bill, particularly the pistol purchase permit repeal, has mostly fallen along party lines ... Sen ... Sen ... ....

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Indiana Republicans defeat amendments to exempt military, disabled from absentee voting bill

Marietta Daily Journal 29 Mar 2023

... along party lines Tuesday in the Indiana Senate.

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State Senate sends elections bill to Kemp’s desk

Marietta Daily Journal 29 Mar 2023

... Bill 222 cleared the Senate 32-21 along party lines.

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Majorities in new poll want overall spending cuts with increases for infrastructure, health care, Social Security

The Hill 29 Mar 2023

Sixty percent in The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released on Wednesday said they think the government is spending too much. ... Similar to Congress, Americans’ views are split along party lines in the new survey ... However, respondents from both parties showed relatively little support for the U.S ... .

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AFP urges CPP: Disband NPA now

Manila Bulletin 29 Mar 2023

“The Communist Party of the Philippines could hardly find a reason to celebrate the 54th founding anniversary of the New People’s Army ... It carries out protracted people’s war along the strategic line of encircling the cities from the countryside,” it said in a statement published on its website, Philippine Revolution Web Central (PRWC).

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TX: Bill that would give parents state funds to pay for private schools moves to ...

Democratic Underground 29 Mar 2023

The Senate education committee, led by Sen ... The vote took place along party lines, with Republican lawmakers favoring the bill and Democrats José Menéndez of San Antonio and Morgan LaMantia of South Padre Island voting against it ... .

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Why Americans feel a sense of exclusion

Gulf News 29 Mar 2023

The list goes on. The saying? Go back to where you belong ... Supplied ... social and political divisiveness along lines of party, race, class, geography, sexual orientation and gender ... A study last year by Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement found that negative impressions of the word are exceptionally low across party lines and across racial lines ... .

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Social media companies could see $250,000/day fine for banning Arizona candidates

Longview News-Journal 29 Mar 2023

(The Center Square) – Social media platforms that choose to suspend or ban candidates for office would face tens of thousands – or hundreds of thousands – of dollars a day in fines under legislation working its way through the Legislature. The House Commerce Committee on Tuesday approved Senate Bill 1106 along party lines ... ....

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Bill that would give parents state funds to pay for private schools moves to the ...

The Bryan Eagle 29 Mar 2023

The vote took place along party lines, with Republican lawmakers favoring the bill and Democrats José Menéndez of San Antonio and Morgan LaMantia of South Padre Island voting against it ... Council hears update on redevelopment plan along Texas Avenue and University Drive UPDATE.

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EXPLAINER: Mass shootings seldom shift partisan policies

The Bryan Eagle 29 Mar 2023

... College Station College Station City Council hears update on redevelopment plan along Texas Avenue and University Drive UPDATE ... The Senate voted along party lines for a red-flag law that would allow guns to temporarily be removed from people with potentially violent behavior.

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Mass shootings seldom shift partisan policies despite outcry

The Bryan Eagle 29 Mar 2023

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Republicans should walk away from Democrats’ state budget

Bangor Daily News 29 Mar 2023

The “back to basics” spending bill that was passed along party lines at the end of March 2021 was designed to force through the most contentious elements of Mills’ agenda, checking the budget box as finished to guarantee that the Republicans would have no remaining leverage.