It is an issue that does not clearly fall along party lines, and it is divisive.
If all lawmakers vote along party lines and Jeffords gives his vote to Sen.
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As this suggests, the issue of bankers and bonuses doesn't divide neatly along party lines.
Debate over the impact of the sequester, and division along party lines, is largely to be expected.
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The vote for House Bill 153 was along party lines: 59-40, with Democrats opposing the measure.
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For roughly twenty years, it has seemed that every issue addressed by Congress has been divided along party lines.
Small wonder that support for these laws breaks almost exactly along party lines.
The Senate passes a landmark bill for trying and questioning terrorism suspects, in a 65-34 vote that split along party lines.
Since the Court is only human, it too divided along party lines.
That's what happens when Washington's default setting is always along party lines.
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted along party lines to adopt a rule requiring companies to trace and audit certain minerals as to their origination.
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The Judiciary Committee resolution was voted down altogether along party lines.
The vote, mostly along party lines, ends a year of contentious debate on Capitol Hill, but the fierce lobbying effort by the banking industry will likely continue.
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Experts say the issue doesn't split neatly along party lines.
The Senate passed the budget 50-49, largely along party lines.
Not entirely so, says CAGW's Williams: "It really is amazing--when the earmarks break down, it breaks down along who's an appropriator and who isn't, " not simply along party lines.
Nelson's was the 60th and final vote needed to block a Republican filibuster against the health care bill, which passed in the Senate largely along party lines in December 2009.
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Thus far, the court decisions are breaking down along party lines, with two Democratic appointees to the federal bench having upheld the law and two Republican appointees ruling against it.
That kind of work is not something we see a lot of these days: health care reform, arguably the most far-reaching social legislation since Medicare, was passed strictly along party lines.
Mr Obama and his fellow Democrats were confident of passing a significant reform of health care in early 2010 after the Senate voted, along party lines, in favour of a bill.
Two very different spend and debt reduction plans drawn along party lines in a government where no one party is in charge says to us that nothing meaningful is about to get done.
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Lord McNally acknowledged there was "a tension within government" on how much to extend freedom of information to private sector bodies, although he added that the split was not along party lines.
But pessimistic analysts in Washington have predicted the panel will remain deadlocked along party lines, with Republicans refusing measures to raise new tax revenue and Democrats digging in to protect social programmes for the poor and elderly.
Another major issue that Reid didn't specifically mention--financial regulatory reform--is expected to be taken up by Congress in the coming months, but it's too early to tell whether the sides in that debate will form strictly along party lines.
But hopes for a quick and early resolution on the impasse appeared dismal -- the House, in a vote along party lines, will recess from Friday night until Wednesday, although the members could be called back for a budget vote.
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The 51-46 vote short of the 60 votes in support needed to bring the measure to the floor went along party lines with only GOP Senator Susan Collins crossing the aisle to vote with the Democrats while Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas sided with the Republicans.
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The panel, which has been a partisan war zone for months, voted along party lines, 24-19, on Aug. 6 to cite Reno for contempt, the first step in the process of holding an individual criminally responsible for failing to comply with an order from either the House or the Senate.
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