Grassley's demands and Leahy's reaction were the first major signs of a party-line division on the controversy.
In 2010 she voted with Democrats on party-line votes only 60% of the time, according to a Congressional Quarterly study.
In a near-party-line vote, Priscilla Owen won a lifetime seat on the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
The bill passed on a largely party-line 245-178 vote, with most Democrats voting in favor of it and most Republicans opposed.
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This pension bill passed the Arizona legislature on party-line votes, which in most cases would not be an indicator of political progress.
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On a three to two party-line vote, the FCC approved somewhat watered down new rules on the last day Congress was in session.
Dianne Feinstein, D-California, the proposed ban won approval from the Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote with 10 Democrats supporting it and eight Republicans opposed.
House members passed the bill in a largely party-line 235-173 vote.
Thus, despite their traditional party-line positions on social issues, Mr Obama's comfort with religion and Mr McCain's distance from it have clearly shaken up religious politics in 2008.
The Judiciary Committee decision by a party-line vote of 10-8 cleared the way for the Democratic-crafted background check measure to be debated and put to a vote in the full Senate.
Three of the four committees - Armed Services, Intelligence and Homeland Security - passed watered down versions of the resolutions on nearly uniform party-line votes, drastically narrowing the scope of documents to be provided by the administration.
The newly partisan tone was evident in the confirmation hearings for Mr. Cuomo's first nominee for the Court of Appeals, Jenny Rivera, who was questioned for hours over two days before being approved on a party-line Judiciary Committee vote.
But the Bronx's decision to throw its support behind Mr. Lhota, a former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, signals Mr. Carrion's chances of getting a major-party ballot line are dimming.
Lara Shriftman, publicist and party-giver extraordinaire (her line of party products is sold on the Home Shopping Network) throws a holiday party every year for Lulu Flynn, her 3-year-old miniature Shih Tzu, and Lulu's doggy pals, including actress Lara Flynn Boyle's Shih Tzu, Greta Garbo, and tennis champ Serena Williams' Jack Russell, Jackie.
The Republicans are trying to do what the Democrats did in building a false front ... in their case, as a conservative party with a line-up of moderates in prime time.
Wednesday's 23-13 party line vote came a few weeks after psychiatrist Robert L. Spitzer, in a letter to the editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, apologized for his 2003 study of reparative therapy, which suggested that it could help gays and lesbians become straight.
Labour and the Conservatives both managed a respectable turnout of their peers - each group voting the party line, with very similar numbers of non-voters (67 Conservative peers and 64 Labour did not vote).
Was Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour's four-line press release equivalent to then Democratic Party head Ron Brown's flying the flag at half staff over party headquarters and attending services when his counterpart, Lee Atwater, died young of a brain tumor?
R. 2885, legislation to make E-Verify mandatory across the nation, passed the House Judiciary Committee by a party line vote of 22-13.
Adelson and Olmert had been friendly since the nineteen-nineties, when Olmert was a member of the hard-line Likud Party.
Meanwhile, the Nour Party, which represents hard-line Salafists and came second to the Brotherhood in parliamentary elections, complains of being offered too few posts in government and of not being properly consulted.
He is now competing against his cousin Ghazan Khan, a political newcomer whose affiliation with a hard-line religious party, Jamaat-i-Islami, could be the exception to the rule when it comes to party ideology trumping family ties.
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The tax-cutting part is designed to fend off the Tory threat to Lib Dem seats in the south of England, and to offer more help for the poor - the party's line of attack against Labour in the north.
The IRS's questionable handling of the tea-party cases follows a long line of other groups selected for extra scrutiny.
There are many Republicans who are interested in moving forward on this question by providing a path to legalization, but they have been restrained by the hard-line elements of their party.
The Democrats went through this process in the mid-90s, and they built a new party that attracted centrists like Mark Warner, without alienating old-line liberals like Pelosi or Waxman.
He has the great advantage in politics of being actually popular with people who aren't just hard-line members of his own party.
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