New York Democrat Charles Schumer predicted just before the committee's party line vote that William G.
They backed Doug Hoffman, an accountant, who is running on the Conservative Party line.
Hagel's nomination cleared the committee in a straight party line 14 to 11 vote.
In 1999, Mr Weir lost the party whip at the assembly for refusing to toe the party line.
To be sure MPs are still members of political parties and mostly vote according to the party line.
Sen McCain has previously backed a pathway to citizenship, against his party line.
While Thompson may have strayed from the party line on that issue, he is generally regarded as a mainstream conservative.
They've always been able to vote their conservative leanings and not vote a party line to get a bill passed.
Mitt Romney, a Mormon, was a competent and articulate Republican who toed the party line on all its big issues.
R. 2885, legislation to make E-Verify mandatory across the nation, passed the House Judiciary Committee by a party line vote of 22-13.
Lawmakers have a free vote on the bill, meaning they can vote according to their personal convictions rather than the party line.
Romney is toeing the party line like his life depended on it.
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For months, the party line has been that software sells consoles, and once the games are there, the gamers will flock to the Vita.
He is viewed suspiciously by conservatives who think his willingness to break the party line makes him too much of a maverick to be trusted.
Any Republican congressional candidate risks being bounced out of his or her seat in the primaries if they stray too far from the Tea Party line.
Former Bronx borough president and federal housing official Adolfo Carrion, a former Democrat who is now unaffiliated, is running on the Independence Party line and seeking Republican backing.
To be sure, he follows the party line, believing that fiscal prudence means spending cuts, especially on entitlements, and that higher taxes of any sort must be avoided.
Conclusion: The Clinton party line is wrong and insidiously misleading.
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While Obama occupies the middle, his GOP opponent must closely follow the Tea Party line (as well as that of social conservatives) and risk being marginalized to the extreme.
That claim alone contradicts the party line offered by News Corp. leadership, that hacking, where it took place, was the work of rogue actors rather than an institutional affair.
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Republican pollster Ed Goeas points out there are already three dozen so-called blue dog Democrats who will be returning to Congress, and they may or may not toe the party line.
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).
The Republican plan, put forward by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, basically reiterates the party line that the debt is a spending problem alone and that tax increases must not be part of the solution.
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For Mr McCain, the war is a heaven-sent opportunity to raise his profile and thus convince Republicans to give him money, despite his annoying tendency to take positions contrary to the party line on campaign finance and tobacco.
After just one year, new MPs from the 2010 intake - a third of the total, remember - are more likely to have defied their party line than those of the 1997 intake were after four years in the Commons.
That was then, this is now and I'm sure by the time she arrives in the Stormont chamber Megan Fearon will be on message - once Sinn Fein has worked out exactly what the party line is on Desperate Housewives.
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But many Tory MPs want the prime minister to go further and pass a law committing the next government to hold a referendum on Britain's relationship with the EU. A year ago 81 Conservative MPs rebelled against the party line to vote for a referendum.
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.
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