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Recent Examples of party line
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is trying to pass the bill along party lines, but his path for doing so is tenuous due to his razor-thin majority.
Driving the news: The bipartisan SALT Caucus huddled in the Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday afternoon for the first time since last year.
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Andrew Solender, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
Some within the conservative camp have expressed alarm at the party’s embrace of a group that most mainstream conservatives had previously kept at arm’s length, as well as the persecution of legislators who have flouted the party line to support the president’s impeachment and arrest.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
The vote was 232-197 along party lines, except for 10 Republicans who supported impeachment.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
But the measure became split largely along party lines, and the bill failed on the final night of the legislative session in May after a lengthy debate in the state House of Representatives as time expired at midnight.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2025
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Andrew Solender, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
Some within the conservative camp have expressed alarm at the party’s embrace of a group that most mainstream conservatives had previously kept at arm’s length, as well as the persecution of legislators who have flouted the party line to support the president’s impeachment and arrest.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
The vote was 232-197 along party lines, except for 10 Republicans who supported impeachment.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
But the measure became split largely along party lines, and the bill failed on the final night of the legislative session in May after a lengthy debate in the state House of Representatives as time expired at midnight.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Party line.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/party%20line. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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