Sentence examples for shutdown votes from inspiring English sources

Democratic group Americans United for Change is making a "six-figure ad buy" with TV commercials targeting Republican members of Congress in vulnerable districts over their shutdown votes.

What Charles Krauthammer, a conservative writer, once called the House "suicide caucus" is smaller than the shutdown vote suggested.

Hardliners like Justin Amash voting no, but other fiscal conservatives like Jim Sensenbrenner (who signed letter calling for shutdown) voting yes.

The House, under the shadow of a looming government shutdown, voted early Sunday to link further financing of the federal government to a one-year delay of President Obama's health care law and a repeal of a tax that helps finance the law – all but ensuring large parts of the government would close on Tuesday.

The great unknown is whether House Speaker John Boehner will stand up to this tyrannical minority as he ultimately did on the shutdown vote, or whether he will totally cave as he did in the weeks and months before.

Kansas state Rep. Gail Finney (D-Wichita) told HuffPost that the shutdown vote will help Democrats in her state, but at the same time acknowledged that Republican leanings in Kansas will be difficult to overcome.

I know that there are people in Kansas who are unhappy". Kansas state Rep. Gail Finney (D-Wichita) told HuffPost that the shutdown vote will help Democrats in her state, but at the same time acknowledged that Republican leanings in Kansas will be difficult to overcome.

Washington will be consumed by an array of congressional battles, including government funding ahead of a possible shutdown and votes related to the Iran nuclear deal.

Shutdown was voted the Guardian's critics' single of the year, in fact.

"Yet when Congress finally ended the shutdown, Steve Southerland voted no.

The shutdown, the vote on [gun] background checks was a downer, but by and large, I feel pretty good".