Sentences with phrase «blue dog coalition»

He leads an energy task force of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of Democrats who favor low taxes and limits on government spending.

The fiscally conservative Democratic Blue Dog Coalition will add three more candidates to its roster of endorsed candidates today, Roll Call has learned.

Blue Dog coalition: The Blue Dog coalition is a group of 52 fiscally conservative Democrats in the House.

Ashford was also backed by the centrist Blue Dog Coalition, which he belonged to in the House before losing the seat in 2016.

In an interview on CNN's State of the Union, Rep. Keith Ellison laid down the battle lines for President Barack Obama, whose White House is wedged in the middle between conservative Senate Democrats and the conservative House Blue Dog Coalition and liberal House Democrats.

The Blue Dog Coalition's PAC backed eight Democratic House challengers Thursday in its first round of endorsements of the 2018 cycle.

Many of those members belong to the «Blue Dog Coalition,» a largely fiscally conservative group of House Dems who are more conservative than others in their party.

Also, during Obama's first term with 58 democratic senators, 2 mostly / somewhat democrat voting independents and 40 republicans, the senate version of the blue dog coalition ensured that Obama's 60 vote block had a measure of conservative voice and that it wasn't just a rubber stamp of approval for Obama.

Leading Once a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition, Israel helped recruit and elect a huge freshman class in 2012, nearly 50 in all.

One of the most conservative members of the House Democratic Caucus and a co-chairman of the Blue Dog Coalition, Lipinski opposes abortion rights.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman told reporters on Capitol Hill that he is willing to keep talking with members of the Blue Dog coalition - an influential group of fiscal conservatives - but also made clear he intends to move forward with the legislation.

The political action committee that supports the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition of Democrats in Congress backed O'Halleran in his race.

For example, the letters «LO» indicated that a lawmaker was «leaning Obama,» while «BD» in blue denoted that he or she was a member of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition on Capitol Hill.

Lipinski's win is a blow to the anti-Trump resistance, which has been fueled by energy from the party's base, and it's a relief for the dwindling Blue Dog Coalition of conservative House Democrats, which hopes to make a comeback this year.

Not exact matches

Soto, who succeeded Grayson in 2016 after beating his wife Dena Grayson in the Democratic primary while Alan Grayson ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate, is a member of the New Democrats Coalition, but is not a member of the Blue Dog Democrats Coalition.

«The Blue Dogs have long been an important coalition within the Democratic Caucus, and they have been incredible partners,» DCCC spokesman Tyler Law told The Hill in a statement.

Part of the group's role is to enforce a kind of message discipline, and one topic of discussion there, sources said, was a campaign launched last month by some of the more liberal members of the coalition — the Campaign for America's Future, USAction, and liberal blogger Jane Hamsher — under the rubric «Dog the Blue Dogs.»

Sixteen of them have been endorsed by the Blue Dogs, a coalition of conservative Democrats.

The representatives signing onto that statement included 11 members of the moderate «Blue Dog» coalition and 27 members of the Congressional Black Caucus — two groups whose members largely supported Dingell maintaining his post on E&C.