Sentences with phrase «democrat members of the coalition»

It is understood senior Liberal Democrat members of the Coalition demanded the concessions to avoid the possibility of protests next April, which could have fuelled a damaging political row just before the May local elections.

So, are Liberal Democrat members of the Coalition failing to uphold their new emphasis on sticking to the Coalition Agreement?

Not exact matches

Grassroots members of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) decisively backed the party's decision to enter into another «grand coalition» government with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), thus bringing to an end months of uncertainty following September's general election.

Germany's fellow euro zone members are unlikely to welcome the spending blueprint either, as they had hoped the Social Democrats, part of Germany's governing coalition, would steer the EU's economic powerhouse away from austerity.

Ironically, I suggested earlier this year that DEMOCRATS should think about using targeted online ads to eat into Trump's support among the more marginal members of his coalition.

The labor - backed party has Facebook ads posting today, part of a broader effort aimed at pressuring the eight - member bloc as Democrats hold a numeric majority in the state Senate, but do not have the votes to form a governing coalition.

Their open seats are predicated on the plan to have Democrats unify in the Senate chamber amid a push to have the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference form a coalition with the 23 - member mainline conference of Democrats.

Because it became public so swiftly, some members of the IDC have floated the idea of remaining a separate conference but splitting off from Republicans to join a new coalition with mainline Democrats in January.

Savino, one of five independent Democrats who have formed a coalition with Senate Republicans, told The New York Observer's Politicker that one of the impediments to public financing are ex-council members who are current legislators in Albany.

Democrats need to win both races in order to gain a numerical majority in the chamber and move toward a coalition majority with the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, based on agreement hammered out at the end of last year.

Currently, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have the same amount of members — 31 each — but the Democrats are divided, with eight members in a breakaway group that forms an informal ruling coalition with the GOP.

Looking at that law by the way, it was initiated by the Lithuanian governing party, the Christian Democrats — who are members of the EPP — in conjunction with their coalition colleagues the Liberals — who are members of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

Maffei was also among 43 members of the New Democrat Coalition, a group of business - friendly House moderates, who signed a letter opposing the derivatives language approved by the Senate.

The 2004 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses was largely a three - way fight between John Kerry, member of the New Democrat Coalition, John Edwards (also a member of the New Democrat Coalition) and Howard Dean, founder of the progressive Democracy for America.

Following the general election of 2010, the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservatives, resulting in party leader Nick Clegg becoming the Deputy Prime minister and many other members becoming ministers.

Members of the moderate New Democrat Coalition had high hopes for Huffstetler to help flip the mostly rural 5th District this November.

With the Assembly Democrats squarely against the changes, the wild card could be the extent to which the Senate, controlled by a coalition of Republicans and the eight Independent Democratic Conference members, would during the 2018 legislative session join a push to force a delay or a revisiting of the rule changes.

It's impossible to know what their view would be of any proposal to re-form the Coalition with the Liberal Democrats, but my best guess is that David Cameron would find it impossible to drop the 2017 referendum (presuming he wished to)- because Tory MPs» views on holding it are not all that different from Party members».

These reservations are shared widely in the Liberal Democrat Party, and have given rise to separate reports that Business Secretary, Vince Cable, who is a former member of the Labour Party, was deeply unhappy at the time of the deal being struck and made last ditch appeals to outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Brown in an attempt to strike a Coalition deal with Labour.

The legislation is sponsored in the Senate by David Carlucci, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference, a coalition of eight Democrats who have a power - sharing agreement with Republicans.

Rep. Joseph Crowley (D - Jackson Heights) worked with her on the New Democrat Coalition Political Action Committee and said she was a kind woman who got along well with members of both sides of the aisle.

As leader of the five - member breakaway faction that allied with Republicans to form the chamber's governing coalition (and keep Democrats from assuming the control that should have accompanied their mathematical majority), Klein has been justifying the partnership since it formed in 2012 as a win for progressives, rather than as a means of self - empowerment.

But then, thrown into the lively mix, I can reveal, is the plan by a former founder member of the old breakaway Social Democratic Party, Professor Stephen Haseler, to stand an anti coalition Liberal Democrat candidate.

Rather than any question of how much longer he can hang on — a question which, as recently as this April, Fred Dicker was raising in print — the test for Silver is how effectively he'll be able to advocate for the liberal priorities of his members with Cuomo campaigning as a centrist, and the State Senate in the hands of coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats.

A spirited coalition of union members, Democrats and Working Families Party members rallied Thursday outside the Capitol to urge Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to veto the Republican - written budget.

Flanagan and his members also have to contend with the pressure by liberals who want to see a group of eight breakaway Democrats led by Bronx Sen. Jeffrey Klein quit their leadership coalition with the GOP and form a new one with the mainline Dems.

Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of the five - member faction of Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference, took a gamble breaking away from the rest of the Democrats and forming the dominant governing coalition with the now 30 Republican Senators.

He injected himself into the Senate coup in 2009 just long enough to accrue a fancy title, and then escaped the charges filed against his compatriots; he had weathered investigations into the Aqueduct bidding contract, and a questionable nonprofit called New Directions; and somehow, despite that, he had succeeded again this spring, when he managed to cut a favorable deal for himself with the Independent Democrats, who at the time were badly in need of a non-white member to join their coalition with the Senate's (also entirely white) Republican conference.

The I.D.C. announced they were forming a ruling coalition with the Senate's Republican conference in December of 2012, an arrangement that gave I.D.C. members more power and financial resources, and gave the G.O.P. the votes needed to retain control of the chamber, which they've held for most of the past 50 years, despite Democrats» overwhelming registration advantage statewide.

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.

Until the 1960's, African Americans were overwhelmingly Republicans (except for some members of the New Deal coalition) and Southern whites were overwhelmingly Democrats.

The idea is that if he only wins one party's nomination he would run for President as a member of that one party, but if he wins both party's nomination he would run as a coalition candidate representing both Democrats and Independents.

Liberals would no doubt once again seek to oust Klein and his members in party primaries — especially given the stakes of the coalition potentially continuing through the next election cycle — even as Democrats eye Hillary Clinton's likely run for president delivering down - ballot gains for them.

This is the UK, so of course there is no formal rule, but based on the 2010 coalition government between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, we would expect a full formal coalition to produce a cabinet containing members of both parties, all acting under the convention of collective responsibility.

Meeks is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, [4] the International Conservation Caucus, the New Democrat Coalition [5] and the Afterschool Caucuses.

Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the five member faction of Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference, took a gamble breaking away from the rest of the Democrats and forming the dominant governing coalition with the now 30 Republican Senators.

During the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition government from 2010 — 2015, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, as a member of the government, did not ask questions during PMQs.

Doyle is part of a three - member Democratic coalition that has been described as having enormous power in the Senate because the divided chamber has 18 Democrats and 18 Republicans.

Last week, it was first revealed that a handful of Senate Republicans and members of their coalition, the breakaway Democrats known as the IDC, were receiving stipends for jobs they do not hold.

Such categorisation would avoid some of the embarrassments for Liberal Democrats which have arisen over the past three years, many arising from Nick Clegg's naïve assertion that the coalition members must «own» all that the government does.

At the opening of the edition, presenter David Dimbleby said that the new Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition would not allow a front bench member of the government to appear on the show unless Campbell was dropped.

It was the first coalition government in the UK since the Churchill war ministry and was led by Cameron with Clegg as Deputy, composed of members of both the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats.

The governor, who quietly advised the G.O.P. - I.D.C. coalition that led to Republican control of the Senate back after the 2012 elections, opted not to strenuously endorse several competitive Democrats in 2014, and some party members say he hindered their efforts to elect Marc Panepinto in Buffalo (though he would eventually win).

The special deal was first awarded a couple years ago to a Central New York Democrat, David Valesky, who is a member of the Independent Democratic Conference, which broke away from the mainline Democratic conference to form a power - sharing coalition with Senate Republicans.

On Wednesday, Cuomo said the question itself was actually about the five - member Independent Democratic Conference forming a coalition with the mainline conference of Democrats, has they have done in the past with Senate Republicans.

As if we needed more evidence on Gannett's Jon Campbell's impact as the LCA's resident fracking scoop artist, a coalition of groups and Senate and Assembly Democrats today seizing on his report that one of the experts hired by the Department of Environmental Conservation to help write hydrofracking regulations is a member of the gas industry trade group.

And for weeks now in New York City, people have been turning on their television seeing Andrew Cuomo with his daughters and his girlfriend all urging the voters not to vote for him as a Democrat or as a member of the Working Families, but as a member of the Women's Equality Party — an attempt to basically use the third - party movement, basically, to promote himself without having to be accountable to other groups in the normal Democratic or progressive coalition.

ALBANY — A group of breakaway Democrats will stick with Republicans who control the state Senate, continuing a coalition that has helped to keep the GOP in charge of the 63 - member chamber despite their showing in the November elections.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, as of 2009 the top contributors to the New Democrat Coalition caucus members were the finance, insurance and real estate industries and in the two decades between 1989 and 2009 members of the New Democrat Coalition had collected $ 50 million from those industries.

Democrats have long held sizable numeric advantages in the State Assembly but have been thwarted in efforts to win control of the Senate, which is currently led by a coalition of Republicans and a five - member group of breakaway Democrats.