Sentences with phrase «democratic allies»

He alluded to last year's successful passage of a climate and energy bill in the House, but made no mention of the current proposal by his Democratic allies in the Senate for legislation including a cap and trading mechanism for emissions.

The statewide teachers union, the Florida Education Association, has been an outspoken opponent of the plan, along with Democratic allies in the Legislature.

Long among the most powerful forces in American politics, the unions are contending with falling revenue and declining membership, damaging court cases, the defection of once - loyal Democratic allies — and a multimillion - dollar public relations campaign portraying them as greedy and selfish.

Bennett comes recommended by Sen. Alberta Darling, who along with her Republican colleagues have raised the ire of public school monopolists and their Democratic allies by expanding vouchers and charter school opportunities.

Over the protests of its traditional Democratic allies and some of its own members, the New Jersey Education Association has endorsed Sweeney's Republican rival, who voted for President Donald Trump and has supported the deeply unpopular Christie, who once said a national teachers union deserved a «punch in the face.»

While he's pitched Common Core to the Right, he has not publicly defended conservative concerns to his Democratic allies.

For their part, Democratic allies such as Senate Majority PAC, environmental organizations and women's groups have gone after GOP Senate hopeful Thom Tillis, largely pushing the same line of attack about his record on state education.

Democratic allies, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D - Calif.)

Mr. Cuomo is running against the state government, though it is controlled by his fellow Democrats, and he has laid out policies that put him on a collision course with some labor unions that have been reliable Democratic allies.

Cuomo has attempted to take the wind out of de Blasio's proposal, which is backed by unions and their Democratic allies in the Legislature and on the City Council, by proposing to provide some funding for pre-K statewide without raising taxes.

Though few aspects of the investigation have become public, it has already upended politics in the Long Island county and led to public denunciations among erstwhile Democratic allies.

President Obama will propose a budget next week that embraces a risky strategy of courting Republicans for a grand bargain on the debt while angering Democratic allies with cuts to the nation's entitlement programs.

Republicans, aware of Wall Street's unease with their former Democratic allies, have tried to reap the benefits, to mixed results.

Asked at an Israel Day parade about his promise to support his party's efforts to take control of the State Senate from his erstwhile Republican and breakaway - Democratic allies, Cuomo told NY1's Courtney Gross, «This is about electing people who support an agenda.

If unions and their Democratic allies prevail in the recall — just over a year after Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation to curb collective bargaining rights for most public workers — it would send a powerful warning to other politicians who might try to limit union rights.

«WASHINGTON — Republicans in the House Wednesday pressed a budget plan today that would cut taxes and radically overhaul Medicare, offering a stark alternative to blueprints offered by President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies.

During a conversation with de Blasio, Jona Rechnitz noted that he hadn't asked for much since forking over huge contributions to de Blasio's mayoral campaign, personal charity and Democratic allies, sources said.

The ongoing struggle for control of the state Senate has put some traditional Democratic allies in a tough spot.

ALBANY — Democratic allies of Governor Andrew Cuomo rallied around his agenda on Monday, and said a recent slump in his approval rating was nothing to worry about.

But the move also makes political sense for unions and their Democratic allies: In recent years, the Senate Republican majority has benefited disproportionately from real estate donations that pour through the LLC loophole.

Cuomo concluded the legislative session with few, if any, Democratic allies in the Senate or Assembly, making governing for the remainder of his second term all the more challenging.

Instead, he's having surrogates do the dirty worth for him, with Democratic allies around the state teeing off on the Buffalo businessman.

De Blasio has introduced few large - scale policies this year that will drive his 2017 re-election bid, raising concerns among some aides and Democratic allies.

A G.O.P. - I.D.C. alliance only seems possible with Cuomo's support, tacit or not, because it is the only thing that could counter the force of Democratic allies they might anger.

Emboldened by the Occupy Wall Street movement and President Barack Obama's embrace of a «millionaire's tax,» organized labor and their Democratic allies in Albany are getting ready to square off with Mr. Cuomo, a popular Democrat who has so far been insulated from harsh criticism.

If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority.

Much of 2015 for de Blasio and his Democratic allies in the city and Albany will likely be about ensuring their «must» items, not necessarily pursuing a more ambitious agenda.

Even Democratic allies have complained of Mr. de Blasio's high - handedness — not everyone thought it was a moral obligation to make mayoral control permanent — and Ms. Wolfe will need to figure out how to keep securing wins in an environment that can be hostile for a big city liberal mayor.

Sorry to pile on Sen. Bill Stachowski today, but more and more traditional Democratic allies are turning on the Buffalo lawmaker by the moment, it seems.

At the same time, Democratic allies of Heastie have pointed out he's in a room negotiating with Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan and Cuomo — adding to a sense he's being ganged up on when it comes to education issues.

In the general, Nunn and her Democratic allies simply weren't able to persuade and turn out the vote she needed.

The Obama administration and its Democratic allies on Capitol Hill are dead set against the idea, which breaks with a hard - won budget deal that's less than a year old; they say that if Republicans want more money for defense, domestic programs will have to receive an equal boost.

In Albany, the mayor might have had two Democratic allies for advancing his agenda: Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

The rise of the Asian economies — China yes, but democratic allies like India too — is hugely welcome.

This proved to be a wedge issue in the race — one that Hochul and her Democratic allies exploited to the hilt.

However, the Republican - dominated legislature, plus a few Democratic allies, had enough votes to override the Governor's veto.

They love him,» a Democratic ally says.

It was pushed by Senate Republicans and their renegade Democratic ally state Sen. Simcha Felder of Brooklyn.

Not exact matches

Poland's Western allies have expressed concerns over government plans to reform the constitutional court, saying it contravened democratic standards.

Merkel has resisted pressure from allies within her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to put a cap on the number of refugees entering Germany, which is expected to top 1 million this year.

Japan's finance ministry reported to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party the findings of its investigation into a suspected cronyism case on Monday morning, a ruling party source said, as pressure mounts on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ally Finance Minister Taro Aso over the case.

She emphasized that «the efforts by a foreign adversary to interfere with and undermine our democratic processes — and those of our allies — pose a serious threat to all Americans.»

Before President Obama took office, his allies at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a nonprofit organization lobbying for a centrist Democratic agenda *, drafted a whitepaper outlining new priorities for the agency.

Mmusi Maimane, the leader of the South African opposition Democratic Alliance party — and an ally of the fractious MDC — called for Mugabe to resign immediately, and for «fresh elections to be held in Zimbabwe as soon as practically possible.»

By the early 1990s, the New Democratic Party — the political ally of the labour movement — was in power in three Canadian provinces, including Ontario, and held 43 seats in Parliament.

«You had Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party try to hide the fact that they gave money to GPS Fusion to create a Dossier which was used by their allies in the Obama Administration to convince a Court misleadingly, by all accounts, to spy on the Trump Team.»

In 2015, McCabe's wife, Jill McCabe, ran for a state Senate seat in Virginia, backed in part with money provided by the state Democratic Party and a Clinton ally.

Many of us want to save the Christian Holy Places, and Israel, too — our best ally in the world, the creator of the most economically creative and democratic society in its region.

The question of whether our allies or others have democratic forms of government is important only if we believe that democracies are more likely to support us.

After Jimmy Carter defeated Jackson for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and bested President Ford in the subsequent general election, the Carter administration adopted the language of an assertive human - rights policy but filled it with New Left content, aiming its criticism primarily at authoritarian American allies rather than at America's totalitarian enemies.