Sentences with phrase «democratic supermajority»

by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press With President Donald Trump reportedly pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord, heads must be exploding in California's Democratic supermajority State Capitol.

A nearly $ 6 billion infusion from Proposition 30 and a Democratic supermajority in the Legislature are a welcome pre-holiday gift to public education from voters, but it also could set the stage for battles between those laboring for education reform and suddenly fortified unions protecting teacher interests.

If they vote to reduce the Assembly Democratic supermajority, they will tilt the Assembly majority more to the left as the liberal NYC delegation gains greater influence and more committee chairmanships.

Boykin will head a new Democratic supermajority that formed as a result of the November 2017 elections that helped to widen a Democratic majority by three seats to 12 out of the Legislature's 17 seats overall.

The state party prevented a Democratic supermajority in both houses of the state Legislature as it made inroads with solidly Democratic regions of the state.

A wage hike is not exepcted to be a problem in the state Assembly, which is controlled by a Democratic supermajority.

Despite the election of Latimer over former County Executive Rob Astornio last November, Westchester residents still pay the highest property taxes in the nation, and under Latimer and a Democratic supermajority on the county board, our county taxes will certainly rise in the future.

«There has never been a Democratic supermajority on the town board,» Gordon Herr, the chairman of the Southampton Town Democratic Committee, said yesterday morning.

The GOP victory was widely considered a referendum on the senate's Democratic supermajority in Congress.

Tuesday is a mid-term election of sorts for Astorino, who has been in fierce conflict with the 12 - member Democratic supermajority that controls the Board of Legislators who have largely stymied his efforts to cut spending.

And in the Assembly, Republicans defeated three Democratic incumbents, which also reversed a Democratic supermajority.

Complimenting the disorder of the Senate the whole time was the unassailable lethargy of the Assembly, where Ent - like speaker Sheldon Silver controls a Democratic supermajority that is seemingly impervious to public opinion, editorial outrage and, as Eliot Spitzer can unhappily attest, governors with «popular mandates.»

However, he is undaunted by moving from a Democratic supermajority in the state senate to a probable minority in the House, promising to «confront and refute the Tea Party at every conceivable turn.»

Republicans are claiming victory in Astorino's quest to break the Democratic supermajority on his county legislature.

Significant legislation is debated in conference before it reaches the floor, and if it seems unlikely that the Democratic supermajority can pass a bill by itself, it's often simply not brought to the floor.

The magnitude of the Republican defeat in 1964 handed Johnson the Democratic supermajority in Congress that allowed him to pass what amounted to a second New Deal.

Obama and his party took advantage of Democratic supermajorities in both houses of Congress to just barely pass his unpopular health care plan.

[xli] Although California's Democratic supermajorities make this less of an issue, it could be indicative that Republicans in other states may have more concerns about funding of early childhood programs).

Not exact matches

In the recent parliamentary elections, rightfully fed - up Venezuelans responded by ousting members of Hugo Chavez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), giving the opposition party, the more - centrist Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), a supermajority that could challenge President Nicolás Maduro.

Eight years ago, as a once - in - a-generation Democratic Senate supermajority debated health care reform, Sen. Max Baucus, D - Mont., kept their focus narrow.

Worse, it established the anti democratic and bureaucratically unaccountable quasi Star Chamber known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board, authorized to order Congress to legislate cost cuts (resisted only by a supermajority)-- with (as I wrote in the Weekly Standard) the constitutionally questionable power to even surmount a presidential veto.

He built strong ties within the Democratic caucus after helping them win control of the Senate in 2006 and build a 60 - vote supermajority in 2008 as a strategist and prolific fundraiser.

Partly fueled by national politics — in particular negative sentiments toward President Donald Trump — voters helped secure a Democratic Board of Legislators supermajority, increasing the lead from nine seats to 12, and propelling former state Sen. George Latimer, a Rye Democrat, to the county executive's seat.

In 2011, with a Democratic majority in the Senate (but not a supermajority), Senators Jeff Merkley (D - Ore.)

Lincoln is largely concerned with the sordid business of trying to add enough vulnerable Democratic votes to those of the Republicans to amass the supermajority needed to pass the 13th Amendment — if necessary, with threats, offers of positions and other inducements short of direct vote buying.