Sentences with phrase «democratic voting block»

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But without the votes, Democratic opponents and a handful of Republicans who crossed party lines to oppose the measure, were left only to deliver emotional pleas to block it.

Last week, Republicans blocked the Democratic memo, but they have since said they would vote to release it.

The coalition of black churches in urban communities can no longer be counted on for block Democratic votes, and despite the president's pleas, he may find that his most loyal constituency will not be able to bring significant wins to the Democratic column come Tuesday.

The mainline Democratic conference in the state Senate on Sunday urged the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference to block any votes on budget bills until a concrete agreement on raising the age of criminal responsibility is in place.

The Brooklyn Democratic Party's nod is in hot demand because it represents a sizable chunk of the weighted state convention vote — 9.146 percent, to be exact, assuming all the state committee members vote as a block.

The New York State Democratic Party plans on blocking a proposed resolution at its May 23 - 24 convention that would allow independent or «unaffiliated» voters to vote in this year's Democratic primary for governor.

For example, we are supporting three challengers to New York State Senate Independent Democratic Conference members, who have historically organized with the Republican leadership to block progress on voting rights, reproductive rights, and government reform.

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

If you voted for a Democrat, that person should be working to pass Democratic legislation, not collaborate with the party of Trump to block it.

After Republicans in the State Senate blocked a measure Monday to extend the statute of limitations for child sex abuse victims, Democratic candidates are latching on to the vote ahead of this year's election.

Control of the Senate, too, would ease the way for Democratic bills currently blocked by the GOP, including ones to increase firearm restrictions, allow early voting, authorize state financial aid to students who entered the country illegally as children, and extend the statute of limitations on child molestation to allow victims to sue for decades - old abuse.

In case he's unfamiliar with how a bill becomes a law, a vote on the Women's Reproductive Health Act was blocked by Democratic Senators Ruben Diaz Sr. and Simcha Felder — neither of whom are members of the Independent Democratic Conference.

This antiquated system blocks access to voting in primary elections, and reduces citizens» ability to participate in our democratic process.

Mangelli ran on the Democratic ticket but is part of the town's next largest voting block, the 23.8 percent who do not belong to a political party.

Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic procedural move to bring the bill to a vote on the House floor.

Democratic State Senate candidate Justin Wagner vowed if elected he would block any legislation authorizing any transfer of municipal land for the construction of a proposed natural gas pipeline, a pledge he contended could not be promised by Republican opponent Terrence Murphy based on his voting record in Yorktown.

Nixon has criticized Cuomo for what she said is allowing Republicans, bolstered by the Independent Democratic Conference, to remain in power, leading to a block on liberal priorities like early voting and more money for high - needs schools.

, or without a vigorous opposition press, or with a slanderous and irresponsible opposition press, or which have signed up to supranational bodies outside democratic control, or which have signed up to international treaties ditto, or which make use of protected seats for women or ethnic minorities, or where the if the prime minister is one ethnic group the president is conventionally always another, or where unlimited campaign donations are allowed, or disallowed, or where significant numbers question the legitimacy of the polity holding the vote, or where voting is compulsory, or where non-citizens can not vote, or where they can, or where there is (or is not) a second chamber or supreme court that can block popular legislation...

However, until recently, a rogue group of 8 elected Democrats, the «Independent Democratic Conference» (the «IDC»), voted to give the Republicans control of the State Senate, which allowed them to block progressive legislation.

Democrats have the ability to demand changes in the spending bills because Republicans do not have enough Senate votes to block a Democratic filibuster in that chamber.

It's unlikely that a speaker outside of New York City could wrangle the votes from the Democratic block, the bulk of which come from the five boroughs.

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.

The debate was unusual because the Democratic majority normally has enough votes to block any attempt to override vetoes by the Democratic governor.

Long - simmering racial tensions exploded into the foreground Saturday morning, when Assemblyman Keith Wright accused supporters of State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, Wright's leading opponent in the race to succeed U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel, of plotting to «suppress» and block African - Americans from voting in Tuesday's Democratic congressional primary.

The Republican legislators all voted to block this wasteful spending at the Budget and Appropriations Committee, as every Democratic legislator on the committee voted for it.

Two of Long Island's three Democrats and both of its Republicans in the House joined the veto - proof majority in a 289 - 137 vote, a setback for the president even though Senate Democratic leaders said a veto won't be needed because they'll block the bill in the upper chamber.

Mark - Viverito came into office vowing a more democratic approach to Council proceedings, but has come under fire for blocking a vote on a pair of controversial police reform bills called the Right to Know Act.

Malliotakis has consistently voted against several progressive measures that have repeatedly passed the overwhelmingly Democratic Assembly, but were blocked in the Republican - controlled Senate, such as increasing the minimum wage and paid family leave.

[96] Meanwhile, House leadership weighed in on the process, with Speaker Steven Tilley calling it an overall «positive» process and Minority Leader Mike Talboy instead labeling the negotiations as, «a textbook example of how not to [redistrict]...» [97] Talboy also said he felt he had the votes to block an override, something that would require Democratic unanimity plus four Republican votes.

Catching the Democratic leadership by surprise, members voted 292 to 126 to block passage of a 5 - year authorization bill that would have provided healthy increases in the research and education budgets of the National Science Foundation and research programs at the Department of Energy and the Department of Commerce.

Renewing a call for «sensible gun safety measures,» Democratic presidential front - runner Hillary Clinton chastised congressional Republicans Thursday for blocking a vote on a plan that she said would ban those on the federal government's No Fly List from buying guns.

Until the 1970's, white southerners who wanted to maintain legal segregation of the races and the option of private schools for their own children, and northern Catholics who sought support for parochial schools comprised large blocks of Democratic votes.