Sentences with phrase «democrats were in power»

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins says her Democratic conference is nothing like the one in 2009 and 2010, the last time the Democrats were in power.

In an op - ed article written for publication in the Albany Times Union, Cuomo said when the Democrats were in power in the Senate from 2009 through 2010, they «squandered the opportunity,» and failed to pass any «meaningful reform.»

The leader of the New York State Senate Democrats says if Governor Andrew Cuomo is successful in helping retake the chamber for Democrats in the fall elections, she expects the Senate to be much more functional than it was the last time the Democrats were in power.

Senator Hoylman says if Democrats were in power in the Senate, he's certain his bill would go to the floor for a vote.

Hoylman said if Democrats were in power in the Senate, he's certain his bill would go to the floor for a vote.

When the Democrats were in power of both Houses (Silver and Malcolm Smith) and Eliot Spitzer / David Paterson / Andrew Cuomo, Upstate New York was completely shut out of the Legislative process.

Trifectas never work, the last time Democrats were in power, Upstate NY's situation went from bad to worst.

Gun sales normally spike when Democrats are in power, as gun owners» fears of gun - control measures rise.

Accreditation and other forms of monopolistic bureaucratization are dominated by political correctness when the Democrats are in power and productivity fetishism when the Republicans are.

SO not one democrat was in power at the time?

The Liberal Democrats are in power and therefore bound by their manifesto unlike Labour who are out of power and had their manifesto rejected (therefore rendered null and void).

Ending seniority was easier in Arizona, where Republicans control the Legislature, than it will probably be in New York, where Democrats are in power and the teachers» union still has influence.

Indeed, if anything, the results indicate that the most affluent districts fare better than the poorest districts, in terms of total funding, when Democrats are in power, although this difference is not statistically significant.

Not exact matches

But while history may also be on the Democrats» side — the party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even when that President is not as controversial as the current occupant — they actually face a very difficult Senate map.

His reference to intervening was taken by Democrats as a threat to fire Rosenstein, whose replacement would have the power to oust Mueller or rein in the scope of his investigation.

It was novel for the New Democrats to come as close to power as it did recently, taking official Opposition status and then briefly flirting with a national lead in the polls.

I would not be surprised if they tried to put limits on how many children one can have if Democrats stay in power much longer.

Didion's point is that this tendency has flattened discussion since 9/11, and has created a government in which Democrats, with few exceptions, either have remained silent or have supported whatever the president wants with respect to foreign policy — the congressional vote on war powers in regard to Iraq being the, prime example.

Democrats, it is widely thought, are instinctive doves who are entirely comfortable only with those exercises of American power (as in Kosovo) where humanitarian impulses, rather than defense of the national interest, are the primary imperative.

Despite the modern GOP - evangelical alliance, it was a Democrat who first tapped that power base in Iowa.

Please continue to pray for Democrats as I am one and I know the power of prayer is profound and I will always welcome more prayers, but keep in mind that if your prayers reap blessings that only our Lord can choose the blessing he bestows.

Less ignorance, more democrat power (at least in today's cultural contest) Now to be clear: God has NOTHING to do with religion.

Pushing the new Republican leadership of the Texas Legislature to RE-redistrict for the 2004 elections (even though they were only in power because of lines newly drawn in 2001), he managed to eliminate enough incumbent Democrats in Congress to shift the state's delegation in Washington from rough parity to a 21 - 11 Republican advantage.

If you look at what we are saying about decentralising power, the environment, opposing identity cards, the priority given to education, I think there are a lot of people in the Liberal Democrats who would agree with that.

What happened to Austin shows how Texas Democrats get screwed out of any shred of power — the state voted 43.72 % for Obama in 2008, and even in 2010 was only 60 % Republican, but its current Congressional delegation has a 23 - 9 Republican advantage.

Since then, Democrats and Republicans have been relatively evenly balanced in political power and alternated control, with Southern Democrats as late as Bill Clinton being wary of losing moderate support by not being sufficiently «pro-defense.»

At odds with Senate Republicans after he sought to oust them from power in the Senate, de Blasio's natural ally in the Legislature is Silver, a Democrat from lower Manhattan.

Given the tight margin of power the GOP has in the Senate, and override could be difficult — unless, that is, the Senate Democrats, who have been exercising their independence from Cuomo a lot this session, decide to play ball.

Social democrats in Europe are the heirs of a pluralist tradition encapsulated by Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Thomas Paine and Pierre - Joseph Proudhon which champions the diffusion of property rights and economic control, spreading power as widely as possible.

This means Republicans will stay in power in the Senate, even if Democrats gain a numeric, 32 - member majority in the state Senate, which could happen after two special elections are held today.

And when the time for an In Out referendum comes, which under Liberal Democrat policy will happen next time there is a significant transfer of powers the EU, we will be united around a clear message as the Party of In.

Kaminsky is joining a narrowly divided and fractious Senate chamber, where Republicans are now in a numerical minority, but have formed alliances with breakaway Democrats to maintain power.

In New York that's manifesting in a push to oust members of the IDC — a group of renegade Senate Democrats who have been sharing power with the Republicans, and enabling them to maintain control of the chambeIn New York that's manifesting in a push to oust members of the IDC — a group of renegade Senate Democrats who have been sharing power with the Republicans, and enabling them to maintain control of the chambein a push to oust members of the IDC — a group of renegade Senate Democrats who have been sharing power with the Republicans, and enabling them to maintain control of the chamber.

Yet it shows that even one in four Conservative councillors think power will shift from local government to the centre during this Parliament, and the only unity between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats at local level is about reducing council staff numbers.

The web is a natural haven for the out - of - power — part of its brilliance is that it can make mighty the small and small the mighty — and just as Democrats and progressives began working online in earnest after they lost Congress and the White House, Republicans will naturally use new media to create channels for organizing and message - distribution now that they've been pushed out of institutional authority.

While condemning the ferocity of the cuts, social democrats have to be at the forefront of putting greater power in the hands of people.

Jenkins, a potential candidate for county executive against Cuomo rival Republican Rob Astorino, said it was «vital» for Democrats to gain power in Albany given the GOP's empowerment in Washington.

But the changes are in the interests of everyone (* except * the Conservatives, perhaps), including a viable Labour coalition partner for the Liberal Democrats, for the Liberal Democrats to have increased power against the Conservatives.

Democrat Todd Kaminsky on Tuesday night declared victory in a key special election to fill a vacancy in the Senate that could tip the balance of power in the chamber, but his Republican opponent Chris McGrath refused to concede the race, saying the results were too close to call.

The same controversial and sweeping powers on data retention were added to the Investigatory Powers Act (AKA the Snoopers» Charter), which passed into law late last year a matter of weeks before Dripa — which at the insistence of the Liberal Democrats had a built - in self - distruct date of 31 December, 2016 — was set to expire.

The measure comes as the IDC and the mainline Senate Democrats are once again locked in a tense political feud over power in the state Senate.

Democrats are facing an open breach between the demands of their political base and the strict limits of their power, as liberal activists dream of transforming the health care system and impeaching Trump, while candidates in hard - fought elections ask wary independent voters merely for a fresh chance at governing.

Cuomo, who faces re-election in 2018, has been under increasing pressure from liberals to bridge the divide in the state Senate between Democrats, giving the party power amid Republican control of Congress and the White House in Washington, D.C.

It is a time of the politics of the absurd: Repubs are trying to oust Trump, Democrats want to run against him, and Trump is left with helping the very party that has him in the crosshairs as their path to power in both 2018 and 2020.

Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs are growing increasingly vocal in their criticism of government plans to expand snooping powers.

The NYC «independent» Democrat Judge Mann rewarded McDonald's vote with reducing Saratoga's Federal Power (which under Gerald Solomon was # 1 in NYS, including NYC) to nothing by carving.

«Despite what they're saying, it's increasingly clear that Senate Democrats aren't «all in» for gaining — and holding — power in the Senate,» the GOP email concluded

The IDC was first formed in 2011 with a breakaway group of Democrats dissatisfied with the previous leadership of the Senate and the tumultuous two years the party spent in power in the chamber.

Flanagan, who took over the top Senate post from the indicted Dean Skelos in the spring and began worrying that an «open» Staten Island seat would be won by Democrats, convinced the popular Lanza to stay out of the DA's race with promises of added power and influence, undermining the GOP's chance of recapturing the seat that had been held by Republican Daniel Donovan Jr., elected to Congress in May, a GOP insider said.

«This deal looks like one more cynical effort by the IDC to cement their power and avoid being challenged at election time, while presenting themselves as the «real» Democrats in Albany.