Sentences with phrase «republican leadership of»

Merkley acknowledged that he and Sanders — who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination — have little chance of persuading the Republican leadership of Congress to move their legislation.

In its «pledge to America ``, the incoming Republican leadership of the House of Representatives has vowed to cut federal spending to the levels it stood at before President Barack Obama's economic stimulus measures and the bank bailout.

In its Pledge to America, the incoming Republican leadership of the House of Representatives has vowed to cut federal spending to the levels it stood at before President Barack Obama's economic stimulus measures and the bank bailout.

«For four years now, the IDC has perpetuated Republican leadership of the Senate,» Jackson and Lasher wrote in the letter.

They say their concerns are based on the history of the IDC, which since its inception in 2012 «has perpetuated Republican leadership of the Senate,» according to Alcantara's foes for the State Sen. elections, Robert Jackson and Micah Lasher.

The Republican leadership of the state senate are, behind the scenes, trying to get Democratic State Senator, Darrel Aubertine to run and win.

The only logical answer is that they answer to a higher authority than the Republican leadership of the state Senate.

We call upon the Republican leadership of New York State to disavow the extremist positions of their candidates.»

He called on the Republican leadership of the chamber to allow the measure to come to the floor for a vote.

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.

Not exact matches

«You could sort of see it happening in slow motion, notwithstanding efforts by leadership to try to deflect it or push it back,» says Steven Law, a former McConnell chief of staff who became a top U.S. Chamber of Commerce official before landing at American Crossroads, the Karl Rove - founded Super PAC, which now aims to usher more moderate Republican nominees into the midterms.

«But I do believe that from leadership to the Republican Study Committee, it's very problematic when one of, maybe the major pieces of legislation obviously we get passed this year, that you have been a naysayer from day one,» he said.

As for the Republican leadership, Walker said, «I would hope they come to us and begin to talk about solutions from here and what kind of energy there would be to ask him to say, «Listen, if you can't fulfill this role that you accepted, then maybe we need to look a different direction.»»

Pelosi's commitment to stay on board provides a big relief for Republican operatives who were privately fretting that she would bow out of leadership to make way for a new generation, as Business Insider reported in March.

(After the March 24 failure, it would be nearly unthinkable for the Republican leadership in Congress to call for a vote without being sure of the count ahead of time.)

Political operatives close to congressional Republican leadership are shaken after the FBI raided the office and residence of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Republican leadership reportedly needs the support of just one more GOP lawmaker to reach the 50 - vote threshold required for the Graham - Cassidy bill to pass.

By July, it appeared the health law's central consumer protections were (somewhat) safe after three GOP Senators defied Republican party leadership to kill a middle - of - the - night attempt to dismantle Obamacare.

To keep their gains, the Republican Party had to follow the lead of the Tea Party, not the other way around, which led to a government shutdown they never wanted, and the resignation of their top leadership.

The Oklahoma senator even told reporters Monday that he was working with leadership on a «backstop» in case the tax receipts crash and the bill produces little of the economic growth Republican leaders have promised.

While details are thin, Trump has described hiking tariffs on goods made by U.S. companies — a move that's been widely panned by lawmakers, including key members of the Republican leadership in Congress.

Speaker John Boehner (R - Ohio) and the rest of the Republican leadership have been unable to settle on a demand that could garner 217 Republican votes to pass the House (normally it's 218, but there are a few vacancies).

The original plans of the McKinley administration and the Republican congressional leadership for Puerto Rico seemed to call for the island's «incorporation» into the United States — that is, annexation of Puerto Rico as an integral part of the United States and the bestowal of a constitutional and political status comparable to other American territories destined for statehood.

Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., greets Toss Valentine, right, of Concord, N.C., after a news conference with GOP leadership and members of the House Ways and Means Committee in Longworth Building to unveil the Republicans» tax reform plan on November 2, 2017.

This is precisely the outcome that the leadership of the Republican party wanted to avoid.

A united House Republican leadership surrendered crisply and cleanly on legislation to extend expiring payroll tax cuts for 160 million Americans, skipping most if not all of the self - defeating drama that accompanied their far noisier retreat on the issue late last year.

Republicans, you see, have been attacking the Democratic leadership for failing to reform the gluttonous practice of so - called Congressionally directed spending.

After shooting off several early morning tweets, Trump spent Saturday between the White House residence and the Oval Office, speaking with his top advisers, Cabinet members, and Republican leadership about the impact of the shutdown, The New York Times reported.

Though the President - elect will be coming into power with Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate, many of his most popular positions, like his hardline stances on trade and immigration, are not exactly popular with Congressional leadership.

The Republican leadership proposed a series of amendments that marked major legislative changes, but it was not immediately clear whether they would help win more Republican support amid solid opposition from Democrats.

Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval also opposes the measure — all of which is to say it could face opposition from sitting leadership.

It seems to me that the Republican leadership will have multiple components of this test to pass — learning to work with the president and the executive branch, figuring out how to collaborate with Democratic colleagues and cooperating with their Republican compatriots who may have different perspectives.

The Republican leadership might finally step in to «take the weapons of mass destruction away from the crazies,» as Mann puts it, refusing, for example, to allow another debt - ceiling crisis.

Some of the nation's largest hospital networks saw their shares soar in Monday trading after House Speaker Paul Ryan and Republican leadership pulled the AHCA at the behest of President Donald Trump.

What I hope to have happen, with Senator McCain's leadership, is a bipartisan buyback of what's left on sequestration, using a Simpson - Bowles formula, where Republicans will generate some revenue by closing deductions in the tax code for the few at the expense of the many.

Hensarling's colleagues voted him into the House leadership for the 2011 - 12 session as head of the entire Republican caucus.

Senate Democrats have been frustrated by a lack of movement by Cornyn and other Republican leaders, and say GOP leadership in the House and Senate is the reason Congress has not been able to act to prevent another mass shooting like Parkland.

When Republicans, under Abraham Lincoln's leadership, sought to protect fragile northern industries from the flood of British goods in 1844, he proclaimed, «Give us a protective tariff and we will have the greatest nation on earth.»

Without clear leadership, Republicans were outwardly divided over what to do next, as their offices are being flooded with calls on both sides of the issue.

Mayor Paul Soglin, pictured in November after the announcement that Oscar Mayer would close its Madison headquarters, ratcheted up criticism of the state's Republican leadership Thursday.

The bill appears to be heading toward the finish line, though at least three other Republican senators remained publicly undecided on Friday, including Mike Lee of Utah, who has allied with Mr. Rubio in pressing for an expanded child credit, and Jeff Flake of Arizona, who has been trying to extract commitments from Republican leadership related to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.

«I think the leadership's goal is to find that spot where they can say we did something while having actually done as little as possible,» a Democratic congressional staffer said of Republicans» strategy.

The real Republicans need to stand up and take the leadership of the party away from bigots.

The sequester allowed the Republican leadership to back out of the debt ceiling fight while backbenchers could posture that they had cut spending by $ 1.2 trillion in some to - be-determined way.

«The president's lack of leadership and failed policies have left the door open for the Republican Party.»

At the same retreat, Cantor and the House Republican leadership demonstrated that, while they are trying to learn to talk about the concerns of employees, they are practically focused on doing the bidding of the Washington business lobbies.

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The House Republican leadership has come out with a set of immigration «principles.»

The Gang of Eight deal also includes an enormous increase in low - skill immigration and one can expect that the House Republican leadership will attempt to do the same thing.

Maybe it is because the RNC, and the Republican congressional leadership (among others), have convinced much of the public that the Republican establishment is composed of slimy, unctuous weasels.