Sentences with phrase «republican leadership of the chamber»

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

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But after two years of dysfunction and leadership turmoil, Republicans recaptured the chamber and since have taken out numerous insurance policies to ensure they hold power this time aronud.

Democratic leadership placed the new assemblyman on the Republican side of the chamber, but the GOP moved a desk to a space by itself with no one on his right or left, so it didn't appear he was a member of its conference either.

A second source said that there was much focus on strategy, but that Cuomo also asked Democrats to pipe down with charges that he has hitherto done little to dislodge Republicans from the leadership of the chamber.

Astorino allies made little secret of their disdain with the GOP leadership in the chamber, and blasted Senate Republicans during the gubernatorial campaign for not effectively opposing Cuomo's first term policies.

Stringer made the comment at a Harlem rally calling for fractured state Senate Democrats to unify and make Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins majority leader of a house where the Dems come November are expected to again have the majority but not control the chamber because nine breakaway Dems are aligned with the Republicans in a leadership coalition.

Flanagan aside, two upstaters are also seen as viable successors to Skelos for the leadership position in the Senate, where Republicans currently control 33 of the chamber's 63 seats.

However, that support eroded over the last seven days as Senate Democrats raised the issue of Skelos's leadership in a heated public session of the chamber and as upstate Republicans grew restive with him remaining in charge.

Skelos also reportedly threatend to resign his seat altogether if he didn't get his way in the leadership fight, which would have left his fellow Republicans in a significant lurch, due to their razor - thin 32 - seat majority, which is cushioned only slightly by the addition of Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder, of Brooklyn, who reportedly would have contemplated going back to the Democrats if the GOP no longer controlled the chamber outright.

Republican Elise Stefanik attended a joint meeting of the Federation of Quebec Chambers of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vaudreuil - Soulanges and the Plattsburgh - North Country Chamber of Commerce as part of the groups» leadership series.

Stewart - Cousins dismissed concerns that the Democrats would not be able to take control of the chamber from Republicans in the middle of the session due to a rule requiring 38 members to change leadership during a session.

The personal animosity between Gianaris and Bronx Sen. Jeffrey Klein, who heads up a group of eight breakaway Senate Democrats aligned in a leadership coalition with the Republicans, is the single biggest roadblock for Dem control of the chamber, the Cuomo official said.

Before any vote, leadership should lay out a clear course of action for the upcoming session and beyond including a comprehensive policy agenda, communications strategy, and long - term path for the Assembly Republicans to attain a majority in the chamber.

There's also a small parliamentary issue that could make for an awkward scene even if the mainstream Democrats, the I.D.C. and Mr. Felder unite: Under Senate rules, the leadership of the chamber, currently held by John J. Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, could be changed only by a vote of 38 senators, a half - dozen more than Democrats could hold in 2018.

«The Log Cabin Republicans announced Tuesday that the GOP's New York leadership in both the state senate and assembly are going to allow Republican legislators to make «conscience votes» on Gov. David Paterson's marriage - equality bill rather than pressuring party members to vote against it, giving the legislation a much stronger likelihood of picking up Republican votes in both chambers.

That victory effectively removed State Senator Jeff Klein — the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference and a de Blasio ally — from the chamber's coalition leadership, leaving it under the sole control of Republican majority leader Dean Skelos.

In New York, she served as a consultant to the state Senate Independent Democratic Conference, a group of breakaway Dems who until earlier this month were in a leadership coalition with the chamber's Republicans.

Cuomo made his first public comments, offering conditional support for the shared leadership plan between all of the chamber's Republican members, along with the Independent Democrats.

Since the election of President Trump, progressive groups have upped the pressure on the eight - member Senate Independent Democratic Conference, or IDC, to break its leadership coalition with the chamber's Republicans and form a new one with the Democrats.

Three months after the Assembly dealt with its biggest leadership crisis in two decades, the upper chamber in Albany is suddenly facing a similar problem: A leader under arrest, a challenge for the ruling party, and the lack of an obvious successor after Dean G. Skelos, the Republican majority leader, was arrested on Monday, along with his son, Adam, on corruption and fraud charges in Manhattan.

Even after he and three colleagues succeeded in wresting senior positions, he defected to the Republican caucus with Senator Hiram Monserrate of Queens, a move that threw the leadership in the chamber in doubt and paralyzed state government for weeks.

The Republican leadership in both chambers of Congress proposed bills to freeze the rule this summer, though none made it to the Senate floor.

But knowing the composition of the state legislature, and the hostility of the Republican leadership in both chambers to Prop B, we knew that we'd have to entertain compromise on some elements of the agreement (at no point, ever, publically, has Pacelle or anyone from HSUS mentioned any thought of compromise — and likely, this is why they didn't have a seat at the table when it came to this new law), in order to protect the measure for the long term and to obviate the need for a second public vote on the issue.

In that chamber, the ascendant Republican leadership, from Kentucky's Mitch McConnell on down, are opposed to President Obama's climate policies — starting with the EPA's clampdown on carbon emissions from coal plants, and extending to his hopes that the U.S. will join Europe in leading the rest of the world to a new climate treaty.