Sentences with phrase «republican supermajority»

These days, his chosen nemesis is Brian Brown, executive director for the National Organization for Marriage, which is pushing for a repeal of New Hampshire's same - sex marriage bill now that the state house has a Republican supermajority.

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You may want to blame republicans for holding up recovery but the Democrats had a supermajority in congress and a democrat president.

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.

Republicans currently have a supermajority in the County Legislature.

Republicans need eight for a supermajority of sixty seats.

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

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

Republicans may have a supermajority in the legislature, but they can't seem to win statewide offices.

«Tom's Onondaga County GOP recently won a supermajority on the County Legislature even though Onondaga is inhabited by more Democrats than Republicans,» Paladino writes.

The bill required a supermajority and only 12 Republicans voted for the act, which proposed giving as much as $ 7.4 billion to people who were exposed to Ground Zero toxins, including first responders, firefighters, rescue workers, police officers, EMTs, cleanup workers, area residents and schoolchildren.

Republicans this fall want to keep the mayor's office and also hold onto their supermajority on the council, an advantage that gives Democrats no power to pass or block legislation without GOP cooperation.

California Democrats may claim a supermajority in both houses of the state legislature, but an Orange County Republican lawmaker topped the list of gift recipients in 2012.

Democrats put forth legislation to change the constitution but were denied the necessary supermajority by Republicans, who in October pushed through a law that effectively killed the citizen referendum.

If the necessary steps occur to put Democrats in the majority, Republicans would almost certainly attempt to block a leadership change in court, and while it's doubtful the supermajority provision would be upheld, it could certainly gum up the works for a few weeks.

Since becoming Chairman of the Onondaga County Republican Committee, we have taken a party that was deep in debt and created a strong fundraising infrastructure to support our candidates, won a supermajority on the County Legislature, and delivered every countywide office to Republicans — despite the fact the county has more registered Democrats than Republicans.

Currently, Democrats outnumber Republicans 12 - 5, giving them a supermajority, in addition to the support of Latimer, who unseated Astorino in November last year.

Democrats are in a battle with Republicans to preserve a 12 - 6 supermajority at the legislature.

Nassau PBA president James Carver said Safe Nassau «served its purpose» by preventing Republicans from getting a supermajority in the county legislature, and hasn't been necessary since.

Because borrowing requires a supermajority of the legislature — 13 votes — Democrats blocked the plan even though all 11 Republicans voted in favor.

• We won the first supermajority - ever in the Erie County Legislature, 12 - 3 Democrats - Republicans.

And with the need for one more lawmaker to pledge his or her support for bill, that supermajority remains in the hands of the Republican Caucus.

Despite approval from two Republicans lawmakers, David Gelfarb, of Rye Brook, and Jim Maisano, of New Rochelle, the bill failed to capture a supermajority vote, which would have prevented the legislation from being vetoed by County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican.

It represented the culmination of years of frustration over what Democrats denounced as a Republican campaign to stall the machinery of Congress, stymie President Obama's agenda and block his choices for cabinet posts and federal judgeships by insisting that virtually everything the Senate approves be done by a supermajority.

Senate Republicans say even if they lost a member, it would be impossible for the Dems to take control because chamber rules require a supermajority — 38 votes — to make such a move.

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.

[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).

Past efforts to introduce tort reform legislation were vetoed by Missouri's previous governor, Jay Nixon; however, the state's new Republican governor, Eric Greitens, has made tort reform a top priority and one likely to be supported by the GOP, which holds supermajorities in both houses of the Missouri legislature.