Sentences with phrase «republican votes in both chambers»

«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.

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The contest is particularly significant because if Jones wins, Republicans will maintain just a one - vote majority in Congress» upper chamber.

In both chambers, most Republicans voted to repeal the rules, while Democrats voted against.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

Assemblyman Bob Costelli, R - Goldens Bridge, voted with Silver more than 95 percent of the time, making his voting record the most similar to the speaker's than any other Republican in chamber.

Here's Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos telling reporters at the Log Cabin Republicans fundraiser in Manhattan last night that he would «recommend» to his conference that the same - sex marriage bill return to the floor for a vote next year if the GOP manages to regain control of the chamber.

The IDC has been pushing for votes on key liberal measures in the state Senate, narrowly controlled by Republicans, amid pressure from left - leaning groups to rejoin the Democratic mainline conference in the chamber.

Morris is the lone Democrat running against Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who conferences with Republicans and gives the GOP its needed 32nd vote in the chamber to maintain its narrow majority.

U.S. Senate Republicans voted to end the filibuster of Supreme Court nominations, setting the stage for the rapid elevation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the high court and removing a pillar of the minority party's power to exert influence in the chamber.

«I'm hopeful that as they integrate and incorporate new reforms, they'll allow legislation like this to the floor for a vote,» said Sen. Joe Griffo, a Republican who is the main backer of the bill in his chamber.

The chamber is controlled by Republicans, but Democrats in the Senate were buoyed after a paper ballot count left their candidate in a Long Island Senate race with a 41 vote advantage, potentially giving them a 32 - person majority.

Reproductive rights groups are ramping up their own attacks on Senate Republican incumbents who oppose the WEA, claiming the conference's refusal to allow the legislation on the chamber floor for a vote flies in the face of public support for legal abortion.

When asked about the senator's attendance this year, his campaign spokesman, Richie Fife, had a three - point response: Perkins attendance record before this year is laudable; the votes so far this year have taken place outside the budget negotiations, when a bulk of the chambers» real action occurs; and frankly, legislators in the minority don't have much power, thanks to the way the Republican - IDC coalition runs the chamber.

He said the measure didn't have anything to do with religion given the exemptions (which were crafted by Republican lawmakers in order to allow a vote on the bill in the chamber) and said it was really just another name for civil unions.

Bloomberg has backed several measures that Republicans in the chamber put to a vote this year, including a new, less generous pension tier for incoming state workers.

The focus from liberal advocates has been on the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, which remains a key bloc of votes in the Senate chamber and has in the past worked in a majority coalition with Senate Republicans.

The Erie County Conservative Party was poised to vote tonight to endorse Democratic County Legislator Chuck Swanick over Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti in a move that could have a significant impact on the impending battle for control of the Senate chamber.

The chamber's GOP conference currently has a bare, 32 - vote majority in the 63 - seat chamber, and several Republican members have said in recent weeks they don't think a special session is prudent.

One chamber (Nebraska) is officially nonpartisan and in one chamber (Alaska), several Republicans vote with a caucus other than the Republican caucus.

Democrats in the state Senate, fed up with gun - control bills going nowhere in the GOP - controlled chamber, are secretly planning to force their Republican colleagues into voting on the issue today — by introducing the stalled proposals as hostile amendments.

Republicans hold a thin 33 - seat majority in the 63 - seat chamber, and it was unclear if the conference had the 32 votes necessary to pass the legislation before the debate began at 9 p.m.

Republicans regained a 32 - vote majority in November to control the chamber, ending a two - year period of Democratic control.

So after Republicans in the Assembly highlighted some of the more unseemly aspects of the omnibus «big ugly» bill that tied up the loose ends of the state legislative session late Thursday night, members of the Democrat - dominated chamber approved it by a 122 - 13 vote.

Kolb had said he was going to vote against the measure earlier in the day, but as the governor phoned, the 32 Republicans in the Senate were leading the way to its unanimous approval in that chamber.

It has also flirted with majority Republicans in the chamber, giving them the sheen of bipartisanship on some issues, and a comforting cushion of votes.

After a failure to reach an agreement over an immigration bill, 30 Republicans joined all the chamber's Democrats to vote down the law 198 - 213 in what Politico called «a huge setback to the farm lobby and House Speaker Paul Ryan's welfare reform agenda.»

The I.D.C. announced they were forming a ruling coalition with the Senate's Republican conference in December of 2012, an arrangement that gave I.D.C. members more power and financial resources, and gave the G.O.P. the votes needed to retain control of the chamber, which they've held for most of the past 50 years, despite Democrats» overwhelming registration advantage statewide.

The IDC has countered that their coalition agreement helps get bills to the floor that otherwise wouldn't make it — bearing in mind that, with Felder, the Republicans currently have the 32 votes needed to control the chamber.

Kaminsky in April won a special election to replace the disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the chamber, flipping a Long Island Senate seat that had long been in GOP hands and breaking up the Long Island 9 voting bloc of Republican lawmakers.

The measure voted on today in the chamber was sponsored by Sen. James Seward, an Oneonta - area Republican whose upstate district includes the headquarters firearms manufacturer Remington Arms, which had threatened to displace workers following the passage of the SAFE Act.

And Levi reminded me that Minority Leader Dean Skelos recently told the Log Cabin Republicans he would recommend that the marriage bill come to the floor for another vote if the GOP returns to power in the chamber.

Last fall, Grisanti was the last of four Republican senators who voted «yes» on same - sex marriage in June 2011, earning Cuomo's praise and support, still in the chamber.

Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin insisted he plans to vote to keep Brian Kolb minority leader of the Republican conference in the chamber.

Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who sits with the Republican conference in the chamber, gives them the needed 32nd vote to attain a working majority in the state Senate.

McDonald, a Saratoga County Republican, is one of two GOP lawmakers who say they plan to vote in favor of Gov. Andrew Cuomo (the other yes vote comes from Sen. Jim Alesi), making same - sex marriage one vote shy of passing the Republican - led chamber.

Back in March when a series of late - night votes were held on a package of contentious legislation, the Democratic minority conference walked out of the chamber in protest while Senate Republicans push forward on a vote that would ultimately approve the passage of a lawmaker - drawn redistricting plan for state offices.

Trump, one day after introducing his nominee for the Supreme Court, urged Republicans in the Senate to make a major change to the chamber's voting rules if Judge Neil Gorsuch can't attract the necessary Democratic support to win confirmation.

That move raised the prospect of a shutdown, since without Republican votes, Senate Democrats, who have a 32 - to - 30 majority in the chamber, must act unanimously to pass legislation.

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Dozens of protesters camped outside the Wisconsin state Assembly chamber on Thursday in anticipation of a final vote on explosive anti-union rights legislation that whisked through the Senate after Republicans outmaneuvered...

Three fiscally conservative Democrats, who all voted in favor of the Republican budget, could derail tolls in a tight vote in the chamber.

The 31 Senate Republicans hold a majority in the 63 - seat chamber by counting Sen. Simcha Felder of Brooklyn as a member of their caucus, but the IDC has been a buttress for the GOP on procedural votes.

ALBANY — A caucus of black and Hispanic state legislators has condemned proposed Senate districts, saying the maps drafted by Republicans in that chamber «dilute» minority voting rights.

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.

Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan reiterated on Wednesday that his conference, which holds the bare 32 - vote majority needed to pass legislation in that chamber, will not approve a state budget that does not entirely eliminate the remaining Gap Elimination Adjustment, a leftover from the 2008 fiscal meltdown.

March was a lucky month for the Senate Republicans, who hold the majority in that chamber by just one vote.

It's the latest iteration of a push by Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who provides the chamber's ruling Republicans with a crucial 32nd vote, to prevent investigations into yeshivas serving Orthodox Jews, mostly in Brooklyn.

They give 29 Republicans the edge needed to garner more than the 32 votes necessary to control the chamber, despite 32 enrolled Democrats in Senate seats, with another reliably Democratic seat temporarily vacant.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, said lawmakers planned to enter the chamber and start voting on bills that, various lawmakers said, have been finished but held in abeyance for days by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Schumer promised at the Brady Campaign's gala last November that he would introduce expanded universal background checks legislation in early 2016, as well as press for a floor vote in the Republican - controlled chamber.

Votes to override the ruling of the chair failed three times, with the chamber's Republicans and their allies in the Independent Democratic Conference effectively voting to rule the amendments out of order.