Sentences with phrase «republicans out of power»

But we'd rather be able to use all our resources pushing more Republicans out of power — not just in the Senate but in Congress as well.»

Republicans hold a slim majority in the Senate, so losing just one member could leave the Republicans out of power.

Klein, facing a primary from a Working Families Party endorsed candidate, promised to reunite in a coalition with the Democrats after the November elections, leaving the Republicans out of power.

Cuomo is saying that he will inevitably support throwing Republicans out of power.

Not exact matches

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, a Republican, said his state joined the legal effort because «the president has exceeded the balance of power provisions clearly laid out in the U.S. Constitution.»

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

The neocons left the Left in the «70s, gravitated to the Reaganite Republican Party in the «80s, faded in the «90s when the Republicans were out of power and then reemerged with the election of George W. Bush.

Wills began this book in the wake of the Republican triumph in the congressional elections of 1994, in which conservatives apparently rode to power on a wave of antigovernment sentiment, sentiment they promised to honor by taking out a contract on the national state which they labeled a Contract with America.

He could meet with Republicans and Senator Reid and work out a way to scale Obamacare way back to meet the desire for reform of the American people without accruing so much power to the federal government.

Which leads me to wonder, first, whether Christianity really is so weak in Tennessee that it needs the coercive power of the government to maintain itself, and, second, whether the commitment to limited government of Tennessee's Republicans is so thin that it does not require the state to stay out of our individual decisions concerning where (and whether) to pray, and to whom.

Even if some of those issues (like the welfare waiver controversy) are more complicated than Republicans make them out to be, and even if some of the president's actions (like stopping the deportation of young illegal immigrants) are desirable, the ever - increasing power of the executive branch is unsettling.

Maybe something like it can grow out of the listening tour that various Republican power players are embarking on this month.

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.

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.

The party still remains out of power in the chamber, with Sen. Simcha Felder backing Republicans.

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.

«As long as Republicans hold power in the State Senate, New York can't stand up to President Trump and pass laws to protect our families from the awful policies coming out of Washington,» the fundraising email states.

The statement comes as the balance of power in the Senate, currently under Republican control, is yet to be officially sorted out.

And while the upstate - downstate divide within the Senate is more apparent than in perhaps other years, Flanagan allies point out he can still claim credit for a range of policy wins for Republicans over the last two years in the Senate, the only lever of statewide power the GOP holds.

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.

«Governor Cuomo will walk out of that room and do what he always does, promise big, get some headlines, and ultimately hand over all the power to his buddies in the Republican senate,» she said.

Even before it was released, the proposed amendment was blasted by Democrats in the Senate for essentially helping the current Senate Republican majority keep clout in the process, even if it falls out of power.

If Spitzer had come to Albany as a crusader, cleaning out the ethically compromised and ridding the state of the Republicans who could slow his agenda, Cuomo signaled from the start that he was willing to work with the powers that be, so long as their powers didn't get in his way.

«In a few days, Governor Cuomo will walk out of that room and do what he always does: promise big, get some headlines, and ultimately hand over all the power to his buddies in the Republican Senate,» Nixon said.

With a current division of 245 Republicans and 188 Democrats (and 2 vacancies) Democrats are decidedly out - of - power in the House and Gentile would face significant challenges in accomplishing any of his legislative goals.

A broader lesson for Republicans and others out of power — yes the mechanics matter, but having the right tools is no more important than having the right person with the right message at the right time.

The Citizens United decision was expected to further shift the balance of power to the Republicans, but lo and behold, there are some really wealthy liberals out there.

As a downstate Republican, I am sick of seeing my party behave the same way as Shelly Sliver in selling out our state just in order to cling to power.

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins is (not surprisingly) displeased by the fact that she and her fellow minority leader, Assembly Republican Leader Brian Kolb, are being left out of the backroom budget talks that again include IDC Leader Jeff Klein, even though he no longer has a power - sharing deal with the Senate Republicans.

Foot dragging on this particular bill has to do with Republican suspicions that Spitzer's real power point is to keep them out of office next election — in New York, curtailing contributions from folks who do business with the state is a real career killer.

Washington (CNN)- A chief political strategist for President Obama sought Thursday to dispel the idea the upcoming midterms are similar to the 1994 elections when Republicans swept Democrats out of power in Congress.

Two Democratic factions in the New York State Senate say they are joining to form what could be a strong Democratic majority in the Senate, leaving Republicans, who up until now have ruled the chamber in a coalition government, out of power.

Because Andrea Stewart - Cousins, leader of the mainline Democrats, had already agreed to the terms of the state party blueprint when it was rolled out Monday evening, Klein's statement seemed to clear the way for a shift in power in the last remaining bastion of Republican power in state government.

Less than a year ago, however, new revelations came out about NSA surveillance as a result of Edward Snowden's leaks, and this time the Right was deeply divided: establishment Republicans continued to support the surveillance practices of the NSA, whereas conservatives and the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party voiced concerns about whether the NSA was giving the government too much power.

The governor's proposal also comes a day after the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference decided it would once again form a coalition with the Senate Republicans, much to the chagrin of larger Democratic caucus, which has been out of power in the body for the last six years.

Tony Sinagra, an old hand at city politics who recently stepped down as chairman of Kingston's Republican Committee, said the problem was less with mayors handing out existing jobs to supporters, but with mayors creating new positions in city government as a means of increasing their patronage powers.

However the contest turns out when the absentee ballots are counted, few races this year offered as clear a case of right - wing power in Republican primaries.

It said, «As long as Republicans hold power in the State Senate, New York can't stand up to President Trump and pass laws to protect our families from the awful policies coming out of Washington.

What's more, it looks like the Republicans in the Senate, even with the power of the gerrymander, could be out of there.

It's pretty clear what the Republicans get out of the deal: Power for just a bit longer, and through the budget crafting, which is when all the important stuff gets done.

But what does Cuomo get out of this deal, which ensures Republicans the potential power to muffle a so - called progressive agenda for FY 2019 that the governor's been shouting about?

Sumner said she raised the motion against naming Klein because of the IDC's decision in 2012 to align itself with Republicans, despite Democrats having the numerical majority in the 63 - seat upper chamber, which effectively kept the party out of power.

But Republicans won an outright majority in the 2014 general election, keeping Democrats out of power.

The general rule for congressional races is that the party out of power wages the more negative campaign — which, for Republicans this year, is translating into an ad ratio of about 80 percent negative to 20 percent positive.

Both Democrats and Republicans say they expect that separation - of - powers considerations will deter judges from intervening in a testy parliamentary matter that they may feel is best sorted out by lawmakers themselves.

Dromm is especially upset that Diane Savino of Staten Island — a member of the State Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) that caucuses with the minority Republican senators to keep mainstream Democrats out of power — gave Diaz a maximum $ 2,750 donation.

But because of the five - member Independent Democratic Conference's alliance with the GOP and Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who conferences with the Republicans, Democrats are currently kept out of power.

«The people of New York expect more out of the Republican members of the New York Congressional Delegation who voted to disapprove of the Clean Power Plan,» said Basil Seggos, acting commissioner of the state's Department of Environmental Conservation.

Two Democratic factions in the State Senate say they are joining to form what could be a strong Democratic Majority in the Senate, leaving Republicans, who up until now have ruled the chamber in a coalition government, out of power.

The IDC has worked out some form of power - sharing arrangement with the Republicans every session since 2012, and will likely do so again — in fact, the narrower GOP majority may only increase their clout.