Sentences with phrase «republicans say the position»

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Republican Senator Orrin Hatch blasted Schumer's comments, and criticized Democrats, saying in a statement that their «default position» is to raise taxes.

He assailed it for taking jobs from U.S. workers, but during a Republican debate last March said he was «softening» his position «because we have to have talented people in this country.»

But 38 percent of Republicans said he should be removed from his position as administrator of the EPA, compared with 21 percent of Republicans who said he shouldn't, while 40 percent of registered GOP voters said they didn't know or had no opinion.

A senior Democratic aide said the party's position is that emergency spending need not be offset by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget, making Pelosi's statement a challenge to Republicans who have insisted that previous aid packages not add to the federal budget deficit.

CNN Polling Director Keating Holland had this to say about the findings: «Only a minority of the rank - and - file members of both [Republicans and Democrats] take an extreme position on the issue, with just 31 % of Republicans calling for a complete ban on abortion and just 32 % of Democrats saying that abortion should be legal in all circumstances»...

Oh... forgot you Proving... I wasn't referring to what he said... on the surface, it's fine to have a point of view... whether I agree with it or not... but when you are A) in a position of influence and B) spending money to fight the opposing view... and it's to stop two people who love each other from wedding in the eyes of their Lord, then it is hate... if your ignorance allows you to think my comments are stupid... so be it... and one last point about slavery... whether it was Democrats or Republicans who supported, or fought against slavery... many justified slavery because of their perverted interpretation of the bible... most people can't tell a simple story from one person to the next... but so many foolish Christians think they know exactly what the bible is saying w / o any doubt... forget the fact that it's been translated and passed for 1000s of years... yup you must be right that God is against two people loving each other... He must have made a mistake with those folks huh?

The state Democratic Party teamed up today with LGBT leaders and openly gay elected officials to slam Republican AG candidate Dan Donovan for his opposition to same - sex marriage, saying his position calls into question his ability to serve as the state's top attorney.

After roundly castigating fellow Democrats and Republicans alike during his announcement speech yesterday and proposing a host of policy positions that seemed tailor - made to get under the speaker's skin, Cuomo today dodged the question about Silver, (the longest - serving legislative leader in Albany), saying it's not his place to determine who leads either house.

But the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nominee in an email says he hasn't «weakened my position» when it comes to his threat to running on the Conservative Party line if the state GOP doesn't adhere to his demands.

«Rather than rumor mongering, Team Turner might better spend their time explaining their evolving positions on raising taxes and the 2nd amendment for Republican primary voters,» Catalfamo said in response to my question about whether change was afoot in the Long campaign.

«There is a person that's elected to the position of mayor,» said Brooklyn Sen. Marty Golden, a Republican, in an interview last month.

Targeted Victory «is in a unique position, and they already have relationships with so many people,» said one Republican consultant.

Republican Senate candidate Julie Killian says she doesn't have a position on regulating the online rental company Airbnb.

Other Republicans say they fear that an expected multimillion - dollar media blitz from the state's powerful public - employee unions might panic some upstate senators into backing higher taxes, undermining Skelos» position.

A Democratic candidate challenging embattled Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter says his internal polling shows he is best positioned to take on the incumbent.

Senator Pamela Helming, a Republican who represents the Finger Lakes region, said last week that she returned two checks, uncashed, for stipend money for a position she did not hold.

Teachout and Wu said they will to position themselves as the anti-Cuomo's, touting their progressive bonafides while highlighting Cuomo's right - leaning tendencies, such as cooperating with a Republican - led state Senate and supporting tax breaks for the rich.

That has left the Senate Democrats in a somewhat awkward position of either trying to convince voters that they have more in common with a fellow Democrat than the Republicans do — even if Cuomo himself won't come out and say it — or sniping at Cuomo from the sidelines by questioning his Democratic bona fides (a la Sen. Tony Avella, who has become something of an expert at this).

Today he said that he envisions himself in a position «where I don't have to kiss Democrats or the Republicans butts, you know what I'm saying, I wan na kiss the peoples butts.»

Cuomo, a Democrat positioning himself for a possible presidential bid in 2020, did not mention President Donald Trump until 90 minutes into his 92 - minute speech, but said that the current Republican Congress and administration is «the most hostile and aggressive toward New York in history.»

The odds are higher that she could get a high - level cabinet position in a Republican administration, said David Fontana, an associate law professor at George Washington University who is from the district and frequently writes about its politics.

Lipton said if Democrats also ruled the state Senate, New York would be in a stronger position, like that of the state of California, to provide a counter-vision to Trump and the Republican - led Congress.

«It is a high - profile position and gets a lot of media attention,» Douglas A. Colety, chairman of the Westchester County Republican Committee, said.

Mr. Cuomo's aides have long said that they plan to attack Rob Astorino, the Westchester County executive and Republican candidate for governor, over his opposition to abortion rights, which they say is out of step with the position of the vast majority of New Yorkers.

Katko said he did not face any repercussions from Republican leaders or President Donald Trump's administration over his previous position, and he doesn't expect to face any new pressure from GOP leaders.

Ned McCormack, a spokesman for Westchester's Republican County Executive Rob Astorino, rightly says, «The [Department of Justice]'s position seems to be that democracy and due process don't apply when it comes to Westchester's housing settlement.»

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, a Democrat who left the party to seek the Republican and Conservative gubernatorial endorsements, reacted to the Newsday report by saying his campaign has had specific positions since its January launch.

Michael Long, chairman of the Conservative Party of New York, said he understands Upstate Republicans are in a precarious position, but he's not willing to give them a pass on tough votes.

King Sweeney, a Republican who has been at odds with Santino for months over ethics reform, said she would fight any attempts to put Santino «loyalists in positions of power in the new administration.»

Her refusal to take a stand on Cuomo's order prompted the National Republican Congressional Committee to blast Teachout's position as «shameful,» contending she was failing «to say whether she supports an effort to destroy the Israeli economy in the name of Palestine.»

In Monday's news conference from Turkey, where Obama is attending G20 meetings with world leaders, the President called the position a «dark impulse» and praised Republican former President George W. Bush for saying explicitly after the Sept. 11 attacks that we are not at war with Islam itself.

«I think Republicans are in a difficult position in our state because they will hear from their constituents,» she said.

These days, Republicans say they're in the same position.

New York's GOP Chair Ed Cox says Ryan's position as number two on the Republican ticket in November could aid the GOP congressional candidates around the state, who are already identified as strong fiscal conservatives.

«Without a Republican governor, the party's nominee for president is going to have a lot to say with who the state chair is and so Nick's in a very strong position,» Martucci said.

«And of course then they're all going to want positions with you and stuff,» Mr. Modi said, alluding to earlier conversations in which the county leaders and Mr. Halloran were asking Mr. Smith for Republican appointments as judges and commissioners should Mr. Smith be elected mayor.

Nicoletti, a Democrat, is being challenged by Republican Norm Snyder, who said Nicoletti is using his position to further his own political career.

As for Flanagan, «It's clear that to an embarrassing degree Flanagan is Cuomo's flunky, his most loyal ally in the Legislature, a guy who will abandon the supposed fundamental positions of his own Republican Party in order to hold on to power,» said the lobbyist, a Democrat who has worked with both leaders.

Zellner took it a step further, saying all local Republicans running for office should have to clarify their position on Donald Trump.

Although Log Cabin Republicans say that Romney has discussed «actual tangibles» in terms of pro-LGBT positions in announcing their endorsement of Romney and though GOProud already had endorsed the Republican earlier this year, the biggest question facing LGBT voters in deciding whether to vote for Romney is if the candidate LCR and GOProud describe will be running the country or if the candidate who the National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown said «was strong the whole way through» the marriage fight in Massachusetts will be running the show.

«Charlie Crist has now officially filed to run for the position he once abandoned,» Florida Republican Party chairman Lenny Curry said Friday.

He was one of just a handful of Republicans who decided that he would take this extreme position on health care,» Rhodes says.

Note that saying that a lot of the positions that Republican voters hold are ultimately due to reasons related to racial attitudes is not the same as saying they're due to those voters» own racial attitudes.

«Less than five weeks until Election Day and Martins sits in a very strong position — a 25 - point lead, holding 82 percent of Republicans, winning among independents nearly two - to - one and picking up the support of one - third of Democrats,» said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.

Flanagan would not take a position on the LLC measure, saying he would have to discuss it with his Republican colleagues.

Democrats were seeking an all - out end to vacancy decontrol this year, but Heastie says the Republican - led Senate wouldn't budge on their position.

A day before Republicans are expected to begin voting on their $ 1.5 trillion tax cut, the big question was not whether it would pass but why the lone Republican Senate holdout, Bob Corker of Tennessee, suddenly flipped his position to support a bill he once said was fiscally irresponsible.

«Hypothetically speaking on a clean continuing resolution opening up our government — if there's absolutely no one on the other side of the aisle that wants to talk, negotiate or compromise at all, that's unacceptable and I blame the Republicans and the Democrats for being in this particular position,» he said.

«If the Republicans win, and if the Republicans took the same positions they took last year... They would not do public finance, period, no how, no way, never, never, never,» Cuomo said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declined to take a position on the Medicaid amendment at the center of an ongoing battle between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Rep. Chris Collins, saying it is a distraction from the larger problem of the American Health Care Act, the Republican plan to replace Obamacare.