Sentences with phrase «republicans taking over the house»

In deep - blue New York, Republicans took over House seats on Long Island, upstate near Syracuse and in the North County along the border with Vermont, and reelected Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm in the face of a multi-count federal indictment.

With Republicans taking over the House next month, the two programs must look for new champions.

When Republicans took over the House of Representatives in 2011, then - Rep.

Not exact matches

Several Republican governors and key senators and House members have expressed concern over abruptly cutting federal Medicaid funding and therefore taking insurance away from millions of people.

United States Newsmakers After the Republican victory in the 2014 US midterm elections and an eight - year hiatus, Richard Shelby, a senior senator from Alabama, has taken over his old post as chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

It the Republicans get into the White House and take over the Senate, we will see the Christian Right's agenda come to fruition.

And later in 2010, his «Crystal Ball» was the first in the nation to predict that the Republicans would take over the House of Representatives by a comfortable margin.

While at Mar - a-Lago over the long weekend, Trump met with House Speaker Paul Ryan to discuss the Republican Party's agenda, as calls grow for both the administration and Congress to take action on gun control in the wake of a deadly shooting at a nearby Florida high school.

House Rules Chairman Jose Oliva, a Miami Lakes Republican who will take over as House Speaker after the November elections, said in a text Friday he would support allowing the Joint Legislative Budget Commission to redirect surplus funds «only after all counties had spoken on the question.»

That's despite Obama's claims this spring that the party has a «great chance» of wresting control of the House from the Republicans who have stymied much of his agenda since they took over in the 2010 midterms, and also in spite of a May Q poll that showed Democrats with a slight competitive edge on a generic congressional ballot.

The calls, which will go into the districts of Reps. Chris Murphy (Conn.) and Steve Kagen (Wisc.) as well as open seat House races in New Jersey's 3rd and 7th district and statewide in Maine where Rep. Tom Allen is challenging Republican Sen. Susan Collins, take direct aim at planned calls by Freedom's Watch, announced last week, targeting a handful of Democratic incumbents and challengers over the rising cost of gas.

Walden took over the campaign arm of House Republicans earlier this year, and said one of his priorities will be to reach out to minorities.

As to the idea that Democratic control of Congress will or should blunt the anti-Republican tide, that didn't work for Herbert Hoover in 1932; the Dems had taken over Congress in 1930, indeed, FDR's running mate was the Speaker of the House, but the Republicans still got slaughtered.

Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement Thursday that he's taking Texas to court over its voting laws is the latest battle between the White House and Lone Star State Republicans — and one that both sides are eager to have.

Republicans haven't taken over a Democratic House seat in California since 1998, when Doug Ose took over retiring Democrat Vic Fazio's 3rd District and Steve Kuykendall won the 36th District, which Rep. Jane Harman vacated to run for governor.

Party Chairman Steve House, who took over in March, made the announcement Thursday afternoon, one day after a firestorm over the snub by summit organizers to the Log Cabin Republicans.

Washington (CNN)-- House Minority Leader John Boehner, R - Ohio, told conservative activists Thursday that the Republican Party should not try to take over the Tea Party movement, but rather work closely with these grassroots activists.

The backbiting started after White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made a politically boneheaded but obvious statement that Republicans have a chance to take over the House this year — in elections where many outside experts anticipate a Democratic bloodbath.

When Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) took over as Speaker of the House following the 2006 election, she famously promised to «drain the swamp» — a reference to the ethical problems that had consumed the Republican majority and played a major role in their ouster that fall.

The fight over SALT marks the latest in a long line of dust - ups between Cuomo and House Republicans since Trump took office in January.

House Speaker John Boehner's sudden resignation Friday «signals that the crazies have taken over the party,» New York Republican Peter King said Friday.

For example, Faso took a shellacking over the House tax bill that he didn't actually vote for, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee berating «John Faso's Republican Congress» for passing the original version of the bill.

But the Republicans are taking over in the House, and we can proceed to rewrite the bill the way we want it to be.»

«If the Democrats take over, there's probably going to be a big opening and plenty of momentum for climate legislation... with more Republican support,» said Steve Valk, a spokesman for Citizens» Climate Lobby, a group that has helped assemble the bipartisan and growing House Climate Solutions Caucus.

The recent spat between science agencies and Republicans was intensified shortly after Congressman Lamar Smith took over chairmanship of the House of Representatives» science, space, and technology (HSST) committee in 2013, and repeatedly accused the NSF of wasting taxpayer money on frivolous research.

He may shape education policy in significant ways over the next couple years: He'll likely lead a strong ESEA - reauthorization push, he'll have the chance to pass the GOP edu - baton to a 2016 presidential aspirant, and he's my dark - horse candidate to reprise his role as Secretary of Education should the Republicans take the White House in two years 5.

If Republicans take over the Senate and then the White House, a possibility,...

If Republicans take over the Senate and then the White House, a possibility, Americans might find out in the near future.

House Rules Chairman Jose Oliva, a Miami Lakes Republican who will take over as House speaker after the November elections, said in a text Friday he would support allowing the Joint Legislative Budget Commission to redirect surplus funds «only after all counties had spoken on the question.»

The State redistricted after the 2000 census giving safe seats to most of the congressional reps when the republicans took over the state house with lots of help from Tom's campaign $ $.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) today roundly criticized Republican leaders in the House of Representatives for releasing a FY 2012 Labor Health and Human Services appropriations package that puts politics over women's health by reviving unprecedented proposals to take away preventive care from women, which were rightly rejected by the Senate only months ago.