Sentences with phrase «senate majority leadership»

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«Trump is no Lyndon Johnson,» says Robertson, «and while he is better than Obama at working congressional leadership, my friends tell me there are already antagonisms at the staff level between the Speaker / majority leader in the Senate and the White House.»

But the allegations have drawn swift condemnation from Republican Senators and party leadership, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has said he believes the women and Moore should step aside.

Though the President - elect will be coming into power with Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate, many of his most popular positions, like his hardline stances on trade and immigration, are not exactly popular with Congressional leadership.

But now, even as leadership battle looms in the Senate, Democrats are poised to regain a numerical, 32 - member majority in the Senate.

AG Andrew Cuomo said this morning it's completely «appropriate» for senators to be asked to publicly state whether they believe scandal - scarred Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. should retain his leadership post after he's been charged by the AG with allegedly looting his Bronx nonprofit of more than $ 14 million.

Sen. David Valesky has joined his upstate Democratic colleague, Sen. Neil Breslin, in calling for embattled Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr. to voluntarily step down from his leadership position.

Add Nasasu County DA Kathleen Rice to the list of elected officials calling on Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. to voluntarily abdicate his leadership post and the perks that come with it in light of his current legal troubles.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan celebrates his one - year anniversary for assuming the leadership post following the indictment of Dean Skelos.

After a series of filibusters in the 1960s over civil rights legislation, the Senate put a «two - track system» into place in the early 1970s under the leadership of Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Majority Whip Robert Byrd.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said the legal mess surrounding Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. is a «horrendous situation,» but he declined to opine on whether the embattled Bronx Democrat should step down from his leadership post.

Sen. Marty Golden was one of the few senators willing to talk on the record — and on camera — about the latest legal troubles to beset Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., pledging to introduce a resolution that seeks to strip the Bronx Democrat of his leadership post.

Wary of the headache this issue caused Senate President Malcolm Smith, who had to do a delicate dance to both appease the LGBT community that had invested more than $ 1 million to help him win the majority and the members like Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. who held the votes to his leadership post, Sampson is both supporting the six remaining «no» voters and refusing to promise to bring marriage to the floor for another vote.

Seeking to bolster their argument, the Republicans released letters dating back to 2013 signed by then - Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos that listed various lawmakers in leadership posts and chair titles in order to receive stipends.

Clarey is referencing Paladino's push to dislodge the current Senate Republican leadership and jettison Majority Leader Dean Skelos from power.

Sen. John Bonacic, the lone member of the Republican conference to call for then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno to give up his leadership post after learning of the FBI's probe into his outside business interests, released a statement this evening calling Bruno's two - year sentence «appropriate.»

«While we all support a unified, progressive Democratic majority in the State Senate under the leadership of Andrea Stewart - Cousins, your claims of unity can not undo the damage that you have done by blocking a single Democratic State Senator in the room to advocate for common - sense progressive priorities.

In the Senate, even he is tainted by the formation of an IDC Coalition, which usurped the voter's wishes as indicated through the ballot box count, to have a Democratic Majority in the house, when Sen. Jeff Klein went rogue and aligned himself with the Republicans in a leadership sharing arrangement that failed to deliver for the Governor this session.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed the vote on the Republican leadership's health care bill until after the July 4 recess.

«There is a numerical majority of Democrats in the Senate, but it will take real leadership from the party establishment to ensure they all work together,» he said.

Hoylman's tweet storm came a day after Cuomo derided the two years Democrats held the majority in the state Senate, a period that was marred by the upheaval of a leadership coup and late budgets.

A Brooks win would solidify the claim the mainline Democratic conference leadership has been making for the last several weeks: A numerical 32 - lawmaker majority in the Senate should be enough to hand them control of the chamber.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan expressed «shock» that IDC Leader Jeff Klein and his group of eight breakaway Democrats last week broke its leadership coalition with the GOP to go back to the Democrats, a source who spoke directly to him said.

«I am also pleased to announce that the New York Republican County Committee will be making history: The first - ever fundraiser featuring the Co-Leaders of the Senate Majority Coalition, Senator Dean G. Skelos and Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, in recognition of their leadership and bipartisanship,» Isaacs wrote.

Klein agreed with Peralta's criticism of the mainline Democratic leadership in the Senate, adding the conference is yet to fully address why it has failed to win key legislative races in order to gain a working majority.

At the time, the IDC was formed in the traumatic wake of a tumultuous two - year majority for the Senate Democrats, whose leadership since the has entirely turned over.

Despite having a numeric majority in the State Senate, this alliance gives the GOP leadership the power to block progressive legislation and enable Trump's agenda in NY.

In her first few weeks, «there was a change in leadership in the senate,» she said, referring to the indictment of state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and the selection of state Sen. John Flanagan as his succsenate,» she said, referring to the indictment of state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and the selection of state Sen. John Flanagan as his succSenate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and the selection of state Sen. John Flanagan as his successor.

Mainline Democrats hope to flip leadership of the Senate where Republicans and a group of breakaway Democrats hold a slim majority in a power - sharing agreement.

Croci, who is running for re-election this fall, was appointed chair of the Senate Ethics Committee in June 2015 during a leadership shake - up following the indictment of then - Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

John Flanagan's ascent to State Senate Majority Leader makes the first time in more than four decades a Suffolk official has had a leadership post in Albany.

Just as Gov. Andrew Cuomo was wrapping up his Q - and - A with reporters by railing against New York Republicans, calling out state GOP Chairman Ed Cox and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos for failing to join Rep. Pete King in decrying the House leadership's failure to bring the Sandy disaster aid bill to the floor, the following statement from Skelos arrived in my in - box:

As GOP Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin took his protest over a lack of hearings on water issues in Hoosick Falls to the Senate's Republican leadership, his counterpart who also represents the area in Albany backed Majority Leader John Flanagan's stance.

Here's another interesting clip from my interview with Sen. Liz Krueger earlier today, in which she advocates for a «complete re-evaluation» of leadership in the Senate when — and if — the Democrats manage to win back the majority and return for the next legislative session in January.

«We are disappointed the Senate and Assembly majorities, both with new leadership, have expressed no willingness to reform longstanding inequities in New York's Freedom of Information laws, or adopt uniform email and document retention policies,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

«By forming a majority coalition, the bold leadership of the IDC — who throughout their existence have carried most of the legislation important to workers — protects the values and visions of the working - and middle - class and ensures that important policy advances in the Senate.

He wouldn't back Marchione because she wasn't sufficiently vehement in opposing Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, whom Paladino very much wants to see ousted from his leadership post.

But former Senate Majority Leader Ralph Marino, who was ousted from his leadership role in 1994, died in 2002, and still has $ 75,541 in his campaign account, wouldn't be allowed to keep his.

The incoming GOP majority has told the defeated Democratic leadership to cut hundreds of staffers by Jan. 20 to help close a $ 7 million to $ 14 million hole blown in the Senate budget during the Dems» leadership tenure.

Despite the Democrats having a numeric majority in the State Senate, this alliance gives the GOP leadership the power to block progressive legislation and enable Trump's agenda in NY.

The Senate will now be governed under a new joint leadership structure, with Mr. Espada serving as the president pro tempore, and Senator Dean G. Skelos, of Long Island, as the new majority leader.

Republican Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino criticized Senate GOP lawmakers on Tuesday for not moving to have Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos step down from his leadership post as he fights corruption charges.

Several people have called on Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. to be stripped of his leadership post in light of the recent civil charges against him, levied by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

In the wake of the arrest of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on federal corruption charges this morning, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, the 2014 GOP gubernatorial candidate, issued a statement expressing «confidence» that the Long Island lawmaker «will do the right thing and promptly resign his leadership position.»

Parker was stripped of his leadership post by then - Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith in the wake of the incident.

If both Gipson and Tkaczyk win, they will have a numerical 32 - member majority in the Senate and make the four - member Independent Democratic Conference more important in leadership negotiations.

The top two leadership posts in the State Senate has changed hands due former Majority Leader Dean Skelos being forced to step down after being indicted by federal prosecutors on bribery and extortion charges a few months ago.

Washington (CNN)- Landra Reid, the wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has been diagnosed with stage II breast cancer, according to a Senate democratic leadership aide.

Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan appointed Central New York Senator John DeFrancisco as Deputy Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, thus restoring regional balance in the leadership of the upper chamber.

It also means somehow getting around a Senate rule that requires a super majority to make a leadership change before the end of the legislative session.

As further evidence of his outspoken nature, he also was a vocal critic of the election of Long Island Republican John Flanagan as Senate majority leader in 2015, so much so that earlier this year he said he was seeking GOPers to run against Sen. Michael Nozzolio, R - Seneca County, who backed Flanagan during the 2015 leadership battle.