Sentences with phrase «senate after next year»

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Because Democrats are already having enough problems passing legislation, next year we're expected to have even fewer Democrats in the House and Senate, and there's talk in town as to whether the Democrats will even control the congress after the elections this fall.

After the 2008 elections, he called a special session to close another deficit but lawmakers didn't get the job done until the next year when Democrats took over the Senate majority from Republicans.

Cuomo had to fight for the WFP's endorsement earlier this year, and ultimately won their backing after pledging to support a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate as well as re-affirm his support for a liberal agenda next year.

Senate Republicans are publicly supporting the goal of funding full - day kindergarten after Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced he had reached an agreement with Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the effort in next year's budget.

After all, next year is an election year, when the narrowly divided state Senate in particular is expected to continue to be a wild card.

After meeting with Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Felder has decided to turn his back on his fellow Democrats and caucus with the Republicans next year.

No person shall serve as a member of the legislature unless he or she is a citizen of the United States and has been a resident of the state of New York for five years, and, except as hereinafter otherwise prescribed, of the assembly or senate district for the twelve months immediately preceding his or her election; if elected a senator or member of assembly at the first election next ensuing after a readjustment or alteration of the senate or assembly districts becomes effective, a person, to be eligible to serve as such, must have been a resident of the county in which the senate or assembly district is contained for the twelve months immediately preceding his or her election.

ALBANY — Anticipating special elections after the state budget is passed in the spring of next year, the state Democratic Party is calling on Democratic factions within the Senate to reunify and form a majority coalition after that time.

After seven years in military prison for carrying out one of the largest leaks in US history and coming out as a transgender woman, Chelsea Manning is embarking on the next stage in her epic journey: running for a seat in the US Senate in Maryland.

Seeking to capitalize on the excitement among Republican potential donors after Scott Brown's stunning capture of a Senate seat in Massachusetts last week, two independent groups focused on helping the party regain state legislative majorities before next year's nationwide redistricting are significantly ramping up their efforts.

Valesky's first step toward redefining his political career came after Thanksgiving in 2010, when the Senate Democrats called a leadership vote for the next two years.

He believes the presidential election year offers as ripe an opportunity as Democrats will ever get to seize the Senate, and after that it will be too late for the next rent - law renewal.

U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, announced he will retire after two terms, shocking colleagues, scrambling next year's election map, and causing a seismic change in the chamber's entrenched committee structure.

It changes the calculus of the battle for control of the state Senate next year, and also upends any hope Astorino harbored of seeking a re-match in 2018 after his 2014 loss to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

A day after a vote was scrapped in the U.S. Senate on a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare after congressional leaders said the votes weren't there, Trump said he expects to get the bill passed early next year «long before the November election.»

State Democratic leaders earlier this week laid out parameters of a plan designed to reunify the fractured Senate Dems after next year's budget process that the mainline Democrats and eight - member IDC agreed to.

But privately, some Senate Democrats conceded that another factor might be at play: with Republicans likely to take control of the Senate next year after winning a handful of seats in the November elections, there was little reason for them to shoulder the burden of cuts.

The Brooklyn native also is poised to take over as head of the party's caucus in the U.S. Senate Democrats next year following the retirement of Minority Leader Harry Reid after the election.

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker will retire from the Senate after two terms, scrambling next year's election map and causing a seismic change in the Senate's entrenched committee structure.

Schumer, D - N.Y., the Senate Democratic leader, said the agreement reached after months of negotiations would lift statutory spending limits set by Congress and add about $ 400 billion in federal spending, providing billions to boost the military over the next two years.

The Republican, who was first elected governor in 1998 after serving a term in the U.S. Senate, told lawmakers that he would not seek a third term next year.

The federal government would pump up to $ 181 billion into special education over the next 10 years, under a provision the Senate adopted last week just hours after it began deliberations on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Sen. Lamar Alexander has a plan to overhaul the education system if he becomes chairman of the Senate's education committee next year, starting with rewriting the divisive No Child Left Behind act and moving to create more school vouchers and deregulate higher education soon after.

«It is suggested that the U.S. Senate may not, after all, deal with the climate change issue until next year, when the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen is over and the delegates have gone home.

Cillizza posted that in late December, shortly after Politico published its own story on how «moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White House to give up now on any effort to pass a cap - and - trade bill next year.»