Sentences with phrase «senate leadership battle»
All the principle characters in the drama that is the latest Senate leadership battle aren't poking their heads over the trench wall this morning, suggesting either they're all trying to size up the situation, or as Tom Precious suggests, a deal is at hand.
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But now, even as leadership battle looms in the Senate, Democrats are poised to regain a numerical, 32 - member majority in the Senate.
The statement underscores the souring feelings between Senate Democrats and Cuomo after he declined to step into the chamber's leadership battle late last year.
Sen. Jesse Hamilton, a Brooklyn Democrat first elected in 2014, will be joining the Independent Democratic Conference, bolstering the clout of its leader, Bronx lawmaker Jeff Klein, in the coming leadership battle in the state Senate.
«The decision by leadership and the caucus suggests they decided this was not the hill they wanted to die on, this was not the battle they wanted to fight,» ACLU national political director Faiz Shakir, a former aide to past Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, said in an interview.
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.
State Sen. John DeFrancisco is Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and was involved in the leadership battle in the Senate when former leader Dean Skelos resigned as Majority Leader after being arrested on federal corruption charges.
The dust has cleared after the leadership battle in the senate, and the members of the Republican conference say they are unifying behind new Majority Leader John Flanagan.
The indictment of Libous is likely to send shock waves through the state Senate, which is already embroiled in a complicated leadership battle as the five - member Independent Democratic Conference has announced it will end its coalition with the Republican conference after this year's elections.
That Senate Minority Leader John Sampson is frustrated with how the leadership battle shook out in the chamber is something of an understatement.
Smith and Schneiderman were longtime colleagues in the State Senate, with Smith winning out over Schneiderman in a leadership battle following Senator David Paterson's election to lieutenant governor.
On Monday, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused GOP leadership aides of «pushing falsehood» in an effort to distract from the political battle over S - CHIP.
«It speaks to this now almost 11 - year battle and the fact that by and large, the state Senate leadership has ignored a constituency that has been profoundly harmed,» she added.