Sentences with phrase «senate under his party»

Cynthia Nixon, a Cuomo challenger for the Democratic gubernatorial nod, was not really mentioned, but it was clear Cuomo was moving quickly to bring the Senate under his party's control to blunt her criticism.

Not exact matches

Under the current system of lax or non-existent restrictions on political spending, billionaire givers are at least as influential as any individual member of the House or Senate, probably a bigger deal than the chairmen of the two major political parties.

The company also came under the scrutiny of Congress once more and that pressure, which came from subcommittees in both the House and Senate and from both political parties, appears to have paid off.

Past Wildrose Party President Jeff Callaway is running for Senate under that banner.

Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos has seized on today's scathing IG report on AEG as proof that state government is suffering mightily under the «arrogance» of single - party rule.

And New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is under investigation for his role in aiding Senate Democrats in 2014, when his political allies sought to funnel money through county party committees in an apparent effort to help individual candidates.

«We continue to stand firmly in that posture as we seek a coalition under similar terms as have existed between the IDC and Senate Republicans, and are willing to enter a coalition consistent with the recent correspondence from state Democratic party officials.

Cuomo has come under fire from the left wing of the Democratic Party and its allies in the Working Families Party who do not believe he has done enough to assist the so - called regular Democrats in reuniting with the breakaway, eight - member IDC faction to help them re-take the majority in the Senate.

Cuomo, who faces re-election in 2018, has been under increasing pressure from liberals to bridge the divide in the state Senate between Democrats, giving the party power amid Republican control of Congress and the White House in Washington, D.C.

The latest enrollment figures underscore the strain New York Republicans have been under to grow the party in a deep blue state, where the party has not won a statewide race since 2002 and could lose control of the state Senate, its last lever of statewide control in New York.

Under the terms of the unity agreement being reached, the IDC would fold back into the Democratic conference in the Senate as part of a broader bid to have the party take control of the chamber, potentially by the end of the month.

But one source cautioned Chairman Ralph Lorigo had been under considerable pressure throughout the day from all sides — the Senate Republicans, labor unions, the state Conservative Party and others — so until I hear the news from Lorigo himself or someone close to him, I'm reluctant to say this is a done deal.

In a party line vote, the state Senate Codes Committee voted down the proposed Children's Weapon Accident Prevention Act, which would make it a felony if a gun owner fails to safely store a loaded weapon and the gun is used by a child under 18 to kill or injure a child.

The video, which features IDC Leader Jeff Klein speaking directly into the camera about the eight conference members, comes as the conference is under pressure from liberal advocacy groups to return to the fold of mainline Democrats in the Senate and deliver a working majority for the party.

Under the rules of the broadcast era of politics, a young man with a funny name and a couple of years in the Senate might run honorably but would almost certainly lose, crushed by the ability of an experienced candidate like Hillary Clinton to raise money from big donors and lock up endorsements from elected officials and party activists.

At a small gathering this morning in Upper Senate Park, Tea Party activists sang The 12 Days of Christmas, refashioned with lyrics about the problems under President Obama.

In 2010, when our party was in the majority in the House under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, we passed the Disclose Act, a bill designed to help counter the effects of Citizens United, but Senate Republicans stymied it.

Cuomo, under pressure from party leaders, recorded a video promising that he'd work to expel Republicans from co leadership of the State Senate, and work to reinstall Democrats instead.

Democratic State Senate candidate Adam Haber won a write - in ballot effort to appear under the Green Party line come Nov. 4th, according to Nassau election officials, but party members are vowing to appeal the results in cParty line come Nov. 4th, according to Nassau election officials, but party members are vowing to appeal the results in cparty members are vowing to appeal the results in court.

The governor bashed the GOP - controlled Senate Wednesday for knuckling under to the «ultra-conservative side of the party» and blocking his bill to decriminalize the public possession of small amounts of weed.

Cuomo Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa told the News on Sunday that the governor, who has been under fire from the left wing of the party for not doing enough to help unify the Senate Dems, supports Stewart - Cousins and Democratic unification, but added that both sides «have to stop talking and come together.»

With state legislative party primaries rapidly approaching, there are several races New Yorkers should keep a close eye on, both in the city and across the state, including some that could play key roles in deciding majority power in the state Senate, which is currently under Republican leadership.

Cuomo, too, has come under criticism from left - leaning organizations like the labor - aligned Working Families Party, though he campaigned for and contributed to Democrats in key Senate elections last year.

More than half the money given to candidates in last month's special election to replace former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was transferred by political party committees, a long - standing practice that is under new scrutiny.

De Blasio and his operatives made the decision — now under investigation — to heavily use upstate county party committees to raise money in 2014 for Senate Democrats only after they feared the governor was not prepared to spend what he promised, sources on all sides of the matter said.

«Siding with the Republicans in the State Senate would be equivalent of me, Joe or Kathy siding with Tea Party Republicans in Congress and saying we did it under the guise of helping women, children and families,» Meng said according to The Observer.

He did, however, have a lot of nice things to say about the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, who has expressed an interest in seeing the Senate remain under his party's control, but hasn't done much — at least not publicly — to further that (according to Siena, rather uphill) cause so far this campaign cycle.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has come under pressure from liberals to help his party take control of the Senate after years of accusations that he preferred the arrangement of Republicans maintaining power with the help of the Independent Democratic Conference.

The highest - earning Americans will get a lower tax rate and corporations will pay slightly more than in previous plans under a deal House and Senate Republicans reached on the party's competing tax - overhaul bills.

Long Island state Senate candidate Adam Haber won a write - in ballot effort to appear under the Green Party line in November, but party members are vowing to appeal the results in cParty line in November, but party members are vowing to appeal the results in cparty members are vowing to appeal the results in court.

I did a background check on Chuba including his past as a student and made enquiries about him in the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) under (President Shehu) Shagari and no one would recommend him for the post of senate president.

(CNN)- Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle told a crowd of Tea Party rally - goers last week that two cities — Dearborn, Michigan and Frankford, Texas — are under Sharia law, the sacred law of Islam.

«We continue to stand firmly in that posture as we seek a coalition under similar terms as have existed between the IDC and Senate Republicans, and are willing to enter a coalition consistent with the recent correspondence from state Democratic party officials,» she said.

«We continue to stand firmly in that posture as we seek a coalition under similar terms as have existed between the IDC and Senate Republicans, and are willing to enter a coalition consistent with the recent correspondence from state Democratic party officials,» she stated.

Under the law, an individual can only donate a maximum $ 10,300 to a Senate candidate or $ 102,300 to a party committee.

Under the measure, new maps would require support from at least half the members of the minority party and three - fifths support in Ohio's House and Senate overall.

BP, under fire nationally for all the obvious reasons, was a player pushing against an Albany bill to reduce the level of of sulfur in home heating oil sold in the state to the levels in diesel trucks - a measure that narrowly passed the state Senate after a party - line vote against it by the GOP minority.

Solar energy companies owned by a tea party Republican running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin who is strongly opposed to the 2009 federal stimulus package have received $ 500,000 in grants under the program.

After seemingly interminable equivocation over whether he would like to see his own party fully in charge of Albany, Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded under questioning yesterday that full Democratic domination of the State Senate would be an «optimal» — if unlikely — arrangement.

Cuomo originally encouraged a deal between Senate Republicans and the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, but this year, under pressure from the Working Families Party, pledged to help Democrats recapture the majority.

The conference's eight members — along with rogue Democrat Sen. Simcha Felder — give Senate Republicans a majority and have recently come under fire from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke to his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader and, in the event the Republican - controlled Senate does not relent in its opposition to an Obama nominee, «our madam president will surely nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right - wing.»

Ex-Chairman, Odu'a Investment Company Limited, Barrister Sharafadeen Alli; ex-Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on National Planning, Economic Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Senator Olufemi Lanlehin and Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate in 2015 elections, Engineer Oluwaseyi Makinde who are the top 3 governorship aspirants under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State for 2019 governorship elections have started scrambling for the soul of the state, DAILY POST exclusively reports.

At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke about his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader, Hillary Clinton will be elected president and she will «nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right wing.»

New York State Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox says embattled Missouri Congressman and Senate candidate Todd Akin — under fire for his comments Sunday about pregnancy stemming from what he called «legitimate rape» — should bow out of the race against incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill.

The interview was a rare critique of the Senate Republican majority, who Cuomo said bent under political pressure from the state Conservative Party when refusing to pass a measure that would decriminalize up to 25 grams of marijuana.

Cuomo too has been under pressure to reunify the two warring sides from activists from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party who feel he has emboldened the Senate GOP by not doing enough to bring intraparty peace in the chamber.

This is pathetic but not surprising, given the way Republican Dean Skelos, the Senate majority leader, has been more chummy with Cuomo and Albany's backroom ways than any Republican ought to be, Of course, Cuomo returned the favor by throwing Skelos & Co. under the bus so he could get his name on the ballot line of the left - wing Working Families Party.

Party state Director Bill Lipton Wednesday called on the GOP - controlled Senate to pass the bill, which would start the clock ticking on potential medical malpractice cases when an error is discovered, not when it occurred, as required under current law.

Early in November, the New York Senate may be under new management, depending on which party wins the most seats.