Sentences with phrase «back the house majority»

Needing to net 17 seats to win back the House majority, the announcement makes clear where the party believes its most important fights will take place.

Hudson Valley State Senator Greg Ball sent out a statement blasting Congresswoman Nan Hayworth for suggesting that she backs House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's view that any funds sent toward disaster relief have to be off - set with budget cuts elsewhere.

Rice, a Garden City Democrat in her second term, voted instead for Rep. Tim Ryan (D - Ohio)-- who is not related to Speaker Paul Ryan — to continue her protest of the current leadership and the Democrats» failure to determine why they have not won back the House majority.

Defeating Katko is a priority for Democrats because they want to win back the House majority.

Not exact matches

(Bloomberg)-- The White House is scaling back its plan to seek cuts from already - passed spending bills in the face of resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and spending panel Republicans, two GOP congressional aides briefed on the plan said Thursday.

Being out of the house for the vast majority of it meant that we wanted something really easy, but still packed full of flavour and healthy, to eat when we got back.

Had the Conservatives had a Parliamentary majority (or had formed a coalition with a certain party whose name shall go unmentioned), they might have found a way back to the status quo ante on at least (some of) the reforms that are practically reversible, viz. the House of Lords, the Human Rights Act, the Lord Chancellor's jurisdiction over the judiciary.

Back in the days when both houses of the Legislature had leaders with a number of years under their belts — namely, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno — two - way deals to jam the governor were not out of the question.

Since taking over the committee from Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen after the Democrats lost the majority in the 2010 midterms, Israel, who hails from Long Island, has instituted an aggressive campaign to take back the House.

However, Cameron would probably be unable to do today what Blair, with his overwhelming mandate and massive House of Commons majority, did back then, but he's determined to try.

A majority of New York voters opposed the passage of the American Health Care Act, the Republican - backed measure that failed to gain enough votes for passage last week in the House of Representatives, according to a Siena College poll released on Monday.

«This partnership with House Majority PAC will ensure that the work being done by SEIU member volunteers at the doors, on the phones and in the neighborhoods is backed up by a vigorous paid media campaign.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, meanwhile, expressed frustration over what he saw was a shifting set of priorities dictated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who initially proposed the amendments, as well as urged lawmakers to fund a hate crimes task force and back a memorandum of understanding for affordable housing money.

I was told: «We want to show there is a majority in House of Commons on the Mansion Tax,» — which suggests that Labour will try hard to ensure they have Lib Dem backing on the motion.

If we want our pro-LGBT legislation to move forward again, we must work our butts off to get a Democratic majority back in the House in 2014.

Scotland's Nationalists are discovering also a Conservative majority in the House of Commons postponed the revolution promised back in May.

Hours later, House Majority PAC, the group leading the Democratic Party's efforts to take back the House of Representatives, put out a statement asking: «Why won't Michael Grimm come clean on support for Sandy relief fund - denier Ted Cruz?»

When she was first elected back in 2010, the electoral coalition supporting Ms Rousseff had a majority of seats in both the lower house and in the Senate.

«Whether or not we take the majority back, there will be more Democrats in the House,» he told reporters today at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast.

The Democratic Party in the House of Representatives will have a huge challenge in the coming two years as it fights to defend the American people from a barrage of legislation coming from the soon - to - be Republican House majority that seeks to turn back the clock in the country a decade or more.»

If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority.

Democrats, the minority party, have been aggressively working to grab back 25 seats in the House in order to retake the majority.

He is encouraged that a member of the Assembly majority is backing the bill in that house, but he remained unsure if that would be enough to bring a vote to the Assembly floor.

Eggman and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee are tying Denham to Trump, while polling from the House Majority PAC, which backs Democratic House candidates, has showed Eggman leading by 1 point.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday afternoon rallied on Long Island for Democrats to win back control of the House of Representatives and take a working majority in the state Senate, insisting Republicans are wrong on the issues that range from gun control, to immigration and the environment.

Not long after Scalia passed away, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed to block any Barack Obama appointment, a strategy since backed by House Speaker Paul Ryan.

- We call upon the House Democratic Leadership to bring this bill quickly back to the House floor — this time allowing it to pass under the standard rule of a simple majority.

De Blasio penned a letter to congressional GOP leaders, asking House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to back a bill that would prohibit people on terror watch lists, which bar them from boarding airplanes, from buying firearms.

House Majority Leader Tom Ritter of Hartford says he hopes their support will give rank - and - file lawmakers political «cover»» to back the concept in an election year.

By Chris Cillizza November 16, 2006; 12:21 PM ET Categories: Democratic Party, House Save & Share: Previous: Democrats Choose Hoyer as Majority Leader Next: The Fix Talks Back: More Thoughts on 2008

He headlined a fund - raiser for the House Majority PAC and then headlined a single day of rallies to help Reps. Kathy Hochul, Louise Slaughter and Tim Bishop as well as former Rep. Dan Maffei, who's trying to win back his old seat.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo will headline a fund - raiser in New York City tomorrow for the House Majority PAC, the Super PAC dedicated to helping the Democrats in their quest to win back control of the chamber.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said in a new interview that she is «very confident» her party will take back a majority in the House of Representatives and she isn't even considering the possibility of not running for speaker.

The House Majority PAC, a left - leaning Super PAC that's trying to help the House Democrats in their quest to win back the majority, is launching a $ 2.2 million TV ad blitz in six competitive House districts across the nation — including one in NMajority PAC, a left - leaning Super PAC that's trying to help the House Democrats in their quest to win back the majority, is launching a $ 2.2 million TV ad blitz in six competitive House districts across the nation — including one in Nmajority, is launching a $ 2.2 million TV ad blitz in six competitive House districts across the nation — including one in New York.

The real mission, they said, is to win congressional seats to take back the U.S. House of Representatives and shore up a larger Democratic majority in the Senate to continue the state's progressive agenda and ensure a «fair and effective redistricting process.»

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's spokesman issued a statement Sunday, saying the Senate will send a clean bill — one without the anti-Obamacare provisions — back to the House on Monday, just hours before the government nears a midnight deadline to avert a shutdown.

And it's simple — we need Jane Corwin to be a part of the Majority in the House of Representatives to bring fiscal discipline back to Washington, DC.»

Republicans hold a 242 - 193 seat majority in the House and Democrats have launched a «Drive to 25» campaign representing the number of seats they need to win back the majority.

The Democrats need 24 seats to recapture the House majority, and they believe the most straightforward path back to power is through the 23 Republican districts won by Hillary Clinton in November, as well as the dozens more where President Trump remains deeply unliked.

-- Politico, «Obama, Holder to lead post-Trump redistricting campaign,» by Edward - Isaac Dovere: «As Democrats aim to capitalize on this year's Republican turmoil and start building back their own decimated bench, former Attorney General Eric Holder will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that's left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult.

«While we are in the minority in Congress, we're with the majority of the American people and grassroots support from across the country is fueling our campaign to put control of the House of Representatives back in the people's hands,» Israel said in a statement.

It was in the Senate one house budget proposal, which was backed by majority party Republicans, but did not make it into the final state budget.

Hawkins said that if the Governor was serious about the 10 - point Women's Equality Agenda he announced 18 months ago in his 2013 State of the State address, he would have backed bipartisan efforts to vote on the nine parts that have overwhelming majority support in both houses and then focus on flipping the Senate to Democratic hands to get the tenth abortion rights point adopted.

By stalling action on the majority party's agenda, the minority leader may be able to launch a campaign against a «do - nothing Congress» and convince enough voters to put his party back in charge of the House.

Today, Reuters published a story on the power struggle:» Democrats won a majority in the upper house Senate for the first time in more than 40 years in the Nov. 4 election, but three Democratic senators refuse to back fellow Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith as majority leader without concessions.

By Chris Cillizza January 4, 2011; 5:21 PM ET Categories: White House Save & Share: Previous: The Democrats» tough road back to a House majority Next: Afternoon Fix: President Obama mulls major staff shuffle; Boehner makes calls on behalf of Maria Cino

Zeldin had the backing of former Congressman and U.S. House Majority leader Eric Cantor, [19] former Congressman Allen West, [20] U.S. Senator John McCain, [21] and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum.

The ability to channel the wide - ranging frustrations expressed by speaker after speaker may determine whether beleaguered conservatives will be able to create a movement rivaling that which liberals used to help power Democrats back into the majority in the 2006 congressional elections and Barack Obama into the White House last year.

«Although Jim was unsuccessful in his hope to change Washington, he has shed light on our Party's efforts to win back the majority in the House.»

However, their hopes of getting back a majority in the House of Representatives is extremely unlikely, with the GOP holding a huge advantage after smashing gains in 2014.