Sentences with phrase «bare majority»

Nominal «Democrat» Senator Simcha Felder caucuses with Republicans, giving the GOP a 32 - seat bare majority in the 63 - seat chamber.

Even if the marriage of the 23 mainline Democrats and the eight members of the IDC were to occur, another Democratic senator, Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, would need to leave his current alliance with the Republican Conference to give Democrats the 32 - member bare majority needed to control the flow of legislation.

After Democrats took their own bare majority in that year's elections, Skelos was part of a group of Republicans who convinced two Democrats to switch loyalties in June 2009, pitching the chamber into a monthlong crisis.

Republicans are using what's called «budget reconciliation» to pass their health care bill with a bare majority of 50 votes and avoid a Democratic filibuster.

Secondly, the Conservatives only need to add 12 seats in this election to have a bare majority of 155 in the 308 seat Parliament — and a four - year term without needing the opposition's support for anything.

There was a long, hard - fought session, but together, Bill and Bob persuaded a bare majority of 18 AAs gathered at T. Henry Williams's home in Akron to accept the whole package — book, hospitals, missionaries, and fund raising.

A bare majority for Brexit is hardly a ringing endorsement of such a momentous move, which threatens to fragment the United Kingdom itself.

«While a bare majority of Democrats think the country is on the right track, as do a plurality of New York City voters, more than three quarters of Republicans and roughly six in ten independents, downstate suburbanites and upstaters say the country is headed in the wrong direction.»

Because the selection will the made by the full Legislature, the overwhelming Democratic majority in the 150 - seat Assembly has far more influence over the process than the 63 - seat state Senate, where Republicans hold a bare majority along with Brooklyn's Sen. Simcha Felder.

These thresholds of 6 and 16 points are based on what would be required under uniform swing assumptions for the Conservatives to win a bare majority and a 100 + majority respectively.

The Democrats won a bare majority of 32 seats, drawing cheers from Golisano.

But Labour is still expected to be quite some distance from a bare majority, which is 326 seats, and would need closer to 340 to sustain a workable majority in the House of Commons.

A bare majority of those polled accepted that the government's decision to push ahead with the ill - fated aircraft carrier project was the right one given the circumstances.

As the largest single party in a hung parliament, just 31 % will have been MPs prior to 1997; achieve a bare majority and those with experience on the government benches would amount to just 25 %.

Green says that Cuomo will win re-election with, at best, 52 percent of the vote, a bare majority that would represent a humiliation to the governor, who is known to want to win by at least the landslide 64 percent margin won by his father, Mario Cuomo, in his first bid for re-election in 1986.

That was a bare majority of the conference.

When attorneys representing Democrats who dominate the Assembly and Republicans who hold a bare majority in the Senate acknowledged they had no agreement through a joint task force, called LATFOR, that is tasked with drawing the congressional lines, Mann ordered they develop their own proposals by Wednesday.

Republicans won a bare majority of 32 seats in the 2014 elections and Skelos, following a two - hour closed door meeting with his Republican members, says the GOP will once again form a coalition government with Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of the Independent Democrats.

And even if Democrats did pick up a bare majority of seats in November, they would still have to contend with four members of the Independent Democratic Conference, who have often voted with the Republicans.

ALBANY — As Republicans and Democrats gear up for a battle royal to control the state Senate, the GOP has amassed a cash advantage of nearly 5 to 1, proving the benefits of incumbency as they push to hold their bare majority in the chamber.

While the poll of likely voters found Cuomo with a strong, 20 - point lead over Astorino, it also found the governor may end up winning the election with a bare majority of the vote.

There is also a tenuous balance in the state Senate, where Republicans hold a bare majority with support from Brooklyn Democratic state Sen. Simcha Felder, who conferences with the Republicans.

«The Vito Lopez sex scandal persuades a bare majority of New Yorkers that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver should step aside.

The eight votes, of the panel's 14 commissioners, was a bare majority needed to deliver the job to Agata, a former counsel to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the person said.

The so - called «nuclear option» will allow a bare majority of senators — as opposed to 60 - to approve most judicial and executive branch nominations.

The bill failed because it did not have 32 yes votes, the bare majority needed for passage.

As of Wednesday, so do 76 New York State Assembly members (of 150 seats) and 32 State Senators (of 63 seats), a bare majority in each house.

Cuomo continues to fall in the polls, with only a bare majority (51 %) now supporting him, raising the real possibility that most voters will reject him in November.

Jeri, abortion past the first trimester is a loser, and even early abortion only wins by a bare majority.

The maps are currently drawn by LATFOR, a legislative panel jointly controlled by Democrats who dominate the Assembly and Republicans who hold a bare majority in the Senate.

While the rules stipulate that he would need to win a bare majority, a slim margin of victory could, in reality, severely undermine his authority and leave his position untenable.

Figure 1 shows how at the beginning of the period February - March 2014 a bare majority of Yes voters intended to vote for the SNP, and around 20 % still intended to vote Labour.

Indeed, in 2012, ThinkProgress estimated that Democrats would have needed to win the national popular vote in all U.S. House races by 7.25 percentage points in order to eek out a bare majority in Congress's lower chamber.

He's such a lightweight he lowered taxes, repeatedly, with an overwhelming Democrat majority in the Assembly and just a bare majority in the Senate.

And raising the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, New York being one of only two states that treats 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults in criminal matters, that has the support of 51 percent, a bare majority of New York voters, compared to 44 percent who oppose it.»

Stitched together, that would give Democrats a bare majority in the 63 - seat chamber.

The lines are being drawn by LATFOR, a legislative task force jointly controlled by Democrats who dominate the Assembly and Republicans who hold a bare majority in the Senate.

On Tuesday, real estate developer Brian Benjamin replaced Bill Perkins, who left the Senate for the City Council in February, by winning a special election for Manhattan's 30th Senate District, bringing the number of Democratic lawmakers in the 63 - seat Senate to 32, a bare majority.

«Generally speaking, they like to bring bills to the floor if they're confident that it has 76 Democratic votes,» he tells us, referring to the number constituting a bare majority of the Assembly.

Republicans won a bare majority of 32 seats in the 2014 elections, and GOP Leader Dean Skelos, following a two hour closed door meeting with his republican members, says the GOP will once again form a coalition government with leader of the Independent Democrats, Senator Jeff Klein.

The remote chance Labour would be the largest party has not happened, and most likely the Tories will rely on the DUP votes to get a bare majority, But only a bare majority, and May is fatally damaged.

Republican gains in 2014 gave the party its bare majority, though the partnership with the IDC continues under new terms.

If a candidate or party is slightly ahead in a bare majority of electoral divisions but a long way behind in others, they can win even if a competitor gets more votes overall — as happened most notoriously in recent history in the US presidential election of 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore.

When asked if high school students should be allowed to take «approved classes either online or in school,» opinion splits down the middle, with a bare majority (53 percent to 47 percent) favoring the idea.

But pluralities and bare majorities are often not enough to alter public policy in a country where power is divided between two highly competitive and increasingly polarized political parties.

A bare majority of Americans support increasing the salaries of those teaching in challenging school environments instead of using the same funds to offer all teachers a smaller pay increase.

And only a bare majority (54 percent) were employed anywhere in the state's public school system.