Sentences with phrase «be majority leader if»

Schumer, the would - be majority leader if Democrats win in November, made a $ 2 million donation to the effort to rip control of the Senate from Republican hands, according to a source familiar with the move.

Espada couldn't even be MAJORITY leader if Rivera had not helped build that majority...

«I've said that I would be interested in being the majority leader if and when there is a vacancy,» DeFrancisco said this afternoon.

Not exact matches

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R - WI) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) have signaled a willingness to return before Sept. 6, but only if Democrats drop their objections to the Republican - crafted bill.

If a founder won't relinquish their majority ownership position to the next leader, Fischer says, «There's always going to be that power imbalance.

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

If I'm a craft brewer, I'll get a tiny lift, but the majority of the incremental demand goes to the category leader.

M5S has not entered any coalition, although party leader Luigi Di Maio told CNBC in early February that if the party did not gain a majority to govern alone, it was willing to speak to other parties, although he did not say which ones.

«I don't know if is all [man's fault] but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature,» Pope Francis, No. 4 on Fortune's list of the world's greatest leaders, told Reuters earlier this year.

If the proposal doesn't comply with the Senate's rules, an ensuing fight could pit conservatives against moderates and institutionalists — and could edge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) closer to completely eliminating the legislative filibuster, a move with far bigger implications than health care policy.

If you are a senior leader or majority owner in a privately - owned business without a succession system in place, you should be concerned, and here's why: without a proper succession plan in place for you and the executive team, and a talent development strategy for the organization, your firm is likely to run into ownership transfer challenges in the future.

This is true of many entrepreneurial endeavors, not simply women's ministry; but if the majority of female leaders are operating in the marketplace (as opposed to the institutional church), women's ministry as a whole can reach a point of critical mass where an audience - centric philosophy creates wider expectations about style, topics, and content.

Lawrence K. Frank, a leader in the mental health movement has observed that if a community's mental health program is to draw on the strengths of our culture and to have meaning for the majority of people, it must be presented as more than a psychiatric proposal.

«Don't think that this blog and others are up here by accident, if you really want to do something then write congress, tell our leaders that they had better start listening to the majority of the people»

If I started a secular club, and offered all the attractions that are offered at any mega-church, only without the religious teaching and preaching, and I, as club leader, made sure the members knew that I expect them to pay at least 10 % of their income to the club, and I was getting very, very wealthy as a result, I bet the vast majority of Christians who abstain from thinking badly about Benny Hinn, Jerry Falwell, Joyce Meyer, etc, would have no problem at all criticizing me, just because I am not a servant of the Lord.

A lot more could have been done if Republicans had allowed for a simple majority vote, but... Remember the words of Senate Minority Leader McConnell, [My number one goal is to make sure Obama is a one term President.]

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb told Kaitlyn Ross on CapTon last night that he expects to have «anywhere from 49 to 51 seats» come Jan. 1, and predicted the GOP will be a power the Democrats are forced to reckon with — even if Speaker Sheldon Silver maintains his veto - proof majority.

Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos said recently that he would «recommend» to his conference that gay marriage be allowed to return to the floor for another vote if the GOP succeeded in taking back the majority.

Reid, and other majority leaders before him, have developed a clever workaround: Just change your vote at the last minute if it looks as though you're going to lose, then move to reconsider.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called that proposal a job killer, but asked earlier this month if he was ruling out any increase of the minimum wage this session, the Long Island Republican only said he would not take up «Silver's bill.»

AG Andrew Cuomo is trying to determine if Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s alleged misconduct reaches into the state Senate and if Espada aides were double - dipping.

It's not clear if this is the very first legislative leaders meeting between Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan of the year.

«The allegations being made and the ongoing investigations are certainly of concern to the Senator, and he does believe it would be in the best interest of the state of New York if Sen. Espada did give up his title of Majority Leader.

Quinn acknowledged that if Stewart - Cousins were to hold out and become majority leader in her own right — not sharing the title with Klein, as this plan suggests — it would be historic, because she would be the first woman, and the first African - American woman, to boot, to hold that post.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R - Nassau County, was given a big escape hatch on increasing the state's minimum wage this afternoon when he was asked if he is completely ruling out rise this year.

If Cuomo is really the problem, then Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan could try to undercut him by striking a deal of their own.

«If I miss anything, it's probably the communication with people like Shelly, like Andrew Cuomo when he was AG, and certainly George Pataki and (Majority Leader) Dean (Skelos) and the rest.»

If they break the law, they shouldn't be the majority leader of the State of New York.

Pensions minister Ros Altmann argued voters would be undermining their «democratically elected leaders» if they vote to quit the bloc, since pro-EU MPs enjoy a significant parliamentary majority.

The point for all sensible democrats to hang on to is that if the centre - left (Labour plus LibDems and perhaps Greens and some of the nationalists) together command a majority of Commons seats, that entitles them to form a government led by the leader of the largest centre - left party.

Foreign leaders should be more willing to speak out when rulers engage in such illiberal behaviour, even if a majority supports it.

Chances of a budget deal seem to be slipping ever more into the realm of impossibility with each passing day, leaving even veteran lawmakers like Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari questioning if an agreement will ever be reached.

Morse again would not commit to supporting Senate Minority Leader John Sampson for majority leader if he's elected and the Democrats re-take control of the chLeader John Sampson for majority leader if he's elected and the Democrats re-take control of the chleader if he's elected and the Democrats re-take control of the chamber.

The U.S. attorney was also asked if he believes that the corruption problem in Albany is getting better as a result of all the cases he has brought in recent years — including the successful prosecution of two men who were once among the state's most powerful political players, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

In case anyone was unsure if Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos would back embattled incumbent Sen. Roy McDonald, the GOP leader will headline a «Day of Golf» fundraiser on May 8 at the McGregor Links Country Club in Saratoga SpLeader Dean Skelos would back embattled incumbent Sen. Roy McDonald, the GOP leader will headline a «Day of Golf» fundraiser on May 8 at the McGregor Links Country Club in Saratoga Spleader will headline a «Day of Golf» fundraiser on May 8 at the McGregor Links Country Club in Saratoga Springs.

If the party in question wins a majority (so that the unelected leader would ordinarily become PM), is there any protocol that determines how a Prime Minister would be chosen under these circumstances?

Schumer has called on Senate Democrats to be on the floor at 9:30 this morning to hear what, if anything, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will say about Comey's departure.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan responded «yes» when asked if the Child Victims Act is done for the year.

If Andrea Stewart - Cousins ever became the NYS Senate majority leader is would a calamity for taxpayers across the state.

The Majority Leader in Parliament Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has strongly refuted claims by the second Deputy Speaker of Parliament that he mentored President Nana Akufo - Addo during his days Parliament hence if he had become president he can also be president of Ghana.

Former Republican U.S. Sen. Al D'Amato, who crossed party lines and backed Cuomo for governor four years ago, is endorsing state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco in the Republican primary (if there is one) for governor.

If he was a Senator, he might aim for Minority Leader in the short term and Majority Leader in the future.

In his first comments since the Long Island Republican's arrest, Cuomo called the charges against Skelos «disturbing and troubling,» if they are true, but he stopped short of calling for the majority leader to give up his post, saying: «It's not my place to tell them who their leader should be.»

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson said his 32 - member majority conference will be voting «yes» on the budget extender bill next week — even if it includes public employee furloughs, as Gov. David Paterson has threatened — because he is «not in the business of shutting downs state government.»

Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ratcheting up threats to force the Legislature's hand via extender bills if an amicable budget deal isn't reached by April 1, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is continuing to express optimism that it won't come to that.

Yesterday, the Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, and the organization's founder / senior lobbyist, the Rev. Duane Motley, re-released a June 2011 open «letter» to Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in which they warned that a «pound of flesh» would be taken from the GOP in the 2012 elections if same - sex marriage came to pass in New York.

If the intra-party warfare is still going on by the state's presidential primary date of April 19, it could be good for the GOP as it battles to retain former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat on Long Island in a special election that will also take place on that day.

If such a cap had been implemented in 2002, state taxpayers would have saved more than 13 billion over the past five years, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said.

If former Democratic New York State Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith's harebrained scheme to bribe himself onto the GOP line for the 2013 race for NYC mayor wasn't ridiculous enough for you, the details, the players, the secret video and audio recordings, and the rather novel defense offered by Smith's attorneys — ...

«The Leader should be in no doubt that if a committee is set up with a government majority that it would not have the support of the opposition.»