Sentences with phrase «become majority leader if»

Schumer is in line to become the Senate Democratic leader next year, and would become the majority leader if Democrats win enough votes to take back the Senate in November.

Compromise in Congress will be key to changing the public's mood after the election, according to U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is poised to become majority leader if the Democrats take control.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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?

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.

«One of our district leaders pointed out that if the four Senate candidates who appeared at our meeting were all elected, the «real» Democrats would become the majority in the state Senate.»

If a government falls and an opposition can muster up a majority then an opposition leader could become Prime Minister without an election (but would probably want to call a General Election soon after).

And Yonkers now has 2 State Senators who call the City home, something that has never occurred, and if the democrats can unite, Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins from Yonkers will become the Majority Leader of the State Senate.

Stewart - Cousins would become the first female leader of a majority conference in Albany if Democrats do end up taking control.

Clearly if one becomes the leader that's because the vast majority of Democrats voted for the leader,» she said.

The New York Times says the Silver verdict and ongoing trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos «should sound a loud alarm to all the players in Albany who have become so accustomed to the abuse of power that they can't see how it infects every aspect of lawmaking,» adding: «If the lawmakers still don't get the message, voters should take heed.

If he becomes majority leader, he will set the agenda of the chamber.

If Schumer wins and Harry Reid loses Schumer could become the next Majority or Minority Leader the voters all across the nation needs to see «what he knew and when he knew it»

He is poised to become leader of Senate Democrats, which if his party re-takes a majority in that chamber would make him one of the most powerful leaders in Congress.

Late Monday, people following the jockeying said majority leader Joe Morelle — who, by the chamber's rules, becomes acting speaker if Silver resigns — and Carl Heastie, the Bronx County Democratic Chairman, were top contenders.

When the Majority Leader's party loses control of the House, and if the Speaker and Majority Leader both remain in the leadership hierarchy, convention suggests that they would become the Minority Leader and Minority Whip, respectively.

If a Republican is in the White House, Schumer becomes squelcher - in - chief, similar to the role that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., plays now against President Barack Obama.

If Silver resigns, Morelle, as majority leader, legally becomes interim speaker.

Boehner could become House majority leader if the GOP wins control of the House in November.

A majority in the parliamentary party, however, fears that if either is chosen they could use the party machinery to attempt to purge moderate MPs and the many staff appointed before Corbyn became leader.