Sentences with phrase «become majority leader over»

Over time, Klein is clearly calculating the makeup of Senate Democrats might change enough so that there aren't enough members who would say he could become majority leader over their dead bodies, or that he can grow his conference.

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It's been over 20 years since they won a majority, nine years since Cameron became leader and four years since they failed to win an election against a hugely unpopular Labour government.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R - Nassau County, acknowledged yesterday's contretemps over $ 9.9 million in bullet aid for education became «testy» but defended the money, which was doled out exclusively to Republican - represented school districts.

Cuomo told aides over the weekend that due to the high - profile criminal and civil investigations of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada (D - Bronx) that became public last week, he was shelving tentative plans to announce later this week right before a Waldorf - Astoria fund - raiser and a meeting of the Democratic Rural Conference.

Over 28 minutes, Schumer said he was honored to be at the cusp of becoming the Senate's majority leader and promised, as he has previously, that he'll still be around to help with parochial matters.

In February, Carl Heastie took over as speaker of the Assembly, and on Monday, John Flanagan became majority leader of the Senate.

-- CU backed Gustavo Rivera over Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., saying the Bronx lawmaker has «has become a symbol for hubris, corruption and wrongdoing in the state legislature due to ongoing investigations by the attorney general and federal authorities and his leadership in bringing Senate business to a month - long halt last summer.»

This has become almost routine in the state Legislature: In early 2015, state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was arrested on charges of extortion, fraud and bribery, barely four months after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver resigned over federal charges that he had taken millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.

DeFrancisco did express frustration over the rumor that he had planned to retire at the end of this two - year election cycle until the possibility of becoming majority leader was raised.

Democrats became incensed over the invitation to Netanyahu from House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell because it was extended outside the normal protocol of consulting the White House and State Department.

«It was a do - or - die moment throughout this whole process over the last five months, prior to me becoming the majority leader.

Torturing de Blasio over mayoral control has been a somewhat lonely quest for Flanagan, a Long Island senator who led the chamber's education committee before becoming majority leader last year.