Sentences with phrase «before midterm»

But if a vote is forced, then they're forced to take a position sooner rather than later — in this case, it would be well before the midterm elections.

In the US, cap - and - trade was dead even before the midterm elections.

With political will running short before the midterm election, the Senate has shown little appetite for a broader, economy - wide climate change bill as passed by the House almost exactly one year ago.

Shortly before the midterm election, The New York Times had a great front - page story about climate denial being an «article of faith» for the Tea Party, which made it clear that the group's climate politics are not synonymous with climate science.

When, at summer's end, and just before midterm Congressional elections, the costs to the taxpayer of responding to this leak are tabulated, and the financial losses of ruined tourism and boating and fishing industries along the Gulf coast are summarized, the figures may overwhelm any whining and complaining that might otherwise be heard from the the oil industry and equipment suppliers.

Time is growing short if Obama aims for action before midterm elections, which could weaken Democratic majorities in Congress.

At SPN's annual conference in Cleveland last year, held two months before the midterm elections, the think tank network adopted a new push for education reform, specifically embracing online technology and expanding vouchers.

Some lawmakers have made it known that they would rather not face a war authorization vote shortly before midterm elections, saying they'd rather sit on the fence for a while to see whether an expanded military campaign starts looking like a success story or a debacle.

With a year to go before midterm congressional elections, a new national poll suggests that Republicans are making gains.

Paladino and his Democratic challenger, attorney general Andrew Cuomo, both took part in the annual festivities, marching from Midtown to the Upper East Side, flanked by supporters three weeks before the Midterm.

Twenty - two days before the midterm elections, she has endorsed 22 candidates by name on her Facebook page.

Democrats say the goal is to try to take it up in the Senate before discussing the Supreme Court nomination this summer and spend the rest of the session before the midterm election on the politically potent issue of jobs.

Voters say they prefer Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives over Republicans by the widest margin in over a decade, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll — a fresh sign of trouble for the GOP majority one year before the midterm elections.

The shindig is just over three weeks before the midterm elections in which observers now agree the Democrats are very much in danger of losing control of the House — even though that would require the GOP to flip more than three dozen seats around the country.

(CNN)- With a little over three weeks before the midterm elections, House Minority Leader John Boehner will deliver a major campaign speech from his hometown in Ohio on Friday.

(CNN)- Six days before the midterm elections, a new poll indicates that it's too close to call in the fight for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Repudiated at the polls, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced Wednesday that he will resign his leadership post at the end of next month, clearing the way for a potentially disruptive Republican shake - up just before midterm elections with control of Congress at stake.

Reno, Nevada (CNN)- Some two weeks before the midterm elections, Tea Party activists are set to fire up their army of supporters to forge ahead in, what they see as, a political war.

Slate points this afternoon to a post on MyDD from shortly before the midterm election that looks at lefty bloggers» attempts to googlebomb Republican candidates.

A teacher rebellion in red states from West Virginia to Arizona has put Republicans on the defensive, forcing them to walk a fine line in the months before midterm elections between placating constituents who are angry over education cuts and conservative supporters who want a smaller government and low taxes.

By appointing a democrat senator in a red state to head the EPA, Trump will get «his» (or whatever) health bill through the senate before the midterm.

The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

That could do some damage to the president, and the Republican Party, before the midterm elections in states that turned out for Trump in 2016.

Just a month before the midterm elections in November, the District conducted a test drive.

«We are bearish on efforts to curtail entitlement spending in this Congress given the lack of Democratic support for the effort in the Senate, tentativeness among certain Republicans, and a basic lack of procedural bandwidth before the midterms,» the Compass Point analysts said.

As part of his push to keep money flowing into Democratic campaign accounts before the midterms, President Obama has appeared at 49 fundraisers so far this year — 46 of which were for party committees or PACs that will spend the money on political campaigns this fall.

Arizona Sen. John McCain said he «predicted» the rough election night and that the party needs to make changes quickly before the midterms arrive.

In the weeks before the midterms, polls of congressional races were starting to register the results of the rising dissatisfaction with Obamacare, combined with the surging wave of Tea Party activism.

I spend a lot of time in Moffitt and VLSB (two of the main libraries at Berkeley) pulling all - nighters, hoping to squeeze every last ounce of information in before midterms...

Before long, she's boozing it up at a frat party, playing goalie for an intramural soccer team, flirting with jocks in the library, and cramming all night before midterms.

Practice writing in a note pad in the weeks before your midterms or finals.

Not exact matches

«You could sort of see it happening in slow motion, notwithstanding efforts by leadership to try to deflect it or push it back,» says Steven Law, a former McConnell chief of staff who became a top U.S. Chamber of Commerce official before landing at American Crossroads, the Karl Rove - founded Super PAC, which now aims to usher more moderate Republican nominees into the midterms.

If you were a good student, you likely also reviewed the material the week of the midterm, the night before, and perhaps the morning of the test.

In late January, Obama will give his fifth State of the Union address, setting his agenda for the final stretch before the 2014 midterm elections render him less able to focus Washington's attention on his own priorities.

Republican leaders from the two chambers are now trying to work out a compromise that can pass both chambers and get to the president's desk before November's midterm elections.

Both the White House and congressional Republicans are desperate for a big legislative accomplishment before attention turns to the midterm elections next year, especially following the failure to repeal Obamacare.

In the fall of 2006, as midterm elections approached, Facebook took the then bold step of allowing political candidates to set up modified profile pages, well before celebrities and products could have fan pages of their own.

Before the November midterms, of course.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC's David Maris told clients in a note, «We believe that there is a high risk that healthcare and drug pricing will be a key part of the midterm elections as well as the next presidential election, and we expect that the current administration will try to blunt any criticism that it hasn't done enough with plans of its own before then.»

The year 2006 may for most people mark the tenth anniversary of the 1996 Welfare Act, signed by Bill Clinton, after he had vetoed two previous efforts, and just before crucial midterm elections that November.

Even before the final weekend push, for instance, Democrats had used the Voter Activation Network to target over 50 % more voter outreach than at the same point in the previous midterm campaign (though I was surprised it wasn't higher).

In the chart above, you can see Republicans being much stronger in the Senate after the 2010 midterm elections, but never before (in recent history).

But with the midterm elections less than two months away, leaders have not yet decided whether they will schedule a vote on the legislation before voters go to the polls.

The pair of Democratic committees tasked with raising money for House and Senate candidates — and doing so at a time when the party holds its strongest position on Capitol Hill in a generation — have watched their receipts plummet by a combined 20 percent with little more than a year to go before the November 2010 midterm elections.

The news conference will come at an action - packed time for the President, just days after he helped launch direct Middle East peace talks and gave a prime - time Oval Office address on the end of combat operations in Iraq, as well as falling less than two months before a critical midterm election where Democrats» majorities in the House and Senate are on the ropes largely because of the nation's economic uncertainty.

The midterm review will give the coalition's longevity prospects a shot in the arm, but the art of multi-party government in Whitehall still has some way to go before it becomes truly refined.

By abandoning the strategy on its third day, Democrats believe they limited whatever damage there may be before the crucial November midterms.

Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said he will not seek re-election — the 34th GOP House member to head for the exit before the 2018 midterm elections.

With less than three weeks left before the November midterms, the ever - widening House playing field of competitive races is now nearly double what it has been in other recent elections, according to independent political handicappers.

For the first time in recent memory, the Democratic Party's House and Senate campaign committees currently have more money to spend on races than their Republican counterparts — a milestone reached just five months before the critical midterm elections.