Sentences with phrase «before midterm elections»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Caveats aside, the lessons from the 2010 midterm elections — in which Republicans heavily campaigned against the Affordable Care Act that had passed only months before Election Day — are instructive.

But the measure, widely expected to be one of the last big policy fights before this year's midterm elections, has Republicans and Democrats on track to clash.

Now House Minority Leader John Boehner wants them to chew over possible solutions — before they vote in the midterm elections on November 2.

But while Democrats were quick to tout their victories in three special elections before the 2010 midterm cycle, they went on to lose control of the House.

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

Opponents criticized the president's move as a politically themed effort to energize Democrats before tough midterm elections that threaten to give Republicans control of the Senate.

The midterm elections are coming up in November, but before that happens, we need to get through the midterm election primaries.

Before last year's midterms, an overwhelming majority of education experts polled by the consulting firm Whiteboard Advisors said replacing No Child Left Behind would have to wait until well after the 2016 elections — if it ever happened at all.

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.

In this podcast episode, guest Joel Stronberg gives a U.S. midterms election update, and outlines what might happen in Washington D.C. before November and what the renewables industry should be thinking about beyond election day.

Throughout the 2010 midterm election cycle — and well before — most politicians dared not even utter the word climate change.

Facebook is under increasing pressure to crack down on misinformation before this fall's hotly contested midterm elections.

Joseph — who turns 18 five weeks before this year's midterm elections — registered to vote Wednesday at his school, Blanche Ely High in Pompano Beach.

On Friday, in what feels like a ploy to reassure the public they'll have a plan on the related issue of foreign election interference before the 2018 midterms, Facebook detailed how it will make political advertising more transparent.

Facebook will hire more people to enforce the new advertising policy before the 2018 midterm elections.

The Senate Intelligence Committee issued recommendations on Tuesday for states to tighten election security before November's midterm elections.