Sentences with phrase «breakaway state»

Panic takes over in the «nation's» capital, followed by improvisation, vague promises of more devolved powers, and not - so - subtle threats about what it will all mean for the shared currency and the breakaway state's place in the larger common market (their EU to our NAFTA).

The Independent Democratic Conference — a group of eight breakaway state senators elected as Democrats — has been a leading force of obstruction since 2011, partnering with Senate Republicans to shut out tenant voices

They blame Cuomo for propping up a group of eight breakaway state Senate Democrats and not having done enough to win the chamber back for the Democrats.

An online medium had yesterday, reported that Biafra agitators have allegedly hijacked a merchant ship and threatened to blow it up with its foreign crew if government authorities do not release its detained leader agitating for a breakaway state of Biafra.

He has since been met with a rising tide of support in southeastern Nigeria for a breakaway state of Biafra.

As Clio Chang wrote at Splinter, Cuomo «has also worked to prop up the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of eight breakaway state Senate Democrats who caucus with Republicans, effectively giving them the majority.

New countries, disputed territories, breakaway states, rebel - control zones and more.

New countries, disputed territories, breakaway states, rebel - control zones and more.

New countries, disputed territories, breakaway states, rebel - control zones and more.

To America's credit some breakaway states such as california are virtually going it alone.

New countries, disputed territories, breakaway states, rebel - control zones and more.

Not exact matches

After NATO invited Georgia in 2008 to step up cooperation toward eventual membership, Russian forces drove deep into the ex-Soviet republic in a five - day war and Moscow recognized two breakaway Georgian regions as independent states.

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Breakaway Childcare Center, Inc. is a state - licensed facility that offers day care and early education programs for infants up to school - age children.

Similar to the wrongful death lawsuit Walker's daughter Meadow filed against the car company, Walker's father states that the missing features include a stability control system, side - door reinforcements and a breakaway fuel line that could have stopped the car from catching on fire after it hit three trees.

A breakaway group of five state Senate Democrats who have been aligned with the Republicans are set to reintroduce an ethics package that would ban state public officials from receiving any outside income following Silver's corruption conviction.

A number of state Senate Republicans weren't happy with a breakaway group of Democrats aligned with them after they voted en masse against a GOP budget proposal last week that included many initiatives the independent Dems had sought.

Facing pressure from progressive groups and primary challengers up and down the ballot, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an agreement to end a controversial power - sharing deal between state Republicans and a breakaway group of Democratic lawmakers.

Taxpayers could save more than $ 2 million a year if it weren't for a group of breakaway Democrats who need their own support staff in the state Senate, critics say.

The chairman of the state Democratic party and a group of influential union leaders are calling on New York Senate Democrats to back the re-election of eight breakaway Dems who recently returned to the fold.

The race may be more than a year away, but former NYC Councilman Robert Jackson is already getting support from an old foe — Micah Lasher — for his planned 2018 primary challenge against freshman breakaway Democratic state Sen. Marisol Alcantara.

Tomorrow will be a big day for the state Senate Democrats, as the eight members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference will formally rejoin the mainline Democrats.

The Cuomo campaign, in a statement released after the WFP vote, touted the governor's liberal record and alluded to his recent role in brokering an end to a power - sharing deal between state Senate Republicans and a breakaway group of Democratic lawmakers.

Cuomo has failed to deliver on women's equality and campaign - finance reform, often blaming the inaction on a state Senate controlled by breakaway Democrats and Republicans — an arrangement Cuomo has until now done nothing to challenge.

In the name of keeping the State Senate out of the hands of the sorts of Democrats who used to run it, Cuomo gave his blessing late last year to the formation of the coalition of Republicans and breakaway «independent» Democrats who now lead it.

ALBANY — The Senate's Independent Democratic Conference has made raising the age of criminal responsibility a priority for this session, but some Democrats of color in the state Assembly are wary that the breakaway group will «water down» the issue and question its motives for pushing the measure.

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

Klein, leader of the breakaway «Independent Democratic Conference» which controls the state senate in cooperation with the Republican minority, faces Oliver Koppell in a Democratic primary on Tuesday.

Monday marked the first day that the former breakaway Democrats in the New York State Senate will be working with the mainstream Democrats after they agreed to reunify earlier this month.

A faction of breakaway Democrats in the state Senate has been gaining members lately, but they are now facing a backlash, including raucous opposition at meetings in their districts.

The new iteration of the New York state Senate will look different in 2013 with the new power sharing agreement in place between Republicans and breakaway Democrats, and two central New York lawmakers will be in the thick of it.

There is growing pressure on a group of breakaway Democrats in the New York State Senate to reunite with the mainstream Democrats and form a majority to rule the Senate.

Monday marked the first day that the former breakaway Democrats in the New York State Senate were working with the mainstream Democrats after they agreed to reunify earlier this month.

The legislators, all Democrats, say Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is supportive of their plan, but it has to also pass the state Senate, which is led by a coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats.

After an embarrassing controversy over stipend payments, the beleaguered group of breakaway Democrats in the State Senate are trying to change the subject.

The GOP's 30 state senators share control of the 63 - seat chamber with a coalition of five breakaway Democrats and Simcha Felder, a conservative Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans.

The five members of a breakaway group of state Senate Democrats say they will support new legislation to help adults who were sexually abused as children seek legal recourse.

The state Senate is currently ruled by Republicans, with the help of several breakaway Democrats.

Alcantara, an organizer with the New York State Nurses Association, has the backing of Espaillat and the breakaway Independent Democrat Conference, which has partnered with Senate Republicans.

Mr. Liu and Ms. Meng — who like Mr. Avella, are Democrats hailing from northeast Queens — criticized Mr. Avella when asked about about his recent move to join the breakaway conference Democrats governing the State Senate with the Republican Party.

Cuomo also kept the plates spinning on the ever more complicated state Legislature, where Republicans need the breakaway Democrats to pass legislation.

Andrea Stewart - Cousins is the first woman to head a legislative conference in the state legislature and the first black female Senate minority leader (now that a group of breakaway Democrats has disbanded).

Recently Clarke had a conversation with Jasmine Robinson, an Afro - Cubana legal secretary and community activist challenging Staten Island state Senator Diane Savino (a former breakaway Democrat) at an event.

Sen. David Valesky, one of eight breakaway Democrats who control the balance of power in the New York State Senate, says he's open to the idea of reuniting with mainstream Democrats.

ALBANY — Democrats unhappy with the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference have added an item to their long list of complaints — the IDC's close relationship with the state's Independence Party.

For far too long, the Governor has been conspicuously silent as breakaway Democrats in the state Senate have artificially handed power to the GOP, making it impossible for New York to effectively fight the Trump agenda.

«Now that rogue Bill Lipton and his breakaway political party has claimed ownership of this shameful and vulgar push poll we look forward to a review by the State Board of Elections,» said Candice Giove, an IDC spokeswoman.

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The Senate, which is currently controlled by Republicans and a group of breakaway Democrats, was responsible last year for blocking the final plank in the Women's Equality Act proposed by Mr. Cuomo, which would have codified in state law the right to abortion as established by Roe v. Wade.

Around the table sat Mr. Cuomo; the leaders of New York's most powerful labor unions; Joseph Crowley, the top - ranked New York Democrat in the House of Representatives; and the two rival Democratic leaders of the State Senate — Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who leads the main group of Democrats, and Jeffrey D. Klein, who leads the breakaway group — among others.