Sentences with phrase «breaking leadership vote»

This comes on the heels of the Senate's approval this week of a rules change that stripped Duffy of his ability to cast a tie - breaking leadership vote.

Although the majority leader claims he moved to strip LG Bob Duffy of his tie - breaking leadership vote in the chamber because he believes that only senators should have the right to weigh in on who leads the chamber, most believe the real motivation is because he knew 31 - 31 was a distinct possibility in the not - so - distant future.

The Senate Democrats have turned to their former colleague, Eric Schneiderman, for assistance in their rules fight, asking the ex-senator-turned-AG for an opinion on whether the Republicans» effort to take away LG Bob Duffy's tie - breaking leadership vote is legal.

Not exact matches

Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler announced this afternoon that the House leadership has agreed to have a straight - up vote on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act when members return from their August break — perhaps as early as the week of September 20.

For the Labour leadership, the choice is simple - take a principled view that they support an elected House of Lords and so ask their MPs to vote with the Government, saving it from possible defeat; or take a more pragmatic view that their job is to break up the Coalition and so ask their MPs to vote against the Bill.

First Grimm voted with his Republican leadership to end Medicare while protecting subsidies for Big Oil and tax breaks for billionaires.

Latimer stressed his independence, producing a list of instances in which he broke with party leadership or voted with Republicans.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was fairly terse in his response just now when asked for a reaction to the Senate GOP's move to strip LG Bob Duffy of his right to break a tie in the event of a deadlocked leadership vote in the chamber.

Senate Minority Leader John Sampson is upping the ante considerably this morning in his war of words with Majority Leader Dean Skelos over rules changes, accusing the GOP of creating a «constitutional crisis» by moving to strip LG Bob Duffy of his right to break a tie in a leadership vote.

Gordon Brown faces a make or break challenge to his leadership today after Labour trailed humiliatingly behind Ukip in the European elections and was expected to garner about 16 % or 17 % of the vote, its lowest share since the first world war and below the party's worst expectations.

«The GMB appear to have broken the spirit of the rules guiding the conduct of the Labour party leadership election by sending out a strong recommendation for Ed Miliband together with the ballot paper for political levy payers... It may well suggest that the margin of his victory depended on votes cast in dubious circumstances.

«An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises Main AV could only be defeated if a large number of Labour supported voted to keep First Past The Post and from the earliest days of the campaign huge efforts were made to ensure the No campaign was genuinely cross-party»

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The leadership won all the key votes, Clegg's allies, like Danny Alexander and David Laws, are riding high and Alexander (41) has been smacking down Cable (70) on issues like Help to Buy and the possible break - up of the coalition with a confidence and authority that he did not have two years ago.

Last night, Gianaris specifically called out two senators — Jim Alesi and Joe Robach — for supporting the change that would strip LG Bob Duffy of his ability to cast a tie - breaking vote on procedural matters, which includes the all - important leadership question.

Paterson's appointment provided a tie - breaking vote in the Senate, which had been deadlocked at 31 - 31 since shortly after a June 8 overthrow of Democratic leadership.

Here's Politico: «Dozens of purple - state Republicans have broken ranks with their party leadership to take the pro-green position during floor and committee votes spanning more than 100 bills and amendments.»