Sentences with phrase «caucus leaders when»

Along with six new members, the Kingston Common Council will have two new caucus leaders when it convenes for its

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In the last parliament, when Toronto Liberal MP Michelle Simson began posting her expenses online, the party took away her speaking privileges in the Commons and then - leader Michael Ignatieff told her she was creating a problem for the caucus.

When I asked how, exactly, he intended to do that, noting that the Democratic conference, not the governor, selects the Assembly speaker, Paladino replied rather ominously: «We are going to make it very untenable for his caucus to keep him as their leader... Watch me.

Even if this latest peace deal between Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and IDC Leader Jeff Klein holds when lawmakers return to Albany after the Easter / Passover break next week, and even if the Democrats win both the April 24 special elections (the Westchester County race is really the deciding factor there, since the Bronx seat seems a safe bet), the Republicans will still have control of the chamber as long as Felder, a conservative Democrat, continues to caucus with them.

Although Democratic Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, the No. 3 House Democratic leader, declined to call for Weiner's resignation, he said the entire Democratic caucus «should address this issue when we meet» this week.

If Boehner joins Pelosi in drafting a House bi-partisan bill he could lose his Speaker position when the GOP caucus votes for leaders in January.

Between the specter of primaries, a newly united Democratic party (key unions and other leaders also agreed to back a Democratic senate for the first time when WFP backed Cuomo), and the events of the last year, the IDC announced it would caucus with Democrats in 2015.

Fasano was elected on a day when legislators picked their caucus leaders at the Capitol complex.

(CNN)- Nevada might move its caucus date when state Republican leaders meet Saturday, potentially ending a bitter showdown with New Hampshire that threatens to create chaos in the primary calendar.

Two Democrats, the Reverend Ruben Diaz, Sr., of the Bronx, and Brooklyn's Simcha Felder (who in any event caucuses with the Republicans separate from the IDC) are hostile to LGBT rights, and the recent indictments of two former Senate Democratic leaders still in office — Malcolm Smith of Queens and John Sampson of Brooklyn — recall in Avella's mind and others» the dysfunction that beset the Senate when the Democrats last had control, in 2009 and 2010.

But it wasn't until this spring, when the official leader of the Democratic party used her heft within the caucus to urge other Democrats to help ensure payday lenders could evade regulation nationwide, that her long advocacy for 400 percent interest rates and endless debt traps for the working poor became a political liability.