Sentences with phrase «coalition runs the chamber»

When asked about the senator's attendance this year, his campaign spokesman, Richie Fife, had a three - point response: Perkins attendance record before this year is laudable; the votes so far this year have taken place outside the budget negotiations, when a bulk of the chambers» real action occurs; and frankly, legislators in the minority don't have much power, thanks to the way the Republican - IDC coalition runs the chamber.

And Cuomo continues to maintain a strong relationship with the State Senate Republicans, declining to offer even a gesture of help to the Democrats hope to re-take control from the current coalition running the chamber.

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Sen. Jeff Klein has now made clear that he and his fellow IDCers would like to form a so - called coalition government with the Senate Republicans, which, in his description, entails a true bipartisan power - sharing situation when it comes to running the chamber.

«Yet the Coalition is preparing to replace that House with a new second chamber elected by means of regional party lists» Factually untrue, Tories hate closed list PR even more than Lib Dems do, the plan is, and always was, for elections to be run using STV (also known as the British Proportional System, as used for the Australian Senate).

When candidates running on the Democratic line won a majority of the chamber's seats in 2012, the then - five - member Independent Democratic Conference formed a governing coalition with the GOP; the IDC will almost certainly have six members in January due to Marisol Alcantara's primary victory.

All three Democratic incumbents are running for a second term and are top targets for Senate Republicans, who are trying to maintain control of the chamber after the Independent Democratic Conference announced it would end its majority coalition agreement with the GOP.

The independents seek recognition as a permanent third conference and a bipartisan governing coalition, in which Republicans and Democrats would jointly run the chamber.

Some of Valesky's IDC colleagues are facing more push - back — such as losing key political endorsements — from fellow Democrats who are angry the breakaway group forged a coalition with Senate Republicans to jointly run the upper chamber.