Sentences with phrase «conference needs every vote»

The conference needs every vote they can get to keep the Regents in their chairs.

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Even if supporters can muster the needed votes, Heastie indicated that bringing the bill to the floor would require a majority of the Democratic conference's support.

He also said he and his conference still need to review «language» on gay marriage and decide whether there will be a vote before the Senate leaves Albany for the summer.

It's unclear whether Senate Republicans have the votes to back the wage increase or if they will need to rely on votes from the mainline Democratic conference for the measure to be approved.

Morris is the lone Democrat running against Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who conferences with Republicans and gives the GOP its needed 32nd vote in the chamber to maintain its narrow majority.

When, last October, the party conference voted to reject a leadership - backed motion allowing for the expansion of Gatwick airport if it's recommended by the Davies commission, Clegg pointedly remarked, «it will need to be discussed again because, how can I put it, I've seen the perils of the past of putting something which you know in your heart of hearts is not necessarily deliverable.»

Unlike the other three GOP senators to vote for the same - sex marriage law, Saland was involved in the crafting of the measure itself, negotiating an amendment that carved out religious protections (one could argue that the protections weren't really needed in a realistic aspect, but it gave some protection to the GOP conference in allowing a vote to begin with).

«They had to talk to one another to decide that they would have voted yes if their vote was needed, so they're not serious about protecting the hard - working men and women of New York State,» Meeks said on a conference call with reporters.

Specific details are still pending, as Mr. Heastie and Mr. Flanagan will need to discuss them with their respective conferences and obtain votes of approval.

He disclosed that a group called Ashanti Faithfuls For Mahama has been formed by some movie makers and stars in kumasi and very soon, a press conference would be held ahead of the Nov 7 national polls where all the projects and full reasons why every Ghanaian and every Ashanti needs to vote for John Dramani Mahama shall be made known.

The Senate needs 32 votes to pass a budget, and clearly there will be none from Skelos» conference.

Delegates at the British Medical Association's (BMA) annual conference backed the motion against Jeremy Hunt so strongly there was no need to even hold a vote.

Although Bloomberg clearly put pressure on Republicans to bring the bill to a vote Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos left the meeting with Bloomberg and told reporters that his conference needed to further discuss the issue.

And two - thirds of those who vote at the conference - which is open to all party members - need to support any deal.

«Madison Square Garden has to move, and this legislation shows that that work needs to begin now,» Council Speaker Christine Quinn said at a press conference ahead of the full council vote.

The problem is that Espada Jr. has reached an uneasy peace with Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, who needs all 32 votes of his conference to get anything passed this session and can't afford to be seen as working against any of his incumbent members — even the unpopConference Leader John Sampson, who needs all 32 votes of his conference to get anything passed this session and can't afford to be seen as working against any of his incumbent members — even the unpopconference to get anything passed this session and can't afford to be seen as working against any of his incumbent members — even the unpopular ones.

Under current rules, the GOP majority will need at least six votes from Schumer's 48 - member Democratic conference to close discussion on most major matters.

The I.D.C. announced they were forming a ruling coalition with the Senate's Republican conference in December of 2012, an arrangement that gave I.D.C. members more power and financial resources, and gave the G.O.P. the votes needed to retain control of the chamber, which they've held for most of the past 50 years, despite Democrats» overwhelming registration advantage statewide.

Felder has said he's open to that prospect, and would likely have more leverage within the Democratic conference if he is the person to become the 32nd vote that's needed to flip the chamber to Democratic control.

Secondly, the relationship between these votes and policy decisions of Annual Conference would need to be clarified.

In 2015, after the IDC lost any say over the legislative agenda, Governor Cuomo pushed through a minimum wage hike to $ 15.00 / hr that needed mainline Democratic Conference votes to pass

Nixon has criticized Cuomo for what she said is allowing Republicans, bolstered by the Independent Democratic Conference, to remain in power, leading to a block on liberal priorities like early voting and more money for high - needs schools.

The thinking is that passage of GENDA could give a much needed progressive win to IDC Leader Jeff Klein & Co. at a time when the breakaway Democratic conference is under intense pressure from the left for (so far) failing to force a vote on some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top agenda items, including the all - inclusive 10 - point Women's Equality Act and the campaign finance reform bill.

Still, Republicans are working to keep Klein and his breakaway conference close to the fold in the event their votes are needed.

Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who sits with the Republican conference in the chamber, gives them the needed 32nd vote to attain a working majority in the state Senate.

Those close to Paterson countered that the new attack was meant to divert attention from the failure of Senate Majority Conference Leader John Sampson (D - Brooklyn) to muster the 32 votes needed to pass a final budget bill that has already cleared the Assembly.

«We need every member of the New York delegation, Democrat and Republican, to come out and say they will vote against any bill that cuts state and local deductibility,» Schumer said in a conference call with reporters.

Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan reiterated on Wednesday that his conference, which holds the bare 32 - vote majority needed to pass legislation in that chamber, will not approve a state budget that does not entirely eliminate the remaining Gap Elimination Adjustment, a leftover from the 2008 fiscal meltdown.

An attempt to suspend standing orders and allow an emergency motion on the Health and Social Care Bill was approved by a majority of conference representatives but failed to get the two - thirds majority needed (235 voted to suspend standing orders...

Cuomo has endorsed one member of the Senate Democratic conference, Senator Joseph Addabbo of Queens, who also provided a needed yes vote on gay marriage, and who is locked in a tight race with Republican Eric Ulrich.

For his talk of reform, Heastie is maintaining one of Silver's iron rules: never move on a proposal that doesn't have the 76 votes from your own conference that it needs to pass in the chamber.

This illustrates the crying need for conference to become once again a real conference — one which has real debates and votes.

Democrats in the remaining 26 - member conference grumble about the IDC's propensity to side with Republicans on contentious issues such as a constitutional amendment for independent redistricting and a vote that some saw as watering down the powers of the lieutenant governor in order to provide needed votes (it was even joked about at the LCA Show in May).

But Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat, since November has said he will again conference with the Republicans, giving them the 32 votes needed to pass legislation.

As our daily polling shows little fluctuation in voting intention despite conference season, Peter Kellner questions the need for conferences so far from an election

A deal on public campaign finance, though, seems mathematically impossible: even if — and it's a big if — Cuomo was able to broker the reunification of the five - member Independent Democratic Conference with the mainstream Democrats in the State Senate, they will together not have a 32 - vote bloc needed to control the chamber.

Republicans would need to rely on Simcha Felder, and enrolled Democrat who has conferenced with them since 2012, to formally vote in a replacement for Skelos in the 63 - seat chamber.

A member would need 53 Democratic votes to gain a majority of the conference (which does not include Michael Kearns, a registered Democrat who doesn't currently conference with the others), and 76 supporters from either party to force a floor vote for a new speaker.

While Heastie did not have public commitments for the 76 votes he needs to be elected leader of the 150 - member body, he seems close to compiling insurmountable support within the conference.

«Now we have a project that is more in tune, and truly reflective of the needs of the surrounding community,» said Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito at a press conference before the vote.

Some critics have argued that Mr. Cuomo — who reportedly facilitated the arrangement between the GOP and the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to maintain control of the upper house of the legislature — created the Women's Equality Party as a means to siphon support away from the Working Families Party, in order to deny them the 50,000 votes needed to remain on the ballot.

But with 32 votes needed to choose a leader, the GOP would have to get votes from either a mainstream Democrat or from at least one of the five members of the Independent Democratic Conference led by Jeff Klein.

In his speech to the Lib Dem conference on Tuesday, Huhne, who fell out with Conservative cabinet colleagues over their tactics during the Alternative Vote referendum in May, will warn David Cameron to keep the Tory right under control, saying: «We don't need the Tea Party tendency in Britain.»

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