Sentences with phrase «congressional majority»

On May 6th, a host of elected officials and local leaders jammed into El Nuevo Caridad Restaurant to voice their support for re-electing Espaillat — as well as for a Democratic Congressional majority in the upcoming midterm elections.

«It's more the Republican congressional majorities that have been developing these programs in their detail,» says Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

''... if the comming Democratic congressional majority abuses its power in senseless persecution, I will join in voting them back out...»

Lacking the presidential bully pulpit but boasting the largest congressional majority in generations, top Republicans accused President Obama of loading his State of the Union address with partisan priorities instead of demonstrating the leadership...

It took President Barack Obama more than a year from his inauguration to get the Affordable Care Act passed by the skin of its teeth — despite enjoying massive Congressional majorities.

Democrats, who've won their largest and most liberal congressional majorities since the 1960s, cede news cycle after news cycle to second - term members of Congress and half - term former governors.

Back in those heady days, the new president, fresh off a comfortable electoral victory and with congressional majorities as far as the eye could see, had the power to drive the agenda.

He's in the homestretch of his tenure, his approval rating hasn't hit 50 percent in nearly two years, and Republicans have significant congressional majorities.

But on Monday, the day after a mid-term vote that looked likely to give Pena Nieto's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its allies a slim congressional majority, Emilio Chuayffet, the education minister, said the teacher evaluations would be reinstated.

With Republicans» congressional majorities narrowed, and a presidential race too close to call just after the election, the outlook for key NAR legislative priorities in 2001 remained murky in the days following the Nov. 7 election.

The news will come as another serious and demoralizing blow to GOP hopes of holding the party's congressional majority in this fall's midterm election.

The Republican congressional majority that took office in January 1995 built its agenda around an ambitious effort to reduce the scope and reach of the federal government.

The old Kyoto bogeymen, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, have left the building, and Democrats control the largest congressional majority that either party has seen in a generation.

Ruben, a long - time political organizer, aided in the establishment of the group's field organizing program, and headed the 2006 «Call for Change» campaign that facilitated in the election of a Democratic congressional majority, and served as a supervisor for two years in MoveOn's issue campaigns.

Such policy divergences have made it difficult for the Trump administration to govern effectively despite boasting a congressional majority.

Congressional majority is extremely careerist and partisan, but they almost to a person fucking hate Trump.

Although they were ultimately unable to raise the CEP threshold in the last Congress, they now have a Republican president, in addition to a congressional majority.

The legislation, which required meals in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to have fewer calories, more fruits and vegetables, fewer processed items and less sodium, was passed by a Congressional majority.

As of 2015, Washington was home to one congressional majority - minority district.

As of 2015, New York was home to nine congressional majority - minority districts.

As of 2015, Massachusetts was home to one congressional majority - minority district.

I think what we're seeing on the Republican side is just a long - overdue realization of the power of the social Web — a realization that many Democrats came to in 2006 and 2008 (and we've got the Congressional majority, not to mention the White House, to prove it).

As of 2015, New Hampshire was home to zero congressional majority - minority districts.

Only then will Democrats wield the congressional majorities they desperately desire.

The Congressional majority GOPers want to undercut Obama / John Kerry's attempt to reach an agreement with Iran on military nuke policy.

Democratic voters are choosing decidedly liberal candidates in some primary elections for House races viewed as key to the congressional majority.

As of 2015, Missouri was home to one congressional majority - minority district.

Indeed, as The Politico has reported, the party's congressional campaign committees have just recently begun instructing their candidates for Senate and House, on how to handle a medium that helped end their congressional majorities last year.

But in the next breath, he argued that Democratic office - holders, including Maloney, must take responsibility for squandering their Congressional majorities in 2009 and 2010 and, as he put it, failing to «deliver for the American people.»

DeLay's involvement with the lobbying industry included a pointed effort on the part of the Republican Party to parlay the Congressional majority into dominance of K Street, the lobbying district of Washington, D.C. DeLay, Senator Rick Santorum, and Grover Norquist launched a campaign in 1995 encouraging lobbying firms to retain only Republican officials in top positions.

His interview with the Associated Press, which the wire service published on Tuesday night, is filled with cringe - worthy pronouncements that should send chills up the spines of Republican elected officials and party activists hoping to preserve their congressional majorities this fall.

Congressional Democrats today unveiled a proposal to clean up corruption in government — the crown jewel of the national agenda they hope will deliver them congressional majorities in the November midterm elections.

As of 2015, Vermont was home to zero congressional majority - minority districts.

«With continued conflict among the Congressional majority, the threat of «poison pill» policy riders, and the looming election,» they write, «it's not clear this Congress will have any more luck than prior Congresses in returning to regular order — that magical place in which budget resolutions and appropriations bills are drafted and approved on time, before the end of the fiscal year, and with minimal fuss.»

Its monies support immunization programs to prevent disease and block grants to states, he says, adding that a repeal of the ACA — a stated priority of the Trump administration and the congressional majority — would endanger these programs.

Meanwhile, government sponsored energy R&D is in decline in this country, and we can't just blame it on Bush / Cheney: this need was evident in the Clinton Administration, and the Democrats currently have Congressional majorities.

It's a bit unusual to hear a cleantech CEO who seems to be optimistic about the arrival of a Republican congressional majority.