Sentences with phrase «controlled statehouses»

Cuomo has pushed through a plan to shield his state residents from tax hikes under the Republican tax law — and Democratic - controlled statehouses across the country are following suit.

So we've been talking about this effort by this group, the Republican State Leadership Committee, to put not huge amounts of money, but enough money to make a difference in a few dozen state legislative races, hoping that Republicans could then control statehouses, and after the 2010 census draw the new congressional lines.

These bills, however, got nowhere in the Democratic - controlled statehouse.

Let's go back to 2010, when Indiana's former Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels and the GOP - controlled Statehouse wholeheartedly endorsed Common Core for Indiana.

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They then used that statehouse power to help cement their control in Washington by redrawing congressional districts following the 2010 Census.

Republicans who control a majority of the nation's statehouses are considering a wide range of abortion legislation that could test the government's legal ability to restrict a woman's right to terminate pregnancy.

The party has also expanded its control in statehouses across the country.

Supporters of New York's gun control measures — among the most restrictive in the U.S. — held a smaller event inside the Statehouse to announce several new bills, including one that would prohibit anyone from buying more than one gun a month.

BOISE, Idaho — A Republican Idaho state senator yelled «abortion is murder» at a group of students who were pushing for birth control legislation at the Statehouse and now faces...

After one of the most shocking displays of Machiavellian politics in a statehouse awash with plots and conspiracy — when Democrats Hiram Monserrate and Pedro Espada helped Republicans take back control of the New York State Senate — it would not have been surprising if fistfights had broken out at the Italian Community Center near Albany, where Republican and Democratic lawmakers gathered last night for a fund - raiser.

(CNN)- The Democratic Governor's Association announced Friday it raised $ 10 million over the last three months, a cash haul that puts the organization in strong financial shape as it faces the prospect of losing control of a significant number of statehouses this November.

Republicans occupy the White House, run both chambers of Congress and control about two - thirds of U.S. statehouses.

Yet especially with Republicans taking office in statehouses and governorships since the commitments were made, the standards have been perceived by some as a political liability: a potentially big - government - seeming program that appears to standardize education across the country when state control has long been Conservative currency.

While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.

Mayoral control, meanwhile, has pulled authority away from school boards in some districts, and lawmakers are seeking to mandate changes from statehouses and the judiciary.