Sentences with phrase «following the fall elections»

Earlier this week, we explored the possibility of Senate Democrats controlling 60 seats following the fall election — a scenario we deemed a long shot at best.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and IDC leader Sen. Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) on Wednesday announced that following the fall elections, members of the IDC will again sit with their Democratic colleagues and provide a Democratic majority in the upper house.
Standing last week before a legislature that appears to have become more conservative following the fall elections, Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, pledged not to increase taxes and admonished the lawmakers that «we can not let education be paralyzed by politics.»

Not exact matches

What follows are the releases that I believe are worth watching in the run - up to the fall election.
Still, even if you take out the Obama Trauma, in which the stock market fell nearly 13 % following the current president's election in 2008 — and, to be fair, the country was in the middle of a financial panic — the average return in a month following the election is 0.4 %.
The «Fast Money» traders evaluated the opportunities in tech stocks, following Donald Trump's election, and their subsequent fall.
Refinance volume has been falling dramatically since rates spiked following the presidential election.
While uncertainty rose following the election, gold fell.
Elections for the following Board of Director positions will be held this fall.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a 2016 GOP presidential contender, said that lawmakers should be held accountable during this fall's midterm elections for their inaction on gun laws following a number of high - profile mass shootings around the country.
This government would fall after such a mass resignation, and either a general election or a Conservative (or coalition) government would follow.
In 2010, when the party was under federal investigation and risked falling off the ballot in the following election, it agreed to endorse Cuomo after he made the party's leaders sign on to a pro-business platform that included fighting organized labor.
Evan Davis, a former counsel to Gov. Mario Cuomo who had been pursuing legal action against the state Board of Elections over placement of a referendum for a constitutional convention, has withdrawn his suit following the boards agreement to take steps to highlight the issue on the fall ballot.
If the party had managed to win such slightly higher support levels in the last general election in the 13 constituencies that fall into this category, then Labour would have ended up winning 50 seats at the election, and the overall seat tallies by party would have looked as follows: Fine Gael 73, Labour 50, Fianna Fail 17, Sinn Fein 11, United Left Alliance 3, Others 12.
Bunning, despite the fact that polling showed that he simply could not win re-election this fall, still retains a somewhat considerable following within conservative circles in the state — the very people who both Paul and Grayson are trying to appeal in advance of what is expected to be a relatively low turnout election next month.
The final act of the Democrat's convention leads into the state Conservative Party convention tomorrow, followed by the Republican convention next week, putting the unusually packed slate of elections this fall into higher gear.
He said, «You will recall that shortly before the 2011 presidential election, I had said it was the last time I would offer myself for elective position and I meant it, but the following years, we saw our country virtually falling apart on all fronts.
A potential raise for New York state lawmakers has become a campaign issue in this fall's elections, with many challengers saying lawmakers don't deserve more money following a wave of corruption arrests.
After an election, a prime minister in office might well wait until parliament met and only resign once defeated in the Commons, which is one reason why every government between 1837 and 1874 fell following a Commons vote.
The whole council was up for election following extensive boundary changes, with the new council falling to no overall control.
Although the number of Conservative MSPs only fell from 17 to 15 following last week's election, this masked the true scale of the decline.
He fell victim to the New Labour new broom when a secret deal was struck the following year, in 1996, to abolish the election of the chief and deputy chief whip and make them appointed posts.
When Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) took over as Speaker of the House following the 2006 election, she famously promised to «drain the swamp» — a reference to the ethical problems that had consumed the Republican majority and played a major role in their ouster that fall.
But the president says they're just following the law: «The EPA is under a court order that says greenhouse gases are a pollutant that fall under their jurisdiction,» Barack Obama said after he declared legislation on cap and trade dead in the water in the wake of the elections.
For the Court, the matter as a whole fell within Union law following not from the existence of an interest or unexercised competence but rather from the obligation contained in Article 14 (3) TEU and the 1976 Act on the elections to the European Parliament that such elections be «universal and direct».
Immediately following last year's provincial election, the Ontario Government created a new public holiday under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (the «ESA»)-- Family Day, which falls on the third Monday of each February.
We have been following the whole C - 55 saga with much interest... perhaps the hurry has something to do with the 24,000 Ontario jobs lost in June... or a possible election in the fall???
Alberta's new NDP government made some important policy decisions soon after its election in spring 2015 and introduced several Bills in the fall, leading to the following ABlawg posts:
The provision for retirement at 75 in Canada's Constitution Act, 1867 (s. 99 (2) looks prescient, though one can see that with the fixed US election cycle, institutionalizing such a system in the US would be fraught with peril — anyone whose birthyear fell on a presidential election year would be less likely to be appointed than someone in the following year, but for those into the issue, here are the leads: TERM LIMITS FOR THE SUPREME COURT: Life Tenure Reconsidered, WHEN SUPREME COURT JUSTICES REFUSE TO RETIRE: Why We Need More Media Coverage, And A Constitutional Amendment and Politicized Departure from the United States Supreme Court
Here's what's worth knowing: following the fall - out over Russian - bought ads in the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook said it created the tools needed to handle political ad spending better.
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