Sentences with phrase «full majority»

The special election, at the same time, comes as Cuomo faces lingering questions from Democrats as to whether he would back their bid to take full majority control of their chamber.

Republicans won a one - seat majority in the chamber on Election Day, and with Brooklyn Democrat Simcha Felder conferencing with them, do not need the IDC to retain full majority power in the Senate.

«For all his intelligence, wit and fearlessness, this site suspects that Rees - Mogg as leader would be unable to overleap the legend of the nanny and the poshness and the supposed out - of - touchness, and cut through in the marginal seats, especially in the Midlands and the North, that the Tories need to win their first full majority since 1987,» said Goodman.

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The Conservatives couldn't get a full majority with an electorate who had yet to feel a single Tory cut, and against a deeply unpopular Gordon Brown.

May's Conservative Party needed to win 326 of 650 seats in the UK parliament to govern with a full majority.

The campaign money was spent to little avail: Republicans swept three upstate Democratic incumbents from the chamber and held on to all of their seats on Long Island, securing a full majority in the chamber this past November.

Republicans have a potentially bigger challenge on their hands next year, when Democrats hope to take a full majority in a presidential election year — a cycle that traditionally has brought out more Democratic voters.

They could change their minds and remain with the Republicans, if the rest of the Democrats can't win enough seats to have a full majority.

«And, make no mistake that once the dust settles from this election, Republicans will have a full majority,» he said.

The Republican sources said replacing Skelos will be emotional, because Skelos brought them from the minority in 2008 and grew their ranks to win the full majority of the Senate last year — the only statewide bastion of power for the GOP.

He's headlining fundraisers for Democratic Senate incumbents George Latimer and Todd Kaminsky as well as an event for the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee later this month as the mainline conference seeks to gain a full majority in the chamber.

In 2011, he and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose courtly scheming belongs in the Niccolo Machiavelli Hall of Fame, concocted the IDC as a way to keep regular Democrats from ever attaining a full majority in the State Senate.

Democrats are optimistic they could gain a full majority this fall in part because of the presidential election bringing more Democratic voters to the polls and aiding down - ballot races along the way.

In July, Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins urged Cuomo to help Democrats win a full majority at a breakfast meeting of the New York delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Though the GOP conference has a full majority and IDC Leader Jeff Klein lost the Senate co-presidency, the Republicans are keeping the breakaway conference close through a vaguely defined «consultation» role in the Senate rules.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein no long holds the power of Senate co-president in the chamber after Republicans gained a full majority.

Last year, Democratic Sen. Terry Gipson was one of a trio of upstate incumbents to lose his seat in the chamber in an election - year rout that helped give the Republicans a full majority in the state Senate.

Klein continues to hold an alliance with Senate Republicans in the chamber, but after the GOP gained a full majority last year, is no longer co-president and does not have the power of determining which bills come to the floor for a vote.

Klein — who has previously pointed out that the agreement to form a new coalition was contingent on Democrats achieving a full majority — also insisted there was no chance his conference would return to the mainline fold.

The victories by both Funke and Amedore helped Senate Republicans win a full majority in the chamber last year.

Reclaiming the district for Republicans amid the apparent end of the majority coalition of the Independent Democratic Conference, would be a boost for having a full majority.

Cuomo has been criticized by liberals for not doing enough to back Senate Democrats in their effort to gain a full majority in the chamber.

Democrats like Mr. Gianaris feel strongly that a full majority in the Senate is within that party's reach, especially if it can maximize anti-Trump sentiments in places like Nassau County.

Senator Jeff Klein, the Bronx lawmaker who had headed the Independence Democratic Conference since January 2011, is being included in some of the leaders meetings, even though the power - sharing deal he brokered with Skelos in 2012 ceased to exist when the Republicans won a full majority in the 2014 elections.

And, make no mistake that once the dust settles from this election, Republicans will have a full majority.

Skelos said the new arrangement, which comes as the Republicans have a full majority in the Senate, will work well.

Once the Senate Republicans gained a full majority, Klein lost the title of co-president and the power to veto which bills come to the floor for a vote.

Cuomo has been criticized in the past for not doing enough to aid Democratic candidates and the party in taking a full majority in the chamber, which Republicans have narrow control of in part due to their alliance with Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder.

«I feel very confident we will take back the full majority in the Senate in this election,» said Sen. Cathy Young, who chairs the Senate Republican Campaign Committee.

There is a petition process for forcing the committee to vote, but that requires a full majority in the House or Senate to sign yet another petition.