Sentences with phrase «governing coalition with»

In statements after the Newtown shooting on Friday, IDC Leader Senator Jeff Klein said we must «continue to reevaluate the place of guns in our state and our society» Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos, who will jointly lead the new Senate governing coalition with Senator Klein, says he's interested in pursuing measures to «curb illegal gun use by increasing penalties and enacting mandatory minimum sentences».

Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of a group of breakaway Democrats who lead the Senate in a governing coalition with the Republicans, is under intense pressure from the left over the campaign finance issue.

No IDC NY formed in 2017 to field primary challengers to the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of New York State Senate Democrats who entered a governing coalition with chamber Republicans in 2012.

Republicans hold 31 of the 63 Senate seats but control the chamber thanks to a governing coalition with six breakaway Democrats, including Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, who sits with the GOP conference.

Skelos said that he expects his GOP conference, which is in a governing coalition with five independent Democratic lawmakers, would be briefed on chapter amendments to the law next week.

The measure is generally opposed by Senate Republicans, now in a governing coalition with five independent Democrats (the proposal differs from the Dream Fund, which would bring in private sources of funding).

Cuomo had been urging the IDC to form a governing coalition with the rest of the Democrats after Election Day, anticipating that Democrats would pick up seats.

Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the five member faction of Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference, took a gamble breaking away from the rest of the Democrats and forming the dominant governing coalition with the now 30 Republican Senators.

Senate Co-President Jeff Klein, a Democrat who is in a governing coalition with the Senate GOP, has called publicly financed campaigns a «line in the sand» for him this session.

The stance opens daylight between him and Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, who entered into a governing coalition with Senate Republicans.

Republicans are technically in a numerical minority in the Senate, but in 2012 formed a governing coalition with the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference that allowed them to retain some control in the chamber.

The IDC is in a governing coalition with Senate Republicans, with the agreement that both Senate leaders, Jeff Klein and the GOP's Dean Skelos, must agree on legislation before it comes to the floor for a vote.

But like Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Klein, a Bronx Democrat who is formed a governing coalition with Senate Republicans last year, said the back - to - back corruption cases has created an opportunity to pass the overhaul legislation that's languished in Albany.

Klein and the IDC former a governing coalition with the GOP in 2012, but has never put the nature of the coalition in such stark terms publicly.

When Senator Jose Peralta announced on his Facebook page that he was joining a growing group of breakaway Democrats in the Senate called the Independent Democratic Conference, who form a governing coalition with the Republicans, he said he wanted to «deliver a progressive agenda.»

When candidates running on the Democratic line won a majority of the chamber's seats in 2012, the then - five - member Independent Democratic Conference formed a governing coalition with the GOP; the IDC will almost certainly have six members in January due to Marisol Alcantara's primary victory.

Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of the five - member faction of Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference, took a gamble breaking away from the rest of the Democrats and forming the dominant governing coalition with the now 30 Republican Senators.

Soon after the GOP's governing coalition with the Independent Democratic Conference was first announced, several black senators denounced it.

She wouldn't say whether those plans include forming a new governing coalition with Democrats as opposed to the Senate GOP.

When Sen. Jose Peralta announced on his Facebook page that he was joining the Independent Democratic Conference, a growing group of breakaway Democrats in the Senate who form a governing coalition with the Republicans, he said he wanted to «deliver a progressive agenda.»

The IDC remains in a governing coalition with the Senate GOP.

The staunch opposition comes after Cuomo has been able to get the Senate GOP, now in a governing coalition with four independent Democrats, to hold votes on a variety of liberal causes, most recently the gun control law in January.

Not exact matches

The president is under no obligation to hand a mandate to the biggest party, and may first seek to establish whether parties can get together a coalition with enough seats to govern,» Wolfango Piccoli, co-president of Teneo Intelligence, said in a note last Tuesday.

As none of the three main factions had enough seats to govern alone, President Sergio Mattarella is expected to open formal coalition talks in April, with early elections possible if no accord is found.

Thousands of brand - new members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) may very well be the ones who decide on whether Germany will be governed by a grand coalition with Angela Merkel at its helm.

The arrests raise the question whether the quota - 32,000 tonnes of boxed beef this year - has become simply a bribe - raising exercise for PKS, which is part of Indonesia's governing coalition, with two cabinet ministers, including the communications minister.

Raising the electoral mountain Labour would need to climb to form a Government, exercising minority or coalition rule let alone governing with a majority, is an unexpected gift for the fifth largest force in UK politics: Momentum.

A general election now would probably see the Tory majority chipped away at, but Labour only able to govern in coalition with other progressive parties, in such an unstable formulation that it couldn't hold for long, if they could even set it up in the first place.

After last November's elecion, Republicans lost their majority in the Senate, their longtime base of power, which they now govern in coalition with six Democrats.

Looking at that law by the way, it was initiated by the Lithuanian governing party, the Christian Democrats — who are members of the EPP — in conjunction with their coalition colleagues the Liberals — who are members of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

The decisions taken in the next 12 months — how the coalition copes with the inevitable policy arguments and scraps that will ensue in the day - to - day business of governing the country — will determine its chances of survival in the final two - year period.

Firstly, Bucharest has just released the first instalment of 60 million euros as part of a financial assistance agreement with Moldova, offering de facto support for the current governing coalition in Chisinau, which is oriented around the Democratic Party and its controversial backer, Vladimir Plahotniuc.

If they signalled they wouldn't do so, two immediate points of interest come to mind: 1) If Labour were the largest party, or even in a whole UK majority, but the Tories were the largest rump UK party, the Liberal Democrats could more easily claim a renewed coalition with the Conservatives was preferable to a centre - left alliance, since a government that would lose its majority within a year would be unable to govern effectively; 2) A Labour or Labour - led government following a «yes» vote would have an incentive to push back the date of independence as far as possible.

The governor also told the Democrats that if they win and keep enough seats in November, they'll likely have to learn to work with a breakaway faction of Democrats, the Independent Democratic Conference, in order to form a governing coalition.

The majority coalition that controls the state Senate is pleased with the Siena College poll that found 54 percent of voters surveyed believed the power - sharing arrangement would lead to effective governing.

In the ACT Legislative Assembly, where Labor governs in coalition with the Greens, and the Government controls 9 seats out of 17, the Speaker, Vicki Dunne, is actually a member of the Opposition.

The Working Families Party on Monday expressed disappointment over the decision by the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference to side with the Senate GOP in a governing coalition while also urging the lawmakers to help bloc the «Trump agenda» in Albany.

At the book's heart is criticism of the incoherence of coalition strategy: the understandable dominance of US policy and resources, a policy driven by the Pentagon rather than the State Department; an Afghan government that lacked institutions or the ability to govern the provinces directly; Afghanistan's part in Pakistan's strategic conflict with India; and criticisms of the UK deployment to Helmand.

Having ruled in coalition with nationalist Plaid Cymru for the past four years, Mr Jones will have to decide whether to govern through this slim majority or seek coalition partners once more.

With the five Sinn Fein MPs not taking their seats, the Tories would have been able to govern, at least for a while, without needing a coalition with the Lib DWith the five Sinn Fein MPs not taking their seats, the Tories would have been able to govern, at least for a while, without needing a coalition with the Lib Dwith the Lib Dems.

Senator Jeff Klein has been a power broker between the chamber's Democrats and Republicans, at one point teaming up with the GOP, to form a governing coalition.

As leader of the five - member breakaway faction that allied with Republicans to form the chamber's governing coalition (and keep Democrats from assuming the control that should have accompanied their mathematical majority), Klein has been justifying the partnership since it formed in 2012 as a win for progressives, rather than as a means of self - empowerment.

ALBANY — After days of deliberations, the State Senate's governing coalition released a 55 - page resolution outlining their budget priorities, with proposals to halt rising property taxes, and modify Governor Andrew Cuomo's plans for estate taxes and renter credits.

While not ruling out forming a new coalition with the mainline Dems, Rainville insisted that «the IDC is, and will continue to be, a strong stabilizing sensible force of governing in New York State.»

So it is with the UK's governing coalition.

The leadership fight in the New York state Senate has been resolved, with a break - away Democratic faction joining with Republicans to form a new governing coalition that involves sharing the title of Temporary President of the Senate.

His departure leaves the chamber with 31 Democrats and 31 Republicans, though six renegade Democrats work with GOP in a governing coalition.

Klein, a former head of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, said the public's mood over publicly financed campaigns needes to be gauged first, noting that some voters may be uneasy with allowing taxpayer dollars to fund political campaigns (the Senate GOP, which has equal governing weight in the coalition, has cited this reason for its opposition to public financing).

«Jamaica» coalition talks collapsed on Sunday night after Christian Lindner (Fdp) said no to governing with the CDU and Greens, and Angela Merkel was forced to acknowledge that the margins for negotiation were depleted.

Merkel was able to navigate all this quite successfully, even though her party experienced mixed electoral results during this period and she has had to govern with three different coalitions.