Sentences with phrase «governing majority»

The question — at the moment — seems to be how many seats they will lose and whether Democrats will be able to claim a true governing majority in January 2009.

The fruit of these efforts is not the hoped - for Republican governing majority, but the real prospect of a filibuster - proof Democrat majority in 2009.

The new religion of patriotism, Kristol and Brooks conclude, would, without antagonizing grassroots moral conservatives, appeal to independents leery of Robertson and Falwell's Christian zealotry and form «the heart of a new conservative governing majority.»

Republicans won an outright governing majority in the 2014 elections.

The IDC and Senate Republicans entered into a power - sharing agreement in 2012 after GOP failed to gain a clear governing majority.

In fact, Brexit was only possible because of Labour's shift over the past ten years from a powerful governing majority to a secondary influence on national decision - making.

It would give us the biggest Republican majority in the House since the 1920s, which would give us a real strong governing majority.

«The two people who run our city are the mayor and the speaker who set the land use priorities, the budget priorities, the policy priorities and so the notion that we would have two white males govern a majority - minority city in a racially charged political moment is a problem,» he said.

May, who has only a fragile governing majority, has adopted a strategy of urging MPs to abstain on opposition day debates, rather than see the divisions in her own party exposed by a series of embarrassing defeats.

As a part time blogger with a full time career outside of fashion, «work wear» pretty much governs the majority of my Monday — Friday style choices.

Both Joe Lieberman, the Democratic candidate for vice president, and Dick Cheney, the Republican, have strong bipartisan relationships in Congress that would help Gore or Bush build governing majorities as president, Verstandig said.

Until 1791 Jews had unequal legal standing in Muslim and Christian countries and so had to rely on their wits, bribes or the enlightened self - interest of the governing majority.

«It is my personal conviction that Garrett Peck is the strongest candidate to help guide the future policy decisions of the Plainfield Park District,» Hurtado said noting that at the time of his vote for Bettin he was not part of the governing majority of the park board.

Neither can form a governing majority without the IDC, the IDC will go with the party that buys them off.

The idea of Democrats gain a governing majority in the state Senate is a «moot point» considering Republicans have a working majority in the chamber already, Republican leader John Flanagan wrote in an op / ed to State of Politics.

Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee became the latest national group to push Gov. Andrew Cuomo to unite his party and gain a governing majority in the state Senate.

As a senior member of the governing majority, I will remain an important bulwark against these and a mountain of other bad ideas from ever becoming law.»

The hearing comes at a sensitive time for de Blasio, whose administration is being scrutinized over a variety of fundraising and political efforts, including an ill - fated push in 2014 for Senate Democrats to gain a governing majority in the chamber.

It is one of two open seats in the Senate that Democrats hope to fill in order to work toward a governing majority in the chamber.

The Hudson Valley lawmaker is considered a potential target next year by Democrats who have hoped to flip his district to their column in a push to gain a governing majority in the Senate.

But the Conservatives are boxed - in by the very high priority Liberal Democrats give the issue, and by their dependency on them to form a governing majority.

Still, a Democratic source pointed to the victory by Todd Kaminsky in Nassau County's 9th Senate district as being a worthwhile investment and a major puzzle piece in securing a governing majority.

Stewart - Cousins in the interview with WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom sought to hand ownership of the proposed peace agreement in the chamber, which would united her mainline conference with the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference by the spring to form a governing majority.

The latest broadside comes as mainline Senate Democrats and liberal groups are pushing Cuomo to unite the party's various factions in the chamber to achieve a working and governing majority.

He has worked closely and allied the conference with the Senate Republicans, forming a governing majority when the GOP fell into a numerical minority for two years.

Meaning if all Democrats joined together when he is seated, they could form a governing majority in the State Senate.

Late last year, he backed a plan that would unify the party in the state Senate in a bid to gain a governing majority for Democrats in the Senate, a move that came after pressure from the political left in New York.

From 2004, however, no party had a governing majority and a Conservative - Lib Dem coalition ran the council from 2004.

And by the time they arrived in Las Vegas for that third debate, Clinton's top aides were boasting about how they were about to expand the lead and pull marginal Senate candidates over the line to give her a governing majority.

We have changed the schema for the governing majorities pie chart to reflect the fact that the SNP have repeatedly promised that they would definitely vote against a Tory Queen's speech to lock them out of government.

Trump's apparent commitment to stand by incumbent Republican senators against his former campaign CEO and White House strategist shows that even a tradition - bucking president may hew to the party line in the interest of moving his agenda forward and maintaining a governing majority.

If the PP held a governing majority in Spain that might be the end of the matter (forgetting about any scenarios in which the PP might be induced to change their position).

The Republican conference has a governing majority of 32 members when including Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder, who is not a member of the IDC.

The implications for government formation seems to be that the light pink section in our governing majorities pie chart, which currently has an 11 % chance, should no longer be called «Con largest but Lab + LD+SNP maj» but should instead be called «Con largest but Lab + SNP + other left maj», ie.

If the goal of the K Street Project was to earmark and fund raise our way to a filibuster - proof «governing» majority, the goal of «compassionate conservatism» was to spend our way to a governing majority.

The Majority section is an important new commitment to explore how the Conservative Party can win a governing majority at the next election.

The move toward a governing majority in the Senate was reignited in May when Democrats gained a numerical majority in the chamber with the special election victory of Brian Benjamin to an upper Manhattan district.

Pressure is being placed on the IDC by a constellation of liberal advocacy groups to form an alliance with the mainline Democrats in the Senate in hopes of reaching a governing majority.

A push to reunify the state Senate's Democratic lawmakers, or at least find ways having them get along in a working alliance that leads to a governing majority coalition, has always come down to trust.

However, if the smaller parties continue winning away votes from those two - as seen in state elections this year - even the grand coalition might have to go in search of a third partner to secure a governing majority.

Republicans maintain a governing majority in the chamber with the help of Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat who conferences with the GOP lawmakers.

Today, his personal reputation is in the mud, his governing majority has been reduced to one and his party is in a state of chaos.

The investigation into de Blasio's fundraising comes at a politically difficult time for Senate Democrats as they seek to gain a governing majority in the chamber.

Senate Republicans retain control with a governing majority of 32 members given their alignment with Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder who sits with the GOP conference, but is not an IDC member.

State Senate Democratic leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins is calling for her party to unite and form a governing majority.

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: State Senate Democratic leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins is calling for her party to unite and form a governing majority.

He argues that the district is better off with a Republican member who is part of the governing majority, even if he does not share many of the views of that governing majority.

With a week to go before a removal hearing in Albany, Buffalo School Board Member Carl Paladino is fighting back with a federal lawsuit saying the board and its governing majority is violating his First Amendment Constitutional rights.