Sentences with phrase «house majority leadership»

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«Trump is no Lyndon Johnson,» says Robertson, «and while he is better than Obama at working congressional leadership, my friends tell me there are already antagonisms at the staff level between the Speaker / majority leader in the Senate and the White House.»

Though the President - elect will be coming into power with Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate, many of his most popular positions, like his hardline stances on trade and immigration, are not exactly popular with Congressional leadership.

With a strong right winged house the chances of a moderate leadership that benefits the majority is pretty much a dream.

In the Senate, even he is tainted by the formation of an IDC Coalition, which usurped the voter's wishes as indicated through the ballot box count, to have a Democratic Majority in the house, when Sen. Jeff Klein went rogue and aligned himself with the Republicans in a leadership sharing arrangement that failed to deliver for the Governor this session.

Just as Gov. Andrew Cuomo was wrapping up his Q - and - A with reporters by railing against New York Republicans, calling out state GOP Chairman Ed Cox and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos for failing to join Rep. Pete King in decrying the House leadership's failure to bring the Sandy disaster aid bill to the floor, the following statement from Skelos arrived in my in - box:

The Deputy Majority Leader, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has assured her colleagues Members of Parliament that the leadership of the House is committed to improving security within the precincts of the chamber.

He says the «majority» of Republicans in the house are against the aid, and he needs to convince the leadership to bring the bill to the floor, so supporters can vote on it.

Stringer made the comment at a Harlem rally calling for fractured state Senate Democrats to unify and make Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins majority leader of a house where the Dems come November are expected to again have the majority but not control the chamber because nine breakaway Dems are aligned with the Republicans in a leadership coalition.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's stunning loss in his primary last week has initiated a leadership shakeup for House Republicans.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Repudiated at the polls, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced Wednesday that he will resign his leadership post at the end of next month, clearing the way for a potentially disruptive Republican shake - up just before midterm elections with control of Congress at stake.

The Senate Republicans have been using the Heastie - Wright fight as an explanation for why they were unable to come up with a House redistricting deal with their majority counterparts on the other side of the Capitol, and the Assembly Democratic leadership has done nothing to dispel that.

Executive director of Americans for a Republican Majority PAC, the leadership PAC of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Jan. 2001 - June 2006; oversaw the 2003 Texas redistricting process for Republicans.

In his first term in Congress, Roemer was denied a seat on the Banking Committee by the Democratic leadership and instead was assigned to the Public Works and Transportation Committee due to Roemer having voted with the Republican minority on extending the debate on House rules proposed by the Democratic majority.

Rice, a Garden City Democrat in her second term, voted instead for Rep. Tim Ryan (D - Ohio)-- who is not related to Speaker Paul Ryan — to continue her protest of the current leadership and the Democrats» failure to determine why they have not won back the House majority.

DeLeo (D - Winthrop) said he has the votes necessary to climb into the leadership roll after tomorrow's floor vote, a reality his rival for the seat, House Majority Leader John Rogers, (D - Norwood) confirmed.

He had support from both the Conservative and Labour leadership, however many backbench MPs, particularly those from the Labour Party (who held a large majority in the House at the time), viewed Young as someone who had too recently been a member of his party's front bench team and was thus not sufficiently in touch with ordinary MPs.

Zeldin's post dovetails with growing calls from the GOP's congressional leadership, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, that he leave the race.

«The Labour leadership of course are frightened of any changes in England which leave them without a majority in the House of Commons on English matters.

One of the reasons the incoming House Majority Leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy from California, easily won last week's leadership election to fill Rep. Eric Cantor's number two slot, which he is leaving after his primary loss in Virginia, was his close relationships with scores of members he helped elect.

In the House, Speaker Brendan Sharkey and Majority Leader Joe Aresimowicz were both expected to be reelected to their leadership positions for another two years by their new, 87 - member Democratic caucus.

Or money for a housing development fund, a priority of Assembly majority leader Joe Morelle, who lost the chamber leadership to Speaker Carl Heastie.

It would take 50 Republican House members to force leadership elections when the House reconvenes later this month — a move that would likely end DeLay's chances of reclaiming the post as majority leader.

1) 2012 Democratic Presidential nominee Robert Wexler beats Obama as libertarian / progressive fusion Democrat with 4 wars going and national debt at $ 16 trillion 2) Cory Booker for Lautenberg's seat in NJ; expect retirement soon 3) New House Majority Leader Debbie Wasserman - Schultz 4) Junior Senator Nevada Republican Jon Porter takes care of Reid 5) Jeff Flake moves up to a leadership post among House Republicans, will become # 2 when Cantor replaces Boehner 6) Joe Sestak, Jr, upsets Specter in PA 7) Raul Grijalva beats random Minuteman for retired John McCain's seat 8) Xavier Becerra next Governor of California 9) Bill Thompson next Mayor Of New York City 10) Next Speaker Of The House (2010): Melvin Watt

«Revisionist history won't change the fact that the Senate Democrats chose partisanship over leadership... jeopardizing affordable housing for many of their own constituents,» said Scott Reif, spokesman for the Senate's Republican majority.

When the Majority Leader's party loses control of the House, and if the Speaker and Majority Leader both remain in the leadership hierarchy, convention suggests that they would become the Minority Leader and Minority Whip, respectively.

This afternoon, Diaz sent out a press release saying that with Espada's looming departure, he «refuses for hispanics to forgo leadership» in the State Senate, and expects his colleagues to fill Espada's vacant spots with other Hispanic legislators (Espada is the Majority Leader, and also heads the Senate's Housing Committee).

In the House, Speaker Brendan Sharkey and Majority Leader Joe Aresimowicz both were selected Thursday night to return to their leadership positions for another two years by their new, 87 - member Democratic caucus.

At the same time, even though former House Majority Leader Tom (the Hammer) DeLay got hammered and officially ended his bid to regain his leadership post last week, the Texas and Washington parts of the DeLay corruption scandal are likely only to grow and spread.

One Democratic leadership aide tells CNN specifically that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will sit down with the president - elect one day before calling the new Congress into session.

«Under Nancy Pelosi's leadership, House Democrats squandered their majority by forcing through unpopular legislation like Obamacare.»

WASHINGTON — Hoping to put together the two - thirds majority needed to override an expected veto, the House Democratic leadership last week signed on to a compromise family - leave bill that is somewhat more restrictive than the one approved by the Senate last month.

The legislation is similar to a bill supported by Gov. Booth Gardner last year, which died amid partisan conflict between the Democratic Governor and House leadership and the Republican - majority Senate.

«Notwithstanding intense judicial and Congressional scrutiny since 1981, ocr's leadership has relentlessly undermined the civil - rights statutes entrusted to it,» the majority staff of the House Education and Labor...

The House will definitely get a new speaker, its top officer; in addition, the majority leadership, other posts in the gop conference, and several key chairmanships could also change hands.

«Democrat Rep. Jared Polis, elected in 2008, created a leadership political action committee in January with the goal of helping Democrats regain the majority in the GOP - controlled House.

Many assumed that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R - CA) would step in to the leadership role; however, he has announced that he will not seek the position.

The President is putting all his eggs in the basket of «hope» that Democrats will «change» the House leadership and extend their Senate majority in 2014.

For example, we'll explore the idea of creating curated collections for Trump's nominees to head federal agencies; members of Congress of both parties (for example, perhaps the Senate and House majority and minority leadership); Supreme Court nominees, and so on.

In many respects the changing attitude toward international law, headed by the House of Lords under the unmistakable leadership of Lord Bingham, has provided an example for other national courts (NCs) to follow, starting in 2004 with the so - called Belmarsh Detainees judgment, that stunning 8 - 1 majority declaration that found the detention of foreign suspected terrorists incompatible with the Human Rights Act.

New York City, July 22, 2014 — Today, in a letter sent to Representatives John Boehner (R - OH), Speaker of the House; Kevin McCarthy (R - CA), Majority Whip; and Steve Scalise (R - LA), Majority Whip - Elect, 117 leaders of some of the nation's largest employers called on the House Republican leadership to promptly pass reauthorization of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA).