Sentences with phrase «houses of the state legislature held»

In 2009, both houses of the state legislature held a combined 12 hearings on mayoral control renewal, and in 2016, just the Senate is holding two hearings.

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When one political party holds the governor's office and a majority in both houses of the state legislature, the state is governed by a state government trifecta.

Cannon described Colorado as a state where Democrats had the best chances of flipping the legislature — where President Obama did well in 2008, Democrats held the Senate by five votes, and Republicans held the House by just a one - vote margin.

The firmest control over a state legislature is exhibited in Hawaii, where Democrats hold every seat in the Senate and only five Republicans sit in the 45 - seat state House of Representatives.

TN is not as reflexively Republican as some Deep South states such as MS and AL. 5 out of 9 of the US House seats are held by Democrats, the very popular governor is a Democrat, and the state legislature is split between a Republican senate and a Democratic House.

In 2015 - 16, a few more states passed laws recognizing the right of parents to hold their children out of standardized testing, while similar opt - out bills advanced in one or both houses of several other legislatures.

Past efforts to introduce tort reform legislation were vetoed by Missouri's previous governor, Jay Nixon; however, the state's new Republican governor, Eric Greitens, has made tort reform a top priority and one likely to be supported by the GOP, which holds supermajorities in both houses of the Missouri legislature.