Sentences with phrase «leadership they voted for»

Valesky's first step toward redefining his political career came after Thanksgiving in 2010, when the Senate Democrats called a leadership vote for the next two years.

Not exact matches

(After the March 24 failure, it would be nearly unthinkable for the Republican leadership in Congress to call for a vote without being sure of the count ahead of time.)

Republican leadership reportedly needs the support of just one more GOP lawmaker to reach the 50 - vote threshold required for the Graham - Cassidy bill to pass.

Many who don't approve of his platform and wouldn't vote for him still respect his leadership and business savvy.

In Pennsylvania, Katie McGinty, Toomey's Democratic challenger, called for new leadership after Toomey voted for the NRA - backed amendments.

A game time decision on Congress» next big legislative push — including whether or not to use a special procedural pathway in the Senate that would nix the need for any Democratic votes — may come down to what President Donald Trump tells Republican leadership during a meeting this weekend at Camp David.

Hensarling's colleagues voted him into the House leadership for the 2011 - 12 session as head of the entire Republican caucus.

Having won the leadership with the help of social and religious conservatives, how much does he have to curry favour with a voter segment with no other party to vote for?

In a secret ballot on 23 June 2015, Yindjibarndi people throughout the State voted by an overwhelming two - thirds majority for change in the management and leadership of Yindjibarndi Native Title business.

If valid, this explanation would suggest that it would be a good idea for any legislation on board leadership to (a) limit any mandate to the largest firms and (b) permit even those firms to «opt out» of the requirement through periodic shareholder votes (e.g., once every five years).

Gannett asks Tribune Publishing shareholders to abstain from voting for a slate of candidates for the company's board of directors to «send a message» to company leadership.

Despite talking for a month about an option to bypass leadership's stonewalling on DACA legislation and saying he had the votes to do so, California Republican Rep. Jeff Denham refused to say if he would actually use it at a press conference on the issue Wednesday.

Despite being in the midst of a leadership contest, which ends with a vote on October 18, 2014, the NDP continues to nominate candidates for the next election.

Additionally, Rafael Bostic will assume leadership of the Atlanta Fed in early June and sit on the FOMC next year while the Richmond Fed is continuing its search for Jeffrey Lacker's successor, who will have a vote in 2018 as well.

Regardless if these registered supporters actually vote in their leadership contest, their names are now entered into a database that will be useful for the Liberals in the next provincial election.

Mr. Kenney's supporters swept the first delegate selection meeting held in the Edmonton - Ellerslie constituency, electing 15 delegates for the 2017 PC leadership vote.

Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992 PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.

The vacuum in the Liberal leadership is good news for the PC Party, Rachel Notley «s New Democrats and the Alberta Party, who will try to offer Liberal voters a new home to park their votes.

With Peter MacKay and Jason Kenney on the sidelines of the Conservative leadership battle, a critical number of votes are up for grabs in the campaign to find a successor for Stephen Harper.

I vote for a low key servant leadership in a democratic system, structures that help us focus on the right stuff without dictating what should happen, and conserning norms, I prefer values before rules.

Don't members of these organizations vote for the leadership of the organization?

Good for the Republican leadership, a political party that profits from stupidity will never lack for votes!

For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.

Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).

While there is certainly no such thing today as the «Catholic vote» (unified by issues and / or effective leadership), the majority of Catholics did vote for Obama, and we are informed by Catholic News Service that there is a «historic high» of 163 Catholics in the new Congress.

Hey, let's keep voting for our leadership based on their religion.

Well done to @JustinWelby for his leadership on securing a yes vote for women bishops.

Moreover, in some states with large Catholic populations (e.g., Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois) union leadership was more than usually effective in getting out the vote for Gore.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

At the ABC meetings delegates and visitors may sit anywhere and everywhere, almost as though it were an intentional act of the executive leadership to render the policy - making and voting process as difficult as possible for the delegates, scattered as they are and mingled with the «visitors.»

However, I did not vote for President Obama either time, as I didn't feel he had the experience or leadership skills (2008), let alone reneging on his promise to abide by campaign finance reform; or had accomplished what he promised (2012).

He wasn't voted captain by his teammates, but was on the leadership council and asked for input as much as anyone.

Votes from MLS players, club leadership, and members of the media combined to nominate the following players for the annual awards:

The voting period for the Labour leadership will open in mid-August and close on 10 September, with the winner announced at a special conference two days later.

Make that minus one vote for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver when the Democrats convene for a leadership vote in January.

And the ongoing row over a cut - off date for the leadership election led to McDonnell attacking the «small clique» on the National Executive Committee that was trying to restrict the vote to members who had signed up before 12 January.

I got into the position of deputy general secretary because the people voted for me I didn't impose myself on the people and the point I am making is that same way the people determined that President Rawlings will be our leader, the same way people determined President Mills to be our leader, the same way people determined President Mahama will be our leader and he was our leader and if the people determine that leadership should rotate I will respect that decision of the people and respect the leader at any point in time..»

The YouGov survey of 800 Tory members showed nearly one in five were seriously considering voting for the eurosceptic party, while 53 % said they did not feel respected by the Conservative leadership.

That is, voting for leadership of a party (not a party's nominee) is restricted to party members.

If you are not registered for any party, and the Democratic Party allows it, you can get a No Party Preference Democratic Party ballot (this name may seem contradictory, but it is used to refer to a ballot that allows you to vote for the party nominees, but not party leadership positions).

I got into the position of deputy general secretary because the people voted for me I didn't impose myself on the people and the point I am making is that same way the people determined that President Rawlings will be our leader, the same way people determined President Mills to be our leader, the same way people determined President Mahama will be our leader and he was our leader and if the people determine that leadership should rotate I will respect that decision of the people and respect the leader at any point in time, but for now i will not endorse anyone, i will not endorse John mahama.»

In a very undemocratic action the TEAPUB conference adopted rules for this session that prevent a vote to change leadership during the session.

It comes a year after Burnham took just 19 per cent of the votes in the battle for the Labour leadership — having started out as the clear favourite to replace Ed Miliband.

The vote is perhaps the most pivotal moment for the ANC since it launched black - majority rule under Nelson Mandela's leadership 23 years ago.

Under my leadership we will ensure that this country gets the Brexit that it voted for on June 23rd and then we will put the great back into Great Britain.»

So tomorrow, let the House of Commons vote for an early election, let everybody put forward their proposals for Brexit and their programme for government and let us remove the risk of uncertainty and instability and continue to give the country the strong and stable leadership it demands.»

Wary of the headache this issue caused Senate President Malcolm Smith, who had to do a delicate dance to both appease the LGBT community that had invested more than $ 1 million to help him win the majority and the members like Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. who held the votes to his leadership post, Sampson is both supporting the six remaining «no» voters and refusing to promise to bring marriage to the floor for another vote.

For example, major parties in the United Kingdom involve their members in leadership votes.

Dozens of opposition leaders, including influential members of parliament were imprisoned before the bill that underlies and enables this referendum was introduced, and thus unable to vote or take part in the discussion; for example a dozen MPs from the HDP, including the entire party leadership are currently in prison.

After that, Ball has more or less proven himself a reliable vote and loyal member in the Senate GOP fold, as evidenced by leadership's support for him when Assemblyman Steve Katz (one of several intra-party enemies Ball has made over the years) launched a short - lived primary challenge that fizzled after some initial fireworks.