Sentences with phrase «liberal lawmakers who»

Still, having the wage provision not tied to inflation, a key provision for more liberal lawmakers who backed the legislation when it was proposed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver last year, could make things easier to pass through the GOP conference.

The district is being vacated at the end of the year by Republican Rep. Richard Hanna, a moderate - to - liberal lawmaker who was being challenged in a GOP primary by Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney.

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Skelos resigned this month from his leadership post and was replaced by John Flanagan, a Suffolk County lawmaker who has made conciliatory statements with regard to the liberal New York City mayor.

The measure is seen as considerably bad optics as lawmakers did not take up a minimum wage increase in this year's budget — a fact that hasn't escape liberal critics who had pushed for the wage hike.

But the Democrats» decision to capitulate enraged liberals, who accused the lawmakers of betrayal and threatened to mount primaries against some of those who voted «yes.»

, who was a key backer of the public insurance option during the health - care debate, said he thinks the P Street Project can help provide resources and political cover for other liberal lawmakers.

Teachers» unions have long found friendship among Democrats (with the exception of some liberal education reformers who are supportive of Obama - era education policies) so we might expect that as Democrat lawmakers were ousted during the recent wave of Republican victories, so were the NEA's allies.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.