Sentences with phrase «majority coalition arrangement»

But Klein is still being kept close by the Senate's Republican leadership should a majority coalition arrangement be needed again.

Not exact matches

The IDC in the past has aligned with Senate Republicans to form a majority coalition, but could forge a similar arrangement with the mainline Democratic conference.

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.

(Although the New York State Senate and Washington State Senate technically had Democratic majorities, in both states a coalition arrangement between several break - away Democrats and the minority Republicans gave the Republicans effective control of those chambers.)

The majority coalition that controls the state Senate is pleased with the Siena College poll that found 54 percent of voters surveyed believed the power - sharing arrangement would lead to effective governing.

When the New York State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference joined in a majority coalition with Republicans in 2012, it claimed that the arrangement would provide more up - or - down floor votes on progressive legislation.

The wonderful hindsight of the 2015 general election following the publication of this volume showed us that a wafer - thin majority Conservative government could be capably formed while coalition arrangements are rapidly, but with dignity, consigned to history.