Sentences with phrase «majority coalition with»

Eight senators in 2012 broke off to form a bipartisan majority coalition with Republicans, but on Monday the Senate passed a measure to expand the rolls of the Senate Democratic Conference as the eight returned.

The IDC is not in a majority coalition with the GOP since Simcha Felder (not a member of the IDC) is outright sitting with the GOP (one seat Republican majority).

In the past, Republicans formed a majority coalition with the five - member Independent Democratic Conference to keep control of the chamber.

Skelos, a Long Island Republican who formed a majority coalition with the Independent Democratic Conference last year, has worked well with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

An IDC spokeswoman denied the group conferences with Republicans, saying they conference with fellow Democrats and work «in Majority Coalition with 32 senators who elected a Republican leader, enabling IDC members to move and pass progressive legislation.»

Valesky and four other Democrats split from the traditional Democratic conference in 2011 and formed a majority coalition with Republicans.

The IDC in the wake of the 2012 elections formed a majority coalition with Republicans in the state Senate, with the GOP conference retaining the trappings of the majority in the process, despite falling into a numerical minority.

The bill, known as the Compassionate Care Act, is backed by Sen. Diane Savino, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference and part of the ruling majority coalition with Senate Republicans.

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.

If the Dems pick up both seats in the special election, the two sides, under the proposed deal, will create their own majority coalition with members from each side serving as co-leaders of the chamber.

Gains by Democrats and independents allowed the 17 Democrats to form a majority coalition with three Republicans and two independents.

Getting kicked out of New Visions is just the latest repercussion since he joined the IDC — a group that, according to spokeswoman Candace Giove, «conferences with fellow Democrats, but works in majority coalition with 32 senators who elected a Republican leader.»

This is due to a breakaway group of eight Democrats which have formed their own majority coalition with the Republicans.

These results would leave both the Conservatives and Labour short of a majority but either party could form a majority coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

The focus from liberal advocates has been on the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, which remains a key bloc of votes in the Senate chamber and has in the past worked in a majority coalition with Senate Republicans.

In each case only one party has enough seats to form a majority coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

Under that plan, the Independent Democratic Conference and the mainline conference would have to work together to fill both seats and then form a majority coalition with Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat.

Flanagan, too, has sought to maintain the Republican conference's ties with the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, which has in the past formed a majority coalition with the Senate GOP.

O'Neill and Larson, who have formed a majority coalition with Commissioner Robert McKenna, blame the cost of building and maintaining the Sanctuary Golf Course for draining the Park District treasury and cutting into funds available to develop new parks and refurbish old ones.

Not exact matches

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

Thus, potentially M5S could link up with other parties to form a coalition large enough to gain a majority in the lower house.

People should start putting pressure on these parties to begin such negotiations as soon as possible so that immediately after the election they would be prepared to go to the Governor General with the request that they be recognized as a majority coalition government.

The Conservatives are stressing their supposed credentials as «economic managers» in their strategy to win a majority — combined with fear - mongering about a future coalition (although that latter part of the strategy may be backfiring on them).

In its drive for a majority, the PQ will be targeting many ridings just outside Montreal that some Coalition members won in 2012 with slim majorities.

Babis's ANO (Yes) party has won 29 % of the vote so they will need to partner up with one or more of the other eight parties in order to form a majority coalition.

«A lot of people forget this or didn't know it to begin with, but the Moral Majority was a coalition of evangelicals, Catholics, Jews and Mormons,» DeMoss says.

Many of us identified with religious conservatism have never been in close alliance with Robertson or Falwell or with the organizations, the Christian Coalition and the Moral Majority, they respectively created.

Together the collection spans more than four decades of Novak's career, from his affiliation with the now - defunct Coalition for a Democratic Majority to his long tenure at the American Enterprise Institute.

«Catholic politicians should build new coalitions in support of protecting innocent human life: Coalitions, first and foremost, with American women» the majority of whom are pro-life» who understand that Roe's abortion license has encouraged irresponsible male sexual behavior more than any other legal act in oucoalitions in support of protecting innocent human life: Coalitions, first and foremost, with American women» the majority of whom are pro-life» who understand that Roe's abortion license has encouraged irresponsible male sexual behavior more than any other legal act in ouCoalitions, first and foremost, with American women» the majority of whom are pro-life» who understand that Roe's abortion license has encouraged irresponsible male sexual behavior more than any other legal act in our history.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Many of the people that have latched onto the Christian Coalition and the Moral Majority are more in love with being the power behind the power than ministry.

The answer to the question is pretty much the same budget which the Labour - LibDem coalition with a majority could put together.

«The TUC's March for the Alternative on 26 March promises to be one of the biggest events that we have ever organised, but local campaigns and protests that do not hit the national headlines could well make just as much an impact in those constituencies where there are coalition MPs with small majorities.

Cameron is indeed in No 10, but he won without a majority and was forced to form a coalition with Nick Clegg.

The Lib Dem majority in Eastleigh is 3,864, but with the coalition seen as increasingly toxic and Huhne's court case top of voters» minds, the party is likely to face a bloodbath in the Hampshire seat.

Had the Conservatives had a Parliamentary majority (or had formed a coalition with a certain party whose name shall go unmentioned), they might have found a way back to the status quo ante on at least (some of) the reforms that are practically reversible, viz. the House of Lords, the Human Rights Act, the Lord Chancellor's jurisdiction over the judiciary.

The party or coalition of parties with the majority of seats in the parliament forms the executive.

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.

This November is a critical election for Republicans, who hold a majority in the chamber as part of a coalition government with the Independent Democratic Conference.

At the same time, there are five members of the Independent Democratic Conference who have worked with GOP lawmakers in the past through a majority coalition.

MPs finally voted the academies bill through the Commons last night, with the coalition government retaining a 92 - vote majority.

Raising the electoral mountain Labour would need to climb to form a Government, exercising minority or coalition rule let alone governing with a majority, is an unexpected gift for the fifth largest force in UK politics: Momentum.

The GOP conference has in the past been allied with the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, which for a term formed a majority coalition that kept Senate Republicans in power.

A general election now would probably see the Tory majority chipped away at, but Labour only able to govern in coalition with other progressive parties, in such an unstable formulation that it couldn't hold for long, if they could even set it up in the first place.

Klein and his five member IDC been aligned in the past with Senate Republicans to form a majority coalition in the Senate.

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.

Interestingly, we haven't heard a PUBLIC word from Skelos since Klein's big reveal, although Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous went on Talk 1300 this morning with the NY Post's Fred Dicker and called Klein's coalition government statement «very powerful,» without either confirming or denying that talks to form a coalition are actually underway.

Democrats need to win both races in order to gain a numerical majority in the chamber and move toward a coalition majority with the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, based on agreement hammered out at the end of last year.

He was taking the helm of a conference that held a narrow majority in the Senate and was expected to lose seats in the 2016 election — forcing him to either fall into the minority or form a coalition government with the Independent Democratic Conference.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Monday did not rule out further primary challenges to members of the Independent Democratic Conference and derided their coalition with the Senate Republicans as a «false majority.»