Sentences with phrase «majority conference when»

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The conference finally adopted several arguably peripheral constitutional amendments such as forbidding acquisition of new U.S. territory without approval by a majority of both slave - state and free - state senators, guaranteeing federal compensation for fugitive slaves when failure to return them was due to anti-slavery violence or intimidation, and restoring and perpetuating the Missouri Compromise line that once satisfied both regions but had been struck down by the Dred Scott decision.

Indeed, when I look around the Craft Brewers Conference (13,000 strong in 2016), the majority of faces looking back at me are white and male.

According to one majority conference source, Silver mentioned he would be making a last - ditch push for the switch when the Legislature returned to Albany this week.

Also, even though this alliance forces Smith to let bygones be bygones with a guy who once reportedly tried to oust him from his majority leader post (that would be Sen. Jeff Klein back in 2008 when the leadership struggle No. 1 took place), it could hardly be any worse than being the deposed former majority leader of the Democratic conference where he's pretty much just a back bencher since losing his power in the 2009 coup.

He has worked closely and allied the conference with the Senate Republicans, forming a governing majority when the GOP fell into a numerical minority for two years.

«I think the thing that was important, when you have a conference when a majority takes on position, you have to stick together.»

«This is a place where you would think that when Democrats win the majority, Democrats can work together,» she said at a news conference on voting rights and access.

This is no new arrangement, nor does the IDC relent when Democrats have a stronger majority in the Senate: in 2012, Democrats won a majority of seats in the State Senate, but the IDC broke away from the main Democratic conference to give Republicans control.

But he was blocked, time and again, from taking the reins of the Democratic conference and in 2008, when the Democrats finally won a 32 - 30 majority in the Senate, from becoming one of the Three Men in a Room.

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

(His fellow GOPer, Long Island Rep. Peter King, was a sponsor of the bill and voted «yes» after taking it on the chin from Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner when members of his conference refused to provide sufficient support to reach the majority's two - thirds requirement back in July).

The Republican conference has a governing majority of 32 members when including Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder, who is not a member of the IDC.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos gave the IDC members committee chairmanships and lulus, but he didn't include them when the governor invited his conference to the mansion.

Throughout the budget battle, Skelos has been striving to cast himself and his conference as close to Cuomo in an attempt to box out the speaker — something the governor seemed all too happy to indulge during the final days of negotiations when he met several times alone with the majority leader.

That means that the majority conferences control when mailers are printed and sent out, and the minority conferences» printing requests can lag.

When campaign season rolls around, staffers that work for the Assembly majority and design the government mailers — such as writers, editors and graphic designers — volunteer for their conference's campaign arm for free, according to former officials.

Now, budget meetings between the governor and majority conference leaders are being conducted with cloak - and - dagger - like secrecy, without input from Minority conferences, and neither the public nor press are alerted to when the closed - door meetings are taking place.

When candidates running on the Democratic line won a majority of the chamber's seats in 2012, the then - five - member Independent Democratic Conference formed a governing coalition with the GOP; the IDC will almost certainly have six members in January due to Marisol Alcantara's primary victory.

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.

Attendees at this year's conference at the Condado Plaza Hilton Hotel have little reason to celebrate after the beating Democrats took on Tuesday, when Republicans took over the majority in the State Senate.

He received his title — and $ 12,500 stipend — when he bolted from the Democratic Conference earlier this year to join eight breakaway Democrats who helped Republicans keep their majority in the Senate.

But when they heard that Kruger actually wanted to say he's sorry for bringing shame to a conference already reeling from 1) the AEG scandal, 2) losing the majority last fall, and 3) experiencing an intra-party split that resulted in the breakaway of four rogue members who are now the IDC, certain senators made it clear they would not attend today's meeting if, as another staffer put it, a «certain person» is there.

The IDC is the Independent Democratic Conference, which broke away from the mainline Democratic conference in 2009, after a year of fiscal crisis and political gridlock when Democrats had briefly gained theConference, which broke away from the mainline Democratic conference in 2009, after a year of fiscal crisis and political gridlock when Democrats had briefly gained theconference in 2009, after a year of fiscal crisis and political gridlock when Democrats had briefly gained the majority.

«I think it's disingenuous to some of those in the Democratic conference who had every opportunity when they were in the majority to pass this bill, to get 32 votes, and it would have been the law right now,» Klein said.

Initially, he told conference the Lib Dems would scrap the ban if they won a majority, which was about as realistic a process as waiting for the day when unicorns could assist us in the morning commute.

«This plan is a good one for New York, and it will allow us to once - and - for - all undo the damage caused by the Senate Democrat conference when they were in the majority.»

On Wednesday, the breakaway Democratic conference known as the IDC dissolved when its leader, Senator Jeff Klein of the Bronx, agreed to return with his seven members to the mainline Senate Democrats and end his alliance with Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

Senator Jeff Klein, the Bronx lawmaker who had headed the Independence Democratic Conference since January 2011, is being included in some of the leaders meetings, even though the power - sharing deal he brokered with Skelos in 2012 ceased to exist when the Republicans won a full majority in the 2014 elections.

The announcement marked the culmination of talks that began in November, when both conferences tentatively agreed to a deal that was designed to produce reunification after the special elections, which could give Democrats a numerical majority in the chamber.

Kearns chose to conference with the Democratic majority in the Assembly when he first took office in 2012.

When some criticized the power - sharing arrangement in 2012 as unfairly depriving the more heavily - minority mainline Democratic Conference of a majority, Mr. Seabrook became one of its most prominent black defenders.

When the Democrats retook the majority the following year, Klein refused to reunite the two conferences and instead brokered a side deal with Senate Republicans that allowed him to share authority with then - Republican Majority Leader Deanmajority the following year, Klein refused to reunite the two conferences and instead brokered a side deal with Senate Republicans that allowed him to share authority with then - Republican Majority Leader DeanMajority Leader Dean Skelos.

When Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan couldn't rally all of his conference to return to town, Cuomo's office turned to Senate Democrats who feel betrayed that Cuomo hasn't worked publically to push the Independent Senate Democrats into a Democratic alliance.

When Labour is in Government, under party rules, an election would only happen «if requested by a majority of party conference on a card vote».

One insider expressed surprise that Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan pushed all his members to remain unified in voting for the bill rather than allowing most of the conference to vote against it with the knowledge it could pass with mostly Democratic votes as occured under former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos when he allowed the gay marriage and SAFE Act bills to the floor.

Interviewed by Susan Arbetter on The Capitol Press Room this morning, Sampson cast the Senate Republicans as a conference that will claw its way back to power even when it falls into the majority and ignores the will of the voters.

State Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan (R - East Northport) also disappointed some educators attending a breakfast conference in Middle Island, when he declined to offer help in authorizing reserve funds to pay rising costs of teacher pensions.

Current Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was arrested last week on federal corruption charges, is slated to either resign or be ousted by the conference on Monday, leaving majority leader Joe Morelle of Rochester as interim speaker until Feb. 10, when the conference will gather to elect a permanent speaker.

An important first step in the process occurred this week when the Independent Democratic Conference that formed a coalition majority with Senate Republicans dissolved and rejoined regular Democrats.

When asked after the debate if, were he re-elected and cleared of all charges, he would seek to re-join the larger Democratic delegation — which Mr. Smith led as minority leader and as majority leader — or the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference he joined in 2012, Mr. Smith said he'd side with the Democrats.

Speaker Silver, whose Democratic Majority Conference wants to see the temporary income tax surcharge on the rich renewed when it expires December 31st, says he has not given up on his point of view prevailing in the upcoming debate over the new state budget.

That collaboration had helped give Republicans control of the Senate, despite Democrats holding a numerical majority, until early April, when the so - called Independent Democratic Conference agreed to return to the mainstream fold.

Sampson once headed the Democratic Conference when the party was in the majority in the Senate.

When Miner said she would veto a school tax increase sought by the majority Democrats, McMahon stood by her side at the news conference.

ALBANY — Republicans took a step toward maintaining control of the state Senate majority Tuesday when a Brooklyn Democrat announced he would join their conference.

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