Sentences with phrase «majority elected house»

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The Senate speaker of the house is elected through a voting process that requires a simple majority in a run - off ballot.

Though the President - elect will be coming into power with Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate, many of his most popular positions, like his hardline stances on trade and immigration, are not exactly popular with Congressional leadership.

SO, in order for your idea to happen, the country needs to be so overflowing with Evangelicals, that they are actually able to elect an evengelical President AND majorities (that's 2/3 not 1/2) in both the House and Senate.

«All the parties are internally divided on Lords reform, with strong defenders of an elected or appointed House to be found spread across all parties,» says Hazell, who has serious concerns that the bill might not be accepted by the majority of MPs.

The recommendations emerging from those sessions included a series of worthwhile reforms to Dail procedures, notably the need to elect the Ceann Comhairle (Speaker) of the Dail by secret ballot of all TDs; and a strong majority in favour of inserting specific protection for economic, social and cultural rights (like the rights to housing and healthcare) into the Constitution.

The most obvious mechanism, which House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will set out for the President - elect, will be a Reconciliation Bill by which, because such bills are exempt from filibuster provisions in the Senate, spending and revenue - raising decisions can be driven through not just the House but also the Senate on majoritMajority Leader Mitch McConnell will set out for the President - elect, will be a Reconciliation Bill by which, because such bills are exempt from filibuster provisions in the Senate, spending and revenue - raising decisions can be driven through not just the House but also the Senate on majoritymajority votes.

The same thing at the Federal level where the Speaker of the House or the Senate Majority leader have super powers, never intended in the Constitution, over our elected representatives.

At the 2001 election he was elected with a majority of 16,362, and gave his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 4 July 2001.

Instead he joined six current New York Democratic House members, former Rep. Charles B. Rangel and former Rep. (and current Lieutenant Governor) Kathy Hochul in urging a crowd of 500 or so to work toward electing a Democratic House majority in 2018.

When she was first elected back in 2010, the electoral coalition supporting Ms Rousseff had a majority of seats in both the lower house and in the Senate.

The house elected Abubakar Isa (APC - Shelleng) new deputy majority leader while Mr Lamsumbani Dili (PDP - Demsa) took over as the minority leader.

House Majority PAC, a super PAC that aims to elect House Democrats, announced Thursday it will unleash a major advertising campaign against nine House Republicans over the shutdown.

Americans woke up on November 7 having elected a Democratic president, expanded the Democratic majority in the Senate, and preserved the Republican majority in the House.

Klarides is a creature of the House — she was first elected in 1998 — and some say she would rather be speaker than governor should Republicans take the majority.

Regardless of the actual voting patterns in this case, any voting system in which individual members are all elected from a single geographical region, as is used in the Australian House of Representatives can easily have the party with most seats (and perhaps an overall majority / plurality) not be the party which received most votes.

House Majority PAC, the Democratic super PAC that works to elect Democrats to the House, is going on the air Tuesday with an ad attacking 12 - term Florida Republican Rep. John L. Mica and introducing Democrat Stephanie Murphy as a «new approach to get the job done.»

Reformed second chamber should be 80 per cent or 100 per cent elected Bishops should not retain reserved places in a 100 per cent elected House Link between a peerage and place in the second chamber should be broken Government should not hold a majority in the second chamber No changes to the powers of the second chamber and the House of Commons should retain its primacy

An elected House of Lords «The majority of cross-benchers wouldn't stand for election.

McCain himself has begun to raise the specter of unified Democratic control of all levers of government; at a speech this morning in Cleveland, McCain condemned the «spending spree» that Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)-- a group he called a «dangerous threesome» — would take the country on if elected.

Cantor, who was first elected to Congress in 2000, has served as majority leader since Republicans reclaimed the majority in the House in 2011.

In 2012, the state elected a Republican Governor (Pat McCrory) and Lieutenant Governor (Dan Forest) for the first time in more than two decades, while also giving the Republicans veto - proof majorities in both the State House of Representatives and the State Senate.

If no candidate receives a majority of Electoral votes, the House of Representatives elects the President from the 3 Presidential candidates who received the most Electoral votes.

The New York Times article to which wikipedia links suggests that it was removed to make the bill easier to defend from anticipated attacks by the Republican majority in the House of Representatives elected in 2010:

Babinec has pledged to caucus with House Republicans if elected and a majority of the voters polled in the district want the GOP to retain control of the House of Representatives.

There are cases also when a parliament is simply not capable of sustaining a government over the long term, such as the House of Commons elected in February 1974, in which neither the Conservatives nor Labour could achieve a majority.

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN)- President - elect Barack Obama picked former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle for two important roles Thursday - secretary of Health and Human Services and director of the White House Office of Health Reform.

The aide said the team also met with Obama in Chicago on Thursday, the same day the president - elect picked former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle for two important roles - secretary of Health and Human Services and director of the White House Office of Health Reform.

The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus followed by confirmation of the full House through the passage of a House resolution.

On June 19, 2014, Scalise was elected by his Republican colleagues to serve as Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives.

The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus followed by confirmation of the full House through the passage of a House Resolution.

Other House leaders, such as the majority and minority leaders, are elected by their respective party caucuses relative to their party's strength in the House.

After the wind of mistake of majority brew Akuffo - Addo as President elect, he, (Akuffo - Addo) took the rostrum in a house he allegedly inherited from his father and delivered his acceptance speech.

One of the reasons the incoming House Majority Leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy from California, easily won last week's leadership election to fill Rep. Eric Cantor's number two slot, which he is leaving after his primary loss in Virginia, was his close relationships with scores of members he helped elect.

House Majority PAC, a super PAC dedicated to electing House Democrats, placed $ 20 million worth of reservations for the fall.

In the Lok Sabha, both presiding officers — the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker - are elected from among its members by a simple majority of members present and voting in the House.

Speakers have a role both as a leader of the House and the leader of their party (which need not be the majority party; theoretically, a member of the minority party could be elected as Speaker with the support of a fraction of members of the majority party).

In a decisive rebuke to efforts by Democrats to dominate both houses of the New York State Legislature, voters elected Republicans to a clear majority in the State Senate on Tuesday, handing them a wave of victories upstate and on Long Island, and returning the party to full control in a chamber it long dominated.

The Majority Whip is an elected member of the majority party who assists the Speaker of the House and the majority leader to coordinate ideas on, and garner support for, proposed legiMajority Whip is an elected member of the majority party who assists the Speaker of the House and the majority leader to coordinate ideas on, and garner support for, proposed legimajority party who assists the Speaker of the House and the majority leader to coordinate ideas on, and garner support for, proposed legimajority leader to coordinate ideas on, and garner support for, proposed legislation.

Participating NYC elected officials include «Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer; Council Member Carlos Menchaca; Council Member Jumaane Williams, Council Member Stephen Levin; Public Advocate Letitia James; Samuel Miller, US Housing and Urban Development.»

Meanwhile, Six members of the Kogi House of Assembly, elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), giving it the majority in the house with 16 memHouse of Assembly, elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), giving it the majority in the house with 16 memhouse with 16 members.

The same day that Republicans gained control of the state Senate, Sen. - elect Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria) was pegged to restore the Democratic majority in the upper house in Albany even though he will only be a freshman.

The country's most powerful elected Republicans descended on the district to stump for her — including House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Congressman Paul Ryan, one of Stefanik's political mentors, stumped for her in May)-- while the candidate appeared in an increasing number of slots on cable news and in national media profiles, including the Weekly Standard, the New York Times, CBS News and the Business Insider.

One Democratic leadership aide tells CNN specifically that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will sit down with the president - elect one day before calling the new Congress into session.

«Taking out the anticipated 5 Sinn Fein seats (their elected MPs do not sit in the House of Commons), the magic figure for the slimmest of majorities is 325 seats.»

Taking out the anticipated 5 Sinn Fein seats (their elected MPs do not sit in the House of Commons), plus the Speaker, the magic figure for the slimmest of working majorities is 325 seats.

Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo said dress codes are common in many elected governmental bodies, citing both houses of the State Legislature and also the Buffalo Common Council.

The remaining elected officials did not respond: from the House, Frank Lucas (Committee on Agriculture), Scott Garrett (Committee on the Budget), Fred Upton (Committee on Energy and Commerce), Edward J. Markey and Doc Hastings (both on the Committee on Natural Resources), Eddie Bernice Johnson (Committee on Science, Space and Technology), Bob Gibbs (Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment) and Nick Rahall (Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure); from the Senate, Pat Roberts and Debbie Stabenow (both on the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry), Patty Murray (Committee on the Budget), Jim DeMint (Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation), Lisa Murkowski (Committee on Energy and Natural Resources), James Inhofe and Barbara Boxer (both on the Committee on Environment and Public Works), Harry Reid (majority leader) and Lamar Alexander (Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development).

But the 2010 election knocked that plan into a cocked hat, as the newly elected Republican majority in the House of Representatives pushed federal expenditures downward.

«Democrat Rep. Jared Polis, elected in 2008, created a leadership political action committee in January with the goal of helping Democrats regain the majority in the GOP - controlled House.

Pretend that over the next few election cycles, a super majority of software engineers and computer scientists are elected to the House and Senate.