Sentences with phrase «majority voting bloc»

Kiryas Joel annexed 164 acres of land in 2015, a decision that Convers attributed to a town board that was elected thanks to the majority voting bloc the Hasidic community created.

Tom DiNapoli, an Assembly Democrat, was selected to replace Alan Hevesi, where Assembly Democrats hold an absolute majority voting bloc.

Not exact matches

With three - quarters of the vote counted, as of 9:00 a.m. local time, the early results showed that no one party or bloc would have a majority of votes enabling it to govern alone.

BO's support of abortion / choice however vitiates has Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting bloc in the country.

And if half of these aborting «mothers and fathers» have had two abortions, the Immoral Majority would still be a huge voting bloc i.e. ~ 50 million, enough votes to give any presidential candidate the differential votes needed considering many voters vote straight Democratic or Republican tickets no matter what the issues are.

BO's support of abortion / choice however vitiates his Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting bloc in the country.

And BO is the leader of the Immoral Majority, the largest voting bloc the US i.e. in 2012, the ~ 78 million voting «mothers and fathers» of aborted womb babies and that is the reason BO will win in 2012 unless the Republicans somehow nominate a «pro-abortion» candidate something very unlikely considering the conservative «pro-life» voting bloc within said party.

Liz adds: (The fact that she led the change against US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as counsel of the Judicial Confirmation Network particularly worries some GOP chairs who don't want to alienate Hispanic voters — a very important voting bloc, particularly as the Senate majority hangs in the balance).

The labor - backed party has Facebook ads posting today, part of a broader effort aimed at pressuring the eight - member bloc as Democrats hold a numeric majority in the state Senate, but do not have the votes to form a governing coalition.

Pensions minister Ros Altmann argued voters would be undermining their «democratically elected leaders» if they vote to quit the bloc, since pro-EU MPs enjoy a significant parliamentary majority.

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.

The IDC has provided a key bloc of votes for the Senate Republicans, who maintain a majority with the help of Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder, who conferences with the GOP.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - East Northport), who wanted Republicans to vote in a bloc, sought to downplay the fireworks.

Kaminsky in April won a special election to replace the disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the chamber, flipping a Long Island Senate seat that had long been in GOP hands and breaking up the Long Island 9 voting bloc of Republican lawmakers.

His election as majority leader keeps power concerted in the Senate on Long Island, where the nine - member delegation have formed a powerful bloc of votes.

The GOP, which voted in a bloc against the marriage bill in spite of advocates» claims that there was support from four or more minority conference members for the legislation, is unlikely to engaged it fragile hold on the majority — if it manages to wrest it back from the Democrats — by taking up this controversial bill.

Overnight a perceived progressive majority of 16 million has been turned into an 18 million voting bloc for the centre right.

Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said his members are free to vote their conscience, even though the Republicans usually vote in a bloc.

The South, voting as a bloc on measures that challenged slaveholding interests and augmented by defections from Free State Senators with Southern sympathies, was able to tally majorities.

The vote itself would still have passed by a majority of around 400, and the UK's MEPs voting «en bloc» would only have highlighted how far apart the two sides are.

This diagram shows how the power shifts dramatically when there is no majority in a hypothetical parliament of 650 seats in which five voting blocs are represented.

After the Wednesday vote, leaders of the House science committee's majority and minority blocs issued dueling statements.

«Millennials delivered Trudeau his majority, we want real climate action, and we could be one of the largest voting blocs by 2019, three things that Trudeau needs to remember when deciding on this pipeline,» Sophie Birks, a Climate 101 organizer from Montreal, explained.

Warsaw attaches a different emphasis to the clause, related to the way that increased ambition may be imposed outside the bloc's carbon market, but touching on the fractious arguments over qualified majority voting and, potentially, the national veto.