Sentences with phrase «majority voting block»

Someday, Hispanics and Latinos will be the majority voting block.

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A snap election is unlikely, however, as PiS has a majority in parliament and could block any vote of no confidence.

Experience with cumulative voting suggests that adversarial relations between the majority block and the minority of shareholder nominees commonly dominate such divided boards.

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

And they vote in a solid block with intent to push their dysfunctional and self loathing beliefs on the majority of us.

For Küng, the pope's declaration that the ban on contraception was still binding, in opposition to the majority vote of his own birth control commission, indicated that infallibility itself was the major block to church reform.

This makes it slightly easier to block laws they oppose because the Majority must first secure as many votes as possible in their own caucus before shoring up loose areas by flipping some opposition members with a few things they like.

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.

Paterson was referring to Skelos» insistence that his conference will continue to vote in a block against the extenders, even though two Democrats — Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. and Ruben Diaz Sr. — have said they won't vote «yes» any longer, essentially leaving the majority without sufficient support to pass anything and threatening a sMajority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. and Ruben Diaz Sr. — have said they won't vote «yes» any longer, essentially leaving the majority without sufficient support to pass anything and threatening a smajority without sufficient support to pass anything and threatening a shutdown.

Squadron and Kavanagh's bills to close the LLC Loophole passed the Assembly with broad bipartisan support in 2015, including Speaker Carl Heastie, but were blocked from a full Senate vote by the Senate Majority.

The Senate majority used disingenuous interpretations of arcane rules to block the bill from coming to a vote.

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

In previous years, similar voting reforms were passed by the Assembly and backed by Senate Democrats, but were ultimately blocked by the GOP Senate Majority.

Add that outrageous betrayal of trust to her 2009 self - appointed pay raise (and the entire city council) that defied a majority opposition to any pay raise voiced at a public hearing, followed by disobeying public referendum laws that recognized term limits that she abrogated (in favor of arranging an unlawful third term for Michael Bloomberg to serve, that automatically guaranteed her own job security), plus a final and detrimental insult to the working poor that blocked our rightful vote on sick pay coverage, and collectively, it would make total sense to impeach and prosecute such unethical, improper and unfair conduct — that is unbecoming to anyone purporting to serve their constituency.

Democrats in the mainline conference in the state Senate on Wednesday blasted majority Republicans for blocking their effort to have a vote on their own budget resolution.

That would place more of a burden on the organizers of a blocking action who now merely need to deprive the majority of 60 votes.

Even though it has 40 sponsors, the Senate Majority Leader has blocked a vote.

In 2011, some Epsom voters voting for the left - wing Labour and Green parties tried to block the tactic by giving their local vote to the National candidate; while it was unsuccessful, it did reduce ACT's majority over National from 12,900 to 2,300.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his leadership team are seriously considering voting on a bill that would scale back the federal government's role in the health care system and instead provide block grants to states.

The debate was unusual because the Democratic majority normally has enough votes to block any attempt to override vetoes by the Democratic governor.

That was why Margaret Thatcher pushed for majority voting on the single market: if every country could block anything inconvenient to a particular vested interest, there would be no free trade.

Attempts to reduce the Legislators» salaries last year were blocked by members of the Majority Caucus and the County charter does not allow salary reduction legislation to be voted on during an election year.

In the Lords» vote, Labour peers will have to overturn a coalition majority of 40 to have a chance of blocking the government's education proposals.

He says most local governments have a large majority of representatives of the same political party, who are more persuadable to vote as a block.

Two of Long Island's three Democrats and both of its Republicans in the House joined the veto - proof majority in a 289 - 137 vote, a setback for the president even though Senate Democratic leaders said a veto won't be needed because they'll block the bill in the upper chamber.

Outgoing Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams agreed that bills might have to be changed if conservative Democrats bolt from the caucus on various issues and block a majority vote for their party.

New York State Senate Majority Leaders Dean Skelos, a Republican, has long said he'd allow a vote on a marriage equality bill and not block it from the floor, even though he himself is against it.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's spokesman Jim Manley tells CNN that Democrats believe Republicans will vote in lockstep to block Hayes» nomination, and therefore, it will fail.

Republicans weren't happy about Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to move forward with the rules change, since it will make it harder to block controversial votes.

Well, according to Slate's Mark Joseph Stern, Tuesday's opinion in Sessions v. Dimaya marked the first time in 25 years on the Court that Justice Ginsburg assigned a majority opinion, when Justice Gorsuch provided the fifth vote with the Ginsburg / Breyer / Sotomayor / Kagan block.

It only takes effect when states with a majority of electoral votes have joined the compact (currently, they have 165 electoral votes, need 270), so that them voting a block guarantees the outcome, regardless of how states that have not joined the compact vote.

This means that the block size limit can be adjusted without the need for hard forks, provided that a majority of nodes vote on the adjustment.