Sentences with phrase «minority party house»

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Anyone who wonders whether Congressmember Sean Patrick Maloney regrets having given up his days and evenings as a Manhattan attorney in exchange for the life of a minority party House member sitting through long DC committee hearings and weekending in his upstate district to attend pancake breakfasts and ribbon - cuttings should consider just -LSB-...]

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The day after the House barely passed the Senate's ACA bill — without a single Republican vote — the minority party introduced a bill to repeal it.

Highlighting his party's lack of power, House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer said Wednesday that his caucus» ability to stall the measure for even a few weeks itself constituted a success, of sorts.

The minority party aims to win 23 Republican - held House seats in November to take a majority in the chamber.

Billionaire Tom Steyer, one of the leading Democratic donors in the 2018 election cycle, has plenty of praise for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., but he stopped short of publicly supporting her to lead the party in Congress after this year's midterm elections.

But in November 2005, the three opposition parties combined in the House of Commons to defeat Martin's minority, as each calculated that a general election would strengthen their caucuses.

Dems win key race in swing district: «Outspent but not outmaneuvered, Democrat Javier Fernandez took Florida's 114th House district Tuesday, keeping the purple Miami - Dade seat in the fold for the state's surging minority party.

A host on the left - wing MSNBC mocked Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) on Monday for the party's lack of diversity that was on display when Democrats unveiled their new «better deal» plan in Virginia.

Yesterday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she doesn't think the Democratic Party should consider support for abortion rights as a litmus test for its candidates.

Democrats postponed their leadership election until Nov. 30 after junior lawmakers demanded more time to digest the party's disappointing Election Day showing, a warning shot at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

It is public knowledge that Mr. Kennedy Agyapong has a reputation as a noisy politician with an acidic tongue, whose shameful actions have not attracted any sanctions from the august house of Parliament, the Minority Caucus nor the Party.

The Hastert Rule, also known as the «majority of the majority» rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.

In the House, 218 votes are needed to pass a bill; if 200 Democrats are the minority and 235 Republicans are the majority, the Hastert Rule would not allow 200 Democrats and 100 Republicans together to pass a bill, because 100 Republican votes is short of a majority of the majority party, so the Speaker would not allow a vote to take place.

In the House, a motion offered by a member of the minority party at the end of floor consideration that, if adopted in its simple form, returns the measure to legislative committee.

Nearly every party official who stepped to the microphone noted that for Pelosi to return to the House as Speaker after two years in the minority, a bulk of the 25 seats the party must net would need to be won in California.

Minority governments are interesting because they compel the governing party (which is usually the party with a plurality of seats in the House of Commons) to find common ground with one or more opposition parties.

Minority parties in both houses would be allowed two members.

The reason we haven't included Ryan on our Line is because being a member of the minority party in the House is a very small platform on which to make a national impact.

Everyone knows that each House and Senate committee has representatives from both parties which include a senior member of the minority party.

The lawmaker, who doubles as boss of the Queens County Democratic Party, is the only New Yorker in the leadership of the House Democratic minority.

A minority government could continue in office on a vote - by - vote basis, without any formal deal with another party - if it can hold the confidence of the House.

Democrats, the minority party, have been aggressively working to grab back 25 seats in the House in order to retake the majority.

But Democrats — led by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and DCCC Chairman Steve Israel — orchestrated an intensified fundraising push designed to boost the party's coffers ahead of the 2012 election.

Only in Congress, with its rules for minority rule, can a minority of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives impose its havoc on the American people there, then on the Senate Read more»

However, he is undaunted by moving from a Democratic supermajority in the state senate to a probable minority in the House, promising to «confront and refute the Tea Party at every conceivable turn.»

Assemblyman Gary Finch is in the minority party in his house, so he criticized the budget approved by majority Democrats.

Twelve members of the majority, including six from the Assembly and six from the Senate, and four members of the minority party, including two from each house, make up the committee.

The GOP will probably gain a few seats in the House, possibly have a net loss in the Senate, maybe a small net gain in governorships, and stay a minority party for some time to come.

In a speech at the City Club of Cleveland earlier this morning, House Minority Leader John Boehner reiterated the Republican Party's call for an extension of the Bush tax cuts, criticized the administration's stimulus spending and called for the ouster of President Obama's entire economic team.

How is it possible for the minority party in the U.S. Senate to have more firepower in commanding the message than the White House?»

The party currently holds no statewide office and sits in the minority in both houses of the legislature.

But with the shutdown more than a week old and House Democrats searching for any legislative wiggle room to end it, the move looms large in retrospect in the minds of the minority party.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) acknowledged Sunday that Democrats questioning the party's messaging problems have a point in the wake of another House election defeat.

At its most basic, «a confidence and supply» deal guarantees a minority government the support of another party when the House votes on motions of no confidence (and, before the Fixed - Term Parliaments Act, on supply bills, where a loss would also have effectively terminated the government's mandate).

The Conservative Party took the highest share of MPs but lost its majority in the House of Commons and is now forming a minority Government, with support expected to come from Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party.

The instant - runoff voting for the House upsets the apple cart if and only if one of the major parties fails to be broad - based enough to siphon off third party policies in a given electorate (i.e. a majority party swaps places with a minority party).

Connecticut Republican House Minority Leader Themis Klarides and Democrat House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz announce that the parties had reached an agreement on a tentative framework for a new two - year budget last week at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn..

Despite the electoral setback suffered by her party, Pelosi sought to continue leading the House Democratic Caucus in the position of Minority Leader, the office she held prior to becoming Speaker.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said in a new interview that she is «very confident» her party will take back a majority in the House of Representatives and she isn't even considering the possibility of not running for speaker.

Like clockwork, lawmakers in the minority parties in both houses quickly called on Assembly Democrats and Senate Republicans to embrace more - stringent ethics laws in New York.

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.

State Democrats gathered at the Connecticut Convention Center Saturday night for their annual fundraising dinner heard a plea from U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D - New Jersey, to energize a party that lost the White House and is in the minority in Congress.

As House Democratic Leader, I have emphasized three essential duties of the minority party: First, help the Republicans when it helps the state.

The Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, the Minority Party Leader of the Arizona House of Representatives, the President of the Arizona State Senate and the Minority Party Leader of the Arizona State Senate would each appoint one person to the Redistricting Commission.

But the budget package did pit Schumer against many of the other major figures in his party, including Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California.

Senate Democrats, who are in the minority party in that house, and who have the most to lose from the new lines, in the final hours still held out hope that the governor would still use his veto pen.

Senate Democrats, who are the minority party in that house, held a news conference with government reform advocates to push for public financing of campaigns, a bill Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson says will lessen the influence of big money special interests in politics.

The beleaguered minority party are now charging that the Senate GOP has been using house rules to further stifle them.

Several Assembly Republicans, who are in the minority party in that house, held a hearing on the 45 % toll increase for trucks proposed by the Cuomo Administration's State Thruway Authority.

Strickland is pro-choice and Ohio House Minority Leader Chris Redfern was elected Ohio Dem Party Chair, solidifying Strickland's political power.