Sentences with phrase «newly elected legislature»

Rather than share power with the opposition, Hugo Chávez castrates the newly elected legislature

By the laws of the day, this threw the contest to the newly elected legislature, which according to preliminary results was under full Republican control.

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In 1911, Roosevelt as a newly elected state senator blocked the Tammany Hall - appointee for the U.S. Senate, back when Legislatures had that power, which was ultimately a way of granting patronage posts.

First was Tom Buckel, a newly elected Democrat who returned to the legislature with intent to bring some civility and rigor to the body's discourse.

Malloy will be required to formally release a final budget next year before he leaves office, but then the newly elected governor will take over and release a budget that will be acted upon by the legislature.

A combination of state fiscal crises plus newly elected Republican legislatures and governors, has emboldened the legislatures in the traditionally union - friendly states of Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.

Rather than proceed with the second half of the suit, which rested on claims that charter schools had failed to comply with statutes and sponsorship contracts, their opponents withdrew it in December and instead appealed for regulatory help from a newly - elected Democratic governor and a legislature whose Republican majority had been reduced.