Sentences with phrase «number of house republicans»

King also said he senses an increasing number of House Republicans are growing weary of what he called «the Ted Cruz wing of the party.»

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik this morning remained among a dwindling number of House Republicans who declined to say how they will vote today on a bill to begin the repeal and replacement of Obamacare.

Weller's announcement, which was made just weeks after a Chicago Tribune story that raised questions about land owned by the Congressman in Nicaragua, brings to eight the number of House Republicans headed for the exits.

Trump may try to enact tariffs in the name of jobs, security, or unequal regulatory standards across nations, but it is not clear how he can create such specific trade measures, without harming a broader swathe of companies that export to the U.S. Finally, on December 5, a number of House Republicans publicly expressed opposition to such tariffs.

A growing number of House Republicans — including New York Reps. Claudia Tenney and John Faso — said in carefully couched terms that they are open to an independent investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election after Trump's surprise dismissal of Comey.

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After a number of Democrats started a sit - in to protest the lack of a vote on gun - control legislation following the Orlando shootings, the Republican - controlled House shut off the C - SPAN cameras.

«[The blueprint is] no longer even a viable draft that we're working off of,» said Majority Whip Steve Scalise, the House's number three Republican.

The invitation - only Experts and Enthusiasts (E2) Summit in Park City, Utah, will feature a number of prominent Republicans, including Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain, both vocal GOP critics of President Donald Trump, and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who was Romney's running mate in 2012.

Criticism of House Republicans increased after the bill passed without an updated analysis from the Congressional Budget Office — which initially estimated the AHCA would increase the number of uninsured to 24 million by 2026 — and after several Republicans conceded they had not fully read the bill before voting for it.

«The reason the Republican party essentially forgot to celebrate America this year might have been because they were too busy celebrating Donald Trump's claims that he would fix whatever Donald Trump thinks is wrong with America,» Oliver said before launching into a takedown of the «countless awful things» Trump has said over the past year, stirring up any number of controversies throughout his campaign for the White House.

House Republicans on Thursday unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the nation's tax code, slashing the corporate tax rate, eliminating scores of smaller deductions, and collapsing the number of individual tax brackets.

A number of Republican House members insisted on only a partial repeal in the House bill, but the Senate has gone for a full repeal in an effort to raise more money to pay for tax cuts elsewhere.

New enrollment figures from the state Board of Elections show that in 11 NY House seats, the difference between enrolled Democrats and Republicans is less than 40,000, which means a number of tight congressional races this fall.

In fact, there are a number of Empire State Republicans — several of whom have Pataki ties — in Iowa right now working for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the days leading up to the Jan. 3 caucuses.

Facing a legal threat from House Republicans, the FBI announced that it is doubling to 54 the number of staffers combing through documents to comply with GOP requests for records of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server.

But with the stars aligning for the Wisconsin Republican to become the next House speaker, Democrats say they'll now have a villain to run against, not just a stack of numbers.

An unspecified number of House Freedom Caucus members are looking to leverage their potential support for the farm bill to secure a House vote on a conservative immigration bill, a maneuver they say would kill a discharge petition moderate Republicans have started.

But the 2nd District is the kind of seat that could get swept up in a blue wave, diminishing the GOP's numbers and potentially the number of Republican women in the House, too.

Tom Price serves as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, making him the seventh ranking Republican in the House, John R. Carter is the Secretary of the House Republican Conference, ranking him the ninth ranking Republican, and Pete Sessions is the number six Republican as the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

The early - bird posting of Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy's campaign - finance report shows the Cuomo administration's number two has used his fund to pay for what is described in the filing as «housing,» with payments going to a company owned by a major Republican contributor.

Rep. John Katko, on his third day in office, joined House Republicans who voted unanimously to change the Affordable Care Act's definition of a full - time work week — a move that could reduce the number of people with employer - provided health insurance.

Pataki, who once harbored White House aspirations of his own, said he does not think there will be a «dearth of talent» for the Republicans in 2016, noting that there are many leaders in the party — including a number of (unnamed) «former governors.»

Hanna, a third - term GOP House member from Oneida County, joined a growing number of Republicans in Congress who say Trump's proposal does not represent the party's ideals.

«In the last 72 hours, I've gone from fully certain to cautiously (and nervously) optimistic that the House will hold,» Andy Sere, a Republican strategist working on a number of battleground House races, told the Daily News.

Those voters have been defecting to the Republican camp in alarming numbers during the Obama years, part of the reason we've seen huge Republican gains among governors and state legislatures, and both houses of Congress controlled by Republicans.

The incumbent Republican's numbers plummeted a month ago when he was implicated in the Foley scandal, and they shot up when the White House tapped him as point man on millions of dollars in federal blizzard relief.

A new Quinnipiac poll in the Florida Senate race shows former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) narrowing the gap against Gov. Charlie Crist (R), numbers sure to embolden national conservatives who are already casting the primary as a fight for the heart and soul of the Republican party.

Given 73 House Republicans come from high - tax states such as New York and California, Reed predicted the party couldn't muster the required number of votes to pass a tax reform bill if it includes a complete repeal of the SALT deduction.

«I mean the numbers don't look good in taking the Senate back right now and the Republicans are going to keep the House, and in a Trump presidency, with the Senate confirming a conservative Supreme Court nominee, all of the progressive things that we care about in New York City could be taken away,» he said.

A vast majority of the Democrats winning U.S. House seats (almost 90 % of winners, with a number of races yet to be called), including Patrick Murphy (who knocked off incumbent Republican Allen West in FL - 18), Cheri Bustos (who knocked off an incumbent Republican Bobby Schilling in IL - 17), and Sean Patrick Maloney (who knocked off an incumbent Republican Nan Hayworth in NY - 18)

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

Mainline Democrats in the state Senate on Tuesday plan to push a package of gun control measures they say are needed given the Republican control of the White House and Congress — placing new restrictions on those convicted of hate crimes and limiting the number of guns a person can purchase in a month.

House Republicans set a record for the number of «closed rules» — those blocking amendments — at 83, compared with a previous record of 61.

A number of other candidates are mulling the race including: current RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), former Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chip Saltsman, former Iowa Rep. Jim Nussle, South Carolina Party Chair Katon Dawson and Florida Republican Party Chair Jim Greer.

That's because, for the second electoral cycle in a row, Republicans are banking on a large number of House members running for Senate seats in key states.

But if these two female candidates prevail, Republicans have a reasonable chance at increasing the net number of women in the House Republican Conference next Congress.

Slaughter had been the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee and a number of her colleagues on that committee, both Democrats and Republicans, praised her during a meeting of that panel in Washington earlier this week.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — First lady Michelle Obama's favorability rating among Americans tops that of several major political players who have called or might someday seek to call the White House home — including her husband and his two predecessors, former first lady Hillary Clinton, three vice presidents, and a number of potential Republican presidential hopefuls.

Facing urgent calls to stabilize his candidacy and declining poll numbers, Trump struggled to refocus his message after threatening to withhold his endorsement from top Republican officeholders, including Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House.

House Republicans questioned those numbers are they voted in D.C. to delay the «individual mandate» part of Obamacare that supporters insist will provide the savings Cuomo is promising.

The retirement announcements last week of the House Science and Financial Services chairmen brought to 27 the number of Republicans who have left or are leaving.

Republicans hold a 242 - 193 seat majority in the House and Democrats have launched a «Drive to 25» campaign representing the number of seats they need to win back the majority.

«It would hurt low - income individuals, and it would result in serious numbers of people being removed from health care and not having any coverage whatsoever,» she told reporters after an hourlong meeting with both Republican and Democratic members of the House delegation.

In the House, the decennial redistricting process benefited Republicans, who were able to tweak a number of GOP - held seats to be less competitive.

For three House cycles, Democrats operated within the narrow confines of a Republican - friendly map, hunting for the bare number of seats required to win the majority.

Even though Charles Schumer is the top Democrat in the Senate, and Joe Crowley is the Number Three congressman in the House of Representatives, both are in the minority and may be powerless to stop President Trump and the Republicans.

Deacon also chastised Katko for sticking with the Republican Party on a number of issues, like voting to defund Planned Parenthood and voting against bringing a bill to the House floor that would have banned people on the suspected terrorist watch list from purchasing guns.

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.

Molly Reynolds, a Brookings fellow in governance studies, said a number of indicators suggest that congressional capacity to process information has continued to drop even after precipitous declines following the Republican takeover of the House and Senate in the 1994 elections.

► Then, throughout the day, ScienceInsider provided extensive coverage of the budget request as details became available, starting at 7:45 a.m. with the top - line R&D number and continuing until 8 p.m. with reactions from Lamar Smith (R - TX, not happy) and Bernice Johnson (D - TX, happy), the top Republican and Democrat on the House science committee.