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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.

On Friday, Guccifer 2.0 published a spreadsheet online showing the personal phone numbers and email address of nearly 200 current and former House Democrats, as well as top party officials.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told fellow Democrats to change their phone numbers and not let family members read their text messages after a cybersecurity breach led to the release of personal information of members of Congress and their staff.

The MoD argues it has to maintain some empty housing stock to accommodate movements within the armed forces but the Liberal Democrats said the number of empty properties appeared «extraordinarily high».

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.

At 12:15 p.m., a group of House Democrats — including Rep. Adriano Espaillat — will release a letter to House and Senate leadership and appropriators, signed by a substantial number of members, requesting that the Dream Act be attached to the Omnibus spending bill slated for passage in the next week or so, House Triangle, Washington, D.C.

Speaking at the state party's convention on Saturday, Walters said Democrats were working hard to win a number of House seats and take control of the chamber, «and nowhere harder than right here in California,» the Los Angeles Times reported.

A number of LGBT advocates are frustrated that ENDA didn't even see a House committee vote — let alone a vote on the House or Senate floor — during the 111th Congress when Democrats had control of both chambers of Congress.

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.

Congressional primaries next week in Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia feature three Senate Democrats facing reelection in a state won by President Trump in 2016, and a number of competitive House races.

Senate Democrats» proposal included budget numbers that were part of a CBO score of a previous House measure, but those costs had since changed, Reid said.

A number of Democrats in both houses have three major reforms they'd like to see accompany an extension of mayoral control.

Washington (CNN)- The number two House Democrat broke Monday with some of his fellow Democratic colleagues, and said he does not believe releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is appropriate now and it wouldn't help lower gas prices.

The region was just as, if perhaps even more, important for the Liberal Democrats, who won 11 seats in Scotland in both 2005 and 2010, or 20.8 % of the total number of Scottish seats in the House of Commons.

Maloney eventually backed off, following the lead of a number of fellow Democrats after the White House made it clear (with a phone call to Rep. Steve Israel) that it was solidly in Gillibrand's corner.

Queens Congressman Joseph Crowley, the fourth - ranked Democrat in the House of Representatives, bashed U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his threat to deny funding to so - called «sanctuary cities» like New York that refuse to comply with all Immigration and Customs Enforcement orders — a move the Democratic caucus chairman called «counter-intuitive» given the number of terror targets in the president's hometown.

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)

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.

But as the battle for control of the House has tightened, opposition against him among his fellow Democrats has cooled somewhat, with a number of observers predicting he'll only benefit from the GOP's intra-party fight.

It's a little ironic that Cuomo is now getting involved to assist the House Democrats in their higher - than - usual number of competitive races in New York.

Mayor Bill de Blasio got a boost from Assembly Democrats on Tuesday in the form of their one - house budget proposal that includes a number of the mayor's major priorities.

In the memo, Van Hollen noted that in 1996, 28 Democrats retired — nearly double the number of Democratic House members who voluntarily vacated their seats in the next four election cycles.

Of course, New York might not have had the unusually high number of competitive congressional races underway across the state if Cuomo had heeded calls from national Democrats — including Pelosi — to intercede in the redistricting stalemate between the state Senate and Assembly when it came to the House lineOf course, New York might not have had the unusually high number of competitive congressional races underway across the state if Cuomo had heeded calls from national Democrats — including Pelosi — to intercede in the redistricting stalemate between the state Senate and Assembly when it came to the House lineof competitive congressional races underway across the state if Cuomo had heeded calls from national Democrats — including Pelosi — to intercede in the redistricting stalemate between the state Senate and Assembly when it came to the House lines.

And, assuming her petitions aren't thrown out in a legal challenge, she will be taking on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a primary — an effort a number of better - known Democrats have toyed with taking on, only to step aside in the face of tremendous pressure from the White House on down.

Under the tenets of the proposal, if Democrats control both houses, as they did briefly from 2008 to 2010, then it would require a greater number of votes to pass the lines.

anyone else notice that a good number of the most competitive house and senate races are only so because the democrats in those races have adopted much more conservative social policy stances (ex.

Since then, there has been considerable speculation about the elimination of the district, since NY needs to lose two House seats and a number of powerful Democrats — including Queens party boss / Rep.

In June, he was one of a small number of Democrats who said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi should step aside.

Nonetheless, the burden of compromise fell heaviest on the Liberal Democrats; and within the Programme for Government coalition agreement a significant number of their flagship policies were diluted (e.g. electoral reform), forestalled (e.g. House of Lords reform) or disregarded entirely (e.g. UK - wide federalism).

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.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats Housing Spokesperson, Peter Black has said that the Welsh Government must do better after the number of social housing units in Wales increased by just 267 in the last financiaHousing Spokesperson, Peter Black has said that the Welsh Government must do better after the number of social housing units in Wales increased by just 267 in the last financiahousing units in Wales increased by just 267 in the last financial year.

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.

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.

While she's likely to keep her San Francisco - area House seat, she could drag down a number of other Democrats.

I am proud to have had a leadership or ancillary effort in these major accomplishments of this town board,» noted LaMonda in a statement / invitation to Olive Democrats, listing a number of accomplishments from senior housing creation and the purchase of the town meeting hall to the bringing of a sewer system to Boiceville and building of the town pool complex.

A small number of paid canvassers from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in Washington, the campaign arm for House Democrats, and volunteers helped Perez Willams collect 3,200 signatures by going door - to - door across the four - county district in just nine days.

While in coalition, the Liberal Democrats tried to push through a House of Lords reform that would have seen 80 % of peers elected and the total number of members halved to 450.

The number of private sector landlords who have registered with the Welsh Government's Rent Smart Wales scheme has barely struggled past ten per cent of those required to do so, with only five months left of the year long registration period, the Welsh Liberal Democrats Housing Spokesperson, Councillor Peter Black has revealed.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't followed through on pledges to stem the growing number of New Yorkers who are homeless, despite the billions the Democrat claims is being invested in affordable and supportive housing across the state, advocates said Monday.

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.

The ad campaign is called the «Drive to 25,» the number of House seats that Democrats need to take the majority.

Special election results aren't always predictive of future elections, and Democrats have outperformed their normal numbers in a number of other House races throughout the spring.

Bennett will join a number of Democrats from across the U.S. who are vying for a House seat this November.

Most likely at the General Election - Labour and the Liberal Democrats will lose every single seat in the South of England outside London and Labour will pickup seats from the Liberal Democrats in the rest of England, and will probably mostly hold their position in Scotland and Wales leaving a Conservative parliamentary party in the House of Commons with a similar number of seats to those Labour had in 1987 and Labour with a similar majority to now, and Nick Clegg probably just hanging on as leader because there is no obvious replacement.

► 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.

But in counting the ways, Republicans and Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology have come up with very different proposed budget numbers for the leading funder of the physical sciences in the United States, the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science.

The large number of contenders expected to participate in the televised forum — including all seven Democrats and two Republicans — signals new political stature for education in the race for the White House.

By forecasting that Republicans and Democrats would maintain the same number of seats in the House they had before the Nov. 3 elections, the sophomores were closer to...

The number of Labour and Liberal Democrat peers in the House of Lords also means it would struggle to get through the second chamber.

Burman, who helped House Democrats craft an unsuccessful 2007 plan to repeal the alternative minimum tax, said he's received a number of phone calls from lawmakers interested in his idea, though «they can't quite imagine how to make it happen politically.»