Sentences with phrase «of congressional seats»

Thus, the South was mostly poorer per capita to start with, and had a higher share of capitation taxes than it did of Congressional seats and electoral votes, which was not a recipe for building Congressional support for a major new tax.

The concern expressed by states with large undocumented immigrant populations is that asking about citizenship will scare people off, forms won't get filled out and the count won't be accurate, affecting federal funding and the number of congressional seats.

SAN FRANCISCO — Of all the uses of the U.S. census, the most important — to politicians — is the apportionment of congressional seats.

Female candidates for elected office do as well as male candidates in terms of raising money and winning votes, so why do women only occupy 19 percent of congressional seats and approximately 25 percent of statewide offices and hold fewer governorships and mayorships?

Historically, the Legislature has sought to split losses of Congressional seats between upstate and downstate districts.

Pelosi and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are hoping to increase the number of congressional seats held by the Democratic Party.

At this morning's delegation breakfast in Clearwater, House Speaker John Boehner talked up VPOTUS nominee Paul Ryan and New York's having wrested a good handful of Congressional seats from Democrats in 2010, but didn't have much to say at all about Republican Wendy Long's chances against incumbent Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Plus we would pick a lot of congressional seats in swing districts if the dems want to commit suicide with Mrs. C.

Illegal immigrants count towards the number of Congressional seats a state gets?

We are unlikely to see a loss of congressional seats on Long Island since the population there grew relative to the losses north of Westchester County and east of Lake Erie.

Is it not possible to find government appointees who aren't currently members of Congress?!?!? Enough of the special elections and selling of Congressional seats.

As a historical example, in 1854 it took 9 weeks and over 130 votes before a new Speaker was elected - prompting a change in rules to make winning easier (The winner only has to receive the most votes regardless of the number of ballots cast rather than an absolute majority of > 50 % of the congressional seats).

To the contrary (and certainly to the contrary of what the Albany pay - for - play consultants and their friend LB say), Ed Cox has reinvigorated the GOP rank - and - file statewide, given us back control of the state senate and won back a number of congressional seats.

«Right now I'm supporting Hillary Clinton for the United States and as the borough president, there are a number of congressional seats throughout our borough that people are asking for my support and there is also the state Legislature so I want to get through 2016 first and then you can ask me,» Diaz said.

North Carolina had the distinction of being the only state with Republican - controlled redistricting where Democrats held the majority of congressional seats.

Cox notes Republicans held all of their congressional seats while also fending off challenges from Democrats in both the 19th and 22nd congressional districts.

The same logic applies to Massa, whose party controls a non-trivial number of Congressional seats and has already signalled to Cambiemos his willingness to cooperate.

In Washington, D.C., women occupy 19.4 percent of congressional seats and 21 percent of Senate seats.

(CNN)- Republicans jumped on the Democrats» Tuesday loss of the congressional seat given up by disgraced U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner as a sign of eroding Jewish support for President Barack Obama and his party.

Boyd Melson, a 35 - year - old retired boxer and public affairs officer for the Army, plans to run to unseat Staten Island Republican Rep. Dan Donovan of his congressional seat next year.

STATEN ISLAND — A retired boxer and public affairs officer for the Army — who lives in Brooklyn and plans to run as a Democrat — plans to run to unseat Republican Dan Donovan of his congressional seat next year.

- The Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe reports on the congressional race in the ninth district in New Jersey, where the loss of a congressional seat is pitting two long - serving Democrats against each other.

Turner, who is being redistricted out of his congressional seat says he wants to «fix what's wrong with this country on a big scale».

Not exact matches

Democrats have not said whether they will take any seats on the Republican - majority special committee, saying the new probe - following several other congressional investigations on Benghazi - is also aimed at damaging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chances if she runs for president in 2016.

Wang estimates Democratic congressional candidates would need to win the 2018 nationwide vote by 7 to 12 percentage points to capture enough seats to win control of the House.

In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was once again in the Congressional hot seat Wednesday — fielding hours of questions from the House of Representative's Committee on Energy and Commerce on the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Rep. Katherine Clark won her congressional seat with the help of Emily's List in 2012.

But in a normally functioning political party, a president — who has to stand for reelection before a national audience — serves as a restraining force for congressional party members, who mostly have safe seats and can afford to indulge in ideological flights of fancy.

-LRB-...) The party in power has lost House seats in 9 of the last 10 congressional elections held at the midpoint of a president's first term.

Rep. Evan Jenkins» U.S. Senate dreams have prompted a rush of candidates to seek his seat in West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District.

It sounds most improbable, but Richard ran for a congressional seat in Brooklyn, on a left - of - mainstream Democratic ticket, and I explored doing the same in Johnstown, Pennsylvania» the seat that not long afterward the Vietnam veteran Jack Murtha won.

In the congressional race of that year, the Democrats ended up with 290 seats to the Republicans» 145.

Thus, while Republicans lost seats, liberals didn't really gain seats, although veteran radical liberals gained power, in the form of congressional control, made possible by the victories of the moderate members of their party.

It's also worth noting that King is currently fighting to retain his Congressional seat against a challenge by Christie Vilsack, wife of the aforementioned Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

The results can be ludicrous at times (at least one member of Congress is reputed to hold her seat because her colleagues in the state senate so despised her that they happily tailored a Congressional district to her needs), but they can also be flat - out obscene.

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.

He is supposed to be the neutral head of the state party, not someone who tries to bribe and buy his son's way into a congressional seat.

Democrat Dan Maffei, who's trying to win back his seat from the Republican who ousted him from it in 2010, Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, was one of several New York congressional contenders boosted recently by brief visits from Bill Clinton.

Take Virginia, for example, a national battleground state where Democrats control all 5 statewide offices, yet Republicans hold a super-majority in the state House, a majority in the state Senate, and 8 of the 11 Congressional seats.

Republican NY - 23 congressional hopeful Matt Doheney is scheduled to meet privately this Monday in Washington, D.C. with leaders of the Club for Growth — the conservative organization that played a key role in the 2009 campaign of Doheny's primary opponent, Doug Hoffman, spending and / or bundling more than $ 1 million for his special election bid for the seat vacated by ex-Rep.

This is a congressional seat of his convenience from his penthouse in Manhattan.»

I wrote yesterday about House Speaker John Boehner's diss of Wendy Long when he said there's no «significant» US Senate race in New York — a factor that could hurt down - ballot Republican congressional candidates who are fighting to retain their seats or oust incumbent Democrats.

At the time, Albany lawmakers were grappling with cobbling together a redrawing of boundaries for both state and federal lawmakers, including Hayworth's Hudson Valley Congressional seat.

With fears of losing a congressional seat, a Rhode Island state representative has created a bill to lure people to the state, proposing to pay «middle class» families up to $ 10,000 in tax credits or incentive payments to become residents for a year.

On the same day Gov. Cuomo declared May 24 the date for the special election to fill the vacant seat in the 26th Congressional District, the seven Democratic county chairs in the district announced they are beginning the process of interviewing prospective candidates.

Clegg is among the crowded field of Democrats running for the nomination in the 19th congressional district in the Hudson Valley, a seat held by Republican Rep. John Faso.

I guess there's a number of candidates out there... All I know is that I've said to people that I'm interested in running for the congressional seat.»

According to an invite forwarded by a reader, Emanuel will join unspecified members of the New York congressional delegation at a $ 1,000 luncheon for Bishop ($ 2,400 for a VIP ticket that includes «preferred» seating and an honor roll listing) at The Helmsley Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South in Manhattan.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.