Sentences with phrase «party control of the legislature»

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By March the Nazi Party controlled 44.6 % of the Reichstag and managed to pass the infamous Enabling Act, which allowed the German cabinet to pass laws without the legislature or the president.

Maduro's government has had success sidelining the country's political opposition, circumventing the opposition - controlled legislature, securing electoral victories with the help of fraud and dirty tricks, and working to block main opposition parties from future elections.

At a moment when the Republican Party has reclaimed power in the House, has taken control of most state legislatures, and is set to begin the process of choosing its next presidential nominee, the Christian Right is playing an increasingly influential role in the pParty has reclaimed power in the House, has taken control of most state legislatures, and is set to begin the process of choosing its next presidential nominee, the Christian Right is playing an increasingly influential role in the partyparty.

The party that he founded — the Republican Nationalist Alliance, or ARENA — now controls all branches of government: the presidency, the legislature and the courts.

Political pressure has intensified since the Kentucky Republican party finished its takeover of Kentucky's legislature by winning control of the House of Representatives.

«At the end of the day, I would argue if one party controls the entire state legislature, then New Yorkers need a Republican governor to make sure that there's appropriate checks and balances and I'd like to be that person.»

The party that controls the state legislature tries to put the opposite party's voters into safe seats, and maximize the number of seats that go to its own party.

The committee was fresh off a series of primary challenges from a group of renegade Democrats that contributed to the party losing control of the county legislature to the GOP in 2013.

In state government elections, the Democratic Party lost one governor's office and gained control of two state legislatures.

Gerrymandering, which can be traced back to at least 1788, has resulted in 69 of 99 state legislatures and both houses in 35 states to be controlled by Republicans in a country in which both parties are pretty evenly represented, with Democrats slightly ahead.

In state government elections, the Democratic Party lost 8 governors» offices and lost control of 10 state legislatures.

This means that the Democratic Party is in a position of heightened vulnerability when it comes to retaining control of partisan dominance in state legislatures, compared to the degree of vulnerability of the GOP.

The last time majority lawmakers and the county executive were from different parties was in 2000 and 2001, after Democrats took control of the legislature during Republican County Executive Thomas Gulotta's final two years in office.

Iowa is one of three states in which each party controls one chamber of the legislature, and Republicans are taking similar aim at the state Senate.

As has been reported earlier, if one party has control of both the Assembly and Senate then a 2/3 60 % majority of the legislature has to vote to approve the commission's plan.

But faced with a historically low level of control of state legislatures, and with congressional redistricting in 2020 at stake, the party's leaders, well - heeled contributors, and strategists are vowing to mount a never - before - seen effort to win these state - level battles.

Though the presidential election gets the most attention, a fast - approaching primary election is on the minds of local party leaders as they maneuver for control of the state legislature.

But it's clear that Gregorius, as Democratic majority leader, is not enamored with a county legislature that has more members of his own party seated (13 - 10), yet is controlled by Republicans in league with a small Democratic breakaway faction that, together elected Democrat John Parete as its chair.

As part of his open - ended campaign to reform state government, Cuomo proposed to create an independent entity to conduct the redrawing of legislative and congressional lines, a process that happens every 10 years and which has historically been controlled by the unbelievably conflicted majority parties in each house of the state legislature.

During the primary, Mr. Cuomo's longshot challenger Zephyr Teachout called the Women's Equality line «a sham party,» pointing to reports that the governor had colluded with the State Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to allow the GOP to continue to control the upper house of the state legislature — which led to the failed effort to pass the complete Women's Equality Agenda.

Sunday's New York Times contains a solicitous, attentive look at a backward, benighted place — North Carolina, where one political party has deviously «seized control» of the state legislature.

The county Democratic Party, which chairman Richard Schaffer said will focus on retaining control of the legislature this year, raised $ 526,000 and spent $ 434,000.

And a long - standing gentlemen's agreement between the two major parties to not attack each other's stronghold in the legislature (Democrats control the Assembly, Republicans the Senate) has fostered a culture of impunity in Albany that has only been jostled, but not cleansed, by the frequent indictment of sitting lawmakers.

The three member board, known as the Public Authorities Control Board, includes a representative from the Cuomo Administration, and the majority parties in each house of the legislature.

Some critics have argued that Mr. Cuomo — who reportedly facilitated the arrangement between the GOP and the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to maintain control of the upper house of the legislature — created the Women's Equality Party as a means to siphon support away from the Working Families Party, in order to deny them the 50,000 votes needed to remain on the ballot.

In order to protect against one ‐ party dominance in the drawing of lines, if one party controls both houses of the legislature, approval of a plan requires a 2/3 affirmative vote in each house.

The voting procedures and thresholds for passage of a redistricting plan by the independent commission and the legislature varies depending on which parties control each house of the legislature.

If control of the legislature is split between the two major parties, the plan must have at least one vote from each of the two major party appointees.

Only recently, teachers unions seemed to be riding high in the saddle, enjoying for the first time in more than a decade a government unified under the union - friendly leadership of a Democratic governor and a legislature controlled by the same party.

In fact, of the 40 states passing a law, 24 passed it when a Republican was governor and 16 when a Democrat was governor, and about two - thirds of the states passing a charter law did so when there was no single party controlling both the legislature and the governor's office.

What we were most interested to know is whether the change in funding differs if a state has unified Democratic control of the state legislature and the governorship at the time of the court decision, unified Republican control, or when control is divided between the two parties as, for example, when the governor is a Republican and the Democrats control one or both of the houses of the legislature.

The work by the Center on Education Policy (CEP) on the No Child Left Behind Act, high - school exit examinations, and other education policies uses exactly the same research methodologies as those employed by the U.S. Department of Education, state legislatures (controlled by both political parties), and other entities.

Even though the state legislature and governorship were under unified Republican control, the Republicans» majorities were slim enough that the active support of Latino groups traditionally affiliated with the Democratic Party made a difference.

Smith - Ingram says Democrats aren't waffling on protecting all students, but she speculates political pressure and the long odds on her party speedily retaking control of the state legislature may deter some legislators.

Even more dramatically, the Democratic Progressive Party will take control of the legislature for the first time.

Most of the Democratic Party (which controls the legislature and holds the governorship) votes against it came from middle or low income legislative districts.

The Republican party just took control of Congress, the US's legislature.

Recently, a new party was voted into control of the state legislature, and the law was changed — police radar is now legally exact to within 1mph, and a driver is in violation if they don't travel the exact speed limit on a given roadway.

Billy could form a «Let Billy show up to every meeting» party, run candidates for the legislature in every State and federally, lobby hard, raise funds for lawyers to run test cases, change the constitution, take control of the armed forces, pass a resolution through the United Nations General Assembly, etc etc..