Sentences with phrase «power over the chamber»

(Of course, at the time, power over the chamber was being shared by IDC Leader Jeff Klein and Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos.

Not exact matches

Immigrant Catholicism was, in fact, held together by the vigorous churchmen who retained their power over their flocks by exercising it regularly on an infinitely detailed category of behaviors, ranging from what the faithful could eat on Fridays to what they could think or do in the innermost chambers of their personal lives [«The End of the Immigrant Church,» Illinois Issues, August 1982, pp. 15 - 21].

Republicans in the state Senate and Cuomo have worked well over the last four years, a period in which the GOP either controlled or shared power in the chamber.

Senate Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference announced this afternoon a power - sharing agreement that will allow feature a rotating Senate presidency and equal control over committee assignments, the Senate's active list, appointments and other key functions of the chamber.

The DSCC has been fundraising very aggressively in preparation for the epic battle it will be waging this fall against the outgunned (in cash terms, anyway) SRCC for control of the chamber — a crucial fight, since whoever has power over the next round of redistricting will have he upper hand for at least the next decade.

Vilified by the left, major showdowns over the 1832 Great Reform Act and 1909 «people's budget» fed calls for abolition, ending in the chamber's veto power being taken away in 1911.

But Republicans last year gained full control of the chamber and Klein lost the title, plus the ability to have veto power over which bills come to the floor for a vote.

After the GOP regained a numerical majority in the 2014 elections, they revised the arrangement: Bronx State Senator Jeffrey Klein, the head of the IDC, retained his title of «co-leader» but lost much of his power over legislation and the chamber's internal workings

It marks the victory of the party that believes, in the end, in a second chamber which will never mean very much, over the party, Ashdown's party, which has campaigned for years in favour of a systematic, joined - up approach to constitutional change that takes the need for checks and balances as seriously as the appetite all governments have for untrammelled power.

In 2012, the Republicans lost the majority, but managed to maintain a semblance of control over the chamber by entering into a power - sharing agreement with four renegade Democratic senators known as the IDC.

A source told Capital Tonight that one of the proposals being floated in the negotiations over Senate leadership would be to allow IDC Leader Jeff Klein to retain the power of co-president of the chamber, along with veto authority and a seat at the budget negotiation table.

Across Europe, however, the elections are unlikely to result in a major shift in the balance of power in the European Parliament, with EPP likely to retain its modest advantage in the Brussels chamber over the Party of European Socialists.

That would in essence give Senate Republicans permanent veto power over any redistricting plan Senate Democrats would put forward if they win control of that chamber in the next decade.

That message suggests that the chamber plans to resist the panel's request to hand over the material, a tactic that could push the commission to use its subpoena powers to seek documents or compel witnesses to appear.

The level of agita over the mayor's role in campaigns outside the city underscores the uncertainty over the Senate: The Republicans, who have ruled the chamber for most of past 50 years, are clinging to power only by dint of an alliance with a Democrat, Simcha Felder of Brooklyn.

In a 2007 survey, 44 % of peers — including 52 % of Conservatives — said that they felt the chamber's powers over secondary legislation were «too weak».

Those kinds of victories helped grow the conference over Silver's two decades in power, extending its power into the suburbs and rural areas of New York, solidifying a virtually veto - proof two - thirds majority in the chamber.

[1][2] This improvement over a naturally aspirated engine's power output is due to the fact that the compressor can force more air — and proportionately more fuel — into the combustion chamber than atmospheric pressure (and for that matter, ram air intakes) alone.

The increase in power and efficiency over the former model ensured in this way results from consistent optimization of the combustion chambers, the charge system and the cylinder head, as well as the new arrangement of the ancillary units helping to reduce frictional losses to an even lower level than before.

The VP rarely exercises his powers as President of the Senate, because a President pro tempore who is the constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate presides over the chamber and is elected by the Senate (and who is customarily the senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service).

Members of Hailsham Chambers have appeared in the cases which have shaped the law relating to the liability of professionals over recent years: the Nationwide lender litigation at end of the 1990s; the seminal cases which developed the law relating to loss of chance in the 2000s; many important limitation cases; the lender litigation which followed the onset of the 2008 financial crisis; the various cases exploring the full ambit of the Financial Ombudsman Service's powers; the recent run of cases clarifying the law relating to breach of trust by professionals holding money in client account; and numerous significant individual cases.