Sentences with phrase «seat in the house in»

Democrats, the minority party, have been aggressively working to grab back 25 seats in the House in order to retake the majority.

WASHINGTON — Representative John Conyers Jr., who took his Michigan seat in the House in 1965, has served in Congress longer than his fellow Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, has been alive.

Not exact matches

«I wanted to emulate the lifestyle that I enjoyed so much in Mexico, but I wanted it in Los Angeles,» Rosenthal says, surveying the house from his seat on an overstuffed leather couch in the main living room.

The Republican frontrunner in the race to fill House Speaker Paul Ryan's seat in Wisconsin's 1st District raised more than $ 250,000 during the first week of his campaign.

(Brydson was one of 30 women who chained themselves to the seats in the House of Commons in dissent.)

The so - called «Bos - Wash Landliner» was imagined in the late 1960s as running on air skis (a little like the initial Hyperloop proposal), vacuuming up moving vehicles at 60 miles an hour, and housing everything from a 100 seat theater to a gym.

Such a liquid market, in which buyers were comfortably in the driver's seat — with bidding wars the norm and house inspections regularly waived all in the name of FOMO (fear of missing out)-- meant there was very little possibility of anyone with any sense allowing their home to go into default.

I had the best seat in the house to watch that event, and our destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets — there were no PT boats there... There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

Buyers of houses — even ones fronting the ocean — want to have pools, while «smart» homes filled with tech, elaborate outdoor seating areas, and homes with so - called «flexible» layouts (meaning they're open plan, rather than having dedicated dining, living, and entertaining rooms) are in vogue.

If Democratic legislative candidates run as strongly in 2019 as Northam did this year, they'll end up with 58 % of the seats in the House of Delegates and 60 % of the seats in the Senate, and they'll be able to write whatever Medicaid plan they want.

Safely seated now in his office at the back of the house, Paul Jr. recalls how, as a child, he would invite his friends to take «scary elevator rides.

It was a holiday treat to get some of the best seats in the house with good friends and to take time away from the busy - ness of work, to enjoy a night out.

Tim Phillips, the President of Americans for Prosperity who was presenting with Seidel, noted that Democrats only need to gain 24 seats in the House of Representatives to regain the majority — and he views 80 seats as competitive.

By the end of 2017, more than 1,200 people filed to run as Democrats for seats in either the House or Senate, according to The Post.

Seated at his desk at Starbucks headquarters overlooking Puget Sound, Schultz barely had time to collect his thoughts; the White House had set up the call two minutes in advance.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponentIn 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponentin the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

The minority party aims to win 23 Republican - held House seats in November to take a majority in the chamber.

House Republicans lost five seats, making passage in January a more difficult proposition than pushing through legislation in the lame - duck session.

Someone is gonna be first and grab the best seat in the house and it might as well be you.

So the ticket manager and his staff sat in every one of the opera house's 2,200 seats and gave each a value according to the view and the acoustics.

But emboldened by a decisive White House win, an expanded majority in the Senate, and at least a few extra seats in the House, they seem less likely to budge on taxes.

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.

Many of the most vulnerable seats House Republicans will have to defend in 2018 are in places like Orange County, California, or affluent suburban areas of New Jersey.

An earlier exit poll indicated that the center - right alliance would gain between 248 to 268 seats in the lower house of parliament, short of the 316 needed for a majority.

Pier Luigi Bersani's center - left coalition won a slim majority in the lower house but no party won enough seats to win a majority in the country's upper house, the Senate.

But the House bill is unlikely to be taken up in the Senate, where Republicans have a 52 - 48 seat majority and they need to pay heed to moderates within their own ranks as well as Democrats, lobbyists and analysts said.

She did not win her bid for a seat representing New York in the House of Representatives.

Even before The New York Times reported that the White House was considering running Sessions as a write - in candidate, it would've been pretty hard to avoid the elephant in the room: the accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around the race to fill Sessions's old seat.

Virginia and New Jersey will hold gubernatorial elections later this year, and all 435 seats in the House and 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in the 2018 midterm elections.

Most of the obvious governing options fall short of the 176 seats required for a majority in the lower house of the Spanish parliament.

On the morning of November 3, 2010, for example, the day after Election Dight, Facebook announced that 74 percent of House of candidates with the greatest number of Facebook fans on their ballots won their contests, while in the Senate 81 percent of candidates with the most Facebook fans won seats.

The Conservatives hold a majority of seats in the House of Commons, meaning support from the governing party is required for a motion to succeed.

Dems win key race in swing district: «Outspent but not outmaneuvered, Democrat Javier Fernandez took Florida's 114th House district Tuesday, keeping the purple Miami - Dade seat in the fold for the state's surging minority party.

The Freedom Report's online archives only go back to 1999, but I was curious to see older editions of Paul's newsletters, in part because of a controversy dating to 1996, when Charles «Lefty» Morris, a Democrat running against Paul for a House seat, released excerpts stating that «opinion polls consistently show only about 5 % of blacks have sensible political opinions,» that «if you have ever been robbed by a black teen - aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet - footed they can be,» and that black representative Barbara Jordan is «the archetypical half - educated victimologist» whose «race and sex protect her from criticism.»

The government has a three - seat majority in the 300 - seat house, and is expected to secure approval for the bill.

Mr Marshall's Liberal Party secured 25 seats in the 47 - seat lower house, but he doesn't have the numbers in the upper house to push legislation through without the assistance of minor parties and two SA Best politicians.

The White House didn't want to open up Cotton's Arkansas Senate seat after the GOP's shocking loss in the Alabama Senate race and other special elections.

-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.

In order for the Democrats to seize control of the House, they would have to gain 24 seats.

There are, we know, a number of interesting races going on across the province this election cycle, but one of the more compelling ones is the contest for the seat in Rimbey - Rocky Mountain House - Sundr...

In all, 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in November 201In all, 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in November 201in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in November 201in the Senate will be contested in November 201in November 2018.

If we consider all the midterm elections in the post-war era, the president's party has lost House seats 16 out of 18 times.

The path to making America «great again» has nothing to do with who is in the White House, but a great deal to do with who occupies those seven seats on the Federal Reserve Board.

With six new seats coming in the House of Commons, the province could play a deciding role in 2015.

«Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seated funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have ever been done to prevent this, we call BS,» she said.

«Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have ever been done to prevent this, we call BS,» said Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma Gonzales in a speech that went viral this weekend.

They love the best seats in the house and the honor that comes with being a leader.

Campaigner is to be given a seat in the House of Lords and will sit on Labour's benches in the Upper hHouse of Lords and will sit on Labour's benches in the Upper househouse.

The passage of the Reform Bill may be defined in a shorthand way as the procedure of voting by Parliament, and approval by King William IV, of a law changing the qualifications for voting in British elections and redistributing seats in the House of Commons.

Keep Obama in the white house, fill the seats with Dems.