Sentences with phrase «senators share power»

The new coalition ultimately lets the GOP senators share power with the IDC lawmakers, even though Republicans are expected to be in the minority numbers-wise in the new term beginning in January.

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The Bill was introduced as a Private Members Bill by Senator Nick Xenophon The Bill would provide the Court with the power to order a corporation to reduce its market share, where the corporation has been found to have contravened subsections 46 (1) or 46 (1AA) of the Act.

The inquiry relates to a bill introduced by Senator Nick Xenophon which would provide the Court with the power to order a corporation to reduce its market share, where the corporation has been found to have contravened subsections 46 (1) or 46 (1AA) of the Act.

This private member's bill - Senator Xenophon - would give the Court power to direct a corporation found guilty of a s 46 breach to reduce its market share.

But Brooklyn State Senator Simcha Felder, who runs on both party lines, has caucused with the Republicans since 2012 — while another eight members belonging to the Independent Democratic Conference have a nearly five - year - old power - sharing arrangement with the GOP.

Not shy about bringing a little elbow into the game, Rivera is taking on the incumbent Democratic senator in the adjoining district, Jeff Klein, over his defection from the rest of the conference and leadership of a five - member rump faction that caucused and shared power with the Republicans in the past two years.

But Brooklyn State Senator Simcha Felder, a nominal Democrat, has pledged to sit with the Republicans for the fourth year in a row, and the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference has indicated it hopes to renew the power - sharing arrangement with the GOP that it has enjoyed in some form since 2012.

That question and others related to political power - sharing arrangements are explored with this week's guest on the Campbell Conversations — IDC member Senator Dave Valesky.

Brooklyn State Senator Jesse Hamilton announced this afternoon that he will leave the mainstream Democratic caucus and join the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference — making some kind of power - sharing arrangement between two of the body's three factions inevitable.

Manhattan Democratic state senator Liz Krueger has launched a new online survey asking New Yorkers to share their thoughts on the controversial Indian Point power plant, which is up for license renewal in 2013.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein, whose breakaway Democratic conference has a relationship — though no longer a power - sharing deal — with the Senate Republicans, issued a statement calling the corruption charges outlined today by the US attorney against Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos «serious and distburing,» but did not join fellow Democrats in calling for the senator to give up his leadership post.

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.

Senator Jeff Klein, the Bronx lawmaker who had headed the Independence Democratic Conference since January 2011, is being included in some of the leaders meetings, even though the power - sharing deal he brokered with Skelos in 2012 ceased to exist when the Republicans won a full majority in the 2014 elections.

And he sat down with the five Democrats whose Independent Democratic Conference had struck a power - sharing agreement with the Senate Republicans; afterward, their leader, Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, a Bronx Democrat, told reporters he was squarely behind the governor's effort.

Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, head of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of rogue Democrats in a power - sharing agreement with the Senate GOP, has been accused of sexual misconduct by a former staffer, who said he forcibly kissed her in 2015, according to a report.

Jessica Ramos, who previously served as director of community and ethnic media for Mayor Bill de Blasio, is challenging Queens State Senator Jose Peralta, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of Democrats in a power - sharing agreement with the Senate GOP.

However, Brooklyn State Senator Simcha Felder has caucused with the Republicans since his election in 2012, handing the advantage to the GOP — a slender majority bolstered by the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, which has held a power - sharing arrangement with the Republicans in 2012.

The IDC, led by Bronx State Senator Jeffrey Klein, is a wholly separate caucus that has maintained a power - sharing arrangement with the GOP since 2012.

As Jeff Klein made his way to the entrance, the group booed the Bronx senator and leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, which maintains a controversial power - sharing agreement with GOP senators in Albany.

Weather aside, what's kept New York from being like California, for better or worse, is the state Senate, which Democrats have been thisclose to flipping for years now without ever quite getting there, what with upstate's fear of the city running the whole show, and Democratic senators taking lulus (Albany - speak for bribes) and other enticements to switch teams and caucus with the GOP, and Cuomo content with that power - sharing arrangement that positions him at the top of the three - men - in - a-room triangle.

The wild card is the Independent Democratic Conference, led by pro-charter senator Jeff Klein, who has said he'll end his power - sharing deal with the Republicans and join the regular Democrats after the general election.

In 2014, Senator Klein said that if the Democrats won the majority of seats in the elections, then the IDC would switch sides and partner with the regular Democrats in a power sharing coalition.

What the four Senators seem to have discovered is that power - sharing is not easy, and the deal has indeed crumbled.

We sat down with Senator Jeff Klein, the new co-president of the state senate and Senator Ruben Diaz to hear their thoughts on the power - sharing between the Independent Democratic Conference and the GOP.

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that it was looking like the power - sharing deal between New York Senate Democrats Malcolm Smith and the so - called «gang of three» (Senator - elect Pedro Espada Jr., Senator Rubén Díaz Sr. of the Bronx, and Senator Carl Kruger of Brooklyn) was on its way to a breakdown.

The state senator is a member of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, which has enjoyed a power - sharing arrangement with the Republicans in the upper chamber of the State Legislature since 2012.

Two years later, Bronx State Senator Jeffrey Klein formed the IDC with three peers, and in 2012 entered a power - sharing arrangement with the then - minority Republicans to run the chamber jointly.

Independent Democratic Conference Senator Jeffrey Klein, who leads the chamber in a power - sharing agreement with the Republicans, has also insisted that reform must be enacted before the end of the session.

Despite having fewer seats, the Senate GOP controls the chamber because the Independent Democratic Conference, led by Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, has been in a power - sharing agreement with them since 2011.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Bronx Democratic Party and Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Caucus — a group of breakaway Democrats in a power - sharing agreement with Senate Republicans — endorsed him for the seat, which covers areas such as City Island, Throggs Neck, Silver Beach and Pelham Bay.

De Blasio said he also has had «multiple conversations» with state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, leader of the Independence Democratic Conference, a group of breakaway Democrats that enjoys a power - sharing deal with the State Senate Republicans.

A year later, he defeated longtime Republican State Senator Frank Padavan and headed to Albany — where, in 2014, he became a member of the Independent Democratic Conference, which shares power with the GOP.

After Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of a breakaway faction of Democrats that governs the senate with the Republican Party, received a Senate Democrat - backed challenge from ex-Councilman Oliver Koppell, Mr. Klein asked Mr. Cabrera to run against Mr. Rivera, a chief critic of the senate's power - sharing agreement, sources say.

She also declined to criticize State Senator Jeff Klein, just days after the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference had indicated he would like to continue his power - sharing arrangement with Republicans.

In November 2017, top state Democratic officials sent a letter to Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of breakaway Democrats in a power - sharing agreement with the Senate GOP, unveiling a plan to bring about Democratic unity in the state Senate.