Sentences with phrase «several house seats»

The race is one of several House seats receiving national coverage as Democrats try to regain control of Congress» lower house.

I know Bunning is up in 2010m but Dems hope to win the Govenors race and then have governors and several House seats.

Not exact matches

The latest, Congressman John Conyers, is a member of the Democratic Party who chose to step down from his seat on the House Judiciary Committee after being accused of sexually harassing a female member of his staff several years ago.

Best Umbrella Strollers With their larger storage bins, reclining seats, massive shades, and adjustable leg rests, several of the strollers we have a tendency to review will simply do double duty for fogeys wanting to lessen their purchases, retain house in their homes, or just economize.

One might argue that the Democrats (in both houses) have more to lose, with several of their members who are running for Congress perhaps enjoying the insurance policy that two primaries brings — the option to run for their current seats if a bid for higher office doesn't work out.

A Senate GOP source confirms several reports that the congressional district currently held by retiring Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey (NY - 22) has been carved up in the their House redistricting plan, along with Democratic Rep. Gary Ackerman's seat.

With Republicans in control of Congress and the White House, Democrats believe they can pick up several seats in next year's election.

Thompson, of Orlando, who served six years previously in the Florida House of Representatives representing another district, and four years in the Florida Senate, is one of several Democrats setting their sights on the HD 44 seat covering southwest Orange County.

A new sense of urgency seems to have sent in over the last several years as the state is set to lose two more House seats after it failed to grow at a faster rate than the rest of the nation.

The vote to repeal and replace after several false starts was the fulfillment of a key campaign pledge for House Republicans, but it could cost them in key swing seats later next year.

Republicans took several seats in the state House.

In today's post at electoral-vote.com, Prof Tanenbaum notes that Dems will likely be a minimum of +50 in the House - 243 to 192, with several seats on the cusp of winnability.

Reed was mentioned by Politico as one of several «most likely to succeed» members, provided, of course, that he manages to survive the redistricting process that will winnow New York's 29 House seats to just 27.

Faso was elected last year to the 19th congressional district, which has been a closely watched House seat for New York and the site of several battleground races since the 2012 round of redistricting.

As you'll recall, several polls conducted before Weiner resigned — but after his bombshell press conference at which he revealed (ahem) the bulk of his on - line transgressions — found a majority of New Yorkers felt Weiner could keep his House seat, but would have to kiss his mayoral aspirations goodbye.

Like several other ambitious Republicans in the state, his decision to run for either the House or Senate will depend on whether Rep. Steve Daines, a freshman Republican, enters the race for Montana's open Senate seat.

While New York is deeply blue in aggregate — Hillary Clinton carried Trump's home state by more than 20 points — the 2012 round of redistricting saw House seats drawn by a federal court rather than subjected to normal partisan gerrymandering, which made several seats politically competitive.

I will join State Assemblymen Ken Zebrowski (D), County Legislator Joe Meyers (D), Candidate for Congress Chris Day (R) who is running for Nita Lowey's seat in the House of Representatives, and Rockland County Executive Ed Day (R) at a rally organized by several Rockland County residents to speak against this proposed development.

In New York, Ms. Gillibrand, a former House member from a conservative upstate district who had just been appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, was moving to the left on several issues in anticipation of a primary this year.

Although elections to the US House of Representatives use a first - past - the - post voting system, the constitution requires that seats be «apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers» — that is, divvied up proportionally.

The three - day candidate filing window began on Wednesday, and several teachers signed up to run for a state House or Senate seat.

It is not an exclusively Pininfarina design, as most production Ferraris have been for several decades, but a product of the in - house design department headed by Flavio Manzoni, who has a solid design education as an architect and a solid industry background, including successful stints at Lancia, Seat, and Volkswagen, to go with his undoubted talent.

For lovers of the game of golf, at Predator Ridge the best seats in the house are, literally, in the houses that overlook several holes.

Several walls throughout the house are lined with Barbie dolls, and among the interactive features are buttons, which, once pressed, can either make flowers rise, Barbie's dog walk out of his doghouse, or a pink dolphin pop - up from a toilet seat.

Also, when you've scheduled an afternoon to inspect several houses, it's unfair to ask your agent to wait while you change diapers, feed a hungry baby, or fiddle with car seats.