Sentences with phrase «slim majorities in»

Democrats have slim majorities in both houses of Congress, Booker declared aspects of the old rules unconstitutional, and most everyone agrees that mandatory minimum and crack sentencing rules are unfair.

Democrats hold slim majorities in the House and Senate, and their leaders are uneasy about passing a new tax in an election year, observers said.

Slim majorities in Manitoba and Atlantic Canada also say that delaying the Kinder Morgan project is justified.

While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years.

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

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.

With a slim majority in the Senate, the party chose to use «budget reconciliation» — a process that allows a bill to pass with only 50 votes (plus Vice President Mike Pence) but comes with restrictions that make it less than ideal for complex policymaking — to pass their plan.

President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State faces a challenging road to confirmation with Republicans holding only a slim majority in the Senate and Democrats who once voted for him now opposed.

In the interview, Klein was responding in part to questions over whether his conference empowers Republicans — who hold a slim majority in the Senate — over the interests of the Democrats in the Senate.

Currently, May is constrained by a relatively slim majority in Parliament of only 12 seats.

Its institutionalisation, on the one hand would shelter it from the potential inefficiencies deriving from further enlargements, and, on the other, it would not foreclose EU members to join, should they wish to share the higher political goals and slimmer majorities in the decision making.

Mainline Democrats hope to flip leadership of the Senate where Republicans and a group of breakaway Democrats hold a slim majority in a power - sharing agreement.

Republicans, who hold a slim majority in the Senate, will be defending 24 seats next year, including in presidential battleground states where Democrats are mounting strong challenges.

Democrats have repeatedly accused Mr. Skelos and his conference, which retook a slim majority in November, of trying to wiggle out of the pledge, which all 32 Senate Republicans signed.

The goptp has a very slim majority in the state house now, it's real easy to turn.

Senate Republicans are scrapping to keep control of their slim majority in the face of investigations and illness and they have expressed a great hesitance to renew mayoral control under Bill de Blasio, New York's progressive mayor who worked to push the chamber into Democratic control in the recent election cycle.

On Wednesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the five - member Independent Democratic Conference would align with the mainline Democratic conference to form a slim majority in 2015.

The candidates Mr. de Blasio and his supporters helped fund lost, and Republicans took a slim majority in the State Senate.

Sen. John Flanagan of Long Island leads the Senate Republicans, who hold a slim majority in the chamber.

In addition, Democrats hold a slim majority in the House of Representatives that could change if only four Democrats switch their votes.

Republicans hold a slim majority in the Senate, so losing just one member could leave the Republicans out of power.

The future constitution and makeup of the UK and its position in the EU are huge political unknowns; they are about to be addressed under a government with a dangerously slim majority in parliament — and only one seat in Scotland.

If Republicans lose their slim majority in 2016 — Mr. de Blasio implied today Mr. Cuomo leaned on them to foil him — Mr. de Blasio will only have more weapons in his arsenal.

Conservative interest groups have dumped well over $ 20 million into congressional races so far this year, outspending their liberal opponents 4 to 1 and setting off a growing panic among Democrats struggling to regain the House and hold on to their slim majority in the Senate.

Panepinto was first elected in 2014 after a bitterly contested three - way contest and Republicans are expected to target his seat this fall as they look to protect a slim majority in the Senate.

He convinced four Democratic State Senators to defect and join the Republicans, giving the Republicans a slim majority in the Senate (a precursor to today's IDC).

With the Skelos seat vacant, Republicans have maintained a slim majority in alliance with a handful of renegade Democrats.

The decision is a critical win for Senate Republicans hoping to secure their slim majority in the chamber despite a Democratic voter advantage of nearly 2 - to - 1 in the state.

The Senate Republicans are focused on trying to maintain their slim majority in this year's elections.

It's unclear what the indictment might mean, if anything, to Republicans» slim majority in the Senate with about a week until the state budget is due.

He didn't mention two of the most controversial issues facing the Legislature: Independent redrawing of election districts that could threaten the Republicans» slim majority in the Senate, and the regulation of «hydrofracking» for natural gas upstate that concerns the Assembly Democrats and environmental groups.

The result of the UK's advisory referendum on EU membership on 23 June 2016, which returned a slim majority in favour of «Brexit» provoked much discussion on this blog (10 posts so far) and elsewhere about the UK's future relationship with the EU and the future of the EU itself.

That slim majority in Bristol - Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of San Francisco County held that California courts can assert jurisdiction in lawsuits against defendants that are not headquartered or incorporated there, even when out - of - state plaintiffs allege out - of - state injuries.

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But both the committee and the government are under pressure to resolve the issue sooner with a free vote in the legislature which, given the governing Liberals» slim majority, would likely doom the tax.

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Trump could also make it harder to pass lasting tax reform, since any policy that increases the debt above its baseline either requires Democratic support or — if passed by a slim majority of Republicans in the Senate — would expire in a decade.

Despite their enthusiasm for Verizon participating in the market, the slim majority of Canadians, just more than half, agree that Canadians might lose control of their own mobile market to foreign interests if they are large enough (52 %).

The overwhelming majority of members live outside of Chicago, mostly in communities where access to contemporary men's fashion is slim to none.

So slim that the president can easily veto any significant piece of legislation they send to his desk (i.e. repeal of the Affordable Care Act) and there's nowhere near the two - thirds majority vote in both Houses needed to override.

Election rules give the center - left a solid majority in the lower house, despite its slim advantage in terms of votes, but without the Senate it will not be able to pass legislation.

The company, majority owned by Walt Disney Co., has lost 3.2 million subscribers in a little over a year, according to Nielsen data, as people have «cut the cord» by dropping their cable - TV subscriptions or downgraded to cheaper, slimmed - down TV packages devoid of expensive sports channels like ESPN.

It's worth noting that in Manitoba, this majority is by the slimmest of margins, and within the margin of error.

A slim majority of BC MLA's oppose TMX — cue the backlash In the dying days of his administration before the pivotal inauguration of John Kennedy, outgoing Republican president Dwight Eisenhower sounded a note of caution, the echoes of which we would do well to reflect upon today.

Even though the dollar has raced to 14 - year highs against a basket of currencies in the wake of the Fed meeting, only a slim majority - 52 percent of poll participants who expressed a view - thought the euro / dollar exchange rate would break below parity in 2017.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

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But that slim majority belies deep divisions across Islamic sects in Lebanon, with 94 percent of Shia supporting Hezbollah and 84 percent of Sunnis looking on the group unfavorably.

According to a new poll, a slim majority - 56 percent - of Americans support upcoming congressional hearings into alleged extremism in the U.S. Muslim community.

Schlafly is now eighty - one years old, and she has the undoubted satisfaction of knowing that the conservativism that she pushed without compromising for decades is now the majority (if slim majority) ideology in America.

The AP - GfK poll [in April] found that a slim majority of Americans (52 percent) say that wedding - related businesses should be allowed to refuse service to same - sex couples, but just 40 percent say that businesses more generally should be allowed to do so.