Sentences with phrase «statehouse republicans»

Indianapolis Star education reporter Scott Elliott points out General Assembly members could vote to strip the state superintendent's power over the State Board, making it all the more critical for Ritz to find common ground with statehouse Republicans.

Democrats were skeptical saying Statehouse Republicans wasted time on less important issues instead of addressing school safety and problems with the Department of Child Services.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz says she just might run for Governor after Statehouse Republicans passed bills this session curbing her authority to oversee...

Following a weekend firestorm of controversy, protests and bad national publicity Statehouse Republican leaders say they are taking whatever steps that are necessary to ensure the public that Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) can't be used to discriminate against Hoosiers based on sexual orientation.

Following a weekend firestorm of controversy, protests and bad national publicity Statehouse Republican leaders say they are taking whatever steps that are necessary to ensure...

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It is the latest successful legislative push targeting union power following a Republican sweep of statehouses in 2010, and if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the bill as expected it will make Indiana the first Rust Belt state to ban contracts that require workers to pay mandatory union fees for representation.

Republican legislators sent Iowa's governor a bill early Wednesday that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, propelling the state overnight to the front of a push among conservative statehouses jockeying to enact the nation's most restrictive regulations on the procedure.

Tough, smart, fearlessly outspoken, and possessed of an uncanny gift for strategically mobilizing her Middle American supporters (overwhelmingly women, those housewives from Peoria), she not only beat back the seemingly unstoppable ERA but played a key role in securing the presidential nominations of Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Ronald Reagan in 1980, paving the way for today's Bush presidency and Republican dominance of Congress and statehouses across the country.

Republicans who control a majority of the nation's statehouses are considering a wide range of abortion legislation that could test the government's legal ability to restrict a woman's right to terminate pregnancy.

Cuomo has pushed through a plan to shield his state residents from tax hikes under the Republican tax law — and Democratic - controlled statehouses across the country are following suit.

And if you look specifically at Pennsylvania, for example, going into that election, the Democrats had a narrow majority in the statehouse - five or six seats - and that Operation RedMap, this national Republican effort, targeted three, put money in, won all three.

So we've been talking about this effort by this group, the Republican State Leadership Committee, to put not huge amounts of money, but enough money to make a difference in a few dozen state legislative races, hoping that Republicans could then control statehouses, and after the 2010 census draw the new congressional lines.

And you note that while Operation RedMap targeted, you know, a few dozen congressional seats in efforts to flip statehouses, it was a big Republican tide that year in that they gained almost 700 state legislative seats nationwide.

And that would've been enough to flip the statehouse from Democrat to Republican.

Holland, a minister, noted that he would be the first African - American man to lead the GOP ticket in New York and that his «historic candidacy» would «not only help with the funding gap by getting earned media but also... put together the winning coalition that is needed to win the statehouse as a Republican.»

Democratic state senators Ronald Rice and Joseph Cryan and Republican Sen. Robert Singer unveiled the legislation at a statehouse news conference Thursday.

BOISE, Idaho — A Republican Idaho state senator yelled «abortion is murder» at a group of students who were pushing for birth control legislation at the Statehouse and now faces...

It's been helpful in winning Republicans the statehouses.

The other two are State Assembly Leader Shelly Silver, a Democrat, and the governor, who was get - along Republican George Pataki until Eliot Spitzer came in, determined to change the way business was done in the statehouse.

-- Politico, «Obama, Holder to lead post-Trump redistricting campaign,» by Edward - Isaac Dovere: «As Democrats aim to capitalize on this year's Republican turmoil and start building back their own decimated bench, former Attorney General Eric Holder will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that's left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult.

After one of the most shocking displays of Machiavellian politics in a statehouse awash with plots and conspiracy — when Democrats Hiram Monserrate and Pedro Espada helped Republicans take back control of the New York State Senate — it would not have been surprising if fistfights had broken out at the Italian Community Center near Albany, where Republican and Democratic lawmakers gathered last night for a fund - raiser.

Indiana Statehouse Democrats and Republicans disagreed over how well Governor Eric Holcomb delivered his second state of the state address.

During budget talks last month, NY1's statehouse reporter Zack Fink tweeted that Senate Republicans were open to passing modest voting reforms if Sugarman were fired.

A perfect storm seems to be forming in Ohio that threatens to wash away Republicans» long hold on the statehouse.

More than 35,000 people, including many teachers and public service workers, rallied outside the statehouse in Trenton on May 22 to tell Republican Gov. Chris Christie that «he can not balance the state's budget on the backs of the middle class.»

Some Democratic strategists have taken note of apparent GOP advancements in voter registration, coming after Republican - led efforts in several statehouses to pass voting laws that Democrats say discourage core voters such as minorities and students.

Republicans occupy the White House, run both chambers of Congress and control about two - thirds of U.S. statehouses.

He went on to say that if statehouses don't have Democratic governors going up against Republican legislators, then the progressive values will be «taken away at the state levels.»

If Republicans do make major gains in Congress and the statehouses on Tuesday, the public sector may well lose some of its privileges.

In New York there was not only a new governor in the statehouse - a Republican - but he had pushed through a charter school bill and was now serving his third four - year term.

So here we are again, with Republicans winning stunning victories in races for governor's mansions and statehouses nationwide.

Like North Carolina, those are right - to - work states with weak or no official teachers unions and Republican majorities in the statehouse.

Yet especially with Republicans taking office in statehouses and governorships since the commitments were made, the standards have been perceived by some as a political liability: a potentially big - government - seeming program that appears to standardize education across the country when state control has long been Conservative currency.

The real question is whether Republicans who run the statehouse will ensure those dollars are spent wisely.

At the beginning of last session, Republican political heavyweights at the Indiana statehouse remained on board with the new standards.

«I have not seen a tax plan, or heard of a tax plan, that is that robust,» Sen. John Skubal, a Republican from Overland Park, said on the Statehouse Blend Kansas podcast.

«In education policy, there would be times where they didn't have votes — maybe 10 or 15 Republicans who didn't want to vote for totally expanding the charter - school cap,» says Brandon Dillon, who served in the Michigan Statehouse before becoming the state Democratic chair.

Let's go back to 2010, when Indiana's former Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels and the GOP - controlled Statehouse wholeheartedly endorsed Common Core for Indiana.

More than 1,000 Indiana teachers swarmed the Indiana Statehouse Tuesday for a rowdy rally denouncing the sweeping education proposals moving through the Republican - dominated state House and Senate...

Republican Asa Hutchinson won the governor's race in Arkansas, giving Republicans a statehouse it hasn't held since 2006, and securing another ally in the fight against new federal climate regulations.