Sentences with phrase «taking house seats»

Wisconsin looks like it could swing strongly to the Republican side this year, with the GOP also looking favored to defeat Sen. Russ Feingold (D) and potentially taking House seats in the 7th and 8th districts.

Not exact matches

Democrats need to flip 24 seats this year to take control of the House and make House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaker.

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.

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

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.

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.

Republicans fighting to take back the House of Representatives have focused on seats currently held by moderate, pro-life Democrats.

If there's a wait — and with only 32 seats, there will be — sit at the communal table, snack on the house popcorn, and take solace that memories of the food will outlast those of that teddy bear.

Once seated, I took my time to decompress from a busy day in the city amid the eatery's inviting décor, which featured original artwork paired with warm woods, earth tones and dim lighting reminiscent of a steak house.

The Brew House staff let me order the burger immediately before finding a seat, as they said it would take 20 minutes or so to prepare.

It doesn't take much to win a house seat.

They even have their own - not the National Trust's, note - monogram on the seats of the shuttle buses that take you from the car park up the drive and to the house itself.

Keep your potty chair in the bathroom, not in front of the TV or in the play area so that your child learns that toileting takes place in the bathroom and that the toilet is not simply an extra seat in the house or somewhere to stash toys!

There is every reason in the world to not be physically active; reading to our children, providing quality meals, addressing their social needs, researching all medications / foods / education, shopping to have the «best» deals on the highest quality, spending quality play time with our children, limiting screen time, grooming them, keeping house, bonding, learning and executing proper child passenger safety (installing that perfect car seat that took 3 weeks of research and a small loan to purchase), and being sure every minute of their every day is filled with only the best developmentally appropriate activities.

Pros: This travel booster seat offers some of the best safety features, packed into a very light and compact package — so small that it won't be any trouble at all to take it along on vacation, to visit other people's houses, or restaurants.

It is a luxury item, but it really comes in handy - better than a baby swing.Also, I got a baby seat for the baby, and took it everywhere I went in the house - in the kitchen, bathroom, livingroom, bedroom.i'm hoping my next kid is just as easy.my son never really cried ever..

Where I live, there is no way I would take my baby out of his infant car seat and warm bunting bag to carry him into the house.

It also doesn't say squat about the literally hundreds of other things you could worry about (like kids with allergies and asthma getting their hands on certain foods, the host taking the kids in a car without a car seat, a backyard trampoline, alcohol / drugs left around the house, playing in the front yard abutting a very busy street, etc. etc. etc.) It's just meant to talk about your child's preparedness for being away from mom and dad.

And if I need to take the ouncy seat out o the house, I just pop it out.

Compact so you can throw it in the back of your van and take it to a friend's house when extra seating for children is needed.

The extended - use changing station allows for quick diaper changes, and the portable infant seat makes it easy to take baby around the house.

Taking a child out for a fun day or transporting them to your house requires you to have a car seat, though.

Take time to bring the seat in the house and adjust all the straps for the best fit, in the position the seat will be used (detailed instructions are provided).

While our family custom is not to buy anything for the babies before they are born, we did buy car seats and a double stroller — car seats to take them home, and a double stroller so I could leave the house as soon as possible.

Indeed, we have arrived here because, moments after the Akufo - Addo - led administration took over power, at the seat of government, the Flagstaff House, members of the Invisible Forces were caught on camera assaulting a police officer, one ASP Nanka Bruce.

Every ten years the national government takes a census and uses the results to allocate or apportion House seats to each state.

Former prime ministers have historically taken up a seat in the House of Lords — a tradition broken by Major.

«Anyone you vote for as mayor will take action on housing, will take action on policing, will take action on transport, but we are the only party proposing to do it in a way that actually incorporates the needs of everybody in the capital,» she says taking a seat in the top of floor of the WEP's studio, nursing a cup of tea as another April shower lacerates the windows.

The footage which was taken by CCTV cameras at the seat of government on January 9, 2017 — President Akufo - Addo's first day in office — showed members of the vigilante group chasing ASP Nanka as he drove out of the Flagstaff House.

Take Virginia, for example, a national battleground state where Democrats control all 5 statewide offices, yet Republicans hold a super-majority in the state House, a majority in the state Senate, and 8 of the 11 Congressional seats.

The LG post has taken on a new significance since former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal thrust his LG, David Paterson, into a post he has since admitted he neither wanted (he was hoping to take over Hillary Clinton's US Senate seat had she been elected to the White House) nor was prepared to take on.

Everyone knows that Nancy Astor was the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, but who was the first woman Life Peer to take her seat on the red benches?

In an election held this month, Raymond Benedict Bartholomew Michael Asquith, third earl of Oxford and Asquith was elected to take up the seat in the House of Lords vacated by the death of Robert Alexander Hold Methuen, the seventh baron Methuen.

National Democratic leaders cheered further on Tuesday as they took two of three contests in Connecticut, winning a state House and state Senate seat on their way to keeping unified control there.

Speaking at the state party's convention on Saturday, Walters said Democrats were working hard to win a number of House seats and take control of the chamber, «and nowhere harder than right here in California,» the Los Angeles Times reported.

A member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Victor Kojoga Adawudu has said that the government's decision to reverse the name of the seat of government from Flagstaff House to Jubilee House was taken to «massage the ego» of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo.

«It's a disservice to women, and it's something that I think is wrong and unacceptable,» said the junior senator earlier today at a rally for Rep. Scott Murphy, who took her old House seat in NY - 20.

Needing to net 17 seats to win back the House majority, the announcement makes clear where the party believes its most important fights will take place.

Norman takes his seat in the House as a supporter of term limits.

The original proposal did not include cuts to the Representative money scheme, which applies to parties who do not take up their seats in the House of Commons.

Special elections took place in the Washington State Senate and Washington House of Representatives on November 7, 2017, in order to address eight vacated seats between the two chambers.

Taking data from the 2010 census, California had a population of 37,254,503 ppl, which lead to 53 seats in the House.

Although 3 of the 7 Ukip council seats in a havering were took from former Labour councillors, and 5 of those seats would be described as working class areas, the other two were above middle class areas where the average price of a house is 650,000 ′, If anything in havering Ukips vote destroyed he 4,000 majorities of some Tory councillors resulting in them winning with 350 votes

In deep - blue New York, Republicans took over House seats on Long Island, upstate near Syracuse and in the North County along the border with Vermont, and reelected Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm in the face of a multi-count federal indictment.

Officially it takes 326 seats for an overall majority in the House of Commons - the solid measure of victory.

Black, who is in her third year at Glasgow University, will now be known as the Baby of the House when she takes her seat in the Commons, as she is the youngest MP to be voted in for 70 years.

Labour was — and still is — considerably larger than the nine (or eight, depending on how you classify Sinn Fein MPs, who don't take up their seats in the chamber) other parties in the House of Commons which are not in government.

She added that there were clear marginal seats where her party would be a «driving force» and a candidate could «take that vote and ultimately be an MP representing UKIP in the House of Commons».

Democrats need fifteen seats to take the House, and there are five local dogfights whose outcomes could alter this once - in - a-decade election.