Sentences with phrase «upper chamber with»

Senate Democratic leaders say they will reject any House effort to amend a «fiscal cliff» deal that passed the upper chamber with overwhelming support on New Year's Day.

They previously controlled the upper chamber with a coalition of five breakaway Democrats and the aid of Senator Simcha Felder, a Democrat who conferenced with the Republicans.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is crafting a bill in the upper chamber with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to avoid a government shutdown Thursday night, has made such a commitment.

But Downing Street was so affronted by this ermine - clad rebuke as to threaten the upper chamber with punitive loss of powers.

Not exact matches

In AFib — which affects as many as 3 % of the population, with most cases occurring in those over 65 — the electrophysiology of the heart is out of whack, and its two upper chambers (the atria) fibrillate, or quiver, instead of contracting fully.

He recently voted with 51 senators on a bill to gut the Affordable Care Act, the first such bill to pass in the upper chamber.

LeBreton's request comes in the wake of revelations of improper spending that has shaken public confidence in the upper chamber and left Stephen Harper grappling with his most serious political crisis to date.

In the context of House of Lords reform, it's often said that the Lords Spiritual — the 26 bishops with seats by right in the upper chamber — must go.

Within 24 hours, the Senator representing Kogi West in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, gave Nigerians more than enough to chew or if you want to be comical, to entertain themselves with.

Major's former cabinet colleague Norman Fowler — now presiding over the upper chamber as Lord Speaker — recently warned in an interview with this magazine that the Lords could no longer justify its size, and must «stop faffing around» and significantly cut the number of peers.

As I stated:... you can not judge the merits of a proposed electoral change for the House of Commons without considering how such a change interacts with the electoral process for the upper chamber (assuming we ever get one).

In scenes that in no way will convince critics that the upper chamber should be scrapped one Labour lord offered a bottle of champagne to anyone who could come up with a better title for the new universities regulator than the government's preferred title of Office for Students, or Of - Stud for short.

Mayer's win gives Democrats a numerical one - seat majority in the state Legislature's upper chamber, but Republicans will cling to control after one Democrat — Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder — said he'd continue to caucus with the GOP.

Though Pelosi and other House Democrats have made it clear that they're angry with the Senate, they're also frustrated with the president, upset that he hasn't come to terms with the problems of getting legislation through the upper chamber — or done enough to overcome them.

The move toward a governing majority in the Senate was reignited in May when Democrats gained a numerical majority in the chamber with the special election victory of Brian Benjamin to an upper Manhattan district.

The letter noted that, with the victory of Brian Benjamin in a special election in Harlem on Tuesday, registered Democrats enjoy a one - seat numerical advantage in the upper chamber of the State Legislature.

But Republicans still narrowly control the upper chamber because nominally Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder will reportedly continue to caucus with the GOP, giving that party 32 votes.

Saraki, however, said members of the upper chamber had resolved to start consideration of the 2016 Appropriation Bill on January 19, 2016 with only the original document submitted to the National Assembly by Buhari.

«Our upper chamber has become packed with unelected political appointees who get # 300 a day just for turning up.»

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, after a two - hour executive session with his colleagues on Friday explained that the upper legislative chamber deliberated extensively on the report of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding the issue behind closed doors.

Senator Chris Dodd, the chief sponsor of the financial - reform bill now making its way through the upper chamber of Congress, chatted with Murdoch while Larry Summers, Colin Powell, Eric Holder, Jane Harman, Richard Holbrooke, and Austan Goolsbee circulated nearby.

New Yorkers remain unimpressed with the Senate and Assembly as government bodies, with the lower chamber's favorable / unfavorable rating at 42 - 41, and the upper house at 45 - 44.

Our correspondent gathered that Omo - Agege's inability to resume as promised may not be unconnected with the pending determination of the application by the upper chamber for stay of execution of the judgement delivered in favour of the senator.

Thus Democrats would need to capture both seats on Long Island and convince the IDC to collaborate with them in order to have a one - seat majority in the upper chamber.

Sunday PUNCH reliably gathered on Saturday that although the APC was happy with the appointments, which the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, made in the committees of the upper chamber on Thursday, the party believed that for the peace process to complete, Ekweremadu must resign or be removed.

The governor campaigned against them last year with an eye toward tipping Albany's upper chamber into the Democrats» hands.

ALBANY — As expected, State Sen. Jeff Klein declared that his breakaway Independent Democratic Conference will once again ally with Republicans who control the state's upper chamber.

Sumner said she raised the motion against naming Klein because of the IDC's decision in 2012 to align itself with Republicans, despite Democrats having the numerical majority in the 63 - seat upper chamber, which effectively kept the party out of power.

-- CHALLENGING THE I.D.C.: Before Teachout took center stage, the biggest expected battle on primary night was a series of challenges to senators from the I.D.C., a five - member group that broke with their partymates to ally with Republicans in 2012, thereby denying Democrats control of the state's upper chamber over the last two years.

It has been unicameral since 1968, when the upper house, the Legislative Council, was abolished, with the former chamber now used for committee meetings and official ceremonies.

Brian Benjamin «s victory last week in the special election to fill Harlem's vacant State Senate seat will once again leave registered Democrats with a one - member numerical majority in the upper chamber of the State Legislature.

With the IDC poised to grow to at least six members, the breakaway conference will likely play a crucial role in which party will control the upper chamber.

A Labour source said Ms Bryan meant that she wanted to replace the Lords with an elected upper chamber.

The government must come forward with proposals for a properly accountable and fairly elected upper chamber.

As a result of that «unity» deal, Democrats in Albany are prepared for the possibility of a truly united front in the upper chamber of the Legislature, with the ability to pass long - gestating progressive legislation blocked by Republican / IDC control.

The IDC has a power - sharing agreement with Senate Republicans that helps keep the GOP in control of the upper chamber of

The letter, signed by 18 members of Congress, is the latest effort to persuade the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, and a ninth rogue senator, Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, to abandon their coalition with the Republicans and help take control of Albany's upper chamber.

That one vote belongs to Senator Simcha Felder, a Democrat from Brooklyn who has nonetheless caucused with Republicans in Albany's upper chamber, and is now that party's decisive 32nd vote in the 63 - seat Senate.

Savino, a Democrat, is one of the founding members of the five - member I.D.C., which has allied itself with the Senate Republicans to control the upper chamber despite the Democrats having a numerical majority.

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.

With any new constitutional settlement, reform of the Lords should not be ignored, because it presents an opportunity for some democratic legitimacy in the upper chamber as it is slimmed down and given a role in the new constitutional arrangements of the whole of the United Kingdom.

The House on Wednesday rejected the Senate Democratic budget in a 154 - 261 vote, with 35 Democrats voting against the blueprint from their upper chamber colleagues.

But more than this, reformers are left wondering whether the House of Lords will ever become a democratically legitimate body either by way of incremental changes or, as many of us would prefer, a «big bang» event which replaces the upper house with an elected chamber.

Washington (CNN)- In a rare, private meeting with nearly all 100 senators Monday night, the upper chamber failed to come up with a deal to avert the so - called nuclear option — a partisan threat by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that would eliminate filibusters for executive - branch nominees.

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives — the lower chamber — comprise the legislature of the United States.

That bill is co-sponsored by Halfmoon Republican Kathy Marchione as well as several members of the Independent Democratic Conference, which shares power with the GOP in the upper chamber and thereby controls the flow of legislation.

Faso's amendment must be accepted by the Senate's parliamentarian as part of reconciliation talks with whatever version of the bill advances in the upper chamber.

Three months after the Assembly dealt with its biggest leadership crisis in two decades, the upper chamber in Albany is suddenly facing a similar problem: A leader under arrest, a challenge for the ruling party, and the lack of an obvious successor after Dean G. Skelos, the Republican majority leader, was arrested on Monday, along with his son, Adam, on corruption and fraud charges in Manhattan.

To the ire of mainline Democrats, Avella recently joined the Independent Democratic Conference which governs the upper chamber in a power - sharing agreement with Republicans.

Amedore appeared headed to the upper chamber in the New York state Legislature after leading with 54 percent of the vote nearly three hours after polls closed Tuesday night, but Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk, a Duanesberg school board member, claimed victory too.