Sentences with phrase «upper house election»

He's clearly decided that at least until the upper house election (in July), he is going to focus on the economy,» said Gerry Curtis, a Columbia University political science professor who has watched some two dozen Japanese prime ministers come and go during his career.

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In his maiden speech — which, following a tradition now rarely observed, he waited a year after his election to deliver — Sasse argued that the upper house of the U.S. Congress was intended specifically by the framers to preserve minority opinion by enshrining a process of long - form debate to preclude a legislative fast track.

He lost his seat in the upper house at the 2016 federal election after being bumped down the ticket.

However, the results of these elections will also determine the composition of the Eerste Kamer, the Netherlands» legislative upper house.

After the November elections, the IDC forged a deal with Senate Republicans for control of the upper house.

The 11 chambers without elections in 2010 (except for an occasional special election), were the upper houses and lower houses in Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia, and the upper house (state senate) in Kansas, New Mexico and South Carolina.

Certainly all three main parties went into the last general election with manifesto pledges to reform the upper house.

While many Democrats are just coming to the realization that they need to hammer the economy in this mid-term election season, the veteran Brooklyn lawmaker, who took a pass in 2006 on running for governor and instead rose to become third - highest ranked senator in the upper house, has been talking about the need for his party to talk about endangered middle class for some time now.

Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins revealed to the Observer he intends to run to replace Councilwoman Inez Dickens, who won election to the Assembly earlier this month — a move that could leave Democrats a vital vote short on core issues facing the upper house of the State Legislature.

After seeing three members fall victim to conservative backlash this past election cycle for voting «yes» on same - sex marriage, Republicans in Albany's upper house are understandably wary of angering the grassroots.

After the November elections, the IDC will likely decide either to continue to work with the GOP, propping up the current regime in the upper house of the legislature, or to work with their fellow Democrats and establish a new order.

In 2012, though not a single Libertarian candidate won election to either upper or lower house of any state legislature, two came quite close.

If Democrats have any hope of gaining control of the New York State Senate this year — gaining an upper hand on progressive priorities like expanding voting rights, campaign finance reform, promoting reproductive justice, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, and gun control — then we have to win the April 24 special election in lower Westchester.

Lords reform is an issue above party politics.I propose an upper house, wholly elected, 100 strong, whose candidates for election must be aged 40 or older, and NOT previous members of the House of Comhouse, wholly elected, 100 strong, whose candidates for election must be aged 40 or older, and NOT previous members of the House of ComHouse of Commons.

Today, Reuters published a story on the power struggle:» Democrats won a majority in the upper house Senate for the first time in more than 40 years in the Nov. 4 election, but three Democratic senators refuse to back fellow Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith as majority leader without concessions.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and IDC leader Sen. Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) on Wednesday announced that following the fall elections, members of the IDC will again sit with their Democratic colleagues and provide a Democratic majority in the upper house.

All 150 seats in Australia's lower house, the House of Representatives, were being contested at this election, as were all 76 seats in the upper house, the Sehouse, the House of Representatives, were being contested at this election, as were all 76 seats in the upper house, the SeHouse of Representatives, were being contested at this election, as were all 76 seats in the upper house, the Sehouse, the Senate.

It is tempting to look at this week's recall elections in Wisconsin — and the fact that Republicans retain control of the Badger State's upper house — through the gaze of all - politics - are - local.

But one result in the country's upper house has sparked a wave of discontent, reflection and rage — the election of the right wing anti-Muslim, anti-Halal, anti-vaccination firebrand Pauline Hanson.