Mainline Democrats insist the IDC is empowering the Republican conference in the Senate through their alliance, with IDC Leader Jeff Klein pointing to liberal policy
victories under the arrangement.
Not exact matches
Klein has worked well with the Senate Republicans and has pointed to IDC
victories in the chamber
under the
arrangement, including increases in the minimum wage.
The IDC has pointed to a number of key
victories they've been able to approved in the chamber
under the coalition
arrangement, including a package of gun control laws in 2013.
It's also a
victory for trolls, which are shell companies backed by private equity firms and lawyers that use patents (often obtained from Microsoft and others
under a «privateering»
arrangement) to wage ruinous legal war against everyone from Martha Stewart to individual app developers.