Sentences with phrase «votes in both chambers needed»

While House and Senate opponents could pass a resolution blocking Obama from lifting sanctions on Iran, they look unlikely to round up the two - thirds of votes in both chambers needed to override President Obama's veto.

Not exact matches

Senators are attempting to craft their own legislation, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stated he's not sure the chamber will muster the 50 votes needed to pass an overhaul, especially in the CBO report's wake.

Morris is the lone Democrat running against Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who conferences with Republicans and gives the GOP its needed 32nd vote in the chamber to maintain its narrow majority.

The following assumes, firstly, that no party has an overall majority (once Sinn Fein's abstention from the chamber is taken into account), and that in spite of the possibility that they could top the polls in the popular vote, that the Lib Dems will not win enough votes to have the most seats in the new Commons (they would need between 37 - 40 per cent to be sure of that happening).

Twenty - two members of the Democratic minority in the 61 - member Senate signed a letter sent to Cuomo Wednesday, meaning the GOP majority in the chamber would not be able to get the two - thirds vote needed to overturn a gubernatorial veto.

The I.D.C. announced they were forming a ruling coalition with the Senate's Republican conference in December of 2012, an arrangement that gave I.D.C. members more power and financial resources, and gave the G.O.P. the votes needed to retain control of the chamber, which they've held for most of the past 50 years, despite Democrats» overwhelming registration advantage statewide.

The IDC has countered that their coalition agreement helps get bills to the floor that otherwise wouldn't make it — bearing in mind that, with Felder, the Republicans currently have the 32 votes needed to control the chamber.

Klein has countered by calling for votes on a variety of key, hot - button issues that are supported by the Democratic base, but not have the needed support in the sharply divided chamber, such as strengthening abortion rights and access to tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants.

Krueger did note that a quorum of 38 of the 62 senators in needed in the chamber to vote on budget bills.

Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who sits with the Republican conference in the chamber, gives them the needed 32nd vote to attain a working majority in the state Senate.

Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan reiterated on Wednesday that his conference, which holds the bare 32 - vote majority needed to pass legislation in that chamber, will not approve a state budget that does not entirely eliminate the remaining Gap Elimination Adjustment, a leftover from the 2008 fiscal meltdown.

They give 29 Republicans the edge needed to garner more than the 32 votes necessary to control the chamber, despite 32 enrolled Democrats in Senate seats, with another reliably Democratic seat temporarily vacant.

Indeed, in 2012, ThinkProgress estimated that Democrats would have needed to win the national popular vote in all U.S. House races by 7.25 percentage points in order to eek out a bare majority in Congress's lower chamber.

For his talk of reform, Heastie is maintaining one of Silver's iron rules: never move on a proposal that doesn't have the 76 votes from your own conference that it needs to pass in the chamber.

Two of Long Island's three Democrats and both of its Republicans in the House joined the veto - proof majority in a 289 - 137 vote, a setback for the president even though Senate Democratic leaders said a veto won't be needed because they'll block the bill in the upper chamber.

If Kaminsky joins the Senate Democrats (he can't take his oath of office until the election results are certified by the county elections board), there technically would be 32 registered Democrats in the chamber, meaning the Democrats would have the 32 votes needed to control the majority.

A deal on public campaign finance, though, seems mathematically impossible: even if — and it's a big if — Cuomo was able to broker the reunification of the five - member Independent Democratic Conference with the mainstream Democrats in the State Senate, they will together not have a 32 - vote bloc needed to control the chamber.

Republicans would need to rely on Simcha Felder, and enrolled Democrat who has conferenced with them since 2012, to formally vote in a replacement for Skelos in the 63 - seat chamber.

Reid needs 60 votes in the 100 - member Senate to overcome a certain GOP filibuster attempt and open the chamber's debate on the bill.

The bill passed the Missouri House April 15 by an 85 - 63 vote — just barely above the 82 - vote majority needed in the chamber.

The House Republican majority can pass a bill on its own, but Senate Republicans will need Democratic votes to move legislation in that chamber.

But knowing the composition of the state legislature, and the hostility of the Republican leadership in both chambers to Prop B, we knew that we'd have to entertain compromise on some elements of the agreement (at no point, ever, publically, has Pacelle or anyone from HSUS mentioned any thought of compromise — and likely, this is why they didn't have a seat at the table when it came to this new law), in order to protect the measure for the long term and to obviate the need for a second public vote on the issue.

ILR fully supports HR 993, and urges both chambers of the state legislature take a powerful step to improve the business climate in Georgia by giving it the two - thirds majority vote it needs.