Sentences with phrase «when leadership of the chamber»

If Felder and the IDC do flip, it could lead to chaos in the final session weeks reminiscent of the 2009 Senate coup, when leadership of the chamber remained divided 31 - 31 for a month.

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Election years tend to chill swift movement on appropriations bills — especially when there's potential turnover in leadership of one or both chambers.

The leadership of the two chambers constantly hold discussions and are in agreement on what to do, how to do it, when to do it and why it must be done.

But either way, when he ascends to the top of the Democratic conference in the chamber, he'll be the first senator from New York to hold a top party leadership position since senators started designating them in the early 1920s.

And then there is this, after seven years of elections and corruption scandals that remade the leadership of both chambers: The Legislature is a different place than when Cuomo was first elected.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was fairly terse in his response just now when asked for a reaction to the Senate GOP's move to strip LG Bob Duffy of his right to break a tie in the event of a deadlocked leadership vote in the chamber.

Yeah, I don't think the group that keeps Democrats out of the leadership, run by the guy who chaired the DSCC when they re-lost the chamber, gets to throw the «destroy the Democratic party» thing at a party that 99.9 % of the time cross-endorses Democrats.

After decades of operating under the take - no - prisoners model of majority leadership, the GOP got a taste of its own medicine in 2008 when it lost control of the chamber — and all the perks that go along with it, from staffing cash to offices to member item money — in 2008.

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.