Sentences with phrase «winning first house»

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In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

Amazon's «Transparent», a comedy - drama series about a transgender father, won the award for the Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation in 2010.

Reports that Melania had not wanted her husband to win — first made by Vanity Fair in May 2017 — gained new life after Michael Wolff's gossipy Trump White House tell - all.

Syria, Russia say Israel launched missile strike on Syrian air base Wall St Journal Hungary's nationalist prime minister wins third term in power: Reuters Trump predicts China will blink first in trade dispute with US: Bloomberg Trump administration officials soften tone on trade dispute with China: WSJ N. Korea says it will discuss denuclearization: NY Times Kudlow: White House considering plans to undo parts of spending bill: Wash Exam US hiring growth slowed sharply in March: Bloomberg German industrial production fell by the most in over 2 years in Feb: Reuters Forward curve for 1 month overnight indexed swap rate inverts: Bloomberg Many US state govts struggling with weak revenue growth: The Economist

Should Mitt Romney win the presidency next Tuesday, it will mark an historic first: a Mormon couple moving into the White House.

Freedom From Religion Foundation wins first round of rematch over $ 800 million clergy housing allowance.

Joining the 2007 Grand Vintage on the trophy shelf at the Royal Sydney Wine Show is the 2006 House of Arras Blanc de Blancs which has won The Fine Wine Partners Perpetual Trophy, another first for Sparkling Wine.

The half - built house she and Lance bought in Fox, Alaska, after he won his first Iditarod, still has exposed wiring in the kitchen, and Tyvek sheets cover some of the exterior.

After praising Baylor for becoming the first college basketball team to win 40 games in a season, President Obama turned his attention to the tallest member of the Bears» traveling party at the White House on July 18.

Maybe this is the year the Athletics win a postseason series for the first time since Bush the Elder was in the White House.

Since the Packers won the first Super Bowl in 1967, the rings have been evolving into something almost larger than a house.

Back in January of 2013, when we first started monitoring the presidential odds, Hillary Clinton opened as a +225 favorite to win the White House.

He lives in a town house two minutes from the Eagles» facilityand keeps his 200 - pound body solid with four days of weightlifting a week.After losing to the Colts in his first start, he led Philadelphia to fiveconsecutive wins and the NFC East title.

After the Herd won its first national championship in 1992, beating Youngstown State 31 - 28 in the title game, Morehouse walked into his house, and he and his wife hugged tightly.

In mid-August, the former Secretary of State, First Lady and New York Senator topped out at -590 to win the White House at Bookmaker, her high - water mark of the campaign.

I won't be putting my house on us winning the title or the champions league but I think there are promising signs, first and formemost how much better the defense is looking at long last.

The Reds would need the Blues to slip up elsewhere in order to embark upon their maiden spell of the season at the summit, but United need to get their own house in order first and although the majority of pundits have been impressed with United's gritty and determined attitude of late, there's only so long a team can go on winning games ugly before a shocker finally lands at their doorstep.

House Democrats head to their annual retreat this week with one goal: Unite behind a winning election message that can at once counter and transcend Trump's divisive «America first» politics.

The tale begins with Bondfield, Susan Lawrence and Dorothy Jewson who were the first Labour women to win election to the House of Commons, in 1923.

A former aide to Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE criticized Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE on Thursday after the New York Democrat became the first of many senators to join a successful push to force the resignation of Sen. Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart Franken100 days after House passage, Gillibrand calls on Senate to act on sexual harassment reform Eric Schneiderman and #MeToo pose challenges for both parties Senate confirms Trump judicial pick over objections of home - state senator MORE (D - Minn.).

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

The meeting, on the tarmac at Albany International Airport, was the first time the two men crossed paths since the news broke that Mr. Obama had told Mr. Paterson that the White House had lost confidence in the governor's ability to win election next year and that he should abandon his campaign for the good of the Democratic Party.

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

The Jefferson - Burr ticket of the Democratic - Republican party executed this plan successfully in 1800, with just one little hitch: With no distinction between first - choice and second - choice votes, the two winning candidates tied each other, so the House of Representatives had to choose who would be President and who would be Vice President.

Republican congressional hopeful John Faso announced Wednesday he had raised $ 624,750 in the first quarter as part of his bid to win the Hudson Valley House seat held by outgoing Rep. Chris Gibson.

The district, which is now majority Latino, will thus send its first non-black representative to the House of Representatives since legendary African - American lawmaker Adam Clayton Powell Jr. won it in 1944.

For Republicans, the desperate rhetoric comes as forecasts show they're likely to win major victories that would leave them in control of the Senate for the first time since 2007 and with an even wider majority in the House of Representatives.

The GOP has been picking off Southern and Appalachian legislatures systematically for the past few decades: In 2012 alone, it won both the Arkansas state House and Senate for the first time since Reconstruction; Democrats are shooting to win back the House this year.

Caroline Lucas wins the Brighton Pavilion constituency for the Greens, the first time the party has had a candidate elected to the House of Commons.

Issa was first elected to the House in 2000 and won re-election in 2016.

Espaillat, who will be the first Dominican - American in the House of Representatives, won the Democratic primary in June.

On June 24, his first meeting after a hearing of the House Agriculture Committee was with Hannah Sell, a 17 - year - old from Otsego County who was schooled at home and won the congressional art competition with an acrylic painting of troop - laden vehicle returning to base.

A Sinema win would make her the first out bi member of Congress — and the only out LGBT woman in the House in the 113th Congress.

At the end of the session, Respect MP George Galloway had his first question since he returned to the House after winning the Bradford West by - election.

As Executive Director of the NRCC during the 1990's, she took an organization on the verge of bankruptcy, made the tough choices and ultimately tripled revenues while helping Republicans win and then maintain our first House Majority in 40 years.

Asked what differences «young Kevin in Edmonton» would notice if Labour won, Corbyn said cheaper housing was the first thing.

After eight years of the nation's first African - American president, black lawmakers were in for an adjustment no matter who won the White House.

Sophia is running for the open House District 88 seat in central Oklahoma City and would be Oklahoma's first transgender elected official if she won.

In Westminster systems, in minority situations, the incumbent government usually has the first opportunity to attempt to win the confidence of the House.

Washington (CNN)- A former Oregon state senator won the state's First Congressional District special election Tuesday night - a victory that ensures a Democrat will continue to hold the House seat.

Clinton beat him here 59 percent to 36.5, making the Manhattan developer the first president since James K. Polk to lose both the state of his birth and residence and still win the White House.

«When she first ran for the House, I thought that race was impossible to win, but she never gave up and she did it,» he wrote.

White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters Monday on the Massachusetts island the first couple squared off earlier this morning, though it remains a secret who won.

Rep. Jerry Nadler, who has called the N.R.A. «enablers of mass murder» and consistently ranks among the most liberal members in the House, also put out an unsolicited statement of support for Hochul yesterday, focusing on her campaign against Paul Ryan's budget, when she first won a special election in 2011.

In 2016, Republican Donald Trump won it by 24 points in the presidential election, and Collins, the first House member to endorse him, swept it by 35.

Despite all that money, Adelson made some bad bets in the last election, first on former House speaker Newt Gingrich to win the Republican nomination and then on Mitt Romney to defeat President Obama in the general election.

Nevada Republican Rep. Dean Heller: Last year, National Republicans had been eyeing Heller, who first won election to the House in 2006, as a possible challenger to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

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.

One joke inside the White House is that Obama has always been at his worst when he's winning — from the midterm failures of 2010 following a productive legislative session to a dismal first debate performance against Republican challenger Mitt Romney last fall.