Va. Senate party split intensifies power playLaura VozzellaAnita Kumar
The plan needed 60 votes to advance in the Senate, split evenly by party. It fell along party lines in a 50-50 vote. After the bill failed to advance, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., criticized his GOP counterparts for reluctance to start the process of debating and amend...
The variable related to a senator’s party did not have any real predictive power. Does that mean that a senator’s party has no bearing on whether he’s endorsed same-sex marriage? Not quite. What it means, more precisely, is that a senator’s party did not have anyadditionalpredictive...
And the GOP has history on its side, as the president's party typically loses ground in the midterms. They also have near-term momentum as reflected by Obama's soft poll numbers and less enthusiasm among the Democrats' base voters. The Republicans could even gain the 40 seats they need ...
The path appears blocked for now. Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat whose vote the party would need to approve legislation in a Senate split 50-50 by party, has stressed he wants to pass a bipartisan bill. Manchin is one of the 10 negotiators in the Senate group. ...
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The Senate is evenly split between the two parties. Democrats can approve the nomination without Republican support, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting a tie-breaking vote. The Supreme Court is the final appellate court of the U.S. judicial system, with the power to review and overturn ...
Prop 36 split the state’s most prominent Democrats, with big-city mayors like San Francisco’s London Breed and San Jose’s Matt Mahan backing it against statewide Democrats like Gov. Gavin Newsom, who billed it as a costly and overly punitive proposal that wo...
The primary was fierce, with the party split by both gender and geography. Van de Kamp blamed Feinstein for San Francisco’s $172-million budget deficit and raised questions about her husband’s investments. Feinstein hewed to the center-right, and again declined to focus much on her gender...
Democrats hold the slimmest possible majority in the Senate, a reality that at times has reined in Biden's most ambitious policy goals. The chamber is split 50-50, and Vice President Kamala Harris holds the tie-breaking vote. Biden's presence in the White House could make his party's bid...