• But if the Republicans succeed in blocking the bill, they may end up electing a supermajority of Democrats in November. (thedailybeast.com)
  • In 2010, despite unanimous opposition from Republicans, Democrats were finally able to pass comprehensive health reform into law. (democrats.org)
  • Thus, when Americans saw higher paychecks in February - and realized that the Democrats had misled them, while Republicans had worked to make them richer - the "blue wave" would recede. (nymag.com)
  • But the idea that the Trump tax cuts would provide Republicans with a large and durable polling boost is looking less likely - and not just because Democrats' poll numbers have recovered. (nymag.com)
  • With opinion polls showing the unpopular impeachment process hurting the Republicans' image, the Missouri Democrat and his party feel the wind at their backs. (csmonitor.com)
  • Democrats are also gleefully fielding reports that Republicans in moderate districts who voted for impeachment are catching flak from their voters. (csmonitor.com)
  • Jay Severin, a New York Republican consultant, warns that if the Democrats spend the next 21 months chanting "impeachment, impeachment," then they'll be called "the party of impeachment," not the Republicans. (csmonitor.com)
  • Now Republicans and Democrats alike are starting to ask the next question: What happens if he makes it to the general election? (msnbc.com)
  • To some Democrats and Republicans, the obvious play then is to try and wreck the myth of "Donald Trump: Working Class Hero. (msnbc.com)
  • Unlike the last time Democrats threatened to change the Senate rules, and backed down without winning anything, this time they won something important: They broke Senate Republicans' ability to hold presidential appointments hostage. (nymag.com)
  • So the deal is that Republicans lift their filibuster, and Democrats don't change the rules right now. (nymag.com)
  • Republicans threatened to change the Senate's rules in 2005 to stop Democrats from filibustering their judges, and it succeeded - Democrats agreed to let pretty much any judges through with a majority vote. (nymag.com)
  • Republicans are bumming and Democrats are buoyant after the Biden inauguration, according to Morning Consult, a reverse of the Trump years. (marketplace.org)
  • With President Donald Trump now planning to make healthcare reform a major 2020 campaign issue, as of today, with 19 months prior to election day, the voters trust the Democrats more than the Republicans on that vital issue. (bayoubuzz.com)
  • That intensity and voter motivation gives Democrats a great opening to drive the conversation in 2024 to the question of which party will better protect your rights - a place where Democrats have a significant enthusiasm advantage over Republicans. (yahoo.com)
  • And the chaos and dysfunction of House Republicans, as many lawmakers - both Democrat and Republican - describe it, is leading the country directly to a now-almost certain shutdown. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • Being in the minority, there's not much House Democrats can do but wait for Republicans to figure out how to govern. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • It's unfortunate that carrying forward in a bipartisan manner is what House Republicans view as a reason to vacate the chair," House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (D-CA) told reporters, referring to far-right members' calls to oust McCarthy if he were to work with Democrats to pass spending bills. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • The White House and Senate Democrats have joined in on House Democrats' messaging strategy, letting Republicans dig themselves in a hole and making sure everybody who's paying attention knows about it. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • In the meantime, I see no reason why Republicans should take the hit for the Democrats' disastrous overreach. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Some Republicans suggested Monday that the decision by Illinois House Democrats to abandon the concept of re-redistricting was a failure of Emanuel's. (rollcall.com)
  • Senate Democrats approved a $3.5 trillion budget resolution early Wednesday morning, setting the stage in the weeks and months to come for the party to craft and attempt to pass a sweeping economic package expanding the social safety net that President Joe Biden has made a signature agenda item without the threat of a filibuster from Republicans who oppose it. (cnn.com)
  • Republicans control the state senate in the Keystone State, while the governor is Democrat Josh Shapiro. (yahoo.com)
  • In New Hampshire, whose 400-member state house is the largest in the nation, Democrat Hal Rafter won a previously Republican-held seat northeast of Manchester, narrowing the Republican edge in the state house to just 198 Republicans to 197 Democrats. (yahoo.com)
  • Differences between Republicans and teacher unions--and between the GOP and the Democratic Party--on education are nothing new, but the passionate disagreements between Democrats on education are a relatively new development and one with enormous import for the direction of school reform in the United States. (edweek.org)
  • Democrats have so far outspent Republicans on advertising by 100x, The New York Times reported. (businessinsider.com)
  • Did the 2006 Senate results in fact rate along with those earlier cycles, '86 and '54 for the Democrats or, say, 1994 and 1980 for the Republicans, as a certifiable tectonic year, why or why not? (salon.com)
  • You're saying that some of the underlying environmental dynamics of 2006 are still here in terms of the partisan advantage arguably for the Democrats and possibly even worse because the Democrats are defending very few seats this time and the Republicans are defending far more seats. (salon.com)
  • The billionaire industrialists have already used their Super PAC, Americans for Prosperity, to pour $14.5 million into attack ads against Senate Democrats facing tough re-election campaigns, in hopes that Republicans can win control of the Senate in November. (theweek.com)
  • In the Senate, Democrats ousted first-term Republicans Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and John Sununu of New Hampshire. (govexec.com)
  • But unlike in 2006, when Democrats lost no seats in either chamber, Republicans took four Democratic-held seats. (govexec.com)
  • Speaking to reporters on an early-morning conference call, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., predicted "it will be a much better environment" for Republicans in the next campaign, with Democrats in complete control and pushing what he expects will be a liberal agenda. (govexec.com)
  • Citing a litany of factors that were stacked against Republicans in this election -- including an unpopular president, a weak economy, war and the financial crisis, plus the political challenges of defending 30 open House seats and being vastly outspent by Democrats -- Cole said of the night's results, "I take some satisfaction, though I prefer to win. (govexec.com)
  • Many influential Republicans in Congress oppose this plan, which has deep support from both Democrats and AARP. (medscape.com)
  • Depolarizing American voters: Democrats and Republicans are equally susceptible to false attitude feedback. (lu.se)
  • There was a lot of noise - an outright cacophony, in fact - in the days and weeks leading up to Election Day 2023, declaring that Democrats were going to have a bad night. (yahoo.com)
  • Democrats are committed to preserving and protecting the Affordable Care Act and the peace of mind it has brought to millions of Americans, and they will fight all attempts by the Trump administration to repeal the law and take health care away from tens of millions of Americans. (democrats.org)
  • With both Trump and Biden hitting the trail in Tampa this afternoon, Democrats - hoping to divert attention from Trump's rival rally - are circling the president's venue with counterprogramming highlighting what they view as his failed response to the coronavirus pandemic. (democrats.org)
  • (FL) Sun Sentinel: 'Lie, cheat and steal' is Democrats' description of Trump in TV ad airing in South Florida . (democrats.org)
  • Michigan Democrats criticized Trump for holding a campaign rally as COVID-19 cases and deaths rise across the country. (democrats.org)
  • Democrats also will be driving a mobile billboard near the Trump campaign rally and running digital ads highlighting the president's record on COVID-19, including 225,000 Americans lost to the virus. (democrats.org)
  • Conversations with strategists in both parties reveal two tough angles in particular that Trump will have to overcome should he go up against Democrats in the general election. (msnbc.com)
  • This is only half of the attack Trump would face from Democrats, however. (msnbc.com)
  • As usual, Democrats will stop at nothing to blame President Trump for literally everything. (bayoubuzz.com)
  • With the world anxiously watching the spread of the coronavirus, the Democrats have decided that President Trump is responsible. (bayoubuzz.com)
  • President Trump says that Democrats are using the virulent coronavirus as a 'hoax' to damage him and his administration. (cnbc.com)
  • The 'hoax' was used with respect to Democrats and what they were saying,' Trump said. (cnbc.com)
  • The Democrats have no choice but to impeach President Trump. (forbes.com)
  • Sadly, many decided that allowing President Trump to engage in behavior that would and has put others in jail was tolerable if it improved the Democrats' 2020-election chances. (forbes.com)
  • While Biden's approval rating remains low, and most polls have the race between him and Trump in close to a dead heat, special election results stand out as a bright spot for Democrats heading into 2024. (yahoo.com)
  • We're seeing the consequences of limitless dysfunction and chaos," a senior aide to a House Democrat told TPM. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • When they had an opportunity this week to save Obamacare, not a single House Democrat was willing to vote for it. (powerlineblog.com)
  • He cited recent predictions that Democrats might score at least a 30-seat House gain and said he expected that the final House Democrat gain will be closer to 20. (govexec.com)
  • Democrats gave President Joe Biden a big win for his economic and environmental agenda Friday as the House passed a sweeping bill to fight climate change , make seniors' drugs cheaper and boost taxes on corporations. (yahoo.com)
  • Running on the Biden agenda proved a successful strategy for Democrats in all corners of the country in 2022 , and we saw it on display again last night. (yahoo.com)
  • But both continue a trend of Democrats overperforming both President Joe Biden 's 2020 results and the results of the 2022 midterms in special elections so far this year. (yahoo.com)
  • After the landslide defeats to the Republican Party led by Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush in the 1980s, a group of prominent Democrats began to believe their party was out of touch and in need of a radical shift in economic policy and ideas of governance . (wikipedia.org)
  • Prager leads with the stipulation that he was raised a Democrat but changed his stripes to Republican 10 years ago. (lewrockwell.com)
  • By early February, the Democrats' polling advantage had narrowed to just six points - a margin that would likely be too small for the party to overcome Republican gerrymandering and reclaim the House. (nymag.com)
  • Mitch McConnell, architect of the Republican strategy, had reportedly insisted that Democrats agree to foreswear any future rule change in exchange for this, but doing so would have given Democrats no recourse if he started blocking other, future nominees. (nymag.com)
  • In February, House Democrats ejected Greene from her committee assignments for online behavior suggesting the first-term Republican supported the execution of high-profile Democrats, such as Pelosi and former President Barack Obama. (motherjones.com)
  • In holding their fire, Land of Lincoln Democrats also said they wanted to make a statement that they are above recent Republican efforts in Texas, Colorado and Georgia to redraw Congressional boundaries at will. (rollcall.com)
  • The districts where Democrats have overperformed include a wide variety of political territory, from a majority-Black seat in Louisiana to Republican-leaning seats in rural Maine and Wisconsin. (yahoo.com)
  • Then there was that Beetlejuice incident - "that little escapade," in the words of one Colorado Republican, involving a vape pen and some public groping , the fallout of which has seen Democrats spending even more to beat her and some of Boebert's GOP allies abandoning her, The New York Times reported Saturday. (businessinsider.com)
  • What do the Democrats have to offer, if Republican ideas are so bad? (foxbusiness.com)
  • Rep. Claudia Tenney, an upstate New York Republican who is up for re-election in one of the most competitive congressional districts in America, told a radio host in Albany that Democrats are more prone to be mass shooters. (cnn.com)
  • In the House, Democrats ousted 11 Republican incumbents and took nine more GOP open seats. (govexec.com)
  • For most of last year, Democrats enjoyed a nearly double-digit lead in the generic 2018 congressional ballot, while Donald Trump's approval rating sat beneath 40 percent - and the GOP's top agenda item looked to be the most unpopular piece of tax legislation in modern American history. (nymag.com)
  • Five of the last six major polls of the 2018 congressional race have put Democrats up by at least eight points - with Marist and Quinnipiac University showing Team Blue's advantage at 11 and 15 percent, respectively. (nymag.com)
  • The bill, dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, is also congressional Democrats' capstone argument to take to voters in November to retain control of Congress. (yahoo.com)
  • But congressional Democrats are already balking at the White House's tax-hike proposals. (wsj.com)
  • Illinois Democrats on Capitol Hill said Wednesday they have essentially shut the door on revisiting the state's Congressional map as a means of retaliation for GOP-led redistricting efforts elsewhere in the country, citing a lack of consensus here and back home on how to proceed. (rollcall.com)
  • Emanuel, who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, echoed the sentiment that Democrats wanted to send a message by taking the high road. (rollcall.com)
  • Emanuel, however, did not shut the door on the possibility that Democrats in other states, such as Louisiana and New Mexico, might revisit their Congressional maps in response to other redistricting efforts. (rollcall.com)
  • The announcement came as at least five House Democrats say they plan to boycott Trump's address next Tuesday. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Instead of cementing liberal abortion rights and winning governing power for Democrats, the party's aggressive abortion strategy may have set back women's right to choose. (latimes.com)
  • Yang, a lifelong Democrat, was shunned by his party's voters (most likely due to anti-Asian bigotry) and systematically ignored by members of the liberal media during his runs for office. (freebeacon.com)
  • Democratic candidates easily won special state legislative elections in both Pennsylvania and New Hampshire on Tuesday night, continuing the party's streak of strong performances in special contests, providing a good omen for 2024 and giving Democrats a better chance of holding two swing state legislative chambers. (yahoo.com)
  • Democrats' weak bench in North Dakota means the state's open seat is already considered the party's first casualty of the 2012 cycle. (rollcall.com)
  • Senate Democrats are already planning to respond. (politico.com)
  • New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Senate Democrat who chairs the Rules Committee, said the panel will hold hearings on the ruling and that leadership will explore what can be done legislatively. (politico.com)
  • If you've been cowering in your underground survivalist fallout shelter for fear of Senate Democrats unleashing the "nuclear option" you have been hearing about, you can come out now. (nymag.com)
  • Senate Democrats have decided they're not going to use it. (nymag.com)
  • In fact, Virginians didn't view rolling back existing protections in the state and instituting a new ban as "reasonable," and Democrats wound up taking the House of Delegates and growing their margin in the State Senate. (yahoo.com)
  • It didn't help Katie McGinty, for example, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, a state with a tradition of victorious pro-life Democrats. (latimes.com)
  • Democrats will need to put together the far-reaching legislative package in such a way so as to ensure the backing of every Senate Democrat from the moderates to the progressives. (cnn.com)
  • The budget resolution, which Senate Democrats formally unveiled on Monday, serves as a blueprint for what they expect to include in the far-reaching package and it sets a target date of September 15 for committees to submit their reconciliation legislation. (cnn.com)
  • In 2006, the Democrats captured both chambers of Congress in the same cycle for the first time since 1954, and if you don't count the Jim Jeffords switch of 2001, they recaptured the Senate for the first time since 1986. (salon.com)
  • LAS VEGAS (AP) - Getting into the Las Vegas spirit, President Barack Obama told Nevadans late Sunday they have a winning hand in Democrats Hillary Clinton and Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto. (abc15.com)
  • Obama was campaigning to boost Clinton's prospects and help Democrats to retake Senate control, scheduling a stop Sunday in tightly contested Nevada before headlining party fundraisers in California. (abc15.com)
  • Heck and Cortez Masto are vying to replace Sen. Harry Reid, the leading Democrat in the Senate who is retiring after serving out his fifth term. (abc15.com)
  • Democrats need to pick up five seats to gain the majority in the Senate, or four if they hang onto control of the White House. (abc15.com)
  • It's understandable that the Kochs' spending on key races is upsetting Democrats, but if they want to keep the Senate, whining about their favorite bogeymen is a "dumb strategy. (theweek.com)
  • Democrats rolled up sizable election gains in both the House and Senate on Tuesday, which should give a boost to President-elect Barack Obama. (govexec.com)
  • As of this posting, Democrats had scored a net gain of 16 seats in the House and five in the Senate. (govexec.com)
  • But Tuesday night's clean sweep of the major races in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky tells us that Democrats are dialed in on the signal they're getting from voters. (yahoo.com)
  • And yet voters and Democrats' constituents have a broader set of constitutional concerns: Voting rights, immigration, workplace protections, environmental law and affirmative action are going to be at the mercy of the justices. (latimes.com)
  • As voters reject the GOP's extreme agenda on abortion, voting rights, and so much more, these victories are shifting the balance of power in key states and putting Democrats in a stronger position to move this country forward. (yahoo.com)
  • How bright of a spot remains to be determined: The correlation between special election results and general election results is not perfect, and the continued movement of college-educated voters - who are more likely to turn out in irregularly scheduled elections - into the Democratic camp is clearly helping Democrats run up their advantages. (yahoo.com)
  • The SPD needs to convince voters that it possesses the determination to win in October by governing in Saxony-Anhalt without the help of the Christian Democrats. (csmonitor.com)
  • Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the House's fourth-ranking Democrat, promised reporters yesterday that they will take action to punish her, but didn't specify how. (motherjones.com)
  • The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,' he said from a campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina. (cnbc.com)
  • The row is the immediate result of a high-risk political gamble taken by Germany's main opposition party, the Social Democrats. (csmonitor.com)
  • The political experiment is taking place in Saxony-Anhalt, one of the five states that used to comprise East Germany, where the Social Democrats have joined with the eco-leftist Alliance `90-Green Party to form a government, although together they don't control a majority in the state legislature. (csmonitor.com)
  • The right-wing government has focused on the work-first principle, but so did the Social Democrats in the 1990s. (lu.se)
  • The challenge for Democrats is to recruit strong candidates and to make the impeachment issue keep working for them 21 months from now. (csmonitor.com)
  • The Democrats have spent nigh two years deciding whether to conduct an impeachment inquiry. (forbes.com)
  • As of this writing, poll averages from RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight both have Democrats up by more than 8 percent, which would almost certainly be a big enough wave to knock the Speaker's gavel out of Paul Ryan's hand. (nymag.com)
  • According to the latest calculations from FiveThirtyEight, Democrats have improved upon the base partisanship of districts by a whopping 11 percentage points over the course of 30 state legislative special elections this year. (yahoo.com)
  • Liberal Democrats have a positive plan to fix bus, tram and rail services - allowing people to access services, boosting local economies and protecting our environment. (libdems.org.uk)
  • The Liberal Democrats will use your contact details to send you information on the topics you have requested. (libdems.org.uk)
  • Promoted by the Liberal Democrats , 1 Vincent Square, London SW1P 2PN. (libdems.org.uk)
  • For example, many conspiracy theorists may have different criteria from liberal democrats for what a convincing argument looks like. (lu.se)
  • Democrats need to make the Inflation Reduction Act live up to its promise, Felicia Wong of the Roosevelt Institute says. (marketplace.org)
  • Now, Democrats are approaching the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh with the same singular focus. (latimes.com)
  • And the correlation between the tax bill's rising favorability - and the Democrats' declining lead - was strong enough to suggest causation. (nymag.com)
  • The bill's passage comes amid some hopeful signs for Democrats on the midterm elections front. (yahoo.com)
  • Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia have pushed back on the bill's price tag, in a warning sign for Democrats that they may have to pare down their bill. (cnn.com)
  • The Democrats had one chance to save Obamacare and they blew it: why isn't that the conventional narrative? (powerlineblog.com)
  • Democrats are stuck with the Obamacare they passed. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Medicare for all is the Democrat answer to fix the ObamaCare mess they created. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Rahm Emanuel's ham-handed attempt to push his personal partisan agenda has obviously failed because other Democrats in Illinois recognize the folly of this proposal," said Hastert spokesman John McGovern. (rollcall.com)
  • As we kick off the final weekend before Election Day, Democrats aren't leaving anything to chance. (democrats.org)
  • Democrats also have announced another round of ad buys in Washoe County ahead of election day. (democrats.org)
  • Democrats, including Frisch, a local businessman, have "already reserved $1.2 million in advertising for the race," which isn't until 2024, the Times reported, citing the tracking firm Ad Impact. (businessinsider.com)
  • Gephardt has put his political protg, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D) of Rhode Island, in charge of the committee that works to elect Democrats to Congress, and he's shifted some key House staff to the committee as well. (csmonitor.com)
  • Every dollar you give supports our work to elect Democrats who will fight to make a better life for ALL Americans. (democratsabroad.org)
  • House Democrats are putting People Over Politics to grow the middle class," they wrote. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • When he denounced the Koch brothers for spending "unlimited money" to "rig the system," the cranky Democrat must have meant to say labor unions, which spent $4.4 billion on politics from 2005 to 2011 alone. (theweek.com)
  • Any punishment Democrats choose could easily backfire-either by providing more ammunition for future dangerous behavior or turning Boebert into a martyr, thereby strengthening her political position. (motherjones.com)
  • New Democrats , also known as centrist Democrats , Clinton Democrats , or moderate Democrats , are a centrist ideological faction within the Democratic Party in the United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • [15] When then-Governor Clinton stepped down as DLC chairman to run for the presidency in the 1992 United States presidential election , he presented himself as a New Democrat. (wikipedia.org)
  • But what pleased Vogue didn't do much for Clinton or the Democrats in some important states. (latimes.com)
  • To add to that, two of these states that are now in the presidential battleground for some of us for the first time ever, for others of us for the first time in a long time, Virginia and Colorado, I think are there in part because of the fact that these were two big wins for Democrats. (salon.com)
  • But to have a place like Virginia pick up a Democrat was also a very important story. (salon.com)
  • Andrew Yang, the Asian-American entrepreneur and unapologetic nerd who ran unsuccessfully for president and mayor of New York City, announced Monday that he has changed his voter registration from "Democrat" to "Independent" in what he described as a "strangely emotional experience. (freebeacon.com)
  • Democrats Abroad Costa Rica is hosting a potluck luncheon Saturday, July 28, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the home of Lenny Karpman and Joan Hall in La Guácima, west of the San José airport, near the butterfly farm. (ticotimes.net)
  • Most Democrats Abroad events are currently happening online and can be joined from anywhere in the world. (democratsabroad.org)
  • Democrats Abroad fights for a fair representation of the most long standing issues. (democratsabroad.org)
  • Please get in touch with our countries and their leaders if you are interested in attending events, getting to know other members and volunteering to work with Democrats Abroad! (democratsabroad.org)
  • Democrats Abroad Netherlands is the official country committee of U.S. Democrats living in Netherlands. (democratsabroad.org)
  • There are no prominent Democrats today on the national scene who advocate tax cuts like former President John F. Kennedy. (bayoubuzz.com)
  • Democrats have been fighting to secure universal health care for the American people for generations, and we are proud to be the party that passed Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act. (democrats.org)
  • One top Hill Democrat suggested Democrats had a larger number of donors, and they now can go back and ask these supporters for even more money. (politico.com)
  • The German Democrats (German: Deutschdemokraten) was a political party in Austria. (wikipedia.org)
  • For members of the New Democratic Party of Canada referred to as New Democrats, see New Democratic Party . (wikipedia.org)
  • For the French political party, see The New Democrats . (wikipedia.org)
  • [1] New Democrats dominated the party from the late 1980s through the mid-2010s, and continue to be a large coalition in the modern Democratic Party. (wikipedia.org)
  • Her first warning was a question: had I read the piece written by Dennis Prager that told American Democrats all the things that were wrong with their party? (lewrockwell.com)
  • Just as neocons have provided much of the spark and intellectual energy behind modern-day Republicanism, Democrats need a "neoprogressive" movement to give purpose and vision to their party-and political hope to their future candidates. (brookings.edu)
  • Passage of the budget resolution by both chambers will unlock the ability for Democrats to use a process known as budget reconciliation to pass legislation on a party-line vote addressing health care, aid for families, the climate crisis and more. (cnn.com)
  • Democrats are heavily favored in a special election scheduled for November, meaning the party could soon split control of the chamber and break the GOP trifecta controlling state government. (yahoo.com)
  • Much easier to do that than bring up the absolute poverty of serious thinking within the Democrat Party. (foxbusiness.com)
  • That's inspired Democrats to heavily invest in the MAGA Republican's defeat in next year's vote. (businessinsider.com)
  • While most Democrats believe their 10-9 edge in the state's House delegation doesn't adequately reflect Illinois' Democratic leanings, a majority of House Members were apparently unwilling to cross Hastert or jeopardize his influence. (rollcall.com)
  • The resolution needs to be approved by both chambers before Democrats can move on to the reconciliation plan, which still must be drafted and will be considered in the fall. (cnn.com)
  • Schakowsky, while not speaking directly to Tuesday's delegation meeting, seemed to indicate the redistricting issue was not entirely dead - putting more stock in the prerogative of state officials to tackle the issue if they want to than in the desires of Democrats on Capitol Hill. (rollcall.com)
  • Tuesday's meeting was the first time Democrats in the delegation got together to discuss redistricting, following publicized reports that Emanuel and Schakowsky were pitching the idea. (rollcall.com)
  • He remembers that all of the Democrats then in the delegation signed off on the deal with the lone exception of then-Rep. David Phelps (D), who was forced into a Member versus Member contest in 2002 that he later lost to Rep. John Shimkus (R). (rollcall.com)
  • Warren has met with top Democrats and many leaders of the Bay State delegation, and she even had a phone chat with Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (Wash. (rollcall.com)
  • But it's also amazing that now we're talking about Democrats having another good cycle and the potential to gain more seats. (salon.com)
  • Several House Democrats plan to bring guests affected by the immigration debate, including at least three who have invited young undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers," who received legal protection under the now-canceled Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (chicagotribune.com)
  • How about a Democrat growth plan? (foxbusiness.com)
  • As I noted in a previous post , Democrats really had only two policy proposals in this last election: a higher minimum wage and equal pay for equal work. (forbes.com)
  • As Democrats comb the 2004 election results for lessons, one should be obvious: we need bolder, newer ideas, particularly in this post-9/11 world in the realm of foreign policy. (brookings.edu)
  • Whether it's the virus we're talking about or many other public health threats, the Democrat policy of open borders is a direct threat to the health and wellbeing of all Americans. (cnbc.com)
  • Don't forget energy policy - the Democrats cling to their contempt for oil and gas. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Well try this: the summer is coming to an end, and it's time to bring the Democrats out of their policy hibernation. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Democrats aren't used to spending in districts that were once a lock for them. (marketplace.org)
  • Meanwhile, Maine Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, said he introduced legislation intended to make donations more transparent by requiring all contributions of $1,000 or more to be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission within 48 hours. (politico.com)
  • Democrats had proposed to change the Senate's rules to prevent filibusters on executive branch nominations (but not to ban filibusters of legislation or judicial nominees). (nymag.com)
  • In what may or may not have been a related move, Democrats in Congress blocked legislation earlier this year that would have denied federal funding to universities that discriminated against Asian-American students. (freebeacon.com)
  • That platform helped Democrats achieve majorities in Congress in 2006 and helped put Barack Obama in the White House after eight years of George W. Bush. (latimes.com)
  • Instead of telling Americans who lost their shirts in the financial crisis why Wall Street shouldn't be regulated, why not allow the Democrats to pass the bill and own the victory-and its consequences? (thedailybeast.com)
  • In March 2010, President Obama fulfilled a promise that Democrats have pursued for nearly a century: making quality, affordable health care available to all Americans. (democrats.org)
  • For decades Democrats have fought for the simple idea that everyone should have some basic security in health care. (democrats.org)
  • Democrats touted its environmental and health care impacts. (yahoo.com)
  • What [Democrats] want to do is govern and work for the American people but it's really hard when folks don't abide by the agreements that they make," Aguilar said. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • During a Tuesday night meeting called by Rep. Jerry Costello (D-Ill.), nine of the delegation's 10 Democrats who attended concluded they should not to move forward with the redistricting idea being pushed by Reps. Rahm Emanuel and Jan Schakowsky. (rollcall.com)