We are majority queer, majority people of color, and majority women.
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Likelihood of outcomes (Electoral Calculus): Conservative majority (52%) Labour majority (11%) No majority (37%).
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The result could show no majority for any option, a majority for several options or even a majority for all options.
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India, which is majority Hindu, and Pakistan, majority Muslim, have fought two wars over Kashmir, which also has a Muslim majority.
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India, which is majority Hindu, and Pakistan, majority Muslim, have fought two wars over Kashmir, which also has a Muslim majority.
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They've seen the majority of cases, the majority of deaths.
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The majority of money, majority of VC's are white men.
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You're talking to the early majority, or the late majority.
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Without this moder ating effect, today's majority passes something and tomorrow's major ity repeals it; today's majority proposes something, tomorrow's majority opposes it.
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Iran is majority-Shiite Muslim, while Saudi Arabia is majority Sunni.
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But an all-renewables majority will be a fairly partisan majority.
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Senate Majority PAC also has an affiliated nonprofit organization, Majority Forward.
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All 16 attended majority-white schools and live in majority-white cities.
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Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise are considered frontrunners.
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This new majority, elected on Tuesday, is the inverse of that majority.
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We want to maintain that majority; we want to expand that majority.
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Republicans, including vacancies, hold a slim 20-19 seat 1-seat majority in the Senate and a 51-48 seat majority majority in the House.
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But with a Senate GOP majority much safer than a House majority, Republican donors could opt to direct their resources to preserving McConnell as majority leader.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) have all endorsed Trump.
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Republican Senate leadership: Majority leader: Mitch McConnell (Ky.) Majority whip: John Thune (S.
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The majority of people get the majority of their news from social media.
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Republicans have a 9003-49 majority and nominations only need a simple majority.
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The majority, the vast majority of those flights are on time without incident.
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Above, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and the majority whip, John Cornyn.
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Your efforts have produced a strong majority of the popular vote and victories in a majority of the contests and, after tonight, a majority of pledged delegates.
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The bills require three-fifths majority votes for passage instead of a simple majority.
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Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise both made big-picture remarks.
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The way that impeachment stops is a Senate majority, with me as majority leader.
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Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia and Shiite-majority Iran have long had a sectarian feud.
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A majority of Americans want this, as do a majority of members of Congress.
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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a slim 85003-seat majority with McCain.
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A primary goal for any majority leader is to strengthen and grow his majority.
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The overwhelming majority of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, support Roe v. Wade.
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The way that impeachment stops is a Senate majority with me as majority leader.
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But the vast majority of the conference was not a majority of the Senate.
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Not everybody, but I'd say the majority, probably the vast majority of people will.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn are all expected to attend, the sources said.
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The list of those invited includes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell(R-Ky.) and Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas), as well as Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.).
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Unless you say it's not a conservative majority but it is a partisan dishonest majority.
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Ryan refused — likely because the bipartisan one would pass without the majority of the majority.
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That means there has never been a female GOP Speaker, majority leader or majority whip.
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This new majority, in other words, is the most progressive majority in Virginia legislative history.
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Conviction requires a two-thirds majority in the Senate, where the GOP holds the majority.
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It will require us to build, from tomorrow onwards, a real majority, a strong majority.
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The province is the only one in Mongolia that is majority Kazakh, and majority Muslim.
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Furthermore, the majority of lab employees and the vast majority of its managers are women.
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The vast majority of Republicans support Trump while the vast majority of Democrats oppose him.
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One day you're in the majority and the next day you're not in the majority.
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Democrats wield majority control in the House, but Republicans hold a majority in the Senate.
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The provision requiring that a candidate win a majority of state House districts increases white control because "the vast majority of House districts have a majority-white population that can easily outvote the smaller number of highly concentrated African-American majority districts," the complaint said.
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There will be one majority of students who like pepperoni; another majority that might be made up of some from the first majority, who like ham and pineapple; and another majority, made up of a separate but overlapping group, who like peppers and onions.
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Cutting into GOP majority At the very least, a Trump implosion that cuts deeply into Ryan's majority could complicate the Speaker's already tough task of corralling his volatile majority coalition.
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After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's change to Senate rules during Gorsuch's confirmation, Kavanaugh will need only a simple majority of votes in the Republican-majority Senate to be confirmed.
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" Not unless a righteous sense of persecution is afoot — in which case you get upswells like the Moral Majority and the Silent Majority, blurring the line between "majority" and "supremacy.
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"But the majority also has rights and the majority decides," he said at a recent event.
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Or does democracy only require that a majority of voters can control a majority of seats?
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The majority leader is the highest-ranking member of the Senate, followed by the majority whip.
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For years now, a majority of Democrats — indeed, a majority in the US — has backed legalization.
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The latest: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy says Majority Whip Steve Scalise is out of surgery.
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Shiite-majority Iran and Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia have long been embroiled in a sectarian feud.
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He served as the Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015, until Republicans gained the majority.
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"The Conservatives want a Conservative majority in parliament, not a Brexit majority in parliament," Farage said.
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At the same time, some Republicans predicted a majority of the majority would back the package.
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If passed, it would turn a 4–3 Democratic majority into a 5–4 Republican majority.
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When the majority switches, the new majority has, for a while, opened up the debate process.
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Republicans hold a majority on the Judiciary Committee, and a 52-seat majority in the Senate.
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A majority of our calls for service are not dealing with EDPs—the majority are crimes.
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Roberts will now be in the majority more often, and will command a more reliable majority.
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Raw majority will is not the same thing as democracy, particularly when that majority is slight.
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Clinton won the majority of pledged delegates in 2016, as well as the majority of superdelegates.
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The country's real silent majority prefers Democrats, if only that majority could be stirred to vote.
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Tiering had a "majority", still well short of a "very large majority" for a rate cut.
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It's been supported by a majority of Democrats and opposed by a majority of congressional Republicans.
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A big enough crisis under Trump would probably make the empty majority an ex-majority temporarily.
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Norway's majority state-owned oil and gas firm Equinor was awarded the majority, with 13 operatorships.
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So the move wasn't just about adapting to a majority white and majority English-speaking culture.
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Unlike the partisan positions of majority leader and majority whip, the Speakership is a constitutional office.
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But I don't think it's a majority — in the American context I don't think it's in a majority, and I would tentatively hazard it's not a majority in the UK either.
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"It was not a majority Hispanic school, or a majority Hispanic neighborhood or a majority Hispanic city at that time," Mr. Rubio said of the life he discovered as a third grader.
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DRUM is a membership-based organization of South Asian immigrants, workers, and youth—a majority of whom are Muslim, a majority of whom are undocumented and a majority of whom are women.
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And the state has taken a sharp right in recent years — its congressional delegation went from majority Democratic in 2010 to majority Republican, while the state legislature solidified a GOP super majority.
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They have the governorship, a majority in the state House, and a majority in the state Senate.
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, (House Majority Leader) Steny Hoyer, and (House Majority Whip James) Clyburn?
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Five-four decision, the majority, you see the justices voting in the majority there and the dissenting.
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Majority Leader: Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer said he'll "certainly be running for majority leader," per The Hill.
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Tyranny of the majority arises not when the majority and the minority feel equally strong about something.
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Majority shareholder Impala will subscribe to about 170 million shares in order to remain the majority shareholder.
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Nominations only need a simple majority to clear the Senate and Republicans have a 52-seat majority.
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Republicans have earned the majority in the House, the majority in the Senate, and the White House.
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What constitutes majority, and how are these decisions being made if the majority opinion does not matter?
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With his razor-thin majority, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can afford to lose only two GOP votes.
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To get that majority, he likely needs to win the vast majority of delegates in New York.
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Kashmiris fear this would lead to a demographic transformation of region from majority Muslim to majority Hindu.
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THESE ARE THE RULES OF THE GAME, THE MAJORITY WINS AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE IN THE MAJORITY.
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With a parliamentary majority, the winning party proclaims its leader; without a majority, it needs to negotiate.
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Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) had signed on earlier.
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Most importantly, so do the majority of U.S. voters — including the majority of voters in every state.
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He had served as Majority Whip under Bill Frist and then Minority Leader and finally Majority Leader.
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"Donald Trump won, or he got the majority of the electoral votes, a large majority," Stone said.
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Republicans. Their Senate majority is slim, 18-15, while their House majority is more substantial, 64-35.
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Republicans control the Senate with a 17-443 majority and the House with a 35-25 majority.
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That's where the majority of the virus is; that's where the majority of the focus should be.
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While Democrats hold a majority in the House, Republicans control the Senate with a 53-45 majority.
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"Majority rule" means an election winner must secure a majority of the vote — 50 percent plus one.
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"The way that impeachment stops" is with "a Senate majority, with me as majority leader," McConnell said.
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She also served as deputy majority whip between 2003 and 85033 and assistant majority leader in 2015.
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House prices in majority-black neighborhoods have also risen less than those in comparable majority-white ones.
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Clinton has won an outright delegate majority, a majority of pledged delegates, and the national popular vote.
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A majority of babies being born are of color, and a majority of people dying are white.
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President Obama lost the Democratic House majority in 2628; President Bush lost his congressional majority in 28500; and President Clinton lost Democrats' House majority in 6900 for the first time in 2628 years.
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During that initial summit, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell laid out the "biggest asks" needed to protect the Senate majority, and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy did the same for the lower chamber.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) are both seen as potential Speakers-in-waiting — or minority leaders if Republicans lose the majority in November.
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But Ryan assured them otherwise: Anything on immigration would have the support of the majority of the majority.
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At least House Speaker Paul Ryan, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Majority Whip Steve Scalise and conservative stalwarts Reps.
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A Navajo majority on the county commission wouldn't change the attitudes of the majority of the county's residents.
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Reed's extremely experienced, but more importantly ... he represents the majority of the city and democracy is about majority.
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Democratic super PACs active in the House and Senate races include House Majority PAC and Senate Majority PAC.
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Because the majority of our elected officials are men, and so are the majority of our religious leaders.
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Republicans have a narrow 51-49 majority in the Senate and a 236-193 majority in the House.
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You can have a majority, but if you don't have a governing majority, you can't get things done.
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"The majority, the vast majority of FBI employees enjoyed a deep, positive connection to Director Comey," McCabe said.
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The majority of homeless youth are LGBTQ, and the majority of LGBTQ homeless youth are people of color.
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In a country where the majority controls so little, are we really in danger of tyrannical majority rule?
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When the chief justice is in the majority, he gets to choose who will write the majority opinion.
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Republicans have a majority in the Minnesota Senate, but Democrats have a majority in the House of Representatives.
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Given such stiff majority leadership opposition, very few discharge petitions ever achieve the House majority threshold of signatures.
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Kashmiris fear its revocation would lead to a demographic transformation of region from majority Muslim to majority Hindu.
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Currently, 22020 states have Republican-majority delegations, 22020 states have Democratic-majority delegations and 2 states are tied.
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A majority of Americans want Mueller to keep investigating — but a smaller majority than just two months ago.
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"Before 2013, it was almost the vast majority Mexican, the vast majority adults and economic migrants," Capps said.
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"The majority, the vast majority of FBI employees enjoyed a deep, positive connection to Director Comey," he says.
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" He added, "The majority, the vast majority of FBI employees enjoyed a deep, positive connection to Director Comey.
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Since that time we're up to 31 Republican governors, big majority in the House, majority in the Senate.
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In a democracy, the majority rules but unfortunately the majority know absolutely nothing about life on the land.
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Their 353-235 Senate majority could be in jeopardy, while their House majority is probably unassailable: 250-22018.
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While the minority has the majority, the majority is trying to climb up the ladder to become rich.
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In 1965 they parted ways, Malaysia with an ethnic Malay majority and Singapore with an ethnic Chinese majority.
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Republicans previously held a 20-19 majority in the Senate, and a 51-48 majority in the House.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise have strongly backed Nunes' demand for sensitive documents.
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Without Kennedy, that majority has evaporated, likely replaced with a harder-line majority that could preserve the practice.
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The provision increases white control because "the vast majority of House districts have a majority-white population that can easily outvote the smaller number of highly concentrated African-American majority districts," the complaint said.
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Senate majority leaders are elected by the majority party only and, while McConnell has a clear majority of GOP senators on his side, even those walls protecting a sitting leader can come down fast.
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Still, a narrow majority backs his plan to restrict people entering America from a list of Muslim-majority countries.
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We do know that Venezuela is not Muslim majority, and we know that North Korea is not Muslim majority.
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"Women are the majority of voters and the majority of activists," Richards told Refinery29 in an interview on Saturday.
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A five-justice conservative majority that has existed for decades would be replaced by a five-justice liberal majority.
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Men lead the vast majority of businesses and occupy the majority of offices in local, state, and federal government.
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When we have a majority in the Senate, we have a majority by one, but we need ten votes.
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The proclamation "omits the vast majority of the world", he said, including the "vast majority of the Muslim world".
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The party hopes to hold its House majority, defeat Trump and gain a Senate majority in next year's elections.
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Reconciliation bills require only a simple majority to pass — and Republicans hold a majority in both chambers of Congress.
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But outside that hard core, I also believe there is a silent majority within Trump's self-proclaimed silent majority.
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Opinion polls indicate that though a majority of voters backed Thursday's strike, an even bigger majority support the reforms.
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Currently, the GOP holds a 2001-23.5 majority in the Senate and a 240-194 majority in the House.
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The Inquirer reported that General Majority has spent millions in recent years expanding Democrats' majority in New Jersey's Legislature.
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Brett needs only a simple majority to be confirmed, and Republicans hold a 1-vote majority in the Senate.
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Majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan became two different countries in 1947 when they became independent of Britain.
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But McConnell is now presiding not just over a Senate majority, but a majority in a unified Republican government.
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It's why during the midterms he so conspicuously prioritized the Senate Republican majority over the House Republican majority. Why?
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Majority-white districts were also found to have received $85033,000 more in funding per student than majority-nonwhite districts.
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Just like a majority of other Americans, a solid majority of Latinos pushed back against Trump and his policies.
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A simple majority is needed to include an amendment, and Republicans hold a 51-49 majority in the chamber.
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What Lieberman demonstrated, however, is that a right-wing majority is not necessarily a majority that will support Netanyahu.
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The party will be co-hosted by the super-PACs Priorities USA, Senate Majority PAC and House Majority PAC.
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Majority Whip Steve Scalise and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy "saw a potential opening" in the discussions, per one person.
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Becoming a majority owner of Hulu today might end up like being the majority owner of Instagram in 2014.
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The majority of the estate is in move-in condition, complete with negotiable sale of a majority of furnishings.
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And his party also won a majority of governorships and an absolute majority in both chambers of Mexico's Congress.
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"In the last 2015 elections, the secessionists had a parliamentary majority but not a popular vote majority," Lasheras said.
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Sanctions can be imposed with the backing of a majority of countries representing a majority of the EU's citizens.
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The Republican-majority Congress could use the Congressional Review Act to block the rule with a simple majority vote.
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Biden was the only one who got a majority, and even that was a slim majority of 52 percent.
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Initially, he wasn't supported by the majority — but when they finally arrived, a majority of Canadians did support it.
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There is no white majority in our kindergartens, and soon there will be no white majority in our society.
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This is a county that went from majority-white to having a majority that are Latino and Asian-American.
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A majority of whites say that discrimination exists against whites, even though a majority have not personally experienced it.
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Majority Forward, a nonprofit affiliated with the Democratic super PAC Senate Majority, will air statewide ads targeting Republican Sens.
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Republicans hold a two-seat majority in the Senate, and a 46-seat majority in the House of Representatives.
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A large majority of the court's members was appointed by Republican presidents, but Friday's majority consisted of Democratic appointees.
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For Shia-majority Iran, it was the mullahs' natural expectation to pull Shia-majority Iraq into their caliphate fold.
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The majority leader routinely seeks unanimous consent on procedural matters, meaning that one senator can temporarily block the majority.
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" "There is majority support for the DREAM Act today in the House, majority support among American voters, so Rep.
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Clinton, after all, will have won a majority of pledged delegates but not an absolute majority of overall delegates.
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In 20 or 30 years, we're the majority of this country, the world's majority … Oh, they can hang on.
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She would also join the small club of women who own or have owned NFL franchises, including Martha Firestone (majority owner of Detroit Lions) Dee Haslam (majority owner of the Cleveland Browns), Virginia Halas McCaskey (Majority owner of the Chicago Bears), and the late Georgia Frontiere (former majority owner of the LA Rams).
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Just as the Gingrich strategy brought, in 1994, the first Republican majority in the House in 40 years, the Young Guns and establishment leaders' strategy resulted in a huge Republican majority in the House in 2010 and then a Republican majority in the Senate, and gains to solidify the House majority in 2014.
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With the vast majority of votes counted, shareholders adopted BP's 2016 pay by a majority of 97.09 percent, the highest in at least 20203 years, and the new pay policy by a majority of 97.32 percent.
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The majority -- it&aposs not a Fox poll -- the majority, it they do not approve the way they cover the president to bring the majority believe they are biased toward the liberal side of the equation.
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Elizabeth Warren, the House Majority PAC, the Senate Majority PAC, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
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Known as the "majority makers" or "front-liners," this group was key to securing the Democrats' House majority last year.
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The one midterm in which the House majority didn't flip saw the Senate majority flip from Democratic to Republican (2014).
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There was little mixing, social or educational, between the (majority white) honors students and the (majority black) non-honors students.
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This deal needs approval from a qualified majority of EU members, minus Britain, and a majority in the European Parliament.
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Theresa May's government has a working Commons majority of only 14 seats and no majority at all in the Lords.
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The two have said they plan to run for top spots - Hoyer as majority leader, and Clyburn as majority whip.
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The bill was passed by a 432-65 majority in the House and an 85-14 majority in the Senate.
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A 78-85033 Senate majority and 286-138 House majority voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act in 2013.
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It also appears their warnings about the consequences of a Democratic majority in the Senate helped them hold their majority.
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But if no candidate reaches that majority by Saturday, DNC members will vote on subsequent ballots until a majority coalesces.
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This would require a majority in the House to impeach and a two-thirds majority in the Senate to convict.
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State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D) and State Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald (D) sponsored the bill, NJ.com reported.
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It's a fantasy to believe a Democrat majority wouldn't end the legislative filibuster the moment they may regain a majority.
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They want a Supreme Court majority that reflects their views and not the views of the majority of the people.
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That could give conservatives a majority, if those two parties and the Vox party were to form a majority coalition.
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Unfair districts can help win a majority of seats, but they don't command a mandate from the majority of voters.
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Revisions require a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament and a majority of votes in a public referendum.
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The majority of our members, as well as an overwhelming majority of Americans, share our approval of universal background checks.
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Republicans hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate, meaning Democrats must pick up two seats to gain the majority.
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Mr. Cruz's path to a majority is harder: At his current pace, he would fall 559 short of a majority.
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In public opinion polls, a majority of whites are opposed to pay-for-play; a majority of blacks support it.
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Republicans have a 52-seat majority in the full Senate, however, meaning they need a simple majority to confirm Tillerson.
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The majority are in the five Muslim-majority nations, led by Iran, with a population of more than 80 million.
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A majority of Americans believe the news is accurately portraying the COVID-19 outbreak, with the vast majority watching closely.
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" He directed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and soon-to-be House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi to "get it done.
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Republicans currently hold a 20163-34 majority in the chamber, a majority that has hamstrung the efforts of Democratic Gov.
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The majority of co-founders who come to the Well Clinic are men, as are the majority of tech founders.
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The majority of co-founders who come to the Well Clinic are men, as are the majority of tech founders.
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Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell will have the power to largely shape the trial given his majority in the chamber.
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All of you know your Constitution, the way that impeachment stops is a Senate majority with me as majority leader.
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But bipartisanship, as Biden knows, also remains appealing to the majority of the American electorate, including the majority of Democrats.
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Hezbollah and its political allies make up a parliamentary majority, but the group has previously resisted forming a majority government.
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How Trump could win without majority support Operating without majority support doesn't mean that Trump can't win a second term.
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Moving Republicans from a coalition in the majority to a governing majority will take time, something we may not have.
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In a Quinnipiac poll released Thursday, the majority of American voters opposed this provision, though the majority of Republicans approved.
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Three appellate courts have flipped from a majority of judges appointed by Democratic presidents to a majority appointed by Republicans.
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Republicans this November could grow their historic 85033-seat majority in the House, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggested on Monday.
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"The way that impeachment stops is a Senate majority with me as majority leader," he said in a web ad.
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She also wanted to focus on shoring up her majority, after winning her seat with a majority of just 816.
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Republicans have a majority in the Senate, of course, and also the largest House majority they've had for many decades.
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His two deputies — Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana — are both Trump supporters.
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In 2013, Democrats changed the rules requiring a 60-vote majority for such confirmations to only needing a simple majority.
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The Speaker's top two deputies, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), are both supporting Trump, along with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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James Madison warned that a direct democracy would result in what he called a "tyranny of the majority"; he worried voting on issues by direct majority rule would allow that majority of the electorate to oppress the minority.
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It&aposs a big map, we got to expand our majority in the Senate and keep our majority in the House.
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He could save the Republican majority, but make it extremely difficult for members of that majority to make him their leader.
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HERNANDEZ: But you don&apost have to compromise, you have a majority, Republicans have a majority, you don&apost need compromise.
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Perhaps that's why canceling people's private plans takes Medicare-for-all from majority support (+14 favorable) to majority opposition (-553 unfavorable).
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If Donald Trump was targeting Muslim majority countries, why wouldn&apost he target the largest Muslim majority countries in the world?
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Her win brings the Republican Senate majority up to 53–47, up from a 51-seat majority before this month's elections.
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The majority of countries selected were majority Muslim, leading civil liberties activists to claim the program unjustly targeted travelers by religion.
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In 11 jurisdictions, polling place closures increased the travel times for majority nonwhite blocks more than they affected majority white areas.
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But due to geography and gerrymandering, their majority in the chamber will fall far short of their majority at the polls.
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Though IPOs may get more attention, acquisitions account for the vast majority of startup exits and a majority of venture returns.
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The first and most significant is the need for a majority vote in favor of impeachment in a Republican-majority Congress.
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Meanwhile, the majority of Republicans feel that the Russia investigation is politically motivated, while the majority of Democrats feel it's justified.
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The event was co-hosted by a trio of Democratic super-PACs, Priorities USA, Senate Majority PAC and House Majority PAC.
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While May's Conservative Party won the majority of seats, it looks like it will come nine short of a governing majority.
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Last year, for example, Wisconsin Republicans won a majority in the State Assembly while losing a majority of the vote statewide.
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After being elected, he ascended to majority whip, then majority leader, which set him up for his move to the Speakership.
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Trump and Cruz together might control a majority of the rules committee, but they will certainly control a majority of delegates.
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While ideologies on the right appear to make up the majority, it's not as wide a majority as you might expect.
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It's the majority stakeholder in "League of Legends" studio Riot Games, and the majority stakeholder in "Clash of Clans" studio Supercell.
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No outright majority Under the parliamentary system, the party with the majority of seats is the leader of the new government.
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With Kavanaugh in Kennedy's place, that majority has evaporated, likely replaced with a harder-line majority that could preserve the practice.
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The Senate majority leader, Mitch Carmichael, and the House majority leader, Daryl Cowles, both Republicans, have said they anticipate an override.
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Trump stays in power based on the support of a minority that also happens to be the majority of the majority.
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None of that will happen as long as McConnell puts his position as Senate Majority Leader above the GOP congressional majority.
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The vote, which required a two-thirds majority, passed the House 20173-53 -- a tally that included a majority of Republicans.
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A candidate needs a majority in the popular vote and needs to win a majority of Mississippi's 122 state house districts.
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A majority of Americans — indeed, a majority of gun owners — want laws to keep lunatics and terrorists from committing mass homicide.
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A bare majority of Democrats support reducing fossil fuel extraction, but support falls short of a majority among independents and Republicans.
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It finds that overwhelming majorities of Americans — including the vast majority of young people, the vast majority of black people, etc.
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New Hampshire previously had majority women representation in the state Senate, but women were not the overall majority in the Capitol.
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President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans held their majority in the chamber while Democrats took a majority in the House of Representatives.
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The bill won a majority of votes in the Senate (54), but not a filibuster-proof majority, and so it died.
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Last Wednesday the Democratic House majority passed an emergency bill to combat the coronavirus; the Senate GOP majority adjourned without acting.
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"We have won the majority, and now we must keep the majority," Mr. Jeffries, 48, said in an interview on Wednesday.
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I went to a majority Black school for kindergarten, but then moved to a majority white elementary school for first grade.
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A candidate needs a majority in the popular vote and needs to win a majority of Mississippi's 122 state house districts.
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A majority of senators, having had their amendments considered and their views heard, decided to move forward at a majority threshold.
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"The new socialist Democrat majority in the House literally gave away its majority the day it started this impeachment proceeding," Rep.
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For example, the "Hastert Rule" requires a majority of the majority party to allow legislation to reach the floor of Congress.
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The poll was conducted for the Senate Majority PAC, a super PAC aiming to win a Democratic majority in the Senate.
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We also have U.S. companies who derive a majority of their revenues, a majority of their operations outside the United States.
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But the House faced a high hurdle, needing a two-thirds majority -- rather than a simple majority -- to override the veto.
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While she was the first female Democratic majority leader in Washington's State Senate, she was not its first female majority leader.
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When both your team and the industry are majority male, you can bet your referrals are going to be majority male.
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Even the two top Democrats — House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and House Majority Whip David Bonior — opposed it at the time.
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Democrats won the majority in the state Senate and picked up seats in the House, where it already had a majority.
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A majority of voters were okay with the incumbent administration, and a majority of voters took a dim view of Trump.
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To comply with the rules, a manager can purchase a portion of the vehicle directly or through a majority-owned affiliate (MOA) where the affiliate majority-controls, is majority-controlled by or is under common-majority control with the manager, said Deborah Festa, head of law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy's West Coast securitization and investment management practices.
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Instead of the stronger majority the prime minister was expecting, voters returned a hung parliament, in which no party commands a majority.
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The majority of the Democratic caucus in the House and Senate oppose the TPP, as do a majority of Democratic Party voters.
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A lot of people came here, around 300, and I think the majority are out now and actually the majority are innocent.
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Still, the vast majority of people infected with Zika, like the majority of people infected with enteroviruses, do not develop autoimmune disease.
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A majority of MPC members saw a case for removing some monetary stimulus in the coming months, I wasn't in that majority.
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More important is that even if Democrats win a majority of votes they are not guaranteed a majority of seats in Congress.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, known for choosing his words carefully, told Reuters he didn't see the path to a majority yet.
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Instead of a Democratic majority on the Supreme Court for the first time in decades, there will be a reinvigorated conservative majority.
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This was a very narrow majority, but still a majority that would allow her to sail through a post-Queen's Speech vote.
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This was down to natural gas replacing the majority of this lost generation and feeding the majority of growth in electricity demand.
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Going into tonight's election, Republicans held a 54-seat majority in the Senate and are now looking to hold onto that majority.
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As a result, even as white Christians have fallen below majority status in the country, they remain a clear majority of Republicans.
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Rather, they must win both a majority of the popular vote and win a majority of the state's 553 state house districts.
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A majority of EU countries had backed the introduction of measures, but not the sufficient "qualified majority" of member states normally required.
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"The vast majority of shareholders at the vast majority of companies are highly satisfied with their pay and performance alignment," Kay said.
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But the vast majority of the party, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, remains anchored to Trump.
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A majority of people oppose the Constituent Assembly, which critics have said is a sham election skewed to give Maduro a majority.
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Though Republicans have won the majority in Congress, Lichtman pointed out they did not have a "filibuster-proof majority" in the Senate.
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And the majority of the country, even though he lost by 3 million votes, the majority of the country is for Trump.
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" What he told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: "Chuck, if people like me can't get elected, you'll never be in the majority.
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The votes could indicate there is no majority in parliament for any alternative course of action, or else a majority for several.
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We have to wake up every day and say how can we protect our majority and how can we grow our majority.
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A majority of voters in 27 states said they disapproved of Trump, with a majority in just 12 states saying they approved.
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Ryan's top two deputies, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), are both supporting Trump.
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Tom DeLay, who served as the House majority whip and then the House majority leader under Hastert, was one of those writers.
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The measure needed to secure a majority of Switzerland's 26 cantons as well as a simple majority of voters to be successful.
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The party had also hoped to reclaim a majority in the Senate and make inroads into the GOP majority in the House.
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The Senate Majority PAC and Majority Forward have spent some $30 million combined on ads in competitive races, election commission records show.
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A consolidation plan in Macon-Bibb County closed six polling places in black-majority neighborhoods, and only two in white majority areas.
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A Jones win knocks the Republican Senate majority down to a razor-thin 51 seats from an already narrow 52-vote majority.
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But we've had majority or near-majority desire for a third party in American politics for two and a half decades now.
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Senate Majority PAC and Majority Forward, two other national political action committees funding liberal candidates for the Senate, have continued their support.
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He said it would not be until it was supported by a majority of the committee, not a majority of the Assembly.
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The vast majority of tenants in the counties hit by Harvey are black and Hispanic, while the majority of homeowners are white.
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Democrats are hoping to chip into the GOP's 53-47 majority in the Senate if not take the chamber's majority all together.
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He knew that the vast majority of the people being stopped were black and brown and that the vast majority were innocent.
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Most of the staff are local, but the majority of students and the vast majority of faculty come here from other places.
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The airline started with its aircraft, shifting from a majority green to a majority white livery, known in the industry as "Eurowhite."
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If a majority of the Senate cannot be expected or made to do the right thing, the Senate majority must be changed.
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But the majority couldn't agree on a rationale for its decision, so instead of one majority opinion, five separate concurrences were produced.
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The so-called "Hastert rule" posits that a majority of the majority party should support a bill if it is to pass.
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The process requires not just impeachment by a majority in the House, but a two-thirds majority for conviction in the Senate.
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After all, women are a majority of these companies' customers and we make a majority of the spending decisions for our families.
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The Commission's proposal would be then cleared unless a majority of states also representing a majority of the EU's population vote against.
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Democrats, who enjoy a 36-seat majority in the House, are expected to win an impeachment vote, which requires a simple majority.
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A majority of lawmakers supported the bill, which passed 315 to 62 late Wednesday night, but a majority of Ugandans opposed it.
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That's because Republicans hold a slim majority in the Senate, where an impeachment finding would need a two-thirds majority to pass.
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For example, a vast majority of voters — including a majority of self-identified Republicans — believe that corporations pay too little in taxes.
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In practical terms, nobody's going to care that the majority of seats is a bit small compared to the majority of votes.
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"Majority parties, in state legislatures at least, seem to actually have an electoral disadvantage — if you become the majority one year, you have less than even odds of being the majority party later on down the line," Hall told me.
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In a world where men direct the majority of movies, host the majority of late night shows, and win the majority of prestige book awards, romance is the only realm I can find that is entirely and unapologetically dominated by women.
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Because Texas's high schools are generally racially homogeneous, that ensures a certain amount of racial diversity: The majority-black high schools send black students, the majority-Latino high schools send Latino students, and the majority-white high schools send white students.
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Fed researchers found that people in black-majority neighborhoods were slightly more likely to borrow for college, with 0.73% of residents carrying student loans, compared to 17% of people in Hispanic-majority neighborhoods and 14% in white-majority zip codes.
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RYAN FIGHTS FOR GOP MAJORITY ON PUERTO RICO: Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE has a majority of the majority problem.
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His repeated obstruction of Obama's Cabinet and court picks led then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to "go nuclear" and blow up the filibuster for the majority of nominees, making the required vote a simple majority rather than 60 votes.
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More to the point, although Democrats control the House, there is not a House majority for Medicare-for-all at the moment, and there certainly isn't a Senate majority or even a majority of the Senate Democratic caucus that supports it.
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"It would take a majority in the House and a 2/3 majority in the Senate" to impeach Rosenstein, Barker said in an email, "which would never happen" considering Republicans hold a razor-thin 51-vote majority in the Senate.
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On the federal level, Democrats took back the majority in the House of Representatives while Republicans slightly expanded their majority in the Senate.
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In Seattle, like in all American cities, the majority of the population and the vast majority of the land is in the suburbs.
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If the GOP majority paves the way for a legislative fix to the polarizing immigration policy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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Public polls show that the vast majority of voters, including a majority of Republicans, support allowing Dreamers to remain in the United States.
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It's a different country, in that black people are the majority so the minority was oppressing the majority, as opposed to America's history.
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To get what's called a majority report to the floor, a simple majority of 57 delegates must vote to pass the committee's work.
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The majority in Rakhine are ethnic Rakhine Buddhists who, like many in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, see the Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
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Democrats' wins in this month's congressional elections gave them a majority in the House over Republicans, who maintained their majority in the Senate.
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In North Carolina, the GOP won a narrow majority of votes but has carried a larger majority of seats thanks again to gerrymandering.
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In 210, the majority of trafficking-related park ranger fatalities took place in Asia, with the majority of those deaths occurring in India.
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The simple majority was what he needed to be voted leader after failing to get an absolute majority in a ballot on Saturday.
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This is about preventing a Democratic president from filling the seat that would flip the Supreme Court from majority conservative to majority liberal.
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They wouldn&apost have their majority if it wasn&apost for President Donald Trump, he carried them to a majority in these states.
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But while the majority of victims of gun homicide are black or Hispanic, the overwhelming majority of suicides by young people are white.
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The separation of Singapore from Malaysia gave ethnic Malays a clear majority in Malaysia, while ethnic Chinese formed the majority in independent Singapore.
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Changing the constitution would require a two-thirds majority in both houses of the Diet, and a plain majority in a national referendum.
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This will not be a dominant majority but a responsible majority, said Jean-Paul Delevoye, who was in charge of selecting LREM candidates.
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The Globe is majority-owned by Canada's Thomson family, which is also a majority owner of Reuters' parent company, Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.TO).
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If Republicans proceed, they will ensure that this Republican majority is remembered as the most nakedly partisan, obstructionist and irresponsible majority in history.
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Republicans hold a narrower majority in the Senate — 52 out of 100 seats — and would need a majority vote to pass the bill.
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"The majority of the digital ad spend is in search and the majority is going to one company," said Gaffney, referring to Google.
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Recent polling suggests a strong majority of Democratic voters, and perhaps a slim majority of the general public, supports the idea as well.
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And public opinion polls show that while a majority of Americans still back executions for those convicted of murder, that majority is shrinking.
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With the majority of seats counted, incumbent Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party had no way to win an outright majority in parliament.
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And so in every country, in Western Europe, and Canada, and Japan, where people gave the majority that power, the majority used it.
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Unions would have to receive support from the majority of all workers in the bargaining unit to ensure a true majority of support.
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They say the bill would pass easily — and win a majority of the majority — if Ryan would only bring it to the floor.
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Yet democracy is no sure fix: Even in strong democracies, an aggrieved majority does not neatly translate into a majority at the polls.
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No BAT and no replacement means fiddling with — rather than fixing — taxes, and a Republican majority that is unlikely to stay a majority.
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They say it will cause party disunity, despite the fact that the congressional assemblage that wrote them includes a majority of the majority.
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Since the Democrats have the majority, it is reasonable to assume that a majority vote to release the tax returns could be had.
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The Senate majority leader is tasked with a few simple responsibilities: managing the Senate floor schedule, and solidifying and growing the Senate majority.
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After the recession, a majority of all new jobs created — and a majority of all new businesses started — have appeared in large cities.
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But there was a majority, and the majority voted in favor of what would become our nation's governing principles, our country's defining document.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would introduce the motion, and it would have to be approved by a majority of the Senate body.
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The majority-Christian and the majority-English speaking nation is reliant in large part on travel and tourism and has financial services businesses.
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The ruling coalition has a thin majority in parliament and any dispute between the conservative HDZ and the liberals could jeopardize that majority.
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Next year, a conservative majority will likely be restored to the Court, a majority that will presumably last for many years to come.
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The 28500 election — an election that gave Republicans a historic majority in the House and their first Senate majority since 6900 — is trivial.
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They need a simple majority -- not 51 votes, a simple majority of those in attendance at the vote -- to pass the final bill.
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And then you have places like Malaysia and Indonesia, where it's majority Muslim but there are significant religious minorities chafing against the majority.
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For the first time, Gallup also found that a majority of Republicans have joined the majority of Democrats and independents in supporting legalization.
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With Monday night's results, Republicans now hold a narrow 34-33 majority in the Minnesota state Senate — but that majority is at risk.
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Republicans held onto the majority in the U.S. Senate following congressional elections last November in which they lost their majority in the House.
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For the bulk of American history, you couldn't win the presidency without winning a majority — usually an overwhelming majority — of the white vote.
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Now many think they have a chance to shrink the Republican majority to a single seat and potentially snatch the majority next year.
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This transformation occurred in California as it evolved from majority-white to gridlocked to majority-minority to functional over a 20-year-period.
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The survey was commissioned and released by Senate Majority PAC, a super PAC dedicated to building a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate.
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While he has a solid majority in the lower house of parliament, conservative and center-right parties have the majority in the senate.
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Barring a miracle, Republicans are going to lose their House majority, and even their Senate majority, once thought untouchable, is no longer safe.
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Senate Majority PAC, a super PAC dedicated to winning a Senate Democratic majority, has spent $3.8 million in both states defending the incumbents.
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A vast majority of voters, including a majority of those who label themselves "conservative Republicans," believe that man's actions are impacting our climate.
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If the Democrats dig in, the Republican majority could change the rules to allow a simple majority vote to move the confirmation forward.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) doesn't believe his threadbare majority can agree on a budget, a requirement for deploying reconciliation procedures.
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The majority of his shadow Cabinet — the people who would lead various government departments if Labour won a majority in Parliament — has resigned.
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When surveyed, the majority of disabled workers and a smaller majority of family members report a preference for supported employment over sheltered workshops.
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Because the Senate's supermajority requirement for most legislation made it tremendously difficult to pass new laws on a partisan basis, it had functioned — and should function, he argued — "as a place to build consensus to solve national problems": Without a moderating institution like the Senate, today's majority passes something and tomorrow's majority repeals it; today's majority proposes something, tomorrow's majority opposes it.
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"Speaker Hoover, as of now, has the support of the Republican caucus to remain in his leadership position," according to a statement attributed to Speaker Pro Tem David Osborne, Majority Leader Jonathan Shell, Majority Whip Kevin Bratcher and Majority Caucus chairman David Meade.
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"Most white people would prefer to live in majority white neighborhoods and send their children to majority white schools, and deep in their bones, they are deeply disturbed by an immigration policy that is making the United States majority non-white," said Taylor.
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But while the chief justice's vote with the majority was not the crucial one (Justice Kennedy also joined the majority), he did actually write the majority opinion — a further outrage in the view of those who had counted on a different outcome.
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To win the majority, Democrats need to keep their eyes on the ball, which is the Trump administration, and what concrete improvements a Democratic majority will bring to the lives of voters with at least 24 additional seats necessary for the majority.
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It also imposed a high bar for amendments: a majority of voters nationwide, plus a majority in at least four of the six states.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the self-styled grim reaper of liberal policies, is more than likely to be Senate majority leader in 2021.
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They were in the majority in two cases when the liberals on the bench furiously criticized the conservatives majority for doing away with precedent.
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Items placed in the budget reconciliation process only require a majority vote rather than the super-majority of 60 needed to overcome a filibuster.
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What a Democratic majority can do — and what the current GOP majority has refused to do— is ensure meaningful oversight of the executive branch.
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A Republican victory, where GOP candidates hold the majority in the House and build on the Senate majority could spark a rally, said Cashin.
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A majority of Scots voted to stay in the European Union at a 2016 referendum where an overall majority in Britain voted to leave.
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Scott's proposed amendment would change the threshold for passage of impeachment articles in the House from a simple majority to a three-fifths majority.
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The GOP, which holds a majority in the Senate, needs 21 more seats in the House to win a majority in the next election.
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The vast majority who could trace both a parent's and grandparent's college experience were white; the vast majority also accumulated little to no debt.
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"In several polls, the temporary immigration ban from seven countries that are majority Muslim has majority support or very close to it," Frankovic says.
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Since 2010, majority-party leaders have generally refused to bring legislation to the floor that does not command a majority of their own party.
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A Democratic-appointed justice who replaces the late Antonin Scalia would tip the ideological balance of the court from majority conservative to majority liberal.
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The Republican Party has our largest majority in the House of Representatives since 1928, and a majority in the Senate holding President Obama accountable.
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The Senate, however, makes its own rules, and a majority of senators could vote to change the rules and allow majority votes to prevail.
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With only a slim 23-48 majority in the House and a 20-19 majority in the Senate, Republicans are facing a tight race.
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The spike was consistent for Christmas in countries that were majority Christian, and about the end of Ramadan for countries that are majority Muslim.
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A majority government can form — that could happen next if May's Conservative party defies the odds and breaks above the majority threshold of 326.
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The countries have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947 divided the Indian subcontinent into Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India.
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" The silent majority: 'No one's looking out for the white guy anymore' Energizing the Trump movement are voters who call themselves the "silent majority.
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Yet the nation's demographic trends continue unabated: The nation will be majority-minority by 2043, according to Census projections, with whites losing majority status.
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Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU by a majority of 56 percent to 44 percent, though was overruled by the U.K. majority.
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While the vast majority of Republicans have already indicated they plan to support or are leaning toward supporting Haspel, the GOP's majority is narrow.
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It is only by unambiguously improving the lives of the majority of Americans that the Democrats can become the majority party America desperately needs.
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In addition, one federal appellate circuit has been flipped from a majority of judges nominated by Democratic presidents to a majority selected by Republicans.
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In majority-white counties, there are an average of 41 financial institution for every 100,000 people compared with 20171 in non-white majority neighborhoods.
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Gun-rights advocates like to point out that the Legislature at the time was not majority Republican, as it is now, but majority Democrat.
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Should Jones win, it will shave Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's slim majority even closer, with a 51-49 split in the upper chamber.
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Republicans, however, enjoy a majority in the Senate, and a majority vote is all that's required to confirm a nominee to the Supreme Court.
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A majority of Republicans in a new poll say Democrats have a sexual harassment problem, while a majority of Democrats say both parties do.
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A majority of people in every state and a majority of voters in both the Republican and Democratic parties support LGBT inclusive nondiscrimination laws.
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That's how President Barack Obama went from a filibuster-proof Senate majority to a slim majority and a Republican house after just two years.
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Of the justices in last week's majority, only Justice Kennedy was in the majority when the court decided the earlier case, Planned Parenthood v.
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The country struggles to provide adequate housing for its black majority when for decades a tiny, white majority owned virtually all the country's land.
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The overwhelming majority of House conservatives — who make up the overwhelming majority of the House Republican Conference — oppose a "legislative fix" for illegal immigrants.
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Finally, because the Democratic electorate is majority white, Iowa and New Hampshire let you know if you're connecting with a majority of Democratic voters.
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Courts have yet to resolve whether the ballot measure can pass with a simple majority of votes, or if needs a two-third majority.
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Much of Trumpism lacks popular appeal, but even if he too represented an ideological majority, that's no guarantee a majority would vote for him.
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Many Democrats sided with the Republican majority in favor of the override, which required a simple majority vote from the House and the Senate.
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The majority of that will be in the form of a half-million dollar ad buy in partnership with the non-profit Patriot Majority.
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Once a political party has decided the path to governing is winning back the majority, not working with the existing majority, the incentives transform.
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A Jones win would also knock the Republican Senate majority down to a razor-thin 51 seats from an already narrow 52-vote majority.
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A vast majority of children in grammar schools were from middle-class backgrounds; a vast majority of poor children were condemned to secondary moderns.
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Even as a majority of the House Democratic Caucus backs impeachment, many of the "majority makers" in swing districts have stayed on the sidelines.
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Four years later, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell pulled the same move to confirm President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominees with a simple majority.
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A bloc does not need majority support in Parliament to form a government; instead, it needs only to avoid a majority vote against it.
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When he is in the majority, which he is around 90 percent of the time, he decides which justice will write the majority opinion.
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Democrats are expected to eat into the GOP's 59-seat majority but fall short of the 30 seats they'd need to win the majority.
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The international community can help transform the Israeli majority that supports a peace process in principle into a majority that believes it is possible.
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Plurality without majority Like Trump, Sanders won't need to get a majority of votes in the primaries and caucuses to win the nomination either.
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There's not even a majority of Democrats in the Senate who support his "Medicare for All" proposal, much less a majority of all senators.
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For example, in 1913, US Circuit Judge Robert Archbald was removed from office by a super majority and then disqualified by a simple majority.
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How McConnell handles this challenge could help determine whether Republicans maintain their Senate majority - and he keeps his position as majority leader - in November.
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Both races are expected to be extremely close and could either lead Democrats to take the Senate majority or help Republicans keep the majority.
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With a 52-seat majority, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
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A provision in state law requires the winning candidate to win both a majority of the vote and a majority of state legislative districts.
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A majority of self-identified Democrats agreed with the scientific consensus while a majority of Republicans said they believed there is disagreement among scientists.
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There is more than majority public support for tighter gun laws in the US, but not majority support for a federal assault weapons ban.
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That is six seats shy of a majority, but it's also significantly closer to the majority than the 192 seats leaning toward the GOP.
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Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is looking at other options: The majority leader has signed onto the effort led by Sen.
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"We would be powerless if we didn't get the majority, but the country gave us the majority in the House of Representatives," he added.
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Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader who wants to be the Senate's majority leader in 2021, wants to get this done and move on.
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McConnell is adept at keeping this slim majority in line, blocking legislation and confirming judges now that doing so requires only a simple majority.
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If he was in the majority, as he is most of the time, he assigned the majority opinion to himself or to another justice.
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"Trump managed to stitch together an electoral college majority while coming millions of votes shy of a majority of the popular vote," Ayres added.
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While a majority of British lawmakers want to avoid a disorderly crash out of the bloc, a majority are also opposed to May's deal.
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Republicans can pass the disapproval measure with a simple majority but do not have the two-thirds majority necessary to overcome a presidential veto.
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The donation will go to the Senate Majority PAC, the main vehicle for the Democratic Party's push to retake the majority in the Senate.
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" Asked if he would support implementing the change on debate time with a simple majority, Shelby snapped his fingers and quipped: "Majority rules, everywhere.
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Hill was one of the "majority makers," flipping a GOP-held seat that contributed to House Democrats' romp back to the majority last year.
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This outcome is unlikely, given the Court's Republican majority and the views expressed by several members of that majority in a similar 2016 case.
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The only certainty, it seems, is that there is always a majority against any possible solutions, and never a majority in favor of them.
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Democrats have a good chance of winning a majority in the Senate and hope to significantly cut into the Republican majority in the House.
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The first will be — and the vast majority will be — ads, and will continue to be ads, and it's ... Majority revenue will be advertising?
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"That is a majority of the GOP who still view it as the responsibility of Democrats, but it is a small majority," Altman says.
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Due in part to extensive U.N. collaboration with Iraqi government officials and other majority-Muslim interest groups, U.N. reconstruction efforts almost entirely favored a majority of returning Muslims who had fled the same conflicts, and Christian properties were often handed over to their majority neighbors.
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Although the majority of British citizens opted to leave the EU in last year's referendum, a majority of Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to stay.
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Andrew Cuomo, as well as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, described the actions as "terrorism" in their statements Wednesday.
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Moreover, Republicans are now in the majority in Wisconsin, so this is no longer a case where the minority is gerrymandering itself into majority control.
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No, I think that it&aposs very likely that the Republicans keep their majority in the Senate or actually maybe expand that authority or majority.
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If a minority of companies generate the majority of returns, nobody is going to cry foul that said companies received the overwhelming majority of funding.
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Not only did a strong majority of Democrats (72 percent) support legalization, but Gallup found that a majority of Republicans (51 percent) did as well.
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As Vox's Tara Golshan wrote, the rule can only be waived with a majority vote — and progressives want to use their majority to junk it.
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Iran is a majority Shiite country, and al-Nimr had advocated for the rights of Shiites in Saudi Arabia, which is a majority Sunni kingdom.
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In 2015 the Conservative Party won 330 seats with only 37% of the total vote, giving it a majority government without an actual electoral majority.
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In shifting the Court from a potential 5 to 4 liberal majority to a 5 to 4 conservative majority, the Republicans effectively stole two votes.
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Regardless of whether Garland's nomination succeeds, the Supreme Court at the end of Obama's time in office will likely remain majority male and majority white.
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Nor, strikingly, does Emanuel get any credit for the fact that without that rickety majority – the only congressional majority Democrats have enjoyed in twenty years!
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Waikwa Wanyoike, a barrister specializing in constitutional law, said the government's majority fell short of the majority needed in both houses to impeach a president.
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With the majority of seats counted in the snap vote, British Prime Minister Theresa May had no way to win an outright majority in parliament.
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Polls suggest that a large majority of Labour voters backed Remain in 2016, and a similar majority now want to stay in the single market.
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That said, the beta versions of iOS and Android should run fine on the majority of devices and with the majority of apps out there.
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Democrats won a majority of the House vote, and though gerrymandering prevented them from securing a majority of House seats, they did pick up eight.
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Republicans hold a majority of the chamber now, and are only one seat away from having a super majority, [and we want to change that].
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"It would have to be a majority vote to stop the talks and it's clear there is no majority at this stage," the official added.
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In the referendum on EU membership last Thursday, a majority in England voted to leave the EU but a majority in Scotland voted to remain.
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When the "majority of the majority" rule is violated, it's usually on must-pass pieces of legislation, like spending bills or emergency disaster relief funding.
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A surprising majority opinion upheld the University of Texas's affirmative action program, and a somewhat less surprising majority opinion struck down Texas's draconian abortion statute.
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Trump was meeting with House Speaker Paul Ryan, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Whip Steve Scalise and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Whip John Cornyn.
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Opponents of the current majority view are then intimidated into silence by law and by the aggressively expressed moral or intellectual superiority of the majority.
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The majority of Star Wars fans are progressives who celebrate diversity In my experience, the majority of Star Wars fans are progressives who celebrate diversity.
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The majority leaders in each chamber, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, both have favorability ratings that are significantly net-negative.
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The majority of the trainers identify as lesbian feminists, but the majority of women who participate don't even identify as feminists when they first arrive.
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The vast majority of the revenue and the vast majority of the profit comes from picking up your trash and putting it in a landfill.
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N) said on Tuesday it would acquire a majority stake in cybersecurity company Optiv Security Inc, which is majority owned by Blackstone Group LP (BX.
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" Chuck Schumer, likely the next majority leader if Democrats win the Senate, has said Sanders will "chair a significant committee if we win the majority.
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That drew national attention to the GOP's 20-19 seat majority in the Senate and its 51-48 seat majority in the House of Delegates.
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"If Republicans proceed, they will ensure that this Republican majority is remembered as the most nakedly partisan, obstructionist and irresponsible majority in history," Reid said.
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Impeachment would require a majority vote from the state's House members and a two-thirds majority to convict during a subsequent Senate trial, AP noted.
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My prediction is that Democrats will keep their majority in the House, Republicans will keep their majority in the Senate, and Trump will be reelected.
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The road to a majority ran through NewDems with 85033 NewDems flipped seats in 2018, so it's up to us to maintain our House majority.
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The GOP enjoys a slim majority in the Senate—with only 52 Republican senators, three "no" votes can sink any legislation passed by simple majority.
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Part of the reason is that McConnell is shepherding a fragile majority in the Senate; Ryan has the largest Republican majority since the Great Depression.
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The vast majority of Democrats, 82 percent, said there is no border emergency while the vast majority of Republicans, 75 percent, said there is one.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and majority whip John Cornyn, along with several more rank-and-file senators, withdrew their endorsements of Moore on Monday.
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China claims sovereignty over the vast majority of the South China Sea, claims rejected by the US and the majority of countries in the region.
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The whole point of being majority leader is to wield the power of the majority party in the upper chamber to get key bills passed.
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But the group with the most independent expenditures in the third quarter was Majority Forward, a liberal nonprofit connected to the Democratic Senate Majority PAC.
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Reconciliation allows a majority party to pass legislation on a majority basis in the Senate, far easier than the 60-vote threshold most legislation requires.
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But, in 28503, Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) began threatening to use questionable parliamentary maneuvers by the majority to twist the Senate's rules.
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Steny Hoyer, 79, is in line to become the Democratic majority leader, and James Clyburn, 78, to hold the No. 3 post of majority whip.
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But here's a dream scenario for Jordan: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (La.) both run for Ryan's job.
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For their top House leadership, the party chose Pelosi, 183, as speaker; Steny Hoyer, 79, as Majority Leader and James Clyburn, 78, as Majority Whip.
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And the city — with its Anglophone minority and Francophone majority surrounded by an Anglophone majority in the rest of the country — itself remains somewhat bifurcated.
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She was the senior justice in the majority in a major antitrust case against Apple, which gave her the power to assign the majority opinion.
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Senate rules require a super-majority of 60 votes in the 100-seat chamber to pass spending bills, and Republicans have a 52-48 majority.
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Ms. Pelosi's longtime No. 2, Mr. Hoyer said on Wednesday that he would run for majority leader, his old post in the last Democratic majority.
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He wrote the majority opinion in Citizens United, which allowed unlimited campaign spending by corporations and unions, and he joined the majority in Bush v.
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House Republicans have been retiring in droves since losing the majority last fall, a sign they're not bullish about returning to the majority next year.
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He was part of the conservative majority that last year upheld Trump's travel ban on people entering the United States from several Muslim-majority countries.
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Views on teachers' unions showed a clear partisan split, with a majority of Democrats in favor of unions and a majority of Republicans opposing them.
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A 55-percent majority said their opinion of Obama was not a factor, but a 69-percent majority expect Clinton to mainly continue Obama's policies.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Majority Whip John Cornyn, and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Cory Gardner all declared that Flake had their full support.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently said he was uncertain whether he could find a majority to move a health care bill through his chamber.
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It's a pretty basic idea: If the vast majority of Americans support a policy, it shouldn't require more than a simple majority in the Senate.
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Since African-Americans represented a majority or near majority in many of the post-Confederate states, Southern Democrats viewed their enfranchisement as an existential threat.
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But other legal experts say Roberts doesn&apost have the authority to overrule a majority of the Senate under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell&aposs rules.
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Said another way, an emerging Hispanic majority only has political impact if those in that emerging majority make their voices heard at the ballot box.
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He didn't get all that he wanted, but after all, Clinton won the majority of delegates (both pledged and super) and the majority popular vote.
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Impeachment requires a simple majority in the 435-member House but conviction demands the support of a two-thirds majority in the 100-member Senate.
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A vote of four justices is usually not enough to constitute a majority, and a majority vote is needed to establish binding Supreme Court precedent.
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Only a simple majority, 51 senators, must agree to set these terms, so Republicans, who hold the Senate majority, come in with a clear advantage.
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They need a majority of votes to change the trial procedures, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican from Kentucky, has staunchly resisted Democrats' demands.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, among other lawmakers, urged Paul to allow a vote.
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His former chief of staff, Mark Critz, held onto to it (barely), but the state's delegation went from majority Democrat to majority Republican 12-7.
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Republicans hold overwhelming advantages in both houses, with a 73-23 majority in the House of Representatives and 28-5 majority in the State Senate.
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A slight majority of them agree that whites face as much discrimination as minorities, and an even narrower majority support building Trump's proposed border wall.
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"I am disappointed that Democrats will not be in the majority next year," Mike Gronstal, the state Democratic Senate majority leader, said in a statement.
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Saudi Arabia, which like Pakistan is a majority-Sunni country, is fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen, which Riyadh says are backed by Shiite-majority Iran.
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Among those present were House Speaker Carl Albert (D-Okla.), House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.) and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.).
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Impeachment requires a simple majority to pass the House, but removal of the president from office further requires a two-thirds majority in the Senate.
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Defying early expectations, Democrats managed to seize a five-seat majority in the House of Representatives and a two-seat majority in the US Senate.
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It is expected to secure another parliamentary majority this week, but analysts predict that majority could fall, despite Ramaphosa's efforts to clean up the party's image.
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With any disruptive technology, the classic adoption curve usually holds true: innovators first, followed by early adopters, early majority, late majority and, finally, laggards … your grandma.
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The development plunges U.K. politics into crisis: While there's a clear majority against the government's plans, there's no evident majority in favor of a specific alternative.
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From now on a president's appointments to the court will be confirmed by a simple majority, rather than the three-fifths majority required by a filibuster.
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Although Democrats may well win a majority in the House, a two-thirds majority in the Senate—the threshold required to remove a president—looks unachievable.
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Critics in the "silent majority" Standing in sharp contrast on the other side are members of the self-dubbed "silent majority" -- people who oppose the unrest.
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But Democrats' narrow majority in the House, combined with Republicans' expanded majority in the Senate, means that any major legislative priority will still need bipartisan support.
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Whites are still a majority in what were classic white-flight places, but a smaller one: Cobb, once a reactionary bastion, will soon be "majority-minority".
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The vast majority of people in Puerto Rico are still without power and cell service, and the majority of the island's residents don't have potable water.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) thinks Democrats should end the filibuster if they regain the majority in the US Senate, and pass legislation by majority rule.
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Both Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican House Majority Leader Paul Ryan have said they believe Moore's accusers and that he should stand down.
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A majority of that revenue comes from ads, a majority of that ad revenue is search-based advertising powered by Google's AdWords, AdSense, and DoubleClick technologies.
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That is despite the fact that Republicans have only a slim majority in the Senate, which would have to approve the nominee by a simple majority.
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Historically overlooked by national Democrats, local legislatures have been under Republican control in a majority of states since 2010 (a majority they expanded on in 2014).
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is seeking to use procedural rules that would allow Republicans to pass a healthcare bill with a simple majority in the.
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Anyway, in 1917, Senators changed the rules, adding "cloture" and enabling the majority to cut off debate with a two-thirds majority, or usually 67 senators.
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However, the majority party can still get around it by changing the rules and requiring only a simple majority, or 222017 votes, to end the debate.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, should he proceed to the nuclear option, needs only a simple majority of 51 to vote for a change in rules.
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Under this plan, three districts are majority Republican and the party would represent a majority of the state in terms of voting power in the House.
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That's a slim majority of 50.8 percent women, but it's the first time in the country's history that a legislature has a majority of female lawmakers.
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Kashmir — caught in a territorial dispute between Hindu-majority India, which controls much of the territory, and Muslim-majority Pakistan — has endured brutal conflict for decades.
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Freeport Luxembourg is majority owned by the Swiss businessman and art dealer Yves Bouvier, who also owns majority stakes in the freeports of Singapore and Geneva.
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Whereas majority ruled in the House, the filibuster not only gave members of the minority real power but also incentivized bipartisan cooperation by the majority party.
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But I think for the vast majority of universities and the vast majority of applicants, I think they know that that is not what is happening.
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Procedurally, unlike the two-thirds majority vote required by the suspension calendar for passage, the Article One calendar would require a simple majority vote for passage.
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The reason is because under reconciliation, only a simple majority is needed in the Senate, and with a simple majority, only Republicans are needed for passage.
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The overwhelming majority of Democrats would blame President Trump for weakening the ACA; the overwhelming majority of Republicans would blame Democrats for writing a flawed law.
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As Espinoza points out, Boyle Heights is a majority-renter community, and in majority-renter communities, plans for new public parks, urban gardening, subway stops, etc.
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One of the changes to the tribunal means that all verdicts need to be approved by a two-thirds majority, rather than just a simple majority.
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Republicans are willing to keep the legislative filibuster while they are in the majority so that Democrats do the same when they are in the majority.
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Under Mississippi's constitution, statewide officers must win a majority of the popular vote and a majority of the 122 districts comprising the state's House of Representatives.
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The new Democratic majority will be sworn in in January, giving Trump a few weeks to attempt to pass wall funding through the outgoing Republican majority.
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In December, Poland adopted a new law that requires a two-thirds majority by the constitutional court—rather than a simple majority—to overturn PiS policies.
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Impeachment would require a majority vote by the House — a possibility with a Democratic majority, though leadership in the party have been cautious on the topic.
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Democrats need to pick up 23 seats to take the majority in the House, and must gain two seats in the Senate to secure a majority.
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But I also understand that the majority of e-cig consumers are ex-cigarette users, so the majority are not keen on this kind of flavor.
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Going into the election, Republicans had maintained a small majority of 20-19 in the Senate as well as a 51-48 majority in the House.
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The majority of the American people, that majority that did not support President Trump, are experiencing considerable angst over perceptions of disarray in the West Wing.
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Both the NFL and the NBA are sports in which the vast majority of the players are black and the vast majority of owners are white.
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And opposition to future Supreme Court nominees will be less vitriolic unless there is sufficient defection within the majority party to risk reaching the majority threshold.
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Senate Republicans will increase the size of their majority as a result of the contests, but Democrats will have a majority of the House next year.
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As the GOP's Senate majority hangs in the balance, here is the inspiring message from Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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Chris Christie of New Jersey; Donald J. Trump's son Donald Jr.; Ben Carson; Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader; Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader; Gov.
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The Maryland case was about a Democratic gerrymander, where the Democratic legislature redrew one district from performing majority-Republican to majority-Democrat to sustain its dominance.
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Four years later, Reagan repeated the Goldwater and Nixon formula, rechristening the "forgotten American" and "silent majority" as the "moral majority," and won in a landslide.
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"While there may be no clear majority in parliament for any specific Brexit proposal, there is a majority to avoid the no deal outcome," it said.
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It shows how desperate the case for Brexit has become: Leavers have lost their majority in parliament and are no longer a majority of all voters.
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Revising the constitution requires a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament plus a simple majority in a public referendum, a hurdle never yet cleared.
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Ivanka Trump had been working with top GOP lawmakers — including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and Sen.
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The President's nominee, however, only needs a simple majority of 51 votes to be confirmed in the Senate, which already has a 52-48 Republican majority.
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Democrats need to pick up 23 seats in the House to secure a majority, and must gain two seats in the Senate for a majority there.
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Today, a "majority of the majority" (often a small minority) can completely block action that is favored by most House members and by the other branches.
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Residents in majority white ZIP codes in Dallas enjoy significantly more years of life than residents in ZIP codes where the majority of residents are black.
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In the end, the Senate select committee issued a bipartisan majority report signed by all of the Democratic senators and a majority of the Republican senators.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has previously said he does not think the GOP-majority Senate could pass a welfare reform bill on a partisan basis.
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We have winner-take-all electoral institutions oriented around the principle of majority rule, and compromise-oriented political institutions the framers designed to prevent majority tyranny.
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McConnell is currently the majority leader of the Senate, but he's already demonstrated you don't need to be in the majority to have real power there.
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It has been caught up in a longstanding, often brutal territorial dispute between Hindu-majority India, which controls much of the region, and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
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Center Point, Pleasant Grove and the others listed next to the girl all had large black populations — some had shifted from majority white to majority black.
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And women voters appreciated it: Warren was the only 2020 candidate with a majority of women donors and a majority amount of cash raised from women.
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A simple majority is required for ratification, but it must include a majority of skilled-trades workers — the electricians and other technical specialists who maintain machinery.
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A unitary state would no longer be Jewish if a majority Arab population controlled it, nor a democracy if a Jewish minority ruled an Arab majority.
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Mr. Bustillos, 64, who grew up in Fairmead, said the transformation from majority black to majority Latino came with significant tensions in the 1980s and 1990s.
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"It's one of the only fitness classes I've come to that's majority people of color, majority people from the neighborhood," said Amber Fares, a documentary filmmaker.
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For example, polling tells us that an overwhelming majority of Americans, including a majority of self-identified Republicans, want to see pollution regulation strengthened, not weakened.
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Women make up the majority of voters in nearly all recent elections, earn the majority of higher degrees, and are experiencing a record-low unemployment rate.
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"From a personal experience, I saw 'Black Panther' in two settings: one in a majority black audience and one in a majority white audience," she recalled.
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In an interview, Mr. Efromovich said that while his Synergy Group had a majority stake in Avianca, he was no longer a majority owner of Synergy.
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It can also weaken the grip of the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, on his slim two-vote majority when he tries to empower Mr. Trump.
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Clinton's popular vote margin showed, there is still a new American majority made up of a meaningful minority of whites and an overwhelming majority of minorities.
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The vast majority of Filipinos are Christian, but Mindanao has a larger proportion of Muslims and Islam is followed by the vast majority in Marawi City.
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The majority in Congress is expected to put the Planned Parenthood ban into a budget bill that will only require a majority vote to end funding.
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"A victory here won't tell us about getting to the majority, it will tell us about how far into the majority Democrats might get," he said.
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Under the Hastert Rule, the speaker won't allow a vote on legislation unless it has the support of a "majority of the majority" in the House.
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"If we win back the majority and we don't stay focused on what people want us to stay focused on, that majority will be short lived."
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T.C. Williams High School was created in 1965 as the only high school for the county, combining schools that were previously majority-white or majority-black.
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The Trump voters who still like Trump aren't a majority, but to assemble a majority, you do need to rope them all together, and that's tough.
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But the problem wasn't that Congress didn't possess these transactional tools; it's that a majority of the members, primarily in the majority party, didn't want them.
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"A 'no' vote on civil rights certainly indicates," he said, "that Goldwater's views in this vital area are not in accord with the sentiment of the majority of the public, the majority of Republicans, the majority of Congress..." Governor Romney had strong support from his colleagues.
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It has 32 employees at its offices near Grand Central, and Chastel noted to me that a majority of employees and a majority of managers are women.
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He can only be removed from office if a majority of the House votes to impeach and a two-thirds majority of the Senate votes to convict.
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Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion, explained why the majority felt it needed to overrule precedent -- a case called Williamson County decided in 1985.
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Whatever would it probably is realistically going to take is the majority of the country, not just the majority of Democrats thinking that Trump should be impeached.
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Also Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement directed at Trump that there's a veto-proof majority in the Senate that disagrees with him.
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Kennedy regularly sought out such a path in cases with no strong majority in an attempt to put off a significant constitutional decision with a narrow majority.
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But in politics you need a majority, and it doesn't seem to be the case that the majority is feeling some historically anomalous level of economic discontent.
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On September 12th the municipality of Gracanica, a Serbian-majority area in Kosovo, voted to hand over part of its territory to a neighbouring Albanian-majority district.
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The resolution to appoint Wendy Lane was rejected with a majority of 56.2%, while the one to appoint Jesper Brandgaard was rejected with a majority of 65.74%.
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A majority of them were kidnappings, however, rather than the oil tanker hijackings for cargo theft that accounted for the majority of piracy assaults in previous years.
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What is clear is that the Alabama preemption law amounts to state-mandated wage suppression by an all-white majority of lawmakers against a majority black city.
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If Trump wins, it will be because Americans prefer a candidate a majority believes to be unqualified to a candidate that a majority believes they can't trust.
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Though such a step is backed by a majority of Americans (a majority also supports a ban on assault weapons) Senate Republicans will almost certainly block it.
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This narrative about Black voters "saving" Alabama would imply that majority of white voters--the majority of people in the state--wanted to be "saved" from Moore.
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A majority of legislators probably support these, but tax increases require a two-thirds majority of the legislature—thanks to another ballot measure, Prop 13 in 1978.
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And significant doubts seem to remain within the Republican conference that a solution exists on healthcare that could secure a majority of the majority in the House.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, should he proceed to the nuclear option, needs only a simple majority of 51 to vote for a change in the rules.
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Update 8/25: This post has been corrected to clarify Sanders has a majority of support from the overall electorate, rather than a majority within each party.
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Foa obtained a majority of the votes in the committee that oversees RAI, but did not get the necessary two-thirds majority, with Forza Italia lawmakers abstaining.
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Majority Leader McCarthy and his tech guru, Matt Lira, kept a close eye on the bill's progress until it ultimately passed by an overwhelming majority — 386-85033.
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Senate Majority PAC, a group dedicated to ensuring Democrats regain majority control of the Senate, is launching a $1 million ad today in support of Wisconsin Sen.
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Similar voter turnout increases were reported for majority-Hispanic precincts in Weld and Pueblo Counties, as we summarize for 2202 majority-Hispanic precincts in the table below.
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A win for the GOP in Mississippi would further pad the party's majority in the Senate, even as Democrats have taken a solid majority in the House.
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As of Tuesday night, she had succeeded in winning a majority of pledged delegates, a majority of the states that have held primaries, and the popular vote.
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The closely held GOP majority in the Senate — and now a Democratic majority in the House — has cut off efforts to do so in Congress under Trump.
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A significant majority of the Muirfield Golf Club's members wanted to open the doors, but the measure fell 35 votes short of the required two-thirds majority.
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Starting impeachment proceedings seems unlikely to end in a Senate conviction given the two-thirds majority needed in a body Republicans control with a 2202-2628 majority.
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While Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate, flipping several Democratic-held seats, Democrats won a majority in the House of Representatives, gaining back key oversight powers.
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"You have to make the assumption that the speaker put out a plant that was agreed to by the majority of the majority," Meadows told reporters Wednesday.
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Democrats need to pick up 23 seats in the House to reclaim the majority, and must gain two seats in the Senate to secure a majority there.
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If he were to be successful in securing a majority for his government, then it is clear that there would be a majority in Parliament for Brexit.
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The polls currently indicate that such a vote could hand the Conservative party a slim majority, which is currently paralysed with a working majority of minus 45.
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One majority that emerges is that most people see the travel ban for what the majority in the Supreme Court says it isn't -- a ban on Muslims.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned on Tuesday that Republicans will be facing a "storm" in November, including in the fight for the Senate majority.
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According to Morning Consult, Hogan's super-majority approval rating is second only to the governor of Massachusetts, despite the two-to-one majority Democrats enjoy in Maryland.
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Getting a majority in the Senate is critical, lest we see the Supreme Court fall into the hands of a radical-right majority for generations to come.
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Democrats hold a 20-19 majority in Virginia's Senate, while Republicans have a 51-48 majority in the House of Delegates, with one vacancy in each chamber.
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The Democrats who survived the slaughter were concentrated in New England and the West Coast, big cities and college towns, and majority black or majority Latino districts.
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Though the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has not scheduled a vote yet, the measure is expected to pass that chamber easily, with a veto-proof majority.
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Though neither Trump nor Clinton won over a majority of white women, Clinton vastly outperformed Trump among nonwhite women, by a whopping majority of 28503-22019 percent.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana are among the contenders congressional observers see as most likely to replace Ryan.
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House aides said they expected a floor vote Tuesday in the Democratic-majority House; the Republican-majority Senate is also expected to take up its version soon.
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"The majority of the world, or the majority of Americans, think that we're a group of idiots who didn't get it right," Crawford says in the documentary.
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The Supreme Court, by a 5-4 majority, upheld the travel ban because the majority refused to second-guess the President on a claim of national security.
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The general public strongly disapproves — by a 2-1 majority, according to Quinnipiac, although the majority would be even bigger if people really understood what's going on.
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"Women make up the majority of college grads and nearly the majority of family breadwinners," said Reshma Saujani, the founder and chief executive of Girls Who Code.
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Party leaders can also point to the fact that they still control the majority of state legislatures and will likely still hold a majority in the House.
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The entire state legislature was on the ballot too, with Republicans hoping to defend their four-seat state Senate majority and their 10-seat state House majority.
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These are the majority-black and -brown localities deprived by majority white state legislatures of the authority to enact local ordinances raising the wages of its residents.
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"The vice president's tireless efforts to protect the majority in the House and expand our majority in the Senate are essential to our legislative agenda," he said.
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Despite some Republican support in the Senate, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opposes the measure, which is unlikely to win enough votes for a veto-proof majority.
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Honestly, there's no need to cherrypick this stuff; the numbers this year have been lackluster at best for a majority of companies in a majority of markets.
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ET. In the early hours of Wednesday, the Republican-majority chamber voted along party lines to adopt a resolution from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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The Muslim-majority nation has drifted in a conservative direction, but one Aceh politician says that "a silent majority" thinks the local government has gone too far.
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Estimates show a slight majority against legalization in the lower chamber and a larger majority against in the Senate, but undecided lawmakers could still swing the vote.
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Modi, analysts say, has moved decisively, including withdrawing special rights for Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir state, and consolidating the BJP's hold over India's Hindu-majority electorate.
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"We need to listen to each other, no matter who takes the majority," Stivers said, adding that he thought the GOP could hold onto the House majority.
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The move to what became known as the 26-22 map eliminated one Hispanic-majority district and prevented Latino-backed candidates from winning a City Council majority.
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"My constituency, the majority of them are Republicans, but the biggest majority of them are people who really vote for people because of their individuality," he said.
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In twenty-seven states, Democrats held the majority of seats in both houses of the legislature, and in six more they held a majority in one house.
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The Senate Majority leader's expert and controversial handling of nominations to the top bench has done more than any other single factor to enshrine a conservative majority.
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Critics dismiss this view however because the pro-secession camp, while winning a majority of seats, fell short of winning a majority of votes in the election.
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"The way that impeachment stops is with a Senate majority with me as majority leader," McConnell said in a video fundraising solicitation for his 2020 reelection campaign.
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This willful ignorance is one reason why a majority of Americans might be shocked at what happened in Charlottesville but the majority of black Americans probably aren't.
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All indications were that it had majority support in the House of Representatives, but then-Speaker John Boehner wouldn't allow it to come to the floor due to the Hastert Rule (which holds that only bills supported by a majority of the majority party's members get a vote).
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But Republicans, particularly the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, appear to be gambling that their majority in the House is already in tatters, and that it is worth trading for a legacy-making appointment to the Supreme Court and the chance to retain their 51-to-49 Senate majority.
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Gains in the event of a Conservative majority are expected to be less pronounced, since this is largely priced in, according to ING's analysts, who expect the pound to rise to $1.35 in the event of a large Conservative majority and $1.33 in the event of a slender majority.
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Before and after the 2016 election, Republicans held a majority in the Senate, giving Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky broad control over confirmation hearings and votes.
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Democrats won a majority in the House, and are projected to gain at least 39 seats, while Republicans will expand their majority in the Senate, adding two seats.
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News reports say the majority white Raleigh White Baptist agreed in 2015 to share its building with the majority black New Seasons Church, which outgrew it in size.
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Gray also gave $600,000 to the Senate Majority PAC, a group dedicated to helping Democrats win the majority in the U.S. Senate, according to Federal Election Commission records.
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A just solution to the conflict with the Palestinians is seen as a precondition for the majority of Arab and Muslim-majority nations to normalize ties with Israel.
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And if we can't speak the language of Iowa or Michigan or Wisconsin, even if you get an electoral majority you're never going to have a governing majority.
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But the resolution to appoint Lane was rejected with a majority of 56.2 percent, while the one to appoint Brandgaard was rejected with a majority of 65.74 percent.
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A convention is contested if no candidate has a majority of delegates going into the convention, but wins a majority of delegates on the first round of balloting.
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Narrow majorities of popular support translate into big majorities of seats for Republicans, while a larger majority of votes translates into a narrower majority of seats for Democrats.
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Republicans have just a 52-48 Senate majority and will need support from essentially all of their senators to pass the legislation with a simple, 51-vote majority.
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I'm speaking from a different perspective in time; I grew up in a very racially diverse place and it wasn't majority white, but it also wasn't majority Black.
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The elections give Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull a chance to increase his conservative coalition&aposs single-seat majority in the House, where parties need a majority to govern.
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Public opinion has reflected that a majority or close to a majority of the public has continued to approve of Mueller, despite the constant attacks from the President.
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Although Google did not break out what group made up the majority of its 2015 hires, my bet is that the majority of hires last year were white.
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A candidate is ranked above another when his or her majority-grade is better or, if both have the same majority-grade, according to their gauges (see below).
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Fliers circulated by the committee's Republican majority contain patently false information about the USA RIGHTS Act, as seen below:A flier circulated by the House Intelligence Committee's majority office.
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Clinton will likely reach a majority of both voter-driven pledged delegates and unbound superdelegates, but she'll need both in order to reach a majority of total delegates.
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The entire subcontinent was partitioned into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan, which led to a mass displacement as people migrated from one country to the other.
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In 2013, when Democrats held the Senate majority, they changed the chamber's rules to only require a simple majority for non-Supreme Court judicial nominations and Cabinet officials.
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In 2013, when Democrats held the Senate majority, they changed the chamber's rules to require only a simple majority for non-Supreme Court judicial nominations and Cabinet officials.
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At the state level, a candidate boasting an outright majority will earn 14 delegates; in the absence of a majority winner, the party will allocate those delegates proportionately.
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If you reject the majority of scientists who say climate change is happening, you also need to believe in a conspiracy forcing the majority of scientists to lie.
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These Democratic presidential candidates haven't won a majority of the white vote in modern history, but time and again they get a clear majority of the black vote.
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About three-quarters of Parliament members opposed leaving the union, including the overwhelming majority of Labour members and a smaller majority of members from the governing Conservative Party.
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Republicans take solace in a Senate map that bolsters their chances of growing a narrow majority, though Democrats also hope to break through and win the Senate majority.
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Analysts think Democrats are likely to win a majority in the House, while Republicans are expected to maintain or possibly expand their 51-49 majority in the Senate.
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The changes also allow individual and corporate income tax rate hikes to be adopted by a simple majority vote, scrapping the previous requirement of a three-fifths majority.
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In the Senate majority, however, Republicans plan to use their power in the Senate majority to shine a spotlight on topics that Democrats seem eager to avoid. Sen.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) sidestepped a question Tuesday on whether a bill would come to the floor only if a majority of Republicans back it.
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The bill, rejected on Tuesday under a rule that required a two-thirds majority in favor, could come up again under a rule requiring only a simple majority.
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The impeachment motion required a two-thirds majority vote to pass, but the ruling party has a comfortable majority in the Assembly, with 249 of the 400 seats.
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Their narrow 85033-49 majority during the previous Congress left them unable to use the "nuclear option" to force through the rules change with only a simple majority.
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Poll after poll suggests that the vast majority of Americans (between 83 to 85033% - including a strong majority of NRA members) support strengthening background checks on gun purchases.
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If someone votes "present," that doesn't count as part of the total that determines what constitutes a majority and would instead lower the threshold to reach a majority.
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"I think we will win the majority of the Senate," said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, who would become majority leader if that comes to pass.
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Objectively the probability that Sanders wins a majority of elected delegates is 1 percent and the probability that Clinton wins a majority of elected delegates is 99 percent.
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The expanded Senate majority could make it easier for Trump to confirm a new attorney general, who will need a majority of votes in the 100-seat chamber.
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Aside from his brother, Pence has also picked up key GOP endorsements form House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana.
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Neumann dominates We. He has majority control of the company despite not having a majority economic interest in it, thanks to shares that give him extra voting power.
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"What you're seeing is a situation much like Ferguson and other places where you have a majority-white force policing a majority-black city," said Donney Rose, 35.
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If the Senate Republican majority shrinks by one seat — giving them a razor thin 51-21625 majority — it will give more leverage to GOP moderates such as Sens.
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If one individual gets a majority of the vote, they've won the election; if no one claims a majority, a runoff of the top two contenders goes on.
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After the final vote was gaveled, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell went down his row and gave soft high fives to Majority Whip John Cornyn and two aides.
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The terrorist group aims to impose a stricter enforcement of Sharia law across Africa's most populous nation, which has a Christian-majority south and a Muslim-majority north.
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A filibuster requires a super-majority of 60 votes in the 100-seat Senate to proceed to a simple majority vote on a Supreme Court nominee or legislation.
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Still, the road to Democrats' new House majority mostly ran through cities and suburbs, while Republicans held on to the vast majority of rural districts they were defending.
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But the court ruled that the fact that the majority of the countries included in the ban had majority-Muslim populations wasn't enough to prove discrimination against Muslims.
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In 2015, voters here approved same-sex marriage in the national referendum by a narrow majority of 50.65 percent, compared to the landslide majority of 62 percent overall.
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By the numbers: An overwhelming majority of Republicans believe it is inappropriate to do at 88%, but a majority of Democrats say the protests are appropriate at 72%.
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Republicans are looking to hold onto their majority in the upper chamber, after Democrats only flipped six House seats in 2016 and barely cut into their historic majority.
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She pointed out that Quebec had an English minority surrounded by a French majority, who were themselves eclipsed by an English majority in the rest of the country.
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In Stirling, for example, where an SNP majority of 10,480 in 2015 gave way to a Conservative majority of 148 in 2017, only about a third voted Leave.
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India and Pakistan have gone to war four times since 21998, when Britain partitioned what had been a single colony into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
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This helped feed chaos in Parliament, where there might be a slight majority for some fuzzy idea of Brexit, but no majority for any of the actual plans.
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In Nevada's next session, women will hold a majority overall, owing to their numbers in the Assembly, though they are short of a majority in the Senate itself.
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He urged the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, to use the "nuclear option" to allow Republicans to overcome a Democratic filibuster and pass legislation with a simple majority.
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He can only be permanently removed from office if a majority of the House votes to impeach and a two-thirds majority of the Senate votes to convict.
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The most populous Muslim-majority nation in the world, Indonesia is a vibrant democracy in which the vast majority of people follow a moderate form of the faith.
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The vast majority, vast, vast majority of children who are in the care of H.H.S. right now — 10,3143 of the 12,000 — were sent here alone by their parents.
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Saudi Arabia, a Sunni-majority country, sees Shiite-majority Iran as its chief rival for regional influence and has enlisted Mr. Trump in its efforts to constrain Iran.
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Once in the majority, the Democrats would need to calibrate their progressive agenda carefully to avoid alienating those swing voters and losing their majority again, Mr. Gyory said.
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Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, did not consider him a central player, Republican aides who do not work for the majority leader said.
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The Senate Majority PAC, the largest outside group backing Democratic Senate candidates, reported hauling in $6900 million in 2628, while the House Majority PAC pulled in $28503 million.
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Independent voters had flipped within a few weeks from majority opposition to such an inquiry (6900 percent to 2628 percent) to majority support (28503 percent to 22019 percent).
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Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in an interview he hopes Republicans can keep the majority in the Senate, acknowledging it might be a tough midterms.
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Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, the majority whip, told reporters after the failed amendment votes that he does not see the issue of immigration being raised again soon.
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While impeaching the President only requires a majority vote in the House, removal requires a two-thirds majority (85033 votes or more) in the Senate – an absolute impossibility.
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The Conservatives, despite losing 252 seats and their majority, won 248 percent of the vote, 22015 percent higher than in 21950, when David Cameron won a surprising majority.
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The vast majority of my extended family has seen little variance in their lives, but the majority of them have chosen us over stereotype, and love over rejection.
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Among the groups seeking to get their money back is the House Majority PAC, a super PAC focused on keeping a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.
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We're very gratified with the construct the majority leader and the Senate majority has agreed upon in order to actually conduct this trial when the trial actually starts.
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Or the fact that in just six of the 32 nations polled a majority or close to a majority expressed confidence in Trump's ability to handle world affairs.
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Democrats in November flipped 40 House seats to secure a majority in the lower chamber, while Republicans picked up two seats in the Senate to expand their majority.
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The vast majority of Trump's 2016 voters were people who also backed Mitt Romney in 2012, and the vast majority of them backed down-ballot Republicans in 2018.
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It is those voters who propelled the party to their last congressional majority, in the 28500 elections — and who sent the Democratic majority packing in the 6900 elections.
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At present, instead of the narrow majority in favor of Brexit in the referendum two years ago, there would now be a narrow majority for reversing that vote.
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A large minority of them want a left-winger like Sanders or Warren but the majority do not, and that more moderate majority sees Biden as their champion.
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A significant bipartisan majority backed the bill in the House, which might push Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.
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A union would need to win over the votes of a majority of its members — rather than simply a majority of those who cast ballots — to win recertification.
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"I believe this is the first time in a long time that a majority government is winning a second term with a majority," Modi said, as campaigning ended.
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Some of the network's donors privately tell us that the House majority looks like a lost cause, potentially accelerating the movement of money toward protecting the Senate majority.
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Though both parties were well short of a majority in the 120-seat parliament, the polls showed Likud and its religious and nationalist allies controlling a solid majority.
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India and Pakistan have gone to war four times since 1947, when Britain partitioned what had been a single colony into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
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It took Democrats winning back the House majority, Speaker Nancy Pelosi prioritizing a vote, and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to defend the resolution against bad-faith Republican amendments.
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"The proclamation covers different countries than the prior orders: it removes one majority-Muslim country; adds other countries, some of which are not majority-Muslim; and excludes various nonimmigrant travelers from all but one of the majority-Muslim countries," Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote in his request to the court.
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The gathering is expected to include Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and their top deputies, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, the sources said, though the list of attendees has not been finalized.
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Trump's majority disapproval rating comes after a tumultuous first week in office that was capped off with his widely protested executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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Boehringer said the committee the AfD's scope for blocking anything would be limited, given that the parties that have a governing majority also have a majority in the committee.
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"GEWÄHLT ist gewählt und Mehrheit ist Mehrheit," goes a saying in German politics coined by Gerhard Schröder, the former chancellor: "elected is elected and a majority is a majority".
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In other cases the trends may be more immediately relevant: the majority of patients with kidney diseases are female, but the majority of those used in studies are male.
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House Majority Whip shot at a GOP baseball practice in Virginia House Majority Whip shot at a GOP baseball practice in Virginia UPDATED: June 230, 211:215 p.m. Rep.
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