Senate Democrats in a sentence

Senate Democrats agreed to fund the government through Feb. 8 in exchange for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s promise that the Senate will take up an immigration bill in the next two weeks.

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (C) walks to a meeting with Senate Democrats as the Senate continues work on ending the government shutdown in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 22 January 2018.

Dole hoped to use his long experience in Senate procedures to maximize publicity from his rare positioning as Senate Majority Leader against an incumbent President but was stymied by Senate Democrats.

It would also be difficult for Biden and Senate Democrats would be able to name and confirm a successor so quickly, particularly given Democrats’ razor-thin 51-seat majority in the chamber.

It’s a strategy the Democrats will rely on as the next shutdown deadline, Feb. 15, nears, and as Senate Democrats use their minority status as leverage to align with Pelosi’s House majority on various fronts.

Brown is seeking a fourth term in the Senate and is among the three Senate Democrats most targeted by Republicans, alongside Sens.

New York State Senate Democrats eventually found LaSalle to be too conservative, causing a major rift in Hochul’s own party; Hochul, a moderate Democrat herself, was pitted against both the left wing of her party and the Senate at large.

SB 919 is one of the hundreds of bills that Senate Democrats rescued by negotiating an end to the Senate Republican walkout.

The Democratic advantage in the Senate is already vanishingly small — there are currently 49 Senate Democrats, who work with two independents who caucus with the majority party — and there are several incumbents running next year in GOP-friendly states.

What had been a dismal outlook for Senate Democrats has shifted dramatically in the short time since Harris took hold of the party, sending asurge of enthusiasm, donors and volunteersto the Senate races.

In a letter to his colleagues late Saturday, the Senate minority leader laid out how Senate Democrats will try to build opposition to Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

In an act of protest, Senate Democrats forced the Senate Friday to go into a rare closed door session, which lasted about 20 minutes and ended after a party-line vote.

It was blocked on the floor of the Senate by our Senate Democrats,” Ernst said.

So far, negative ads run against Dornink by Senate Democrats have largely criticized the Republican for $600 in donations made to Roy Moore, a Republican who lost a race for U.S. Senate in Alabama in 2017.

The Senate Democrats and Republicans in both the House and Senate already limit their leaders’ terms through legislative rules.

All 12 Senate Democrats have said they would not support his nomination, which means they have enough votes to block his confirmation if it reaches the Senate floor.

Senate Democrats used Mueller’s testimony to make a renewed push for passing legislation in the GOP-controlled Senate, but they were rebuffed by Republicans who blocked various bills.

Thurston’s comments came as Senate Democrats spent more than an hour learning about the bill (HB 7089) and developing a strategy for when the legislation comes up on the Senate floor Tuesday.

For another, I’m not aware of any Senate Democrats arguing “publicly” that they hope to take back the Senate in order to block any and all presidential Supreme Court nominees from being confirmed.

Senate Democrats are also opposing Hartnett White and produced a video, which Delaware Sen. Tom Carper told us they have been showing to Senate Republicans to convince them to vote against her.