Senior figures in Congress have been questioning its every move and threatening to take more formal legislative control over its actions.
"It's never over, " said one veteran Democratic assemblyman, one of several men and women in the conference who would speak only on the condition of anonymity because closed-door discussions aren't supposed to be revealed and because legislative leaders control resources and legislation and can end careers.
In the 2010 mid-terms Democrats lost 63 House seats, six Senate seats, six governorships and a whopping 680 seats in state legislatures, giving Republicans bicameral legislative and executive control in 15 states and the biggest tally of state legislators since 1928.
In order for a budget agreement to become law, right -- the Republicans don't control both the executive branch and the legislative branch, and the Democrats don't control both.
As speaker of the state house, Feeney has full control of the legislative agenda, and nothing becomes law without his approval.
"We are New Englanders, change doesn't come easy, " said Rep. Craig Miner, the Republican co-chairman of a legislative task force on gun control.
While Clinton has incurred the ire of his own party's liberal wing for his willingness to sign GOP welfare reform legislation, Democrats, perhaps spooked by the prospect of Republicans in control of both legislative and executives branches, have rallied around their leader.
The court at the same time is appointed by representatives from the executive, legislative and the transparency and social control powers.
But in California, where Democrats control the governorship and both legislative houses, the politics was no more seemly.
He praised the country's military, but indicated that their control of Egypt's legislative powers would return to civilian hands.
Manchin is among a small group of conservative Democrats with high rankings from the NRA for pro-gun rights legislative stances who has suggested revisiting gun control policies.
We think the CFTC may interpret the legislative text to mean the CFTC has extraterritorial control over retail forex too.
He set the right tone for the seriousness of the gun control debate, from having students who had written to him about gun control as a backdrop to neatly bifurcating legislative action that he could take through executive order.
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Not only has Kirchner "bulldozed" the legislative branch, but he also tried to gain more control over the Judiciary.
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Subsequent gun control actions targeted on public housing projects established more legislative precedents.
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Legislative wrangling over reforms began in 1998, four years after Republicans took control of Congress.
President Bush today urged lawmakers to make temporary tax cuts permanent, though with control of the House and Senate up for grabs in November, any real legislative progress seems unlikely.
In 1998, after a legislative battle, King signed a law granting, for the first time, island dwellers legal control of a three-mile ring of water around their island.
It also "enlarges" the division of powers to include not only the traditional division between executive, legislative and judicial powers but it creates also the "Electoral power" and the "Social Control and Transparence Power".
The Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives, meaning that the President will not be able to push major new legislative initiative through Congress.
And he asked, is there hope for us returning to civility in our discourse, to a healthy legislative process, so as I strap on the boots again tomorrow, I know that you guys got it under control?
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