Balance of power in Congress: Republicans in control

That doesn’t change the fact that some of Trump’s campaign rhetoric, on stepping back from security commitments overseas and limiting free trade, conflict with Republican orthodoxy. Some never fell in line.

While the 59.6 million Americans who voted for Hillary Clinton are reeling from the Democratic nominee’s shocking loss to Donald Trump, there were a few signs of hope for tired liberals. Scott Garrett, a Freedom Caucus member from New Jersey’s New York City suburbs; moderate Bob Dold from outside Chicago; Cresent Hardy of Nevada and New Hampshire’s Frank Guinta.

“Look at it this way”, Ryan said.

One Senate seat remains too close to call.

“One of things that makes state legislators unique is they are people who are out in their community every week making person-to-person contact”, Williams said.

Prosecutions and convictions for corruption have come from the federal government, like U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who oversaw the conviction of the former legislative leaders and who has issued criminal complaints against nine people involved in Cuomo’s economic development projects.

“The American people have spoken and it’s time to come together”, Kasich tweeted on Wednesday after he scrapped plans for a speech in Washington later this week that was meant to pave a new direction for the party after an expected Trump loss. “There’s only one solution and that’s to honor the vote of 2010 and let’s move on with it. Let’s get going, we’re running out of time”.

Aetna Inc, the No. 3. “As a group we will make the decisions and make our way through it”.

From there Trump strolled through the Capitol’s stately Ohio Clock Corridor with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who’d been quick to endorse him but critical of his rhetoric and undisciplined campaign style. Frank Artiles, a Republican who was elected to the state Senate, Democrat Robert Asencio had a narrow lead, about 55 votes, over former state Rep. David Rivera, a Republican.

Repealing the healthcare law could trigger a public backlash in 2018’s congressional elections from millions of Americans who would lose their health insurance coverage.

The second-term Republican governor congratulated the president-elect Wednesday in a statement and downplayed the Democratic takeover of New Mexico’s state House of Representatives. “Just the opposite happened” as Trump brought out more Republican voters. Ryan was all smiles as he escorted Trump, wife Melania and Vice President-elect Mike Pence onto the Capitol Balcony to give them a view of the inauguration platform being constructed for Trump to take the oath of office January 20. Clinton won NY by 21 percentage points before losing the presidential race to Republican Donald Trump. “That’s a quick, easy fix to get the regulatory burden down”.

If he wants re-election, Trump can not alienate those populist voters, particularly right away.

That means numerous same issues that were gridlocked in the legislature in the past are likely to remain so, including the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, abortion rights measures, and ending the incarceration of 16-and 17-year-olds in adult prisons. They’ve already signaled a willingness to work with Trump to pass a massive infrastructure spending bill. We think numerous shortcomings of Obamacare could have been avoided if Democrats and Republicans would have at least tried to work together. The writers of the Constitution made sure of this. The GOP retained seats in Minnesota, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Wisconsin that Democrats had coveted. He is a clean-cut Midwestern budget and policy wonk who has been in Congress since 1999. McConnell also held Trump at arm’s length, saying little about him in the campaign.

“They should be terrified”, Ward Baker, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Senate GOP’s political organization, said of the Democrats. Republicans have said they are philosophically opposed to those items. “There’s no real choice for Ryan and McConnell”, Bonjean added. “I pledge to work with him in that effort”. First up is likely to be a nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. “On Trump, the unpredictability factor is significant”, said Bruce Josten, chief lobbyist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.