* 2003 – Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.

During that redistricting process, Sanchez hired lobbyist Michael S. Berman, brother of California Democratic Congressman Howard Berman, for " redistricting consulting " on her behalf.

This was not seen as a major setback to his career ; he was deemed beaten by Democratic gerrymandering in redistricting, and because of his sponsorship of a tariff bill — the increased tariffs had caused prices to rise.

A recent prominent example of quorum-busting occurred during the 2003 Texas redistricting, in which the majority Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives sought to carry out a controversial mid-decade congressional redistricting bill which would have favored Republicans by displacing five Democratic U. S. Representatives from Texas ( the Texas Five ) from their districts.

Koch was the Democratic US Representative from New York's 17th congressional district from January 3, 1969 until January 3, 1973, when after a redistricting he represented New York's 18th congressional district until December 31, 1977, when he resigned to become Mayor of New York City.

Because of redistricting by the Republican-controlled state legislature following the 2010 state elections, Ohio's 9th congressional district absorbed part of Cuyahoga County, abolishing Kucinich's district and pitting him against 9th district incumbent Marcy Kaptur in the 2012 Democratic primary, which he lost.

In 2002, redistricting merged Dingell's 16th District with the Washtenaw County and western Wayne County-based 13th District, represented by fellow Democrat Lynn Rivers, whom Dingell also bested in the Democratic primary.

In 1992, after redistricting, incumbent Democratic U. S. Congressman Matthew Martínez of California's 30th congressional district decided to run in the newly redrawn 31st district.

The district was almost 40 % Hispanic ( redistricting in 2000 made it 53 % Hispanic ) and heavily Democratic, and his victory in November ( with 57 percent of the vote ) was a foregone conclusion.

His district was renumbered as the 1st District as a result of the 2000s ( decade ) round of redistricting, and became even more Democratic with the addition of much of Iowa's share of the Quad Cities.

Inslee defeated former state representative Joe Marine in 2002, taking 55. 6 % of the vote after the district was made more Democratic in the 2000s round of redistricting.

It also restored a heavily Democratic spur in eastern Montgomery County that had been cut out in the last round of redistricting.

Initially a purely Northern Virginia district covering Fairfax, Arlington, and Loudoun counties, the 1990 redistricting by a Democratic Virginia General Assembly moved the district away from Arlington and enlarged to the west and south to encompass parts of the congressional district held by U. S. Rep. George Allen, which was eliminated to create a black-majority district in accordance with the Voting Rights Act.

The Republican majority had placed both Democratic lawmakers in the new 2nd District during redistricting.

The Florida Legislature responded by cutting out a heavily Democratic section of Miami-Dade County in the 2000s round of redistricting, pushing it further into Palm Beach County.

In 1972 her district was eliminated via redistricting and chose to run against William Fitts Ryan, who also represented part of the West Side, in the Democratic primary.

To this effect, he moved back to Englewood so he could stay in the district, which with redistricting put him in a primary race with fellow Democratic Representative Bill Pascrell of Paterson.

The 2000s redistricting added heavily Democratic Southfield and Mount Clemens to the district, and he has won re-election in every election with at least 68 % of the vote since.

McCaughey wrote op-eds over the next six months in The Wall Street Journal and USA Today in which she supported the 1993 selection of a jury from predominately white Republican white rural counties for the Memphis retrial of African American Democratic U. S. Representative, Harold Ford, Sr., and praised the 1993 Shaw v. Reno U. S. Supreme Court decision in favor of five white voters who said their rights had been infringed by redistricting that had been done to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

In 1994, he was narrowly defeated by Republican Fred Heineman, who won by a margin of less than 1 % during the Republican Revolution, in part to lower-than-expected turnout in the Democratic stronghold of Orange County ( home to Chapel Hill ), but despite the fact that heavily Republican Randolph County had been eliminated from the Fourth District during redistricting prior to that election year.

After congressional redistricting, fellow U. S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich ( D-Cleveland ) ended up in the 9th District as well, so they ran against one other in the Democratic primary.

The district's four-term Democratic incumbent, Max Sandlin, was a particularly severe critic of the DeLay-led redistricting effort, claiming that lumping rural areas with urban ones stifled the voice of rural voters.

At the same time reaction among anti-organization Democratic leaders and in the Liberal party to the Mayor's reported plan was generally favorable.

The resentment among Democratic organization leaders to the reported Wagner plan was directed particularly at the Mayor's efforts to name his own running mates without consulting the leaders.

In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.

Although Kemp coaxed Bush to support a $ 4 billion housing program that encouraged public housing tenants to buy their own apartments, the Democratic Congress allocated only $ 361 million to the plan.

Dick Lamm, former three-term Democratic governor of the US state of Colorado, wrote in his essay " I have a plan to destroy America ":

In January 1972, G. Gordon Liddy, general counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President ( CRP ), presented a campaign intelligence plan to CRP's Acting Chairman Jeb Stuart Magruder, Attorney General John Mitchell, and Presidential Counsel John Dean, that involved extensive illegal activities against the Democratic Party.

Mitchell viewed the plan as unrealistic, but two months later he approved a reduced version which involved burgling the Democratic National Committee's ( DNC ) headquarters at the Watergate Complex in Washington, D. C and placing wiretaps.

Tape recordings made by President Nixon and the testimony of others involved confirmed that Mitchell had participated in meetings to plan the break-in of the Democratic Party's national headquarters in the Watergate Hotel.

Prior to the U. S. 2006 midterm elections, Pelosi announced a plan for action: If elected, she and the newly empowered Democratic caucus would push through most of its program during the first hundred hours of the 110th Congress ' term.

In late 2011 and early 2012, Wyden attracted attention for working with GOP House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan to develop a Medicare reform plan that would result in the semi-privatization of the system, provoking a negative response from Wyden's Democratic allies, including President Obama.

Wyden was among several moderate Democratic senators who in early January 2009 criticized President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus plan, calling for a greater emphasis on " tangible infrastructure investments " and warning that an effort had to be made to differentiate it from the Bush bailouts Wyden had opposed.

On 25 April 2007, François Bayrou announced that he would be submitting a plan to a vote of UDF members to create a new Democratic Movement, which was finally launched on 10 May.

The Soviets provided technical aid in 156 industries in China ’ s first five-year plan, and 520 million rubles in loans ; thus at the Geneva Conference of 1954, the PRC and the USSR jointly persuaded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, led by Ho Chi Minh, to temporarily accept the West ’ s division of Vietnam at the 17th parallel north.

By this time, Douglas had moved to national politics, as leader of the federal New Democratic Party ( NDP ), The provincial plan precipitated a strike by the province's physicians ( 1962 ).

The final plan was far less ambitious, but made the district even more Democratic by adding heavily Democratic precincts from neighboring Prince George's County, an area that Morella had never represented.

The plan was drafted with input from seven Democratic legislators in the House, none of them in leadership roles, leading to claims that Fletcher was trying to circumvent House leadership.

When being questioned why didn't he simply merge the Democratic Party and DAB, Yeung responded that it would take a long time to do so which showed that Yeung actually thought of carrying out the plan.

Instead he worked with the Free-staters to create a plan for Kansas to be admitted to the Union under the Topeka constitution as a free state, with himself as governor of a Democratic administration.

On 15 August 2010, the party announced plans to merge with the larger Democratic Alliance as part of a plan to challenge the governing African National Congress ( ANC ).

He later rejected FDR's New Deal plan. In 1932, Murray sought the Democratic nomination for President.

President Andrew Jackson's " Kitchen Cabinet " privately carried out the plan for the first Democratic National Convention ; the public call for the first national convention emanated from Jackson's supporters in New Hampshire in 1831.

( The original plan was to tear down the rail tracks before the 2004 Democratic National Convention, but in the end the tracks were purposely left up through the convention, to serve as a platform for security forces.

The Whig plan, supported by Dudley, to use most of the money for railroads and the state bank was seriously amended by the Democrats, and the Democratic plan passed.