Garofalo's long stint on the final season of the NBC drama The West Wing ( as Louise Thornton, media strategist for Jimmy Smits ' character, presidential candidate Matt Santos ) did not allow her to be in New York to co-host The Majority Report for several weeks ; this allowed Sam to make the program his own, and she acknowledged that this had a part to play in her decision to leave.

Among the American Christian leaders who spoke out in Moon's defense were conservative Jerry Falwell, head of Moral Majority, and liberal Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Majority of the people in Mountain Home fly out of Springfield MO, Branson MO, Little Rock, AR or Bentonville, AR.

Later shows built a tight theme, sometimes acting as a metaparody — such as the Emmy-winning " Moral Majority " episode where advertisers and special interest groups forced significant changes to SCTV's programming ; " Zontar ", a parody of the Larry Buchanan film Zontar, The Thing from Venus which featured an alien race seeking to kidnap SCTV's on-air talent for " a nine-show cycle plus three best-ofs " ( which was the actual deal NBC worked out with SCTV that season ); and an ambitious parody of The Godfather featuring an all-out network war over pay television between SCTV, CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS-the last featured mafia-style hits on the sets of The Today Show, Three's Company, and The NFL Today as well as an extended sequence with guest star John Marley as an off-beat Leonard Bernstein, spoofing his Godfather role of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz.

In the book, Lott spoke out on the remark he made at the Strom Thurmond birthday party, former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and about his feelings of betrayal toward the Tennessee senator, claiming " If Frist had not announced exactly when he did, as the fire was about to burn out, I would still be majority leader of the Senate today.

By Silent Majority out of Bergdorf by Duane Hanover, he was sold at the Tattersalls auction for $ 9, 500 to Keith Bulen and Shirley Mitchell.

Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, then the Senate Majority Leader, moved a call of the house after the minority Republicans walked out in an attempt to deny the Senate a quorum after Senate aides began bring cots into the Senate cloakrooms in preparation for an all-night session over campaign finance reform for congressional elections.

Majority owner Steve Stavro was bought out by the Ontario Teachers ' Pension Plan and he stepped down as chairman in favour of Larry Tanenbaum.

Majority of the approximately 1, 00, 000 pandits that migrated out of Kashmir during the exodus of the 1980s are now scattered throughout India, with majority populations in Jammu region and the NCRwhile others have settled across the country and abroad.

With the Democrats ' victory in the 2006 midterm elections, DeGette briefly considered running for House Majority Whip, but bowed out in favor of Jim Clyburn of South Carolina.

According to their plan, House Majority Leader Armey, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, Boehner and Paxon were to present Gingrich with an ultimatum: resign, or be voted out.

However, in a controversial 2003 redistricting orchestrated by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texarkana was drawn out of the district and moved to the neighboring Fourth congressional district.

According to their plan, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, Boehner and Paxon were to present Gingrich with an ultimatum: resign, or be voted out.

However, the combined parties of the Presidential Majority supporting Sassou Nguesso won an overwhelming majority: 125 out of 137 seats.

For many years, it was based in Tyler, but a controversial 2003 redistricting orchestrated by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay drew it and neighboring Longview out of District 4 and into neighboring District 1 which made District 1 significantly more Republican.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said " accountability will be carried out " for whoever put the provision in.

Methods of derivation are laid out in the books of Usul Al Fiqh, and those evidences which are deemed valid for deriving rulings from are many in number ; Four of them are agreed upon by the vast Majority of Jurists, they are:

With a cloture vote scheduled on the nomination of Priscilla Owen – the opening move in firing the nuclear option – for Tuesday, May 24, 2005, and with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Minority Leader Harry Reid having evidently given up all pretense of finding a compromise ( each have been accused of having desired the showdown for their own political ends ), some members in both parties were focused on finding some alternative way out.

For example, researchers test different vocabulary ( e. g., " 66 %" vs. " Most " vs. " Majority ), using different behaviors to find out which ones are the easiest and most acceptable to perform ( e. g., " eating while drinking " vs. " keeping track while drinking "), and using varying degrees of citations ( e. g., large citations vs. small citations of data source ).

It controls 9 out of the 15 Majority Control counties including all of Western Maryland for the first time.

In addition to the EP's controversial artwork depicting a gold Christ figure on a cross of dollar bills, the lyrics contained Biafra's most biting social and political commentary yet, and songs such as " Moral Majority ", " Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

The Moral Majority was founded as being " pro-family ", " pro-life ", " pro-defense " and pro-Israel. The group is credited with delivering two thirds of the white, evangelical Christian vote to Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential election.

Joseph M. Bessette coined the term " deliberative democracy " in his 1980 work " Deliberative Democracy: The Majority Principle in Republican Government ", and went on to elaborate and defend the notion in " The Mild Voice of Reason " ( 1994 ).

Regardless of exactly how they were intended, " Okie From Muskogee ", " The Fightin ' Side of Me ", and " I Wonder If They Think of Me " were hailed as anthems of the so-called " Silent Majority " and presaged a trend in patriotic songs that would reappear years later with Charlie Daniels ' " In America ", Lee Greenwood's " God Bless the USA ", and others.

Majority and Minority resolutions were presented to the Militant National Editorial Board meeting of 14 – 16 July 1991 on the question of this " open turn ", and a faction formed around Ted Grant's Minority position.

Committed to the doctrine of supply-side economics, he assisted the approval of the " Reagan Budget " ( the Gramm-Latta Budget ), which Stockman hoped to be a serious curtailment of the " welfare state ", gaining a reputation as a tough negotiator with House Speaker Tip O ' Neill's Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and Majority Leader Howard Baker's Republican-controlled Senate.

* Hughes, Rupert, " Germany's Silesian Plot: Colonizing Scheme to Overcome Polish Majority in a Region Which Contains Vast Resources for Future War-Making ", The New York Times, October 12, 1919.

In the furor over Clarke's revelations before the 9 / 11 Commission, Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist immediately took to the Senate floor to make a speech accusing Clarke of telling " two entirely different stories under oath ", pointing to congressional hearing testimony Clarke gave in 2002, but Frist later admitted to reporters that he was unaware of any actual discrepancies in Clarke's testimony.

On May 1, 2002, on MSNBC's " Hardball with Chris Matthews ", Armey, then the House Republican Majority Leader, called for Palestinians to be expelled from the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

Republican then-House Majority Leader John Boehner, who argued against a deadline, stated " achieving victory is our only option ", and " we must not shy away ".

Each party elects floor leaders denominated " Majority leader " or " Minority leader ", accordingly, as well as a " Majority Whip " or a " Minority Whip ".

Each party elects floor leaders denominated " Majority leader " or " Minority leader ", accordingly, as well as a " Majority Whip " or a " Minority Whip ".

In the late 1970s and the 1980s the " Religious Right ", especially Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, attacked church-state separation, tried to introduce fundamentalist theology into the public schools and demanded tax subsidies for religious education.

In January 2004 Boris Nemtsov co-authored ( with his longtime advisor and party colleague Vladimir V. Kara-Murza ) an article entitled " Appeal to the Putinist Majority ", warning of the dangers of the impending Putin dictatorship, which appeared in " Nezavisimaya Gazeta " newspaper.

The song " The Apple Dumpling Gang ", as heard in the opening and closing credits, was composed by Shane Tatum and was sung by Randy Sparks and The Back Porch Majority.

Letts made a short-lived change with this executive, styling its members as " cabinet members " instead of " executive members ", which was abandoned when Paul Everingham succeeded Letts as Majority Leader after the election.

There is a tendency among Iranian-Americans to categorize themselves as " Persian " rather than " Iranian ", mainly to disassociate themselves from the Iranian regime and the negativity associated with it, and also to distinguish themselves as being of Persian ethnicity, which is around 65 % of Iran's population Majority of Iranian-Americans are of Persian-speaking backgrounds, however there is also a significant number of non-Persian Iranians within the Iranian-American community, leading some scholars to believe that the label " Iranian " is more inclusive, since the label " Persian " excludes non-Persian minorities from Iran.

The debate quieted for a time, then arose again in the mid-1990s, when a " Committee for a Libertarian Majority " ( CLM ) was formed and met in Atlanta, Georgia, and worked up several proposals to alter many aspects of the Libertarian Party's operations.

In the week before the convention opened, Kennedy received two new challengers when Lyndon B. Johnson, the powerful Senate Majority Leader from Texas, and Adlai Stevenson, the party's nominee in 1952 and 1956, officially announced their candidacies ( they had both privately been working for the nomination for some time ).

His acceptance by the Southerners was also helped a great deal when Humphrey became a protege of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas.

In 1925 the majority ( at the time ) Republicans also adopted this language when Charles Curtis became the first ( official ) Majority Leader, although his immediate predecessor Henry Cabot Lodge is considered the first ( unofficial ) Majority Leader.

Johnson was touched by a Senate scandal in August 1963 when Bobby Baker, the Senate Majority Secretary and a protégé of Johnson's, came under investigation by the Senate Rules Committee for allegations of bribery and financial malfeasance.

From 1985, when Howard Baker of Tennessee retired, until his resignation from the Senate, Dole was the leader of the Senate Republicans, serving as Majority Leader from 1985 until 1987 and again from 1995 to 1996.

After recovering from his health problems, Dirksen was elected to the Senate in 1950 when he unseated Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas.

The origins of the Moral Majority can be traced to 1976, when Jerry Falwell embarked on a series of “ I Love America ” rallies across the country to raise awareness of social issues important to Falwell.

The Moral Majority ’ s financial base seriously eroded when it became part of the Liberty Federation and financial difficulties ultimately were a major factor in the decision to disband the organization.

Leaders within the Moral Majority asked ministers give their congregants political direction, reminding congregants when to vote, who to vote for, and why the Moral Majority held particular positions on issues.

He became Senate Majority Whip when the Republicans took control of the Senate in 1995, succeeding as Majority Leader in 1996 when Bob Dole resigned from the Senate to focus on his presidential campaign.

He was Republican Party ( GOP ) House Majority Leader from 2003 to 2005, when he resigned because of money laundering charges in connection with a campaign finance investigation.

He was reelected four times and was chosen House Majority Leader when the Republicans became the majority party in the State Legislature in 1998.

Robinson became Senate Majority Leader by a unanimous vote in 1933 when the Democrats became the majority.

Durbin served as Assistant Minority Leader from 2005 until 2007, when the Democrats became the Majority Party in the Senate.

In 1994, when Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell declined to run for re-election, Snowe immediately declared her candidacy for the seat.

Obey went to talk with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer when Waters briefly returned again, telling her colleagues, " He touched me.

His tenure propelled him from being " among the most obscure members " in the House to gaining national attention, when the Committee formally admonished House Majority Leader Tom DeLay three times over actions that allegedly went " beyond the bounds of acceptable conduct.

Ready evidence is found on March 20, 2008, when the invitation to testify in support of environmental legislation by Democrat House Majority Leader Rep. Rocky Adkins, and, on the same day, a rare invitation to speak from the Senate floor was afforded by Republican Senate Majority Leader Senator David L. Williams of Cumberland County as part of the Senate ’ s unanimously passed bipartisan resolution honoring Rogers for his service.