He and the Republican-controlled legislature also enacted " reforms " of the court system that resulted in an increase in the number of judicial appointments.

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.

The ward was created when the Republican-controlled legislature gerrymandered a district within Jersey City in 1871 to concentrate and isolate Democratic, and mostly Catholic, votes.

After the 1980 census, the Republican-controlled state legislature reconfigured the 6th District into a heavily Republican district focused on the suburbs north of Indianapolis.

In 2002, however, the Republican-controlled state legislature significantly altered Boyd's district.

He was the first Democratic Governor in state history to have a Republican-controlled legislature, and was, to date, Florida's last elected Democratic governor ( Buddy MacKay, who succeeded him upon his death, holds the title of Florida's most recent Democratic governor ).

On the day that Adams took office ( March 17, 1905 ), the Republican-controlled legislature voted to remove him from office and reinstall Peabody, on the condition that Peabody immediately resign.

During the 2000s round of redistricting, the Republican-controlled state legislature significantly altered Matheson's district.

With fewer than 200 votes in the balance, the Republican-controlled legislature scrutinized the returns in a partisan manner, eventually finding that Strong in fact lacked a majority of votes, which was what was then required to carry the election ( as opposed to a plurality ).

It appeared that the Republican-controlled legislature wanted to protect the 10th's then-incumbent Republican, Don Sherwood by packing the already heavily Democratic 11th with as many Democrats as possible.

By moving most of Laredo to the 28th, the Republican-controlled legislature hoped to protect Bonilla by packing the 28th with as many Democrats as possible.

His final term in office was marked by high-profile struggles with the Republican-controlled state legislature and a near-shutdown of the state government.

The Republican-controlled legislature drew a new, heavily Republican Harrisburg-based district designed for Gekas.

When the Republican-controlled California legislature passed an anti-immigrant bill, designed to upset the Democratic primaries, Hoynes promised Governor Tillman that he would come out against it, although this turned out to be a maneuver to trick Russell into not campaigning there and to make third place rival, Matt Santos, seem too pro-immigrant if he came out against it.

The Board of Regents hindered efforts by Governor Jeb Bush and the Republican-controlled legislature to end affirmative action in Florida's public universities, and it was consequently abolished by an act of the state legislature which was signed into law by Governor Bush on July 1, 2001.

After the 2000 census, the Republican-controlled Florida legislature reconfigured the 5th so it was virtually coextensive with the State Senate district of that body's President Pro Tem, Ginny Brown-Waite.

Granholm responded that she did not support the SBT, but rather opposed plans by the Republican-controlled state legislature to eliminate the tax without replacing the lost revenue.

After a Democratic-controlled legislature had not passed the Thirteenth Amendment, Ward worked with the new Republican-controlled New Jersey Legislature to secure state passage of both the Thirteenth and the Fourteenth Amendment, with its Due Process and Equal Protection clauses.

Two months earlier, Brookhart had been removed from the Iowa's other U. S. Senate seat when a majority of his colleagues in the Republican-controlled U. S. Senate voted in favor of Democrat Dan Steck's challenge to the outcome of the 1924 Brookhart-Steck race.

Blackwell had opposed tax increases adopted by the Householder led, Republican-controlled Ohio General Assembly in the face of budget shortfalls.

In the Republican-controlled Senate, three Democrats and two Republicans who had voted against the 2009 bill indicated their support for legalizing same-sex marriage.

In the Republican-controlled 108th Congress, ten Bush judicial nominees had been filibustered by the minority Democrats.

During the 2003 Texas redistricting, the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature drew most of Laredo, which had been one of the bases of the 23rd for its entire existence, into the.

On July 15, several weeks after the Republican-controlled Congress had adjourned for the year leaving much business unfinished, Truman took the unprecedented step of using his presidential nomination acceptance speech to call both houses back into session.

Gilligan narrowly lost his re-election bid to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966 to Republican Robert Taft Jr. after the Republican-controlled Ohio General Assembly redrew his district to favor the Republican Party.

After the 2000 census, the Republican-controlled state Senate sought to draw a congressional district map that would guarantee a Republican majority in the state's delegation.

However, after the 2002 mid-term elections in which the Republicans regained control of the Senate by a 51-49 margin, these same nominees began to be moved through the now Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee.

In 1919, Wilson engaged in an intense fight with Henry Cabot Lodge and the Republican-controlled Senate over giving the League of Nations power to force the U. S. into a war.

He was sworn in as Senator only after an extraordinary election challenge, in which his apparent defeat at the polls by a Progressive Party ally running as a Republican was reversed by a Republican-controlled U. S. Senate over seventeen months later.

However, the Republican-controlled returning board threw out the votes from several areas, citing fraud and voter intimidation ; in all, over 15, 000 votes ( of which more than 13, 000 were for Tilden ) were discounted.

The Republican-controlled Legislature rejected this proposal and instead passed a budget directing MPBN funding be changed to a fee-for-service model instead of a general appropriation over the next five years.

Mitchell decried the high rate of unemployment in the state and said the Meyner administration and the Republican-controlled State Senate `` Must share the blame for this ''.

Just as it began, the Republican-controlled state government passed a local-option law that allowed counties to ban the sale of liquor.

Republican-controlled Java and Sumatra together formed a single state in the sixteen-state RUSI federation, but accounted for almost half its population.

He did it to bring to light the Republican-controlled Illinois state government's failure to promise competitive bidding for the project.

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.

Carey managed to keep the growth of state spending below the rate of inflation through his frequent use of line-item vetoes and fights with the New York State Legislature, which was at the time divided between a Republican-controlled Senate and a Democratic-controlled Assembly.

Ventura governed with a DFL-controlled state Senate and a Republican-controlled state House.

As Secretary of State, Blunt promoted a state election reform bill in 2002, which won support of the Republican-controlled Senate and Democratic House.

Using his popularity, he was able to have the Republican-controlled General Assembly pass legislation to ban gambling on horse races in the state and at the Indiana State Fair.

In 1996, the Republican-controlled Ohio General Assembly passed a law that struck the requirement that the Ohio state government invest solely in bonds.