Sentence examples for split senate from inspiring English sources

A spokesman for Senator John O. Bennett, who leads the Republicans in the evenly split Senate, joined his Democratic counterpart, Senator Richard J. Codey, in allowing a series of parliamentary maneuvers that could propel the arena measure out of committee in an extraordinary Sunday session of the Legislature.

Further evidence of the tough sledding that the Newark arena plan faces in the Legislature came today from State Senator John O. Bennett, the leader of the Republicans in the evenly split Senate.

"This means that the Legislature doesn't have to get involved, and that's good for the supporters of Newark arena," said State Senator Richard J. Codey, a Democrat and co-president of the evenly split Senate, where the idea of state support for an arena has twice foundered in party-line votes in spite of strong support from Governor McGreevey.

Mayor James -- who is also a Democratic state senator and whose vote is likely to be crucial in the evenly split Senate -- said flatly that he would not support a state budget that did not restore the money for the museum's operating budget as well as the $18 million that the Council on the Arts received last year.

And in a split Senate, pal, everyone's up.

The Eisenhower-era Senate didn't achieve much; the signs are that the new split Senate may achieve even less.

"You want to minimize the political fallout as a result of the move from the Meadowlands," said State Senator Richard Codey, the Democrat leader of the evenly split state senate and a strong supporter of the arena.

You have to go back to the early 1900s and 1800s to find the sort of split House-Senate result that we are going to get this year.

The senate was split almost exactly in half by those senators representing mining provinces who would have profited had the law not passed, and those who considered the environmental impacts to be paramount.

I call this the Al Gore tax since the senate was split 50/50 on legislation that would add this extra tax and as Vice President he cast the tie-breaking vote.

National Democratic leaders called on a group of breakaway Democrats in the New York state senate to split from Republicans after a special election upheld the party's majority in the chamber.