She has been a favorite of party leadership and rewarded with key committee posts. (syracuse.com)
In exchange, Council members from those boroughs expect to get chairmanships on key committees such as finance and land use. (nytimes.com)
It was 2010, the federal Race to the Top competition was well under way, and Terrance Carroll, a Democrat who was then the speaker of the House of Representatives, had the task of getting a bill that the state's largest and most powerful teachers» union refused to support through several key committee votes. (b4njkids.org)