Sentences with phrase «congressional leaders on»

«REALTORS ® can be active» by providing input to congressional leaders on the choice of who heads that important committee, Davis said.

While the policy making calendar typically slows down in the summer months, Congressional leaders on various committees continue to discuss a number of issues, which means NAR remains vigilant all year long, especially as we prepare for a busy Fall Session.

Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle have done tremendous work to get us there, and we're hopeful this conversation continues.

What these reformers should do now is call upon the Obama Administration to call off the waiver gambit, fully embrace the approach to accountability put in place under No Child, and begin negotiating with congressional leaders on a reauthorization of the law as it should have done a long time ago.

July 22, 2015: NSBA and National Education Groups Joint Letter to Congressional Leaders on ESEA NSBA and nine other national education organizations sent this letter to House Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid urging them to proceed to conference with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization as soon as possible.

Over the past week, Education Week's Alyson Klein conducted a series of interviews with Congressional leaders on education in a series titled, «ESSA Architects.»

«One of the key Congressional leaders on this matter was Adam Clayton Powell, who was chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Education.

In March 2002, Theodore Friedmann, who directs the program in human gene therapy at the University of California at San Diego and has advised the National Institutes of Health and congressional leaders on gene - related issues, organized a three - day workshop for the world agency.

The Southern Tier congressman said Tuesday that he's been speaking with White House and congressional leaders on the issue, and that a compromise is looking clearer, if not yet definitive.

When Obama met with congressional leaders on the Supreme Court vacancy, a press pool was allowed to ask a couple of questions.

The provisions on TPP are almost certainly moot, as congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle say the deal will not come up for ratification in the lame duck congressional session.

Chuck Canterbury, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, which represents 325,000 law enforcement officers nationwide, wrote a letter to congressional leaders on Tuesday.

The assertions of voter fraud, which Trump first made shortly after the election, gained traction this week after Trump, as president, repeated them during a closed - door meeting with congressional leaders on Monday.

During a White House meeting with Republican Congressional leaders on June 6, President Trump discussed plans for his proposed US - Mexico border wall.

Not exact matches

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, also released statements on Monday warning of congressional action if Trump were to fire Mueller.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

GOP strategists close to congressional leaders are worried that FBI's raid on Trump lawyer Michael Cohen could signal trouble in midterms

President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders are on the brink of achieving their top priority, centerpiece tax legislation, but only after a series of inaccurate claims and broken promises.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has delivered a ferocious attack on congressional Republicans and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over a medical research bill, putting fellow Democrats on the spot by pushing them to oppose a measure she said «is corrupt, and it is very, very dangerous.»

Congressional leaders including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan reportedly want Trump to offer more details on health care policy and an Obamacare replacement strategy in his speech, according to CNN.

A Republican source told CNBC that congressional leaders have not ruled potential action if Trump follows through on his plan.

(Bloomberg)-- The White House is scaling back its plan to seek cuts from already - passed spending bills in the face of resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and spending panel Republicans, two GOP congressional aides briefed on the plan said Thursday.

While the Trump administration wants to push an infrastructure - spending package, congressional leaders have more or less abandoned hopes for major changes to welfare programs and other items on their wish list.

BOSTON — President Obama signed an executive order on Monday requiring federal contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave a year, even as he accused Republican congressional leaders of endangering the economy and Republican presidential candidates of undercutting American workers.

The patient community has expressed grave concerns about the proliferation of short - term plans - in fact, 113 groups, including AARP, American Heart Association, March of Dimes, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, recently sent a letter expressing these concerns to Congressional leaders.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

All of which is to say that not only is Trump somewhat idiosyncratically hostile to trade, but there are at least some deep structural forces indicating that Trump has the «right» stance for a conservative Republican on this and trade - friendly GOP congressional leaders have the «wrong» one.

Don was an appointed a delegate to both the 1998 and 2002 White House / Congressional National Summits on Retirement Savings, hosted by the President and Congressional leaders.

Republican congressional leaders stepped up their efforts Monday to stop President Donald Trump from implementing global tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, warning that the protectionist move would damage the economy and muddle the party's message...

On Thursday, a group of top tech chiefs — including Timothy D. Cook of Apple, Jeffrey P. Bezos of Amazon and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook — signed an open letter to the president and congressional leaders urging them to preserve the program.

In a press release on tax reform on Thursday, congressional leaders and administration officials agreed to table the border - adjustment tax that would have taxed US imports.

Puerto Rico's governor, Ricardo Rosselló, is essentially begging Congress for help: «In addition to the immediate humanitarian crisis, Puerto Rico is on the brink of a massive liquidity crisis that will intensify in the immediate future,» he wrote in a letter Saturday to congressional leaders.

If President Obama and our Congressional leaders are really ready to work together to reboot the economy over the next four years, there's some low - hanging fruit they can get to work on tomorrow.

House Speaker John Boehner (R - Ohio) has invited the Dalai Lama to the Capitol on Thursday to meet with congressional leaders, his office announced Wednesday.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops endorsed a congressional resolution Monday condemning attacks on religious minorities in Iraq and urging both Iraqi and U.S. government officials to do more to protect religious groups considered to be at risk there.

Religious leaders, community members and activists took to the streets Sunday in New York to protest upcoming congressional hearings, convened by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, on «the radicalization of American Muslims.»

Her comments on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom with Susan Arbetter came the same day as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders called on Democratic Rep. John Conyers to step down amid revelations he sexually harassed women who had worked in Congress.

«I was really happy that the minority leader decided to come here and not only obviously rally for congressional Democrats but say how important it was for Democrats to work together on the state level.

The reason why there is an assumption that the Republicans won't vote against Trump in unanimous lockstep, like they did as a matter of policy with Obama, is if the Congressional Republicans basically declare war on their own party leader, no one but the Dems can win (given their track record, that's not a given, either), short or long term.

Congressional leaders have clinched an agreement on a massive $ 1.3 trillion spending bill that President Donald Trump, for now, appears grudgingly willing to support.

Schumer called on Trump and GOP congressional leaders to back the measures to protect students so «they don't worry about being shot.»

Congressional leaders were slated to brief Trump on the perilous midterm landscape, with rising concern that the majorities of both houses could be up for grabs, this afternoon at Camp David.

Yun could not say for certain whether Crowley is indeed running for re-election as district leader, although she'll have to if she wants to keep the position — unless, of course, the party races are delayed (see explanation below)-- noting «we're focused on the congressional campaign right now.

The Republican congressional leaders, Ryan, McConnell and McCarthy, had entered the White House just before noon on Wednesday with an agreed plan.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> Fresh on the heels of news the President Donald Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong - un, U.S. Rep. John Faso says he's been asked to be part of a congressional delegation that will travel to South Korea,

He appeared, along with Democratic congressional leaders, at a joint fundraiser Wednesday on the sidelines of the Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C., for Priorities USA, House Majority PAC and Majority PAC, which boosts Democratic Senate candidates.

Senate Democratic Leader Charles E. Schumer Tuesday called on the Office of Congressional Ethics to probe Price's stock trades, and New York's other Democratic senator, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, called for an SEC investigation.

«Inaction is unacceptable when a survey shows that four out of 10 women congressional staffers believe that sexual harassment is a problem on Capitol Hill and one out of six women in the same survey responded that they have been the survivors of sexual harassment,» reads the letter, addressed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

As the tax fight played out, a new battle opened on another front as Democratic congressional leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi skipped a White House meeting with Trump to discuss spending, immigration and other issues after Trump criticized them on Twitter.