Sentences with phrase «congressional seat once»

Assemblyman Joseph Borelli — whose district completely overlaps with the vacant Staten Island Congressional seat once held by Michael Grimm — today proposed a pair of measures that would create hard time frames in which Gov. Andrew Cuomo would have to call special elections.

State Sen. Joseph Robach, a Democrat - turned - Republican, will not run for the congressional seat once held by late Rep. Louise Slaughter, saying he believes he can have the «greatest impact» if he stays put in the Senate, where his party holds a tenuous one - vote majority.

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was once again in the Congressional hot seat Wednesday — fielding hours of questions from the House of Representative's Committee on Energy and Commerce on the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Washington (CNN)- As two of the three candidates in a special election to fill a vacant congressional seat in upstate New York get ready to debate, another major national political organization has jumped into the ad wars, another sign that a once semi-obscure local election is now firmly in the national spotlight.

Though the district he's pined for is under the threat of extinction, Democratic Congressional hopeful Rory Lancman says he still expects to run for a House seat once the dust settles on redistricting.

Once redistricting moved DeSantis out of his old district — and after a failed 2016 bid for U.S. Senate — he needed quick action for his re-election bid to Florida's 6th Congressional District, a seat DeSantis held since 2012.

Faso is running for a second term in a Hudson Valley congressional district that Democrats are once again targeting this year as a battleground seat.

The once - a-decade process of legislative redistricting will almost certainly not be completed in time for a set of 27 new congressional districts to replace the current 29 seats, which means two delegates per seat must be filed.

(There is one bright spot: Republicans seem poised to lose fewer seats than once feared in the state's Congressional delegation.)

George Demos, 37, of Ronkonkoma, who has run Republican primaries in the last two congressional races, losing both times to Randy Altschuler, has once again vowed to run a Republican primary for the seat.

Walsh, who once held the Congressional seat now occupied by Maffei, served as honorary chairman for the event after Buerkle left for the wedding.

This 25th Congressional District seat was held by Louise Slaughter for decades, but Barnhart says they consciously made the decision to not focus on Slaughter in her campaign, mentioning her once in her speech.

Its six members gathered in Albany to approve plans for an initial series of public hearings around the state to plan for the once - a-decade project of setting district lines for the Legislature as well as congressional seats.

The combined cash haul is likely to transform what was once a low profile congressional race into what appears will be the most expensive campaign for a House seat in South Carolina history.