Sentences with phrase «conservative chairman of the committee»

Michael Jack, the Conservative chairman of the committee, called for the government to invoke wartime attitudes on food and spread the message that wasting energy is wrong.

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Conservatives — including Jeb Hensarling (R., Texas), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee — say the agency wastes taxpayer money and is an example of corporate welfare and government waste.

Texas and South Carolina are home to leading opponents of the bank, including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Tea Party favorite and Republican presidential candidate; Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, who, as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has defied Speaker John A. Boehner and refused to bring any bank bill to a vote in his panel; and Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, a leader among conservatives in the House.

He is currently a member of the European Parliament, where he sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and a Chairman of the Conservatives and Reformists parliamentary group.

«Local authorities have created groups to share best practice, and we're seeing what I hope is an increasing trend to stop treating home education as a problem to be regulated, and instead see it as an opportunity to be facilitated and supported,» said the Conservative MP and former chairman of the education select committee.

The Conservative chairman of the Treasury Select Committee Andrew Tyrie today described Vote Leave's claim as «bogus» and called on the campaign to repaint their battle bus to remove it.

Graham Brady, the chairman of the Conservatives» backbench 1922 committee, says that legislating on Lords reform was NOT a Conservative manifesto commitment.

Seeking to put to rest rumors that his support of Doug Hoffman might be wavering, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long sent a memo today to NY - 23 county leaders and committee members seeking to tie Hoffman's GOP primary opponent, Matt Doheny, to the woman he forced out of last year's special election, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava.

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, who is not at all happy about Turner's latest political endeavor, is a member of the host committee.

Many of the contributors are not at all surprising: Erie County GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy ($ 100 personally and another $ 250 through the county committee), Erie County Conservative Party Chairman Ralph Lorigo ($ 250 personally and another $ 250 through his law office), Republican Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs ($ 125), Sen. Mike Ranzenhofer ($ 150) and Sen. Patrick Gallivan ($ 250).

As well as being a member of the home affairs select committee, Burrowes is chairman of the Conservative Christian Fellowship.

Percy described the move as a» pretty transparent» maneuver to insure his defeat so that Republican conservatives could install Senator Jesse Helms, an arch-conservative Republican of North Carolina, as chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee — a post held by Percy in the Republican - controlled Senate since 1981 when he succeeded Idaho's Frank Church.

The finance chairman and a finance committee member of Gene Locke's mayoral campaign helped bankroll the conservative political action committee that sent out an anti-gay mailer targeting City Controller Annise Parker and other municipal candidates earlier this month, according to Texas Ethics Commission documents.

Hills also accused Long of «railroading» the endorsement process by the executive committee at the expense of rank - and - file Conservatives who might not share the chairman's enthusiasm for Lazio, adding: «Nobody should anticipate the outcome of the votes at either party's convention; many of the largest - weighted Conservative counties are squarely behind Steve Levy.»

Monroe County Conservative Chairman Tom Cook told YNN's Wendy Mills yesterday that not only won't support giving the Buffalo businessman Row D now that Rick Lazio has dropped off the line, but also is resigning his state committee post in protest of the party's all - but certain endorsement of him.

Conservatives immediately said they opposed the idea, along with the chairmen of Congress» two tax - writing committees: Senate Finance chairman Orrin Hatch, R - Utah, and House Ways and Means chairman Kevin Brady, R - Texas.

In May 1998, the then Chairman of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee, former Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord Pym, told a House of Commons Select Committee that the committee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth iCommittee, former Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord Pym, told a House of Commons Select Committee that the committee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth iCommittee that the committee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth icommittee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth is».

Current Conservative officeholders who are members of the group include the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith; David Cameron's PPS, Desmond Swayne; Nick Clegg's Parliamentary Under - Secretary, Mark Harper; the Minister of State for Transport, Theresa Villiers; a Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Djanogly; three government whips, Angela Watkinson, Mark Francois and Greg Hands; the Chairman of the Procedure Committee, Greg Knight; and the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, John Whittingdale, who was Mrs Thatcher's Political Secretary in the late 1980s.

David Davies is Conservative MP for Monmouth and chairman of the Welsh Affairs select committee.

Rory Stewart, Conservative MP for Penrith and the Border and chairman of the defence select committee, warned MPs that Britain could not continue to rely on the military might of America and be a «freeloader».

Cameron and Clegg moved to shore up the coalition after a bumpy week in which Graham Brady, the chairman of the Conservative 1922 committee, suggested it could end before the next general election.

Edward Leigh is Conservative MP for Gainsborough and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.

Among hundreds of data sets, the database included the addresses of all the chairmen of the State Conservative Party and committee members of the Independence Party.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman told reporters on Capitol Hill that he is willing to keep talking with members of the Blue Dog coalition - an influential group of fiscal conservatives - but also made clear he intends to move forward with the legislation.

Councillors with dual interests include Andrew Smith, the Conservative chairman of one of Westminster's planning committees who works for Westbourne Communications — whose services include «delivery of planning approvals» — and Alex Karmel, a Conservative member of the planning committee at Hammersmith and Fulham who works for Thorncliffe, a consultancy that has a button on its website labelled: «Get me planning approval please!»

In 2007, Costello had received and later returned the Conservative endorsement — according to Heidcamp, at the behest of Democratic Committee chairman Lanny Walter.

Although the county's Republican Committee has endorsed county Legislature Chairman Robert Rolison for the seat, Coughlan has the endorsements of the Conservative and Independence parties, and he and Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik have said they will run in a primary for the GOP line to challenge freshman Sen. Terry Gipson, D - Rhinebeck, in November.

They're against farmers too,» added a frustrated Rep. Bill FloresWilliam (Bill) Hose FloresGOP revolts multiply against retiring Ryan Republicans express doubts that Ryan can stay on as Speaker McCarthy says early leadership election to replace Ryan unlikely MORE (R - Texas), the former chairman of the other conservative caucus, the Republican Study Committee.

Caroline Roberts, who sits on the Conservative disciplinary committee and previously worked with Lord Lawson, and Lyndon Jones, the deputy chairman of the Welsh Conservatives, also get MBEs.

Graham Brady, widely predicted to become chairman of the influential 1992 Committee, demanded the Conservatives go it alone in a minority government.

In 2013 he publicly admitted that he had sent a letter to the chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee calling for a vote of confidence in his leader.

Mr Cameron also appeared to signal a more conciliatory approach to Conservative backbenchers, who this week elected Graham Brady, a critic of Mr Cameron's leadership, to represent them as chairman of the 1922 Committee.

The battle over the target has the potential to be one of the most bitter within government and will come in the form of an amendment tabled by Tim Yeo, the Conservative chairman of the energy select committee.

«Dianne Hayter, chairman of Labour's National Executive Committee, said: «We do not believe a parliamentary by - election should be held at taxpayers» expense to resolve tensions at the top of the Conservative Party... She claimed that Mr Davis had done a deal with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who said last week that his party would not contest the by - election, and never intended to put his seat at risk.»

New York State Republican Chairman Ed Cox, Conservative Party chair Michael Long and John Rogers, a regional political director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, were requesting that Murray run Turner's campaign.

To «secure a confidence vote, 15 % of Conservative Members of Parliament («in receipt of the Conservative Whip») must submit a request for such a vote, in writing, to the Chairman of the 1922 Committee».

Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative 1922 committee, gave a candid interview to the Westminster Hour last night.

In May 2000, he joined the House of Commons Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee and in July 2003 he was elected Chairman of the Conservative Middle East Council, a position he still occupies.

His opponent, Republican - Conservative Doug Hoffman, of Lake Placid, has received no GOP committee endorsements, but he has the backing of Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long.

He is Chairman of the Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST), Chairman of the Parliamentary Space Committee, President of the Conservative Technology Forum and Founder of Conservative Friends of Science.

Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Texas congressman who is known as a staunch constitutional conservative and currently holds one of the most powerful seats in Congress as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, won't seek re-election next year.

Saying the conservative grassroots movement is «now the most potent force in Republican politics» and pointing out Rep. Pete Sessions, chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, and Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, are both members of the new House Tea Party Caucus, DNC chairman Tim Kaine said «the Republican Party agenda has become the Tea Party agenda and vice versa.»

WASHINGTON (CNN)- After a dizzying few days of prominent Republican endorsements of the Conservative Party's nominee in New York's 23rd congressional district, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said he will stand behind the embattled GOP candidate in the upcoming special election.

Conservative MP John Whittingdale - Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, has asked tough questions of the BBC in the last 24 hours.

In June, Paul E. Singer, a hedge fund manager who is the chairman of the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and Mr. Loeb each donated $ 1 million to the organization's political action committee.

Washington (CNN)-- A new report by a nonprofit organization estimates that there are 67,000 Tea Party activists throughout the country, which is at odds with estimates by a handful of conservatives including Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.

«If the election were held today, the Republican majority would likely yield to a new Democratic majority,» Rep. Mike Pence, R - Ind., the chairman of the conservative House Republican Study Committee, said during a recent interview with National Journal.

The three House members are among 300 social and political conservatives, moderates and libertarians who signed the amicus brief organized by Ken Mehlman, an openly gay former chairman of the Republican National Committee and one - time aide to former President George W. Bush.

Stephen Crabb MP, Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission and member of the International Development Select Committee, outlines the principles behind the CPHRC's report on UN reform.

Elsewhere, Ulster Conservative Party Chairman Ed Gaddy announced his committee's unanimous support of Heaney, such as it was.