Sentences with phrase «house majority whip»

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R - La., himself shot last year by a would - be assassin who targeted Republican lawmakers practicing for a charity baseball game, also focused on the law enforcement failures.

«Frivolous lawsuits are clogging America's judicial system, endangering America's small businesses, jeopardizing jobs and driving up prices for consumers,» said House Majority Whip Roy Blunt.

Later during the same hearing, House majority whip Tom DeLay was asked about his position opposing a ban on ozone depleting substances.

And he's the House Majority Whip.

Lund was previously the Michigan House Majority Whip, and after sponsoring Right to Work in that state in 2012, he received a job at AFP as State Director for Michigan.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. (center), accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., (left) and House Majority Whip James Clyburn of S.C. — speaks with reporters after an all - day bipartisan health care summit on Thursday.

The acclaimed political series (with a MetaCritic.com score of 76/100)-- which stars Kevin Spacey as powerful but slighted Democratic House Majority Whip Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his wife / partner in political revenge — is based an equally well - received series of British miniseries that starred Sir Ian Richardson.

As the dogged D.C. reporter Zoe Barnes in «House of Cards,» she slept with the House majority whip, Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), who pushed her in front of a train once he was tagged for the vice presidency.

While the House majority whip agrees the immigration system needs to change, he is unwilling to support the bill that passed the Senate.

Note: Kenneth's usual Thursday post will appear tomorrow ======================================== U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was seriously wounded by a loony leftist gunman, who obviously had been driven over the edge by all the recent hate signals coming from a violence - inciting media.

The House majority whip, Rep. Ruth Samuelson (R), didn't dispute that scenario in an email late last week.

The president paused for a photo after meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and other House Democrats on Capitol Hill Saturday.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise's campaign and his Eye of the Tiger PAC chipped in $ 2,000 and $ 5,000, respectively.

However, the House Majority Whip, Ado Doguwa, had criticised the Senate President over his views on the subject.

WESTPORT — Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) believes the return of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R - La.)

The Reform Party would like to send our hopes and prayers to Capital Police Officers David Bailey and Crystal Griner, legislative aid Zack Barth, House Majority Whip Steve Scalias and all of their families.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise says he's an even stronger supporter of gun rights after he nearly died after he was shot at a GOP baseball practice over the summer.

In September 2001, then House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (TX - 22) organized Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), a political action committee designed to gather campaign funds for Republican candidates throughout Texas — in particular with an eye to gaining control of the House Speakership, then held by Democrat Pete Laney.

Both comments came after incoming House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R - La., declined to take impeachment off the table on Fox News over the weekend.

Also attending will be House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas.

unless you count the revelations that other Secretaries of State have been doing the same thing for quite some time and the one where Kevin McCarthy, house majority whip, admitted it is being kept going as an election gambit.

With Cantor stepping aside at the end of July, current House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy is the favorite to become the next majority leader.

As House Majority Whip Steve Scalise continues to recover from the shooting at the Republican baseball practice last week, his campaign team sent its support to the Republican candidate in Georgia's 6th Congressional District race.

Republican candidate for Georgia's 6th Congressional district Karen Handel received support from House Majority Whip Steve Scalise's political team.

and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R - La.)

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D - SC) said the tainted Harlem Democrat should admit wrongdoing to settle the 13 violations alleged by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise has been discharged from a hospital more than a month after being shot by an anti-GOP gunman, officials announced today.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was in critical condition last night after being struck by bullets fired by a lone gunman said to be distraught over President Trump's election opened fire on members of the Republican congressional baseball team at a practice field in this Washington suburb.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is no longer in the intensive care unit at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, officials said.

New York's Conservative Party blamed the shooting of House Majority Whip Stephen Scalise on partisan media and anti-Republican «hate.»

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise's team has been pulling district - by - district data to prove to skeptical lawmakers from high - tax states that their constituents will see a tax cut under the plan.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, flanked by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.

Kevin Spacey was also one of the hottest stars to see this weekend, thanks to his role as House Majority Whip Frank Underwood on House of Cards:

Not exact matches

The House of Commons is set to approve the measures with a big majority after the pacifist leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party whip.

«[The blueprint is] no longer even a viable draft that we're working off of,» said Majority Whip Steve Scalise, the House's number three Republican.

Jim Lucas, the assistant majority whip in the Indiana state House of Representatives, has drafted a bill that would require any professional journalist to be licensed by the state police.

He spoke during the Election Thanksgiving Service in honour of the Majority Whip, of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Evans Bipi, at Saint Martin's Anglican Church, Ogu on Sunday.

No other New York City representatives were there the shooter, who reports identified as James T. Hodgkinson of Illinois, opened fire, hitting Rep. Steve Scalise, the majority whip for the House of Representatives, officials said.

Deputy Majority Whip of the House, Mr. Pally Iriase (Edo - APC) gave the hint while speaking with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja after the chamber's plenary.

U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop Lieutenant Governor Greg Bell Attorney General Mark Shurtleff 16 state Senators (including the President Michael G. Waddoups, Majority Leader Scott K. Jenkins and Majority Whip Wayne L. Niederhauser) 42 state Representatives (including House Majority Leader Brad L. Dee)

It was the House Majority Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, who started the argument when he tried to stop the Chief Whip, Mr. Alhassan Ado - Doguwa, from describing the President as a sick man.

On June 19, 2014, Scalise was elected by his Republican colleagues to serve as Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives.

Some of the party leaders at the meeting were Senator Ayoade Adeseun; a former Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mulikat Akande - Adeola; the party's State Chairman of the Interim Management Committee, (Makarfi group), Muraina Ajibola; a former Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide; Dr. Saka Balogun, Chief Jacob Adetoro, Bisi Olopoeniyan, and the immediate past Deputy Whip of the Senate, Senator Hosea Agboola, who was represented by Dayo Ogungbenro.

The Deputy Speaker, Mr. Yussuff; Majority Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila; the Deputy Leader; Mr. Buba Jibril; the Deputy Minority Whip, Mr. Pally Iriase, and other principal officers and some members of the House, attended the meeting.

In 1991 he served a term as majority Whip and was deputy speaker of the house in 1993.

Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Bill Alexander, then chief deputy majority whip of the House.

Similarly, in the House, the majority whip is outranked by both the majority leader and the speaker.

Both houses of Congress, the House of Representatives and Senate, have majority and minority whips.

When the Majority Leader's party loses control of the House, and if the Speaker and Majority Leader both remain in the leadership hierarchy, convention suggests that they would become the Minority Leader and Minority Whip, respectively.

... Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.), House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (Md.) and other Democrats appeared to reject the president's reference to the 1967 lines in his latest attempt to nudge along peace talks, thinking that he was giving away too much, too soon.