Sentences with phrase «junior senator take»

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When the book deal was announced, the publisher said the book will detail the rise of the GOP star and junior senator born to parents who left Cuba shortly before Fidel Castro took control of the island.

Dadey noted Gillibrand's recent most liberal ranking from The National Journal (she actually tied for first place with Oregon's Jeff Merkley) and borrowed a phrase from a state GOP press release that slammed the junior senator for undergoing a «liberal makeover taking her from Annie Oakley to Jane Fonda.»

The Long Island congressman and New York's junior senator fired off a letter to Lawrence F. Probst, chair of the US Olympic Committee, asking that he and the Board of Directors «take immediate steps to guarantee that this embarrassment does not happen again by voting that any future contracts for Olympic uniforms are made in America.»

«It's a disservice to women, and it's something that I think is wrong and unacceptable,» said the junior senator earlier today at a rally for Rep. Scott Murphy, who took her old House seat in NY - 20.

So far, Cuomo has yet to hold any such press conference, and he continues (as a matter of course, beyond issues related to the presidential campaign) to shun the Sunday mornings shows, where Schumer regularly pushes the president's talking points, and where New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand recently took a turn attacking Republicans for their «war on women.»

Malpass doesn't specifically name the junior senator in the spot Instead, he takes aim at what he calls «Washington's tax - and - spend culture.»

But the junior senator from New York, who holds Clinton's former seat and is often overshadowed by the state's better - known political figures, is quietly building a résumé that would allow her to be taken seriously should she ever decide to run for president.

WASHINGTON - As the U.S. Senate gets set to again take up the Farm Bill in the coming weeks, New York Junior Senator Senator is saying there needs to be long - term support and a fair safety net for small dairy farmers in New York State and across the... [Read more...]

1) 2012 Democratic Presidential nominee Robert Wexler beats Obama as libertarian / progressive fusion Democrat with 4 wars going and national debt at $ 16 trillion 2) Cory Booker for Lautenberg's seat in NJ; expect retirement soon 3) New House Majority Leader Debbie Wasserman - Schultz 4) Junior Senator Nevada Republican Jon Porter takes care of Reid 5) Jeff Flake moves up to a leadership post among House Republicans, will become # 2 when Cantor replaces Boehner 6) Joe Sestak, Jr, upsets Specter in PA 7) Raul Grijalva beats random Minuteman for retired John McCain's seat 8) Xavier Becerra next Governor of California 9) Bill Thompson next Mayor Of New York City 10) Next Speaker Of The House (2010): Melvin Watt

That aggressiveness and self - confidence has endeared her to the powerful politicians who share her impatience to get ahead — including Hillary Clinton, whose seat she'll take; David Paterson, who appointed her to it; and Chuck Schumer, who'll be the senior senator to her junior.

The New York junior senator says she's supporting laws that would allow police and state governments to take guns away from people found guilty of domestic abuse.

They discuss her criticisms of New York's junior Senator, her chances of winning the race, and her take on U.S. policy in the Middle East.

All three can likely count on Congress to back them up: Oregon's junior U.S. Senator, Jeff Meckley, holds a seat on the Senate's appropriations subpanel overseeing the Department of Education's budget, while Kansas's senators, Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, are already taking on the administration over its support for Common Core implementation.