Sentences with phrase «leader of the house after»

In the Lords, he served as Leader of the House after Labour's return to power in 1997.

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«The President multiple times reaffirmed in general to all of us, and looked at Larry Kudlow, and said Larry go get it done,» Sasse said after exiting a White House meeting with the President about trade and agriculture that he attended with several governors and congressional leaders who represent states that they say will be adversely impacted by the President's recently announced tariffs.

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.

House Minority Leader John Boehner, R - Ohio, smokes a cigarette after a news conference outside of Tart Lumber Company in Sterling, Va..

«Both heads of state agreed to cooperate closely with each other and the United States and shared the understanding there must be the most powerful sanctions and pressure applied on North Korea,» presidential Blue House spokesman Park Su - hyun told a media briefing after the two leaders spoke by phone.

One day after Trump accepted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's invitation to meet, Tillerson was woken up in his hotel room by a phone call from White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, sources said in the report.

I think she is astonishingly good in terms of running the Congress and as a Democratic leader,» Steyer, who is also from California, said after being asked whether Pelosi should remain the House Democrats» leader.

Billionaire Tom Steyer, one of the leading Democratic donors in the 2018 election cycle, has plenty of praise for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., but he stopped short of publicly supporting her to lead the party in Congress after this year's midterm elections.

Western allies press Trump to maintain nuclear deal with Iran: Reuters US intelligence monitors Iranian cargo shipments into Syria: CNN A trade war is a major risk for China's debt - ridden economy: CNBC Federal judge orders gov» t must accept new DACA immigration applications: WaPo Unification of Koreas still unlikely as leaders prepare to meet: Reuters US Consumer Confidence Index rebounded in April after March decline: CB New home sales in US increased to 4 - month high in March: MarketWatch Richmond Fed Mfg Index turns negative for first time since 2016: Bond Buyer S&P Case - Shiller Home Price Index surged in Feb, up 6.3 % y - o - y: CNBC Federal Housing Finance Agency: US house prices continued to rise in Feb: HW Corp bonds with lowest investment - grade rating look vulnerable: Bloomberg 10 - year Treasury yield reaches 3.0 % for first time since 2014: CNN Money

The longtime House majority leader will benefit from a sweetener provision that grants massive pension spikes to career lawmakers after one year of retirement.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told fellow Democrats to change their phone numbers and not let family members read their text messages after a cybersecurity breach led to the release of personal information of members of Congress and their staff.

After several embarrassing setbacks, Republican leaders, under pressure from the White House, spent much of last week weighing whether to hold a vote on the measure that included the new amendment, which was negotiated by New Jersey Representative Tom MacArthur and North Carolina Representative Mark Meadows, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus.

Republican House and Senate leaders said they had gathered more than the constitutionally required signatures of three - fourths of the members of each chamber to summon themselves into a special session that will start at 6:30 p.m. on May 18 — just 30 minutes after the end of work in their regular session.

When the Opposition leader noted in the House of Commons, in 2012, that a federal study had shown that Canada was falling prey to «Dutch disease» (named after the 1960s oil boom, which devastated other exports in the Netherlands), Conservative MP Kellie Leitch offered the government's response: «The leader of the Opposition wants to call Canadian employers a disease.»

The Obama White House keeps in close contact with American Jewish leaders, trumpeting what it says is a close relationship with Israel around developments like this month's transport of the Israeli ambassador and staff out of Egypt after the Jewish state's embassy there was attacked, an operation in which the United States played a major role.

There is deep disquiet in Westminster after this week's prime minister's questions, with MPs on both sides of the House speaking out against their party leaders for helping Ukip.

Leader of the House Harriet Harman announced the decision today, after requests from senior Liberal Democrats.

After roundly castigating fellow Democrats and Republicans alike during his announcement speech yesterday and proposing a host of policy positions that seemed tailor - made to get under the speaker's skin, Cuomo today dodged the question about Silver, (the longest - serving legislative leader in Albany), saying it's not his place to determine who leads either house.

After a prime minister's questions dominated by Liam Fox, and a statement from the leader of the House all about Liam Fox, it came as something of a surprise to see the man himself bustling quietly into the Commons chamber.

Nick Clegg and David Cameron had been wrestling each other for months over House of Lords reform, with the Liberal Democrat leader very publicly pulling the plug on his pet project in August 2012 after the prime minister admitted he would not be able to guarantee the support of his backbenches for the far - reaching reform.

After current Leader of the House David Liddington answered Bryant's question on refurbishing the Commons Bercow was able to declare kiss - a-ginger day a «rum business» having ordered one of his clerks to google it.

@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of comHouse of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of comhouse of commons.

President Donald Trump (C) makes a statement from the Roosevelt Room next to the empty chairs of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (L), D - New York, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (R), D - California, after they cancelled their meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 28, 2017.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California has been working to keep fellow California Republicans on board after Rep. Darrell Issa peeled off last week.

Now that the US House of Representatives has voted for a tax overhaul plan that some state leaders say will harm New York, the action moves to the Senate, where a vote is expected after Thanksgiving.

The former Labour leader has announced he will vote against the government's motion after listening to this afternoon's ongoing debate in the House of Commons.

[32] On 28 June 2007, after she became Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Brown was appointed Prime Minister, Harman joined Brown's Cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Privy Seal and Minister for Women and Equality, and was also given the title of Labour Party Chair.

Recall that Million was once declared wanted by Lagos State former Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, in December 2012, after he led a four - man gang of kidnappers to abduct former Majority Leader of Lagos State House of Assembly, Tofeeq Adeniji, in Lagos, and took him through the rivers to Delta State, where he demanded N30 million as ransom.

With Speaker Bercow barely able to warm his new big green chair, the daggers were already drawn, with some unpleasant off and on the record briefing against him, a less than gracious welcome by Alan Duncan, Shadow Leader of the House, and a quite distasteful contribution from Nadine Dorries parading herself round the media outlets the day after Mr Bercow's election.

The leader of the Senate, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, told journalists after observing jumaat prayer with President Buhari at the State House in Abuja that it is the duty of the National Assembly to make additions, subtraction and adjustments to the Appropriation Bill.

After a tumultuous week, in which House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary, here is a look at the financial side of the races to watch in less than two weeks: Incumbents in Primary Trouble New York's 13 District Democratic Rep. Charles B. Rangel is in the political fight of his life.

In a statement to MPs after abandoning plans to reform the Lords last month, the deputy prime minister also rejected out of hand modest changes to the upper house proposed by the former Liberal leader Lord Steel of Aikwood.

The Chairperson of the DCCC is the fourth ranking position among House Democrats, after the Minority Leader, the Minority Whip and the Democratic Caucus Chairperson.

Months after the convictions of leaders of both houses of the Legislature, and days before their sentencings, Albany's ethics laws remain unchanged.

Introduced in 1975 and named after the then leader of the House, Edward Short, this is a form of ring - fenced public funding of opposition parties to assist their work in parliament.

After the 2005 election, Blair ruthlessly demoted him to the job of leader of the house.

That's the conclusion some Buffalo lawyers and political types reached last week after Schumer, now the Democratic Senate minority leader and New York's senior senator, signed onto the White House's appointment of Buffalo attorney John L. Sinatra Jr. to fill a judicial vacancy in Buffalo.

Washington (CNN)- After cameras left the photo - op of President Barack Obama and congressional leaders at the White House on Friday, the actual meeting got under way with the president explaining how he would like to resolve the fiscal cliff and tackle deficit reduction.

The 64 - year - old former Welsh Secretary said he had made his decision to leave the House of Commons after discussion with Labour leader Ed Miliband.

Waxman's comments came shortly after a representative of a group of fiscally conservative House Democrats urged congressional leaders to slow the pace of health care deliberations.

WASHINGTON — A few hours after Conor Lamb, the Pennsylvania Democrat, claimed victory in a House race with a vow to oppose his party's leader, Nancy Pelosi, the once - and - perhaps - future speaker was explaining to a group of female congressional candidates why she did not retire after 2016.

WASHINGTON (Oct. 6)- If the Democrats win control of the House of Representatives in November elections, the party's House leader Nancy Pelosi says in a matter of days she would «drain the swamp» after more than a decade of Republican rule.

GOP leaders allowed the votes in a compromise after Amash and a group of libertarian Republicans threatened to join with Democrats to defeat the rule to the Defense bill on the House floor.

Less than 10 days after the 2015 general election the Labour leader in the House of Lords said that party needed a break clause with their new leader in 2018.

The mayor said that if lawmakers don't act on reforms, they'll lose a shot at redemption after a year in which leaders in both houses of the Legislature have been arrested on federal corruption charges.

Mr. Lopez, who as the Democratic leader in Brooklyn and chairman of the Assembly's housing committee projected great influence across New York City and the state, resigned in May 2013 after a state ethics commission released a report about his alleged behavior including groping of female staff members and other unwanted sexual advances.

The statement comes as Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are still trying to line up votes for the health care bill, which has stalled over the last several months, but revived after conservative groups pushed for action on the issue.

He is expected to be offered something more substantial in a reshuffle soon after June 23, possibly replacing Chris Grayling as Leader of the House.

David Cameron accused Jeremy Corbyn of being a «small c conservative» at Prime Minister's Questions today, after the Labour leader looked to savage the government's housing policy.

He approved the establishment of an in - house Committee after he accepted a proposal from the Majority leader, Osei Kyei Mensah - Bonsu.