Sentences with phrase «other committee democrats»

Other committee Democrats hope the conversation will be more moderate going forward.

Another Higgins amendment, co-sponsored by two other committee Democrats, would have restored the historic preservation tax credits that the bill strips away — which, Higgins said, have been key to downtown Buffalo's revival.

Not exact matches

Democrats have not said whether they will take any seats on the Republican - majority special committee, saying the new probe - following several other congressional investigations on Benghazi - is also aimed at damaging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chances if she runs for president in 2016.

«I think it's time for the CEO, Mr. Zuckerberg, and other top officials to come and testify and not tell part of the story, but tell the whole story of their involvement — not only with the Trump campaign but their ability to have their platform misused by the Russians,» Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told ABC News.

Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander and Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, have partnered with Democrats on bills that would reel in rate hikes by resuming reimbursements for insurers who pick up low - income customers costs on the Obamacare exchanges and freeing up billions for a «reinsurance» program that blunts the cost of customers with big claims, so others don't have to pay more.

Stewart dismissed suggestions from Democrats on the panel and others that the investigation by the committee's Republican majority was incomplete.

Earlier Monday, two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrat Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Republican John Kennedy of Louisiana, asked Chairman Chuck Grassley, R - Iowa., to hold a hearing so senators can publicly grill Zuckerberg and other social media CEOs.

Three Democrat senators declared their intention to break ranks with other Senate Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee, ahead of the vote.

House Democrats on the committee, on the other hand, say that the memo is merely part of Trump's strategy to discredit Rosenstein, replace him as deputy attorney general, and ultimately end the Mueller investigation.

Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on NBC's «Meet the Press» that he questioned «the use of this really sketchy firm Cambridge Analytica,» but Facebook «blew that off» as they did other concerns over Russia's actions.

Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, senior Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, said repealing the stream protection rule would «sicken and kill the very people Donald Trump falsely promised to help,» coal miners in West Virginia and other states.

The South Buffalo Democrat told Capital Tonight's Liz Benjamin that Poloncarz and the committee leadership have their «reasoning» for endorsing Grant, but he believes those reasons aren't shared by other Democrats in Western New York.

It's not clear why, exactly, the resolution was set aside, with some insisting the resolution was tabled over concerns from upstate committee members that the money would be spent on downstate legislative campaigns, others sympathetic to Senate Democrats pointing to those on the committee who are allies of the governor.

Stringer, who is preparing for a likely 2013 NYC mayoral bid, actually opened a federal committee to explore a run against Gillibrand, backed off after other, more high - profile, Democrats got calls from the White House to cease and desist.

The other campaign committee is yet to report, and the Democrat could easily just use Wright 2012 for this cycle.

Pigeon and several other disgruntled democrats recently formed a Political Action Committee to support several candidates mounting primary challenges against a number of party endorsed democrats.

Karl Rove and other prominent Republicans have so little faith in party chair Michael Steele's ability to run a competent political operation that they've created competing fundraising committees, the «527s» that promised so much and delivered so little for Democrats in 2004.

Senate Democrats are in full re-election mode, with Gianaris, the DSCC chairman, telling Liz earlier this month that the money being raised by the committee won't go toward paying down their remaining $ 1.5 million debt, but field work and other campaign activity.

Members of the host committee, which is still in formation, include a number of other Assembly Democrats from both upstate and NYC.

Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Cathy Nolan, a Queens Democrat, offered a veiled criticism of the governor in her remarks on the floor, saying she and many other lawmakers felt the policy would spur a revolt.

Lisa Levy from Bay Ridge Democrats jumped in to point out that the County rules require a discussion of committee reports, such as that produced by the Special Committee on Rules, before any other business is entcommittee reports, such as that produced by the Special Committee on Rules, before any other business is entCommittee on Rules, before any other business is entertained.

With one other non-IDC Democrat named Simcha Felder, these 9 Democratic State Senators chose to abandon their party for a «majority coalition» with the minority Republicans, giving them control over what bills come to a vote, who gets important committee posts, and makes it impossible for any progressive legislation to become law.

In the race for the 21st, four out of the five Democrats and Ms. Stefanik have received donations flagged by the political finance website OpenSecrets.org as coming from political action committees or other candidate committees, as of the last filing date on March 31.

, ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, joined with two other Democrats on the panel in a letter to Walker challenging the governor & rsquo; s testimony on Capitol Hill last year to the effect that his anti-union law was not intended to punish Democrats and their donor base.

The governor's speech gained him attention beyond New York; the Democratic National Committee distributed the text, and it was praised by Democrats in other states.

Rookie Democrat Lynn Archer from Rochester took a pass, explaining that she, like other legislators, had received the budget only on the evening of the committee vote.

Clearly vulnerable Democrats would rather exit Congress voluntarily than be forced out by voters because of their support for Obamacare and other disastrous Democrat economic policies,» Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the National Republican Campaign Committee chairman, said in a statement.

Already embroiled in an ethics probe now entering its tenth month, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D - N.Y.), chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, received more bad news Wednesday night as the House ethics committee announced it would look into Caribbean trips taken by the veteran lawmaker and four other DCommittee, received more bad news Wednesday night as the House ethics committee announced it would look into Caribbean trips taken by the veteran lawmaker and four other Dcommittee announced it would look into Caribbean trips taken by the veteran lawmaker and four other Democrats.

Assembly Education Committee Chair Cathy Nolan, a Queens Democrat, offered a veiled criticism of the governor, in her remarks on the floor, saying she and many other lawmakers felt the policy would spur a revolt.

Making the host committee for the event are former Florida Education Commissioner Betty Castor, Tampa City Councilman Harry Cohen, former U.S. Rep. Jim Davis, former state Sen. Arthenia Joyner, former CFO Alex Sink and a host of other major Democrats in the Tampa Bay area.

NationBuilder co-founder Joe Green says that the company is having productive conversations about those features with Democrats in other types of organizations, like the caucus committees that seek to achieve majorities in state legislatures by bringing in support for key candidates.

«There's just too much money on the other side for the Democrats to close the gap,» said Democratic National Committee vice chairman Donna Brazile.

Other big spenders include New Yorkers Together, an independent expenditure committee funded by the United Automobile Workers and Communications Workers of America, which has spent $ 425,986 helping Democrats.

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Democrats said they made no promises to Mr. Specter about committee positions or other incentives to switch, but the party can provide significant campaign support and deter other Democratic candidates from running against him in the primary next year.

I guess they did not read the papers with regard to Pensiongate» and all those well connected Democrats who are returning the Millions of dollars that they received from the Pension System and lets not forget that Congressman Meeks records was subpoenaed by the Feds, and who can forget what Hank Morris lawyers said «everyone does it» and lets not forget the State IG and his battle with the Sampson the Bipartisan and the other leaders of the Democratic Senate Crazy» Committee it seems the don't want to give him there records with regard to the Racino scandal.

He added the issue still remains a «line in the sand» for him this legislative session, saying that it also made the case of taking up his other provisions in the overhaul package, such as ending soft money party committees, a move that Assembly Democrats have not included in their legislation.

Of that total, $ 50,000 came directly from the four other members of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of breakaway Democrats that Mr. Avella belongs to, or the IDC's political action committee.

In exchange, these fake Democrats got higher pay, committee chairmanships, and other perks.

Making the end - game targeted message taxes, terror, gay marriage, other social issues galore, liberal Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, and would - be Democratic committee chairs who happen to be liberal African - Americans.

Other minority legislators are in power positions like Buffalo Democrat Crystal Peoples - Stokes who is chair of the Assembly Governmental Operations Committee and chair of the caucus weekend.

The other scandal involves Senator Shirley Huntley, also a Democrat, who lost her committee postings after she was arrested.

Syed, who co-founded the local chapter of the South Asian - American political action committee, has contributed thousands of dollars to Mangano and other politicians, Republican and Democrat.

Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, a Democrat from Buffalo who chairs his chamber's economic development committee, supported the funding for Western New York but has been pushing other reforms, including a measure that would require members of the regional councils to formally file financial disclosure forms currently required of lawmakers and other officials.

A long - awaited Senate Intelligence Committee interview with Donald Trump Jr. won't happen this month, said top panel Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia, as senators continue to probe a meeting he took with lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and other Russians last June.

The committee, launching a similar effort to its Democratic counterpart, is launching radio ads, robocalls and other measures to try to put pressure on the Democrats.

The demand took place not long after Robinson and other workers had voted to support another Democrat, Lynne Mahoney, as chair of the county committee over Wade.

I expect there will be quite a few other changes as the Democrats settle back into the minority and try to determine who gets what ranking committee chairmanships.

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

, chairman of the Armed Services Committee — and other Republicans and Democrats — have called for a select committee probe of the famous campaign emaCommittee — and other Republicans and Democrats — have called for a select committee probe of the famous campaign emacommittee probe of the famous campaign email hacks.