Sentences with phrase «republican chair of the committee»

In fact, the Republican chair of the committee, Rep. Steve Kestell of Elkhart Lake, called the funding mechanism for the legislation in its current form a «fatal flaw» in a telephone interview Friday.

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A Republican National Convention delegate screams as the Chair announces that the convention will not hold a roll - call vote on the Republican National Convention Rules Committee's report and rules changes and rejects the efforts of anti-Trump forces to hold such a vote.

Polls show Northam with a small lead over Gillespie, who formerly served as chair of the Republican National Committee.

(WASHINGTON)-- Billionaire Steve Wynn has stepped down as Republican National Committee finance chair, the RNC's chairwoman said, a day after reports that the casino magnate had engaged in multiple instances of sexual harassment.

Two Republican senators say their party should consider returning donations from Republican National Committee finance chair and casino mogul Steve Wynn in light of sexual misconduct allegations against him.

He is also a former chair of the conservative Republican Study Committee.

The House Intelligence Committee late Saturday released a memo, drafted by the committee's minority of Democratic members and seeking to rebut a parallel memo released earlier this month by its Republican majority and chair DevCommittee late Saturday released a memo, drafted by the committee's minority of Democratic members and seeking to rebut a parallel memo released earlier this month by its Republican majority and chair Devcommittee's minority of Democratic members and seeking to rebut a parallel memo released earlier this month by its Republican majority and chair Devin Nunes.

Calling the new CFPB rule «anti-consumer,» the Republican chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Representative Jeb Hensarling said Congress should reject it under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which gives lawmakers power to kill newly minted regulations.

The Obama administration's refusal to either endorse or oppose legislation from Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, the Republican chair and top Democrat respectively of the Senate Intelligence Committee, stems in part from ongoing divisions among various federal agencies over encryption, the sources said.

He's the national deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee.

And he accused Tester of trying to kill Jackson's nomination, despite the fact that Tester's concerns were shared by many Republicans in the Senate, including Sen. Johnny Isakson (R - GA), the Veterans» Affairs Committee chair.

Todd Ricketts, a major GOP donor, will reportedly replace Steve Wynn as finance chair of the Republican National Committee after Wynn stepped down amid sexual - misconduct allegations.

Devin Nunes, a Republican member of Congress and chair of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, authored the memo.

The lawmakers of the Independent Democratic Conference have lost their committee chair posts as the IDC moves to disband and end its alignment with Senate Republicans.

(Recall that he is one of two Republicans — along with Sen. George Maziarz — who agreed to Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson's offer to cross the aisle and chair committees).

While it's clear that GOP chairs are less than thrilled with the idea of putting up Maragos against Gillibrand — despite his pledge to spent up to $ 5 million of his own money — the comptroller nevertheless has the support of the Nassau and Suffolk County Republican committees.

The gubernatorial campaign of Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro on Wednesday announced a half dozen county Republican committee chairs had flipped to endorsing his candidacy.

But Molinaro has racked up the lion's share of the county chairs and, with it, their committees» weighted votes ahead of the May convention, which will confer preferred designation status on a Republican candidate.

Earlier today, Mermel sent out a press release announcing the «personal endorsements of Republican Committee Chair Philip Barnes in Schuyler County and Hermiker County Chair Sylvia Rowan.»

The new chair of the House Rules Committee came under attack for proposing a constitutionally questionable procedural maneuver to pass the controversial Affordable Care Act in 2010, refused to hold town hall meetings during the height of the Tea Party movement, and compared Republicans to Nazis during a fight over abortion access in 2011.

Helming is one of seven lawmakers in the Senate — three Independent Democratic Conference members, plus four Senate Republicans — who were listed falsely as committee chairs on Senate records forwarded to the state comptroller's office.

The memo from counsel David Lewis comes after it was revealed late last week seven lawmakers — three members of the Independent Democratic Conference and four Senate Republican conference members — were designated committee chairs on payroll documents given to the state comptroller's office when they are, in fact, vice chairs.

And finally Young is the Chair of Senate Republican Campaign Committee, the fundraising arm of the Senate Republicans, which is kinda the cherry on the cake here.

The Senate Republicans were the first to break the glass ceiling when they elevated Sen. Cathy Young, of Olean, to chair the Finance Committee in January 2016.

The Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee, South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, said the panel has launched an investigation into the Trump administration's handling of the domestic abuse allegations that forced White House aide Rob Porter to resign last week.

Republican Sen. Pam Helming on Wednesday wrote on Facebook she was never told she would receive a paid stipend as vice chair of a Senate committee.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Wednesday is releasing a trio of social media ads knocking three Republican House members from New York, casting them as empty chairs at town halls in their districts.

Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, 80, chair of the powerful Appropriations Committee, will resign April 1 for health reasons.

Leaders of four New York government reform groups are calling for Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan to stop allowing the unused stipends of Senate committee chairs to be passed to vice-chairs.

Reilich, who is also the chair of the Monroe County Republican Committee, could not be reached for comment Thursday Night.

Dwight Evans, the chief of staff for Senate Banks Committee Chair Joseph Griffo, an upstate Republican, said that lawmakers had decided to leave much of the work of consumer protection in cases of financial fraud to the attorney general's office.

Terry McAuliffe, former chair of the Democratic National Committee and gubernatorial candidate in the 2009 Democratic gubernatorial primary, says that he is hearing from sources on the ground that the lines are being slowed down by Republican poll watchers who are demanding excessive proof, such as extra forms of identification, for many voters.

Eight of the nine Democratic Senators who have given Republicans control of the Senate earned extra stipends meant for committee chairs, even though some of them don't actually chair a committee.

DiNapoli's office signed off on the Senate Republican majority's list of stipend payments — a document that incorrectly identified some recipients as committee chairs.

The bloodletting actually began late last week, when Flanagan stripped four IDC members of their committee chair positions and replaced them with Republican senators.

The longtime chairman of the Nassau County Republican Committee and former state GOP chair is President Donald Trump's choice to serve as U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago.

With critics questioning its legality, a Republican lawmaker on Monday announced she is refusing the $ 12,500 bonus she's getting as vice chair of the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction.

They will be aided by Congress member Luke Messer, from Indiana and chair of the Republicans» House Policy Committee, and by Vice President Mike Pence, also from Indiana of which he is former governor and a former ten year member of the Congress.

He noted Towns, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, was noncommittal when asked by Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican, to subpoena records from the «Friends of Angelo» loan program through which the former CEO of Countrywide Financial charged with fraud and insider trading by the SEC provided sweetheart mortgages to Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and others.

But on Thursday, the New York Times revealed that Peralta, along with colleagues in the IDC, got thousands of dollars in taxpayer money from the state after GOP officials submitted fraudulent paperwork claiming they were the chair of committees that were actually led by Republican senators.

Senate Democrats met with officials last week at the Albany County district attorney's office amid calls for an investigation into the Republican arrangement of giving stipends to committee vice chairs.

Instead, Senate leaders identified her as chair of the Crime Victims, Crime and Correction committee — a post that's actually held by state Sen. Patrick Gallivan, a western New York Republican.

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It has been humbling to have the support of so many Republican County Chairs and State Committee people from all across our state.

Over the weekend, Senate Republicans provided documentation showing that other senators have received committee chair stipends over the years even though they weren't the leaders of the respective panels.

The alternate delegates for Trump from the district will be William Heary of Union Springs in Cayuga County and Holly Carpenter from Fulton in Oswego County, where she is vice chair of the Oswego County Republican Committee.

Additionally, Middletown Republican Sen. John Bonacic, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he was in «no rush» to confirm whoever Cuomo nominates to fill the Court of Appeals vacancy that came up earlier this year when former Judge Sheila Abdus - Salaam died.

In addition to Senate Republicans that have benefited from the practice, three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, which has a power - sharing arrangement with the GOP, receive stipends despite not serving as committee chairs or having leadership posts.

The group also includes Buffalo Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti and Long Island Democratic Assemblyman Bob Sweeney, both of whom chair their respective Environmental Conservation committees in the Senate and Assembly.

Matt Nelligan, spokesman for the Republican chair of the State Senate energy committee George Maziarz, told Capital, «It may be political.