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The payments technically were given up by Republican chairmen of those committees who were getting larger payments for other duties.

(CNN)- A special House committee in South Carolina will formally consider an impeachment resolution against Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next Tuesday, the Republican chairman of the committee told CNN Friday.

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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Republican Study Committee, North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker, said Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen should step down as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee for voting against the final version of the GOP tax reform plan that passed Tuesday afternoon.

Ralph Northam, a folksy Democrat from the Eastern Shore, beat out Ed Gillespie, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, in Virginia's heated gubernatorial race.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks with Robert «Mike» Duncan, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, left, during a walk through inside the Quicken Loans Arena «The Q» ahead of the Republican National Convention.

Separately, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and Ranking Republican Charles Grassley sent the parties a detailed request for much of the same information, as well the names of the government and corporate officials who negotiated the deal, along with their outside advisers.

The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, also said Monday that the Senate should expel Moore if he were to win the December 12 election.

Pennsylvania Representative Bill Shuster, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has encouraged his Republican colleagues to consider raising the gas tax as a way to keep the Highway Trust Fund — which funds road, bridge and transit projects — solvent after 2021.

In one of the strongest statements by Republicans, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said, «I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Director Comey's termination.»

Four U.S. House Republicans, including the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, on Friday wrote Apple chief executive Tim Cook asking him to answer questions about its disclosure that it slowed older iPhones with flagging batteries.

Thus far, 64.8 % of its contributions have gone to Republicans, and some of the largest recipients have been Republican Rep. Mac Thornberry, who is the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Republican Rep. Robert Aderholt.

Hensarling, the chairman of the House Republican Congress, was a co-chair of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, better known as the «Super Committee.»

The Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday promised a thorough investigation into any direct links between Russia and Republican Donald Trump during his successful 2016 run for the White House.

Republicans have called on the House Financial Services Committee to hold a hearing, while Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, chairman of the domestic policy subcommittee of House Oversight Committee, is planning his own probe.

Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, implored Wray during a hearing on Thursday to «repair the damage done by» former FBI Director James Comey.

«I applaud the president for targeting unfairly traded steel and aluminum,» Representative Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told reporters in Mexico City on Sunday.

Fred Upton, a Republican congressman from Michigan and chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, put his finger on the larger issue facing governments worldwide at a recent hearing: «Was Solyndra just one bad bet by an administration rushing to claim credit for the first loan guarantee, or is it the tip of the iceberg?»

Reince Priebus is the former chairman of the Republican National Committee.

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Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady, R - Texas, talks with President Donald Trump during a meeting on tax policy with Republican lawmakers in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday, Nov. 02, 2017.

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, inserted a last - minute «unmasking» provision that would change the intelligence community's process for identifying US citizens caught up in foreign surveillance.

Republican Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said he would allow the bill to come to a vote if Secretary of State Rex Tillerson did not make progress soon on improving relations with Russia on the Syrian civil war.

Representative Kevin Brady, chairman of the tax - writing House Ways and Means Committee, told reporters that Republicans on the House - Senate negotiating committee working on the revamped bill had signed the finished product and the details would be published when the full House convenes at 5:30 pCommittee, told reporters that Republicans on the House - Senate negotiating committee working on the revamped bill had signed the finished product and the details would be published when the full House convenes at 5:30 pcommittee working on the revamped bill had signed the finished product and the details would be published when the full House convenes at 5:30 p.m. EST..

Republican lawmakers from high - tax states such as New York exited meetings this week with Kevin Brady, chairman of the tax - writing committee of the House of Representatives, saying there would be some sort of compromise on repealing the deduction for state and local tax payments.

«I expect it to be front and center» at the meeting, said Kevin Brady, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, which oversees U.S. trade policy.

Conroe is near Houston and in the congressional district of Republican Representative Kevin Brady, chairman of the House tax committee and a champion of restricting the SALT deduction.

Nevertheless, the article has prompted the Republican chairmen of the House intelligence and oversight committees to announce a joint investigation of the merger.

May 23, 2016: Facebook's general counsel responds to Congress Republicans concerned about bias with a letter; the previous week, Facebook's legal team met with chairman of the US Senate Commerce Committee, John Thune.

Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, called tariffs «a tax hike the American people don't need and can't afford.»

Before the hearing on Tuesday, Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent letters to Mr. Pichai and Mr. Dorsey with 14 questions.

Then Hensarling served as executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which works to get GOP candidates elected, while Gramm was its chairman.

Staff for Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said Mr. Zuckerberg and the senator were scheduled to meet on Monday.

Those votes highlighted the fervent free - market ideology that has made Hensarling, now chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, the proud leader of the drive by congressional Republicans to roll back tougher federal oversight of the financial system.

Texas and South Carolina are home to leading opponents of the bank, including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Tea Party favorite and Republican presidential candidate; Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, who, as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has defied Speaker John A. Boehner and refused to bring any bank bill to a vote in his panel; and Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, a leader among conservatives in the House.

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.

But Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Representative Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, the Judiciary Committee's chairman, have given no indication of how they would proceed, and aides say privately that Republican leaders view the possibility of Mr. Mueller's firing as too improbable to warrant hypothetical discussions.

Cohen said he had three clients: Trump; Elliott Broidy, the former deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, who impregnated and then paid a woman with whom he had an affair; and a third party that Cohen said did not want to be identified.

Republican Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate armed services committee, said on Fox News that Tillerson's relationship with Putin is «a matter of concern.»

Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee released a statement saying that he had spoken with President Trump's chief of staff John Kelly and made clear his support for «a comprehensive strategy that not only places an emphasis on deterrence but also empowers our allies and partners in the region, who must do far more to confront this threat.»

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.

But with the House scheduled to adjourn for the year next week, House Republicans are preparing to vote on the short - term measure, said Rep. Dave Camp, R - Mich., chairman of the tax - writing House Ways and Means Committee.

«There is much to like about it,» Representative Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said of the draft letter.

Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes.

«Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes,» the committee's Democrats said in a sCommittee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes,» the committee's Democrats said in a scommittee's Democrats said in a statement.

Republicans as prominent as former House Speaker John Boehner and Kevin Brady, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, have floated capping muni income.

As the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Baucus was focused on passing a reform bill that moderate Republicans could support.

On Monday, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called on the Facebook CEO to appear at an April 10 hearing about data privacy.

Judd Gregg, a former Republican senator from New Hampshire, served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee from 2005 to 2007 and ranking member from 2007 to 2011.

United States Newsmakers After the Republican victory in the 2014 US midterm elections and an eight - year hiatus, Richard Shelby, a senior senator from Alabama, has taken over his old post as chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

Many Republican leaders, from presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, also have called on Akin to get out of the race.