Sentences with phrase «republican leaders of the house»

More importantly for today's Republican leaders of the House and Senate, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, respectively, the story of how Cleveland winged himself back into office presents a cautionary tale that should dissuade their embrace of the current president's more protectionist proclivities.

The powerful Republican leader of the House tax - writing committee, Kevin Brady, of Texas, said he won't accept the Senate's plan to fully eliminate the state and local tax deduction that's vital to states like New York and New Jersey.

Gentile previously worked as a legislative assistant for House Speaker John Boehner when he was the Republican leader of the House.

After virtually ignoring the nation's biggest environmental issue for years, Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are planning a major hearing on climate change on Sept. 18 and are inviting leaders of 13 federal agencies to testify.

The organization, which acts as the federal government's landlord, owns or leases 9,600 assets and maintains an inventory of more than 362 million sq. ft. of space, according to a report issued by the Republican leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has long been congressional Republicans» favorite boogeyman to link opponents to in the hopes of cultivating a narrative of out of touch, liberal elitism.

Names of his potential replacements have been floated all week: Trump's chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn; Republican Rep. Mark Meadows; House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy; and Mulvaney.

Top Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, have called on Moore to drop out of the race.

Meanwhile, GOP leader Donald Trump has seen his lead in Wisconsin evaporate, giving way to Ted Cruz, as Trump has clashed with Republican leaders in the state such as former presidential candidate Gov. Scott Walker and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (a Wisconsin congressman).

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

When asked whether House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans in Congress would consider his trillion - dollar infrastructure plan, Trump boasted he was popular with the party's leaders on Capitol Hill.

(Bloomberg)-- The White House is scaling back its plan to seek cuts from already - passed spending bills in the face of resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and spending panel Republicans, two GOP congressional aides briefed on the plan said Thursday.

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.

Senate Democrats have been frustrated by a lack of movement by Cornyn and other Republican leaders, and say GOP leadership in the House and Senate is the reason Congress has not been able to act to prevent another mass shooting like Parkland.

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.

The White House and Republican leaders in Congress are discussing ways to jointly push through an overhaul of the tax code in the remainder of 2017 that cuts taxes and allows corporations to bring back trillions of dollars in overseas earnings to the United States.

In a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic and Republican leaders of the state House and Senate Wednesday, Schneiderman asked state lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow for prosecuting people on the state level for the exact crimes they were convicted of — and pardoned for — on the federal level.

Dubbed «Ryancare» or «Trumpcare» (over the objection of White House staff), the Republican health care bill is under attack from left and right, with even conservative leaders calling it «Obamacare Lite», «bad policy», a «warmed - over substitute,» and «dead on arrival.»

But Meadows, who leads a group of hard - liners that has frequently frustrated House Republican leaders, said attaching Harvey aid to a debt - ceiling increase would be a «terrible idea» that would be «conflating two very different issues.»

assured Republican members of the Texas and Louisiana House delegations that leaders would move as soon as next week to provide funding.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin is among the Republicans from outside California who have contributed to the campaign to repeal the state's gas - tax increase, showing the effort has national interest from GOP leaders who see it as a way to boost their party's chances in the Golden State for this year's election.

NAHB Chairman Randy Noel and First Vice Chairman Greg Ugalde conducted two days of meetings this week with Republican and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to keep housing in the forefront of the national agenda.

The latest version of the House GOP bill, which Republican leaders are trying to figure out whether they have the votes to pass this week, wouldn't live up to that promise and would weaken those protections.

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.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi commandeered the House floor Wednesday for a day - into - night marathon plea to Republicans for action on immigration, casting the fate of young undocumented immigrants in moral terms.

Once the bill had passed, Republican leaders immediately began attempts to reconcile differences between the Senate's plans and an alternate version put forward by their colleagues in the House of Representatives.

He has the republican and the democratic leaders of both the house and senate come and within minutes he's struck a deal with the democratic leaders.

Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate and House VA committees — who were briefed by Missal on Wednesday morning — said in a joint statement that they were «disappointed» by the findings and urged Shulkin to «actively address» all of the allegations.

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.

President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president's advisers nervous that he does not grasp the gravity of the threat they face in the midterm elections.

It's bottled up anger for a black young lawyer and «community organizer» (only in the republican party where community organizer is a derogatory word) who was able to reach new heights and be the leader of the white house.

In last week's down - to - the - wire budget battle between the White House and Republican leaders, for example, it was a GOP effort to defund Planned Parenthood — a longtime enemy of Christian conservatives — that emerged as a final stumbling block.

Boehner, Catholic by faith and Republican by party, was able to garner enough votes in the House for the passage of HR 1, the House budget proposal that has drawn the ire of many religious leaders.

As any child (or parent) can attest, the word «no» is powerful indeed, and as the leader of the House Republicans, John Boehner wields that power today.

Billed as a «day of prayer and fasting,» it also involved dozens of conservative Christian leaders whose support is coveted by most of the Republican White House hopefuls.

Tom DeLay, the Republican majority leader of the House of Representatives, confided to a Texas Baptist audience that God had made Bush president «to promote a biblical world - view.»

Why won't SNA leaders and House Republicans stand up for our children's health instead of trying to dismantle nutrition standards that are improving their lives?

The average majority members in both houses voted with their respective leaders between 97.41 percent (Assembly Democrats) and 98.87 percent (Senate Republicans) of the time.

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.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that he pressed for the renomination of attorney Kathleen Sweet to be Buffalo's first female federal judge, but that the Trump White House insisted on nominating John L. Sinatra Jr. — a Republican being pushed by Rep. Chris Collins — for the judicial vacancy instead.

Salon's War Room critiques the online version of a stategy presentation delivered by House Republican Leader John Boehner.

«Leader McConnell gave Schumer the wiggle room to save some amount of face and get out of it without making any commitments that would bind the House in any way to having legislation on the president's desk,» Republican Rep. Chris Collins said Monday night.

But Mr. Obama needs 34 votes to sustain a promised veto of legislation disapproving the deal, which Republican leaders in the House and the Senate have promised to pass in September.

It's fitting that Sen. John McCain's memoir, likely his last, will arrive just as a bipartisan contingent of House lawmakers is seeking to work around Republican leaders» objections to moving an immigration bill.

The reports prompted Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other lawmakers — including several Republicans — to call for the White House to provide the Senate panel with any transcripts of the meeting.

CLARENCE, N.Y. — In early June, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo joined forces with Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, and declared in no uncertain terms that he would do whatever he could to help unseat six Republican members of New York's congressional delegation in next year's midterm elections.

(CNN)- The Democratic National Committee will release a new ad Tuesday targeting House Minority Leader John Boehner - the congressman in line to become Speaker of the House should Republicans emerge victorious this November.

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.

Those include the sudden departure of his political director and continuing resistance by many Republican leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, to declaring their support for his outsider candidacy.

The 40 - second video shows clips of House Minority Leader John Boehner and Illinois Republican Rep. Peter Roskam on Thursday morning touting their plan to help small businesses before flashing to coverage of the House voting to pass a $ 30 billion small business bill.