Sentences with phrase «republican members of the committee»

Five Republican members of the committee, under pressure from the superintendents in their districts, broke ranks.

Mr. Gore was gently challenged by some Republican members of the committee who wanted him to endorse nuclear power as a clean alternative to coal and to endorse returning to the public all revenues from a carbon reduction regime.

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Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a member of the Armed Services Committee, said it was too soon to say whether that panel would become involved in reviewing or investigating the allegations.

Another Tea Party freshman, Graves sits on the powerful House Committee on Appropriations, and is another member of the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus.

He is also a member of the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus.

During his 10 years in the House, he served on the powerful Appropriations Committee, and as a member of the Liberty Caucus and the Republican Study Committee.

«He had a deep thirst for the nuances of the tax code, and then he got on Ways and Means Committee and those were the years that Republicans were in charge and people gravitated toward bright members of Congress, and Paul happened to be one of those,» said Richard Hunt, CEO of the Consumer Bankers Association.

An April 12th letter from Republican members of the House of Representatives, sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of Pompeo's nomination, approvingly cited Pompeo's «five years serving in the United States Army, including in the Gulf War.»

Franks, a four - term Congressman from Arizona, is another active member of the Republican Study Committee.

A staunch social and fiscal conservative, Broun is a member of both the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus.

Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., greets Toss Valentine, right, of Concord, N.C., after a news conference with GOP leadership and members of the House Ways and Means Committee in Longworth Building to unveil the Republicans» tax reform plan on November 2, 2017.

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.

U.S. Senate Republicans» version of a tax cut bill will delay corporate rate cuts by one year to take effect in 2019, and will not include a repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate, Republican Senate Finance Committee member Bill Cassidy said ahead of the plan's release later on Thursday.

On Sunday, Sen. Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican and a member of the intelligence committee, said the president would be «better served by getting all this information out.»

«We're very, very close to a historic legislative victory the likes of which rarely this country has ever seen,» Trump told reporters at a lunch with Republican members of the conference committee negotiating the bill.

A South Carolina Republican and member of the U.S. Senate's armed services, budget and appropriations committees, Graham added that if it's not the U.S., «it will be one of the biggest energy blunders in our history.»

USA TODAY obtained a copy of a letter that the Republican Study Committee, which has more than 150 Republican House members, plans to send to McConnell warning him not to make the bill too moderate.

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.

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.

As the Washington Post's Elise Viebeck and Shane Harris noted, four Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee on Sunday dissented from Trump's view that corruption has poisoned the Russia investigation in different televised interviews.

«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.

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

«We will get it done,» said Rep. Andy Harris, a Baltimore County Republican who sits on the House Appropriations Committee and is a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.

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.

In September, the House Rules Committee blocked a vote on inclusion of this Amendment, signifying the gap in support for pot's expansion between conservative members of the Republican Party and Democrats.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (ranking member of the committee) «said there is an agreement among Democrats, Republicans and the White House on the controversial bill that has been held up for months.»

According to yesterday's Politico's Morning Agriculture report, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (ranking member of the committee) «said there is an agreement among Democrats, Republicans and the White House on the controversial bill that has been held up for months.»

House Republicans initiated the block - grant proposals under the Personal Responsibility Act to return control of the schools and curriculum to the local level, cut costs and reduce federal bureaucracy, said Kristin Woltemuth, a legislative assistant to Rep. Harris Fawell (R., Naperville) a member of the House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities.

Meanwhile, records show on Friday the Republican State Leadership Committee spent $ 15,000 on digital advertising critical of Kaminsky, a freshman member of the Assembly.

The Democrats went on to lose control of the chamber to the Republicans, and now they're in the crosshairs yet again after their former Finance Committee chairman, Sen. Carl Kruger, has been hit with federal corruption charges in a complaint that makes it clear he tried hard to influence key members of the conference — including «Senate Leader No. 1» — whoever that might be.

One Niagara Falls Republican Committee member accused the County Committee of Bullying its members into supporting Maziarz.

The Assembly Ethics Committee is an eight - member bi-partisan committee that includes two Western New York Republicans, Joe Giglio of Gowanda and Peter Lawrence froCommittee is an eight - member bi-partisan committee that includes two Western New York Republicans, Joe Giglio of Gowanda and Peter Lawrence frocommittee that includes two Western New York Republicans, Joe Giglio of Gowanda and Peter Lawrence from Greece.

Senate Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference announced this afternoon a power - sharing agreement that will allow feature a rotating Senate presidency and equal control over committee assignments, the Senate's active list, appointments and other key functions of the chamber.

This strikes me as a continuation of a theme Lazio started when he called on Cuomo to investigate the funding behind the mosque proposed for construction near Ground Zero (actually, 600 feet away, to be exact)-- a call that has since been seconded by his fellow Republican, Rep. Peter King, the ranking minority member of the House Homeland Security Committee who once said there are «too many mosques in this country.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is backing a push by the state Democratic Committee to find a primary opponent against Sen. Simcha Felder, the Brooklyn Democrat who conferences with Republicans in the state Senate and is a pivotal member of the GOP's retained majority in the chamber.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is already targeting all but one Republican member of the New York delegation in 2018.

The City of Niagara Falls Republican Committee endorsed Niagara Falls School Board Member, John Destino over incumbent Republican, George Maziarz in the 62nd Senate District.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who made the committee appointments, insisted «the law is on our side and so is case law,» adding: «I believe that all the members, Democrat and Republican, Assembly or Senate are worthy of the compensation that they receive... All of this is transparent, all of this is disclosed.»

By unanimous consent, the Republicans gathered in the hearing room agreed to change the committee's standing rules, which normally require at least one member of each party to be in attendance for committee work to proceed.

The Senate health committee voted 14 - 9 — with two Democrats joining all the Republican members — to approve physician Scott Gottlieb to be the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, sending the nomination to the full Senate.

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.

Bedford attorney and political newcomer Samard Khojasteh is continuing to forge ahead with his bid to represent the Republican Party in the yet - to - be-called 37th Senate District special election, assembling a campaign team and sending out a letter seeking the support of local committee members.

The Republicans announced their own hand - up, which included stripping four IDC members of their committee chairmanships.

But in a letter to Berman, the Democratic committee members questioned the effectiveness of the ad given its intent to criticize Republicans on gun control.

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.

[His] success is dealing directly with the candidates instead of wining and dining members of the [National Republican Campaign Committee] to throw business in his direction.»

Reed was a member of the National Republican Congressional Committee's Patriot Program.

Dear Republican State Committee Members, Congratulations on your election to the governing body of our party.

Republican congressional candidate Christopher Cox — the grandson of Richard Nixon — and his family members have poured close to $ 80,000 since the middle of last year into local Republican committees and campaigns in the district where Cox is running, POLITICO has learned.