Sentences with phrase «republican speaker of the house»

«If it is correct that the speaker, before he resigns, has cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama administration for the rest of this year, to fund Obamacare, to fund executive amnesty, to fund Planned Parenthood, to fund implementation of this Iran deal, and then presumably to land a cushy K Street job after joining with the Democrats to implement all of President Obama's priorities, that is not the behavior one would expect from a Republican speaker of the House.»

Dennis Hastert, who was the longest - serving Republican speaker of the House, intends to plead guilty as part of an agreement in a case where he is accused of skirting banking laws and lying to the federal investigators.

Not exact matches

Pelosi, a former House speaker, is a favorite target of Republicans, particularly as the GOP fights against a possible blue wave this fall.

The speaker lineup for what is traditionally a gathering of Romney allies is packed with high - profile Republicans, among them House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain.

The chaplain for the House said a top aide to the House speaker had told him last month his departure had been requested in part because of a prayer about the Republican tax law and because of his Catholic faith.

But the calculus is different for the speaker of the House, Richard Corcoran, a likely candidate for governor in a crowded Republican field.

Democrats sense a growing opportunity to unseat Republicans as part of a national wave that could put the House speaker's gavel back in their party's hands.

«This does bring a sense of urgency to getting this done over the next month with the speaker leaving,» said Representative Stephen Fincher, who has led House Republican efforts to renew the export credit agency's charter, which expired nearly three months ago.

The German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung cited a plan to target the home states of influential members of the Republican Party, including Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin.

Lots of what Gingrich did as speaker was based on paving the way for the Republicans to regain the White House in 1996.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to bring the Waxman - Markey bill to a vote on Friday over the objections of farm - and coal - state Democrats and almost all Republicans, figuring that she has the votes to pass it.

The clerk is taking a roll - call vote for the election of the speaker of the House, and when he calls out, «Bunning,» the distinguished gentleman sitting on the Republican side of the House says, «Michel,» just loud enough to be heard above the din.

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.

The Hastert Rule, also known as the «majority of the majority» rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.

But with the stars aligning for the Wisconsin Republican to become the next House speaker, Democrats say they'll now have a villain to run against, not just a stack of numbers.

Klarides is a creature of the House — she was first elected in 1998 — and some say she would rather be speaker than governor should Republicans take the majority.

At a recent conference of Republican donors, Paul D. Ryan, the speaker of the House, warned that even the party's substantial majority in that chamber might be in jeopardy.

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for President, is among the featured speakers, along with Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and former GOP presidential hopefuls Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul.

Dr. Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Donald Trump administration, will be the keynote speaker for the Hillsborough County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner scheduled for June 9.

While that has been the case since Ryan was named the 2012 vice presidential nominee, the interest in using him as a campaign asset has only increased since he became speaker of the House, said Rep. Greg Walden, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

The Ohio Republican, who is poised to be speaker of the House should the GOP regain control of that body, told a crowd of supporters, «This speech is about jobs, because this coming election is about jobs.»

Queens Councilman Donovan Richards, chairman of the Council's Public Safety Committee, pointed to the irony of John Boehner, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, who is a Republican, now supporting marijuana legalization.

Andrew Card, a former White House chief of staff under ex-President George W. Bush, will be the keynote speaker at the Amherst Republicans» annual dinner next week.

Facing urgent calls to stabilize his candidacy and declining poll numbers, Trump struggled to refocus his message after threatening to withhold his endorsement from top Republican officeholders, including Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House.

Ignoring pleas from his advisors and party leaders, Donald Trump continued to attack the parents of a slain Muslim American soldier and declined to endorse for re-election several Republicans who criticized him, including the House speaker, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, and Arizona Sen. John McCain, who both face primaries this month.

The winner will battle former Florida House speaker Marco Rubio, the likely Republican nominee, and Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who is now running for the Senate as an independent candidate, after dropping out of a battle with Rubio for the GOP nomination.

Republicans, including House Minority Leader Themis Klarides of Derby, accused the speaker of rushing the vote before lawmakers could get a full analysis from the General Assembly's Office of Fiscal Analysis.

The winner will battle former Florida House speaker Marco Rubio, the likely Republican nominee, and Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who is now running for the Senate as an independent candidate afterdropping out of a battle with Rubio for the GOP nomination.

Every day another Republican lawmaker seems to wake up and decide that he — and in at least one case, she — might make a pretty good speaker of the House.

Heading into the final half - day of federal qualifying, all 23 congressional incumbents seeking re-election had qualified for the November ballot, with Congressman Daniel Webster, a Republican who once served as state House speaker, getting his paperwork in on Thursday.

Party leaders — including Mr. Steele and Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker — had argued that local parties should be permitted to pick candidates that most closely mirror the sentiments of the district, even if those candidates vary from Republican orthodoxy on some issues.

House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio celebrates a GOP victory that changes the balance of power in Congress and will likely elevate him to speaker of the House, during an election night gathering hosted by the National Republican Congressional Committee on Nov. 2 in Washington.

Rep. John Boehner, R - Ohio, the House minority leader who is likely to become the speaker of the House, said in an election - night speech that Republicans will «take a new approach that hasn't been tried before in Washington — by either party.

Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the speaker of the House, de facto ideological leader of the Republican Party, and third-most powerful man in all of America, held his head in his hands at the back of the House chamber and waited helplessly for members of his own conference to sabotage their own legislation.

No Child Left Behind was a landmark measure supported by President George W. Bush and negotiated by Republican Rep. John Boehner, then a little - known Ohio lawmaker who would later become House speaker, and the late Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.

At Thursday's forum, Beebe told the audience of more than 30 people that Texas House Democrats and moderate Republicans wielded their influence in electing and re-electing Straus as speaker.

Many new Republican communication strategies match the recommendations of the 16 - page environmental memorandum put together by the Luntz Research Cos., the consulting firm run by Luntz, who was also one of the drafters of Contract with America, the manifesto of House Republicans under Newt Gingrich, the former speaker.

In 2008, Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, later Republican presidential candidate and an early backer of geoengineering, said: «Instead of penalizing ordinary Americans, we would have an option to address global warming by rewarding scientific invention,» adding: «Bring on the American ingenuity.»

After the Republicans re-took the House in last month's midterm elections, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio was elected speaker - designate.

For example, here are the thoughts of professor Randy Barnett and William J. Howell, Republican speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, writing in the Wall Street Journal in September (as reprinted on the Cato Institute's website):

«If the party nominates the slate of candidates that the Mercers are backing, [Democratic Senator Chuck] Schumer will be the Senate majority leader, and [Democratic representative] Nancy Pelosi will be the speaker of the House» in 2018, said one long - time Republican strategist and donor who is aligned with the Adelsons, before the Republican Party threw its support behind Moore on Dec. 4.

I think it does,» said state Rep. Jose Oliva, a Miami Republican who's been designated by his party to become speaker of the Florida House of Representatives after the November elections.