Sentences with phrase «republican staffers»

Some House and Senate Republican staffers said they hadn't heard of the resolution and weren't aware of any changes in the policy position of their bosses.

Top state Senate Republican staffers have been heading for the hills a year before a crucial election that will determine which party controls the chamber.

The Democrats fired hundreds of Republican staffers after taking control of the Senate, and many of those ex-employees want their old jobs back.

These are among the Senate Republican staffers who are current or recent Independence Party officials:

To some extent, the available cache of state Republican staffers was divided in Foley's tighter - than - expected primary battle with Senate Minority Leader John McKinney.

What's comical is how the Senate Republican staffers jump to attack the Democrats for advancing the ethics issue.

Surely, the Republican staffers surrounding the new president - elect would keep him in check on the issue, the thinking went.

CSA is helmed by Alex Urrea, a former Republican staffer on the House Financial Services committee.

«It's ours but they would like it to go through IDP [Independence Party],» a Republican staffer said, according to the records obtained by Moreland.

McMahon previously worked as a journalist in Albany, as an Assembly Republican staffer and a budget adviser for almost 30 years, giving him great insight into the goings - on in the Capitol.

With all cylinders firing, «it's harder to hold that conversation about making the party a winner at the national level,» said former Senate Republican staffer John Ullyot.

Its even possible GMU is also investigating other aspects of the Congressional report — e.g distortion of Bradley's work or the appearance that Wegman's supposedly independent investigation was guided by a republican staffer.

Not exact matches

The Republican majority in the oversight committee plan to invite Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli to testify, and the Democratic minority plans to invite Pearson, a Democratic staffer told Business Insider via email.

In particular, one staffer reportedly noted the bumping of Anderson Cooper's special coverage of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to air a segment featuring anchor Don Lemon and various guests discussing a campaign rally in Iowa in which Trump proposed that CNN donate $ 10 million to charity in order to get him to appear on the network's upcoming Republican primary debate.

In Alabama, Republican legislators introduced a resolution to impeach Republican Governor Robert Bentley, who allegedly had an affair with a staffer, having campaigned on promises of ethics and integrity.

Last week, Sanders denounced a former volunteer for his campaign who shot Rep. Steve Scalise and several staffers and law enforcement officers at a Republican congressional baseball practice.

«The walls are closing in,» a senior Republican with close ties to top staffers said in The Post.

Porter is someone who «really gave everything to work,» as a current top staffer for a Republican senator told Business Insider.

Republican National Committee staffers have reportedly gone door - knocking on his behalf, while the Koch brothers have spent «hundreds of thousands on a mail and field deployment campaign.»

The American Petroleum Institute is recruiting a former top Republican congressional staffer with financial - sector expertise to lead the oil industry trade group, according to people familiar with the hiring deliberations.

A former congressional staffer, Delrahim came to count on early, broad support among Republicans and Democrats in Congress, who advanced his nomination out of committee nearly unanimously.

The «Nunes memo,» a controversial document written by Republican House Intelligence Committee staffers and likely to be released soon, reportedly criticizes Rosenstein.

«I think the leadership's goal is to find that spot where they can say we did something while having actually done as little as possible,» a Democratic congressional staffer said of Republicans» strategy.

Reports indicated that White House staffers and Congressional Republicans were trying to dissuade Trump from the move and to postpone today's expected announcement.

Cuomo's new chief of staff, Maria Comella, a lifelong Republican and former top aide to NJ Gov. Chris Christie, has immediately become one of state government's highest paid staffers, pulling down $ 175,000 a year.

It probably began as far back as when he poached key staffers from Senate Republicans including Kelly Cummings and Rob Mujica to join his own staff.

The 10 - year - old son of Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, was at the game practice where the shooter targeted lawmakers and staffers.

Facing a legal threat from House Republicans, the FBI announced that it is doubling to 54 the number of staffers combing through documents to comply with GOP requests for records of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server.

ALBANY — While unionized state workers are getting hit with three years of wage freezes, and Gov. Cuomo and his top aides are taking 5 percent wage cuts, state Senate Republicans are doling out pay hikes to most of their Capitol staffers, The Post has learned.

But not all Republicans believe that shifting a handful of staffers out of the White House press and communications shop will solve the deeper problem.

Given the events of the last two weeks, I imagine Republican donors are less concerned with the polling numbers and more concerned with the impression the Republican campaign is giving of being completely inept, particularly in light of the revelation that Romney's staffers are paid more to achieve less than their Democrat counterparts (though Rachel Maddow shared an amusing story this week suggesting that wealthy Republicans had no problem throwing money at a sinking ship [skip to the 2 minute mark]-RRB-.

Republican Senate candidate Eric Ulrich was the subject of an anti-gay mailer that noted his hiring of gay staffers and being friendly with openly gay politicians.

Klein, who has been a coalition with Senate Republicans, is accused of forcibly kissing a then - staffer outside of a bar in Albany in 2015.

Republicans are also investing tens of millions of dollars in their data, digital, and Internet operations, opening an office in Silicon Valley and hiring numerous tech - savvy staffers.

One of those lawmakers is Mark Muoio of Rochester, who says there are a lot of questions about the timing of comments made by the county Republican chairman and a review of the project by a staffer with COMIDA, the county's economic development agency.

It's an in - the - weeds job, but the vote counters at contested conventions have a crucial (and lousy) job, and Rick Lazio's effort was spearheaded by Lynn Krogh, the head of the state's Young Republicans chapter and a former George Pataki staffer.

The National Republican Congressional Committee sent a staffer out to the Golden State last week to search for and meet with potential candidates and convince them to run in competitive districts in San Diego, Palm Springs and Sacramento, according to a source with knowledge of the visit.

Sen. Liz Krueger accused him of colluding with the GOP to cover his ass — he did vote «yes» on Bonacic's bill, after all — and asked him on the floor what the Republicans had bought him off with «this time,» according to a Democratic staffer.

Maziarz is accused of playing a role in a «multilayered pass through scheme» that had him using campaign funds and the Niagara County Republican Committee to funnel payments to a former Senate staffer who had been accused of sexual harassment.

Maziarz is alleged to have funneled funds through his own election campaign and the Niagara County Republican Committee to make secret payments to a former senate staffer who left his post amid sexual harassment claims.

During last summer's effort to secure the Independence Party line for Republican Sen. Terrence Murphy — whose district in the Hudson Valley and Westchester is about a two - hour drive from the Capitol — 40 state Senate GOP staffers gathered signatures, his petitions show.

The Republican is asking the «best and brightest» in the 11th Congressional District to apply to be staffers in his district offices.

He would make the switch from staffer to politician when he decided to run against longtime Republican Rep. Jim Walsh in 2006.

Senate Republican spokesman Scott Reif said staffers were never required to do the campaign work as a condition of their jobs.

I ask Mr. Parpan and more senior staffers of The Suffolk Times how many Republican committee meetings have they been invited to recently or over the years?

The Senate Republican Campaign Committee, the conference's campaign arm, routinely pays the $ 60 fee for individual staffers to obtain their licenses and periodically renew them, campaign finance records show.

Republican John Katko, who beat incumbent Dan Maffei to represent the 24th Congressional District, has picked for his senior staff a mixture of familiar central New York faces, an experienced Capitol Hill staffer, and colleagues he has worked with before.

Park also added Fred Hiffa, a former Republican Assembly staffer.

In March, Cuomo also announced the hiring of Robert Gibbon, a former state Republican Senate staffer and an attorney.

Venegas was cheered like a Yankee slugger by fellow protesters after Republican Party staffers removed him from the restaurant.