Sentences with phrase «republicans changed committee»

Georgia Congressman Tom Price has been cleared as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after an ugly confirmation battle which included Senate Democrats boycotting his vote by a key panel (a tactic that was rendered useless as the majority Republicans changed committee rules to push his nomination forward).

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A Republican National Convention delegate screams as the Chair announces that the convention will not hold a roll - call vote on the Republican National Convention Rules Committee's report and rules changes and rejects the efforts of anti-Trump forces to hold such a vote.

The committee previously voted not to release the Democratic memo, but some Republicans on the committee have apparently had a change of heart.

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.

Both Democrats and Republicans on the committee today argued that the culture of the company has yet to change.

The Ways and Means Committee will also finish consideration of the bill this week, slamming the door shut on any last - minute changes sought by Republicans from across the conference.»

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee said the changes would «prevent overly burdensome and costly regulations and to provide greater flexibility for local school districts to improve the nutritional quality of meals.»

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 Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America will be officially endorsing Balter this morning, along with Democrat Ammar Campa - Najjar, who is running against California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter.

Rebuffing efforts by Mitt Romney loyalists, the Republican State Committee this week changed its policy of committing all the state's delegates to the winner of the presidential primary.

Katko, R - Camillus, said Republican House members from the two states received assurances about changes to the GOP tax plan in a private meeting Tuesday with House leaders that included Rep. Kevin Brady, R - Texas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Senate higher education committee chair Kenneth LaValle, a Long Island Republican, ushered a bill through his chamber during the 2014 session that would change how the Regents are selected, giving the governor and legislative conferences appointment power.

He informed GOP leaders of his change of heart at a statewide gathering of Republican committee leaders in Saratoga Springs.

«Every cycle, for the past several cycles, Democrats have talked about how this is the cycle when it's going to change, this is the year they're going to make gains at the state level,» said Matthew Walter, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, a group that assists GOP state legislative candidates across the country.

Gov. Scott Walker's half - billion dollar tax cut plan passed a state Assembly committee Thursday, despite objections from Democrats, and even some Republicans, that the proposal was moving too quickly and in need of changes.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, which paid for the ads as part of a planned $ 2 million blitz in the 22nd District, says the new ad does not reflect a change a strategy or assume Trump will lose the Nov. 8 election.

Speaking with The Suffolk Times shortly after the Southold Town Republican Committee opted not to endorse senior judge William Price, GOP chairman Peter McGreevy said it was time to make a change.

Former Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, has changed the name of his political action committee to Fiscal Responsibility PAC.

Republicans on a congressional science committee are asking state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to fork over a number of records related to his probe of climate change and what Exxon Mobil may have known about its effects on the environment.

The legislative leaders of the Democratic - led Assembly and Republican - controlled Senate signaled an openness to considering proposals from Gov. Andrew Cuomo to enact changes to how independent expenditure committees are overseen.

AG Eric Schneiderman has shot down a request from Republican members of a congressional committee that he turn over a number of records related to an investigation into climate change and what ExxonMobil may have known about its effects on the environment.

The group was «disheartened» that the Republicans» changes surfaced just two hours before the Rules Committee was scheduled to meet, and also sided with the Democrats on the effort to end LG Bob Duffy's ability to break a tie over who the chamber's temporary president should be.

Sampson had asked Skelos to reconvene the temporary committee on rules that had bipartisan members — three Democrats and three Republicans — in hopes of coming up with changes that both sides could agree on.

The top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce committee, Texas Rep. Joe Barton, has been threatening to force the committee clerk to read the 900 - plus page bill as a way to drag out the markup of the Democrats» climate change legislation.

But Erie County Republican Committee Chairman Nick Langworthy said things have changed.

U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, announced he will retire after two terms, shocking colleagues, scrambling next year's election map, and causing a seismic change in the chamber's entrenched committee structure.

Essex County Republican Party Committee Chairman Shaun Gillilland said the ruling does not change the fact that ballot requests in the future will still require a court order.

The additions and deletions decided in those private caucus meetings were presented to the Republican legislators just prior to the actual votes on the changes in the Budget and Appropriations Committee (for the additions, only 20 minutes prior to the actual vote), and we were denied the necessary time to do our due diligence, conduct a proper review of the changes and suggest additional modifications.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Gov. Scott Walker's half - billion dollar tax cut plan passed a state Assembly committee Thursday, despite objections from Democrats, and even some Republicans, that the proposal was moving too quickly and in need of changes.

Meanwhile, a wrench has been thrown into the works here because the changes the Senate Republicans had intended to make today, which included creation of the Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Committee they had intended to give to Klein, just failed to pass during a Rules Committee meeting.

The ranking member of the NYS Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, Manhattan Democrat Brad Hoylman, convened the panel after two top Republican senators said recently that this winter's cold temperatures and snow prompted them to question whether climate change is occurring.

Senate Republican spokesman Scott Reif said the changes are «additional rules that will help the committees function,» adding: «We've made some small changes, and we're going to continue to work with Republicans and Democrats.»

Legislative committees — whether finance or law — have never had Republican leadership, but with Joyce at the helm, Mauriello said changes will come.

The 16 - term Republican is the chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee and has said he does not believe in man - made climate change.

Molinaro's campaign said the changes mean the Dutchess County executive has locked up 74.25 percent of the weighted vote from Republican State Committee members who will nominate a candidate for governor at the end of May.

Carl Forti, the communications director at the National Republican Congressional Committee, said 6th district voters «recognized [Wetterling's] true liberal nature when she lost the race in» 04, and nothing has changed.»

Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Sen. Boxer, are boycotting hearings on a climate change bill.

Katko's rejection of the replacement bill comes after the White House and Republican Study Committee agreed Friday to changes, including using block grants to pay for Medicaid, rather than a cap system.

Fact 1: Republicans control both houses of Congress Fact 2: A Republican controlled ethics committee voted THREE TIMES to censure Tom Delay for ethics violations Fact 3: The Republican leadership, not liking this, removed the Republican on the committee who was voting to censure Delay and replaced him with a Republican who accepted Delay's leftover campaign money for his own campaign Fact 4: The Republicans further tried to shield Delay by making a change to the rules to allow a Congressman under indictment to retain their leadership post, relenting only when Democrats had a field day trumpeting that little change in the media

The New York State Republican Committee changed its rules last summer for selecting the state's 95 delegates to the national convention.

New York Republican Chairman Ed Cox says the change gives the party a chance to reward loyal supporters in New York, and to make the state's committee members relevant to national presidential campaigns.

There were no changes to the Republican senators who will sit on the 16 - member committee.

But on Tuesday, March 15, all the committee's Republicans voted down that amendment, as well as two others acknowledging the threat of climate change to public well - being.

Grijalva pursues Curry Grijalva, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, sent out letters to the universities of seven climate change researchers who had been previously invited by Republicans to testify in Congress.

Two more Republicans who have publically denied the role of human activity in climate change — Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio — have assumed leadership of two influential subcommittees of the Senate commerce, science and transportation committee.

The pact also comes days after environmental groups and Obama accused many Republicans of denying climate change, prompting, perhaps predictably, a strong reaction from the GOP that will likely translate into probing committee hearings.

His views: As chair of the Republican National Committee, Priebus oversaw the creation of the 2016 party platform that called the widely respected Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change «a political mechanism, not an unbiased scientific institution.»

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.

But Republicans are concerned the system has changed from what a bipartisan committee agreed to earlier this year, said Sarah Archibald, an aide to Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, chairman of the Senate Education Ccommittee agreed to earlier this year, said Sarah Archibald, an aide to Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, chairman of the Senate Education CommitteeCommittee.