Sentences with phrase «republicans over his ties»

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Jacobson, a career diplomat, was nominated for the post by President Barack Obama in June 2015, but her confirmation was held up for 10 months in the Senate — led by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez — over objections to the Obama administration's reestablishment of diplomatic ties with Cuba, which she helped negotiate as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.

Separately, some conservative Republicans in Congress are hoping to thwart Obama's immigration action by tying it to a must - pass government spending bill, although the Republican leadership wants to avert a government shutdown over the issue.

The Republican - led Congress has struggled immensely over the past eight months, and the party now faces further division as they return and urgently need to raise the debt ceiling to avoid a government shutdown, pass an aid package for Hurricane Harvey — some of which is expected to be tied to the raise of the debt ceiling — and now reach a decision on DACA.

Over continued objections from the FBI, the White House declassified a version of Republican Rep. Devin Nunes's four - page memo on Friday, which alleges serious abuses of power by the FBI during its investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.

The Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey clashed over Trump's support for profiling people on the basis of race or religion after the shootings in California by a Muslim couple with ties to the Islamic State.

By comparison, the Republican party emails over the past few months have largely been scare messages about Hillary Clinton (actual sample subject line, verbatim: «Waiting for Hillary's Judicial Nominees????») or MoveOn.org, tied to an explicit ask for cash.

Senate Republicans were divided over whether to back the minimum wage increase, which hikes the pay floor to $ 15 in New York city and the suburbs and to $ 12.50 upstate, with future increases tied to an economic analysis.

Rank and file Republican lawmakers on Wednesday called a lawsuit over Cuomo's tying of ethics to spending a last resort, but would not rule it out.

The comptroller also has close ties to unions and organized labor, whose turnout in 2010 helped push DiNapoli over Republican Harry Wilson.

Consultant O'Brien Murray, who attended the meeting and was on the wrong side of Curran's victory over GOP candidate Jack Martins, said the Democrat hammered Martins non-stop over ties to Nassau County Republicans hit with corruption charges.

In 2016, in exchange for granting Mayor Bill de Blasio an extension of mayoral control over schools, the Republicans in the State Senate, to whom Ms. Moskowitz has close ties, inserted broad language in the legislation giving SUNY the power to promulgate regulations for the schools it oversees.

State Republican Party spokesman Pat Garrett also rejected Clinton's remarks and tied them to Kloppenburg, referring to a recent Marquette Law School poll that showed Bradley with a slight lead over Kloppenburg.

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.

House Democrats are trying again to force Trump to turn over documents about his campaign's ties to Russia, after a first «resolution of inquiry» was killed by Republicans last week.

The Assembly property - tax cap proposal, which includes an expiration date tied to the sunsetting of rent control for New York City, is seemingly at odds with what Senate Republicans have hoped for over the last several minds.

Additionally, though the governor reluctantly supported the Democrats» effort to take over the State Senate this year, he has long cultivated close ties to the Republican delegation and to the IDC.

The Republicans are tapping into an anger among many parents in New York state over the botched rollout of a more rigorous curriculum that relies more on standardized tests, and is tied to teacher evaluations.

Clinton's national lead over her rivals for the Democratic nomination has shrunk, and she is in a statistical tie with leading Republicans in head - to - head surveys, a new CNN / ORC poll released last night showed.

House Republicans have launched an ad attacking a freshman Wisconsin Democrat over his ties to embattled Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (N.Y.), the first of a series of attempts to use Rangel's ongoing ethics woes as an anchor around the necks of vulnerable Democratic incumbents.

Ms. Niou and Republican candidate Lester Chang gloated over Ms. Cancel's ties to the convicted Mr. Silver.

But after a near mutiny by upstate Republican senators, Cuomo and the Legislature agreed to raise the wage upstate to just $ 12.50 an hour over five years with future increases designed to get to $ 15 an hour tied to a formula that will be set by the governor's Division of Budget, in consultation with the state Department of Labor.