Sentences with phrase «senate at most times»

The President pro tempore has the power to appoint any other senator to preside, and in practice junior senators from the majority party are assigned the task of presiding over the Senate at most times.

Not exact matches

In his opening statement in today's Senate hearing with Mark Zuckerberg, Senator Thune (R - SD) noted that Cambridge Analytica, the company most associated with the ongoing privacy debacle, will be examined separately at another time.

It was at the time the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history with total spending of more than $ 121 million.

Our partners and pals and Significant Others, The people who work in the Caring Professions, The service that pays for my therapy sessions, The Muppets and Smurfs and of course Mr. Rogers, The U.S.C.C. and Los Angeles Dodgers, The lady who serves as our story - time reader (At present) the Senate Majority Leader, Delores in day - care, Ms. Sands in ceramics, Francesca who networks my fam» ly dynamics, Picasso and Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion And Ronald McDonald and Richard Mcbrien, Miss Piggy and Kermit and Bozo and Bartok, Corita and Gloria Steinem and Starhawk, And Rudolf the Reindeer and Santa's ten elves But best of all most of all, god is our selves!

At the time of her retirement, Boxer ranked eleventh in seniority in the United States Senate, and was the most senior junior Senator from the retirement of Tom Harkin in January 2015 until her own retirement two years later.

It was at the time the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history with total spending of more than $ 121 million.»

Cuomo has, at times, cast himself as a catalyst for sweeping change at the Capitol, most notably when he engineered the passage of a same - sex marriage bill that had previously failed, and for which Senate Republicans seemed to have little appetite at the time.

But at the same time, Faso took a more direct shot Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, two of the state's most prominent Democrats who have vocally opposed the measure and pushed Republicans in marginal House seats like Faso's to vote against it.

«The New York State AFL - CIO will make no endorsements for any candidate for the New York State Senate and New York State Assembly at this time and authorizes the Executive Council of the Federation to vote on possible endorsements at the earliest and most effective date.»

She was the most senior woman in the Senate Democrats at the time.»

One of the most closely watched New York state Senate races in the Capital Region was the at - times fierce battle for the 43rd District.

«During the hardest of times, when we had a Republican governor and state Senate determined to leave New York City's most vulnerable to fend for themselves, Dean Fuleihan stood his ground,» de Blasio — who made the announcement at CUNY City Tech in Brooklyn — said in a prepped statement.

At the same time Obama was speaking in Atlanta, the U.S. Senate held an Ebola hearing that featured testimony from leading public health officials and perhaps the world's most famous Ebola survivor, Kent Brantly, who became ill with the disease while treating patients in Liberia in July.

During his time in the Senate, Senator Kennedy stood at the forefront of our nation's most important legislative battles.

As both the House and the Senate grapple with proposed carbon - cutting measures — carbon taxes and «cap - and - trade» schemes for big CO2 emitters such as coal - fired power plants; increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars, SUVs, and trucks; and mandatory set - asides for clean renewable energy in the mix of energy generation options — emissions from aircraft seem, at least for the time being, to have gone over the heads of most policymakers engaged in the rush to cut carbon emissions.

But basically, I believe that the only reason there's so much resistance — including at this exact moment while the US Senate for the third time now since the Democrats have taken over, is trying to pass a bill that will get the tax subsidies away from the most profitable corporations in the history of corporations ever, which are the major oil companies and move those tax subsidies.