Sentences with phrase «u.s. congressional leaders»

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Exactly 20 years ago, just as Cisco's John Chambers took the reins as CEO, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected term limits for Congressional leaders, wiping off the books laws in 23 states limiting the terms of office for U.S. legislators.

The U.S. can borrow until Aug. 2 after reaching the US$ 14.29 - trillion limit because of «stronger - than - expected tax receipts» and «extraordinary measures» such as suspending the sale of bonds for state infrastructure projects, Geithner said in a letter to congressional leaders.

He is also a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's National Advocacy Council of Young Entrepreneurs, which represents the voice of young entrepreneurs to congressional leaders.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops endorsed a congressional resolution Monday condemning attacks on religious minorities in Iraq and urging both Iraqi and U.S. government officials to do more to protect religious groups considered to be at risk there.

The political action committee for Abbott Laboratories, the maker of U.S. market leader Similac, spent more than $ 1.5 million in contributions to federal and congressional candidates during the last election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington - based watchdog of campaign contributions.

Proudly calling himself the National Rifle Association's «Public Enemy No. 1,» U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged congressional Republican leaders top listen to the «millions and millions» of March for Our Lives protesters by introducing gun - control legislation.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand slammed Congressional leaders for stripping anti-sexual harassment measures from an omnibus spending bill being considered this week.

All 22 female U.S. senators, Republicans and Democrats, penned a joint letter to Senate leaders complaining of their «deep disappointment» that the Senate has «failed» to push through sexual harassment reform for congressional workers.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> Fresh on the heels of news the President Donald Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong - un, U.S. Rep. John Faso says he's been asked to be part of a congressional delegation that will travel to South Korea,

Trump's threat of a government shutdown if Congress doesn't agree to fund a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico sent GOP congressional leaders into damage control mode and stocks tumbling.

Today's ruling, handed down by the U.S. District Court, comes after lawyers representing Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos asked that the special master only oversee the process only oversee the lines for Congressional districts.

The endorsement gives Soto another notch in the progressive - Democrat belt he's seeking to fashion for his August 28 primary bout with his predecessor in Florida's 9th Congressional District, former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, a nationally - recognized leader of progressive Democratic politics.

U.S. Rep. John Katko was one of 20 Republicans who opposed a budget resolution Thursday that congressional leaders are using to advance their tax reform plan.

Some of President Obama's key 2012 re-election campaign staff and a top Silicon Valley fundraiser have jumped into a 2014 cycle Congressional race to oust longtime Silicon Valley Democrat Mike Honda, and to replace him with the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ro Khanna — even though Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have already endorsed the incumbent.

(announced Dec. 15, 2015) over 140 elected officials including the entire Democratic congressional delegation, community and coalition leaders... U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow U.S. Sen. Gary Peters U.S. Rep. Sander Levin U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich House Minority Leader Tim Greimel Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero more...

At 10:30 a.m., U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and Beth Finkel, AARP New York State Director Beth Finkel will discuss Congressional proposals to create a voucher system for Medicare recipients with a projected 15,000 AARP members from across New York in a tele town hall.

Updated at 8:12 p.m. ET on Tuesday 6/4 (CNN)-- Access to top Russian officials by U.S. lawmakers was helped along by action movie star Steven Seagal — and more specifically the actor's martial arts skills - the leader of a congressional delegation said Tuesday.

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will join U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist in St. Petersburg Wednesday for a high - dollar fundraiser benefiting the campaign arm of Congressional Democrats.

«Miami Democrats do the Nancy Pelosi squirm as House minority leader visits South Florida» via David Smiley of the Miami Herald — The top Democrat in the U.S. House had just spent an hour gushing about Debbie Mucarsel - Powell «s «courage,» highlighting her congressional campaign to knock off one of the most vulnerable Republicans in America and bashing Rep. Carlos Curbelo over his voting record on health care.

We created the district leader position to better help our future U.S. congressional candidates.

A day after a vote was scrapped in the U.S. Senate on a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare after congressional leaders said the votes weren't there, Trump said he expects to get the bill passed early next year «long before the November election.»

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney toured refugee camps and met with leaders of three countries to discuss the fight against the Islamic State during a congressional delegation tour this week of the Middle East.

Governor Cuomo and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announce a statewide push across congressional districts to urge New York's delegation to oppose the repeal or reduction of state and local tax deductions in Delmar, N.Y., on Monday.

(CNN)- Two days before the deadline for a possible U.S. government default, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached agreement Sunday on a legislative package that would extend the federal debt ceiling while cutting spending and guaranteeing further deficit - reduction steps, Senate leaders announced.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Leading Republicans urged President Barack Obama to make a swift decision in favor of more U.S. troops for the war in Afghanistan after talks between the president and congressional leaders Tuesday.

U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillilland and U.S. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both Democrats, voted against the legislation, as did five of the nine members of New York's Republican congressional delegation.

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Cunningham and Davis were the House leaders in this effort, with help from Democratic California U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and 13 other members of California's congressional delegation.

During a visit to a Philadelphia charter school on Monday, U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor demanded the U.S. Department of Justice drop its lawsuit over school vouchers or face a congressional challenge.

After several congressional leaders — most notably Rep. Barbara Lee of California — roasted U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for continuing to weaken the department's Office for Civil Rights and effectively abandoning the federal role in protecting the civil rights of poor and minority children, Harris essentially encouraged DeVos (along with the planned commission on school safety over which she will be chairing) to toss the school discipline reform measure into the ashbin.

While President Bush met with congressional leaders this week about the upcoming reauthorization, there was some rumbling in education circles about an article written by Michael Petrilli, a former U.S. Department of Education official who helped promote NCLB.

After all, Brown knows full well that any attempt to withhold federal funding will be challenged by Golden State's influential congressional delegation (including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein); the former state attorney general is also likely betting that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year on the Affordable Healthcare Act, which effectively makes it impossible for the federal government to withhold subsidies from states for not implementing new regulations, can also be applied to what the administration can do on the education policy front.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will join Congressional leaders and over 200 students at a rally Thursday to celebrate school choice and parental empowerment in education.

(Phoenix, Ariz., March 27, 2017)-- Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas met with members of Arizona's congressional delegation, as well as national education leaders in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, at the Council of Chief State School Officers legislative conference last week in Washington, D.C.

Seventy percent of education insiders (PDF)-- including current and former U.S. Department of Education leaders, congressional staff, state school chiefs, and governors, as well as the leaders of major education organizations and think tanks — believe our nation's main education law will be reauthorized while President Obama is in office.

Only 47 percent of those surveyed, including current and former U.S. Department of Education leaders, Congressional staffers, state school chiefs and experts at think tanks, expect to see any change to federal law.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sends a letter to Congressional leaders outlining the Administration's exit strategy for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

Housing experts and some congressional leaders now view those decisions as mistakes that contributed to an escalation of subprime lending that is roiling the U.S. economy.

3:35 PM EST: As Day One of the climate conference drew to a close, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy warned that President Obama has little congressional support for putting U.S. taxpayer money behind any climate accord he reaches in Paris.

Recently, two political leaders — U.S. Reps. Chris Gibson and Sean Patrick Maloney, whose constituents are affected by the EPA's inaction — submitted questions about the state of the Hudson during a Congressional hearing with EPA Chief Administrator Gina McCarthy.

The U.S. was viewed with particular skepticism and disdain, not just because the U.S. signed but then failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, but because until this administration, American presidents and congressional leaders never did anything intentional to substantively curb carbon pollution, despite the obvious impacts it would have on poorer nations.

Following a massacre at a Florida high school, hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied in major U.S. cities and across the world to protest gun violence and call for political action from Congressional leaders.

Write to your local politician, your Congressional leaders, your President and the U.S. Secretary of Education.