Sentences with phrase «against the senators after»

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McCain joined two other Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who voted against the bill and quashed Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's plan to upend the US healthcare system after 20 hours of debate.

Smith, previously Minnesota's lieutenant governor, was appointed to serve as her state's senator following the resignation of Al Franken, who became embroiled in controversy after several women came forward with sexual harassment allegations against him.

Even after the remaining funds were frozen, no charges were filed against Ding, Gao, or the players with them, so Philippine police didn't make any arrests, says Sergio Osmeña III, a former senator who last year was a member of the inquiry panel.

Republican senators who had previously assailed the nation's debt burden — including Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and James Lankford of Oklahoma — eventually fell in line to support the bill after efforts to include a backstop against growing deficitssenators who had previously assailed the nation's debt burden — including Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and James Lankford of Oklahoma — eventually fell in line to support the bill after efforts to include a backstop against growing deficitsSenators Jeff Flake of Arizona and James Lankford of Oklahoma — eventually fell in line to support the bill after efforts to include a backstop against growing deficits failed.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

«After years of military modernization, China shows the ability to wage war against Taiwan for the first time since the 1950s,» the GOP senators wrote in a letter.

A self - described «real Indian» who is running against Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is suing after city officials demanded he take down his signs calling her a «fake Indian.»

A day after the bill's prospects wavered somewhat, Republican leaders notched two victories on Friday, when Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said he would vote yes after gaining a more generous child tax credit in the final bill and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who voted against the initial Senate bill over deficit concerns, said he would support the legislation.

The Department's Office of Special Investigations says it is «reviewing the allegations» against Mr. Bettencourt after being pressured by Governor Pataki and Senator D'Amato of New York.

The early part of the decade was a tense time, with Senator McCarthy making his reckless charges and the nation on edge after a war in Korea against communist North Korea and the People's Republic of China (often termed Red China, even in the Century, for most of the decade).

Last season against Washington, after Ron Kline of the Senators hit Bob Johnson, dusted Jackie Brandt and hit Jerry Adair, Miller tripled.

Italian Senator and leading anti-mafia campaigner, Rosaria Capacchione, passes judgment on Mario Balotelli, after the Milan striker declined to be considered a symbol against organised crime.

He was part of a group of reform - minded senators who advocated against accepting Espada and Monserrate back into the conference after the ’09 Senate coup.

At the height of this fantasy, romantics, Biafra and Oodua, were already swooning about some «South» — after IPOB's Nnamdi Kanu's reported threat of no election in the South East, until IPOB secured its Biafra secession referendum; and former Senator Femi Okurounmu's call for a united southern phalanx against the «Hausa - Fulani» he seems to viscerally hate.

He said, «In view of our belief in the judiciary and avalanche of evidence against the declaration of Senator Abiola Ajimobi as the duly elected governor in the April 11, 2015 governorship election in the state, Senator Rasheed Ladoja, the gubernatorial candidate of Accord after wide consultations, has resolved to appeal the judgment of Justice Muhammed Mayaki - led tribunal at the Court of Appeal.

After all, no one is challenging her for the nomination, since Republicans aren't exactly clamoring for the right to be the another sacrificial lamb, going up against the state's popular and well - funded senior U.S. senator, Democrat Chuck Schumer.

The idea for the increase has been met with harsh criticism, especially after the wave of corruption charges against dozens of senators and Assembly members.

After receiving Reform Party endorsement in June, Mr. Zacarese won a Republican primary in September against Phil Boyle, a New York State senator.

The WFP's endorsement comes as Clinton has sought to line up liberals after his primary campaign against Sanders, a Vermont senator, as well as Republicans opposed to the nomination of Donald Trump.

He instead referenced a lawsuit the state Senator brought against a contractor after allegedly trespassing on a construction site and breaking his leg.

She also recently endorsed Espaillat over Rangel in the NY - 13 primary, after supporting Rangel against the senator in 2012.

«You have to be concerned anytime somebody's lawyers up and try to pull an Al Franken, if you will,» Miller said, referring to the Minnesota Democratic senator who took his seat after emerging from a lengthy recount against incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman with a 312 - vote win.

Gillibrand was the first senator to formally call for the resignation of Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) after seven different women came out with sexual harassment allegations against him.

In the clerk's race to fill the unexpired term of Christopher L. Jacobs, the former clerk who is now a Republican state senator, Kearns» victory remains one of the more unusual in Erie County politics after he declined running in his own Democratic primary against Cichon in order to continue as a Democrat on the GOP line.

The U.S. Justice Department announced it intends to retry Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, two months after a jury deadlocked on federal corruption charges against him.

The founder of the struggling environmental services company at the heart of the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, testified at their trial yesterday that days after Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, the senator provided valuable business intelligence that the company felt would be helpful.

«This comes after the senators from the party voted against the senate moving a motion calling on the presidency to pay the N5, 000 allowance.

Monserrate was a state senator from 2009 - 2010, but was removed from his position in 2010 after being convicted for misdemeanor assault against his girlfriend and fraud.

Schneiderman lined up a long string of endorsements from the left — from labor unions like SEIU 1199 and HTC to the Rev. Al Sharpton (a nod that might come back to haunt the senator in the general election against Republican Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, after he pledged Sharpton's National Action Network would have an «annex» in Albany if he's elected»).

ALBANY — Three felony corruption counts against state Sen. Robert Ortt were dropped by an Albany judge Tuesday just three months after the case was brought against the Republican senator from North Tonawanda by Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Hours after jurors reached a partial verdict in the federal fraud case against former Bronx senator Pedro Espada Jr., the judge declared a mistrial in the remaining conspiracy and tax fraud counts against the politician and in all counts against his son.

«In 2007, Eric Schneiderman was one of only eight state Senators to vote against S. 3318, a bi-partisan bill crafted by former Attorney General and Gov. Eliot Spitzer, mandating civil confinement for dangerous convicted sex offenders — individuals, whom after evaluation, were deemed at high - risk to commit additional sex crimes,» Donovan said in a news release.

Democratic state Senator George Latimer is the opponent, after having won a primary against county Legislator Ken Jenkins.

He also said normalcy had returned to the senate chamber after Wednesday's incident where some PDP senators staged a walk - out in protest against one of their colleagues, who defected to APC.

Pataki and New York GOP Chairman Sandy Treadwell faced controversy after naming moderate Assemblyman Howard Mills the party's nominee for the U.S. Senate against Senator Chuck Schumer over conservative Michael Benjamin, who held significant advantages in both fund raising and organization.

Taking the stand in Manhattan federal court to testify against his longtime friend and son Adam, D'Amato said he met with the disgraced state senator after learning Adam had gotten a job at Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers.

The trial began less than two weeks after prosecutors in Manhattan unleashed one of their broadest attacks ever on political corruption by bringing conspiracy charges against a state senator, a state assemblyman and a city councilman, among others.

Opening statements could get underway later Monday at the trial, which comes less than two weeks after prosecutors in Manhattan unleashed one of their broadest attacks ever on political corruption by bringing conspiracy charges against a state senator, a state assemblyman and a city councilman, among others.

After the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando in 2016, local artist and GSD member Kim Sillen organized the Senator Portrait Project — images of the US Senators who take NRA money and vote against gun safety laws.

The mountain of signatures shows that the Vermont senator and Brooklyn native intends to run a competitive race in the Empire State against Hillary Clinton, the former New York senator senator and Secretary of State — should he remain viable after primary contests held in two dozen other states.

After the meeting Senator Akshar, who represents Binghamton, says he's not against the ideas in the bill, but he says GOP senators want a more «global conversation» that addresses some of the Republican senators» concerns about labor unions having undue influence if the LLC loophole is closed.

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Few days after Senator Dino Melaye made the allegation against the police and Kogi state governor, the Kogi state police command reportedly paraded some gangsters whom they said indicted one Mr. Melaye.

After favorite local sons Assemblyman Michael Cusick and former Congressman Michael McMahon declined to seek the seat, the Staten Island Democratic Party spent weeks mulling who to pick as its candidate in the quixotic campaign against the popular prosecutor, before finally looking to the longtime councilman and former state senator.

Not a surprise, but Democratic state senator Ruben Diaz, Sr. says he's organizing a protest against same - sex marriage legislation, City Room reports: «Only hours after Gov. David A. Paterson said he would introduce legislation to legalize sa... Read

Cuomo allies and legislators bickered for days, and while the governor made a similar point about a working relationship, he did so one breath after threatening to campaign against non-compliant senators.

Former Senator Skelos, left, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, center, leaving Federal District Court in Manhattan this month after being convicted on all counts in the corruption case against them.

It's gotten off to a shaky start as Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has announced her resignation after leaked emails detailed an apparent bias against presidential hopeful and Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.

Proponents of publicly financed political campaigns have been energized in recent weeks after a State Assemblyman and Senator were charged with bribery, and another Assemblyman admitted to wearing a wire to gather evidence against his colleagues.

After the meeting, Senator Akshar, a Republican from Binghamton, says he's not against the ideas in the bill.