Sentences with phrase «aide says»

«He likes girls,» an aide says with a shrug.

A Cuomo aide says Sen. Michael Gianaris is working against any deal over the mass transit crisis in order to maintain his influence.

A Cuomo aide says the governor wants a Democrat - controlled state Senate and will campaign with candidates «as election season ramps up.»

«Eliot is the reality they deny,» one aide says, and which he intended to impose.

A Senate Democratic leadership aide says they «feel positive» about the prospects of brokering a deal that would include a background check provision, but «it's not done and could still fall apart.»

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One aide says: «It's irresponsible for her to have whipped people up into a tiz about a referendum.

Whether New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is sitting at his City Hall desk or tucking into eggplant parmigiana in Italy, his top aide says his job is the same: running the city government.

Mangano's aide says Coffey clearly doesn't understand the plan.

Terrible news in the Hudson Valley: Assemblyman Frank Skartados has been hospitalized with what an aide says is a serious illness and is not expected to recover.

(UPDATE: A Bishop aide says the Biden event has been in the works since February — long before the Democrats knew who the congressman would be facing in the general election — and thus isn't a reflection on whether the race is tightening).

A former top Senate GOP aide says there are uncanny parallels between the infamous «Troopergate» scandal that bedeviled former Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the Moreland mess that is now causing headaches for Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

A former political aide says he was duped into being the fall guy when Missouri Gov. Eric Grietens» campaign was looking for some way to explain how it got a charity donor list.

For example, Mr. Wolff reports a snub of the president by Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell that a McConnell aide says never happened.

«Republicans» desperation to get this done should be scary to every healthcare industry stakeholder,» one top Democratic health aide says.

Such meetings have been going on for years, with no solid results, aides said.

A post-Brexit government should focus on its new relationship with the EU before cementing ties with the US, an ex-Bush aide said.

Two Democratic Senate aides said the speech was an attempt by Democrats to harden their position ahead of «fiscal cliff» negotiations set to get under way after the Nov. 6 elections.

President Donald Trump told lawmakers he would support a 25 - cent increase in the federal gasoline tax to pay for his plan to upgrade U.S. public infrastructure, a congressional aide said.

The White House released few details in advance about how Obama would spend his afternoon in Orlando, and aides said the trip had been hurriedly arranged in a fraction of the time usually required to plan a presidential trip.

Congressional aides said that the White House had suggested a three - year extension of the DACA program in exchange for $ 25 billion in funding for the border wall, a proposal Democrats rejected.

«It could be a hell of a fight,» one senior Democratic congressional aide said.

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

The satellite was lost, one of the aides said, and the other said both the satellite and second - stage rocket fell into the ocean.

Marcon asked Obama for his support, an Obama aide said.

«I'd leave the office at 8:30 or 9 at night and he'd still be in there working,» the aide said.

«He's there, but he's not quite being of the circus aspect of it,» the aide said.

In a sign of deepening concern among Republicans about the bill's future, Trump will speak to the party's lawmakers in Congress on Tuesday about the healthcare overhaul, two House Republican aides said.

The aide said the photo perfectly illustrates «just sort of how I view» Porter in the White House.

«They believe the Cuban government wants better relations with the United States,» one Senate aide said.

Trump will also propose stronger protections for American intellectual property and a temporary moratorium on new regulations, the Trump aide said.

Gowdy did not sign onto that letter because he did «not want to interfere with the special counsel's investigation,» an aide said at the time.

He said he wasn't going to take dramatic steps against Russia unless they were met with equal responses from America's European allies, aides said.

But Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Representative Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, the Judiciary Committee's chairman, have given no indication of how they would proceed, and aides say privately that Republican leaders view the possibility of Mr. Mueller's firing as too improbable to warrant hypothetical discussions.

One congressional aide said he believes that Section 230 will be the «central discussion point» on what the internet looks like over the next several years.

Regulating Facebook is a complicated balancing act, multiple technology experts and Capitol Hill aides said in interviews.

That timeline reflects how the more deliberative Senate works, the aide said, rather than any resistance to delivering federal aid: «We're all on the same page about what we need to do.»

«Questions remain,» the aide said, about whether Sebastian Gorka's wife, Katie Gorka, an official at the Department of Homeland Security, would stay on after her husband's White House departure.

Senate Finance Committee aides said they planned to make adjustments to the legislation because it probably does not comply with the rules for a special Senate procedure they hope to use to pass the bill with 50 votes, rather than the 60 votes typically needed to beat a filibuster.

The Senate bill would lower tax rates across income levels as a way to lower tax bills for most Americans, Senate Finance Committee aides said.

A senior Democratic aide said the party's position is that emergency spending need not be offset by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget, making Pelosi's statement a challenge to Republicans who have insisted that previous aid packages not add to the federal budget deficit.

The former aide said Mueller's team wanted to know whether she was aware of the contacts when she said this.

Politico's Nicholas Vinocur reports, «During their discussions, an aide said that Macron had pressed the point that «we can not conceive of a trade war among allies,» and that France would only speak «in concert with Europe» on trade.

But Trump was adamant, aides said.

«Democrats certainly don't forget how these Republicans voted on other aid packages, that's for sure,» one senior Democratic aide said Sunday.

Yet aides say they also need China's help on North Korea.

Aides said he seemed to bask afterward in his remarks, and viewed them as the latest retort to the political establishment that he sees as trying to tame his impulses.

Meanwhile, despite threats from Trump that he would shut down the government if his U.S. - Mexico border wall is not paid for, lawmakers and aides say the White House has eased off that threat and any fight over the border wall will be delayed until later in the year.

There is no vote scheduled yet for this week and there are still not enough votes to pass a bill, a congressional aide said after Priebus's and Cohn's comments.

«As I see it, any movement will be focused on school security — not gun control per se,» one GOP congressional aide said.