Sentences with phrase «arm of the state senate»
Jindal will raise money for the campaign arm of state Senate Republicans at an event in Manchester with ticket prices running from $ 100 to $ 5,000, CNN has learned.
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We've had an amazing few weeks of momentum on DADT repeal following the mention of DADT in the State of the Union, the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing during which both the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs both stated their support for repeal, and the unexpected support we've received from former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell and former Defense Secretary and Vice President Dick Cheney.
While we were all focused on the battle for control of the state Senate, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the majority's political arm, DACC, quietly racked up five wins last night, bringing the total number of Democrat - controlled seats to 106.
Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, the head of the Senate Republican campaign arm, said that the Senate should vote to expel Mr. Moore, a former State Supreme Court judge, if he won «because he does not meet the ethical and moral requirements of the United States Senate.»
ALBANY, N.Y. — A New York sheriff's group and a state Senate Republican are pushing to have an armed police officer at every school in the state in the wake of the Florida high school shooting that left 17 dead.
NEW YORK — Dean Skelos, the former leader of the New York State Senate, was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for extorting about $ 340,000 from businesses whom he strong - armed to hire his son.
At the same time, they note that the state Democratic Party — in essence an arm of the Cuomo 2014 campaign — provided financial aid to the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.
The Buffalo News recently reported that the political arm of NYSUT, which has endorsed Panepinto in his primary battle with former Buffalo Councilman and state Senator Al Coppola, has been running attack ads and sending out mailers that depict Grisanti as not sufficiently conservative to represent the 60th Senate District.
New York State United Teachers, as usual one of the most politically active labor organizations, had already given the largest legal donations to the Senate Democrats» campaign arm, and to many other Democratic campaigns.
«It is indeed a tragedy of immense proportion if the Senate President will close his eyes to these genocidal acts, and instead attempt to incite an armed rebel group against state actors, just to score cheap political points.
No fewer than five police vans, scores of armed policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services were deplored in the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Thursday to forestall the breakdown of law and order as the libel suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, against an online medium, SaharaReporters, and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore, came up for hearing.
On Thursday, several uniformed State Troopers were dispatched nearby, and the Senate's cadre of sergeants - at - arms (mostly retired law enforcement officers themselves) asked people to sign in.
A campaign arm of the rebranded, left - wing group ACORN is spending hundreds of thousands to help Democrats win control of the state Senate and protect traditional, union - controlled public schools.
Balance New York, an independent expenditure committee formed by veterans of the Senate Republicans» fundraising arm, received a $ 200,000 contribution from a Washington - D.C. - based group that supports GOP candidates in state races.
Also at 11 a.m., 31st state Senate District candidate Marisol Alcántara will receive the endorsement of the New York State Immigrant Action Fund, the sister organization and political action arm of the New York Immigration Coalition, 31 West 33rd Street, Suite 610, Manhastate Senate District candidate Marisol Alcántara will receive the endorsement of the New York State Immigrant Action Fund, the sister organization and political action arm of the New York Immigration Coalition, 31 West 33rd Street, Suite 610, ManhaState Immigrant Action Fund, the sister organization and political action arm of the New York Immigration Coalition, 31 West 33rd Street, Suite 610, Manhattan.
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has expressed grief over killings of several persons including policemen by armed robbers in Offa, Kwara State on Thursday.
The ad includes a photo of DeFrancisco on the Senate floor, arms raised, with text that says: «State Senator DeFrancisco.
Consequently, the action of the Senate in its resolution against the IGP today is a deliberate blackmail, witch - hunting with mischievous motives to hand - twist the IGP to pervert the end of justice in a felonious and serious offenses of Criminal Conspiracy and Unlawful Possession of Prohibited Firearms for which Senator Dino Melaye who was indicted by two (2) Principal Suspects (Kabiru Seidu A.K.A OSAMA, Nuhu Salisu A.K.A SMALL) arrested for several cases of kidnappings and armed robberies in Kogi State are already standing trial in a court of competent jurisdiction.
The political arm provided $ 50,000 of that money to the New York State Senate Republican Campaign Committee.
Nyiam further said what Danjuma said was not new and recalled a revelation by the Director - General of the Department of State Security (DSS), Lawal Daura, during a Senate summit on security that «some of the military arms that they found with the herdsmen, the sophisticated ones, are from the military and police armouries.»
Trial lawyers gave the max to state Assembly Democrats» fund - raising arm and the central campaign committee of the party controlling the Senate in each of the last seven years, a copy of the report obtained by The Post shows.
Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called it an «extremely difficult» decision and stated that he'll better serve his Michigan constituents in the next two years of his term by not being distracted by a campaign.
A fellow of the Centre for Democracy and Development, who is an expert in Nigerian affairs, Mr. Matthew Page, said it was unfortunate that there was disunity between the Presidency and the Senate, stating that the event of things showed that both arms of the government might continue to engage more in politicking than making policies, thereby unable to address the various challenges the country is facing.
From the headings of the above quoted invitation letters, it is very clear that the IGP was invited on those occasions by the Senate purposely because of Senator Dino Melaye's criminal indictment in respect of felonious and serious offenses of Criminal Conspiracy and Unlawful Possession of Prohibited Firearms by two (2) Principal Suspects (Kabiru Seidu A.K.A OSAMA, Nuhu Salisu A.K.A SMALL) arrested for several cases of kidnappings and armed robberies in Kogi State, who are already standing trial in a court of competent jurisdiction.
Obama's blueprint faced questions Wednesday as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
He sought refuge in the office of the Senate Sargent of Arms, who called state troopers.
Until that happens, we look back at the scandals that hit the state's economic development arm including the indictment of Andrew Cuomo's close ally Joe Percoco, the investigations surrounding NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, and the never - ending storyline of who will control the state senate.
The first issue of Science & Diplomacy includes articles by senior scientists, diplomats, and policy - makers, including U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R — Indiana), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in arms control; Robert D. Hormats, U.S. under secretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment; South African Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor; and Alice P. Gast, Lehigh University president and U.S. science envoy to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
The mailer was funded by VOTE - COPE, the campaign arm of the New York State United Teachers, which is supporting a Democratic takeover of the Senate.
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There had been suggestions that the bill would leave out some of these issues when Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain openly stated his plan to support a free - standing bill which seeks to oppose the proposal of a Transgender ban in the US military last Friday.