Sentences with phrase «as a senator»

In high school she served as a senator in the student government and was on the honor roll.

«I have focused mainly on my work as the senator for the people,» he said.

«I'm dedicated to serving our state as our senator and I'm running for re-election so I can continue to be their senator,» she added.

First, he collected $ 750 million while running as a senator.

I paid the amount that it would cost me to contest as a senator.

In 2016, as the senator mentioned, we lost 23 lives in ten days.

Voices such as Senator John McCain, and businessman Jim Manzi (writing in the Nation last year National Review in 2007) can perhaps show the way.

With his role in the Senate leadership as well as a Senator representing city residents and their toddler's ready to begin learning, Senator Klein's mediation between the city and state administrations comes at time when the local issue has hit the national state.

«Today I congratulate Kirsten Gillibrand on her appointment by Governor Paterson to serve as Senator from New York,» Clinton said in a statement.

Santorum served 12 years as a Senator of a state (Pennsylvania) that borders the state where the New York Times has its office.

Speaking at a press conference at NIH's clinical center on its Bethesda, Maryland, campus, Mikulski noted that she was chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee as well as a senator for Maryland, where 15,000 of her constituents who work at NIH or universities could be affected.

Critics also charge that Gillibrand emphasized more centrist positions as a congresswoman from a somewhat conservative district than she does as a senator from a liberal state.

Edwards served one term as a senator from North Carolina before becoming the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee.

Asked about the motivation for the letters of support, a spokeswoman for the I.D.C., Barbara Brancaccio, said, «Individuals who currently and have formerly worked with, and for, Jeff Klein throughout his 30 years in public service have every right to stand up for his character, just as Senator Klein has the right to defend himself.»

But it's my job as a Senator from the city, and all the others», to make sure there is balance in what the city gets.»

These Republicans, such as senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Marco Rubio, are likely to be deeply skeptical of any Russian tilt.

Rep. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican who as a senator introduced the 2014 setback amendment, has said any setback bill needs to be considered alongside another bill,

While Trump was quick to condemn the actions of Al Franken — or «Al Frankenstien» [sic]-- who resigned from his position as senator of Minnesota amid sexual - misconduct allegations, he is not one to believe sexual misconduct accusations — unless it's politically convenient for him.

President Obama has always had a «passion» for the Passion Food Hospitality restaurants, dating back from his time as a Senator and on the campaign trail when he would frequent the original outpost of TenPenh [before its recent reopening in Tysons Corner].

I expect that we are going to put aside the toga of political parties and work as senators of the federal republic to deliver on the promises that we made.

Bwacha, who is serving his second term as a senator on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, said he had already made up his mind to remain in the Senate where his impact would be more felt.

Prior to the hearing, NECSN submitted a letter of support of Ms. DeVos to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) as well as Senators Schumer and Gillibrand from New York and Senators Murphy and Blumenthal from Connecticut.

Climate change inactivists such as Senator Inhofe keep complaining about not having the same amount of money as those filthy hippie greens, but they never say what they're going to do with that amount of money if they do get it.

Tonight's host Larry David reprised his role as Senator Bernie Sanders for the sketch and joined Alec Baldwin as Tony Bennett, Kate McKinnon as Tilda Swinton, Cecily Strong as Sofia Vergara, and Chris Redd as Lil Wayne.

We simply can not pretend, as Senator McCain does, that we can drill our way out of this problem.

(2) About three years ago, Senator Joseph Addabbo was elected by this column as the Senator with the best hairdo, beating Senator José Marco Serrano by one vote.

What I want to know, instead, could the people's tax cut have been made permanent, while corporations were not, and then a new bill such as Senator Ted Cruz's has proposed to make the cut permanent?

under that scenario, Senator x from herkimer county (population 5,000) has the same power as Senator Y from Kings County (population 3 million).

Senator Elizabeth Warren and others did their best to bend it in a more liberal, «big government» direction, just as Senator Tim Scott and Alexander himself, for example, attempted to make it more conservative.

Although she styled herself as an independent - minded centrist in the two years she represented the Hudson Valley as House member for New York's 19th congressional district, she has veered to the left since replacing Hillary Clinton as senator in 2009, and winning elections in 2010 and 2012.

This Ombudsman respectfully requests our elected officials, including County Executive Ed Day, Assemblypersons Kenneth Zebrowski and Ellen Jaffee, as well as Senator David Carlucci, to share with our readers the projected costs of removing and replacing the numerous signs needed to re-label the Tappan Zee bridge as the Mario Cuomo bridge.

Saturday's early game saw Boston lose a two - goal lead as the Senators took Game 2 in overtime by a score of 4 - 3.

He is an educator, an organizer and just recently served as Senator Gillibrand's Director of Community Outreach.»

The Court of Appeal has upheld the election of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki as the Senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial District.

By then he had spent the better part of four decades mastering the rarefied institution, first as an aide, then as a senator — a victory he'd pulled off in the 1984 election, thanks in part to the help of Roger Ailes, the future Fox News chief, who had run the campaign's media strategy.

While Hyde - Smith will only serve as Senator until a special election is held on Nov. 6 to determine who will serve out the remaining two years of Cochran's term, the choice is not insignificant.

«I think people just concluded that there was nothing broken and it didn't need to be fixed,» said Coleman, who has served as senator since January 1995.

So, Democrats — including several Catholics, such as Senator Tim Kaine, who are «personally» though not professionally opposed to abortion — voted to filibuster the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and the Republican leaders who could have moved a bump stock ban bill to the floor after the Las Vegas massacre did not.

The senate said the police must come forward to explain why Melaye would be subjected to such a humiliating treatment despite his status as a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

So his campaign advisors (including a seething, confused Oliver Platt) contort themselves into a helpless semblance of spin control as the senator cuts a swath of destruction through his own campaign.

Sessions has drawn a distinction between his role as a Trump surrogate and his duties as a senator and strongly denied ever discussing campaign - related issues with anyone from Russia.

Senator Jim Buckley served this state and nation for decades as a senator, undersecretary of state, president of Radio Free Europe and as a long - time Federal Appellate Court justice.

But those arguments didn't convince critics of the program, such as senators James Inhofe (R - OK) and John McCain (R - AZ).

Also included in the cast are actresses Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Holly Hunter as Senator Finch and Tao Okamoto as Mercy Graves.

STARRING Ben Affleck as BRUCE WAYNE / BATMAN Henry Cavill as CLARK KENT / SUPERMAN Amy Adams as LOIS LANE Jesse Eisenberg as LEX LUTHOR Diane Lane as MARTHA KENT Laurence Fishburne as PERRY WHITE Jeremy Irons as ALFRED Holly Hunter as SENATOR FINCH Gal Gadot as DIANA PRINCE / WONDER WOMAN Scoot McNairy as WALLACE KEEFE