Sentences with phrase «as a state representative talking»

«You know, the good thing is here I am as a state representative talking to you at a national publication, and we're promoting the state of Florida,» he says.

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As U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and other officials head to Beijing this week for high - stakes trade talks with Chinese counterparts, they seek to correct an economic relationship with China that has become increasingly unbalanced — and, over the long term, dangerous — for the United States and other nations.

As we discussed the menu details, the local state representative Matt Forslund and I talked about some elk Matt had at the time.

As he makes his fourteenth appearance on the program, the legislator from the Bronx» 87th district will talk about how his district fared in the big snowfall, the anti-Muslim attack in his district, his proposed legislation to give voters a chance to recall their representatives, Bronx development issues, the state budget, and more.

UFT District 6 Representative Mayra Cruz (seated, second from right) looks on as Manhattan State Sen. Marisol Alcantara (seated, right) talks with member lobbyists.

A president given to endless talk with a preference for making his points via anecdotes (such as one about why a portrait of George Washington is on the wall of a particular toilet), Lincoln, a Republican, favored the adoption of the amendment to abolish slaves as did many in his own party, but to get the required two - thirds vote of the House of Representatives thereby sending it to the states for ratification, he had to bring in some Democrats.