Sentences with phrase «as the senator with»

About three years ago, Senator Joseph Addabbo was elected by this column as the Senator with the best hairdo,

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Not so, Zuckerberg told senators: Because the system was working as designed, it was technically in compliance with the FTC order, in his view.

The cartoonist said in a note that originally appeared with the cartoon that by using his children «as political props» in a video ad that ran during an episode of Saturday Night Live, the senator had made them «fair game» for editorial criticism.

It's a charge freighted with emotional power in an area the senator accurately describes as suffering a depression.

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.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday gathered with senators on the chamber's tax - writing committee — including Democrats — as the GOP crafts a plan it hopes to pass this year.

«The president just stripped the Department of Homeland Security of its leader, was blasted by the outgoing head of hurricane forecasting for how his budget cuts could set back this work, and lacks any experience (as a senator or governor) with navigating a difficult disaster response.

Several Democratic senators pressed billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Monday to clarify his role as an adviser to President Donald Trump, saying his position in the administration raised «alarming» questions about potential conflicts of interest with his stakes in the biofuels and pharmaceutical industries.

Ashley Schapitl, a spokeswoman for Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the committee, said the senator is working with the Justice and Treasury departments to get technical assistance as the bill moves forward.

A day after berating Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan over the bank's own scandal with phony accounts, Senator Warren took aim Wednesday at Smith, who retired as CEO of the credit reporting agency last week in the wake of the Equifax breach.

Of all the candidates, Cuban says he would most like to sit down with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, even though he objects to Sanders's stance as a democratic socialist and plan to levy a special tax on billionaires.

is an exception — and in fact may help Obama get Brennan confirmed: The drone program is as popular with Republican senators as it is with the American people, and neither group seems all that eager to know the details.

Senators failed spectacularly at a February attempt to resolve the Dreamers» fate, voting down four different deals that would exchange their protection with various other immigration - related measures, such as Trump's border wall and certain restrictions to legal immigration.

Recently former president Fernando de la Rúa was charged with bribing senators in the 2000 election and current president Cristina Kirchner has faced harsh public criticism over rampant corruption as well.

It arrived as about a half - dozen senators were at the White House meeting with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence about the next steps in the GOP effort to ensure passage of the bill.

He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R - AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D - HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army's air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to their superiors due to fear of being laughed at or stigmatized.

Senator Johnson has been in some hot water with constituents and local media lately for failing to answer citizens» calls to hold listening sessions or meet with them, as other legislators around the country have.

Sessions» early words and actions are consistent with the tough - on - crime reputation the former federal prosecutor cultivated as an Alabama senator, and they foreshadow an unmistakable pivot in critical areas of civil rights, criminal justice and drug policy.

The Texas senator had carefully struck a balance between the various facets of the GOP, positioning himself as traditionally conservative on most issues, but one with a libertarian streak.

The Senate's No. 3 Republican also ranks as the third-most popular senator, with 62 percent of constituents approving of his work.

Republican lawmakers, who normally resist regulation of private business, started coming down on the company as early as Sunday, with Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona calling the privacy violations «significant» and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida saying he was «disturbed» by many things about the company.

He appeared somber as he walked in to testify, and spoke before a packed room, with 44 senators in attendance.

Donald Trump's private meeting Thursday with Senate Republicans — designed to foster greater party unity ahead of the national convention in Cleveland — grew combative as the presumptive presidential nominee admonished three senators who have been critical of his candidacy and predicted they would lose their reelection bids, according to two Republican officials with direct knowledge of the exchanges.

The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.

As Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook testimony stretches on, a rough exchange with Senator John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana produced some of the day's more memorable sound bites.

Senator Sullivan: One of my worries on regulation with a company of your size saying «Hey, we might be interested in being regulated», but as you know, regulations can also cement the dominant power.

Mr. Morneau, I personally provided you with «the straight goods» YOU, as well as each MP and each Senator.!

Beyond the special visit of Senator Collins, highlights included: • Intense and probing pre and post-dinner conversations about the economy and the world on the deck (along with wonderful wine and hors d'oeuvres — part of the tradition is that each participant ships several bottles of excellent wine to share with others) • Participation in a financial forecast survey of key factors for the upcoming 12 months as well as a review of the prior year's financial forecast survey — including distribution of funds that the prior year's attendees «bet» on the accuracy of the forecasts.

«The real problem with investigative journalism, and one of the reasons there isn't as much of it as its partisans so desperately desire, is that it often doesn't pan out,» observes John Podhoretz, once of the Weekly Standard and now editor of Commentary, discussing a Washington Post hit job on Senator Marco Rubio.

The battle is joined, and it is likely that it will figure also in the presidential election, with Senator Obama urging «respect» for the court decision and Senator McCain reiterating his support for marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

If Senator Bird was pressed on his early involvement with KKK leaders, why is Romney not pressed on his ongoing dedication to extreme racists like Brigham Young, who he accepts as a true prophet of God?

In 1993 there appeared two books with a similar theme, Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty - first Century by Zbigniew Brzezinski and Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics by Daniel Moynihan, who had had a distinguished career as a Harvard professor, US ambassador to the UN, president of the Security Council and then senior US senator.

And take their two senators and 24 congressmen with them, as well as their 38 electoral college votes.

As a legal scholar, I had hoped Judge Thomas would accept Senator Biden's challenge and articulate a vision of natural law with real content, but this was not to be.

As Senator Biden's article indicates, modernists are much more comfortable with the idea of natural rights than with natural obligations.

Massachusetts» entirely Democratic Senate delegation of Ted Kennedy and John Kerry went along with the assessment to the point of preventing his confirmation — only to hear a howl, when the senators got back home, from the hospitals and medical firms around Boston, whose leaders thought Astrue was as good as they were likely to get from the Republican administration in Washington.

One person who agrees with Senator McGovern is James McHale, an energetic farmer appointed by Governor Milton Shapp as Pennsylvania's secretary of agriculture.

With the addition of more and more services, including research of public wants, needs, fears and hopes as well as follow - up studies of advertising effects on sales, votes, or simple acceptance, the more general term marketing has grown in use to signify all the varied parts of an orchestrated campaign to «move» any entity, from soap to Senators, into a market.

Ramesh Ponnuru wrote about how Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill influenced the Republican primaries by attacking the candidate she wanted to run against in the general election as a «true conservative» with a «pro-family agenda.»

Senator Daniel Inouye at the Iran - contra hearings described the network that had subverted the U.S. Constitution and carried out illegal foreign policy as «a shadowy government with its own air force, its own navy, its own fundraising mechanism and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

Senator Ben Nelson got as much lucre for Nebraska as he could, and with Joe Lieberman, killed the public option.

There is a current and lively argument in our own Congress, with California's Senator Boxer leading the charge for a bill to cut our emissions sharply, even as she prepares to fly to Bali and contribute some atmospheric pollution as she flies.

As Senator John Kerry's subcommittee on narcotics reported in December 1988, increased cooperation with foreign governments has neither cut the amount of cocaine entering the U.S. nor led to the destruction of the major smuggling organizations.

Rubio is regarded as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016, though the senator says his visit last week to Iowa, home of the first - in - the - nation presidential caucuses, had «nothing to do with 2016.»

Moreover, Berlin's essay defended the liberal democratic project in such a way as to reinforce the liberal anti-Communist consensus that historians still associate with men such as President Harry Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and Senators Hubert H. Humphrey and Henry M. Jackson.

As if to prove he had other matters on his mind, twelve years later John produced Bribes: The Intellectual History of a Moral Idea, a study that begins in Egypt two thousand years before Christ and ends with a discussion of Abscam, an FBI sting operation that sent seven U.S. Congressmen and one Senator to prison in the early 80s.

Though he had once spoken of the «Roman terror» as a worse threat to American freedom than communism, in the 1950s he collaborated with Catholic senator Joseph McCarthy in his anti-Communist efforts.

Nationals senator John Williams said he was sick of a lack of action on food labelling, particularly as the honey industry struggles with drought and bushfires affecting production.

It was a tremendous evening filled with valuable people and businesses in the certified organic industry, as well as important players in our industry Nick Xenophon (former Senator) and new Senator Rex Patrick.

The Bill was introduced as a Private Members Bill by Senator Nick Xenophon The Bill would provide the Court with the power to order a corporation to reduce its market share, where the corporation has been found to have contravened subsections 46 (1) or 46 (1AA) of the Act.