Sentences with phrase «assistant majority leader»

«The Coalition for Patent Fairness applauds Senate Majority Leader Reid, Assistant Majority Leader Durbin, Senator Schumer and Senator Murray for laying out an aggressive agenda to keep the United States competitive in the global market.

In that role, Representative Stafstrom serves as Assistant Majority Leader, Vice-Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and on the Finance, Revenue and Bonding, and Planning and Development Committees.

This past week, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R - IA) and Senate Assistant Majority Leader John Cornyn (R - TX) wrote to the three largest litigation funders and asked the companies to be more transparent about their dealings.

Participants were: Rep. David Monson, North Dakota House assistant majority leader, farmer; Wayne Hauge, Seed breeder, licensed hemp farmer; Roger Johnson, North Dakota agriculture commissioner; Tim Purdon, Vogel Law Firm, Bismarck, attorney for the plaintiffs; Joe Sandler, legal counsel for VoteHemp.com; Eric Steenstra, president, VoteHemp.com.

WHO: Rep. David Monson, North Dakota House assistant majority leader, farmer Wayne Hauge, Seed breeder, licensed hemp farmer Roger Johnson, North Dakota agriculture commissioner Tim Purdon, Vogel Law Firm, Bismarck, attorney for the plaintiffs Joe Sandler, legal counsel for VoteHemp.com Eric Steenstra, president, VoteHemp.com

WHO: Rep. David Monson, North Dakota House Assistant Majority Leader, licensed hemp farmer Tim Purdon, attorney with Vogel Law Firm of Bismarck, ND and co-counsel for the plaintiffs Joe Sandler, co-counsel for the plaintiffs and legal counsel for Vote Hemp, Inc..

Farrow, vice chairman of the Senate Education Committee, and Steineke, Assembly assistant majority leader, brokered the deal.

«The essential difference is Gifford's entire tenure â $ ¦ he was a declared candidate to run for city mayor,» said Assistant Majority Leader Lewis Fidler.

McCormick previously served as Assistant Majority Leader until 2011 when he became the Majority Leader.

(CNN)- A meeting has been scheduled between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin and Roland Burris, embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's choice to succeed Barack Obama as the junior senator from Illinois, according to a Democratic source familiar with the discussions of Senate Democratic leaders.

«During the period of time that a lot of this was going on, Bill de Blasio was the assistant majority leader and a member of your budget negotiating team,» Weiner said.

To their credit, Majority Leader Julio A. Concepcion and Assistant Majority Leader John Q. Gale have been without assistants for months.

The Democrats chose Dianne Hesselbein of Middleton as assistant majority leader on a unanimous vote.

Romano gave credit to Democratic House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz for immediately stripping Arce, a Hartford Democrat, of his assistant majority leader's post and his committee assignments on Feb. 28, after Arce showed him texts that went from his Facebook Messenger account to a 16 - year - old girl in 2015.

Perone, assistant majority leader, said, «I knew I had to work had to make my case.

He also served in the state assembly from 1983 to 1994, serving two terms as assistant majority leader.

In fact, several influential Democrats — including Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin of Illinois, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont, and Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez of New Jersey — have been highly skeptical of the emerging proposal.

Members of Statewide Steering Committee U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson Lieutenant Governor Brad Little Secretary of State Ben Ysursa Superintendent of Public Schools Tom Luna State Controller Donna Jones Attorney General Lawrence Wasden Senate Pro Tempore Brent Hill Speaker of the House Lawerence Denney Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis Assistant Senate Majority Leader Chuck Winder House Assistant Majority Leader Scott Bedke House Caucus Chairman Ken Roberts

He went on to serve on the Rules, Transportation, Finance, Education, Health, and Racing, Gaming, and Wagering Committees; chaired the Senate Investigations Committee; and became the senior assistant majority leader.

Dutchess County Legislature Assistant Majority Leader Donna Bolner said, «With more than 70 % of the county budget mandated by the state and federal government, we must continue to be prudent and wise with the remaining 30 % of the budget that we have direct influence over.

At the time, Hannon collected a $ 25,000 stipend as assistant majority leader on conference operations.

He previously served as assistant majority leader.

Klein was paid $ 20,625 between April 2013 and September 2013 for serving as «senior assistant majority leader» and Skelos was paid $ 31,125 for his role as «temporary president.»

Barca said his staff asked the reporters to move to the nearby parlor, where he and Assistant Majority Leader Dianne Hesselbein of Middleton and Rep. Mark Spreitzer of Beloit answered questions.

State House Assistant Majority Leader Jared Golden, a Marine veteran, announced his candidacy for the 2nd District in Lewiston's Kennedy Park Thursday morning.

«These fighters will have a positive impact on Taiwan's self - defense and would act as a necessary deterrent to China's aggressive military posture across the Asia - Pacific region,» Senators John Cornyn, the assistant majority leader, and James Inhofe, a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, said in a letter to President Donald Trump.

Not exact matches

The next day, assistant Senate majority leader Don Nickles (R - Okla.)

Immediately prior to that position, he served as Assistant to the Senate Majority Leader for the Minnesota State Senate, where he was a policy aide to then Majority Leader Roger D. Moe.

Though Flanagan formally announced her decision, he did not do the same with several other stop attorneys who dated back to the days when Dean Skelos was majority leader and had also decided to part ways with the Senate GOP, including, as the DN's Ken Lovett reported, first assistant counsel Rebecca Lovullo, program senior counsel Tim Atkins, and Frank Alleva, a program assistant counsel.

Kaminsky is a former assistant U.S. attorney who is perhaps best known (among the sort of people who know this kind of thing) for successfully prosecuting corruption former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., of the Bronx.

A little while later, Assistant US Attorneys Andrew Goldstein and Tatiana Martins, two of the prosecutors who secured corruption convictions of former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, also showed up at Berke's office.

For nearly an hour, assistant U.S. attorney Tatiana Martins told a jury of nine women and three men of the power Dean Skelos, the former senate majority leader, had amassed in Albany and how he used his position to «strong - arm businesses that depended on his vote in the Senate.»

Deputy Senate Caucus Director in Maine for the 2014 cycle; special assistant to the Maine Senate Majority Leader.

During the prosecution's rebuttal, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Masimore compared the elder Skelos» power as majority leader to a poem in Shel Silverstein's «Where the Sidewalk Ends,» titled «Gorilla.»

Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo said during an April 7 committee meeting that he had invited Louis Petrucci, the city's assistant director of permit and inspection services, to appear before the panel.

In addition, Ms. Hormozi was responsible for the investigation of former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, and was designated as Special Assistant United States Attorney in connection with a federal prosecution of Mr. Espada.

We need to let the mayor know we won't stand for this,» said Inez Dickens, the assistant deputy majority leader who represents Central Harlem.

I certainly appreciate and commend Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin and Senator David Vitter for initiating legislation to amend the Animal Welfare Act and improve the treatment of these victims of the nation's commercial breeding industry.

Last year Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin introduced in the US Senate the Durbin - Vitter «Puppy Uniform Protection and Safety Act» (PUPS) to require federal licensing and inspection of many home hobby breeders (see below).

In response to a scathing report by the USDA Inspector General (IG), critical of the government's handling of puppy mill investigations, Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D - IL) and Senator David Vitter (R - LA) today called for immediate changes at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS) and promised to work with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on administrative and legislative reforms.