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ALBANY — None of State Senator Dean Skelos» colleagues expect him to be majority leader by day's end.

Not exact matches

Cameron and the vast majority of Britain's most senior politicians advocated for «Remain» while the «Leave» movement was fronted by now Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and former leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., flanked by SBA Administrator Linda McMahon (left) and Sen. Jim Risch, R - Idaho, speaks at an event in the Capitol with small - business advocates to highlight the importance of tax reform to America's small businesses on Nov. 28, 2017.

The 125 CEOs who participated in the survey were asked to compare a hypothetical majority government under Conservative leader Stephen Harper to one led by Liberal Stéphane Dion.

The Mueller legislation approved by the Senate panel may be largely symbolic, since Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he won't bring it up for a full Senate vote.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., said the Senate would start the process to try to override Obama's veto by March 3.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has delivered a ferocious attack on congressional Republicans and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over a medical research bill, putting fellow Democrats on the spot by pushing them to oppose a measure she said «is corrupt, and it is very, very dangerous.»

At the end of March, for example, Musk chipped in $ 50,000 to an organization run by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy that's meant to boost his GOP allies.

The invitation, obtained by the Washington Examiner, invites donors to an evening event on July 25 with «special guests» House Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R - Calif.

The leading candidate to replace him is Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the majority leader, who is viewed more favorably by the House's more conservative members both for his willingness to bend to their will and for his cheerful manner.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

Xerox's plan to merge its business with Fujifilm of Japan looks to be increasingly in jeopardy, as its chairman, its chief executive and a majority of its board members said they would resign in favor of a slate of new leaders favored by shareholders opposing the deal.

The budget agreement negotiated by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., calls for a $ 63 billion increase in domestic...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., flanked by, Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon, left, and Sen. Roger Wicker, R - Miss., speaks to a group of small business owners as Republicans work to pass their sweeping tax bill.

The SegWit2X hard fork planned for next week has been called off by a majority of the miners as well as the development leaders of the effort.

«Once the command has been replicated to a majority of nodes, the command is applied by the Leader and a response to the Client is issued.

That is, that one of the main reasons for his attack on Darwinism is his conclusion that insufficiently critical adoption of evolutionary modes of thought by the majority of scientists, and also by educational (e.g., John Dewey) and legal (e.g., Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) leaders, has led to a highly unsatisfactory cultural situation, and to many evil consequences.

Religiously it was jihad against evil society and the infidels in America, an interpretation that was not accepted by the majority of Islamic leaders, theologians, and communities the world over.

«Don't think that this blog and others are up here by accident, if you really want to do something then write congress, tell our leaders that they had better start listening to the majority of the people»

been criticized (sometimes by their own leaders) for not doing enough on behalf of the poor, the majority of the American labor force believes they are actually doing a good job in this area.

After writing a blog post last week urging Christian conference leaders to pursue diversity in their speaker lineups, I've been so encouraged by the response, and in particular by the number of majority - culture leaders who have added their voices in support.

But in the dramatic opening sessions of the council in the fall of 1962, the assembled bishops and other leaders of the Catholic Church, headed by those from Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, refused to follow the agenda set by the traditionalist Curia, repudiated their reactionary schemata, and unexpectedly showed themselves to be, in the majority, progressives open to John XXIII's agenda of sweeping pastoral renewal.

With sadness in my heart, I'm watching the America of my youth and working life, of God - fearing and law - abiding people, being totally replaced by EVIL leaders elected by a majority of a foolish and ignorant population!

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Wenger has now seemingly disregarded the role as a leader on the pitch, by passing the armband onto Per Mertesacker, who not only played a bit - part role for us last season, but is also ruled out for the majority of the playing season.

He was not, however, pleased by the loss of his «amigo», Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who was ousted by Gustavo Rivera.

Neither former Gov. George Pataki nor former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, both of whom played a role in the region's nano - boom, were present — in fact, Pataki, joined by state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, did some pre-speech pushback for the RNC.

Sealey, who worked in the music and marketing industries and DJed for Prince and Mick Jagger, was hired by then - Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith in 2009, much to the chagrin of not a few veteran staffers who wondered why someone with no previous government or political experience was making so much money.

In 2002, the Rs kicked the Dems out of control of Congress, knocked off the Senate Majority Leader for the first time in a bazillion years, and even defeated a guy (Max Cleland) who lost three limbs in Vietnam, in part by smearing him as somehow un-American (I ain't forgetting that one anytime soon).

That's thanks largely to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was the first to suggest additional disaster aid — remember that FEMA only has about $ 800 million on hand, which is less than even New York's estimated storm bill of $ 1 billion — be offset by other budget cuts.

The $ 44.5 million in advertising money used to promote the program would be «redirected» to tourism promotion» under the plan unveiled by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was more supportive of the effort to strengthen charter schools statewide as the governor wants to lift the cap on the alternative public schools by 100.

«Any time (former Senate Majority Leader) Joe Bruno was criticized, our members postage or printing allotment would be shut off; they denied us access to government websites (serviced by the same firm handling the Republicans» political websites); Senate Republicans even went so far as to force several of our members to operate without district office space for months at a time.»

And he did so in spite of the fact that Wojtaszek was backed by almost the entire GOP establishment from Pataki and Rudy Giuliani on down, with the exception of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who backed Cox.

Schneiderman is backed by Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson and most of his fellow majority members.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan wasn't impressed by de Blasio's appearance at the mayoral control hearing at the state Capitol this week.

One last point of interest from my CapTon interview with Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last night: The Senate GOP is looking to pass a redistricting plan by March 1, which is pretty much right around the corner.

Senate Republicans have balked at the measure and this afternoon Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R - Nassau County, ruled out passing any minimum wage increase this legislative session in a brief question - and - answer session (he had previously hedged by saying he would only rule out passing Silver's bill).

Silver's downfall last year was followed by an unprecedented moment in state politics in which his counter part, Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, was also later felled by a corruption scandal involving securing business for his son through official actions.

He lived through 12 years as the loyal opposition to GOP Gov. George Pataki and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, foiled a coup attempt by former Assemblyman Mike Bragman in 2000, weathered Gov. Eliot «the steamroller» Spitzer and now has managed to get along with hard - charging Gov. Andrew Cuomo, largely by giving him pretty much everything he wants from a policy perspective (even things the Dems were never expected to go along with, like Tier VI and the property tax cap).

And the legislative leaders» briefing at the mansion tonight — all four leaders are invited, minority and majority alike, by the way — will be a dinner meeting at which details will likely be sparse.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

The DSCC has been slowly remaking itself as Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson settles ever more comfortably into spearheading the majority's political operation — a job once performed by Senate President Malcolm Smith.

The bill, which in September 2017 was discussed at a public hearing is sponsored by deputy majority leader Umar Buba Jubril.

DeFrancisco, a Republican candidate for governor, pointed to a push by GOP lawmakers, including Majority Leader John Flanagan, to end the START - UP New York program, which was created by Cuomo and has been criticized for its spending on advertising, but producing a lower number of jobs than initially projected.

«Everyone is trying to figure out how do we properly fund education and, by extension, how do we pay for everything,» said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Suffolk County.

John Sweeney, who, according to GOP sources, is whipping votes by phone for the comptroller, along with another veteran former politico, former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who (thankfully) belongs to the early - risers club of which I am a card - carrying member, told me this morning that he has not been informed of a reported move by state Democratic leaders to oust controversial Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. from the party.

An independent expenditure committee backed by the United Federation of Teachers is making a last - minute push for Democrat Todd Kaminsky in the special election to replace Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The stance echoes a broader push by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan heading into the new legislative session for making the limit on how much levies can be hiked a permanent one.