Sentences with phrase «been majority leader for»

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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.

«It is important that we achieve a two - year agreement that funds our troops and provides for our national security and other critical functions of the Federal government,» the statement from the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

«[The legislation] does not take steps toward coverage and access for all Americans, and while insurers are still required to offer coverage to patients with pre-existing conditions, allowing states to get waivers to vary premiums based on health status would allow insurers to charge unaffordable premiums based on those pre-existing conditions,» wrote American Medical Association (AMA) president Dr. James Madara in a letter urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to shelve the Graham - Cassidy bill on Tuesday.

A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., declined to comment, and a spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., did not return a request for comment.

Sen. Rand Paul, R - Ky., whom Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell persuaded not to delay the Senate vote on the bill, also urged Trump to «veto this sad excuse for legislation.»

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told his colleagues last year that he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin «pays» Rohrabacher, whose contact with and sympathy for pro-Russian entities has long been viewed with suspicion.

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.

Jim Manley, who worked for years as a close aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, says it's up to the re-elected president.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has called for the move for some time, said on the Senate floor that Grassley's move was «sensible.»

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.

«I don't know if is all [man's fault] but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature,» Pope Francis, No. 4 on Fortune's list of the world's greatest leaders, told Reuters earlier this year.

Cornyn is the No. 2 Republican in the Senate behind Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said Tuesday that he'd recommended that Trump nominate Garland for the post.

Net approval for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - Ky.)

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).

And I still have confidence that Trump and Congress can deliver on a grand infrastructure deal — the president has been turning up the heat on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, writing on Twitter that the Kentucky senator needs to «get back to work» and put «a great Infrastructure Bill on my desk for signing.»

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 Orrin Hatch, R - Utah, has already vowed to torpedo DOL's fiduciary efforts for IRAs via his Secure Annuities for Employee (SAFE) Retirement Act, which he said Congress will take up this year.

Gephardt served in Congress for 28 years, was House Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995 and Minority Leader from 1995 to 2003, running for president in 1988 and 2004.

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.

If you are a senior leader or majority owner in a privately - owned business without a succession system in place, you should be concerned, and here's why: without a proper succession plan in place for you and the executive team, and a talent development strategy for the organization, your firm is likely to run into ownership transfer challenges in the future.

For the majority of B2B Marketing and Sales leaders, these types of events can be either severe cases of concern or exciting opportunities not to be missed.

According to the report, the military's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program ran from 2002 - 2012 and was a sort of «pet project» for then - Senate majority leader Harry Reid.

Religion News Service: Survey: Most Southern Baptist pastors favor black denominational leader A majority of Southern Baptist pastors surveyed said they think it would be good for the nation's largest Protestant denomination to have an African - American leader.

From the Speed Read: Religion News Service: Survey: Most Southern Baptist pastors favor black denominational leader A majority of Southern Baptist pastors surveyed said they think it would be good for the nation's largest Protestant denomination to have an African - American leader.

First, incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R - Virginia) blasted the National Portrait Gallery for its «obvious attempt to offend Christians during the Christmas season,» while the incoming House Speaker John Boehner (R - Ohio) and other Republicans threatened to scrutinize Smithsonian funding next year.

But, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and many of the GOP candidates believe the space would be best left vacant for nearly a year until a new administration is running the White House.

Lawrence K. Frank, a leader in the mental health movement has observed that if a community's mental health program is to draw on the strengths of our culture and to have meaning for the majority of people, it must be presented as more than a psychiatric proposal.

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.

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.

Our partners and pals and Significant Others, The people who work in the Caring Professions, The service that pays for my therapy sessions, The Muppets and Smurfs and of course Mr. Rogers, The U.S.C.C. and Los Angeles Dodgers, The lady who serves as our story - time reader (At present) the Senate Majority Leader, Delores in day - care, Ms. Sands in ceramics, Francesca who networks my fam» ly dynamics, Picasso and Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion And Ronald McDonald and Richard Mcbrien, Miss Piggy and Kermit and Bozo and Bartok, Corita and Gloria Steinem and Starhawk, And Rudolf the Reindeer and Santa's ten elves But best of all most of all, god is our selves!

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.

Because the Unitarian Congregationalists were usually the leaders in the community and appeared to stand for a more common - sense and liberal position, they had little difficulty in obtaining the support of the majority in the parish and so gained control of the church property.

A strong majority of white evangelicals are pleased with Trump's performance as president so far, and dozens of evangelical leaders, including advisers Robert Jeffress and Paula White, gathered at the White House for a dinner with Trump and vice president Mike Pence Wednesday night.

Bill Frist, MD, is a former US Senate Majority Leader, surgeon, and chairman of Hope Through Healing Hands, a global health organization committed to improving the quality of life for communities around the world using health as a currency for peace.

A lot more could have been done if Republicans had allowed for a simple majority vote, but... Remember the words of Senate Minority Leader McConnell, [My number one goal is to make sure Obama is a one term President.]

But there was little motivation for reconciliation among the majority of leaders on the two sides (and very soon more than two sides, because the reformers began to differ fiercely among themselves), who soon became polarised and set in confrontation.

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.

«Cruelties such as locking animals in tiny cages for their whole lives and cutting their tails off without painkiller aren't acceptable to Rhode Islanders, and we're proud to have taken action to prevent them,» said Majority Leader Ruggerio.

The former Chelsea midfielder has been heavily linked with a move to the current leaders of the Barclays Premier League for the majority of the summer transfer window and there is reportedly an agreement in place between the two clubs and negotiations are set to continue over a few minor details according to Sky Sports.

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.

That the reigning Italian champions and current Serie A leaders stand so far behind their Spanish counterparts isn't a testament to a specific tactical philosophy — the two teams were fairly even for the majority of the game.

McConnell was Senate minority leader for eight years before becoming majority leader when the GOP took control in 2015.

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.

«Democrats in the state Senate have unified and now it's time for us all to come together to win a Democratic majority of 32 senators, making Andrea Stewart - Cousins our Senate Majority Leadermajority of 32 senators, making Andrea Stewart - Cousins our Senate Majority LeaderMajority Leader.»

He was penciled for the job alongside the equally experienced Paapa Owusu Ankomah, MP for Sekondi and a fomer Majority Leader and the Acting National Chairman of the elephant family, Frederick Worsemao Armah Blay, a former 1st Deputy Speaker of Parliament.

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).

The endorsement of DeFrancisco for governor is a show of unity for the two lawmakers who competed for the majority leader post.

«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.»