Sentences with phrase «before becoming majority leader»

Torturing de Blasio over mayoral control has been a somewhat lonely quest for Flanagan, a Long Island senator who led the chamber's education committee before becoming majority leader last year.

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

Not exact matches

Cuomo told aides over the weekend that due to the high - profile criminal and civil investigations of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada (D - Bronx) that became public last week, he was shelving tentative plans to announce later this week right before a Waldorf - Astoria fund - raiser and a meeting of the Democratic Rural Conference.

Skelos is a longtime lawmaker who became Senate majority leader for several months in 2007 before the Democrats took control of the chamber last year with a slim 32 - to - 30 margin.

Dean Skelos is a longtime lawmaker who became Senate majority leader for several months in 2007 before the Dems took control of the chamber last year with a 32 - 30 margin.

Mr. Espada would briefly become majority leader before the legislative chaos, and his own legal troubles, ended his political career.

Years before Dean Skelos became the Republicans» leader, the union had formed a pragmatic alliance with former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno.

Though Flanagan left the firm shortly before becoming Senate majority leader in May 2015, a lawyer who represents abuse victims says Flanagan has a conflict when it comes to the Child Victims Act.

DeFrancisco, who chairs the Senate finance committee, confirmed during an interview with the Syracuse Post-Standard that he is interested in becoming majority leader, but said before leaving the Capitol this week that he did not want to discuss his potential candidacy unless or until Skelos stepped aside.

A majority in the parliamentary party, however, fears that if either is chosen they could use the party machinery to attempt to purge moderate MPs and the many staff appointed before Corbyn became leader.

LBJ: Brings to life both the complexity and the humanity of Lyndon B. Johnson (Woody Harrelson) as he goes from being a powerful Senate majority leader to a powerless vice president before he becomes the president of the US following the assassination of JFK.

Brings to life both the complexity and the humanity of Lyndon B. Johnson (Harrelson) as he goes from being a powerful Senate majority leader to a powerless vice president before he becomes the president of the United States following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Until just before the speech, the last words quoted here were «scientific - technological - congressional elite», which would have insulted the new Vice President, Lyndon Johnson, who, as majority leader in the Senate, had pushed for NASA as part of his campaign to become president.