Sentences with phrase «by congressional leaders»

Unfortunately, that isn't what we've seen so far in proposals released by congressional leaders and the White House.

Three leading tax reform plans released over the past few years by congressional leaders, two Republicans and one Democrat, each promise to protect the MID; however, we must take a closer look at these plans.

Joined by Congressional leaders and industry experts, members of the SEMA Action Network (SAN) participated in the «Fuel for Thought» Rally on Capitol Hill.

Then there are proposals for reauthorizing No Child that have been floated by congressional leaders such as House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline, Senate counterpart Tom Harkin, and his likely successor, Lamar Alexander.

Part of the federal budget agreement reached over the weekend by Congressional leaders and the Obama administration leaves in place a long - standing policy allowing teachers in alternative certification programs to be labeled highly qualified» under the No Child Left Behind Act.»

A massive fiscal 2018 federal spending bill unveiled by congressional leaders Wednesday night includes a provision urging the heads of EPA, the Energy Department and the Agriculture Department to adopt policies that «reflect the carbon - neutrality of forest bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable energy source.»

The 4 % increase for the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Alexandria, Virginia, in the 2018 omnibus spending bill hammered out by congressional leaders this week may be modest next to what its peer science agencies received.

The bipartisan legislation is supported in the district, the SUNY system and by congressional leaders, said the release.

Instead, the $ 1.3 trillion budget bill passed by congressional leaders boosted the block grant program's funding by $ 305 million.

«The brave and assiduous oversight by congressional leaders in discovering this unprecedented abuse of process represents a giant, historic leap in the repair of America's democracy,» Page said in a statement to Business Insider

«The brave and assiduous oversight by Congressional leaders in discovering this unprecedented abuse of process represents a giant, historic leap in the repair of America's democracy,» he said.

Not exact matches

«The President multiple times reaffirmed in general to all of us, and looked at Larry Kudlow, and said Larry go get it done,» Sasse said after exiting a White House meeting with the President about trade and agriculture that he attended with several governors and congressional leaders who represent states that they say will be adversely impacted by the President's recently announced tariffs.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The reality, though, is that, while Trump and Congressional GOP leaders still don't have a comprehensive, detailed plan for tax reform, the proposals they've put forth thus far have been found by independent analysts to disproportionately benefit higher - income taxpayers.

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.»

This is an idea favored by many congressional GOP leaders, but one Trump had previously described as «too complicated.»

Trump's announcement Friday that he would unveil a tax plan this week caught lawmakers by surprise, despite regular conversations among Mnuchin, Cohn and congressional leaders, said a congressional aide.

At the same time that Florida students are pleading Congressional leaders to implement more gun control, a seventh grader in Jackson Township, Ohio was found injured by a self - inflicted gunshot wound early Tuesday.

Those votes highlighted the fervent free - market ideology that has made Hensarling, now chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, the proud leader of the drive by congressional Republicans to roll back tougher federal oversight of the financial system.

And the alt - right website Breitbart, which was formerly run by Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, and has associated itself with Trump since he began his campaign, continually ascribes political failures to congressional leaders like Speaker of the House Paul Ryan rather than to Trump.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

Don was an appointed a delegate to both the 1998 and 2002 White House / Congressional National Summits on Retirement Savings, hosted by the President and Congressional leaders.

The document, which was obtained by The Washington Post, underscores the growing chasm between congressional Republican leaders, who have maintained for months that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III should be allowed to proceed, and rank - and - file GOP lawmakers who have repeatedly battled the Justice Department during the past year.

The tax overhaul promised by President Trump and Republican congressional leaders is lugging a remarkably heavy load.

But the letter sent to congressional leaders outlining the principles — signed by Trump himself — says that the document outlines «reforms that must be included as part of any legislation addressing the status of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.»

We have been a leader in helping candidates accept bitcoin, beginning in 2012 with New Hampshire Representative Mark Warden's winning re-election campaign and followed by 2012 Congressional Candidate Eric Olson in North Dakota and the national Libertarian Party.

A similar proposal was pushed by President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders in 2013 but failed to advance through Congress following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn..

To this could be added the recent congressional hearings in which militia leaders received a surprisingly respectful hearing from a subcommittee chaired by Senator Arlen Specter -LRB-!

The incompetence and unwillingness of the administration to take matters in hand is matched only by the incompetence and unwillingness of a Congress of sheep and those among them whom we laughingly call «congressional leaders.»

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Religious leaders, community members and activists took to the streets Sunday in New York to protest upcoming congressional hearings, convened by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, on «the radicalization of American Muslims.»

Unsure whether the congressional spending package referred to by many in Washington, D.C., as the «cromnibus» had enough votes to pass, House GOP leaders delayed a final vote Thursday afternoon, but, after 9 p.m., they managed to pass the bill 219 - 206.

One more casualty of a federal government shutdown if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker John Boehner and the president can't get a budget deal by midnight: The congressional gym.

The National Republican Congressional Campaign in a statement knocked Brindisi, linking him to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — a strategy deployed in the special election this month for a Georgia House race won by by GOP candidate Karen Handel.

Republican NY - 23 congressional hopeful Matt Doheney is scheduled to meet privately this Monday in Washington, D.C. with leaders of the Club for Growth — the conservative organization that played a key role in the 2009 campaign of Doheny's primary opponent, Doug Hoffman, spending and / or bundling more than $ 1 million for his special election bid for the seat vacated by ex-Rep.

Proudly calling himself the National Rifle Association's «Public Enemy No. 1,» U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged congressional Republican leaders top listen to the «millions and millions» of March for Our Lives protesters by introducing gun - control legislation.

A day after Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) announced that is a candidate for the 25th Congressional District seat left vacant by the death of Louise Slaughter, there is a candidate for Morelle's 136th district seat in the Assembly.

As federal courts move to decide whether to intervene on the Congressional redistricting process, the last ditch legal efforts on behalf of Albany's legislative leaders to dismiss the lawsuit was rejected by a three judge panel this evening.

Faso, a former Assembly minority leader, is competing against five other Republican candidates for the GOP nomination in the 19th congressional district, which is being vacated by Rep. Chris Gibson at the end of the year.

Queens Democratic leader Joe Crowley, who will pick the party's nominee for the Sept. 13 special election, is anxious to carve up Weiner's former territory when state lawmakers redraw district lines in 2012 to reduce New York's congressional delegation by two.

Right - wing billionaires are going all out to buy Republicans this election,» read a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee email last week signed by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

The filing of this letter followed a strong response by a group of New York Congressional leaders in March, 2006.

Two upstate New York congressmen — Buffalo's Chris Collins and the Hudson Valley's John Faso — are backing the proposal, which was created by Speaker Paul Ryan and other congressional leaders as a sweetener to gain their support for the measure.

Today's ruling, handed down by the U.S. District Court, comes after lawyers representing Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos asked that the special master only oversee the process only oversee the lines for Congressional districts.

Last night, the White House and Congressional leaders struck a budget deal in order to raise the Debt Ceiling until March 2017, as well as to raise the Sequester spending caps for Fiscal Years 2016 and 2016 (by $ 50 billion and $ 30 billion respectively).

On his website, Walrond does not mention Rangel by name, but says he's running because «the 13th Congressional District of New York needs a leader who can see beyond our current challenges and who believes that, as a community, we are empowered to pursue unlimited possibilities.»

Democrats in the Western New York congressional delegation — led by Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer — uniformly said Sessions should resign.

State Senator, and 13th Congressional District candidate, Adriano Espaillat was endorsed by a group of Mexican - American business and civic leaders in East Harlem today.

Emboldened by Trump's presidential victory, the Mercer family has been siding with extremist candidates for 2018 congressional races, hoping to wipe out incumbent Republicans and yank Senate leader McConnell from his seat.

Former Gov. George Pataki has split from many of his fellow GOP leaders by announcing his support for a former aide, George Demos, in the NY - 1 congressional battle over the party favorite, Sen. Lee Zeldin.