Sentences with phrase «congressional aide»

The FBI executed search warrants at both the plant in Blakely, Ga., and at Peanut Corp. of America's headquarters in Lynchburg, Va., according to a senior congressional aide with knowledge of the raids... The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation and more than 1,550 products have been recalled.

Cronin, the founding Hudson Riverkeeper and my colleague at the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, has many talents, expressed over the decades through his work as a commercial fisherman, congressional aide, activist and teacher.

A congressional aide who supports the legislation calls VantageScore's announcement encouraging.

Amy MacKinnon, a former congressional aide, is a freelance writer whose commentaries have appeared in the Seattle Times, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Patriot Ledger and on National Public Radio and This American Life.

Her prior political experience consisted of three years as a school board member and a stint as a congressional aide.

«The Bush administration took the Clinton administration's ideas and ran with them,» said one bemused Democratic congressional aide who worked at the Department of Education under Clinton.

But at a late - night meeting in mid-April, one congressional aide announced that 80 to 90 percent of the schools in states like Texas and North Carolina, both of which had seen rising achievement scores through the 1990s, would be deemed «failing» under the bill's definition.

At the subcommittee and committee levels, the Democrats had attached amendments that, in the words of one Congressional aide, put the bill into «the zone of unacceptability» for the Administration.

Longtime congressional aide Jack Jennings noted, «The federal government overstepped its bounds, and it got a smackdown from Congress.»

«It's a clever, elegant approach» that is also politically savvy, says a congressional aide who tracks the issue.

«There's no reason to wait» in taking that step, the congressional aide says.

«Legislators generally feel that training dollars should stay at home,» explains one congressional aide familiar with the various NIH funding mechanisms.

Ana Sol Gutierrez, and Will Jawando, a former aide in President Barack Obama's administration and congressional aide.

The Democratic House committee also dumped $ 100,000 more onto television in New York's 25th District where former congressional aide Dan Maffei (D) is running a stronger - than - expected race against Rep. James Walsh (R).

As of today, the DCCC has spent nearly $ 650,000 in independent expenditures on the southwestern Pennsylvania district where former congressional aide Mark Critz (D) is taking on businessman Tim Burns (R).

And in the Southern Tier's 31st district, former congressional aide Caleb S. Rossiter returned to his native Ithaca area after 16 1/2 years in Washington to challenge Rep. Amo Houghton, R - Corning.

In the 65th Assembly District, Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk - Silva, D - Fullerton, lost by double digits to Republican challenger Young Kim, a former congressional aide to Rep. Ed Royce.

His congressional race comes after many years spent as a congressional aide and as founder of Demilitarization for Democracy, a Washington lobbying group.

According to RightWingNews.com, former congressional aide Eric Dondero said Paul, whom he once worked for, had long harbored stridently anti-Israel opinions.

But just more than 40 days before the election, he appears to be in very comfortable shape in his race against former Congressional aide Dan Lamb (D).

Rep. Larry Kissell (above) lost to former Congressional aide Richard Hudson.

He has worked on many well - known television series, and some films, and is a Democrat and a former congressional aide.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A former congressional aide who was among those shot Wednesday during GOP baseball practice has ties to Staten Island.

Democrats are similarly confident about former congressional aide Dan Maffei's chances of an upset.

After losing to Rep. Jim Walsh (R) by just over 3,000 votes in 2006, former congressional aide Dan Maffei (D) is the odds - on favorite to win the upstate New York seat in the fall.

Emily Martz of Saranac Lake, finance director for the Adirondack North Country Association; Martha Devaney of Wilton, who works for a program that assists the disabled; and Don Boyajian of Saratoga Lake, a lawyer and former congressional aide, have said they are exploring the race.

Politico reported Wednesday that a former Democratic congressional aide claimed she was forcibly kissed by Franken while he was still a radio host.

Former congressional aide and campaign consultant Carlos Sierra was national field and political director for Draft Biden, but his resume also includes felony charges in two states.

14 CCD Councilman Fernando Cabrera has 3 opponents — former congressional aide Randy Abreu and Felix Perdormo.

«A number has been established,» says another senior congressional aide.

A former congressional aide who was among those shot today has ties to Staten Island.

According to a congressional aide with knowledge of the lawmakers» thinking, the invitation was, in a way, an anti-Trump invitation.

«As I see it, any movement will be focused on school security — not gun control per se,» one GOP congressional aide said.

There is no vote scheduled yet for this week and there are still not enough votes to pass a bill, a congressional aide said after Priebus's and Cohn's comments.

«I think they are using these tariffs, which is an issue far more important to them personally, and hoping [gun control] will disappear,» another congressional aide in a moderate Democratic office said.

One congressional aide said he believes that Section 230 will be the «central discussion point» on what the internet looks like over the next several years.

«We are in a very good place right now, and while drafting continues, we anticipate the release of final bill text early this week,» a senior Congressional aide told Reuters.

«It could be a hell of a fight,» one senior Democratic congressional aide said.

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.

President Donald Trump told lawmakers he would support a 25 - cent increase in the federal gasoline tax to pay for his plan to upgrade U.S. public infrastructure, a congressional aide said.

But its feedback is expected to figure prominently in the USTR's approach, since formal meetings with the relevant advisory committees in the Senate and House have yet to take place, according to congressional aides.

Congressional aides said that the White House had suggested a three - year extension of the DACA program in exchange for $ 25 billion in funding for the border wall, a proposal Democrats rejected.

U.S. lawmakers want AT&T to sever its commercial ties to Chinese phone maker Huawei Technologies, and they oppose plans by telecom operator China Mobile to enter the U.S. market due to national security concerns, Reuters reports, citing two congressional aides.

While tech companies often lobby Washington on privacy issues, the major firms have been hesitant to enter a fray over a controversial portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), industry lobbyists, congressional aides and civil liberties advocates said.

A U.S. official and two congressional aides, all familiar with the launch, said on condition of anonymity that the second - stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster rocket failed.

(Bloomberg)-- The White House is scaling back its plan to seek cuts from already - passed spending bills in the face of resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and spending panel Republicans, two GOP congressional aides briefed on the plan said Thursday.

But when that hearing combined with one from another committee, which had not asked for Google or Twitter's participation, Mr. Pichai and Mr. Dorsey were let off the hook, said company officials and congressional aides.

Talks are continuing among congressional aides.

Being the center of political activity in the U.S. means that this city is shaped by people from all over the country who move here to work as congressional aides, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters, elected officials, bureaucrats, organizers, etc..

Several GOP congressional aides late Wednesday did not know the detail of the White House's announcement but were bracing themselves for stiff trade restrictions that they have spent months trying to prevent.