Sentences with phrase «elected as a state representative»

Walker has been in politics for 17 years, first elected as a state representative in 1993 and then to the post of Milwaukee County Executive in 2002, a position he still holds.

Judge Eckels was first elected as a state representative in his 20's, served six terms before being elected county judge - a role with executive, legislative and judicial functions for Harris County, which is home to nearly 4 million residents.

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People, person, or persons as used in this Constitution does not include corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state, and such corporate entities are subject to such regulation as the people, through their elected state and federal representatives, deem reasonable and are otherwise consistent with the powers of Congress and the States under this Constitution.

NOTE: Service as an elected member of the United States Congress (a U.S. Senator or Representative) does not qualify.

A «Republic» is defined as a State in which the supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives.

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

It is brave to stand up in front of hundreds of people, while being filmed by the BBC and live streamed around the world, and state your belief in the exclusivity of Christ - especially while serving as a democratically elected representative in Parliament.

Perry had been elected a state representative as a Democrat from a rural West Texas district in 1985.

US citizens vote on the first Tuesday in November at the general election to elect the various members of the Senate and the House of Representatives as well as state and local government officials.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC, spoken as the D triple - C or the D - trip) is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States House of Representatives, working to elect Democrats to that body.

Gillibrand, who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2006, was appointed by former Gov. David Paterson to fill Hillary Clinton's Senate seat in 2009, when Clinton was selected as Barack Obama's secretary of state.

As our elected representatives come together in Albany this winter to craft this year's state budget, I want a document that speaks to our hopes rather than our fears and creates policies that will benefit every New Yorker — and there is no better declaration of intent than funding our community libraries.

It is chaired by the party president, currently Sal Brinton, and includes members of the party - at - large elected every three years in an all - member ballot, as well as representatives from the state parties, MPs, peers, MEPs, and councillors.

The Reform Party of New York State represents the interests of voters who are concerned with out - of - control spending, growing budget deficits, an unsustainable national debt, as well as gross mismanagement in government and unethical behavior from elected representatives.

The Prime Minister, as one of the Queen's Ministers of State and a member of the Federal Executive Council, whilest duly elected by the people, is technically appointed by the Queen's representative, the Governor General.

«We are at a loss why our elected representatives have apparently frustrated efforts to condemn what world leaders have described as «barbaric and criminal aggression» emanating from the state of Israel.»

(c) False information in registering or voting; penalties Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $ 10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both: Provided, however, That this provision shall be applicable only to general, special, or primary elections held solely or in part for the purpose of selecting or electing any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the United States Senate, Member of the United States House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, or Resident Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Every 20 years, as prescribed in the state Constitution, the people of New York have a crack at opting for what amounts to a special session of specially elected representatives to propose revisions to the state's foundational legal document.

On June 19, 2014, Scalise was elected by his Republican colleagues to serve as Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives.

If Puerto Rico becomes a State, it will have the opportunity to elect 7 Members to the US House of Representatives and 2 United States Senators who will have the opportunity to represent them and fight for the State of Puerto Rico, as every other Member of Congress does the United States does for their State.

Representatives from local elected officials, including City Councilmen Robert Jackson and Ydanis Rodriguez as well as State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, are also working to create an initiative to help.

State Representative / State Assembly Person: The State House of Representatives, or State Assembly as it is called in some states, generally consists of members who are elected in from districts for terms of two years.

The Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has congratulated Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on his swearing in as the sixth democratically elected Governor of Ondo State.

Currently, he serves as the regional representative for NYS GOP Chairman Ed Cox for the Hudson Valley and was formerly the elected First Vice Chairman of the New York State Republican Party.

NYSUT delegates elected a new president along with a slate of other new officers in a contested election at the state teachers» union's 42nd Representative Assembly.Karen Magee, the president of the Harrison Association of Teachers in Westchester County, won as president over incumbent Dick Iannuzzi in the election on April 5.

Recently, however, I was alarmed to hear that my fellow Delawareans voted to oust Representative Mike Castle, a solid moderate who pushed for embryonic stem cell research and was handily elected as the Republican representative of a largely Democratic state for nine consecutive terms, in favor of Christine O'Donnell, who, as far as I can tell, isRepresentative Mike Castle, a solid moderate who pushed for embryonic stem cell research and was handily elected as the Republican representative of a largely Democratic state for nine consecutive terms, in favor of Christine O'Donnell, who, as far as I can tell, isrepresentative of a largely Democratic state for nine consecutive terms, in favor of Christine O'Donnell, who, as far as I can tell, is a houseplant.

It is a process approach that is compatible with Hanushek and Lindseth's performance - funding focus or any other policy perspective, or as is more likely, whatever mix of policies a state's elected representatives choose to endorse.

In an interview, he said, «no other political entity in Michigan has as much power as the DeVoses» and recalled seeing an elected state representative that had run crosswise of the family sitting on the floor and crying after meeting with their lobbyists.

She is a former elected member of the Utah State Board of Education and replaces Meghan Holbrook as one of two Regents representatives on the Board.

Lisa spent a decade serving as an Arizona state official, first as a member of Arizona's House of Representatives where she chaired the education committee, and then as the elected Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction.

WHO: Explorations Charter School community, representatives from the Northeast Charter Schools Network, as well as local and state elected officials from throughout the greater Torrington area

(In that poetic eulogy for Harlem she also wrote, «I love you for electing Marcaronio» — a malapropism for Vito Marcantonio, the socialist who served 14 terms in the United States Congress as representative for East Harlem.)

In the United States the magistrates are not elected by a particular class of citizens, but by the majority of the nation; as they are the immediate representatives of the passions of the multitude and are wholly dependent upon its pleasure, they excite neither hatred nor fear; hence, as I have already shown, very little care has been taken to limit their authority, and they are left in possession of a vast amount of arbitrary power.

We conclude, as have many other state courts, that our State Constitution, which serves ** 1275 only «to limit the sovereign power which inheres directly in the people and indirectly in their elected representatives,» Hunt at 365, 450 A. 2d 952, is a more appropriate vehicle to resolve questions concerning the rights of our citizens to travel the highways of our state without police interdiction and the rights of the police to use reasonable methods to enforce our traffic laws than is the federal constitustate courts, that our State Constitution, which serves ** 1275 only «to limit the sovereign power which inheres directly in the people and indirectly in their elected representatives,» Hunt at 365, 450 A. 2d 952, is a more appropriate vehicle to resolve questions concerning the rights of our citizens to travel the highways of our state without police interdiction and the rights of the police to use reasonable methods to enforce our traffic laws than is the federal constituState Constitution, which serves ** 1275 only «to limit the sovereign power which inheres directly in the people and indirectly in their elected representatives,» Hunt at 365, 450 A. 2d 952, is a more appropriate vehicle to resolve questions concerning the rights of our citizens to travel the highways of our state without police interdiction and the rights of the police to use reasonable methods to enforce our traffic laws than is the federal constitustate without police interdiction and the rights of the police to use reasonable methods to enforce our traffic laws than is the federal constitution.

And, we are told, our parliamentarians are just not as ideologically directed as are many elected representatives in the United States.

He currently serves as an elected representative to the Virginia State Bar Council and sits on the Bar's Standing Committee on Legal Ethics.

Canada existed as a free state for over a century before the Charter was enacted, and during that period our elected representatives regularly enacted laws to respond to changing times and social mores, from equal voting rights to decriminalizing homosexuality, none of which necessitated a «dialogue» with the courts.

As stated by Chief Justice McLachlin, ``... reasonableness means courts must respect the responsibility of elected representatives to serve the people who elected them and to whom they are ultimately accountable.»

The same correction as that referred to in the first subparagraph of paragraph 3 of this Article shall be applied to the number of representatives to be elected in the Member States in question.

Notwithstanding a State law or any requirement of this paragraph to the contrary, a covered entity may elect not to treat a person as the personal representative of an individual if:

The recently elected representative group here in the ACT and advisory committees, such as those in South Australia and Victoria and mooted for Queensland, operate more at the state / territory level.

State - based mechanisms that are constituted through other means, such as direct election and / or representation of organisations — these might, for example, be constituted outside the framework of the National Indigenous Representative Body such as with the new ACT Governments» Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body;