Sentences with phrase «first federal leader»

Before the election of the first federal leader of the party (the Liberal Democrats having a federal structure in their internal party organisation), the leaders of the two parties which merged to form the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and the SDP, served as joint interim leaders.

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He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

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S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in March for championing Kentucky Bourbon at the federal level, including passage of the first decrease of the federal tax on spirits in generations.

The «social market» program put forward by Konrad Adenauer, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party in the Federal Republic's first parliamentary elections in 1949, was a key element in this social and political transformation.

This is the first major overhauling of staff Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, has undertaken since he took over the majority leader post from Dean Skelos back in May 2015 after Skelos was forced out of office due to a federal corruption scandal.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that he pressed for the renomination of attorney Kathleen Sweet to be Buffalo's first female federal judge, but that the Trump White House insisted on nominating John L. Sinatra Jr. — a Republican being pushed by Rep. Chris Collins — for the judicial vacancy instead.

Then again, the ValleyCats» stadium is named after former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, who was welcomed back to throw out the first pitch for the home opener three weeks ago — which was six weeks after his reindictment on federal corruption charges.

ALBANY - Senate Republicans Tuesday pledged full support for Majority Leader Dean Skelos before and after their first closed - door conference since he was identified in news reports involving a federal corruption probe.

BREAKING: FIRST CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED IN BENGHAZI ATTACK PROBE... Federal agents and prosecutors investigating the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi have filed charges against Ahmed Khattalah, leader of a Libyan militia that officials believe was involved in the assault, people briefed on the investigation said.

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Thursday that he pressed for the renomination of attorney Kathleen M. Sweet to be Buffalo's first female federal judge, but that the Trump White House insisted on nominating John L. Sinatra Jr. — a Republican being pushed by Rep. Chris Collins, R - N.Y. — for the judicial vacancy instead.

That was the first year that the state and federal primaries did not fall on the same day, thanks to the inability of legislative leaders to agree on a date.

The federal government should pick up the ballooning cost for the 200 NYPD cops who protect Trump and the First Family in Manhattan at an estimated cost of $ 500,000 a day, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

And, as we knew it would be, ethics reform is missing from the final product, despite the fact that this is the first budget since both former legislative leaders — ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — were convicted on federal corruption charges.

On the first day of session since both former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos were convicted on multiple federal corruption charges, good government groups unveiled a

The session began with a closed door meeting by Senate Republicans, the first time that the majority party members met together since the publication of a New York Times report that says federal prosecutors are investigating Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and his son, for possible corruption.

Skelos, who was first elected to the Senate in 1984 and became majority leader in 2008, is the fourth consecutive Senate majority leader accused of federal crimes, and the third convicted.

ALBANY — Federal prosecutors, citing a recent US Supreme Court decision, have conceded for the first time that last year's conviction of former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno on two felony counts must be dismissed, The Post has learned.

Like Nigerian federal leaders at independence, who took all the wrong steps to crash an otherwise promising polity, Obasanjo took all the wrong steps to stifle hope in the crucial first eight years of the 4th Republic (1999 - 2007).

As The Times Union first reported today, lawyers for former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno filed a slew of documents in federal court seeking to dismiss the second indictment of public corruption charges calling the new case «fatally flawed.»

It already been nearly a decade since the federal government first undertook the project of creating a veteran's cemetery, and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer doesn't think veterans in Western New York should have to wait any longer.

It's also worth noting that legendary levels of dubious activity cross partisan lines there: After the Republican Party lost the majority in the state Senate in 2008, Democrats spent the first few months of their abbreviated stint in power basking in new information about how Republicans spent the legislature's money on items like a special van for the man who was then their majority leader, Joe Bruno, who went on to be sentenced to two years in prison on federal corruption charges.

The first State of the Economy, Saratoga Economic Index event was attended by over 100 community and business leaders from throughout Saratoga County, with a keynote address from Jason Bram, economist from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

ALBANY — State Senator John Bonacic, a Republican from the Hudson Valley, became the first member of his conference to call on Majority Leader Dean Skelos to resign from his leadership post, following Skelos» arrest on federal corruption charges on Monday.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos made his first visit to Albany Tuesday following the reveal that he and his son are under federal investigation.

ALBANY - Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos Tuesday kept a low profile in his first trip to Albany since it became public that he and his son are under federal investigation.

Preet Bharara, the federal prosecutor based in Manhattan, derailed the session before it began by bringing charges first against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and then Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos.

ALBANY — In his first public appearance at the Capitol since the New York Times reported he is the subject of a federal investigation, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos reiterated that he is cooperating with the inquiry.

05-14-13... Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder, who presides over senate, is urging the governor and legislative leaders to try to grow the gun manufacturing sector, in part thru filed bills which declare federal gun control laws unenforceable in Missouri and which give businesses tax incentives to gun manufacturers to relocate to Missouri Ozarks First

Also attending the opening was Cuomo's mother and former New York First Lady, Matilda Cuomo, two of the governor's three daughters, Cara and Michaela, and a variety of federal, state and local elected officials, union leaders, and other dignitaries.

The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court to order a new election of officers for the Washington Teachers Union, alleging that irregularities marred the vote that gave the District of Columbia union its first elected officials since an embezzlement scandal toppled its leaders in 2002.

The choice of a new leader for the union representing teachers in the District of Columbia — the first since a financial scandal sent its former president to federal prison last year — won't be decided until a runoff election is held later this month.

The irony is that in promoting the Common Core in its high - profile federal initiatives, the Obama administration may have blurred the line between where the state development ends and federal involvement begins and given some state leaders pause about adopting the very standards that were the goal in the first place.»

Revamping a strategy in play when state leaders first hesitated on joining the federal Race to the Top competition, California will reportedly file for the second phase of the race in an application centered only around three of the state's biggest school districts.

Just as California avoided the massive online breakdowns that occurred with the federal healthcare.gov website, education leaders here are now optimistic that when the full battery of tests are administered this spring for the first time that the process should go relatively smoothly.

Fed holds course toward higher interest rates — In the first policy meeting under its new leader, the Federal Reserve affirmed that short - term interest rates will begin rising next year... (See FOMC meeting)

EDC has been a leader in discovering fracking was taking place from platforms off our coast, and filed the first ever lawsuit challenging the federal government's lack of adequate review.

Local supporters, friends and corporate leaders sustained the operation of the gallery during its first year because Atelier received no state or federal funds.

HIGHLAND, Ulster County — A team of federal, state and nonprofit leaders lifted the first spikes out of the Poughkeepsie - Highland Railroad Bridge's rail - bed on Tuesday, May 27 symbolically sparking new life and a new role for the historic, but long - neglected bridge that spans the Hudson River between Poughkeepsie and the Town of Lloyd.

True to a vow he made after the Republican triumph in the midterm elections, new Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell made sure a bill mandating federal approval of the controversial pipeline was the first order of business.

Efforts of Indigenous leaders and educators to acquire the authority for the education of their children have contributed to federal and provincial legislation that formalizes the local jurisdiction of education for First Nations communities.

Star alumni: James Aikins, the first president of the Canadian Bar Association; former Supreme Court of Canada chief justice Brian Dickson; Supreme Court of Canada Justice Marshall Rothstein; Federal Court of Appeal Justice Eleanor Dawson; Manitoba Court of Appeal justices Martin Freedman, Barbara Hamilton, Marc Monnin, and Richard Chartier; former Manitoba PC party leader Hugh McFadyen.

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Willis serves as the director of the Division of Home Visiting and Early Childhood Systems for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the federal Health Resources and Services Administration; previously, he was a clinician for 30 years and long - standing early childhood leader in Oregon who first founded the Northwest Early Childhood Institute.

In Congress, House leaders reached a bipartisan agreement to extend federal funding for a core element of Washington state's early learning strategy, home visiting, which focuses on the first and most important three years of a child's development.

The Graham Gund design was selected by a distinguished panel of jurists that included George White, FAIA, former Architect of the Capitol, the position that oversees architectural work to federal buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C.; Harry Robinson III, FAIA, former dean of architecture at Howard University and chairman of the Washington, D.C., Commission of Fine Arts; Colden «Coke» Florance, FAIA, a prominent Washington, D.C. architect; Helsel; Rosenthal; Dale Colby, RPOC vice chair; Steven Leader, CRE ®, past president of The Counselors of Real Estate; and Al Mansell, CRB, NAR first vice president nominee.