Sentences with phrase «floor speech»

It has things like transcripts of floor speeches and committee proceedings.

There had been emotional floor speeches against the bill and organized opposition from interests groups, and we always came up short.

«This is clearly a much, much bigger issue than just me,» he told his now former colleagues during a 16 - minute floor speech.

This becomes obvious when anyone watches his Senate floor speech in its entirety, particularly where he continues after the snowball toss on a major fault about recent «record» temperature claims.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D - Mass., called for bipartisan action against Equifax during a Senate floor speech on Tuesday, criticizing the credit bureau for waiting several weeks after a massive data breach to reveal it to the public.

According to her email, Whitehouse and his allies, including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), have crafted a schedule for floor speeches on Monday and Tuesday that assigns each participating Senator at least one group to go after by name.

Here is some video of floor speeches from NY Reps today, including Republican Rep. Pete King who called the House leaderships decision to pull the vote a «knife in the back.»

Minority leaders also make floor speeches and close debate on major issues before the House; they deliver addresses in diverse forums across the country, and they write books or articles that highlight minority party goals and achievements.

Maffei delivered a House floor speech in November backing the effort.

But Sen. Patty Murray, D - Wash., said in a Senate floor speech Tuesday that her colleagues should reject Zais because he shared what she considers the same misguided views as DeVos.

Despite the lengthy floor speeches by lawmakers, nearly all from a mainline group of Democrats in the Senate's minority, the bill ended up passing easily by a vote of 53 - 4.

Sen. Ruben Diaz, D - Bronx, went on a lengthy floor speech decrying the resolution which included Sen. Joe Griffo telling him several times he was being uncivil.

«The Federal Housing Finance Agency has a process in place to try to broaden the factors it looks at in determining creditworthiness,» said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D - Ohio, the Banking Committee's ranking member, in a recent floor speech.

Last month, Flake delivered a second Senate floor speech likening Trump's words to those of 20th century Russian dictator Josef Stalin.

The recent fiery floor speeches from Sens. Wyden and Udall are the first time widespread attention has been drawn to this issue — but it was actually first broached over a year ago, by Sen. Richard Durbin and then - Sen.

A key spur to Descartes» actual writing was a critical floor speech he gave at a 1620s Baconian talk, in the presence of his great supporter Cardinal Bérulle.

Slaughter didn't want to talk following Rangel's floor speech earlier this week, telling a reporter who sought her reaction on the way out of the chamber: «Not now.»

«Mr. Speaker, if this Confederate battle flag prevailed in war 150 years ago I would not be standing here as a member of the United States Congress, I would be here as a slave,» Jeffries said in an impassioned floor speech.

As part of the campaign, they have released a minute long video that features excerpts from several of Gillibrand's senate floor speeches where she advocates for changes in the Health Care reform bill to provide more protections for women's reproductive rights, more coverage for pregnant women, and funding for women's health clinics.

Assemblyman Victor Pichardo, a Democrat from the Bronx, was one of several members whose floor speech offered an excuse for his yes vote.

I'm not the guy screaming on cable TV or the guy who gives incendiary floor speeches that you forward the Youtube link to your friends.

In a brief floor speech, Savino said the bill was being pushed by advocacy groups with a compelling interest in legalizing marijuana for recreational use, who she accused of «utilizing the pain and suffering of these families to try and peel back the regulatory structure that we've established here in New York state.»

Maynard rose for his first floor speech since his accident after senators from both parties took turns praising him for his diligence and humor.

In a rambling floor speech Tuesday, Rangel told colleagues: «I am not going away.»

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins added in a closing floor speech: «Progressive would have been passing the Dream Act.

His 2009 post-3 a.m. floor speech in which he delivered an impassion plea for passage of a bill that would cap rent and utilities for low - income people living with AIDS will not soon be forgotten.

During her time in Senator Sanders office, she has drafted legislation, crafted floor speeches and press releases, and provided guidance on Senate procedure to amend large pieces of legislation.

After years of close votes in the House and emotional floor speeches against the bill, there was very little fanfare to be found.

Ten years ago this week, Senator James M. Inhofe, the Republican from Oklahoma, used a two - hour floor speech to launch his campaign on the credibility of climate science pointing to dangers from the unabated release of greenhouse gases.

(He's skipping the conference despite taking direct heat in a YouTube message to Rio from Senator James Inhofe, the Republican of Oklahoma and steadfast ally of big coal, and indirect heat from Senator John Kerry, the Democrat of Massachusetts who gave a long floor speech on global warming and the Rio meeting yesterday, decrying «the conspiracy of silence that now characterizes Washington's handling of the climate issue.»)

Nineteen Senate Democrats will attack specific organizations in what they are calling a «web of denial,» according to a schedule of floor speeches circulated by Emily Enderle, a top environmental policy adviser to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.), who is spearheading the effort.

During a House floor speech in January, Inhofe said the climate has always changed and that «man can't change climate».

If Congressional inaction threatens your district you can hold press conferences, make floor speeches, organize your colleagues - make a stink.

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- Rep. Alan Grayson's re-election campaign is seeing an increase in donations since his House floor speech last week in which the freshman Florida Democrat said the Republican health care plan calls for sick people to «die quickly.»

Then he describes an earlier long statement on climate by Senator James M. Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who for years has been giving floor speeches on climate, challenging claims of looming calamity and asserting that curbs on carbon dioxide would cripple the economy.

House Republican leaderships decision to not vote on the Senate's bill providing $ 60 billion in aid to areas impacted by Super Storm Sandy has led to a barrage of floor speeches from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

First, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attacked the brothers in a pair of floor speeches, calling them «un-American» because they «pour unlimited money into our democracy to rig the system to benefit themselves and the wealthiest one percent.»

The New York Times reported today on a Senate floor speech by Senator Mark Udall (D - CO) in which he criticized the CIA's actions on torture and mentioned a secret internal report.

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton goes for walks in the woods near her Westchester County home now, and Sen. Bernie Sanders is back to doing what he's been doing for 10 years: giving Senate floor speeches on behalf of the little guy.

Following Grassley's floor speech, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, ranking member on the Judiciary Committee and a staunch defender of the blue slip process, blasted Grassley's decision.

On top of the similarities between the two — both are Mormon and both are from southern Nevada — Reid called Harper «a good role model» in a Senate floor speech and even compared him to baseball great and Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle.

Republicans carefully reviewed Mr. Udall's floor speech to see if he divulged secret information, and came to the conclusion he had not.

Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune of South Dakota, who led the opposition to the Markey resolution, said in a floor speech that the appropriate remedy would be to enact legislation through regular order.

CREW filed a complaint against Rep. Michael Grimm for what he said was an «accidental» and «inadvertent» use of a floor speech for political purposes.

«To the patients, to the families, to the mothers, we would not be here if it weren't for you,» Savino said in a floor speech addressing supporters of the bill sitting in the Senate gallery.

A Democratic House member from Texas, meanwhile, called for Trump's impeachment in a floor speech on Wednesday.

Ball stated that «It was not easy getting up as the new guy and standing up to tell a group of people what they don't want to hear» but his speech became so popular that soon dozens of reporters began calling, he appeared on Fox News, excerpts from the floor speech popped up on numerous political blogs, his campaign web site received so many visits that its server crashed, and, a YouTube video of his remarks was ranked 80th among new videos the day it was uploaded.

Neither Skelos nor Savino — whose visibility in the push for marriage equality was sky high after her floor speech in a 2009 debate circulated on YouTube — returned phone calls seeking comment.

During his floor speech, Klein said the bill would «level the playing field» for high school students.