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A poll by Quinnipiac University released last week showed Romney with the support of 54 percent of state voters surveyed, compared with 21 percent for Santorum, 9 percent for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and 8 percent for Rep. Ron Paul.

State records reveal since 2006, Hoosier taxpayers have picked up nearly 94 percent of the health care premiums for former House Speaker and Democratic gubernatorial...

State records reveal since 2006, Hoosier taxpayers have picked up nearly 94 percent of the health care premiums for former House Speaker and Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg and his family, including his ex-wife.

Former Texas Republican Rep. Tom DeLay was sentenced to a three - year jail term today for illegally funneling corporate money into Texas state House races, a ruling that ends a near - decade long legal and political battle for the former House majority leader.

In fact, there are a number of Empire State Republicans — several of whom have Pataki ties — in Iowa right now working for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the days leading up to the Jan. 3 caucuses.

The American Petroleum Institute has chosen Mike Sommers, a longtime staffer for former House Speaker John Boehner (R - Ohio), as its next president and CEO.

Not exact matches

The White House tried anew Monday to distance itself from two former senior members of Trump's team, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, who have been under scrutiny for foreign contacts.

Early in the Trump administration, Spicer and Trump spoke openly about possibly moving the press briefings out of the White House to another location, an idea that senior adviser and former Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon — who has referred to the media as «the opposition party» — later took credit for.

Fox News» former White House correspondent has been off the air for almost four months, and his first day back at work will be Monday, The Hill reported.

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner joined a board of advisors for cannabis company Acreage Holdings earlier this month after changing his own views on cannabis.

Explanations range from the possibility a robust recovery is still on the way, to the jeremiad of former White House budget director David Stockman that money - printing is setting us up for a monstrous new crash.

The former White House senior policy adviser for infrastructure has joined real estate - focused venture capital firm Camber Creek as a partner.

The House Ethics Committee launched an investigation Tuesday, following a BuzzFeed News report that said Conyers had settled a wrongful dismissal complaint with a former employee who alleged she was fired for refusing his «sexual advances.»

The U.S. has told the British government that it would not repeat accusations that it had helped former U.S. President Barack Obama to spy on President Donald Trump when he was running for the White House.

Housed in former IBM offices, it is 11 storeys high and has space for over 2,000 students.

«The good news, which is the mantra of my office and community board No. 4, is there will be, yes, by law, 35 years of income - restricted affordable housing,» Gale Brewer, the former City Councilwoman for the area and current Borough President of Manhattan, said at the time.

The former IBM engineer conceived TaskRabbit — a platform for hiring freelancers to do small jobs — in Boston in 2008, on a cold night when she didn't want to leave the house to buy dog food.

Sean Spicer, the former Trump White House press secretary, said in March, just after Flynn registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, that Trump had not been aware that Flynn had been paid to lobby for Turkish interests in the months before the US election.

«When the town asks regional authorities for funding for a project, it's told: you have Rusal, go work it out with them,» said Erik Chernyshev, a local Communist Party politician, former member of the region's upper house, who also worked as an engineer at the factory for 18 years.

Cummings wrote that the White House has withheld the documents related to the security clearances of former national security adviser Michael Flynn and current White House senior adviser Jared Kushner from Congress for more than half a year.

To find out answers to that and related inquiries, I did some research and also spoke to Richard Painter and Norman Eisen, the former top White House ethics counsels for George W. Bush (2005 - 2007) and Barack Obama (2009 - 2011).

He said it's not enough for CEOs to lament the future of robots keeping humans as house cats — parroting comments by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former Apple CEO Steve Wozniak.

The inconsistency in messaging coming out of the White House makes it «very confusing for everyone,» says Neal Wolin of the Brunswick Group and former deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

It was prepared by the London - based Chatham House think tank and the Centre for International Governance Innovation, founded by former BlackBerry Ltd co-chief Jim Balsillie.

Sara Fagen, former White House politic director for President Bush, discusses what is happening behind the scenes for the GOP tax reform bill.

Speculation ran high that the former Republican nominee would consider a third run for the White House after he took to the stage on Thursday to speak out against current frontrunner Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill, the White House said Monday, setting the stage for a dramatic public airing of the former top law enforcement official's dealings with the commander in chief.

An attorney for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn told President Donald Trump's transition team before the inauguration that Flynn might register with the government as a foreign agent, White House officials acknowledged.

Senate confirmation is not required for the White House national security post, and Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations, will inherit a staff of several hundred specialists from the Pentagon, State Department and U.S. intelligence agencies.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Former President Barack Obama endorsed a candidate in the race for France's presidency on Thursday, taking his first dive back into international politics since leaving the White House in January.

White House lawyers and Bolton continue to discuss and review any potential conflicts of interests for the former U.N. ambassador, sources with direct knowledge of the matter told CNBC on the condition of anonymity.

Preet Bharara, the former US attorney for the Southern District of New York, called House Speaker Paul Ryan's defense of President Donald Trump on Thursday «silly,» and he offered a counterpoint to Ryan's argument.

Speaking shortly after Priebus on «Meet the Press,» Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, the former Democratic vice-presidential nominee, slammed the White House for the statement.

In a 2012 White House briefing, when the former president was asked about whether he's out of touch with average Americans, Obama shared some details about his first car: «I bought my first car for about $ 900.

«Repeated failures by your White House colleague, Jared Kushner, and former employer, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to properly disclose their meetings and contacts with Russian officials have only increased the need for vigorous oversight into ethics and security disclosures by other senior officials in this Administration,» they said.

Sidewalk's CEO Daniel Doctoroff has some experience rebuilding cities already: He is a former New York City deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yards.

Berkshire Hathaway's mortgage business has the hallmarks of one that could be prosecuted for «failure to serve» under the Fair Housing Act, according to Eric Halperin, a former federal prosecutor who oversaw fair lending cases during President Barack Obama's first term.

Savannah Law School professor Andrew Wright, former associate counsel in the Obama White House, said it is unusual for a president to turn to lawyers like Ekonomou who are untested on the national scene and not part of the elite white - collar bar.

To help educate the masses and push for regulatory acceptance, Airbnb recently hired Chris Lehane, a former White House crisis manager, as its global policy chief.

The other, a former White House aide to President Obama, tested positive for the BRCA2 gene mutation that has led to breast cancer in her family for generations — and is taking aggressive steps to avoid the same fate.

The controversial tactics of Cambridge Analytica — whose former vice president, Republican strategist Stephen K. Bannon, later worked for Trump's campaign and in the White House — first came to light in March in news reports that it had amassed data from tens of millions of Americans through a Facebook quiz app.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly investigating whether former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort promised a banker a job in the White House in return for home loans.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't haFor sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't hafor Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't hafor awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

After the allegations began to surface, top Republicans, such as White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Porter's former boss Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - UT), went out of their way to defend Porter, vouch for his good character, and say he shouldn't resign.

He has attacked former FBI Director James Comey for releasing memos he claims are classified, and briefly blocked a Democratic memo from the House Intelligence Committee over its inclusion of classified information, yet he grandstands against redactions insisted upon by his own Justice Department.)

Appointed to the Board of Directors by former Speaker of the House Will Weatherford to represent military spouses and families, both active, transitioned, and retired, Jamee Graff brings a wealth of experience to the Veterans Florida Board.As a military spouse and mother, Jamee has been a champion for military spouses and families for more than twenty years.

Cobb had been a major advocate in the White House for Trump to sit for an interview while many of those close to Trump, including his former lawyer John Dowd, warned against it.

Quevedo - a little known former housing minister who replaced two executives jailed for alleged graft - has further poisoned the atmosphere, according to the two dozen sources who spoke with Reuters.

Bannon's rivals, led by senior White House adviser and presidential son - in - law Jared Kushner and former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn — and with the crucial backing of President Trump's daughter Ivanka — are an informal group of aides that has been pushing for the administration to take a more establishment - friendly turn.

In 2008, the House voted to issue contempt citations against Mr. Bolten and a former White House counsel for refusing to cooperate in an investigation into the mass firings of federal prosecutors.