Sentences with phrase «for minority party members»

If combined with «instructions to report back forthwith,» the motion effectively provides one last opportunity for a minority party member to offer an amendment to the measure.

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But that's not going to happen as long as pundits, politicians and pastors preach hatred for minorities, non-christians, gays and members of other political parties.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday joined the push for Democratic unity in the state Senate, urging the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference to align with the party's mainline conference in the chamber.

Holding only 84 seats in the parliament, the Socialists engineered a coalition with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a mainly ethnic Turkish minority party, which had 36 deputies, thus securing a total of 120 votes in the 240 - member parliament.

The NDC General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah; Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu; Former Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah; Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini; MP for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, and a former Northern Regional Minister, Moses Bukari Mabengba were among the party bigwigs that participated in the event.

Committee rules require that at least two members of the minority party be present for a vote to be held.

He used the joke again at a recent book - signing party for New York Rep. Steve Israel, when Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer, D - Md., announced the members in attendance.

«New York City has to have a good relationship with Albany, and I thought it was important for them to see members of the minority and majority party together.»

Bertha Lewis, head of the The Black Institute and a founding member of The Working Families Party who supported de Blasio for mayor, said the administration «has not demonstrated» that minority hiring is a «priority.»

Kolb said he's helped raise $ 18 million for the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee during his eight years as minority leader, and would make his case directly to party committee members around the state.

The Minority leader in Parliament Osei Kyei Mensah - Bonsu has condemned the MP for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong, for defending the attack on a Member of Parliament by the Ashanti regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party.

Republicans also advanced two other cabinet nominations — Steve Mnuchin as Treasury secretary and Georgia Rep. Tom Price for secretary of Health and Human Services — suspending quorum rules that require a member of the minority party to participate in confirmation votes.

«If he continues to refuse to denounce those calling for a split, members will think he is simply trying to scaremonger them to vote for him by his talking up of threats from a minority of MPs supporting his campaign who are plotting to split our party in Tory newspapers, while at the same time refusing to denounce them.

Even after rendering an unqualified apology, for his outbursts largely considered partisan, discriminatory and divisive, the Minority in Parliament is maintaining its stance that Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, should resign for pledging to prioritize New Patriotic Party (NPP) members in the execution of his mandate.

Governor Cuomo gathered with leaders of the legislature to celebrate an on time budget for the second year in a row, but some minority party members weren't as happy.

On the Common Council, meanwhile, Republicans maintained their two - member minority after newcomer Nate Horowitz knocked off a veteran incumbent in Ward 3 and registered Republican Deborah Brown, running without a major party line, bested the Democratic candidate in her second run for the Ward 9 seat.

The Minority's Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is unconvinced by the apology from Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, for publicly declaring a bias towards New Patriotic Party (NPP) members in his dealings.

«This is a very important time for the Labour Party and we must stamp out completely the stain of anti-Semitism from a minority of members.

But at the moment, it looks like former Assemblyman Frank Seddio has amassed sufficient support to take control of the party organization, even as a number of minority members are pushing for Assemblyman Karim Camara, whose candidacy is complicated by the fact that he's neither a district leader nor an executive committee member.

Cuomo's selection of Duffy as a candidate for lieutenant governor was largely welcomed by the Democratic party, though some party members reportedly said they had hoped the attorney general would choose a minority for the ticket.

State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb said Tuesday he plans to seek the Republican nomination for governor in 2018, becoming the the first member of his party to formally enter the race.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Builsa North, James Agalga has suggested that Minority Members of Parliament are ready to back the suit filed by a member of the party against the government over the defence cooperation agreement with the United SMember of Parliament for Builsa North, James Agalga has suggested that Minority Members of Parliament are ready to back the suit filed by a member of the party against the government over the defence cooperation agreement with the United Smember of the party against the government over the defence cooperation agreement with the United States.

The Minority Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is calling for the head of Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi - Boateng, for stating publicly that his first commitment as a public officer, is to members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) because they are «more Ghanaian.»

For instance, the minority leader is sometimes statutorily authorized to appoint individuals to certain federal entities; he or she and the majority leader each name three Members to serve as Private Calendar objectors; he or she is consulted with respect to reconvening the House per the usual formulation of conditional concurrent adjournment resolutions; he or she is a traditional member of the House Office Building Commission; he or she is a member of the United States Capitol Preservation Commission; and he or she may, after consultation with the Speaker, convene an early organizational party caucus or conference.

The Speaker, committee chairs, and some other officials are generally from the majority party; they have counterparts (for instance, the «ranking members» of committees) in the minority party.

The Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu constituency, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini and also the NDC minority caucus communications Director appealed told all party loyalists to genuinely forgive each other.

He then promptly allied his new party with Senate Republicans in exchange for some say, policy, nicer offices than minority members would typically get and more cash for staffers.

Democratic Senator Brian Schatz (Hawaii) lambasted members of his own party Monday, especially House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), for misleadingly claiming in a fundraising email that special counsel Robert Mueller was fired.

In a statement, Sheikh said it was important the seat had ethnic minority representation and emphasised her support for Corbyn, saying she backed a Labour party which «sticks to its principles, opposes neoliberalism and utilises the knowledge and experience of its members».

Both he and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, suggested that members of the minority party in their chambers would get more funding in the future: Assembly Republicans secured $ 2 million compared to $ 34 million for their majority colleagues, while members of the Senate's mainstream Democratic conference won no funding at all.

He also stated that the Committee will invite members of the Minority who had called for the probe into the matter, the Ministry of Trade and any other parties that might be involved, to give their submissions on the issue.

The congressman secured such a role for himself last month, becoming one of three members elected by his colleagues to lead the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee — which will craft the minority party's platform.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Anyone who wonders whether Congressmember Sean Patrick Maloney regrets having given up his days and evenings as a Manhattan attorney in exchange for the life of a minority party House member sitting through long DC committee hearings and weekending in his upstate district to attend pancake breakfasts and ribbon - cuttings should consider just -LSB-...]

The most likely reason for her change of heart is that she leads a minority government that depends on the support of a handful of Green Party members of Parliament for its survival.

However he is head of a minority government, and the Opposition parties, led by Stephane Dion, (second from left in the picture above, Michael Ignatieff to his right) just passed a private members bill that «would force Environment Minister John Baird to present a climate change plan within 60 days, providing a map for Canada to meet Kyoto's greenhouse gas reduction targets.

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