Sentences with phrase «head of the house democratic»

Pelosi singled out Reps. Xavier Becerra (Calif.), head of the House Democratic Caucus, Tammy Duckworth (D - Ill.)

By lashing out, some argue de Blasio hasn't just further alienated the governor and the breakaway Democrats, but also key party officials like Rep. Joseph Crowley, the head of the House Democratic caucus, and Hector Figueroa, president of the influential Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union.

Not exact matches

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday June 20 organized by the National Democratic Congress [NDC] to react to some comments made by President Akufo - Addo at a media encounter at the Flagstaff House in Accra, the minority leader said the NDC will resist the «blackmail witch - hunting» of the head of the election management body who was appointed by the past Mahama administration.

Lopez heads the Assembly Housing Committee and is also chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party.

She also oversaw campaigns for the state House of Delegates, where victories (the party won 15 seats) signaled Democratic energy heading into the 2018 midterms.

In 30 of the 45 state houses with an election in November, the Democratic Party was the majority party heading into the elections.

Out of 17 Republican primaries, five took place in Democratic - controlled districts — all in New Jersey, where Democrats held majorities in the House and Senate heading into the general election.

Speaker Sheldon Silver, Dov Hikind (a major Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish power broker), Vito Lopez (Brooklyn Democratic boss and Housing Committee chair), Richard Brodsky (now a former assemblyman who used to chair the Corporations Committee and lost a 2010 AG bid), Joe Morelle (chair of the Insurane Committee and head of the Monroe County Democratic Party), and Peter Abbate (chair of the Governmental Employees Committee, in the Assembly since 1996).

Emanuel is currently unopposed as chairman of the House Democratic Caucus; Schumer agreed to head the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for a second consecutive cycle and was named Vice Chair of the Senate Democratic conference.

His decision to step aside and endorse his former House colleague turned the Democratic Primary into a mere formality — Berman dominated in both fundraising and name recognition, and cleaned up with nearly 96 percent of the vote in her head - to - head against the fledgling campaign of first - time candidate Arthur Morrison.

In November 2016, Rep. Joseph Crowley (D - Queens / Bronx), who also heads the Queens Democratic Party, was elected as chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, making him the fourth - ranked Democrat in the House of Representatives.

In the past week, the incoming heads of the Democratic and Republican House campaign committees sought to define the parameters of the 2008 playing field.

Sean Eldridge, the husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, has filed papers in New York to run for Congress, Gawker reports: According to the filings, Eldridge, a Democratic activist and the head of an investment firm, will be seeking a House se... Read

Heading into the 2017 election, Virginia had a Democratic governor and Republican majorities in both houses of the state Legislature, meaning the state was under divided government.

And while Reps. Yvette Clarke (D - Brooklyn), Joe Crowley (D - Queens / Bronx)-- head of the Queens Democratic Party and House Democratic Caucus chairman — and Carolyn Maloney (D - Manhattan) are popular incumbents, they are facing challengers — mostly millennials — for the first time in years.

Tomorrow, on the convention's busiest day, an «Ask the Leaders» forum in the morning will feature Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), who heads the House Democratic Caucus, and Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Heading into the 2018 elections, the Democratic Party is the majority party in four of the 12 term - limited state houses with elections in 2018.

Thanks to his repeated threats to vote with the Republicans, Espada wrested another huge asset from his Democratic colleagues — head of the Senate housing committee.

Lopez, once a highly regarded Democratic party leader in Brooklyn and head of the chamber's coveted housing committee, had been censured by the Assembly the year before, after he was accused of sexually harassing two women who worked in his district office.

Washington (CNN)- White House officials are reaching out to some Democratic senators to discuss the possible nomination of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve, one source with knowledge of the calls confirmed to CNN.

The Southeast Queens congressman, who has both served as a prosecutor and been the subject of ethics probes, complained that the FBI head sent the letter only to Republican committee and subcommittee heads, and not to members of the House Democratic minority.

After an outright demand that he quit from House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic National Chairwoman Debbi Wasserman Schultz and Steve Israel, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, he had a change of heart.

At back - to - back press conferences Thursday by the heads of the House Republican and Democratic campaign committees, it was abundantly clear that the two sides are operating under entirely different theories about the 2006 midterm election.

It was a committee which led democratic scrutiny of the most powerful people in Parliament you've never heard of — Roy Stone, private secretary to the Chief Whip, and Mike Winter, Head of the Leader of the House's office.

Vito Lopez once enjoyed an exalted position among New York City Democrats as head of Brooklyn's Democratic Party, chair of the Assembly's housing committee and a top fund - raiser.

Robinson's nomination now heads to the floor of the House and Senate for a vote, along with Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's last batch of 30 superior court judge nominees who had hearings on Monday.

Kristen Browde, a Democratic candidate for New Castle Town Supervisor shook her head as Astorino criticized the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

That strategy, which includes challengers to Reps. Ike Skelton (Mo.), Bart Gordon (Tenn.) and John Spratt (S.C.), is straight out of the playbook of Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff and formerly the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Over in Maspeth, it Crowley — cousin of Rep. Joseph Crowley (D - Queens / Bronx), House Democratic Caucus chairman and head of the Queens Democratic Party — is still holding out hope she will win once the ballots are counted.

House Democratic leaders established a task force headed by Rep. John Larson, D - Conn., that could combine elements of all three bills.

Washington — The Reagan Administration's promise to keep the Head Start program in its «social safety net» was nothing more than a «charade,» according to one Democratic congressman, who joined other members of the House Subcommittee on Human Resources in sharply attacking proposed policy changes for the program during a routine «oversight» hearing last week.

In view of the fact that most of the Democratic banking and housing committee heads have urged mortgage companies and banks to meet homeowners halfway to avoid foreclosure, it is reasonable to expect that Congress will pass this tax fairness legislation.