Sentences with phrase «in being the majority leader»

«He's more interested in being majority leader..»

«I've said that I would be interested in being the majority leader if and when there is a vacancy,» DeFrancisco said this afternoon.

Updated: Sen. John DeFrancisco said this afternoon he is interested in being majority leader «if and when there is a vacancy.»

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«Ben Nelson is under the illusion he can get reelected in 2012,» McConnell told Henrikson, adding that Nelson would have to act like a Republican in order to win — and that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - Nev.)

«Trump is no Lyndon Johnson,» says Robertson, «and while he is better than Obama at working congressional leadership, my friends tell me there are already antagonisms at the staff level between the Speaker / majority leader in the Senate and the White House.»

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday that the House would start working on repealing and replacing Obamacare «right away,» but with a transition period to allow changes to be phased in over time.

«[The legislation] does not take steps toward coverage and access for all Americans, and while insurers are still required to offer coverage to patients with pre-existing conditions, allowing states to get waivers to vary premiums based on health status would allow insurers to charge unaffordable premiums based on those pre-existing conditions,» wrote American Medical Association (AMA) president Dr. James Madara in a letter urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to shelve the Graham - Cassidy bill on Tuesday.

Senators are attempting to craft their own legislation, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stated he's not sure the chamber will muster the 50 votes needed to pass an overhaul, especially in the CBO report's wake.

WHAT THEY SAID: «Nobody in the middle class is going to get a tax increase,» Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on MSNBC on Nov. 4.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., flanked by SBA Administrator Linda McMahon (left) and Sen. Jim Risch, R - Idaho, speaks at an event in the Capitol with small - business advocates to highlight the importance of tax reform to America's small businesses on Nov. 28, 2017.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has reportedly already spoken with Strange about the idea, and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R - AK), who won re-election in a 2010 write - in campaign, is set to speak to him this weekend.

The 125 CEOs who participated in the survey were asked to compare a hypothetical majority government under Conservative leader Stephen Harper to one led by Liberal Stéphane Dion.

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said Republicans» slim 51 - 49 majority in the Senate most likely means that won't be anMajority Leader Mitch McConnell has said Republicans» slim 51 - 49 majority in the Senate most likely means that won't be anmajority in the Senate most likely means that won't be an option.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he will retreat, and try to pass the more straightforward Obamacare repeal bill that Republicans approved while Obama was still in office and certain to veto it.

U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady (R - TX)(C) holds up a tax filing «postcard» as Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R - WI)(L) and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R - KY)(R) looks on during a press event on tax reform September 27, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, DC.

Skinny, of course, was the last and most cynical of the various Trumpcare resolutions that the Senate Majority Leader put forth this week — and which the full Senate voted on, and ultimately rejected, in the dead of night.

At the end of March, for example, Musk chipped in $ 50,000 to an organization run by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy that's meant to boost his GOP allies.

«It's not surprising to anybody who knows Rob that he's avoided the squabbles and turf battles that have consumed so many others in this White House,» Brian McGuire, a former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, told Business Insider.

M5S has not entered any coalition, although party leader Luigi Di Maio told CNBC in early February that if the party did not gain a majority to govern alone, it was willing to speak to other parties, although he did not say which ones.

The House will vote on the plan on Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R - Calif., said in a statement.

Cornyn is the No. 2 Republican in the Senate behind Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said Tuesday that he'd recommended that Trump nominate Garland for the post.

When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell selected the group of 13 lawmakers who would work on drafting a health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act in May, none of the five female Republican Senators were included.

The top Republican in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, said he was open to suggestions from experts on how to prevent terrorism suspects from acquiring firearms and called the Orlando shooting a «calculated act of terror.»

(Bloomberg)-- The White House is scaling back its plan to seek cuts from already - passed spending bills in the face of resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and spending panel Republicans, two GOP congressional aides briefed on the plan said Thursday.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

Xerox's plan to merge its business with Fujifilm of Japan looks to be increasingly in jeopardy, as its chairman, its chief executive and a majority of its board members said they would resign in favor of a slate of new leaders favored by shareholders opposing the deal.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) and Trump have promised to send Texas officials an aid package worth billions of dollars — meanwhile, nobody seems to know how funding will work out in a bill to avert a looming government shutdown.

The budget agreement negotiated by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., calls for a $ 63 billion increase in domestic...

Gephardt served in Congress for 28 years, was House Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995 and Minority Leader from 1995 to 2003, running for president in 1988 and 2004.

A Bubble in Complacency Egypt Rosie, Las Vegas, Phuket, and Bangkok This week I had the privilege of being on the same panel with former Comptroller General David Walker and former Majority Leader (and presidential candidate) Richard Gephardt.

In a press conference, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, «should be allowed to finish his job.&raquIn a press conference, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, «should be allowed to finish his job.&raquin the 2016 presidential election, «should be allowed to finish his job.»

The top two Republicans in Congress — the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan — were imploring Mr. Trump privately to reconsider.

While the leaders in your company may be credible, your employees are more credible to the majority of your audience.

If you are a senior leader or majority owner in a privately - owned business without a succession system in place, you should be concerned, and here's why: without a proper succession plan in place for you and the executive team, and a talent development strategy for the organization, your firm is likely to run into ownership transfer challenges in the future.

This week was meant to be dedicated to robust and open immigration debate — a promise Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made to Senate Democrats to end the three - day government shutdown in January.

Not only are these quintessentially American products, but are also centered in Kentucky and Wisconsin, respectively, home to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.

Most sales leaders have a host of reps performing below quota (and let's face it - that's the majority of sales reps in the world).

In addition, I can say that as long as the majority of Palestinians and their democratically elected leaders are willing the war to continue it will continue and more Palestinians will be killed.

Bottom line: BO is still not aware of the basics of birth control and still remains the leader of the Immoral Majority and will remain so until he becomes a true Christian and one who respects and protects human life in all its forms and who at least emphasizes proper use of birth control methods and the responsibility involved!!!

@EvolvedDNA, Every majority's religious body's leaders had supreme authority in most civilizations because people were not educated, and religion was tied to the nation or the tribe.

Don Fletcher, an ophthalmologist, said that when he was called last month to serve as the bishop and leader of the Bay Ward he wanted to make sure every Latter - day Saint in his ward knew they were welcome, including the vast majority who weren't showing up.

Speaking at a party retreat, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told his colleagues that the party had spent too much time talking about the concerns of business owners and entrepreneurs and not enough about the concerns of that majority who were not (and in many cases did not want to be) busiMajority Leader Eric Cantor told his colleagues that the party had spent too much time talking about the concerns of business owners and entrepreneurs and not enough about the concerns of that majority who were not (and in many cases did not want to be) busimajority who were not (and in many cases did not want to be) business....

Why, asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, was Bush tying his «flawed strategies» to «one of the worst foreign - policy blunders in our nation's history»?

Harry Reid's premature proclamations of defeat in Iraq» a defeat the impact of which the majority leader seemed to relish» is difficult to explain unless you understand that.

BO's support of abortion / choice however vitiates has Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting bloc in the country.

BO's support of abortion / choice however vitiates his Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting bloc in the country.

And we look at church history and the churches and leaders we respect, not only in the US but globally, and what we see is that the overwhelming majority of Christians past and present continue to teach that these passages are very much applicable today.

A president will have to deal with the leaders in the rest of the world, the majority who are not Christian.