Sentences with phrase «junior senator from»

The junior senator from Illinois talks healthcare, Trump's transgender military ban, and relying on Planned Parenthood when she worked as a waitress in college.

The junior senator from Texas also called for an investigation of Planned Parenthood's local affiliates, a congressional hearing, and urged the media to stand up to Democratic candidates who support Planned Parenthood.

A farmer's son, the junior senator from Nebraska wants young» uns to weed soybeans — or at least do something to help the family project.

There is no need to tart this up with cheap dramatic contrivances, there's plenty of the real thing to go around and not just from the attacks by the junior senator from Wisconsin, but also from the market forces of the media itself in the person of CBS President Frank Paley (Frank Langella), a cold, inscrutable presence with a silky growl whose non-interference with Murrow and Friendly never quite equals backing them.

The year is 1969 and the junior senator from Massachusetts is living in the shadow of his three elder brothers: Joseph, the «chosen one» who died in World War Two, Jack, who became President but didn't live to serve out his first term, and Bobby, who was gunned down in yet another national tragedy.

(CNN)- A meeting has been scheduled between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin and Roland Burris, embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's choice to succeed Barack Obama as the junior senator from Illinois, according to a Democratic source familiar with the discussions of Senate Democratic leaders.

Props to the Junior Senator from New York who backed her party's candidate from the start of the campaign.

The event came just a day after NY1 aired an interview with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — herself the subject of much presidential chatter — in which the junior senator from New York said the governor «would be a great candidate» for their party in 2020.

And her interest in that seat could mean the continuation of a Kennedy legacy in the Senate that began 56 years ago with the election of her father, John F. Kennedy, as the junior senator from Massachusetts.

Her uncle Robert served as junior senator from New York from 1965 until he was assassinated in 1968.

Kirsten Gillibrand is the junior senator from New York.

David Axelrod fired back Wednesday at Rep. Mark Kirk, a Republican who is seeking to replace Sen. Roland Burris as the junior Senator from Illinois.

The junior senator from New York has been a vocal critic of the way the military deals with sexual assault cases.

Roland Burris is scheduled to be sworn in this afternoon as the junior Senator from Illinois.

Gillibrand — the Democrat who replaced Hillary Clinton as the junior senator from New York in 2009 — said that Blake has the «determination, experience and energy» to help rebuild the Democratic Party after the hemorrhaging of the past two election cycles.

Clarke also pointed out that Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer has promised to vote against the nominations of Trump's Education Secretary - designate Betsy DeVos and his Attorney General - designate Jeff Sessions, the junior senator from Alabama.

Clinton worked with most of the delegation when she was the junior senator from New York from 2001 to 2009.

There's the junior senator from New York — and candidate for re-election next year — who notes approvingly that Occupy Wall Street «has become a vehicle for people to vent their frustration with the economy.»

But the junior senator from New York, who holds Clinton's former seat and is often overshadowed by the state's better - known political figures, is quietly building a résumé that would allow her to be taken seriously should she ever decide to run for president.

Clinton served as the state's junior senator from 2001 until 2009, when she became President Obama's secretary of state.

The Democratic junior senator from New York has endeared herself to liberals in recent weeks by voting against the bulk of Trump's Cabinet picks.

In a statement first published on the site Medium, the junior senator from New York highlighted her part in passing strict sanctions on the Islamic theocracy that she claimed «compelled its leaders to face us at the negotiating table.»

The junior Senator from NY is certainly making for a tough day for Chuck's staff.

The Manhattan attorney says Gillibrand is speaking out of two megaphones: one to New Yorkers, and one to celebrities and environmentalists, and that the junior senator from New York should do more to support it.

On NPR Friday, the Junior Senator from Virginia deflected talk about the...

Without the internet, Barack Obama would still be the junior senator from Illinois.

DADT became something of a cause celebre for the junior senator from New York, and she was in the forefront of the (eventually successful) push for its repeal late last year.

At the time of her retirement, Boxer ranked eleventh in seniority in the United States Senate, and was the most senior junior Senator from the retirement of Tom Harkin in January 2015 until her own retirement two years later.

That sum, collected in the first three months of this year, is about $ 1 million more than her previous best quarter, said a campaign aide for Gillibrand, a Democrat and the junior senator from New York.

She was also dean of the California Congressional Delegation, despite being the Junior Senator from California, as she spent 10 years as a US Representative for California's 6th district, before being elected to the Senate in 1993.

Cardin, the junior senator from Maryland, joined on as a co-sponsor in May.

Economist David Malpass formally kicked off his campaign against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this morning, making him the third Republican to declare his intention to try to knock the Democratic junior senator from her appointed perch.

Pat (and I'll call you Pat, though I don't believe we've met, just as you chose to refer consistently to the junior senator from Illinois in your column by his first name, as one might a servant or subordinate), I find it fascinating and perhaps even just a little racist to see you identifying a monolithic «White America,» in the same way that it's just a little racist for Rev. Wright to assume a monolithic black American experience.

A source close to attorney Wendy Long confirmed City & State's report that she is indeed aiming to announce a challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this week, making her the second Republican aiming to oust New York's Democratic junior senator from her perch this fall.

The junior Senator from New York deserves all this new found attention as she has proven to be an excellent advocate for the state and its issues down in DC.

There are African Americans, Hispanics, women preachers, apocalyptic seers, lobbyists, missiologists, postmodernists, writers, radio preachers, megachurch pastors, a few scholars, and, mirabile dictu, two Catholics: the junior senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, and the editor - in - chief of First Things, Father Richard John Neuhaus.

These skills are helpful in building character and rediscovering the «vanishing» American adult the junior senator from Nebraska writes about.

It's official, Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, is running for president — and though his libertarian rhetoric has many enthusiasts among entrepreneurs, a win for Rand might just imperil businesses in general.

But like a surprising number of Americans, the ASBL's Lloyd Chapman seems to be mesmerized by the junior senator from Illinois.

Although none have announced, they are likely to include former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley, former Virginia senator Jim Webb, and Bernard Sanders, the junior senator from Vermont.

The Democrats face a rapidly filling Republican slate of candidates that currently includes Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Texas, Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, and Marco Rubio, the junior senator from Florida, and Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett - Packard.

As such, he is filling a gap left by Elizabeth Warren, the junior senator from Massachusetts, who has said she will not seek the presidency.

The President pro tempore has the power to appoint any other senator to preside, and in practice junior senators from the majority party are assigned the task of presiding over the Senate at most times.

Not exact matches

He had no personal relationship with Schultz, a registered Democrat, and the two had met only once, when Obama was the junior U.S. senator from Illinois.

During a remote interview with us from Washington, DC, the Junior Senator outlined a litany of things she'd like to see implemented or changed in order to make the state safer.

Dadey noted Gillibrand's recent most liberal ranking from The National Journal (she actually tied for first place with Oregon's Jeff Merkley) and borrowed a phrase from a state GOP press release that slammed the junior senator for undergoing a «liberal makeover taking her from Annie Oakley to Jane Fonda.»

The junior senator invoked the stories of three people who worked on the pile at Ground Zero and subsequently fell ill, and, in two cases, died from health complications linked to the toxic dust they breathed there.

A bold move to be the first elected official to support the junior United States senator from Vermont, in Westchester County, the adopted home of Hillary Clinton.

But they argued that the senior senator must use his clout to convince all other Democrats to join him in preventing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action from becoming international law — including junior Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has said she will vote in favor of the deal.

Today's Siena poll found New York's junior senator is enjoying her highest favorable rating ever: 57 - 18 percent, up from 50 - 24 percent just four months ago.