Sentences with phrase «junior senator in»

WASHINGTON - New York's junior senator in Washington is calling on the federal government to develop stricter guidelines regarding how and when doctors should prescribe pain medications to their patients.

WASHINGTON - New York's Junior Senator in Washington is continuing to push for prescription drug reform in an effort to reduce the number of people getting addicted to Opioids and other pain killers.

Malpass doesn't specifically name the junior senator in the spot Instead, he takes aim at what he calls «Washington's tax - and - spend culture.»

He considered a primary challenge against the junior senator in 2009, but ultimately decided against it.

Wendy Long is campaigning hard for the pro-gun vote, as evidenced by this video, in which she promises to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the constitutional right to bear arms should she make it past the GOP primary and into a head - to - head contest with the Democratic junior senator in the November general election.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

She also used this opportunity to slam Gillibrand for the Senate's failure to pass a budget since the junior senator replaced Hillary Clinton in the upper house in January 2009.

The Junior Senator chose to focus on the selection of another woman to the court in a statement released minutes ago.

The Long Island congressman and New York's junior senator fired off a letter to Lawrence F. Probst, chair of the US Olympic Committee, asking that he and the Board of Directors «take immediate steps to guarantee that this embarrassment does not happen again by voting that any future contracts for Olympic uniforms are made in America.»

Only 38 percent say they will support the Junior Senator, with 44 % saying they are unsure who they will vote for in November.

With the GOP nominating convention in Rochester just four days away, Brooklyn Republican Chairman Craig Eaton sent a letter today to his fellow county chairs, imploring them to avoid a repeat of the in - fighting in 2010 that handed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand her first statewide win and unite behind Rep. Bob Turner to challenge the Democratic junior senator.

According to this morning's Siena poll, Long can use all the help she can get in her longshot quest to oust the junior senator.

But the junior senator was not eager to tee off on her two fellow Democrats who are mounting political comebacks in the New York City elections this fall after being felled by sex scandals in recent years.

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.

Vielkind also used the backdrop of the campaign event, the «Women for Gillibrand» luncheon, to ask if New York's junior senator had a preference in the race for Attorney General.

But the junior senator is not about to make an endorsement in the mayor's race, even though she's a fan of the leading Democratic candidate, who also happens to be a woman.

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

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch won't back Rep. Bob Turner in his bid to unseat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, he told BuzzFeed, saying he's firmly in the corner of New York's junior senator despite backing Turner in his special election last year.

55 % of the state's electorate wants President - elect Barack Obama to select New York's junior senator as his Secretary of State while 31 % think Clinton should remain in the U.S. Senate.

State Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox released a statement today slamming the junior senator for voting «no» on the tax cut deal President Obama cut with the GOP, breaking with senior Sen. Chuck Schumer in the process.

Hundreds attended the event, which is the first in a series of town hall meetings New York's junior senator plans to hold across the state.

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.

«It's a disservice to women, and it's something that I think is wrong and unacceptable,» said the junior senator earlier today at a rally for Rep. Scott Murphy, who took her old House seat in NY - 20.

Here's video of Carl Paladino standing in front of the state Capitol in Albany and refusing to apologize for calling the state's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, Sen. Chuck Schumer's «little girl.»

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.

The little - known Long was last seen on the campaign trail in 2012 when she ran against New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand.

For now, Gillibrand will be in Schumer's shadow, but New York's junior senator has been building her profile as an advocate for women and the sexually abused.

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.

United States Senator Mike Rounds is the junior Republican Senator of South Dakota elected in 2014.

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.

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.

The state's junior and senator senators both issued statements in support of Warren that arrived in my in - box within minutes of one another.

«Senator Isah Hamman Misau dubiously absconded and deserted the Nigeria Police Force on 24th September, 2010 when he was redeployed to Niger State Command and he refused to report, consequent upon which he was queried in line with the Public Service Rules Sections 030301 (b)(g)(m) and (o) and 030402 (a)(b)(c)(e) and (w), in addition to the previous queries and disciplinary process he was facing when he refused to proceed on Junior command course (JCC) 49/2008 at staff college Jos between 5th January, 2009 and 19th June, 2009,» he said.

Speaking on his weekly radio show on WOR, Bloomberg praised both Schumer and the state's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, who has also had her moments with the mayor, saying they both worked hard to improve the financial regulatory legislation that has now been passed (in different incarnations) by both the Senate and the House.

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.

New York's newly appointed junior senator Kirsten Gillibrand has been in office for a little over...

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin passing strict sanctions on the Islamic theocracy that she claimed «compelled its leaders to face us at the negotiating table.»

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.

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.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has dived into New York's Democratic primaries, endorsing, funding and advising several first - time congressional candidates in a test of the junior senator's own star power.

The comments by Paul, the state's junior senator, came at a news conference with McConnell in Louisville that was focused on building party unity following a bruising campaign in which the minority leader's opponent, Matt Bevin, got 35 % of the primary vote.

«I think that, you know, paying a higher tax rate for higher incomes, having a million dollars be the cut - off is actually a better approach in my view, because you're retaining lower tax rates for small businesses and small businesses are such an important economic engine for growth in this country,» the state's junior senator said.

The state's junior U.S. senator on Friday in a statement said she hoped to find «common ground» with the new administration of President Donald Trump.

That's about $ 400,000 more than the Democratic junior senator reported raising in the first quarter of 2010 ($ 1.6 millon).

Ademola Adeleke, the junior brother of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke who won Osun West Senatorial bye - election in July 2017 disclosed his decision at a brief meeting with the Party Chairman, Honourable Soji Adagunodo, Deputy Chairman, Elder Sunday Akanfe Atidade and the Secretary, Hon Prince Bola Ajao, the Former Special Adviser to Governor Oyinlola and Akogun Taofeek Olayiwola.

Just hours after New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, declared she would support the deal — and in the middle of the first Republican Party presidential debate — Mr. Schumer posted a statement on the website Medium declaring his intention to vote no on the agreement, which Secretary of State John Kerry played a key part in negotiating.