Sentences with phrase «junior senator said»

«We need elected officials in Congress with the courage to lead and Max Rose has done that throughout his life,» New York's junior senator said in a statement provided by the Rose campaign.

New York's junior senator said the government needs to help boost small businesses in places like Queens and throughout the state because «the key to getting us out of the recession is small business growth.»

New York's junior senator said families approached her as she watched Lake Placid's July 4 parade to tell her how afraid they were over possibly losing their coverage.

«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.

New York's junior senator said she believes Congress should hold Trump accountable for the numerous allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against him, and hold hearings if he's unwilling to resign.

The New York junior senator says she's supporting laws that would allow police and state governments to take guns away from people found guilty of domestic abuse.

Not exact matches

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.

When the book deal was announced, the publisher said the book will detail the rise of the GOP star and junior senator born to parents who left Cuba shortly before Fidel Castro took control of the island.

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

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.

Paladino first said he didn't want to talk about NY's junior senator.

«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.

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.

«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.

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.

«I don't think the senator is a homophobe by any stretch of the imagination, but we'd like to see him working on our side a little bit harder,» club President Joe Hagelmann said about Saturday's meeting at Junior's Cheesecake.

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 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.

WASHINGTON - As the U.S. Senate gets set to again take up the Farm Bill in the coming weeks, New York Junior Senator Senator is saying there needs to be long - term support and a fair safety net for small dairy farmers in New York State and across the... [Read more...]

«New York's junior Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, has withdrawn her co-sponsorship of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S. 720), sending a powerful message to her constituents that she no longer supports the fight to combat the international delegitimization of Israel,» the email said.

New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, was officially nominated for re-election Friday at a meeting of the State Democratic Party in Albany, where she said she will serve out her entire six - year term if she wins the race in November.

Actually, to say that New York's junior senator is white is to undersell whiteness.

An article in the March 6, 2006, issue of The New Yorker magazine, written by Jeffrey Toobin, quoted Texas's junior Republican Senator John Cornyn as saying, «Everybody who knows Tom knows that he's a fighter and a competitor, and he saw an opportunity to help the Republicans stay in power in Washington.»

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.

Siena College's Steve Greenberg says unless things change, New York's junior Senator is headed for an historic win in an election to her first full term in office.

New York's Junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says she will support what she calls an imperfect deal while New York's Senior statesman Chuck Schumer is splitting with democrats and will vote against the agreement.

Siena College's Steve Greenberg says unless things change, New York's junior senator is headed for an historic win in an election to her first full term in office.

Instead of answering, O'Rourke said, «Let me tell you what the president and our junior senator are doing right now.»

New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, says «we should have zero tolerance» for the «kind of al leged investment practices» undertaken by Goldman Sachs — like betting that the US housing market would fall.

Durbin said he told Burris that he was «disappointed» to read a federal wiretap transcript, released on Tuesday, which showed that the junior senator had offered former Gov. Rod Blagojevich campaign cash while trying to win a Senate appointment.

But the state's junior Democratic senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, says upstate residents and businesses are at risk too.

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.

Rep. Charlie Rangel, who served with Gillibrand in the House, also expressed support for the junior senator, saying she's «doing a terrific job and the delegation is proud of her.»

«After lobbying all day with all the senators and trying to get our voices out to the Democrats and Republicans, it was really a heartbreaking vote,» said Lizzie Eaton, a 16 - year - old junior.