Sentences with phrase «leaders of both houses say»

No legislators are seeking to erase the $ 500 million that Cuomo proposes for a new round of specially targeted economic development assistance for the Buffalo area, leaders of both houses say.

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«The President multiple times reaffirmed in general to all of us, and looked at Larry Kudlow, and said Larry go get it done,» Sasse said after exiting a White House meeting with the President about trade and agriculture that he attended with several governors and congressional leaders who represent states that they say will be adversely impacted by the President's recently announced tariffs.

«It is important that we achieve a two - year agreement that funds our troops and provides for our national security and other critical functions of the Federal government,» the statement from the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

«Steinbrueck behaves like a bull in a china shop,» said Michael Meister, deputy leader of Merkel's conservatives in the Bundestag (lower house of parliament).

The House of Commons is set to approve the measures with a big majority after the pacifist leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party whip.

Highlighting his party's lack of power, House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer said Wednesday that his caucus» ability to stall the measure for even a few weeks itself constituted a success, of sorts.

More than 1,200 veterans representing every branch of the military sent a letter to House and Senate leaders on February 12, saying that «strategic investments in the State Department and USAID will be essential if we are to solidify our hard - fought gains and prevent other bad actors from filling the void» around the world.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said last week that the administration expected to make a decision on whether to remain a party to the deal by the time leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations meet in late May.

At a White House meeting of business leaders earlier this year, President Trump said that JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, was going to explain why Dodd - Frank should be repealed and replaced.

At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney said the administration remains in contact with congressional leaders despite the collapse of talks last Friday and inconclusive discussions this past weekend.

«Both leaders condemned North Korea's September 9 nuclear test and resolved to strengthen coordination in achieving the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, including by invigorating cooperation in the United Nations Security Council and in law enforcement channels on North Korea,» a White House statement said.

Meeting with leaders of various business interest groups at the White House, Trump said he wanted the House to pass a bill by Thanksgiving and final approval by the end of the year.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

One day after Trump accepted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's invitation to meet, Tillerson was woken up in his hotel room by a phone call from White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, sources said in the report.

I think she is astonishingly good in terms of running the Congress and as a Democratic leader,» Steyer, who is also from California, said after being asked whether Pelosi should remain the House Democrats» leader.

Loblaw has been a world leader when it comes to creating an in - house label that is every bit as good, if not better, than the leading national competitors, says David Soberman, national chair in strategic marketing at the Rotman School of Management.

(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.

The leaders of a key House oversight committee say Zuckerberg will testify before their panel on April 11.

Liberal House leader Dominic LeBlanc said the ads prove Tories are more focused on Trudeau than the concerns of Canadians.

Senate Democrats have been frustrated by a lack of movement by Cornyn and other Republican leaders, and say GOP leadership in the House and Senate is the reason Congress has not been able to act to prevent another mass shooting like Parkland.

EDMONTON — Alberta's government house leader says a rally that called for Premier Rachel Notley to be jailed is a disturbing sign of Trump - style politics coming to Canada.

But leaders including those in the White House said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong, and experts agree that the phenomenon was more blip than Black Monday.

But Meadows, who leads a group of hard - liners that has frequently frustrated House Republican leaders, said attaching Harvey aid to a debt - ceiling increase would be a «terrible idea» that would be «conflating two very different issues.»

«I am well aware that people are skeptical of me discussing the topic,» Mrs. Trump said at a roundtable discussion with technology industry leaders at the White House.

He said the meeting would include the defense secretary, White House chief of staff John Kelly and other military leaders.

Leaders of the House and Senate want to require a three - day waiting period for taking possession of long guns purchased in the state, while the governor said he did not support that change.

«President Trump plans to continually seek information and perspectives from a diverse range of business leaders,» the White House release said, «on how best to promote job growth and get Americans back to work again.»

The White House today released a list of 28 business leaders — including Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank — it said will be part of President Trump's ongoing manufacturing jobs initiative.

But the company, Spectra Energy Corp., said former federal Conservative government house leader Jay Hill's role in the discussions about those laws has probably been very minor and, in any case, represents just part of the work he does for the company.

With the Liberals in power on both levels of government and with New Brunswick MP Dominic LeBlanc as Government House Leader in the House of Commons, he says there is a big opportunity for progress.

But business leaders say global investors will want clarity on the bigger picture of foreign investment now that Mr. Harper is less beholden to opposition parties in the House.

Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate and House VA committees — who were briefed by Missal on Wednesday morning — said in a joint statement that they were «disappointed» by the findings and urged Shulkin to «actively address» all of the allegations.

Republican House and Senate leaders said they had gathered more than the constitutionally required signatures of three - fourths of the members of each chamber to summon themselves into a special session that will start at 6:30 p.m. on May 18 — just 30 minutes after the end of work in their regular session.

VICTORIA — A B.C. New Democrat government would provide support for co-op housing, shielding thousands of families from becoming casualties of Christy Clark's housing crisis, says New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

The Trump administration said Sunday that it wants Congress to attach aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey to a bill that would increase the federal debt limit, a move that clashes with an influential group of House conservatives who have warned GOP leaders not to connect the two funding initiatives.

Scott Pelath, the Democratic minority leader in the Indiana House of Representatives, said that watching Pence vouch for Trump made him sad.

LOS ANGELES (AP)-- Two weeks before Puerto Rico's primary, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says a deal between House leaders and the Obama administration to help the island out of debt has colonialist overtones.

Jesus called out the religious leaders of his time and said that they would not enter the kingdom of heaven because they lived in palaces on hills while they devoured the houses of widows (in Luke).

The Obama White House keeps in close contact with American Jewish leaders, trumpeting what it says is a close relationship with Israel around developments like this month's transport of the Israeli ambassador and staff out of Egypt after the Jewish state's embassy there was attacked, an operation in which the United States played a major role.

«I am not going to stand up here and give a sermon,» Obama said in the East Room of the White House, addressing an audience thick with Christian leaders.

The letter, written and signed by leaders of several faiths, asks President Obama, President Pro Tempore Orrin Hatch and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to reject the report that says religious institutions could be viewed as bigoted.

The violence has spilled over into Ukraine, where leaders of the Evangelical Protestant Churches of Ukraine said that pro-Russian Orthodox militants had subjected their members to «abduction, beating, torture, murder threats, and damage to houses of worship, seizure of religious buildings, and damage to health and private property of the clergy,» the Free Beacon reported.

My house group leader said he didn't want to lose me and on my last day I was given a lovely card with a beautiful message from a young women there of encouragement, saying she was sad to see me go.

A major spike in the harassment and arrest of Iranian Christians in recent months is re-vealing just how nervous the Islamic republic is about the prodigious success of house churches, say Iranian Christian leaders.

The leader of the International House of Prayer (IHOP), Mike Bickle, saw it too «The Church in the UK said yes to the emphasis that John put on intimacy in worship.

No. 6: In this story from the Book of Judges, an Israelite leader, Jephthah, makes a rash vow to God, which has to be carried out: «And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, «If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord's, to be offered up by me as a burnt - offering.»

Tyndale House Publishers said it was halting the release - due this summer - of «Everyone Wins When a Leader Gets Better» while bosses «absorb the facts».

House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie (D - Chicago), the legislation's co-sponsor, said the law is not too demanding of employers because they merely will have to make a reasonable effort to help mothers.

«We have a dynamic role model in the White House, a black woman who gets the idea that she can go to work, be a lawyer and still provide milk for her baby,» said Napiera Loveless, co-founder of MamaTotoMatema, a Cincinnati - based organization committed to educating and encouraging leaders and health care professionals to adopt different approaches to promoting breastfeeding in African American families.

Western New York Rep. Chris Collins said he would love to see the House get an opportunity to weigh in on this proposal, too, but he's acutely aware Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell & Co. need 50 of 52 GOP senators» support to get it through their chamber.