Sentences with phrase «majority leader of»

Among these many reports on Tom Delay, the majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, who has been indicted for violating Texas election laws in September 2002, is a transcript of his remarks to the press.

We had a press conference at SED, then the Commissioner, myself, Chancellor Tisch, and Mike Mulgrew and, with cameras rolling, as they say, walked it across the street and left copies with the majority leader of the Senate, with Speaker Silver's office, and with the Governor's office.

«Walter Mahoney from Buffalo was the Republican majority leader of the Senate and he lost that year.

In 1974 he became the majority leader of the North Dakota state senate until 1986.

The Majority Leader of Parliament and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei - Mensah - Bonsu has bemoaned the quality of Members of Parliament in the house in recent times, including those from his side, the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Mr. Espada returned to the Democratic caucus after the Democrats promised to appoint him majority leader of the Senate, a position he held until the federal indictment in December 2010, three months after he lost the primary in his re-election bid.

Denno sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo to express dissatisfaction with Miner and has also stepped down as majority leader of the Common Council.

Oliver Koppell is throwing some slime at State Senator Jeffrey Klein, accusing the majority leader of being a «cold - blooded reptile» in scathing new campaign literature.

The move was based on a point of order raised by a former Majority Leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, who called the attention of the lawmakers to media reports on the matter.

Manhattan US attorney Preet Bharara announced on Friday that Dean Skelos, the former majority leader of the New York State Senate, was found guilty on all charges.

The Kogi State House of Assembly Complex was on Tuesday prevented from holding its plenary following a crisis that erupted over the alleged plan to remove the Majority Leader of the House, Matthew Kolawole.

The Majority Leader of the House, Mr Matthew Kolawole, said this during interview with newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday.

His first election in partisan politics wound up as a tie against an 18 - year incumbent...»... who was the majority leader of the county legislature and the committeemen - even though it takes place in a very public forum it's actually a party election, and so the committeemen broke the tie, gave it to the incumbent, and I wound up being elected in a write - in election with over 3,000 votes cast, just on a county legislative district, so, you can beat city hall.»

Commisso is a brand name in the 15th Ward, where his father, Frank Commisso, is the Democratic ward leader and also majority leader of the Albany County Legislature.

John Flanagan, the majority leader of the Senate, concurred.

According to DAILY POST's source, the development was an alleged attempt to halt the planned removal of the Majority Leader of the House, Matthew Kolawole, who is said to be a staunch supporter of the state governor.

Tuesday night, Commisso's father, Frank Commisso, Sr., the longtime majority leader of the Albany County Legislature, told The Alt that he hopes his son stays in the race.

The majority leader of the Erie County Legislature is not willing to try that experiement.

For me personally, last year during the New York Hispanic Clergy Organization's Banquet, I introduced Chuck Schumer as the next Majority Leader of the United States Senate.

On Tuesday afternoon at the Capitol, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the majority leader of each house, Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Republican Senate

Some All Progressives Congress members in Lagos State who are aspiring to represent Surulere Federal Constituency I at the House of Representatives have expressed their opposition to the re-election bid of the Majority Leader of the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, whom they said had served the fourth term already.

«I hope soon that Andrea Stewart - Cousins will be the majority leader of the Senate,» he contended.

Dean G. Skelos, the former majority leader of the New York Senate, and his son were found guilty of federal corruption charges on Friday, a quick and devastating follow - up punch to the State Capitol, which has seen two entrenched leaders convicted and removed from office in less than two weeks.

That case has already led to new trials for Silver, former speaker of the Assembly, and Skelos, former majority leader of the state Senate, by ruling that politician must take «official action,» like pushing legislation, to be guilty of bribery.

Former Vice Chairperson on Parliament's Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, George Loh, has accused the Majority Leader of Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah - Bonsu, of obstructing the passage of the Right to Information Bill (RTI) when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was in power.

Dean Skelos, left, the former Republican majority leader of the State Senate, and his son Adam were convicted on corruption charges in December 2015.

Democrat Peter Harckham is the majority leader of the Westchester County Board of Legislators.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Thomas Libous, a former deputy majority leader of the New York state Senate, was sentenced Tuesday to six months of home confinement and two years of probation for lying to federal agents who were investigating whether he used his political influence to get his son a job.

Majority Leader of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, in his opening remarks, announced that the meeting was historic as it was the first time the leadership of the party would be meeting with the senators.

The felony convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, now suddenly former assemblyman, had to send cold chills through the Dean Skelos camp, where the former majority leader of the state Senate was, along with his son, on trial across Foley Square in Manhattan federal court on similar bribery and influence - peddling charges.

The Majority Leader of Ghana's Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has defended the re-introduction of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs by the Nana Akufo - Addo government.

Consider this testimony from an executive at a major real estate company, Glenwood, during the 2015 federal corruption trial of Dean Skelos, the former majority leader of the state senate.

The source believes Dean Skelos, who is currently serving his first term as Majority Leader of the Senate is the legislative colleague of a lifetime.

To best of my knowledge as the majority leader of Kwara State House Assembly since 2015, the state government is not diverting councils» fund.

«During my tenure as Temporary President and Majority Leader of the Senate, we've passed five consecutive on - time budgets and ended the dysfunction and chaos that existed when New York City Democrats ran our entire state government,» he said.

«He explained his personal situation to the committee,» said Cohoes Democratic Chairman Gil Ethier, who also is deputy majority leader of the Albany County Legislature.

DeFrancisco, the deputy majority leader of the state Senate, has a small lead over Molinaro in a potential Republican primary matchup, 21 - 17 percent, the poll found.

DeFrancisco, 70, deputy majority leader of the state Senate, said Astorino made the right decision on Thursday.

The majority leader of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr. Churchill Adedipe has debunked stories making the rounds that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the immediate past...

The office that once belonged to Dean G. Skelos, the former Republican majority leader of the State Senate, whose name has been removed from the door.

The Majority Leader of the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, while leading the debate, urged his colleagues to accept the projections.

In 1995, he became deputy majority leader of the Senate, a post he held until 2008.

Brown, a Democrat and an attorney, previously served as Oregon Secretary of State and as majority leader of the Oregon State Senate, where she represented portions of Milwaukie and of Northeast and Southeast Portland.

Amid these struggles, at least one constant seemed to remain in Adam Skelos's life: the support of his father, Dean G. Skelos, the powerful Republican majority leader of the New York State Senate.

Dean G. Skelos, the once powerful Republican majority leader of the New York State Senate who was convicted with his son in December on federal corruption charges, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison.

The Majority Leader of the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, rose to speak, but the PDP lawmakers quickly shouted him down.

John J. Flanagan, the majority leader of the New York State Senate, has repeatedly argued that he likes «cutting taxes,» not raising them.

The one time Democratic Majority Leader of the Yonkers City Council turned herself into the FBI in White Plains this morning.

Malcolm A. Smith, former majority leader of the New York State Senate, left federal court in White Plains, N.Y., on Wednesday after being sentenced to seven years in prison.

Dean was targeted because he was Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, not because of any actions he took.