Sentences with phrase «make floor speeches»
If Congressional inaction threatens your district you can hold press conferences, make floor speeches, organize your colleagues - make a stink.
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At one point, Senator Kevin S. Parker, a Brooklyn Democrat, erupted when he and other supporters learned they would not be allowed to make a floor speech.
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No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Cornyn of Texas, on the Senate floor as Warren spoke, criticized her for making «a political speech» and launching «personal attacks» on senators and called her comments «beneath the dignity of the United States Senate.»
Flake, who announced he would not seek another term during a speech on the Senate floor last month, made the comments after a town hall event in Mesa, Ariz., on Friday when Mayor John Giles asked the Republican lawmaker if he had any White House ambitions in 2020.
Nominations will be accepted from the floor, speeches will be made, and votes will be called.
Sayward, who has a gay son, attracted widespread attention in June 2007 when she made a speech on the Assembly floor in support of legalizing gay marriage.
In the post-mortem Republicans blamed the speaker Nancy Pelosi for making a partisan speech influencing Democrats, while the Republicans that crossed the floor did not like infringements on free markets from a «socialist» bill.
After a rousing speech on the conference floor, Allen Chastanet, prime minister of Saint Lucia, tells Breaking Travel News about his plan to make the country the leading Caribbean tourism destination within a decade.
A team of speakers, including Julian Spalding (author of The Eclipse of Art), made impassioned speeches in the motion's favour, and even those against seemed so half - hearted that Peregrine Worsthorne was moved to inquire from the floor: «Is there an argument here?»
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island who has endorsed the use of RICO against fossil fuel industries since May, made a similar argument in his weekly climate speech, delivered Tuesday on the Senate floor.
John Cyzgier, Surrogate Court Judge of Suffolk County Assemblymember Helene Weinstein also made the slur of blackmail in her debate speech at the assembly floor debate on June 18, 2015.