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The Washington - based staffs of those co-sponsors joined the scientists in meetings with lawmakers on 1 February.

VP - elect Mike Pence and President Obama had dueling meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the future of the Affordable Care Act.

Trump's widely reported comment, which the White House did not deny, came Thursday during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers on immigration in which he used the term to describe Haiti and African countries and instead expressed an interest in accepting immigrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he had spoken with the day before.

At a meeting with lawmakers on Monday, Trump falsely claimed that he lost the popular vote because 3 to 5 million undocumented immigrants had voted in the election.

After a public event Friday morning on Long Island, the Democrat said the vulgarity the Republican president used Thursday during a private meeting with lawmakers on immigration shows Trump «doesn't really understand what this country is all about.»

MTA Chairman Tom Prendergast is meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill today to push for an intervention should a strike develop.

Ryan Deitsch, 18, and other students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School meet with lawmakers on the House floor at the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee on February 21.

Representatives from FanDuel, DraftKings and other fantasy sports companies met with lawmakers on Wednesday to discuss the new rules, which resolved concerns that fantasy sports games amounted to illegal gambling.

Members from District 5 gather for a group photo before meeting with lawmakers on UFT Lobby Day in Albany on March 27.

Citizens from across Michigan will meet with lawmakers on Tuesday to urge them to protect animals as part of Humane Lobby Day.

About 40 parents left on a bus from Coral Springs to the state capital to meet with lawmakers on the topic of gun control.

Not exact matches

Zuckerberg, who is speaking with a handful of lawmakers before his congressional hearings over the next few days, spent more than an hour in a one - on - one, closed - door meeting with Nelson.

When President Donald Trump appeared to chastise Republicans lawmakers and applaud Democrats during an informal meeting with a group of congressmembers at the White House on Wednesday, they seemed to have a hard time containing their emotions.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructure program.

The organizers and their families will be in Washington, D.C., on that day to meet with lawmakers, and they've invited students from around the country to join them, either in D.C. or in their own communities.

Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady, R - Texas, talks with President Donald Trump during a meeting on tax policy with Republican lawmakers in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday, Nov. 02, 2017.

Republican lawmakers from high - tax states such as New York exited meetings this week with Kevin Brady, chairman of the tax - writing committee of the House of Representatives, saying there would be some sort of compromise on repealing the deduction for state and local tax payments.

«Trump met w / lawmakers on gun control where he bullied GOP who defend the 2A & said govt should «take guns first, go through due process second,»» Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Thursday night, indicating his disapproval of Trump's conversation with lawmakers a day earlier.

Facebook described Mr. Zuckerberg's interactions with lawmakers as «courtesy meetings» and pointed to Mr. Zuckerberg's prepared testimony that was released on Monday.

He will take questions from members of both houses of Congress as well and spent Monday on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers.

Trudeau will head into his meeting with Trump after talks with the influential House of Representatives» Ways and Means committee, one of two bodies of U.S. lawmakers helping negotiators put forward the U.S. positions on trade.

But they also roved the hallways of the Capitol, meeting with lawmakers and lobbying for action on gun violence.

In 2011, when congressional Republicans were threatening to allow the government to default on its debts if their policy wish list was not met, Powell met with a number of GOP lawmakers, urging them to reconsider their strategy by pointing out the serious risks involved.

NAHB Chairman Randy Noel and First Vice Chairman Greg Ugalde conducted two days of meetings this week with Republican and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to keep housing in the forefront of the national agenda.

US President Donald Trump described El Salvador, Haiti, and certain African nations as «shithole» countries during a meeting with lawmakers at the White House on Thursday.

Last week, during a meeting with lawmakers, he seemed to express support for universal background checks — among other gun control measures — a move made on live TV that stunned his fellow Republicans.

Lawmakers indicated on Thursday after meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo they are inching toward a final agreement on the state budget, but key issues on funding education and raising revenue for taxes remain unresolved.

Top lawmakers met privately with Gov. Andrew Cuomo to discuss a potential package of measures that could include a variety of issues, such as a new agreement on upstate flood relief.

The lawmakers have previously held meetings in Johnstown, Buffalo and on Long Island to discuss legislative recommendations with law enforcement, educators and family members.

A range of outstanding issues remain: Lawmakers in the black and Puerto Rican caucus met privately to air their concerns with a measure designed to raise the age of criminal responsibility in New York to 18 that some feel leans too heavily on criminal courts.

The meetings will be held on Oct. 25 in Cortland and Nov. 14 in Newburgh as state lawmakers and other policy makers grapple with how to combat addiction, which has afflicted rural, suburban and urban parts of the state.

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Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins met privately in New York City on Wednesday with Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, a lawmaker who is a key linchpin for control of the narrowly divided chamber.

Cuomo's schedule, released last night, included a meeting with House Speaker John Boehner, at which he was to be joined by three Republican lawmakers from New York — Reps. Bob Turner, Michael Grimm and Pete King, on whom the governor is leaning quite heavily as he pushes for the $ 42 billion worth of federal disaster aid he's seeking after Sandy.

On the heels of deeply troubling problems at the polls during the April 19th presidential primary, roughly 200 citizen advocates will meet with lawmakers to share their personal voting experiences and make the case for fundamental reform to New York's antiquated election laws.

He did not focus on the New Jersey legislation during the news conference, but met with lawmakers, including Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg and Democratic state Sen. Joe Vitale, in Trenton on Monday about their bill.

Bratton also committed to meeting more regularly with the group — one lawmaker said he may meet with them on a quarterly basis.

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The Chancellor traveled to Albany today to address the Assembly Education Committee and meet with lawmakers, including Senators Flanagan and Golden, on key education policy and local school issues.

Cuomo and state lawmakers held two separate meetings on Monday: The governor first huddled with the Senate Republican and Independent Democratic Conference leaders and then with Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

A group of prominent tech leaders on Thursday said that a Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE presidency would be bad for innovation in America.

And lawmakers are moving forward with plans to start voting on the remaining budget bills later today in hopes of coming close to meeting the midnight deadline.

Republican lawmakers this week are expected to meet in conference committees to hash out the differences between the two bills, with the goal of voting on a compromise package by the end of this month.

Bharara told The Buffalo News in a subequent interview that he keeps the book «Thee Men in a Room» by former Sen. Seymour Lachman on his desk and has met with the ex-Democratic lawmaker to discuss the frustrations he experienced while serving in Albany.

The presidential hopeful trekked from Manhattan, where she appeared with Governor Andrew Cuomo, up to Albany where she met with Democratic lawmakers, then on to Cohoes.

Lawmakers noted that their leaders, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Democratic Majority Conference Leader John Sampson, have been working with one another all along and met in New York City on Wednesday.

He almost never gave significant on - the - record interviews, reneged on a campaign pledge to post online his private schedule of meetings with lawmakers and lobbyists, and eschewed the public meetings with legislative leaders favored by his predecessors.

Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE's campaign on Friday announced two major hires as he ramps up his staffing heading into the general election.

ALBANY, NY (05/11/2015)(readMedia)-- Hundreds of nurses, caregivers and advocates will be meeting with lawmakers in Albany on Tuesday, May 12 to discuss lifesaving legislation.

According to county Legislator Benjamin Boykin, a White Plains Democrat and chairman of the Public Safety Committee, a $ 500,000 bond, which was discussed at a committee meeting for the first time on July 10, will likely be approved with unanimous support from lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle.