Sentences with phrase «of legislative house»

The House suspended Jibril, a member of the All Progressives Congress from Kano State, after its internal investigation submitted that he «abused» the rules of the legislative house by making the padding allegations.

Jibrin, a member of the All Progressives Congress from Kano State, was suspended by the House after its internal investigation submitted that he «abused» the rules of the legislative house by making the padding allegations.

ALBANY — You can make a case about how leaders of each legislative house were each winners in the closing days of the legislative session, and how New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (again) came up a loser.

Assemblyman Angelo Morinello represents the City of Niagara Falls and sits on the tourism committee of his legislative house.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul recalled her time playing softball during her congressional tenure in 2011 and 2012, when the women split into a team of House and Senate members, while the men, regardless of legislative house, split themselves along party lines.

Earlier on, there were suggestions that the alleged bribery scandal should be referred to the Privileges Committee of the Legislative House, but the Speaker upheld the proposal for the proposed Committee to launch investigations into the issue, explaining that the allegations of corruption is beyond the reach of the privileges.

«The powers include powers to summon any person to appear before her, give evidence, including power of an officer of the legislative House to arrest any person who commits an offense against the Act.»

Along with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the leaders of both legislative houses make up the so - called «three men in a room» who privately hash out most important policy in New York, as well as its $ 150 - plus billion annual budget.

The position of the Senate GOP matters because Cuomo must negotiate the 2018 - 19 state budget with the majority conferences of both legislative houses.

The announcement comes after many weeks of silence from the Legislature and Gov. Cuomo on ethics reform despite the fact that the leaders of both legislative houses were indicted and convicted on multiple federal counts of corruption last year.

Senator Daniel Squadron, who sponsors the Senate bill to close the LLC Loophole, criticized the Senate Majority's removal of a measure from the budget resolution in a statement referencing the recent firing of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who has famously crusaded against corrupt Albany lawmakers, including the former leaders of both legislative houses.

Despite the fact that his party had control of both legislative houses this year, the most McDonnell managed to do was to pass the voucher - like tax credit plan (which has been criticized for only allowing those providing scholarships to poor kids to write off a mere 65 cents of every dollar spent, or less than similar plans) and a weak charter school expansion that has only allowed four new charters to be opened this past school year.

Not exact matches

And that in itself is likely a show vote since it has little chance of passing in the House; rather, it may provide an avenue for keeping the legislative process going, buying time to iron out a new Senate - House deal on health care.

CNBC's Kayla Tausche speaks with White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short about the Iran deal as French President Emmanuel Macron meets with President Trump at the White House.

CNBC's Kayla Tausche speaks with White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short about the White House calling on Congress for spending rescissions legislation and rolling back Dodd - Frank.

The White House counselor, Kellyanne Conway; the deputy press secretary, Raj Shah; the legislative affairs director, Marc Short; and Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, have all in recent days either denied that Trump is seeking to replace Kelly or expressed skepticism over reporting that Kelly could be on the way out.

If Democratic legislative candidates run as strongly in 2019 as Northam did this year, they'll end up with 58 % of the seats in the House of Delegates and 60 % of the seats in the Senate, and they'll be able to write whatever Medicaid plan they want.

The revelations, semi-denials and continuing comments have cast a pall over the White House's legislative agenda, brought the country closer to the brink of a government shutdown and sparked international outrage.

But the most important one is this: the 1986 tax act was passed after a long legislative process by bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress, and became the law of the land.

Pharmaceutical companies are concerned about an onslaught of legislative proposals percolating in state houses around the country, among them: changes to Medicaid programs to rein in the high cost of prescription drugs, intellectual property issues, and the fight over biosimilars.

Monica Stonier is a member the Washington House of Representatives, representing the state's 49th legislative district.

But Republicans have yet to score a major legislative accomplishment since Trump took office in January, even though the party controls both chambers of Congress as well as the White House.

A draft bill unveiled last week by Republicans in the House of Representatives, if enacted, would be the biggest restructuring of the tax system since the 1980s and the first major legislative victory of the Trump presidency.

If passed, the bill would be the biggest U.S. tax rewrite since 1986 and would provide Republican lawmakers and Trump with their first major legislative victory since they took control of the White House in January, in addition to Congress.

«Marc Short, the assistant to the president and director of legislative affairs at the White House, sent a letter to the committee proclaiming broadly that «the White House has endeavored to educate all White House employees regarding their responsibilities under the» Presidential Records Act,» Cummings wrote.

On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.

Legislative initiatives such as new privacy rules are stuck in neutral in the House of Commons.

Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, has introduced it in each of the past three legislative sessions, most recently with her House colleague Debbie Dingell, a Michigan Democrat.

I thought it helpful to provide a rundown of the remaining legislative days» events and offer a bit of commentary about what Congress and the White House / executive branch will be doing between now and November.

Amid the shifting debate, the president convened yet another meeting on school safety, this time with school shooting survivors and family members of victims, and the White House considered releasing the president's list of legislative priorities.

But White House legislative director Marc Short shot back on MSNBC: «I'm not sure honoring the military is a waste of money.»

As word trickled out Thursday morning on Capitol Hill that Durbin and Graham were heading over to the White House, legislative affairs director Marc Short began to make calls to lawmakers and shared many of Miller's concerns.

He is a former Legislative Assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 2017, Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade, but unified GOP control of the legislative and executive branches didn't lead to a burst of lawmaking.

The GOP leadership of the Florida House and Senate quickly stood with Scott in backing a broad package of legislative initiatives, including funding for increased school security and setting up a new process to take guns out of the hands of those deemed to pose a danger.

Zoning laws prohibit the conversion of residential housing units into transient rentals, said Joel Cohn, legislative director of the D.C. Office of the Tenant Advocate.

Many of the top White House staffers first appointed in January still hold their posts, including senior advisers Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller, counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, press aides Hope Hicks and Dan Scavino, legislative affairs director Marc Short, and White House counsel Don McGahn.

Last Friday, Municipal Bonds for America (MBFA) sent a letter to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to affirm its opposition «to any legislative proposal that taxes, in whole or in part, municipal bonds.»

More than 800 builders from across the nation marched on Capitol Hill today for the annual National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Legislative Conference to call on Congress to make housing and homeownership a national priority and to support policies that will keep the housing recovery moving forward.

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

Builders looking to send a message to Congress that it needs to take action to keep housing and the economy moving forward should mark their calendar now for the most important grassroots event of the year — the 2017 NAHB Legislative Conference.

Another White House official, Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short, said on NBC News's «Meet the Press» that Trump is standing with the «vast majority» of Americans who believe the flag «should be respected.»

The New Democrats, through our house leader and environment critic, will be requesting that debate and a vote of this bill be scheduled during the remaining days of this abbreviated legislative session.

A short while later, when introducing him to my legislative colleagues in the house, I felt it important to comment that «This young gentleman at 24 years old knows the value of a verbal contract.»

When I asked Marc Short, who now serves as the White House director of legislative affairs, about these exchanges, he dismissed them as good - natured razzing between friends.

On February 14, the week after the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced two separate days of more than 1,000 - point losses, the House Financial Services» Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment convened a hearing to discuss various legislative proposals to return to the wild west era of derivatives trading on Wall Street.

At the time, Cohn said he would remain at the White House to see through a tax cut bill that has become the signature legislative accomplishment of the Trump presidency.

The speech, which contains the Government's legislative plans for the next two years, passed a House of Commons ballot on Thursday with 323 votes to 309.

The legislative branch has a further check - and - balance mechanism of its own, by its separation into independent House of Representatives and Senate, both of which must pass every measure that is to become law.

The morning reading about politics is all about the realization that America, despite complaining about the inefficiency of a divided legislative branch and a president constrained by a House controlled by the other party, voted for just the same again for the next two years.