Sentences with phrase «on the nomination leader»

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to blow up the filibuster on presidential nominations may raise new fiscal crisis risks.

Republicans and some Wall Street analysts warn that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to blow up the filibuster on presidential nominations will lead to an even darker period of partisan acrimony, throwing into question the ability of Congress to pass a bill to fund the government past January and raise the debt limit in February.

Trump bounced from topic to topic including Kanye West («he's smart»), James Comey («a leaker and a liar»), Trump's attorney Michael Cohen («a businessman... he's got a business»), North Korea («we're doing very well with North Korea»), and Ronny Jackson, Trump's pick for VA secretary who withdrew his nomination on Thursday morning («highly respected, a real leader»).

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco on Tuesday confirmed he will run for the Republican nomination for governor, growing the field to three GOP candidates seeking to take on Gov. Andrew Cuomo this November.

With concern setting in among downstate Republican leaders that the three declared candidates vying for the nomination to take on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the fall will be crushed, state Republican Chairman Ed Cox called Rep. Bob Turner this weekend about possibly jumping into the race, a source familiar with the conversation said.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has secured enough GOP support to win a slot on its ticket, and now has almost double the backing of his nearest rival in the contest for the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco.

«President Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to serve on the United States Supreme Court reinforces the need for our state to take immediate action to protect women's rights,» said Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

But the rules are ambiguous as to whether the leader also needs to secure 51 nominations or whether their name would go on the ballot automatically.

Nassau GOP chairman Joseph Mondello supports Gurfein and other party leaders are due to act on his nomination Thursday.

Instead, she skated to confirmation on Thursday — her nomination greased by a divided Senate Democratic Caucus, leaders of the minority who opted not to twist arms, and advocacy groups that couldn't mount an effective attack strategy despite what they saw as Haspel's checkered record on human rights.

«The statutory duty to consider nominations on advice and consent is a charge that the Senate takes with the utmost seriousness,» wrote Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., has been upfront about his wish to approve nominations and consider appropriations bills on the floor this year.

In the event of a challenge, Labour's rules were vague on whether the incumbent leader would also have to pass the 20 % nomination threshold.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor, addressed the matter directly in his announcement speech on January 30th.

Nominations for the shadow cabinet open on 26 September, the day after the new leader is announced.

Charles Lavine (D - Glen Cove), two of three candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for county executive, criticized Martins Wednesday for his past support of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was convicted last year on federal corruption charges.

Of urgent need and not to be overlooked is to overhaul and then clarity the rules on nomination for Leader & Deputy Leader of the Party.

«Therefore I have told the National Secretary of the SNP that I will not accept nomination to be a candidate for leader at the Annual Conference in Perth on November 13 - 15.

After a last - minute scramble for nominations, he made it on to the ballot paper just before the deadline thanks to a number of MPs who did not want him to be leader «lending» him their nominations «to broaden the debate».

Tomorrow's NEC meeting will rule on whether the Labour leader will need to get nominations from 51 MPs so he can stand in the leadership election, or whether he goes on the ballot automatically.

Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHow the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel Hillicon Valley: Trump stuns lawmakers with push to help Chinese company Facebook suspends 200 apps over data practices Dems want answers on Cohen payments Senate net neutrality vote coming Wednesday Harry Reid undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer MORE (N.Y.), for example, did not take a position on Azar in a statement and said he wants to review the nomination.

On Feb. 7, Killian won the nomination in a vote by Republican district leaders over candidate Dan Schorr, a former inspector general in Yonkers and previous candidate for Westchester district attorney.

On Feb. 7, Killian won the nomination in a vote by Republican district leaders -LSB-...]

The legal fraud that party leaders will commit involves nominating Denenberg for a judicial post on a minor party line if an existing candidate declines a nomination.

ALBANY, N.Y. — It was approaching 11 on Saturday night, and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo still hadn't secured the nomination of the Working Families Party, a goal he had pursued for weeks in the face of disillusionment among party leaders with his record.

He and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., also each discussed the pace of progress of appropriations bills as the measures compete for time with nominations on the Senate floor...

Delivering the business statement for next week on the floor of Parliament, Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah - Bonsu, indicated that the House will take a decision on Mr. Amidu's nomination next week.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., spoke on Tuesday about his opinion on changing the rules for judge nominations on Tuesday.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor, addressed the matter directly in his announcement speech on Jan. 30.

Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer agrees that we must wait on any Supreme Court nominations.

Sen. George Maziarz seems to have sparked a trend by filing petition signatures to run on the GOP line in the fall and then declining the nomination at the very last minute, sending party leaders scrambling to find a replacement.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Trump's attack on Robart, a 2003 George Bush appointee, would firm Democratic resistance to the presient's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.

With the special election less than a month away, Alice Cancel, 61, a Lower East Side district leader, has not been seen on the campaign trail since former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's allies and political club last month helped hand her the Democratic nomination to replace him.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco says businessman Harry Wilson's decision to stay out of the 2018 race for New York governor — one that seems to open the field for Republican candidates — won't affect his own plans on whether to seek the GOP nomination.

The first, held by the leader's office, is that he won't have to get nominations from MPs to stand again and will be on the ballot paper automatically.

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, congratulated the National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Gani Adams, over his appointment as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, adding that his nomination was well - deserved.

The Senate is required by law to vote on her nomination within the next 30 days, though the chamber's Republican leader, John Flanagan, said last month it was unlikely lawmakers would return to Albany before the official start of the 2016 session on Jan. 6.

Seddio picked Kavanagh without calling on members of the county committee, which he oversees, to vote on the nomination, as had taken place in Manhattan over the weekend, where Paul Newell, a district leader in Lower Manhattan, took the majority of the votes, a spokesman for the party confirmed.

Longtime Nassau Republican chairman Joseph Mondello on Monday backed Donald Trump for president, breaking with the national GOP leaders who hope to block the New York businessman's path to the nomination.

Lipton's view is shared by Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham Law professor and former Howard Dean aide who nearly won the W.F.P. gubernatorial nomination until party leaders whipped up enough support on the convention floor to put Cuomo over the top.

With the special election less than a month away, Alice Cancel, 61, a Lower East Side district leader, has not been seen on the campaign trail since Silver's allies and political club last month helped hand her the Democratic nomination to replace him.

Former Senate Leader Senate Ali Ndume on Thursday said even the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, is not fit to continue to lead the senate going by the argument of the Upper chamber in rejecting the nomination of the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb on Monday urged Republican Chairman Ed Cox to remain neutral in the race for the GOP nomination for governor.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer reacted with suspicion to President Donald Trump's nomination of Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to the late Antonin Scalia «s slot on the Supreme Court — and warned against any Republican attempt to eliminate the filibuster in order to ram his confirmation through.

He worked to discredit the notions that de Blasio will be easily reelected and that Paul Massey has a lock on the Republican nomination, urging Republican leaders to «take a good look» at Dietl and give him a chance to run in the primary.

«Therefore I have told the National Secretary of the SNP that I will not accept nomination to be a candidate for leader at the Annual Conference in Perth on 13 to 15 November.

At the moment, candidates to be Labour leader must receive nominations from 15 % of its MPs in order to get on the ballot paper.

Jeremy Corbyn has won himself a place in the Labour leader contest after securing enough nominations to get on the ballot.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee - which assists GOP Senate candidates - e-mailed a «Proxy Ballot» to some supporters on Monday asking them which Republican leader is their top choice for the Republican presidential nomination.

Labor leaders from across the city rallied on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Sept. 9 in support of Robert Jackson, a longtime education advocate and former City Council member running for the Democratic nomination to represent the 31st District in the state Senate.