Sentences with phrase «party leaders on»

After a meeting of Senate Democrats, party leaders on Thursday said they had abandoned hope of passing a comprehensive energy bill this summer and would pursue a more limited measure focused on responding to the gulf oil spill and tightening energy efficiency standards.

In conjunction with the Obama administration, key Democratic party leaders on Capitol Hill are looking to remove consumer - protection authority from the Federal Reserve and delegate it to a new regulatory agency, yet to be created.

Rep. Chris Gibson, a Republican from New York's Hudson Valley, ranked No. 1 on the list by opposing his party leaders on 30.6 percent of the votes.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Along with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, about a dozen past and present elected officials and Republican Party leaders on Staten Island are encouraging District Attorney Daniel Donovan to run for Congress in a special election.

Frank, however, blamed the postponement of the meetings on the lack of trust from the party leaders on Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, the party's National Chairman and his leadership style.

There are disagreements among party leaders on the issue of zoning arrangement in your party, what is your view about this?

More often than not, party leaders on the local level choose the path of least resistance, which sometimes means making deals with the opposition which preclude competitive elections.

Tambuwal was said to have been contacted by the party leaders on Tuesday to mediate in the dispute between Tinubu and Odigie - Oyegun.

One Democratic insider said party leaders on Staten Island are having conversations with the Cuomo administration, but another Democratic source said, «He has other things on his plate, why should he care?»

He refused to do more than one, and then only with seven party leaders on stage.

Agreement amongst the party leaders on the ratio between political appointments and Crossbench appointments.

All three have declared themselves ready and eager to debate with the bigger party leaders on national television.

Agreement amongst the party leaders on a proportionality formula for future political appointments.

Goodman, a Springs resident, also becomes the youngest of the current major party leaders on Long Island.

News accounts at the time of the special election highlighted the flood of outside money into the race, including from Mr. Bloomberg, a Republican at the time, and cited party leaders on both sides saying the election was crucial to the State Senate's balance of power.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio pitched Working Families Party leaders on endorsing Gov. Andrew Cuomo at their convention this weekend.

Later on Tuesday, Cuomo's hand - picked state Democratic Party Chairman, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, put out a statement saying that after further «discussion and clarification,» Klein and his members accepted the terms laid out by four party leaders on Monday.

Some may argue that the political parties are redundant in today's political landscape, where party leaders on both sides of the main political spectrum appear to be marching to the centre.

Public opinion is now well to the left of the three main party leaders on issues such as rail renationalisation and energy ownership.

He will hold an emergency cabinet meeting and meet other party leaders on Thursday to discuss next steps.

Sen. John McCain stunned much of the US and his party leaders on Friday, when shortly before 2 a.m. ET he voted against against a «skinny» plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act.

We guess Greg Clarkâ $ ™ s resignation as Alberta Party leader on Friday should not have come as a big surprise.

There can be few historical parallels for an attack of quite this degree of vehemence mounted by a former party leader on an incumbent.

Cameron was chosen as party leader on a promise to change all of that.

David Laws told Andrew Neil that he would be «very proud» to have the party leader on his leaflets, when they looked at results of a BBC Sunday Politics / ComeRes poll.

[3] All three parties leaders on the council were defending their seats in the election, Labour's Norman Davies, Conservative Jim Carpenter and the Liberal Democrats Malcolm Gwynnett.

He also said he was offered the chance to be the party leader on Monday — his 60th birthday — and hadn't fully been briefed on some issues before the committee.

Not exact matches

The overseas edition of the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily said in a front page commentary on Saturday «two great countries ought to have great cooperation,» and showed a large picture of the two leaders shaking hands.

That bleak irony was hammered home earlier this month when John Boehner, a former leader in the political party that formally initiated the War on Drugs, joined the advisory board of a marijuana firm.

Jeremy Corbyn, Britain's Labour Party leader, recently called on companies to end «early evening socialization,» calling it a sexist relic.

But on Thursday night, the party's leader was alone in showing that there was another way forward.

European leaders are gathering in Rome on Saturday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the European Union but one of its members is missing the party.

Then this March, he became his party's nominee to become the President of Indonesia (that same month, FORTUNE ranked him No. 37 on its 2014 list of 50 World's Greatest Leaders.)

Austria must rerun the presidential runoff vote between the anti-immigrant Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer and the liberal former Green Party leader Alexander Van der Bellen on Oct. 2.

Wong, who was previously worked on investment and trade in jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's party, the People's Justice Party, thinks consumer loan defaults may begin to show an increase in about six moparty, the People's Justice Party, thinks consumer loan defaults may begin to show an increase in about six moParty, thinks consumer loan defaults may begin to show an increase in about six months.

The leader of the U.K.'s Liberal Democrat party has called on WPP to disclose more about the misconduct probe that apparently brought down CEO Martin Sorrell.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told leaders of his centre - right EU political group on Saturday that he would comply with demands from Brussels to change measures branded an attack on academic freedom, the party said.

Party leader Salvini said Monday that a referendum on the euro was not a possibility but said people, rather than bureaucracy, needed to be at the heart of Europe.

A little - noticed difference between the federal Labor and Liberal parties is that the former ties itself in knots over whether or not to dispatch a leader who's on the nose with voters.

«We played our cards based on Quebec's interests,» Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe said in a post-budget scrum, indicating that his party would not be propping up the government.

«Rand has always said that he wanted to be a leader on the message of the Republican Party, and that means talking about old ideas that were part of the party's original message, and introducing new ideas that might help the party broaden its appeal to groups that may have been left out of the conversation,» Doug Stafford, Paul's Senate chief of staff, told Business InsParty, and that means talking about old ideas that were part of the party's original message, and introducing new ideas that might help the party broaden its appeal to groups that may have been left out of the conversation,» Doug Stafford, Paul's Senate chief of staff, told Business Insparty's original message, and introducing new ideas that might help the party broaden its appeal to groups that may have been left out of the conversation,» Doug Stafford, Paul's Senate chief of staff, told Business Insparty broaden its appeal to groups that may have been left out of the conversation,» Doug Stafford, Paul's Senate chief of staff, told Business Insider.

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

Beijing wrapped up a meeting of top Communist Party economic leaders Wednesday by endorsing a document entitled «Xi Jinping Thought on Socialist Economy with Chinese Characteristics.»

Depending on the Blank - Out campaign's success, it could have consequences for Democratic Party leaders down the line.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said last week that the administration expected to make a decision on whether to remain a party to the deal by the time leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations meet in late May.

On Wednesday, party leaders reached an agreement on their final tax bill, called the Tax Cuts and Jobs AcOn Wednesday, party leaders reached an agreement on their final tax bill, called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Acon their final tax bill, called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

YEREVAN, May 2 - The leader of a protest movement that has rocked Armenia on Tuesday called a pause in a campaign of civil disobedience while he seeks assurances that the ruling party will back him to be the next prime minister.

Like many PACs, Novo Nordisk spreads money to both parties, concentrating on powerful committee members and other leaders.

He also recently passed Charles and David Koch — leaders of Koch Industries and notorious Republican Party donors — to clinch third place on Bloomberg's list of the richest people in the United States, coming in behind Gates and Buffett.

On Monday, she said she would seek an urgent meeting with leaders of all the other parties represented at Westminster on how to tackle a phenomenon that is not restricted to the Conservative PartOn Monday, she said she would seek an urgent meeting with leaders of all the other parties represented at Westminster on how to tackle a phenomenon that is not restricted to the Conservative Parton how to tackle a phenomenon that is not restricted to the Conservative Party.