Sentences with phrase «powerful chairman»

Vito Lopez, the former state assemblyman and powerful chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, has died.

Rupert Murdoch is taking over at Fox News as its once - powerful chairman Roger Ailes resigns under a sexual harassment cloud.

China's next targets: rail, roads, ports The powerful chairman of China's $ US200 billion ($ 307 billion) sovereign wealth fund, Lou Jiwei, has met Treasurer Wayne Swan and West Australian Premier Colin Barnett to clarify rules on foreign investment in resources and discuss whether China could help finance the Rudd government's infrastructure program.

Critics are swift to point out that the powerful chairman of The Rangers Club, John Lawrence, a millionaire builder, must have a work force that is about 30 % Catholic.

The $ 10 billion project may be pie - in - the - sky, but at least he's thinking big — and he brought his Republican buddy Bill Shuster, the powerful chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation...

It is clear that Mr Osborne will not be appointed as the powerful Chairman that ConservativeHome had hoped he would become.

Espaillat's win came after two unsuccessful attempts to knock off Rep. Charlie Rangel (D - N.Y.), a onetime giant in Congress who was forced from his role as the powerful chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee in 2010 after a lengthy ethics investigation.

REP. Charles Rangel, the powerful chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, doesn't like being blamed for the abrupt firing of Port Authority executive director Anthony Shorris, an Eliot Spitzer appointee who was trying to clean up the agency.

Giulio «Doc» Cavallo is the powerful chairman of the Westchester Independence Party, earning $ 61,000 a year working for the Senate GOP.

(CNN)- Sen. Carl Levin, the powerful chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said Wednesday he would like the Armed Forces Network to drop the controversial Rush Limbaugh program from its service that provides radio and television shows to U.S. service members around the world.

The powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee told CNN that the ethics committee had approved the travel.

«SOFT SCIENCE» came under fire in the US last week from the powerful chairman of the Congressional committee on science.