Sentences with phrase «powerful committee posts»

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New NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson doled out plum committee posts, awarding powerful posts to allies of the county Democratic parties that helped him get the top job.

But the first snub occurred early, when Smith broke a promise to appoint then - senator Bill Stachowski to chair the powerful finance committee, instead giving the post to Carl Kruger of Brooklyn.

Percy described the move as a» pretty transparent» maneuver to insure his defeat so that Republican conservatives could install Senator Jesse Helms, an arch-conservative Republican of North Carolina, as chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee — a post held by Percy in the Republican - controlled Senate since 1981 when he succeeded Idaho's Frank Church.

Rangel, who stepped down from his powerful post atop the House Ways and Means Committee amid questions of ethical lapses, arrived late to the event and left immediately after.

While the councilman has not yet officially declared his candidacy for any position, sources close to him said he's eyeing a run for comptroller if Liu leaves the post, setting up a potential challenge with fellow Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr., who currently heads the Council's powerful Finance Committee.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has tapped the first woman to serve as chair of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, selecting Brooklyn's Helene Weinstein (41st AD) to succeed retired Assemblyman Herman «Denny» Farrell Jr., of Manhattan, in the post..

Defransisco, who is chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, is among a list of potential successors to the leadership post, if Skelos is forced out.

Senator John De Francisco, a Republican from Syracuse who holds the powerful post of Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, says he's not surprised that the GOP is doing well in the campaigns.

When Assemblyman Herman «Denny» Farrell, who heads the chamber's Ways and Means Committee, announced he would not seek reelection next year, it set off a murmur about who might succeed him in the powerful — and lucrative — commitCommittee, announced he would not seek reelection next year, it set off a murmur about who might succeed him in the powerful — and lucrative — committeecommittee post.

According to a 2013 report by the Center for Investigative Reporting, California State Assembly Speaker John Perez «gave lawmakers who raised the most money the best assignments in the new Legislature — posts on the speaker's leadership team and seats on the powerful «juice committees.»»

The allegations against Lopez, first reported last summer, led the Assembly to strip Lopez of his powerful chairmanship of the Housing Committee and prompted him to step down from his post as Brooklyn Democratic Leader, which he had held for seven years.

(Rangel, as you'll recall, really wanted to help flip the House back into his party's hands so he could chair the powerful Ways and Means Committee — a post he lost as a result of his own ethics scandal).

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Congressional Republicans intensified their calls Wednesday for powerful House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel of New York to resign his post heading the committee, at least temporarily.

The allegations against one of Las Vegas's most powerful figures reverberated in the political world over the weekend, as Mr. Wynn stepped down from his post as Republican National Committee finance chairman.

According to state campaign finance records posted Monday evening, the Democratic State Central Committee of CA accepted a total of $ 1.59 million in campaign contributions on Sept. 19 — with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from the state's powerful labor unions, representing teachers, firefighters, engineers and nurses.

North Korea stripped Jang of his powerful posts and expelled him from the ruling Workers» Party of Korea during a meeting of the Political Bureau of the party's Central Committee on Sunday, but many analysts doubted Kim would go so far as to execute a member of his own family.

Moskowitz has long been a lightning rod in her hometown, ever since she used her post as chair of the City Council's education committee to antagonize the city's powerful teachers» union in the early 2000s.