Sentences with phrase «powerful committees earlier»

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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.

Steele later backed Greer to chair the powerful RNC Rules Committee, a position Greer gave up when he resigned as Florida GOP chairman earlier this year under pressure from party activists upset his with handling of party funds.

... Parliament's powerful Public Accounts Committee chaired by Labour MP Margaret Hodge is set early next week to deliver its own «damning» verdict on official plans and costings for 225mph HS2 line linking London to the Midlands and the North.»

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.