Sentences with phrase «powerful former house»

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She's a big shot — the number two at the world's most powerful central bank, a former professor of economics at Berkeley, and a former top White House economic advisor — but she still does her homework.

In the recording, Temer allegedly agrees to buy the silence of Eduardo Cunha, the powerful former speaker of House — now under arrest on corruption charges — who is widely believed to possess incriminating information on much of the political elite.

Nowadays, a billionaire Independent can buy the election and wouldn't even need a powerful Democratic house to bolster their ranks as the Republican party is so weak former police commissioner Ray Kelly, Marty Gold, and even Dan Halloran have been rumored to run for mayor.

Schumer's decision has irritated the White House and enraged former aides to President Obama, who have launched a public attack on the powerful New York Democrat.

Earlier Thursday, Cuomo chief of staff Linda Lacewell completed a day of testimony in which she detailed Percoco's powerful role and closeness to Cuomo, and described a phone conversation he had with the governor on the morning the former aide's house was raided by the FBI.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a Manhattan Democrat, won the top Democratic spot on the powerful House Judiciary Committee, beating back a challenge from Rep. Zoe Lofgren, of California, to fill the seat held by former Rep. John Conyers, of Michigan, for almost a quarter century.

Problem is, Flake — a former congressman who has built a powerful and profitable housing and social - service conglomerate — has no regulatory experience, especially with utilities.

It's fitting that Jackie keeps John Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson) on the film's periphery, a powerful and almost haunting ghost of a presence who utters almost no words but whose brutal death and its aftermath is graphically displayed, the sudden, jarring explosion of the President's skull determining a sudden new path for the First Lady, who in the midst of her grief and shock must pack up her belongings and leave the White House and her former life behind.

Former President Clinton, for example, the most powerful man in the world when he was in the White House, was famous for saying «I feel your pain,» and would, some wag said, cry at the grand opening of a car wash.

Adam Yokell's gallery is housed in a former warehouse on the Bushwick border and represents the powerful transformation of new beginnings — Yokell was previously the in - house counsel for the online platform Artsy.

Even before the election, according to one former employee, Cambridge employees attended sessions about soliciting government business in the United States — where Mr. Trump now oversees the federal bureaucracy and Mr. Bannon is arguably the White House's most powerful staff member.