Sentences with phrase «presidential nominations»

It would also make it easier to go to conference with the House and move some presidential nominations through the Senate.

When contacted on Wednesday, the Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, said what Malami explained was that presidential nominations were not issues for FEC.

With Clinton and Trump officially securing their parties» presidential nominations over the last two weeks, for the first time in 72 years, both major party candidates call themselves New Yorkers.

Roemer was a candidate for the presidential nominations of the Republican Party [2] and the Reform Party [3] in 2012.

The chamber confirmed Cordray on Tuesday in a 66 - 34 vote that capped a bitter fight over presidential nominations.

The presidential nominations of both parties are usually sewn up by the time we have our primary.

Those are the practical impacts from the nuclear option Senate Democrats approved to end filibusters of most presidential nominations and appointments.

In American presidential nominations, a candidate wins a contest and gets some delegates.

Who do you think will earn the Vice Presidential nominations for each party?

Tough, smart, fearlessly outspoken, and possessed of an uncanny gift for strategically mobilizing her Middle American supporters (overwhelmingly women, those housewives from Peoria), she not only beat back the seemingly unstoppable ERA but played a key role in securing the presidential nominations of Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Ronald Reagan in 1980, paving the way for today's Bush presidency and Republican dominance of Congress and statehouses across the country.

Republicans and some Wall Street analysts warn that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to blow up the filibuster on presidential nominations will lead to an even darker period of partisan acrimony, throwing into question the ability of Congress to pass a bill to fund the government past January and raise the debt limit in February.

Revelations of undocumented workers in family households have derailed presidential nominations in the past.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to blow up the filibuster on presidential nominations may raise new fiscal crisis risks.

For reasons known only to Trump, the former Celebrity Apprentice host decided to target the Fox anchor for ridicule and outright abuse well before he became the front - runner for the Republican presidential nomination.

The trial made embarrassing national headlines for the once - rising Democratic star, who was accused of seeking more than $ 900,000 from two wealthy supporters to conceal his pregnant mistress, Rielle Hunter, from voters during his unsuccessful run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.

Edwards» affair with the then - pregnant Hunter exploded in 2008, when Edwards was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

It's not as if he and Trump have a chummy public relationship — Trump has fired tweets at Bezos, whose holding company owns the Washington Post, in retaliation for a story the Post published in December about preventing Trump from securing the presidential nomination.

And she saw another son run and lose: Jeb Bush, who was governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007, lost his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination ultimately won by Donald Trump.

She spoke for the first time since clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, acknowledging the milestone of becoming the first woman to earn the nomination of one of the nation's major political parties.

In 2016, Petersen campaigned for the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination, falling short to former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson.

Donna Brazile, the former Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman, accused the DNC of being «unethical» and favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders for the party's presidential nomination.

In a July 2015 email, Podesta frets to other campaign staffers about Sanders, who had challenged Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination all the way through to the end of the primary process.

Outspoken opera superstar Jessye Norman told CNBC that Hillary Clinton, the expected front - runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, is a friend who could count on her vote.

With former host Donald Trump currently leading the pack for the Republican presidential nomination, NBC is looking to at another entertainer - turned - businessman - turned - politician (turned entertainer again) to host «Celebrity Apprentice» — Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In 2008, after he dropped out of the presidential nomination contest himself, Biden had to make a choice: endorse Obama or Clinton.

And his (relatively) new secretary of state is John Kerry, who was one of Obama's most prominent endorsers in January 2008, when Obama was running for the Democratic party presidential nomination.

Conservative pundits steeped in what George H. W. Bush, running against Reagan for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, famously called «voodoo economics,» have retorted that Buffett and his limousine - liberal ilk should instead voluntarily pay more to the federal treasury, pointing out the existence of such a provision in the tax code.

Earlier this year, hackers breached the Democratic National Committee's network, leaking emails that led to the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz the night before Hillary Clinton accepted the presidential nomination.

The group Tax March put on the rally that featured top Democrats like Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman and Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.

Mitt Romney is considered the most likely to win the Republican presidential nomination (59 % of respondents gave him the nod) but the majority of respondents, 63 %, predict President Barack Obama will hold on to the White House.

The son and brother of two previous U.S. presidents announced his run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination Monday.

As TIME reports in a new story in the upcoming issue of the magazine, Cruz is trying to ride the power of the pews — and the checkbooks of a cadre of extremely wealthy donors — to the Republican presidential nomination.

Sanders, an independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, said the bill aimed to hold opioid manufacturers accountable for their role in the epidemic and force them to help pay for the crisis, which the White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated cost more than $ 500 billion in 2015..

Sen. Bernie Sanders, a loyal soldier for Hillary Clinton since he conceded the Democratic presidential nomination in July, plans to push liberal legislation with like - minded senators with or without Clinton's support if she is elected - and to...

What's the greatest factor that lead to Donald Trump securing the Republican presidential nomination?

Donald John Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination here Thursday, completing a stunning rise from billionaire sideshow to standard bearer of a major American party.

At the time that Democrats began paying for the research, Mr. Trump was in the process of clinching the Republican presidential nomination, and Ms. Clinton's allies were scrambling to figure out how to run against a candidate who had already weathered attacks from Republican rivals about his shifting policy positions, his character and his business record.

Both Harris and Booker, who had together received about $ 15,000 from Pishevar, are seen as contenders for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2020.

Clinton, the front - runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, was introduced at a rally in Omaha by longtime supporter Warren Buffett.

It was not, and when Cruz failed to secure the GOP presidential nomination, Cambridge turned its attention to the Trump campaign.

Ron Paul, antagonist of the Federal Reserve and advocate for the gold standard, probably won't capture the Republican presidential nomination.

Edwards, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, was found not guilty of campaign finance violations in 2012 after a donor paid $ 1 million to keep knowledge of Edwards's out - of - wedlock child from becoming public the year before his presidential bid.

Yesterday in the New York Times Greg Mankiw — a professor of economics at Harvard, an advisor to the governor of Massachusetts, in the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination and a former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under president Bush — had a column in which he...

In the context of the 2012 presidential nomination, fewer debates might have benefited the most demagogic candidates.

The man at the Citroën's wheel was Mitt Romney, who may have appeared dead but was very much alive — as is his bid today for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

(CNN)- The race for the Republican presidential nomination is on track to break new ground: For the first time in modern political history - some say ever - the GOP nominee could be someone who is not a Protestant Christian.

Before Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential nomination process, he regularly said the president was engaging in a war on religion.

In the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Herman Cain is not seen as a candidate who wears his faith on his sleeve.

Many speculated that Rubio's history with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints could further ingratiate him with Mitt Romney, one of America's most prominent Mormons, and make him a viable candidate for vice president should Romney win the Republican presidential nomination.

Although a former Mormon bishop is about to receive the Republican Party's presidential nomination, and despite a recent public - relations campaign aimed at combating the perception that it is «secretive,» the LDS Church remains tight - lipped about its holdings.