Sentences with phrase «private meetings with lawmakers»

Nixon also touted her behind - the - scenes work as an activist pushing for legislation in private meetings with lawmakers.

After a public event Friday morning on Long Island, the Democrat said the vulgarity the Republican president used Thursday during a private meeting with lawmakers on immigration shows Trump «doesn't really understand what this country is all about.»

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Gov. Cuomo held private meetings with majority - party lawmakers from both houses of the state Legislature, with markedly different receptions to his plans to cut costs without raising taxes.

He almost never gave significant on - the - record interviews, reneged on a campaign pledge to post online his private schedule of meetings with lawmakers and lobbyists, and eschewed the public meetings with legislative leaders favored by his predecessors.

About 25 Wall Street executives, many of them hedge fund managers, sat down for a private meeting Thursday afternoon with two of the most powerful Republican lawmakers in Congress: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and John Cornyn, the senior senator from Texas who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, one of the primary fundraising arms of the Republican Party.

The advocates also held private meetings with key lawmakers and their staffs, including Deputy Senate Leader John DeFrancisco, who is also a Republican candidate for governor.

Andrew Cuomo spent his day in private meetings with select groups of lawmakers and leaders in both the state Assembly and Senate.

He again spent his day in private meetings with select groups of lawmakers and leaders in both the state Assembly and Senate.

ALBANY — Top lawmakers emerged from a private meeting with Governor Andrew Cuomo today saying they might consider proposals to change the state laws on ethics and education as standalone bills, despite Cuomo's attempt to bake language into his $ 141.6 billion spending proposal.

She also met with lawmakers who are considering a bill to expand statewide a program offering tax - funded vouchers for private school tuition.

Politico Morning Education Nearly two dozen students and parents met with lawmakers this week to describe how private school choice has changed their lives.

Good Morning Politico Morning Education Nearly two dozen students and parents met with lawmakers this week to describe how private school choice has changed their lives.

Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School and president of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission, compared the secret questionnaires to private conversations with lobbyists, «or any closed - door meeting where you try to extract a promise from a lawmaker in exchange for x.»