Sentences with phrase «push congressional leaders»

to push Congressional leaders.

The mayor is pushing congressional leaders to act on $ 1.9 billion in federal funding to tackle the Zika crisis.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren has delivered a ferocious attack on congressional Republicans and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over a medical research bill, putting fellow Democrats on the spot by pushing them to oppose a measure she said «is corrupt, and it is very, very dangerous.»

While the Trump administration wants to push an infrastructure - spending package, congressional leaders have more or less abandoned hopes for major changes to welfare programs and other items on their wish list.

A similar proposal was pushed by President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders in 2013 but failed to advance through Congress following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn..

All 22 female U.S. senators, Republicans and Democrats, penned a joint letter to Senate leaders complaining of their «deep disappointment» that the Senate has «failed» to push through sexual harassment reform for congressional workers.

The push from Democratic lawmakers came in a statement from Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Sen. Adriano Espaillat, who is running in a congressional primary this month for the 13th district in New York City.

The Arizona legislation was one of several reasons pushing Democratic congressional leaders to introduce a proposal addressing immigration.

As Donald Trump calls on Russia to find and expose his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton's emails, congressional Republicans — including House Speaker Paul Ryan — are pushing back and bashing Russia's leader Vladamir Putin.

As congressional negotiators homed in on a spending deal early this year, Mr. Brown pushed Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, to attach his pension language to the larger budget agreement.

Governor Cuomo and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announce a statewide push across congressional districts to urge New York's delegation to oppose the repeal or reduction of state and local tax deductions in Delmar, N.Y., on Monday.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on Washington Democrats to «show us what you're made of» by pushing back hard against President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans on the Affordable Care Act and other issues, appearing to position himself as a national leader as rumors of his potential 2020 presidential bid run rampant.

The strategy continued into 2017, reports Elana Schor in Politico, when «All but four of the Senate's 48 Democrats [in December] warned congressional GOP leaders against pursuing a government funding plan that would boost defense spending for the rest of the fiscal year while leaving domestic priorities at current levels... Some Senate Democrats began pushing back... as House conservatives pitched Republican leaders on a full - year hike for the Pentagon paired with a continuing resolution for domestic programs.»

Washington — Not willing to risk a Presidential veto of a huge catchall spending bill and seeking to make good on a political vow to pass their own appropriations bill for the second straight year, key congressional leaders pushed through a weary 98th Congress, a record $ 17.6 billion in fiscal 1985 Education Department funding last week — not as part of the continuing resolution but in the $ 101 - billion bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.

States such as Kansas, Oregon, and Washington State (likely with help from congressional leaders who represent their states) have pushed back on the administration's effort to place their waivers into so - called «high risk status» (and thus, threatening to cancel them).

Until just before the speech, the last words quoted here were «scientific - technological - congressional elite», which would have insulted the new Vice President, Lyndon Johnson, who, as majority leader in the Senate, had pushed for NASA as part of his campaign to become president.

The president was aided by a complex congressional review process that gave minority Democrats unusual leverage, and he was backed by the same Capitol Hill leaders who helped him push his health care law through a bitterly divided Congress in 2010.

It is high time that congressional leaders, President Trump and his administration stop pushing ideologically motivated policies and misleading talking points, and instead focus on implementing policies that will advance access to high - quality reproductive health care.