Sentences with phrase «said election committee»

«We'll be referring this particular bill to the Codes Committee,» said Election Committee Chair Fred Akshar.

«We'll be referring this particular bill to the Codes Committee,» said Election Committee Chair Fred Akshar (R - 52).

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The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, also said Monday that the Senate should expel Moore if he were to win the December 12 election.

Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said Congress must form a special committee to investigate Russia's interference in the election.

As Kevin Brady, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said shortly after the election, «To grow our economy, it's just not enough to buy American.

«The amendment to the underlying Iran sanctions bill maintains and substantially expands sanctions against the government of Russia in response to the violation of the territorial integrity of the Ukraine and Crimea, its brazen cyberattacks and interference in elections, and its continuing aggression in Syria,» said Republicans and Democrats on the committees.

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement on Thursday that «pardoning any individuals who may have been involved» in Russia's election interference «would be crossing a fundamental line.»

It said Russia was responsible for carrying out cyberattacks against the US, disseminating hacked emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee, and launching a social media disinformation campaign — findings that mostly echo parts of the US intelligence community's assessment of Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

The resignation came just a day after she testified before the House Intelligence Committee, where she reportedly said that she told white lies for the president, but never lied about anything consequential related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The comments from Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, came one day after The Intercept reported on a top - secret National Security Agency document that said hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election.

«As one of the companies that played a prominent role in the election campaign, Cambridge Analytica has been asked by the House Intelligence Committee to provide it with information that might help its investigation,» the statement said.

His stock response to the committee's concerns about divisive political ads was that Facebook believes «radical transparency» is the fix — also dropping one tidbit of extra news on that front in his written testimony by saying Facebook will roll out an authentication process for political advertisers in the UK in time for the local elections in May 2019.

The NRSC official said that when the committee did use targeted sharing in the Massachusetts special election in June 2013, it showed results, but «we just didn't see the engagement numbers we needed to see to indicate that it was going to be transformative this [past] cycle.»

That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy,» Zuckerberg said in opening remarks before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees.

«The next crowd is Twitter, Facebook, Airbnb,» said venture capitalist Steve Westly, who served on President Barack Obama's national finance committee during the 2008 election.

He said he hoped the matter could be resolved quickly «so the committee can return to its charge — fully investigating the Russian interference in our election and the role of the Trump campaign, and what steps need to be taken to protect against foreign interference in the next election.»

The president of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) AmajuPinnick says that Nigerian football has been liberated with his election into the executive committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

The committee expects to do more selling of the district for the April election, especially to seniors and the voters in the rural precincts who defeated it on Nov. 5, O'Leary said.

Reilich's committee said Wednesday it wants the Board of Elections to investigate the O'Brien race as well.

Even so, the Committee had said that the suspension was to hold until the completion of the 2016 election, which has since been almost one year old in history after President Akufo - Addo was elected in that watershed year.

Eaton said he will wait until Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls a special election in NY - 11 (something the governor has shown no signs of doing any time soon), and then convene a convention of county committee members to which all potential candidates will be invited to make their respective cases.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco will report in his latest campaign - finance filing «just shy» of $ 1 million in cash on hand, a sign that a GOP source says the majority conference's fundraising will be beyond formidable this election season.

The governor in a statement signed his Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy to the governor, Mr. Bolaji Tunji on Wednesday, said that it was on record that the so - called unity forum adjudged the election to be free, credible and fair in an advertorial published in a national daily and even went ahead to congratulate the congress committee for a job well done.

«The NPP won because their leader was acclaimed to be incorruptible while ours was tainted with corruption and bribery, so going into the 2020 elections we (Kwesi Botchwey Committee) propose that we elect somebody who can also claim to be incorruptible,» the newspaper said the report observed.

«I am honored and humbled by the show of support given to me by Queens County Committee and State Committee members,» Mr. Ragusa said in a statement after the election.

«We're definitely talking about it,» said Senate Elections Committee chair Fred Akshar, a Republican from the Binghamton area.

But Rep. Steve Stivers of Ohio, who heads the National Republican Congressional Committee - with overall responsibility for electing GOP House members - said that although 2018 is a challenging election year for Republicans, he is not worried about Faso.

But the former ambassador in a press statement said a committee has been commissioned to establish the cause of NDC's defeat adding that until the Professor Kwesi Botwe Committee finishes its work and submits the report on its findings to the leadership of the party, «no one can factually tell Ghanaians why we lost the electiocommittee has been commissioned to establish the cause of NDC's defeat adding that until the Professor Kwesi Botwe Committee finishes its work and submits the report on its findings to the leadership of the party, «no one can factually tell Ghanaians why we lost the electioCommittee finishes its work and submits the report on its findings to the leadership of the party, «no one can factually tell Ghanaians why we lost the election.»

The MP's present action is said to be linked to the decision by the NDC vetting committee to disqualify his protégé and preferred choice for the parliamentary seat, Isaac Yibor, who contested the 2012 election as an independent candidate.

Suffolk Democratic chairman Rich Schaffer said he won't make any new appointments to the party's county committee until after the November election, despite newly galvanized progressive activists who are eager to join.

Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, who sits on the Assembly's Election Law Committee, said Trump's comments are discouraging in light of the fact that there are federal courts across the country with judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats saying that states» voter laws are unconstitutional because they target people based on their race and ethnicity.

He said that in future, all of Labour's members should get a vote in general secretary elections, rather than just those on the party's ruling national executive committee.

City Council Member Ben Kallos, who chairs the committee on governmental operations, said in a phone interview that «All of these [reforms] should've happened before Election Day and if there's an Albany special session it should be part of that agenda.

Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Chairman Michael Gianaris said the mainline Dems are on pace to have $ 1 million on hand heading into the 2018 election year.

In his ruling Wednesday, Murphy said certified election results showed Tinari won 425 to 263 over Auerbach among committee members who attended the convention.

She said she is a member of the Eleanor Legacy Committee and that Higher Heights is important because it focuses on black women but focuses more so on national elections.

As we have said in previous debates, both in Committee and in the House, there are elections for the devolved Administrations - for the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly - but there are also elections scheduled next year for 81 % of England.

«Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District is a reliable Republican stronghold, but the grass - roots energy behind Democrats has proven powerful this year, and we will be closely tracking this district and special election,» said Meredith Kelly, communications director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

«They say they support free speech, yet they attempted to disrupt a hearing and prevent members of the Elections Committee from taking testimony on the City's taxpayer - funded election system.

He said the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee's «strong filing shows that New Yorkers want us to keep winning elections for good Democrats.»

Suffolk Democratic chairman Rich Schaffer said he won't make any new appointments to the party's county committee until after the November election, despite newly galvanized activists eager to join.

Ian Phillips, chair of the Cayuga County Democratic Committee, said local party leaders want to avoid a primary and keep the party's focus and resources on defeating Rep. John Katko, R - Camillus, in the November election.

The specific objections to Perez Williams» petitions were filed at about 4 p.m. Monday with the state Board of Elections in Albany, said Diane Dwire, the Onondaga County Democratic Committee member who led the effort.

McConnell said Flynn would likely be asked to speak with the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is already investigating Russia's attempts to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.

The State Chapter of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC), the umbrella organization of all the political parties in Nigeria had a press conference saying that the election should be put on hold, let's conclude this audit process in the local government administration, a lot of things have gone wrong.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says its two suspended parliamentary candidates can not contest on the ticket of the party in the 2016 elections, until they are cleared by the party's disciplinary committee.

The city's Democratic committee chairman says interest in elected office increased shortly after the presidential election and they're still riding that wave.

«I think after the election last year, it's important for Democrats to reinforce what it means to be a Democrat,» said Basil Smikle, the committee's executive director.

Speaking to Citi News, the Greater Accra Regional Deputy Organiser of the NDC, Anthony Nukpenu, said although Mr. Namoale is a Member of Parliament, he will still have to answer some questions before the committee in order to be cleared for the 2016 elections.

«Ultimately, Marcus Molinaro presented the best opportunity to win this election,» said Long, who pointed to Molinaro's youth, energy and executive experience as the deciding factors for the committee.