Sentences with phrase «senior junior senator»
At the time of her retirement, Boxer ranked eleventh in seniority in the United States Senate, and was the most senior junior Senator from the retirement of Tom Harkin in January 2015 until her own retirement two years later.
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Kentucky's senior senator endorsed his junior colleague's bid to legalize industrial hemp (seriously), joined his filibuster protesting the administration's drone policy, and even embraced Ron and Rand Paul's «Audit the Fed» campaign.
State Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox released a statement today slamming the junior senator for voting «no» on the tax cut deal President Obama cut with the GOP, breaking with senior Sen. Chuck Schumer in the process.
But they argued that the senior senator must use his clout to convince all other Democrats to join him in preventing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action from becoming international law — including junior Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has said she will vote in favor of the deal.
Franken skipped straight to Senator, but is that a junior or a senior position?
State Senator James Seward recently welcomed Homer High School senior Emma Murphy, Dryden High School junior Laurel Deacon, and Cortland High School freshman Abigail Bowker to Albany for the 17th annual Students Inside Albany conference sponsored by the League of Women Voters of New York State Education Foundation.
But Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, immediately parachuted into New York and suddenly Mr. Schumer was the most junior senior senator around.
New York's Junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says she will support what she calls an imperfect deal while New York's Senior statesman Chuck Schumer is splitting with democrats and will vote against the agreement.
That aggressiveness and self - confidence has endeared her to the powerful politicians who share her impatience to get ahead — including Hillary Clinton, whose seat she'll take; David Paterson, who appointed her to it; and Chuck Schumer, who'll be the senior senator to her junior.
9:30 am — TCM — Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra puts on his idealist hat to tell the story of Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), an inexperienced young man appointed as a junior senator because the corrupt senior senator thinks heíll be easy to control.
9:15 am — TCM — Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra puts on his idealist hat to tell the story of Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), an inexperienced young man appointed as a junior senator because the corrupt senior senator thinks he'll be easy to control.