Sentences with phrase «several house call»

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When Vitter was in the House of Representatives he actually took calls from the DC Madam during roll call votes; later, Sen. Vitter expressed outrage over purported actions of the poverty group ACORN, where several staffers showed tolerance toward conservative operatives with a hidden camera who were pretending to be involved in prostitution.

Yet in December, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) called for a «do - not - track» system, and several privacy bills affecting the collection and use of personal data were introduced in the House of Representatives this year.

After the president blasted CNN and the New York Times on Friday for what he called «fake news,» his press secretary excluded those outlets and several others from a briefing at the White House.

Zuckerberg is expected to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, just one of the several powerful committees calling for him, on April 11.

Several Tea Party Republicans have said they will not agree to lift the so - called debt ceiling without the White House making several compromises — something the White House has said it will refuseSeveral Tea Party Republicans have said they will not agree to lift the so - called debt ceiling without the White House making several compromises — something the White House has said it will refuseseveral compromises — something the White House has said it will refuse to do.

The tariff decision on Thursday capped several weeks of freewheeling and often caustic debates that one White House aide called «absolute chaos» and featured loud disputes between Cohn and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, a leading advocate of tariffs.

Several associations said in House committee hearings in September that CN and CP should be forced to disclose information in so - called «waybills,» which include data about the rate, origin, destination and physical route of individual shipments.

Among the officials who made the calls was White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew, several sources familiar with the outreach told CNN, signifying the importance of the Jewish community to the White House as it proceeds with the Hagel pick.

Washington (CNN)-- Senior members of the White House staff called key American Jewish interest groups on Sunday to tell them about the impending nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Defense Secretary and to try to answer their concerns about his record, several sources familiar with the calls told CNN.

As I was cleaning carpets today in a house in Arlington, I noticed that there were several books sitting around called Red Letters by Tom Davis.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters that Trump has called Obama several times for further «consultation,» a including 45 - minute call over the weekend.

Further conflict and complaints led the administrative board chairman to cancel all further official discussion of the housing proposal and to call a special meeting of the board, excluding Sid, to discuss objections to several aspects of Sid's behavior.

Mommy is growing a business, Daddy dealt with turmoil at work that ultimately led to him having to leave the only company he ever worked for out of college and sent us to a new home in a new state through a several month long process that involved home improvement projects, shuttling you off to grandma's house, three hour drives back and forth, and a stress that Mommy has never experienced before because New Jersey was the only place I ever called home.

June has horses stabled in three different barns, and she makes the rounds several times a day, like an old - time doctor making house calls.

I had a distinct image of what he would be doing in the first months of his life, of how he would recline in a lined wicker basket such as the kind I never owned, woven and biblical — a Moses basket, it was called in several of the catalogues of baby items that had begun to crowd my house.

On holiday it gets me out of the house several times a week - «a skiving expedition», my wife used to call it.

Anna Stankiewicz, owner of the New York - based spray tan company Suvara, specializes in house calls, and said she has been hired by several New York City politicians over the years — including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who she said was «cool about it.»

The reports prompted Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other lawmakers — including several Republicans — to call for the White House to provide the Senate panel with any transcripts of the meeting.

Malliotakis» plan calls for action in several categories, including expanded legal efforts to compel hospitalization via use of «Kendra's Law,» review expiring orders of protection, scrutinize mentally ill inmates before release, expand mental health courts and psychiatric capacity of hospitals, support relevant non-profit agencies and greatly expand the number of supportive housing units.

Cuomo in recent years has approved several executive orders aimed at protecting and bolstering LGBT rights, including actions that aim to prevent discrimination of transgender people in housing and the workplace as well as a ban on so - called conversion therapies.

The House Committee on Standards and Official Conduct — which has been investigating the allegations levied against Rep. Charlie Rangel — has charged the so - called Dean of the New York Delegation with several ethics violations.

«Daily Show» host Jon Stewart lavished praise on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand last night, calling her «instrumental» in passing several major bills — from a 9/11 health care act to the repeal of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» — despite spending just two years in the upper house.

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments -LSB-...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — First lady Michelle Obama's favorability rating among Americans tops that of several major political players who have called or might someday seek to call the White House home — including her husband and his two predecessors, former first lady Hillary Clinton, three vice presidents, and a number of potential Republican presidential hopefuls.

Senate Republicans in their one - house budget resolution have not slammed the door on a minimum wage increase, but instead have called for further analysis of the impact of the proposed $ 15 minimum wage, which would be boosted from $ 9 over the course of several years.

While several have outspokenly criticized Rikers, called for it to be closed, or at least called for inmates under 18 to no longer be held there, housing inmates in the neighborhoods they represent rarely goes over well with constituents.

Red States Called Moochers as Hillary Defends Tunnel Project Hillary Clinton came to the defense of the Gateway Project and accused President Donald Trump of playing politics by holding back federal funds as several members of the New Jersey congressional delegation criticized Republican House efforts to cut funding.

Several of the party's calls in that debate, such as a dedicated Gender Identity Clinic in Wales and LGBT + - suitable safe housing, are not committed to within Labour's plan

In more than a dozen interviews with The Daily Orange, public housing tenants living by I - 81 in the low - income, majority black East Adams Street neighborhood expressed increasing frustration and anxiety with what several called an unnecessary delay of the interstate's replacement project.

During an interview on the «CBS Evening News» with Katie Couric, Obama stopped short of joining the call from several House Democrats and Rangel's primary challengers for the congressman to resign, but did say:

The County has made several appeals over what Astorino calls pressure from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to dismantle local zoning.

Criticized by the left for not seriously helping Democrats take over the Senate over the past several years, Cuomo has now been publicly calling for the Democrats to reunite and put an end to warring factions that have kept the party from controlling both houses of the Legislature.

This system, called the instant run - off or alternative or preferential vote, is used in elections to the Australian House of Representatives, as well as in several US cities.

All three killer whales that had been housed with dolphins for several years shifted the proportions of different call types in their repertoire to more closely match the distribution found in dolphins — they produced more clicks and whistles and fewer pulsed calls.

Now, I've talked several times about what I call my «meat and potatoes» blog posts — they are the absolute most important part of my blog and, quite frankly, Grandma's House DIY wouldn't exist without them.

Several years back, following an early August day working with teachers in southwest Wyoming, I took a drive through what we Mainers would call the sticks — small roads, few houses, and lots of open space.

Chicago — On a recent blustery autumn day, members of several state boards of education sat around a table at the Palmer House Hotel here discussing a report that called for a total restructuring of early - childhood - education programs.

Several Bonnier - owned publishing houses in Germany (Carlsen, Piper, and Ullstein) recently hosted an online romance festival for young adult readers called Herzenstage (literal translation: Days of the Heart).

Having lived his entire twelve years under Israeli occupation of his village, brilliant student Ichmad Hassid's entire world explodes when his father is imprisoned for an act of so - called terrorism that he didn't commit, and watches helplessly as soldiers blow up his house as punishment, leaving him as the man of the house to care for his mother and several younger siblings.

If you're a writer, you may have seen the internet heat up this past week over issues taken up with a few Random House e-book imprints which several high - profile writing organizations called foul.

He read it several times before using the house phone in the hotel lobby to call Colonel Biermeier of the Stasi Main Directorate for Foreign Intelligence, the HVA, who was running the operation in Trieste.

Also, not known is whether Sharp will be positioning the tablet as an e-reader device as it did with the previous version and had tied up with several publishing houses to justify it being called an e-reader.

On average, the literary agent will make follow - up calls and will meet with several editors from different publishing houses until he / she gets the best offer.

While there's plenty of e-books for the iPhone already, ScrollMotion has two advantages over its rivals: A gorgeous, feature - filled e-reader app called Iceberg and deals with several major publishers, including Random House, Simon and Schuster, Houghton Mifflin, Penguin, and Hachette.

The Owasso Fire Department put their masks to use within the first few days when they were called to a mid-morning house fire where all the humans were gone from the home and several pets suffered smoke inhalation.

Before specializing in house calls, he worked for eight years in several multi-doctor practices in Massachusetts and New York City.

There are several other, less effective house training methods available: these are called the Direct Method and the Paper Method.

According to Wall, «We've had several phone calls, but they all have another dog in the house or another cat in the house.

Around the house your dog sits fine, but at the park your dog won't come to you when you call it, you have to repeat your «SIT» command several times.

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is just outside of Kanab, and Kanab has this wonderful free museum called Little Hollywood, which houses the sets from several well know westerns.