Sentences with phrase «then as a congressman»

If the president is going to be around a long time then as a congressman you know that you need to be on his good side if your friends (donors) are ever going to be appointed to anything.

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White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, then a South Carolina congressman, opposed the bill, as did Ryan, who was serving as House Budget Committee chairman.

The questioner (who happened to be a YNN videographer) then asked Gillibrand if she thought women should be offended by Eliot Spitzer's candidacy for New York City comptroller, as some of her fellow female elected officials have suggested — including NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, but she had a political motive in seeking to link Spitzer and Weiner together in hopes of tarring the former congressman, who is one of her rivals in the mayor's race.

As a Congressman, he sent sexually explicit photos to women, then told a bold - faced lie on national television, saying that he was an innocent victim of hacking.»

It takes a special kind of depravity for a congressman to suggest to a female staffer that she carry his child for $ 5 million and then retaliate against her when she declines the offer, as former Rep. Trent Franks reportedly did last year.

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In the mid-1980s I worked on Capitol Hill as press secretary to Congressman William Carney, then representing this fair district.

From 1994 to 1996, following a stint working in the public advocate's race for Mark Green, Isay joined then - congressman Chuck Schumer's office as press secretary.

As Congressman Charles Rangel — a constant Clinton ally — described in an interview with the Observer in February, Obama's Hawkeye state victory led to the disintegration of the then - New York senator's African - American support.

He had been in Congress since 1979, first as a congressman and then as a senator and eventually the Senate Democratic leader.

All of this has left Mr. Rangel staring down a future out of elected office — if not next year then at the end of 2016, when the congressman says he plans to retire as President Barack Obama leaves office.

Then Williams positioned himself as, basically, a Washington insider, recalling how he walked past the White House on his way to school as a kid, and is now «the only challenger to Congressman Rangel that has worked in Washington D.C.»

My political activism goes back to the days of Charlie Buckley, who I opposed, and I helped elect reformers such as Congressman Jack Bingham and Jim Scheuer, Assemblyman and then Bronx Borough President and Attorney General Bob Abrams, Assemblyman and then Senator and then Congressman Bobby Garcia, Assemblyman and then Congressman Jose Serrano and countless other Reformers who served our City and State.

William's son, James Walsh, followed in his father's shoes, joining the Common Council in the late 1970s, then spending 20 years as the area's Republican congressman.

Since then he's amassed a hefty list of endorsements — including those of Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal and Congressmen Jerrold Nadler, as well as the local clubs the Community Free Democrats and Three Parks Democrats.

The difference is that Congressman Schock is into fitness for health, Arnold was into bodybuilding to get as huge as possible (using steroids, then legal) and win Mr Olympia.

After The DVD Line closed its doors in the summer of 2000, Bill continued to write for DVD Angle for a period of time, as well as The Florida Sun, which at the time was a side project for then Florida Congressman Joe Scarborough (now host of MSNBC's «Morning Joe»).

Michelle was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access and worked as a legislative assistant to then Congressman Tom Udall.