Sentences with phrase «times for congress»

Since then he has run every two years, mounted the increasingly expensive efforts to stay in office every other year, nine times to the state assembly and then ten more times for congress — in all, including the first loss, 21 elections in 40 years, 20 wins in a row.

Time for congress to take back the reigns of this runaway unaccountable organization.

Not exact matches

if the RNC would consider some bipartisan legislation and congress had some accomplishments that they could be re-elected on, it might be worth their time to run for re-election.

He is a Washington - outsider, which bodes well for him since congressional approval is at an all - time low (less than 10 % of Americans approve of congress).

Tonight at 9 PM ET, President Donald Trump will address a joint session of congress for the very first time.

Instead, congress has specifically given tomato paste a «multiplier», so that it counts for four times the actual volume represented.

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The local government congress will hold next week and states in two weeks time but no date has been fixed for the convention yet.

«On the day slated for the congress, May 5, 2018, the aspirants who are mainly farmers, palm wine tappers, Okada riders and artisans, who relentlessly devoted their time, energy and hard earned resources to build the party at the grassroots, abandoned their trades and waited endlessly from morning to night without a glimpse of the congress officials nor materials at their respective wards.

They could amend the constitution, which requires the president, congress, and the majority of states to agree on, and also requires a lot of time - constitutional amendments can drag on for decades, as each state sets its own timetable on ratification.

Long - time political consultant Phil Noble tapped Gloria Bromell Tinubu, a former legislator in Georgia and more recently twice a losing candidate for congress.

Of course they also envisioned that congress would be filled with people who would operate their jobs and businesses as their primary source of income and only travel to washington a few times a year for the limited amount of work they would need to do.

He argued that early congress is in the interest of the party because it will afford it more time to prepare and galvanise the party's support base for the 2020 elections.

«The issue is that some people believed that we did not have enough time to organise party congresses and also organised for elections.

Burnishing his middle of the road credentials, Gibson touts his vote earlier this year for a bipartisan budget plan in line with the recommendations of the Simpson - Bowles Commission and his rating by The Washington Post as the «third most independent» member of congress (Gibson voted with the Republican Majority in congress 74 percent of the time during the 2011 term).

He could be seen as a typical European from earlier times and is precious for this reason alone,» explained the anthropologist Albert Zink from EURAC Research, the scientific leader of the congress.

Sometimes called the «Olympics of conservation,» for the first time in its 68 - year history, the congress, held every four years, was convened on U.S. soil.

Sorry I mean't to add one other thought, if the card holder is carrying a high balance and their interest rates increase like the banks have been raising in recent months, this could backfire on the banks themselves, I mean since the banks give a 45 notification of the increase and the consumer is already maxed out and can barely make the payments as it is, the increased interest rates because of how the congress requires at least all the monthly interest and some of the principle to be paid on the cards, done so that consumers could reduce the amount of time to illiminate their debts, this may spawn many card holders whoms payments will increase much like those adjustable rate mortgages that people walked away from to go wild with their remaining balances on the card and then default, the whole irony is that the consumer may very well use the card thats damaging them to pay for bankruptcy proceedings lol!

Like all of us, cats need time to themselves to feel safe and secure, yet a recent questionnaire conducted at the annual British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) congress 2013 showed that over 60 % of veterinary practices do not currently provide a hiding place for the cats in their care.

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During his time in congress, he worked on the Veterans Affairs Committee where, according to his profile at the Heartland Institute, he «was a leader in exposing the corruption and failures at the VA and pushing through a historic health care choice option for veterans.»

Unfortunately, we may not have enough time for an insurmountable amount of evidence to accumulate to get to the point where oil / coal CEOs testify to congress say they don't believe that CO2 cause global warming the way cigarette CEOs said they didn't believe cigarettes cause cancer while everyone was disgusted by their self - serving denial.

I think it is time to start demanding congress to defund his salary, he is costing the American people billions and billions of dollars for his political beliefs.

If congress gets the feeling that e.g. Hansen lied to them or deliberately misled them with that bit of power - turned - off theater that kicked off the whole thing in Washington, or if investigation determines that e.g. GISS has been «deliberately» distorted to enhance apparent warming, I could see contempt of congress and / or jail time for those involved.

In fact, these new national monuments matter a lot right now because the current crop of legislators in congress aren't setting any new land aside for national parks for the first time in six decades.