Sentences with phrase «to resign one's leadership post»

Both men resigned their leadership posts but are keeping their legislative seats while they fight the charges.

Silver resigned his leadership post but said he will remain in office and fight the charges.

Skelos resigned his leadership post after he was charged, but retained his seat in the chamber.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The leader of the New York state Senate said Wednesday that he won't resign his leadership post amid a federal investigation into the awarding of a $ 12 million stormwater contract on Long Island.

Given the developments of yesterday and this morning, Espada should «resign his leadership post immediately,» Breslin told Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Repudiated at the polls, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced Wednesday that he will resign his leadership post at the end of next month, clearing the way for a potentially disruptive Republican shake - up just before midterm elections with control of Congress at stake.

ALBANY — Senate Republicans are now «nearly unanimous» in believing Majority Leader Dean Skelos must resign his leadership post as he faces federal corruption charges, according to two leading Republicans close to the situation.

A Republican senator said Skelos still refused to resign his leadership post Friday and raised the possibility that he could vacate his Senate seat.

Flanagan took control of the Senate majority this spring after former Leader Dean Skelos was forced to resign the leadership post due to federal corruption charges.

The question remains as to whether Skelos will resign his leadership post today.

(CNN)- Newt Gingrich is calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to resign her leadership post Tuesday, days after deriding the California Democrat as a «trivial politician» over her description of what the CIA has told her about aggressive government interrogation techniques.

In 2006, he was the first Republican senator to call for Majority Leader Joe Bruno to resign his leadership post when news broke Bruno was under federal investigation.

He was arrested the very next day, on January 22, and a few days afterward resigned his leadership post.

Silver was first elected in 1976, and served as speaker for two decades, before resigning his leadership post after he was arrested earlier this year.

Susan Lerner of the good - government group Common Cause said Skelos should resign his leadership post so that a powerful leader isn't operating «under a cloud.»

Lott eventually resigned his leadership post.

Silver has since resigned his leadership post, but continues to represent the Lower East Side.

Skelos said last month he was cooperating fully and wouldn't resign his leadership post.

Commissioner Mary Lou Rath, who was appointed by former Senate Leader Dean Skelos, who also had to resign his leadership post after corruption charges, agreed with Commissioner Jacobs.

Facing growing pressure to resign his leadership post, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for the first time publicly said «I'm sorry» for helping to cover up the Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal.

Silver is due to resign the leadership post he's held since 1994 at 11:59 p.m. tonight.

They're taking their cues from the state GOP, which is using the scandal as a fund - raising tool and also has an on - line petition calling for Silver to resign his leadership post.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the arrest of Silver «a bad reflection on government» but would not say if he believes the embattled pol should resign his leadership post.

Since then, Skelos and Silver have been arrested on corruption charges and have resigned their leadership posts.

Klein, however, told The Buffalo News that he believes it's Stewart - Cousins who should resign her leadership post, and that the IDC will not be rejoining the rest of the Democrats anytime soon.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has seen much of his ambitious legislative agenda for 2015 stall, as first the Assembly Speaker, and then the Senate Leader, were charged with corruption and had to resign their leadership posts.

He was arrested the very next day, on January 22nd, and a few days afterward, resigned his leadership post.

A GOP source in Wednesday's meeting told CNN that despite anger towards Murkowski, the conference decided not to even take up the question of the Senate Energy Committee post because «there was a sense that she's resigned her leadership post, she lost her primary, she will probably lose her race, and she'll be gone.

Since then, there has been a growing number of Republican senators publicly calling for him to resign his leadership post.

Gov. Cuomo called the arrest of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver «a bad reflection on government» but would not say if he believes the embattled pol should resign his leadership post.

Only two of the seven freshman members signed on to the Wednesday night statement; four have publicly called on him to resign his leadershIp post.

So far, few Democrats in the Assembly have called for Mr. Silver to resign his leadership post — but last night several newspapers reported that Mr. Silver would step back from his duties, while not resigning his post, and allow five veteran Democrats to run the chamber during critical budget negotiations.

Some advocates and legislators have railed against Silver's influence for years, decrying the concentration of power of the «three men in a room,» of which Silver was one until he was indicted and resigned his leadership post.

Unlike many of his fellow Democrats, Mayor Bill de Blasio won't call on Speaker Sheldon Silver to resign his leadership post — but if somebody else does take over, he'd like it to be a New York City lawmaker.

Klein, however, told the Buffalo News that he believes it's Stewart - Cousins who should resign her leadership post, and that the IDC will not be re-joining the rest of the Democrats anytime soon.