Sentences with phrase «was the majority leader of»

If they break the law, they shouldn't be the majority leader of the State of New York.

He has been majority leader of the Assembly since 2013.

McCoy is a Sheehan ally, while Commisso Jr.'s father Frank Commisso Sr. is the majority leader of the county Legislature.

Commisso, whose father Frank Commisso Sr. is the majority leader of the Albany County Legislature and a longtime Democrat, has represented the 15th Ward since 2010.

He has been the majority leader of the State Senate for twelve years, one of the so - called «three men in a room» who decided what, if anything, got done in Albany.

Dean was targeted because he was Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, not because of any actions he took.

Democrat Peter Harckham is the majority leader of the Westchester County Board of Legislators.

«I hope soon that Andrea Stewart - Cousins will be the majority leader of the Senate,» he contended.

His first election in partisan politics wound up as a tie against an 18 - year incumbent...»... who was the majority leader of the county legislature and the committeemen - even though it takes place in a very public forum it's actually a party election, and so the committeemen broke the tie, gave it to the incumbent, and I wound up being elected in a write - in election with over 3,000 votes cast, just on a county legislative district, so, you can beat city hall.»

Not exact matches

Cameron and the vast majority of Britain's most senior politicians advocated for «Remain» while the «Leave» movement was fronted by now Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and former leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage.

Those concerns may be unfounded or exaggerated, but workplace leaders fail to say so even though a clear majority of managers agree that vacation improves health and well - being (82 %), boosts morale (82 %), and alleviates burnout (81 %).

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

Surprisingly, the survey also found 41 percent of small - business leaders would be skeptical of artificial intelligence's ability to accurately help with their administrative tasks, even though the majority of them spent two or more hours per day on admin work.

«It is important that we achieve a two - year agreement that funds our troops and provides for our national security and other critical functions of the Federal government,» the statement from the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

But a first read of the new draft (and, notably, it's still being called a «draft») and a number of skeptical lawmaker statements suggests this is one legislative rabbit that political wizard Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could have trouble pulling out of his hat.

Names of his potential replacements have been floated all week: Trump's chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn; Republican Rep. Mark Meadows; House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy; and Mulvaney.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., and 21 other Republican sent Trump a letter last week urging him to follow through on his campaign pledge to pull out of the climate accord.

The House of Commons is set to approve the measures with a big majority after the pacifist leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party whip.

As I've noted before, since the start of 2013 — when the «fiscal cliff» calamity was averted at the very last minute with a deal struck between Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY)-- investors have been impervious to the sorts of anxiety attacks that caused significant corrections during the first four years of the bull market.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., flanked by SBA Administrator Linda McMahon (left) and Sen. Jim Risch, R - Idaho, speaks at an event in the Capitol with small - business advocates to highlight the importance of tax reform to America's small businesses on Nov. 28, 2017.

However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said a revised version of the bill is expected to come Thursday morning.

A number of GOP Senators are saying that the Senate's health care bill probably won't get a vote until the later part of July — a pretty clear departure from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's hope to get the legislation out of the way before last week's 4th of July recess.

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

However, the tech industry has an equally important reason to court women developers and tech leaders: women are the majority consumers of tech.

If I'm a craft brewer, I'll get a tiny lift, but the majority of the incremental demand goes to the category leader.

U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady (R - TX)(C) holds up a tax filing «postcard» as Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R - WI)(L) and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R - KY)(R) looks on during a press event on tax reform September 27, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, DC.

Skinny, of course, was the last and most cynical of the various Trumpcare resolutions that the Senate Majority Leader put forth this week — and which the full Senate voted on, and ultimately rejected, in the dead of night.

At the end of March, for example, Musk chipped in $ 50,000 to an organization run by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy that's meant to boost his GOP allies.

«It's not surprising to anybody who knows Rob that he's avoided the squabbles and turf battles that have consumed so many others in this White House,» Brian McGuire, a former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, told Business Insider.

The law was a team effort and a longtime dream of House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

«I don't know if is all [man's fault] but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature,» Pope Francis, No. 4 on Fortune's list of the world's greatest leaders, told Reuters earlier this year.

This past summer, when Congress considered ditching the individual mandate as part of a «skinny repeal» — an effort that ultimately failed — the CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans cautioned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that, should the mandate go, «premiums will rise rapidly, few or no affordable coverage options will be available and more people will be uninsured.»

When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell selected the group of 13 lawmakers who would work on drafting a health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act in May, none of the five female Republican Senators were included.

The top Republican in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, said he was open to suggestions from experts on how to prevent terrorism suspects from acquiring firearms and called the Orlando shooting a «calculated act of terror.»

(Bloomberg)-- The White House is scaling back its plan to seek cuts from already - passed spending bills in the face of resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and spending panel Republicans, two GOP congressional aides briefed on the plan said Thursday.

The leading candidate to replace him is Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the majority leader, who is viewed more favorably by the House's more conservative members both for his willingness to bend to their will and for his cheerful manner.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

Potential targets include Harley Davidson motorcycles, from the home state of House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Kentucky bourbon, which could get the attention of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky.

«The most effective leaders throughout history have been great communicators, yet the vast majority of modern day C - Suite executives are conspicuously absent from social media channels,» said Ann Charles, CEO of BRANDfog.

Xerox's plan to merge its business with Fujifilm of Japan looks to be increasingly in jeopardy, as its chairman, its chief executive and a majority of its board members said they would resign in favor of a slate of new leaders favored by shareholders opposing the deal.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) and Trump have promised to send Texas officials an aid package worth billions of dollars — meanwhile, nobody seems to know how funding will work out in a bill to avert a looming government shutdown.

Yes, we have seen a few market leaders break down, such as 3d Systems Corp ($ DDD) or Ocwen Financial Group ($ OCN), but the majority of leading individual stocks are still holding above their 50 - day moving averages and trending higher (or forming bullish basing patterns).

A Bubble in Complacency Egypt Rosie, Las Vegas, Phuket, and Bangkok This week I had the privilege of being on the same panel with former Comptroller General David Walker and former Majority Leader (and presidential candidate) Richard Gephardt.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., flanked by, Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon, left, and Sen. Roger Wicker, R - Miss., speaks to a group of small business owners as Republicans work to pass their sweeping tax bill.

The SegWit2X hard fork planned for next week has been called off by a majority of the miners as well as the development leaders of the effort.

While the leaders in your company may be credible, your employees are more credible to the majority of your audience.

For the majority of B2B Marketing and Sales leaders, these types of events can be either severe cases of concern or exciting opportunities not to be missed.

Not only are these quintessentially American products, but are also centered in Kentucky and Wisconsin, respectively, home to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.

Where we are You may have heard that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used a Senate procedure called Rule 14 that bypasses the traditional committee process and brings S. 2667 (the Hemp Farming Act of 2018) directly to the full Senate.