Sentences with phrase «who voted in committee»

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But this latest effort may not succeed given the tight time constraints and skepticism from Senators like Arizona Republican John McCain, who has been insisting that any health care legislation go through a bipartisan committee process in regular order (rather than a pure party - line vote).

These votes apparently raised the the ire of the GOP House leaders, who voted last week to strip Amash of his position on the Budget Committee in the next Congress.

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Texas and South Carolina are home to leading opponents of the bank, including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Tea Party favorite and Republican presidential candidate; Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, who, as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has defied Speaker John A. Boehner and refused to bring any bank bill to a vote in his panel; and Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, a leader among conservatives in the House.

The documents were presumably provided by Wylie (pictured below), who has also handed email and other documentary evidence to the DCMS committee investigating online disinformation in political campaigning, as well as to the UK's data watchdog and Electoral Commission — both of which are also probing digital political campaigning issues (including around the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum vote, which Wylie alleges CA also worked on).

Interestingly, Sen. John McCain, who the day before complained about Republicans» method of «trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle,» voted against the Democratic amendment to send health - care back to the starting line in committee.

-LRB-...) Mr. Plosser, who spoke as part of a panel discussion held in Philadelphia at the annual American Economic Association, will be a voting member of the monetary policy setting Federal Open Market Committee this year.

Simply put, the assumption is that the best route to the truth is to assemble a wide variety of persons who have some personal involvement with aspects of a particular issue, hold hearings and meetings, write papers, and then vote in committee and convention on what the Christian position ought to be.

In my years of wandering its corridors and lobbies, of hanging about for late - night votes and dozing in committee rooms, I came to loathe British politics and to mistrust the special regiment of journalists (far too close to their sources) who write about iIn my years of wandering its corridors and lobbies, of hanging about for late - night votes and dozing in committee rooms, I came to loathe British politics and to mistrust the special regiment of journalists (far too close to their sources) who write about iin committee rooms, I came to loathe British politics and to mistrust the special regiment of journalists (far too close to their sources) who write about it.

The SBC's most recent resolution on alcohol came in 2006, when the convention voted overwhelmingly to exclude Southern Baptists who drink from the convention's boards and committees.

The campaign initiative is being headed by Michael Wear, the Obama campaign's National Faith Vote Coordinator, Derrick Harkins, Director of Faith Outreach for the Democratic National Committee, the Rev. Regena Thomas, pastor of Allen A.M.E. Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Katherine Archuleta, a political director for the campaign, and Broderick Johnson, a campaign adviser who focuses on Catholic outreach.

Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser, who will become chair of the rules committee in the fall, voted in favor of widening the lane.

The SFA, in an unprecedented unilateral decision by its «urgency committee», has dismissed the arbitrators chosen by the Serbian Players Union and appointed officials with links to the biggest clubs, Red Star and Partizan Belgrade, as the chamber's chairman and vice-chairman, who typically will have the casting vote in disputes.

The MEPs voting for the Resolution were heeding the expert opinions of medical and public health bodies from across Europe, US, Asia and Latin America and from UN bodies, including WHO, UNICEF, Save the Children, the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), the European Midwives Association, Eurochild, Association of European Cancer Leagues, the European Federation of the Association of Dieticians (EFAD), the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN), COFACE (the Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union), EPHA (the European Public Health Association) BEUC (the European Consumers Association), the German Midwives Association, the California Women Infants and Children Association, Sustain's Childrens Food Campaign, the National Childbirth Trust, the Baby Feeding Law Group and the International Baby Food Action Network

To coincide with debate on the waiver, Laurie David and Stephanie Soechtig, co-producers of the new documentary film «Fed Up,» delivered red and blue M&M's to the 29 House members who voted in favor of the waiver in committee last week.

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who locked down early endorsements from his local county committee and that of neighboring Suffolk County, has already surpassed the 25 percent threshold, assuming all the counties that have endorsed him hang together and vote in a bloc.

For those who voted for the deal — now mired in frustration, anger and despair — the Nobel committee's gesture offers sorely needed encouragement.

New York Democratic Party activists who backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 — and now support Cynthia Nixon for governor over Cuomo — have drafted a resolution to force the state Democratic Committee to pass a rule allowing independent or «nonaligned» registered voters to vote in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor, on Sept. 13.

But Some believe the fix was in for Kavanagh who secured just 28 % of Manhattan Democratic County Committee vote but who will also get the 35 % from Brooklyn which gives him enough to prevail over Newell.

As Chair of the Council's Housing and Buildings Committee, I am thrilled that the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) has for the first time in its history voted to freeze rent for 1.2 million rent stabilized tenants,» said Williams, who represents the 45th Council District in Brooklyn.

«Republicans want to end the Medicare guarantee,» Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.) said recently in a statement distilling the Democrats» argument against Members who have voted in favor of the Wisconsin Republican's budget.

More recently, Bill Perkins» victory in a City Council special election created a vacancy in the State Senate, which was filled by Brian Benjamin, who won the Democratic nomination by virtue of a county committee vote.

Dadey, who is not voting today (state GOP Chairman Ed Cox has a vote, as do the state's two national committee members), is in Washington with Erie County GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy.

In 2012 a separate Electronic Voting Committee was established who is now responsible for conducting Internet voting while the National Electoral Committee retains a supervisory role.

The method in which their new Chief Executive has been appointed is a poignant example of this problem and a source of a great deal of the ire of the protestors: elected by 689 votes from a 1,200 - seat committee of business elites, the three and a half million registered voters of Hong Kong had no say over who should lead them for the next five years.

Assuming the Brooklyn Democrats vote in two weeks to endorse Rice, as Lopez has predicted, it will be interesting to see who has more sway over the committee members at the convention: The chairman or the borough's elected officials.

Some Belesis backers are casting this fight as a confidence vote in Cox, who they believe is renegging on a promise to give their candidate the RNC committee post.

In last year's election for chairman, he was among the committee members who called for a delay in the vote because of reports that the FBI had interviewed Zellner as part of its investigation into a 2014 State Senate electioIn last year's election for chairman, he was among the committee members who called for a delay in the vote because of reports that the FBI had interviewed Zellner as part of its investigation into a 2014 State Senate electioin the vote because of reports that the FBI had interviewed Zellner as part of its investigation into a 2014 State Senate election.

Congratulations go out to Larry Giunta who was voted in as the Newburyport Republican City Committee Chairman.

In the immediate wake of the House's narrow passage of the health care bill last week, the Democratic campaign committees launched digital ads attacking Republicans, even those who didn't vote for the bill.

With that, the Republican committee staff can target a unique mobile ID — reaching an individual smartphone or tablet that is, for example, owned by someone over 65 who has requested an absentee ballot and is a registered Republican who has voted in the last three election cycles.

The complainants (who at the moment will remain anonymous) even alleged that they was willing to go to News 12 and the Journal News to expose the actions of Mr. Lafayette concerning the process to challenge the signatures, fraudulently having people on Democratic voter rolls and abusing his absolute power over the voting process as Westchester democratic chairman, Mount Vernon City Committee Chairman and Westchester County Democratic Commissioner of Elections which they felt was illegal in nature and the DA's office was against the complainants going public with their complaints.

DeFrancisco now has endorsements from 13 Republican county committees and leaders who represent about 20 percent of the weighted vote at the GOP designating convention, due to be held in May.

On Wednesday, we reported that Tory MPs at the 1922 Committee wanted to «get those yellow b ** tards», in reference to Liberal Democrats who were criticising Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms, having voted for it before.

Conservative groups including the Family Research Council and National Organization for Marriage fired off a letter last week to Boehner, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Greg Walden (Ore.) and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (Ky.) chiding them for backing DeMaio and Tisei, as well as Senate hopeful Monica Wehby (Ore.), who supports gay marriage.

James further raised concerns about the party's requirement that campaigns pay for the email addresses for the 1,927 convention delegates who will vote on the endorsement for governor, as well as what she said was the lack of diversity among the rules committee members in attendance at Saturday's meeting.

Any member of a panel who is or was a relative, partner, associate, employer or employee of any person who appears before said panel for the purpose of being screened shall disclose such relationship to the Administrator and shall be disqualified from voting with respect to such person; the Committee on the Judiciary may establish guidelines which are more restrictive in order to prevent conflicts of interest.

New York Democratic Party activists who backed Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 — and now support Cynthia Nixon for governor over Gov. Cuomo — have drafted a resolution to force the state Democratic Committee to pass a rule allowing independent or «nonaligned» registered voters to vote in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor, on Sept. 13.

In order to avoid voting on a controversial gun bill during an election year — a move that no doubt would have further enraged their conservative allies who were still smarting over passage of the SAFE Act - the Senate Republicans moved the bill from the Codes Committee to the Rules Committee, which is controlled with an iron fist by the leadership.

Valesky, who sponsored independent redistricting legislation in the Senate last year, said his bill made it through part of the committee process, but never made it to the floor for a vote.

«Republicans in New York who voted for the House bill sent a clear message that they'd rather be puppets to ultra conservatives in Washington than protect the nearly 3 million New Yorkers who will lose their health care coverage because of this bill,» the email signed by Cuomo sent by the state Democratic Committee states.

U.S. Senate Democrats forced a one - week delay in a committee vote on Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, who remains on track for confirmation with solid Republican backing.

Pataki took a pass on running statewide this year to instead focus on his Revere America committee, which dropped more than $ 2 million to opposes candidates who voted «yes» on, or simply spoke in support of, health care reform (or, as he puts it, «Obamacare»).

Hunter, a conservative Republican who serves on the Syracuse Republican Committee and tried unsuccessfully to run for mayor in the past, told Siena pollsters that he will likely vote for Hawkins.

Stefanik, who lives in Willsboro and is completing her second term, also voted with fellow Republicans to guarantee that a 10 - page response by Democratic committee members would not be released simultaneously.

The sore loser — who finished a distant fourth in the September Democratic mayoral primary after eeking out a mere 7 percent of the vote — and his campaign committee filed the Manhattan federal court suit claiming his civil rights were violated a month earlier when the Board withheld the funds.

«Most of them are appointed by individuals who have already weighed in on this race, or elected officials who have weighed in on this race, and so what we really want is a full and transparent committee vote,» she said.

Political action committee Fight Back New York has condemned Bronx State Senator Reuben Diaz for his support of ousted state Sen. Hiram Monserrate, along with Sens. Frank Padavan and Shirley Huntley, who all voted against the recent gay marriage bill in the Senate.

In Queens, the county committee members voted on Monday to endorse Paul J. Massey Jr., a millionaire real estate sales executive who has shown fund - raising prowess but has yet to energize the party.

Griffo said proper vetting takes time, and pointed to the process of judicial appointees — who often go through multiple committees in one day before reaching the floor for the final vote — as particularly problematic.