Sentences with phrase «with leaders from both parties»

Trump's stunning agreement to endorse a plan proposed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi came during a Wednesday morning meeting with leaders from both parties in the Oval Office, the first such meeting of Trump's presidency.

The president will be meeting with leaders from both parties at the end of the week, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Not exact matches

According to Wolfango Piccoli, from analysis firm Teneo Intelligence, the Five Star leader faces a dilemma: partner up with Lega and risk alienating his own party due to conflicting platforms, or run the risk of holding multiple inconclusive voting rounds and not end up with a speaker in the House.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told leaders of his centre - right EU political group on Saturday that he would comply with demands from Brussels to change measures branded an attack on academic freedom, the party said.

It might also be one last attempt to distance herself from the antisemitism and racism associated with her party and her father, Jean - Marie Le Pen — an image she has worked tirelessly to erase since taking over from him as party leader in 2011.

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.

He emerged from two general elections as leader of the party with the most seats in a minority parliament.

The leader of a faction in British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party demanding a clean break from the European Union, has denied issuing an ultimatum after asking her to drop a proposal for a customs partnership with the bloc.

Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith with candidate Linda Carlson (photo from Danielle Smith - Wildrose Alliance Party leader Facebook Page)

Since Gov. Andrew Cuomo included a call to do away with the Wilson - Pakula law in his second Smith - Stevenson corruption scandal reform proposal, we have heard outraged reactions from all but one of the state's top minor party leaders.

Not surprisingly, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long is not at all pleased with the talk in Albany these days of going away with so - called fusion voting by repealing or amending the Wilson - Pakula statute that requires candidates who aren't enrolled in a particular party to get permission from that party's leaders to run on their ballot Party Chairman Mike Long is not at all pleased with the talk in Albany these days of going away with so - called fusion voting by repealing or amending the Wilson - Pakula statute that requires candidates who aren't enrolled in a particular party to get permission from that party's leaders to run on their ballot party to get permission from that party's leaders to run on their ballot party's leaders to run on their ballot line.

When this new alliance - the European Conservatives and Reformists - was created after the 2009 Euro - election with «a bunch of homophobes, anti-Semites and climate - change deniers» (as Nick Clegg later described them in a TV leaders debate) I objected and was expelled from the Conservative Party.

The night was marked by high drama, with reports of the prime minister jabbing his finger at Tory rebel leader Jesse Norman, who was then forced to leave the parliamentary estate following threats from his own party whips.

«I was pleased with the positive feedback I received from Party members and leaders around the state when I talked about the need to fundamentally restructure our entitlement systems, our tax code and health care,» Carvin said.

In recent weeks, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has slowly built support among New York Republicans, rolling out endorsements from the party's top state - level official (Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos) along with a wide array of current and former electeds, operatives and county GOP leaders.

Halloran, a Republican, was charged with taking more than $ 20,000 in payoffs from two undercover FBI operatives posing as corrupt developers in exchange for agreeing to funnel public cash to them and to help bribe Republican NYC county leaders to allow Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith, also of Queens, to run Row B in the party's mayoral primary.

After emerging from his Rose Garden following Carl Paladino's landslide win in the Sept. 14 GOP primary and increasing concerns among some members of his party that his above - it - all strategy wasn't resonating with key segments of the electorate, Cuomo met in Harlem with black leaders.

The Democrats first must agree on a candidate, with five candidates vying for the nod from local party leaders: People for Bernie co-founder Katherine Brezler, Bedford Supervisor Christopher Burdick, West Harrison resident Mark Jaffe, Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, and Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano.

Genuine tributes came from the Conservative, Liberals and Communist Party Leaders in Parliament, with the memorable comment: «She was small in body but great in heart.»

So far this week, endorsements and fundraising appeals have been sent out on behalf of GOP US Senate candidate Wendy Long from surrogates who hold sway with certain elements of the primary electorate — Grover Norquist, Steve Forbes, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, and the latest: Former Assembly Minority Leader / 2006 GOP gubernatorial candidate John Faso.

Thirteen months after its devolution deal was first announced, not a single candidate from a major party has come forward to stand in the city region's mayoral election next year, while local leaders have continued to question whether they should even have to introduce a metro mayor full - stop — despite the Communities secretary Sajid Javid stating explicitly that this would continue to be a «real red line» for progressing with devolution deals.

Aside from a power play between two potential future Conservative party leaders, what seems to be at the heart of the May - Gove struggle is a disagreement about extremism and how to deal with it.

County Leaders will be prevented from unilaterally controlling the party via proxy voting and will not be able to stack the Executive Committee with human proxies to preserve their hold on power.

But she couldn't get a quorum after party leaders from the other boroughs — in solidarity with Wright — advised their council members not to show up, sources said.

[8] The English Democrats have welcomed defectors from the far - right British National Party into leadership roles and former members of the party have criticised informal links with other far - right organisations, though party leader Robin Tilbrook has stated that party members are expected to pledge their opposition to raParty into leadership roles and former members of the party have criticised informal links with other far - right organisations, though party leader Robin Tilbrook has stated that party members are expected to pledge their opposition to raparty have criticised informal links with other far - right organisations, though party leader Robin Tilbrook has stated that party members are expected to pledge their opposition to raparty leader Robin Tilbrook has stated that party members are expected to pledge their opposition to raparty members are expected to pledge their opposition to racism.

The party has apparently just discovered that Espada, who has been accused of siphoning off $ 14 million from his Soundview health care clinic, is not «in sympathy» with its principles, according to a letter from party leaders.

Recent admissions that he had dinner with James Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks and their partners just two days after taking away responsibility for the BSkyB deal from Vince Cable have prompted the Lib Dems» deputy leader Simon Hughes and party president Tim Farron to report the prime minister to the Cabinet Office secretary.

Zuma used pro-poor populist rhetoric to position himself as a leader who was in touch with the people to build grassroots support from the local party branches up to the provincial level.

This question, from somebody who wishes to remain Anon, but was a popular theme at Saturday's Fabian conference: «If you become Labour party leader, what will you do to ensure labour becomes more open and democratic in party structure, to ensure Labour never becomes out of touch with members, movement, and the public while in office?»

The Labour leader is set to press on with his bold attempt at reforming the relationship between his party and the unions, despite intense opposition from those gathered at the TUC's annual conference in Bournemouth.

Following questions in the House from Labour and DUP members, the Leader of the House announced that there would be discussions with affected parties, and in March Chris Grayling presented a written statement to the Commons, detailing a much lower reduction of around five per cent in real terms.

ALBANY — State Democratic leaders, disgusted with scandal - a-minute Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada of The Bronx, will move to oust him from the party, The Post learned yesterday.

They also met with Chele Chiavacci Farley, a private equity executive and party fundraiser from Manhattan who had been talking to party leaders about challenging Gillibrand.

However, of the six candidates, three are well kent faces with Ruth Davidson, the Conservative party leader contesting this constituency after moving over from the Glasgow list.

The Independence party leader, finance minister Bjarni Benediktsson, whose name also appeared in the leaked documents in connection with a Seychelles - based company of which he once owned a third, was holding talks with Grímsson, who flew back early from the US to sound out all of Iceland's parliamentary party representatives as the island's political crisis deepened on Tuesday.

The party knows that it must poll better with business leaders and become attractive again to corporate backing (and ideally bring in more donations from the business community).

While May has announced herself as the prime minister of a minority government, with support from Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, her position is now so untenable that another general election, with a different Conservative leader, is extremely likely before the end of 2017.

Despite making some gains compared to the previous general election, former party leader Nick Clegg lost Sheffield Hallam to Jared O'Mara of the Labour Party, and Zac Goldsmith of the Conservatives regained Richmond Park from Sarah Olney with a very narrow majority of 45 vparty leader Nick Clegg lost Sheffield Hallam to Jared O'Mara of the Labour Party, and Zac Goldsmith of the Conservatives regained Richmond Park from Sarah Olney with a very narrow majority of 45 vParty, and Zac Goldsmith of the Conservatives regained Richmond Park from Sarah Olney with a very narrow majority of 45 votes.

At the same time, no serious political party can tolerate the kind of sniping from the wings and briefings against the leader that we are currently seeing and still remain credible with the voters.

Meanwhile, the fallout from «super Thursday» continued to rock domestic politics, with Scottish Lib Dem leader Tavish Scott quitting his post following the party's «disastrous» results north of the border.

(Unlike with the WFP line, she would not need permission from party leaders to run because she is a registered Democrat, so the threshold to ballot access — while still daunting — is slightly lower).

With so few MPs to pick from it may be that the party has to look beyond Westminster for a new leader who can start the long process of rebuilding the party's standing in British politics.

It's hard to know what will come of the Progressive Conservatives (they went from 61 seats in 2012 to 10 in 2015), but it's very possible that the party will merge with the other conservative party — the Wildrose — once a new PC leader is chosen by the party membership this spring.

It is likely that the new leader will be from the next generation, which will mean an almost total generational shift in leadership in Britain, with baby Boomers out and Generation Jones (the formerly «lost» generation between the Boomers and Xers) taking over in Parliament and party leadership (Cameron and Clegg also come from this generation).

What started as a constituency of one with Erie County GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy grew last week to include elected officials and party leaders from the county next door, Genesee, with Sen. Mike Ranzenhofer becoming the first senator to break with the minority conference and endorse Paladino over Lazio.

The last week has seen frenzied activity from the party, with Treasury spokesman Vince Cable publishing the cuts the party would make to public spending if they attained power and leader Nick Clegg trying to reclaim the mantle of «progressives» from the Tories.

Cox also praised IDC Leader Jeff Klein, who has come under pressure from liberals and mainline Democrats to rejoin the mainline conference or form a new alliance with his party.

Roger Williams, deputy leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, says the party's General Election manifesto will include proposals to increase Wales's borrowing limit from # 500million to around # 1billion - giving Wales's proportional borrowing powers with Scotland.

The party leaders stated these in Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area of the state, when Adekunbi met with women groups from the Ogun West Senatorial District.

Foremost Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, in this interview with OVIE OKPARE, speaks on the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, developments in the Niger Delta region, the restructuring crusade and how Henry Okah's brothers were allegedly controlling activities of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta from prison