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New York Times
April 25, 2018
WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told banking industry executives on Tuesday that they should press lawmakers hard to pursue their agenda, and revealed that, as a congressman, he would meet only with lobbyists if they had contributed toÃâà...
Austin American-Statesman
April 25, 2018
Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday ordered an emergency special election for June 30 to elect a U.S. representative for a congressional district that stretches from Corpus Christi to Bastrop and Caldwell counties. The winner will serve out the remaining months of the two-year term of U.S. Rep. Blake FarentholdÃâà...
New York Times
April 25, 2018
A few weeks after the election, the congressman traveled to Trump Tower, where, according to transition officials, he and Trump discussed the possibility ... Provided a list of detailed questions, Jack Langer, a Nunes spokesman, responded: “The 'facts' sent by The New York Times Magazine to check for thisÃâà...
Journal Times
April 25, 2018
Lesko ran against Democratic candidate Hiral Tipirneni for Arizona's 8th Congressional District seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. .... "Twenty-five years ago I left an abusive husband and I sure as heck never would have dreamt in a million years that I would be running for Congress to be a congresswoman.".
Virginian-Pilot
April 22, 2018
Ex-congressman — and ex-con — Michael Grimm leads Donovan by 10 percentage points in the Republican primary in the district that covers Staten Island and part of southern Brooklyn, says a new poll. Grimm is at 49 percent and Donovan at 39 percent among GOP voters, according to a poll by theÃâà...
The Steubenville Herald-Star
April 22, 2018
Call your congressman ... D.C. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Ohio House. U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, 6th District, 1710 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515; ... Atlantic City's Hard Rock casino sets June 28 opening NEW YORK (AP) — Hard Rock will open its Atlantic City .
WGRZ.com
April 21, 2018
LOCKPORT, N.Y. – The FCC says New York State is missing out on federal funding available to help pay for 911 system upgrades because the state doesn't ... FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly, who visited with Votour and Congressman Chris Collins on Friday, calls New York State a diverter for takingÃâà...
Concord Monitor
April 21, 2018
The official blacklist originated from a meeting of powerful Hollywood moguls, producers and industry lawyers at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City in 1947. Motion Picture Association of America president Eric Johnston called the closed-door meeting to discuss the potential consequences of employingÃâà...
Texas Tribune
April 19, 2018
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, praised local and state law enforcement for their swift — and collaborative — response when it came to catching the Austin serial bomber. McCaul, the committee's chairman, compared the information sharing between federal, state and local law enforcement in Austin toÃâà...
New York Times
April 8, 2018
“You've got a Republican congressman, who should know the state law, breaking the law or saying, 'This law doesn't affect me because I'm a ... Referring to the former Democratic congresswoman who was shot outside an Arizona supermarket in 2011, he said: “I'm not going to be a Gabby Giffords.”.
New York Times
April 6, 2018
WASHINGTON — Representative Blake Farenthold, the Texas Republican who used $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment case with his former communications director, abruptly resigned from Congress on Friday afternoon. In December, Mr. Farenthold, who represented the 27th DistrictÃâà...
13WHAM-TV
March 30, 2018
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHAM) - City Councilman Adam McFadden has announced that he is running for Congress' 25th District of New York - the seat previously served by late Congresswoman Louise Slaughter. McFadden shared the news Friday morning on his Facebook profile and later released a statement.
The Steubenville Herald-Star
March 30, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Most Easter Sundays, you can find John Legend at home, helping cook a big dinner for family and ... 'Ready Player One' takes Spielberg back and to the future. LOS ANGELES (AP) — In Ernest Cline's novel “Ready Player One,” the main character drives a DeLorean because .
New York Magazine
March 30, 2018
The congresswoman learned about Kain's allegations days after Baker left the threatening voicemail, yet she did not immediately fire or suspend her chief of staff. Instead, she said she required him to seek help for alcohol abuse and anger management as she commissioned an investigation into the abuseÃâà...
Reporter Magazine
March 29, 2018
She then went on to represent the 130th District in the New York State Assembly and sat in the 185th and 196th New York State Legislatures, before moving on to Congress four years later. Her district was based in Rochester and included most of Monroe County. She served as the Chairwoman of theÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 29, 2018
By authoring a bipartisan letter to Obama as well as members of Congress and the New York State Senate, she ensured that Fort Drum received zero cuts to the 16,000 soldiers located at the base. 2. Focus on 21st century solutions for the next generation: Republicans clearly have a millennial problem.
Newsweek
March 29, 2018
Updated | A top fundraiser for President Donald Trump helped the wife of an influential Republican congressman obtain a State Department job, according to ... Marie Royce and her husband, Representative Ed Royce, attend the 2009 Princess Grace Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street, in New York, onÃâà...
WNYC
March 29, 2018
In recognition of an outspoken champion for women's right and progressive causes, the city is permanently renaming the southeast corner of Bank Street and Greenwich Avenue on Thursday as “Bella Abzug Way” – not far from the Bank Street home where she lived, worked and fought for nearly fourÃâà...
Deadline
March 28, 2018
Congressman Urges Hollywood To Send Donations To Parkland Families, Support Students' GVP Efforts On Social Media .... David Buchalter who is at UTA's recently acquired Greater Talent Network in New York, is also an alum of the school and he used Skype today to hear the Congressman speak.
Esquire.com
March 28, 2018
The last time a member of Congress advocated this approach was in the early '90s when Rep. Major Owens, a six-term congressman from New York, introduced a resolution to repeal the Second Amendment. It's an effort that has gone largely unnoticed, and yet, as we've come to realize in the Trump era,Ãâà...
CBS News
March 16, 2018
New York's Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter has died, her office confirmed Friday to CBS News Radio. At 88, she was the oldest member of the House. Her death follows a reported hospitalization earlier this week from a fall. According to her office, she passed early Friday morning at George WashingtonÃâà...
Hudson Valley News Network
March 9, 2018
“The Hudson River and our area's natural resources are some of our greatest assets, and we have a duty to protect and preserve them,” said New York State Senator Sue Serino. “Congressman Hinchey made the preservation of our environment a priority throughout his career in public service and hisÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
March 9, 2018
Democrats vying to represent the Lehigh Valley in Congress are touting more endorsements — with a California congressman backing Allentown pastor ... to prevail in western Pennsylvania, that would be quite an earthquake, let's face it,” Lehigh Valley Congressman Charlie Dent told the New York Times.
PolitiFact
March 9, 2018
U.S. Rep. Chris Collins said many Americans are already benefiting from the tax law Republicans in Congress passed in December. Collins used the claim to attack House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in a tweet. "Because of #TaxReform, 4 million American workers have received raises and bonuses, andÃâà...
Chief Investment Officer
March 9, 2018
Former Congressman Named Chair of POWER Pension Coalition ... The group currently has seven advocacy campaigns on its website, which will send letters to Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, Indiana, Missouri, and Michigan, and Pennsylvania senators urging they get involved in restructuring policy forÃâà...
Frederick News Post
March 8, 2018
John H. Buchanan Jr., a third-generation Baptist minister from Alabama who served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives as a moderate Republican until being swept out of office by the religious right, then became an activist for the liberal lobbying group People for the American Way, diedÃâà...
WAMC
March 8, 2018
Maloney also said many in the LGBTQ community are recommending that Nixon – who is also gay – reconsider her reported decision to run. Cuomo, who led the effort to legalize same-sex marriage in New York in 2011, is expected to run for a third term this year. "We must remember that Governor CuomoÃâà...
MyPalmBeachPost
March 4, 2018
“Look, all of this is about getting re-elected, and the bottom line is that the NRA has an extremely sophisticated ability to either help you or hurt you from being able to continue to call yourself 'Congressman,'” Rooney told The New York Times' Michael Barbaro. In a half-hour interview that sometimesÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
March 4, 2018
“I really feel a tangible difference,” said Jack Shifrel, a longtime activist in the Broward Democratic Party -- who first political involvement was as a 22-year old, living in New York and working on Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. At the VIP reception politicians sought them out. Candidates forÃâà...
Texas Tribune
March 4, 2018
U.S. Rep. Gene Green and state Sen. Sylvia Garcia pose for a photo in Humble as they knock on doors for her congressional campaign on Saturday, March 3, ... this was a remarkably intimate campaign moment, particularly given that old friend helping her was the seat's retiring congressman, Gene Green.
Scranton Times-Tribune
March 4, 2018
A New York congressman will deliver the principal remarks at the upcoming dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Lackawanna County. U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley, who represents parts of the Bronx and Queens in New York City in Congress, will address the society's 113th annual gathering on March 17Ãâà...
Politico
March 3, 2018
GOTHAM HIRES FORMER CONGRESSMAN: Gotham Government Relations and Communications, the New York lobbying firm that once counted President Donald Trump as a client, is bringing on former Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) as a partner. The hire gives Gotham, which opened a WashingtonÃâà...
Albany Times Union
March 2, 2018
FILE - In this June 10, 2015 file photo, assemblywoman Claudia Tenney, R-New Hartford, speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, in Albany, N.Y. The Republican congresswoman from upstate New York says "many" people who commit mass murder are Democrats. U.S. Rep. Tenney made theÃâà...
New York Times
February 21, 2018
Representative Claudia Tenney, a first-term Republican from Central New York, said in a radio interview on Wednesday that “so many” mass murderers “end up being Democrats.” Democrats immediately condemned her remarks, which came a week after 17 people were killed at a high school in Parkland,Ãâà...
New York Magazine
December 31, 1999
Ohio U.S. Representative Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, was asked by Anderson Cooper if President Trump lies frequently, as James Comey has attested, and as every credible fact-checking organization has proven beyond a doubt. Jordan changed the subject and attacked ComeyÃâà...
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
Nadler quickly made the case to fellow-Democrats that he was the perfect marriage of man and moment: a Trump “archenemy,” as one New York paper called him ... Nadler didn't say so publicly, but his campaign pitch against Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat best known for her work onÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
“It's like Forrest Gump won the presidency,” said a Republican congressman in a conversation that Erick Erickson described last week on The Resurgent. The congressman went on, adding profanities, not reproduced here: “But it's an evil, really stupid Forrest Gump. He can't help himself. He's just an idiotÃâà...
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