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Sun Sentinel
January 12, 2018
U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, has been relentless in keeping Levinson's story alive. The latest move, the Sun Sentinel's Anthony Man reports, ... headline in a Dutch newspaper after a group of journalists grilled new ambassador from the U.S. (and former Republican congressman) Peter Hoekstra.
Chicago Tribune
January 11, 2018
Peter Hoekstra, the newly minted U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, held his first conference with the Dutch media at his new residence in the Hague on ... Dutch journalists peppered Hoekstra, who became Trump's ambassador after serving 18 years as a Republican congressman from Michigan, withÃÂ ...
WHYY
December 26, 2017
There's ample time this week to assess the first long year of the Trump occupation, but perhaps one December incident — featuring Trump factotum Peter Hoekstra — tells us all we need to know about the assault on truth. Hoekstra, a Republican ex-congressman, won the cushy job of U.S. ambassador toÃÂ ...
MLive.com
December 23, 2017
Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra speaks during a Town Hall event for Indiana Gov. and Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence at the DeltaPlex in Grand ... Peter Hoekstra, the former congressman from west Michigan, is off to an awkward start as the new U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.
MLive.com
December 23, 2017
Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra speaks during a Town Hall event for Indiana Gov. and Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence at the DeltaPlex in ... Peter Hoekstra, the former congressman from west Michigan and new U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, apologized Saturday for telling a DutchÃÂ ...
Detroit Free Press
November 10, 2017
Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra of western Michigan was confirmed Thursday as the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands. Hoekstra, of Holland, Mich., was born in the Netherlands and moved with his family to Michigan as a young child. First elected to Congress in 1992, he served 18 years, rising toÃÂ ...
Fox17
November 9, 2017
WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 20: Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), chairman of the House Intelligence ... WASHINGTON — Former West Michigan congressman Pete Hoekstra was confirmed to serve as ambassador to the Netherlands. Hoekstra thanked Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters on TwitterÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
October 31, 2017
Tom Leedham, Carey's warehouse director, remembered Hoekstra as “a congressman who tried to eliminate the forty-hour workweek, and gut overtime ... Not to let the smallest issue slip by that could favor unions, “Representative Peter Hoekstra has proposed,” according to the New York Times, “a bill thatÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
October 26, 2017
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat in the House Intelligence Committee, floated the possibility of a new investigation in response to news that President Trump actively pursued lifting a gag order on an undercover FBI informant so he could testify to Congress about the Russian nuclear industry's briberyÃÂ ...
WOODTV.com
September 27, 2017
A number of the president's appointees to become ambassador had confirmation hearings, including West Michigan's Peter Hoekstra. The former lakeshore congressman served from 1993 until 2011. He was head of the Select Committee on Intelligence and also served on the Committee on Education andÃÂ ...
The Intercept
August 1, 2017
Donald Trump's choice of Pete Hoekstra to represent the United States as ambassador to the Netherlands has alarmed Dutch observers familiar with the former congressman's bizarre and entirely false claim that parts of their country have been surrendered to Islamist radicals, creating “no-go zones” forÃÂ ...
Newsweek
July 27, 2017
Pete Hoekstra, an ex-Congressman and member of the conservative Tea Party movement, is President Donald Trump's pick for ambassador to the Netherlands. The former representative will need approval from Senate and the Hague - often a formality in ambassadorial nominations - and he will return toÃÂ ...
Crain's Detroit Business
July 25, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will nominate former Michigan Congressman Peter Hoekstra to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands. Hoekstra, a native of the Netherlands who grew up in the west Michigan city of Holland, previously served as chair of the House Permanent SelectÃÂ ...
WWMT-TV
July 25, 2017
(NEWSCHANNEL 3) - President Trump has named former Congressman Pete Hoekstra as United States Ambassador to the Netherlands. Hoekstra represented Michigan's second congressional district from 1993 to 2011. Congressman Fred Upton was among several Michigan representatives who urged President TrumpÃÂ ...
Fox17
July 24, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is nominating former Michigan U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra to be ambassador to the Netherlands. That announcement was made Monday evening. Hoekstra, a former representative of Michigan's 2nd Congressional District, served as a co-chair of President Trump'sÃÂ ...
NPR
March 1, 2017
The Two-Way ÷ Italy Grants Partial Clemency To Ex-CIA Officer Over Extraordinary Rendition. Former Michigan GOP Rep. Peter Hoekstra tells NPR the Italians have lifted the arrest warrant under which De Sousa was detained and she may now travel freely within the European Union.
Politico
November 16, 2016
Former Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a potential Donald Trump pick to run the Central Intelligence Agency, previously lobbied on behalf of the Kurdish ... helped organize a meeting with half a dozen company officials when the California representative traveled to the country on a government-sponsored trip.
MLive.com
August 24, 2016
Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra has been named as one of five Michigan co-chairs of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign, the campaign announced Wednesday. Hoekstra, who was first elected to represent Michigan's 2nd Congressional District in 1993 and stepped down from theÃÂ ...
MLive.com
December 23, 2017
Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra speaks during a Town Hall event for Indiana Gov. and Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence at the DeltaPlex in Grand ... Peter Hoekstra, the former congressman from west Michigan, is off to an awkward start as the new U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.
Washington Examiner
November 21, 2017
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called on the House Committee on Ethics to investigate allegations of sexual harassment against Rep. ... Four other former staffers who worked for Conyers said the congressman inappropriately touched female employees, made unwanted sexual advances towardÃÂ ...
Detroit Free Press
November 10, 2017
Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra of western Michigan was confirmed Thursday as the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands. Hoekstra, of Holland, Mich., was born in the Netherlands and moved with his family to Michigan as a young child. First elected to Congress in 1992, he served 18 years, rising toÃÂ ...
Fox17
November 9, 2017
WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 20: Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), chairman of the House Intelligence ... WASHINGTON — Former West Michigan congressman Pete Hoekstra was confirmed to serve as ambassador to the Netherlands. Hoekstra thanked Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters on TwitterÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
October 31, 2017
Tom Leedham, Carey's warehouse director, remembered Hoekstra as “a congressman who tried to eliminate the forty-hour workweek, and gut overtime ... Not to let the smallest issue slip by that could favor unions, “Representative Peter Hoekstra has proposed,” according to the New York Times, “a bill thatÃÂ ...
Amsterdam News
September 29, 2017
"Calling them dogs, dogs," the Texas congressman continued. "Every black person ought to give some consideration, if you get an invitation, as to whether you will go to the White House until he either retracts that statement or does something else to atone, because this requires atonement. This cannot goÃÂ ...
WOODTV.com
September 27, 2017
A number of the president's appointees to become ambassador had confirmation hearings, including West Michigan's Peter Hoekstra. The former lakeshore congressman served from 1993 until 2011. He was head of the Select Committee on Intelligence and also served on the Committee on Education andÃÂ ...
Haaretz
August 2, 2017
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, left, listens as the committee's ranking Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., talks with the press on Capitol Hill in ... We expect the representative of our friend and ally the United States to ...
Fox17
July 24, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is nominating former Michigan U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra to be ambassador to the Netherlands. That announcement was made Monday evening. Hoekstra, a former representative of Michigan's 2nd Congressional District, served as a co-chair of President Trump'sÃÂ ...
Roll Call
April 3, 2017
California Rep. ... The congressman's grandfather emigrated from the Azores, the Portuguese archipelago in the middle of ... to war-on-terror hotspots arranged by Porter J. Goss of Florida and later Peter Hoekstra of Michigan.
WZZM13.com
February 20, 2017
Other Republican names are popping up such as U.S. Reps. ... U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Holland, whom she beat with 59% of the vote.
Raw Story
February 5, 2017
CNN anchor Boris Sanchez held Trump-supporting former U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI)'s feet to the fire in an interview on Sunday. ... The former Michigan congressman insisted that in spite of Trump's assertion that “We ...
Politico
November 16, 2016
Former Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a potential Donald Trump pick to run the Central Intelligence Agency, previously lobbied on behalf of the Kurdish ... helped organize a meeting with half a dozen company officials when the California representative traveled to the country on a government-sponsored trip.
Politico
November 16, 2016
Peter Hoekstra, a potential Donald Trump pick to run the Central Intelligence ... Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Trump supporter as well, told POLITICO ... half a dozen company officials when the California representative traveled ...
MLive.com
November 15, 2016
In this Sept. 18, 2014 file photo, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., questions ...
MLive.com
August 24, 2016
Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra has been named as one of five Michigan co-chairs of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's ...
MLive.com
July 18, 2016
Ed McBroom: McBroom, R-Vulcan, is the state representative for the 108th ... Peter Hoekstra - Hoekstra is a former U.S. representative and is ...
Traverse City Record Eagle
December 31, 1999
The congressman, first elected in 1964, was a founder of the Congressional Black Caucus and replaced Michigan's former U.S. Rep. John Dingell ... Ian Conyers, a great-nephew of the congressman, who said he is running, ... Peter Hoekstra, R-Holland, represented a slice of western Michigan. He alsoÃÂ ...
Haaretz
August 2, 2017
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, left, listens as the committee's ranking Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., talks with the press on Capitol Hill in ... We expect the representative of our friend and ally the United States toÃÂ ...
The Hill
July 24, 2017
Former Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) will be nominated to serve as the ambassador to the Netherlands. Buerkle represented New York in theÃÂ ...
Fox17
July 24, 2017
Hoekstra, a former representative of Michigan's 2nd Congressional District, ... nomination, fellow Republican and current 2nd District Rep.
Roll Call
May 9, 2017
Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, a former House Intelligence chairman who ... Young between his stints as Atlanta's congressman and mayor.
RealClearPolitics
April 4, 2017
... and Australian prime minister—a column in the Wall Street Journal last week by Peter Hoekstra, a former chairman of the House IntelligenceÃÂ ...
NPR
March 1, 2017
Former Michigan GOP Rep. Peter Hoekstra tells NPR the Italians have lifted the arrest warrant under which De Sousa was detained and sheÃÂ ...
Raw Story
February 5, 2017
CNN anchor Boris Sanchez held Trump-supporting former U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI)'s feet to the fire in an interview on Sunday. ... The former Michigan congressman insisted that in spite of Trump's assertion that “WeÃÂ ...
Politico
November 16, 2016
Peter Hoekstra, a potential Donald Trump pick to run the Central Intelligence ... Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Trump supporter as well, told POLITICO ... half a dozen company officials when the California representative traveledÃÂ ...
MLive.com
November 15, 2016
In this Sept. 18, 2014 file photo, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., questionsÃÂ ...
MLive.com
August 24, 2016
Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra has been named as one of five Michigan co-chairs of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump'sÃÂ ...
CNET News
February 6, 2009
That was, until Rep. Peter Hoekstra twittered his arrival into Baghdad. "Just landed in Baghdad. I believe it may be first time I've had bb serviceÃÂ ...
WZZM13.com
February 20, 2017
Republicans would love to see a big-name candidate jump into the race - think former Michigan Secretary of State and U.S. Representative and current Macomb Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller or former Michigan Gov. John Engler - and preferably ...
Raw Story
February 5, 2017
CNN anchor Boris Sanchez held Trump-supporting former U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI)'s feet to the fire in an interview on Sunday.
Roll Call
January 13, 2017
Stabenow defeated longtime Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra by 21 points in 2012. And McNeilly suggested that last November's results in the Wolverine State was as much about the Democratic candidate as about the issues, pointing to the weak turnout forÃÂ ...
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