The Massachusetts Democratic House Representative announced his retirement this afternoon after serving 16 terms.
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Gowdy and Noem seemed surprised to hear about the White House representative.
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When House Representative Cherie Buckner-Webb (ID-D) was growing up in Boise, Idaho, a local hate group burned a wood cross in her yard.
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House Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican representing the 49th district in Southern California, is also the newly instated chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Gregg also cited his 30 years working without a boss--as a House representative, governor and senator--as a factor, saying he was unsure he'd be a good fit for any Cabinet.
Despite his two memorable defeats in 1960 and 1962 ("You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore"), he won election as a House representative, a senator, a vice president and a president.
Within hours of his party taking the House, Representative John Boehner, the House Speaker-to-be, called it a "monstrosity" and declared he had a mandate to repeal it.
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In the House, Representative Solomon is taking the lead in support of these new reporting requirements.
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Once the Senate completes action on this bill, it will move over to the House of Representative for its consideration.
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Last year, Mr Lawan chaired the House of Representative committee that produced the fuel scam report, accusing some of those who import fuel of massive corruption.
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While the Republican-controlled House of Representative could impeach the President, the trial in the Senate would never result in the 67 votes necessary to remove the President from office.
Finally, I have learned to make the most of our visits to the floor of the House of Representative (two or three times a day for votes) and am usually trying to get co-sponsors on bills or to circulate letters.
This afternoon, the committee will conduct a hearing on the appropriate penalty for violation of House rules by Representative Gingrich.
The bill is sponsored by Republican state Senator Kel Seliger of Amarillo and in the House by state Representative Charlie Geren, who are targeting frequent critic Michael Quinn Sullivan from Texans for Fiscal Responsibility.
And he suggested that departmental select committees might draw on their expertise in policy areas to draft amendments to bills, which could be moved on the floor of the House by a representative of the committee.
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At least three Congressional panels are planning hearings, and House oversight committee chairman Representative Darrell Issa said he had asked five mid-level IRS employees be made available for questioning.
Before joining the Senate, he was a U.S. representative in the House from 1995 to 2007.
Burr, 48, a five-time representative in the House, easily beat two other Republicans in the July 20 primary.
Before joining the Senate, he held elected office as a U.S. representative in the House from 1995 to 2007.
Perhaps you know that Jeff is already a legislator, being a sixth term Representative in the House from Arizona.
Early last year the Senate passed a bill to give DC a full voting representative in the House of Representatives (it already has one who is not allowed to vote, except in committees).
At the moment, no one has taken a more prominent, informed and vociferous role in opposing such self-inflicted wounds than the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Howard "Buck" McKeon .
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The Meeting was attended by representatives of the Pacific state parties to the 2003 ICH Convention as well as Cook Islands experts including representative of the House of Ariki (traditional chiefs), officers at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of education, representative of the Cook Islands Voyaging Society and other civil society organisations.
It will be the first stage in a process of reform to make the House of Lords more democratic and representative.
"We have a representative from the White House that is supposed to come meet with my office a lot, a staff member, " Kinzinger said.
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Waze was prompted into the development after a representative from the White House asked the company earlier this year to push out notifications about nearby gas stations to New York drivers who were struggling to find gas stations after Hurricane Sandy.
"It is impossible for me to explain to parliamentary colleagues how a measure that has had the support of 42 out of the 44 dioceses failed to pass in general synod, " Sir Tony said, questioning whether the election process to the House of Laity was "sufficiently representative".
Obviously our Trade Representative testified on the House side today, saying that the administration would soon send up the language around the South Korea free trade agreement and intensify our engagement to address both Colombia and Panama in hopes that those negotiations could be concluded this year and agreements could then be sent to Congress thereafter.
Gil Shattuck, a state representative in the New Hampshire House, said he has met most of the candidates.
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