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Congressman
Definition:
(n.) A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(2) This has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," Koch spokespeople were quoted as telling the congressman's staff members in a May 20 letter that Waxman sent to Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the Energy and Commerce Committee chair, and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who chairs the Energy and Power Subcommittee.
(3) "I've got the greatest idea of how to raise money for the campaign," he told David Dreier, now a California congressman.
(4) It was intended, however, as a response to more radical reforms proposed by congressman Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, and is likely to have relatively limited impact on the NSA's ability to collect data on US citizens through incidental means, the so-called backdoor provisions , which was seen as a bigger threat as Snowden's revelations continued.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Gays Against Guns protester carries a puppet representing congressman Lee Zeldin.
(6) And in Colorado the fiercely anti-immigration conservative and former presidential candidate Ted Tancredo was comfortably overcome by a more moderate former congressman, Bob Beauprez, in the primary to choose the Republican candidate for the state's governor.
(7) Akin, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democratic senator Claire McCaskill, was asked in an interview broadcast Sunday on St Louis television station KTVI if he would support abortions for women who have been raped.
(8) Testifying before the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, John Lewis, a congressman from Georgia, said the court's ruling had left him devastated.
(9) Thursday 18 October • Abortion is never medically necessary: Representative Joe Walsh (GOP congressman from Illinois) says that abortion can never save a women's life: "There is no such exception [for life of the mother].
(10) Beyond that, MSNBC devotes three hours each morning to a show hosted by a former rightwing GOP congressman and his cavalcade of vapid "centrist" establishment journalists such as Mark Halperin (then again, Fox features the idiosyncratic and unpredictable Shepard Smith each night).
(11) On Tuesday morning, congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, a veteran Wisconsin Republican and author of the Patriot Act, introduced his long-awaited USA Freedom Act, that would stop the NSA’s bulk domestic phone records collection.
(12) Updated at 6.57pm BST 6.49pm BST A congressman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), once lost an arm-wrestling match against Russian president Vladimir Putin , and now he has told the world about it.
(13) Something’s not right when Potus is putting our country on a list with bad hombres Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua,” congressman Carlos Curbelo, of south Florida, wrote on Twitter.
(14) On his return to the GOP, he faced a primary challenge from John E Sununu, a three-term congressman whose father John H Sununu was a former governor of New Hampshire.
(15) Mike Coffman, a re-elected Republican congressman, told the Guardian: "I need to see what other states are doing but clearly if there is a sentiment that is moving nationally to legalise marijuana, then I certainly respect the decisions by the states.
(16) The congressman also denounced the treasury investigation of payments to speakers in support of the MEK.
(17) One Georgia Congressman wants to introduce real federal oversight , but it’s currently very difficult to know exactly which police department has what, how much they paid for it or what they use it for.
(18) My arrival in El Paso, a couple of hundred miles upstream from Presidio, coincided with that of Wisconsin Republican congressman James Sensenbrenner.
(19) Last week, a report by the Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment, which included two former senior US generals, and a Republican former congressman and lawyer, Asa Hutchinson, who served as administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency from 2001 before being appointed in January 2003 as Undersecretary in the biggest division of the Department of Homeland Security, described the practice of torture by the US administration as "indisputable".
(20) At the end of the year, Maury Maverick, a New Deal congressman from Texas, worried that "we have pulled all of the rabbits out of the hat.
Congressmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Congressman
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, two US congressmen proposed a bill known as the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act that would declare a national park on the surface of the moon to protect the Apollo landings.
(2) The catalogue of blunders produced an angry response from congressmen in both parties who questioned the competence of Pierson, who was herself brought in to clean up the elite unit after earlier scandals in which drunken officers were found passed out during a presidential trip to Amsterdam and visiting prostitutes in Colombia.
(3) Paul argued that the Obama administration had “trampled the constitution” and needed to listen to congressmen such as himself.
(4) Chaffetz expressed his dissatisfaction with the status quo in the House GOP caucus and said: “Realistically, we can’t vote to promote the existing leadership.” He also suggested that while McCarthy could muster support from a majority of House Republicans in a secret ballot, he would be unable to get the absolute majority of congressmen in a vote on the floor of the House.
(5) Two congressmen today introduced the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky bill, named after Hermitage Capital's 37-year-old lawyer, who died last year in a Russian jail without access to medical help when he was seriously ill. Magnitsky had been imprisoned two years ago by Russian officials following an alleged $230m (£143m) tax fraud involving Hermitage Capital.
(6) Border agents defy courts on Trump travel ban, congressmen and lawyers say Read more Trump’s executive order, signed on Friday, shut US borders to people from seven countries – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen – for 90 days.
(7) Separately, Anaconda Copper and other multinationals, under the aegis of David Rockefeller's Business Group for Latin America, offered $500,000 to buy influence with Chilean congressmen to reject confirmation of Allende's victory.
(8) The president is both head of state and head of the federal government, without a guaranteed majority in either of the legislative bodies where new laws are debated and voted upon (because presidents, congressmen and women and senators are elected separately).
(9) All three topics will be at the core of Ghani’s discussions with US officials and congressmen.
(10) Based on our research, the primary purpose of that group was to elect Tea Party candidates for Congress in 2010 and defeat congressmen who had voted for the Affordable Care Act.
(11) Last month, when the Department of Health and Human Services declined to provide details on how many people are covered, Congressmen Dave Camp and Kevin Brady accused Sebelius of misleading the House.
(12) Comey was back before Congress this week - this time in front of the House Appropriations Committee - imploring Congressmen to pass a law that would force tech companies to create a backdoor in any phone or communications tool that uses encryption.
(13) Border agents defy courts on Trump travel ban, congressmen and lawyers say Read more Now, America is repeating its mistakes of the past.
(14) Angry congressmen, meanwhile, are clamouring to slash the $3bn (£1.83bn) annual aid it gives to Pakistan.
(15) On 24 July, more than 200 Congressmen voted in favour of legislation to ban the bulk collection of US telephone records , a narrowly-defeated bill that shocked defenders of the NSA and united libertarians on the right with liberals on the left.
(16) Several congressmen expressed outrage at bonus payouts of $18.4bn by Wall Street banks during 2008 – a year in which two firms, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, collapsed and others struggled to stay afloat.
(17) The congressmen asked for the information to be released to the committee immediately.
(18) Slowly but surely I got my bearings straight: meet with staffers (the guys who work for the Congressmen behind the scenes), not Congressmen, and talk to those with a vested interest in privacy reform.
(19) According to a source present at a closed-door strategy session attended by nearly 300 Republican senators and congressmen, the former prime minister argued that force would be needed in what he called a “generational” struggle, but more important would be a “global alliance to teach tolerance” as millions of people in the Muslim world are systematically being taught to be intolerant.
(20) Congress goes straight to the source -- the insurers Unwilling to wait for the Department of Health and Human services to release the final numbers, some congressmen are taking the matters into their own hands.