| At least rural candidates left the standing-room-only caucus meeting with some snappy quotes, though some were cringier than others. |
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| I mean I've got my own ideas and I'll be part of that but our caucus will decide that. |
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| I wonder whether the senior Government whip is giving that message to his Ministers and to his caucus. |
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| The accusations came at a news conference called by the caucus to address the issue of press freedom. |
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| The party's caucus had held the closed-door meeting to discuss ways to counter the opposition lawmakers' plans. |
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| The National Party President was once sledged by Parata at a meeting for saying they would bring more women into the National caucus. |
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| The position of Chairperson rotates annually among the groups and the regional groups caucus regularly during the Commission's annual session. |
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| It is about he being the acceptable Maori candidate and the biggest ariki in the caucus. |
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| Since the summer break, each caucus has put forward its own proposals for legislative reform. |
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| Both parties require their parliamentary leaders to be elected or re-endorsed by caucus every three years. |
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| He is the fountainhead of patronage, which mutes any criticism from his parliamentary caucus. |
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| I can say that when I attended my first two or three Labour Party caucus meetings one could cut the air with a knife. |
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| Unions held separate meetings on Sunday morning to consider the draft deal, whereafter they met in a joint caucus prior to the planned meeting. |
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| As I mentioned earlier in this debate, the New Zealand First caucus has allowed its members to have a free vote on this bill. |
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| And I think on that issue the caucus has to say, no, we will have a deliberative process and look at options to give us a real reform bill. |
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| What are the ideas that a new Kerry administration would draw from the congressional Democratic caucus? |
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| Manzo said the meals were catered lunches or dinners for the caucus on days when the Legislature was in session. |
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| But the KMT caucus yesterday said it was opposed to the use of radical methods in dealing with the issue. |
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| The answer to that is no, because, in that context, everyone from a parliamentary caucus to a bikie gang has a psychological attachment. |
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| After the presidential preference vote, several precinct officers are elected who serve as officiators for the rest of the caucus. |
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| The Secretary General of the United Nations had called for an emergency United Nations Security Council caucus due to the blackout. |
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| If the caucus decide that's the way to go, or not to go, it's a majority decision. |
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| An opposition party's legislative caucus can coordinate its members in policy promotion. |
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| The legislator said that although he respected the caucus decision, he thought it was making a mountain out of a molehill. |
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| However, the party's legislative caucus countered the media reports during a press conference yesterday morning. |
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| There are now more former front-bench members of the National caucus than there are people currently sitting on the front bench. |
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| The Green Party was unavailable to verify the number of delegates at its precinct caucus. |
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| How can a caucus of National Party members sign off on that and give that mandate to their leader? |
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| Most caucus designees in the state are already committed to other candidates. |
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| The Alliance's parliamentary leader, Jim Anderton, successfully insisted that the party's parliamentary caucus support the troop dispatch. |
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| Are we not watching with great interest the little internecine fights that are already developing within their caucus? |
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| Progressive Democrats revolted in the House caucus, stiffening resistance to the Republican bill. |
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| In addition, the caucus will serve as a clearinghouse for information and a sounding board for ideas brought forth by the nursing community. |
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| If the members of the Conservative caucus are incapable of seeing this, I can only say that they are out of touch with reality in Quebec. |
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| I assure you that was a facetious comment about the ostrich caucus. |
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| And in the dynamics of the Iowa caucus that Teflon devotion could bring her victory. |
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| The Tea Party caucus she helped found to much fanfare in 2011 is now dormant. |
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| By contrast, the remaining six independent lawmakers, without the backing of a caucus, virtually stood no chance to serve as convener of any legislative committee. |
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| This tie came about because all the Republican electors dutifully cast their votes for Jefferson and Burr, the two candidates endorsed by their party caucus. |
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| For government members, caucus is the opportunity for MPs not in the Cabinet to make a pitch for their views or that of their constituents. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the hard truth is that the PM's own caucus now admits that the budget does not honour the accord. |
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| I am disinclined to recommend that my caucus support this bill as it stands. |
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| My understanding is that his caucus was all over the map on this issue and on many other issues in the last few days so he should be used to it. |
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| His cardinal virtues are, if I may say so, a great inspiration to our caucus. |
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| The Conservative aboriginal caucus wants AFIs to be part of the loan loss reserve program. |
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| A famous singer in Canada, when she was involved with the Toronto Women's caucus in the early 1970s, was under RCMP surveillance. |
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| Three weeks from the caucus, Newt, Romney and Paul are in the top tier with Perry and Bachmann clawing to get back in. |
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| Fully half his caucus did not come out against this bill when it was passed. |
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| I would also like him to comment on why fully half of his caucus, back when this bill was put through, did not come out against this bill. |
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| It is a housekeeping amendment and the NDP caucus gives it the good housekeeping seal of approval. |
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| We have heard member after member revile the NDP caucus because we are propping up these corrupt Liberals. |
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| It brought forward some very new and important points on issues that we have discussed within our caucus. |
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| With a deeply divided caucus and his carbon tax trick to defend, it is no surprise the Liberal leader is backing down. |
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| We have a national housing strategy that is inclusive of women developed by our women's caucus. |
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| Some important elements within my own caucus and wider party were dead set against any coalition with either the Liberals or the Conservatives. |
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| Born from a crisis of indirection, the last meeting in effect has given the moribund francophone caucus new life. |
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| Also this week, he keynoted a fundraiser for Progress Iowa, an influential liberal group in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. |
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| The fate of most councils or committees is to grow too large to be effective and to be replaced by an executive or inner caucus, like a series of Russian dolls. |
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| The result would give Democrats their smallest House caucus since before the Great Depression. |
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| Your advice in this matter is politically simplistic and dismissive of the serious concerns of many members of our caucus. |
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| Local 378 did meet with the Liberal caucus and found the MLAs to be dismissive of our issues. |
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| Mr. Speaker, Canadians are watching in disbelief as a desperate PMO is resorting to pitbull tactics to cover up scandals within its own caucus. |
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| I hasten to add that some of their own members were outside of caucus for remarks seen as unbecoming. |
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| Perhaps caucus members felt that increasing the future incidence of bastardry was a price worth paying in the effort to put the nightmare behind them. |
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| Mr. Speaker, today members of the Liberal caucus met with representatives from polytechnic schools across Canada. |
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| The member held a number of positions within her caucus. She made a major contribution to parliamentary debate and repartee, I must say. |
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| In short, a minister will have been thrown out of caucus and then taken back without a reason being given. |
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| His own caucus members came out of their Wednesday meeting fuming, let alone selling it to all Canadians. |
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| The other four parties slated to join the Tories' new Eurosceptic caucus are tiny and may or may not be in a position to redeem their pledge. |
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| She also said the party would not be giving interviews about possible discrepancies until the caucus vote is certified. |
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| They knew he was making a mess of government and had lost support in the caucus. |
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| The Iowa caucus is really just to show preference, it does not result in selection of a national delegate as the primaries do as explained here. |
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| He divided his own caucus and he got the opposite answer from the one he was seeking. |
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| How is it that he did not tell the journalist that it had been proposed that he rejoin the caucus? |
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| Republicans came out of the Iowa caucus more scattered and less mobilized than the Democrats. |
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| Participation in the Prime Minister's caucus Task Force on Urban Issues took place in several cities. |
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| The new executive can work closely with the caucus and labour movement to build the NDP in the run-up to the next election, Lunny says. |
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| In a country where six of 10 voters already think the government is too big, the wacko bird caucus has got a lot of room to fly. |
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| In the House, new representatives mean that women and people of color will outnumber white men in the Democratic caucus. |
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| The floor leader, selected by the party caucus, has the job of managing his party on the floor of the Senate or House, and must show leadership, courage, strategy, and a knowledge of the rules. |
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| An independent, Angus King, went on to win and to caucus with the Democrats. |
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| Christie was always the logical choice to be the candidate favored by the boom-boom caucus. |
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| And when we have been spared such tragedy, it has happened precisely because presidents have stood up to the bully caucus. |
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| Throughout the race, the businessman, rancher, and former Democrat has vowed not to caucus with either party if he won. |
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| Pat Robertson finished second in the 1988 Iowa caucus, and it was all downhill from there. |
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| Both are considered marginal figures in the House GOP caucus and have no real base of support for their respective bids. |
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| The House caucus appears to be far more populist, feisty, and ready to push the debate on economic issues than it has in the past. |
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| Now, the Memphis congressman is one of only a handful of white Southerners in his caucus and the once Solid South is deep red. |
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| On June 18, 1971, the caucus threw its inaugural dinner at the Dunbar Hotel. |
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| You hear about it ceaselessly from the Tea Party caucus and Republicans generally. |
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| He will need the popular support of his caucus to oust or severely discipline and demote Jones and do it in such a way as to keep Jones from jumping waka. |
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| No one would mistake Chris Christie for a charter member of the kumbaya caucus. |
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| I bet National does not start its caucus meeting with a karakia. |
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| She has our wholehearted support and the absolute respect of this caucus. |
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| With members of the media present, the caucus makes them wait for seven minutes outside while they devise a game plan. |
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| At the largest caucus in the Show-Me State held, in St. Charles County, the first attempt at selecting delegates ended in chaos. |
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| The GOP leadership is already losing control of its restless, dissatisfied caucus. |
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| Remember, John Boehner lives in fear of being braded a sell-out by his caucus, and of Eric Cantor taking his job. |
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| And finally, according to our neocon war caucus, we're supposed to let this guy bomb Iran, eh? |
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| Joined by her husband Todd, they will view the feature-length Palin documentary in the first caucus state on Tuesday. |
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| Starting with the House, Speaker John Boehner was largely successful in keeping his fractious caucus largely in check. |
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| The Gingrich shutdown haunts the GOP leadership, not the newer, more radical lawmakers in the caucus. |
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| But the histrionics in that caucus are simply a prelude to an ultimate cave. |
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| Half the GOP caucus will be hopping mad at him if he does let a clean CR get to the floor. |
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| Of course, this risks a rebellion in the far right of his caucus, which would likely cost him the speakership. |
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| He leaves his tanning bed for a meeting with his caucus only to find himself in a Tea Party tank of crazed ideologues. |
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| She is popular within the Democratic caucus, and there is no apparent Machiavellian maneuvering to unseat her. |
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| I suspect that every Opposition MP would give his or her eye teeth at the moment to listen in on a Labour Party caucus that is tearing itself to pieces. |
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| Christie will vie with Romney for primary and caucus votes chiefly in the North and to some extent in the Midwest. |
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| As it is, the unions always run slates of candidates during the board's elections and hold caucus meetings before board meetings to discuss how teachers are going to vote. |
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| Then Cruz rounded up some of the far-right members of the House GOP caucus and plotted a revolt. |
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| In most precincts, a candidate needs to get the support of 15 percent of caucus goers in that precinct. |
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| He told them the party had offered an olive branch and reconciliation to Lucky after she introduced professional and personal integrity at their caucus. |
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| Although the party's legislative caucus apologized for the low turnout of DPP members yesterday, they said they shouldn't shoulder all of the responsibility. |
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| Beijing has caused the two sides of the Strait to drift further apart and seriously hurt the feelings of the Taiwanese people, the caucus said in a statement. |
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| This proposal was discussed in a joint Canada-Mexico-USA caucus where a planning committee was struck to start the process to organize such an event. |
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| Wisely reluctant to admit the rabble into her office, she set up camp first in the too-small government caucus room, and then in the resplendent old legislative chamber. |
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| It is very clear that the ideal world is an ivory tower right now within the Liberal caucus. |
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| His chapters on getting nominated, on campaigning and on life in caucus are revealing, particularly for the political neophyte. |
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| But in practice the 17 euro countries – many of which are economically illiberal – will discuss market rules among themselves and caucus. |
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| I would hope the member would at least stand up in his caucus if he cannot do it publicly and decry that bill. |
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| So maybe a whole bunch of members of the House Republican caucus want to come over and socialize more. |
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| I thank those people I implored a few months ago to free up as many observers from our caucus as possible. |
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| What the leader of that party said to his caucus was that the plan was in the offing long before the stimulus issue came out. |
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| What kind of Prime Minister postures about protecting charter rights while overruling the very charter rights of his own cabinet and half of his caucus? |
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| I fully anticipate that a rough draft of its report will be available for distribution to members of the committee before the end of August so that in autumn caucus meetings the matter may be discussed further. |
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| A couple of my colleagues mentioned earlier that members of our caucus were not necessarily gung-ho that this should be one of our lead issues, particularly on an opposition day since we do not get that many of them. |
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| Commensurately, the United States has established a caucus to build direct relations with Wales. |
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| Though both representatives are technically independent politicians, they caucus with the Democrats. |
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| The chair of the rural caucus and the rural caucus members went to the Minister of Agriculture and asked for a private meeting afterwards with the leaders of the CFA, the OFA and the OCA, which we had. |
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| At each caucus, any candidate who does not gain the support of a certain percentage of the attendees — typically, fifteen per cent — is considered nonviable, and supporters may disband and align with other candidates. |
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| They cannot rant and rave and pretend to defend the hunt in Atlantic Canada, yet sit silent while other members of their caucus attack the hunt in Ottawa. |
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| By the same token, Republicans occasionally break with their caucus. |
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| If members of the Liberal caucus believe their conduct is of the highest standard and capable of withstanding the most intense scrutiny, there should be absolutely no objection to that kind of decision. |
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| I will give one example that my caucus mates have shared. |
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| The consummate professional and team player, Richard was part of the glue that kept the Liberal caucus together in the best of times and the worst of times. |
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| Clutching a charcoal briquette in his fist and raising it defiantly over his head, McConnell received a standing ovation from the Republican caucus. |
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| The government, that is to say the premier, his cabinet and his caucus, may take a particular position and can get on their soapbox, television or on talk shows and argue their position persuasively. |
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| I am not even remotely convinced that any member of his caucus or, for that matter, any member from the Bloc Québécois, would be inclined to alter his or her vote one way or another with respect to that information. |
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| Worse still, and this is perhaps the most important point, when the Conservatives do manage to dig an idea out of their own caucus, it is almost universally panned by everyone else. |
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| What I have heard from some women in my caucus, colleagues who have much more experience than I federally, is that they believe the bill would further handcuff them by not allowing them to borrow from family. |
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| At the other end of the Capitol, the Republican Speaker almost always keeps from the floor any measure disfavored by a majority of his caucus, even if a majority of the House itself supports it. |
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| My colleague from Abitibi explained, in caucus, that this government was spineless, had no backbone, when the time came to defend the aboriginal peoples and ratify an international declaration. |
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| My friend and your caucus colleague Senator Oliver succinctly and colourfully expressed it some time ago by saying that our constitutional role is to be a watchdog, not a lapdog. |
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| He also said that the former minister of state for the status of women, for unknown reasons, was told to clean out her desk as a minister and caucus member, a caucus her husband once chaired. |
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| A lot of Canadians and a lot more sober-minded caucus members from the opposition are wondering why exactly he was lured into this unholy pact with the socialists and the separatists. |
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| I would suggest that the Liberals call together their shrinking caucus, have a secret meeting, talk about all the scandals that are still yet to come forward, bring those out and we will have a massive omnibus full inquiry. |
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| We are so pleased with the success we have achieved and the support we have received from our caucus colleagues, the members on the government side, in getting us over the goal line. |
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| In fact, his Countdown program was preempted for the live caucus coverage. |
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| When they return to Ottawa in the autumn, the caucus may prove obstreperous, perhaps blocking social measures, such as an overhaul of the Indian Act. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the Conservative government refuses to come clean about why it demoted the former minister for the status of women and expelled her from caucus. |
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| The lowly rated four-hour block on caucus night preempted his show. |
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| It is the kind of dialogue and cooperation the government is so unwilling to engage in that it has to write a book on obstructing committee business then distribute it to its caucus. |
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| Likely caucus goers were more middle aged than Republican nonattenders, with both the oldest and youngest cohorts slightly underrepresented. |
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| In this case Mr. Jaffer, the former Conservative caucus chair, did not register as a lobbyist because he was technically not being paid upfront to lobby on behalf of his client. |
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| All this comes from a party that lured a member of the Conservative caucus across the floor with a cushy cabinet appointment in order to win a vote. |
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| The Conservatives do not repeat what is said in caucus here, and they do not want to talk about it here, but they are getting ready to change things. |
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| However, to get to that point, there will need to be a lot more courage and lucidity in his caucus and a good dollop of co-operation among the opposition parties. |
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| However, the member for Winnipeg South is the leader of the anti-abortion caucus inside the Conservative caucus, fighting a rearguard action and trying to hold the government back. |
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| Perhaps the hon. member and her caucus could explain why they are voting against a budget that will in fact help the mentally ill, help the homeless, help our cities, help the middle class, lower income and all Canadians. |
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| They have been sitting on this for a year because they are using it now as an attempt to distract from their own leadership issues and to distract from the problems they are having within their own caucus. |
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| The bill would allow a leader of a party to deal with an individual member of a caucus who, for example, was being a bit of a rabble-rouser or detrimental to the caucus. |
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| I'll caucus with everybody, I like them all. In contrast, the Republican campaign is a disquisition on how a united delegation has brought home the bacon for the state. |
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| The proposed amendment, driven by Brazil's powerful ruralist congressional caucus, seeks to shift the power to demarcate land – or not – to Congress. |
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| Iowans relish their status as the first-in-the-nation caucus, and are proud of what they see as their unique peek behind the facade of presidential campaigns to decipher the real candidate. |
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| Students also sent copies of their letters to NAWL and to MP Carolyn Bennett, who has been instrumental in setting up an all-party caucus of women from the House and the Senate. |
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| What we have said in this caucus is that we should ensure that the research is done before we open the floodgates to products for which we are not certain are entirely safe. |
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| The gathering will be the first real retail politics event of the caucus cycle, featuring seven Republican presidential hopefuls. |
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| The no votes in the GOP caucus didn't just include the usual suspects. |
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| The hon. member, the NDP caucus and the Conservative caucus have been collaborating very well on the anti-spam legislation, despite the efforts of the Liberals and the Bloc to cave in to corporate interests. |
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| In the governing Liberal party, a women's caucus meets weekly to discuss the legislative agenda, and to hear from Ministers and the Prime Minister. |
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| The establishment of a Democracy Fund is an important step in the right direction, and further measures could include the establishment of a caucus of democracies' within the General Assembly. |
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| But it quickly became apparent the numbers in caucus were moving against her and shortly before the vote factional powerbroker Bill Shorten announced he was reluctantly shifting his support to Rudd. |
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| I have the support of my colleagues in caucus and my leader. |
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| Maybe he can finagle a vote before the rage caucus gets fully into gear. |
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| It was pitiful how Liberal members from Quebec who tried to get out of a tight spot, extend moratoriums and find money elsewhere, were finally crushed under the weight of their caucus. |
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| The wacko bird caucus overlaps pretty well with the Tea Party. |
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| To solve the present crisis, he pledged not to convene the interparty caucus discussion on the CSSTA before the CSAS law was legislated. |
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| Since the spring of 2002, four of the 38 MPs who were elected as Bloquistes on November 27, 2000, have ceased to be members of the Bloc Quebecois caucus. |
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| The party caucus is much stronger and the Dixiecrats have subsided. |
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