Sentence examples for congressman something from inspiring English sources

If he'd stayed in office, what parent of a teen-age girl in Queens would encourage her to write to her congressman — something any girl should be able to do, and that can be the beginning of a life in politics?) Second, he lied in an outright way.

His partisan adversary, a powerful Ohio congressman, wanted something in return: deep spending cuts.

It provides another benefit, too: helping the Democratic congressman run something akin to a permanent political campaign.

As we reported last week, their choices for replacing veteran Senator Tom Harkin are Joni Ernst, a telegenic Republican state senator and Iraq war veteran, and Bruce Braley, a liberal Democratic congressman and something of a bungler.

And companies that build weapons have so thoroughly dispersed their subcontracts around the landscape that almost any congressman has something to lose by taking on the military products of a colleague's district.

"You see what's what, who's where, what congressman could do something.

The congressman, 62, has something of the tom-cat about him: it is possible to imagine him ruling a maze of alleys, with many scars and a torn ear.

He's a hot-shot Congressman now -- something that's clearly important (maybe too important) to his wife, Jessica (Morena Baccarin) -- and he's got an inside line to the man he very nearly blew to smithereens, Vice President William Walden (Jamey Sheridan).

(And at least the Gang of Four brought an economic empowerment zone to Harlem, something Congressman Towns pretended to want to do in the mid-1990s for Brooklyn, then mysteriously backed away from, instead endorsing then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's re-election bid, with Brooklyn never hearing about that zone again).

But it will take some partisanship and some serious wheeling and dealing on Obama's part to get enough congressmen on board, something he should do while the iron is still hot -- while the Baucus bill is still being talked about as the dud it is.

Ms. Clarke said the congressman accused her of something she has never done.