Sentence examples for floor representative from inspiring English sources

On the House floor, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the minority leader, hailed Ms. Giffords's return.

On Tuesday, when the debate commenced on the floor, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat of Texas, said: "This bill has been vetted.

"We're not going to let Gephardt run the floor," Representative Thomas M. Davis III, the Virginia Republican who heads his party's re-election effort told reporters.

On the House floor, Representative Joe L. Barton, Republican of Texas, who opposed the bill, argued that it was unnecessary given that Congress had created programs like the Victim Compensation Fund.

On the House floor, Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said, "Instead of a new strategy for Iraq, the Bush administration is cherry-picking the data to support their political objectives, and preparing a report that will offer another defense of the president's strategy".

On the floor, Representative Rob Bishop, Republican of Utah, interrupted the House's scheduled proceedings to urge that a special subcommittee of the Select Committee on Intelligence be formed to reconcile the recollection of Ms. Pelosi and the position of the C.I.A. and others that she was told of the tough interrogation tactics.

Meanwhile, on the House floor, representatives were chanting, making speeches, and singing; after a couple of attempts to regain control, the Republican leadership had formally called a recess, but the sit-in continued.

Another proposal, suggested earlier by Ed Miliband, has been to put a shop-floor representative on the boardroom remuneration committee.

When union activism revived in 1912, unionists agitated for legal shop-floor representatives and collective labour contracts.

While the experiment soon lost favour with the government, it gave workers new experience with collective bargaining and grievance procedures, and it led to their demands for the right to choose shop-floor representatives and to strike.

While Nancy Pelosi entertained Paul with Thomas the Tank Engine figures during the lengthy vote to choose the House speaker, Alexandra Pelosi worked the House floor, hugging Representative Patrick Kennedy, chatting with Representative Lois Capps and engaging in a long discussion with a bow-tied Representative Earl Blumenauer, with whom she has talked for years about making a film on poverty.