Sentence examples for members clout from inspiring English sources

Far from causing embarrassment, the new transparency has raised the value of earmarks as a measure of members' clout.

Even though organized labor has lost members and clout in recent years, the AFL-CIO remains a formidable force in political campaigns and on Capitol Hill – it has single-handedly snarled Barack Obama's efforts to get Congress to bless the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation accord under negotiation.

It won't affect each member's clout in Congress, or in the statehouse, or on the State Board of Education, where every vote counts the same.

There is little doubt that the nurses' union, which has 400,000 members, has political clout.

"Really," she asked, "are you kidding, Governor Brownback?" Established arts institutions often find it easier to secure government assistance because they are prestigious and have board members with political clout.

Although artists and educators are still represented on boards, cultural institutions spend much of their energies trying to secure members with financial clout, people who often have a prominence that can attract donors from outside New York.

Founded to bring public art to New York's parks and buildings, the society — then as now largely made up of upper-class board members with political clout — eventually came to concern itself with the entire cityscape, from parks and streets to historic buildings and new construction.

Do the members have enough clout to push through urgent reforms on the economy?

"The [tech] industry is so busy trying to reinvent the political wheel that it's neglecting the users who have the most clout — members of Congress," he says.

So while John McCain talks a good game about military families and his concern for Walter Reed, it says a bit more that he's opted to have his own care conducted at Bethesda Naval Medical Center and by a private personal physician at the Mayo Clinic -- something that troops and family members with less clout and cash aren't able to do.

At the time, as a junior member with little clout, Ryan was a reliable Republican vote for policies that were key in causing enormous federal budget deficits: sweeping tax cuts, a costly prescription-drug entitlement for Medicare, two wars, the multibillion-dollar bank-bailout legislation known as TARP.