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...least maneuver to suspend - if not yet revoke - the rules while it seeks to overturn them. The Administration could also seek to withhold funding from certain regulations. Last, as part of the Congressional Review Act, which went into force in 1996, the White House can ask Congress to vote down any rule finalized after a certain date, which would include all the midnight regulations. But that law has been used successfully only once since it was enacted, and exercising it would take valuable energy away from Obama's legislative agenda...
...think clients you represented as an associate are relevant ... I think how you vote is relevant." - On her work as an attorney for Philip Morris, in the Albany Times-Union...
...Twice voted against the $700 billion TARP bailout bill and was the only Representative from New York to vote for the May 2007 funding bill for the Iraq war. She has described her congressional voting record as "one of the most conservative in the state...
...personal and nasty: a domestic-violence-related police report about her opponent was leaked late in the race, accusations flew that Gillibrand actually lived in a New York City apartment, and both sides ran numerous negative TV commercials. Gillibrand was re-elected in 2008 with 62% of the vote - more than $10 million having been raised for that contest. Her district, the 20th, is heavily Republican...
...Appointed to the U.S. Senate seat vacated when Muskie rose to become Secretary of State in 1980, and won election to a full term in 1982. Became the Senate majority leader in 1988 with a staggering 81% of the vote. Occupied the role until...