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Tag Archives: Leadership Transitions

Mitch McConnell to step down as top Senate Republican at the end of this Congress

Excerpt: The eighty-two year-old Kentuckian announced in a speech on the Senate floor that he will hand off leadership of the caucus to somebody else at the end of this Congress and become a backbencher for the remainder of his current term ending in 2027.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Recently hired Sound Transit CEO Julie Timm departing agency to care for her father

Excerpt: Timm will be leaving the agency in order to return to the East Coast to take care of family matters, the agency announced in a statement.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Ranking and ready to chair: Rick Larsen is set to be the top Democrat on the U.S. House’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

Excerpt: Larsen will succeed outgoing committee chairman, Oregon’s Representative Peter DeFazio, who is retiring after serving thirty-six years in Congress. He beat out D.C.'s Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton for the committee's top Democratic spot. Larsen has served as chairman of the panel’s Aviation Subcommittee.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Councilmember Dave Upthegrove will be the 2023 Chair of the King County Council

Excerpt: “My priority will be to support and strengthen our democratic institutions and demonstrate that democracy can work,” Upthegrove said in a statement published by the Council. “Our guiding value will be respect. This means respect for one another, for our exceptional staff, and for the people we serve.”
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Joe Fitzgibbon elected Majority Leader of the Washington State House of Representatives

Excerpt: “I want to thank my colleagues for their continued trust and confidence in me," said Fitzgibbon. "More than ever, our caucus is reflective of the many diverse communities that make up this great state, and that ultimately makes the work we do better.”
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Thank you, Speaker Pelosi

Excerpt: Our team at NPI thanks Speaker Pelosi for her tremendous contributions to our country. As she said, quoting Scripture, for everything, there is a season. The time is right to pass the baton to a new generation of leadership and celebrate an incredible run that secured the passage of legislation American families needed.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Patty Murray set to become the first woman elected U.S. Senate President Pro Tempore

Excerpt: "It’s not lost on me the significance of what it would mean to be the first woman to serve in this role," said Patty Murray. "I have a great deal of respect for the Senate and the good I am able to accomplish for families in Washington state as a voice and vote for them."
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David Eby set to take over from John Horgan as British Columbia’s next Premier

Excerpt: David Eby, forty-six, will be sworn in as British Columbia’s thirty-seventh premier at Government House in Victoria on November 18th, culminating the trickiest political surgery in a parliamentary system of government – the head transplant.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Sound Transit will get a new CEO next year: Peter Rogoff to depart in 2022, agency says

Excerpt: In an early evening press release, Board Chair Kent Keel said that Rogoff will remain as CEO until mid-2022 and then hand over duties to a yet-to-be-announced successor that the board hopes to find through a national search. 
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