Sentences with phrase «administration officials talk»

U.S. Small Business Administration officials talk with NAR about efforts to make the agency's loans more readily available to REALTORS ® and to their clients.

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He should be staying at the White House, taking phone calls, getting briefed, talking to his Cabinet, talking to local officials, and putting his administration in a position to respond where needed.»

The Federal Aviation Administration is holding twice daily phone calls with airlines to talk about airport conditions, but does not plan to close the Miami airport on Friday, officials said.

Flynn had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other administration officials about what he and Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the US, talked about in phone conversations during the transition — according to reports, they had discussed the Obama administration's sanctions against Russia.

They show that political considerations influenced the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the Sept. 11 assault, with State Department and other senior administration officials asking that references to terror groups and prior warnings be deleted.

Top administration officials are visiting Beijing this week for talks aimed at reducing America's huge trade deficit in goods with China, which fell 11.6 percent in March to $ 25.9 billion.

WASHINGTON — Top Trump administration officials are arriving in China this week armed with tough talk about Beijing's need to change its trade practices.

The temporary solution has been the subject of quiet negotiations between Mr. Trump's legislative staff and members of Mr. Ryan's staff, according to an administration official familiar with the talks.

Senior Trump administration officials involved in the talks about the spending bill are prepared to concede that in the main, the fight over funding for President Trump's border wall will now be put off until the fiscal 2018 negotiations.

Bloomberg writes that administration officials have already begun talks with congressional leaders about the new approach.

But Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, who has been visiting Beijing, said on Saturday that Chinese officials she met, including Mr. Liu, «have not deviated from their talking points» about the Trump administration's tariffs.

Against the prudent, realistic, hard - boiled legalists in the Kennedy administration like Byron White and Burke Marshall, a federal official of conscience and egalitarian conviction like John Doar (an Eisenhower holdover) emerges from Branch's account as a lonely, embattled and courageous figure: a «man who talked like Gary Cooper» and acted like Gary Cooper in the streets of Jackson, Mississippi, where he calmed an angry mob following the murder of Medgar Evers.

As talks on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ramp up, members of Congress continue to urge President Donald Trump and administration officials to remain engaged and ensure a modernized agreement will maintain and add benefits to agricultural industries, including dairy.

The ag industry has expressed concern about how the Trump administration is handling international trade talks, but two officials recently sought to calm those worries.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration is talking with Amtrak about re-routing some of its trains to Grand Central Terminal from Penn Station amid major repairs there this summer, officials said.

The courtroom drama of the Joe Percoco corruption trial has served as a stinging indictment of Albany, a city of back - room dealings and back - scratching, fund - raisers and favors, where money talks and Cuomo administration officials have listened.

In a sign that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election will remain a continuing distraction for the White House, the special counsel, Robert Mueller, is in talks with the West Wing about interviewing current and former senior administration officials, including the recently ousted White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration is talking with Amtrak about re-routing some of its trains to Grand Central Terminal from Penn Station amid major repairs there this summer, officials said.

President Donald Trump will tout the accomplishments in his first year of office and talk about infrastructure and immigration initiatives he's sending to Congress in his State of the Union address Tuesday, a senior administration official said.

Cuomo confirmed that talks in recent days have seen the inclusion of a provision creating a commission to look at — and recommend — new salary levels for lawmakers as well as agency commissioners and other top administration officials.

Exelon officials have said they are willing to provide the fuel to buy time while Exelon talks with Entergy about the longer term possibility of acquiring the reactor or managing it under contract, according to the administration source, who requested anonymity.

Preparations are underway to bring senior North Korean representatives to the United States for talks with former American officials, the first such meeting in more than five years and a sign that Pyongyang sees a potential opening with the Trump administration.

On Monday, an anonymous Cuomo administration official trashed legislators who have begun talking about more oversight hearings and a firmer stance against him.

Administration officials said the state is having positive talks with federal officials and is confident about winning approval for the plan this year.

Notwithstanding the state's ongoing studies of alternatives to Indian Point, in meetings between state officials and Entergy representatives early last month, P.S.C. chairwoman Audrey Zibelman offered no other significant alternatives and indicated that the state was waiting for someone from the Cuomo administration to make a decision, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the talks.

And according to State Sen. John Bonacic, administration officials arrived late to talks about two outstanding pieces of gambling legislation: a bill to regulate daily fantasy sports and another to re-privatize the New York Racing Association.

New York's junior senator and the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration swung through upstate New York Monday to hold a series of roundtable talks with small business owners and economic development officials.

The courtroom drama has nonetheless served as a stinging indictment of Albany, a city of back - room dealings and back - scratching, fund - raisers and favors, where money talks and Cuomo administration officials have listened.

With budget talks with Congressional leaders at a standstill, administration officials highlighted direct student loans and education spending last week in the first of several planned news briefings to outline President Clinton's negotiating positions.

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Malloy administration officials are so excited about the notion of a budget surplus that they are talking about proposing a targeted election year tax cut to win over middle - class voters even though the state faces a projected $ 3.2 billion combined deficit over the three fiscal years following this year's election.

After our exchange I emailed Ficarra later Wednesday with my specific questions about the $ 3.2 million, why the mayor kept it out of his budget, whether the administration was negotiating with state officials on the matter, and what happens if any talks fail?

reporters, who would then dutifully report that anonymous administration officials believed Saddam Hussein had acquired aluminum tubes as part of his nuclear weapons efforts... and then Cheney would go on all the Sunday morning talk shows and get to say, «Don't take my word for the aluminum tube stuff — even the

The document, dated March 11, essentially provides talking points for administration officials to use in the months leading to the next big climate - treaty conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December.

Nov. 3, 2017 7:08 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP)-- A massive U.S. report concludes the evidence of global warming is stronger than ever, contradicting a favorite talking point of top Trump administration officials, who downplay humans» role in climate change.

His transition team at the Department of Energy has asked agency officials for names of employees and contractors who have participated in international climate talks and worked on the scientific basis for Obama administration - era regulations of carbon emissions.

But the official, who spoke anonymously because of the delicacy of the matter, called the carbon intensity figure «disappointing,» and said that the administration hoped it represented a gambit that would be negotiated upward at Copenhagen or in subsequent talks.

Obama met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, at the beginning of the talks and the two leaders were in regular telephone contact throughout the meeting, administration officials said.

Several times at the talks now going on in Milan over a global warming treaty, Bush administration officials have portrayed states» actions to curb heat - trapping gases as evidence of American resolve.

White House officials talked about what the administration needs to focus on, how to promote clean energy to the American public, and how to get funding to clean tech.

Coming through a variety of sources all through the afternoon, not the least of which is the AP talking to Obama administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity, is word that a new

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