Sentences with phrase «federal offices president»

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In Trump's first six months in office, federal agencies issued rules at less than one - fifth the average rate under President George W. Bush.

The President boosted the number of federal regulations affecting small businesses by 13 percent during his first term in office, leading governmental regulation and red tape to overtake sales, taxes and the cost / availability of insurance as small business's biggest problem, respondents to the National Federation of Independent Business small business survey explain.

The president said agents «broke into» Cohen's office, even though a federal judge approved the FBI's search warrants

Presidents are exempt from federal ethics rules, though most recent holders of the office have sold off their financial holdings and put them in trusts as if the rules did apply to them.

The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) released a new report on Wednesday that details how references to our changing climate and greenhouse gases have been erased from federal webpages since President Donald Trump took office.

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

WASHINGTON - Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester moderates «Financial Innovation and Macroprudential Policy» panel before the Financial Stability and Fintech Conference organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the Office of Financial Research and the University of Maryland 1330 GMT.

«After being AWOL and failing to stop Wells Fargo's decade - long illegal conduct, the President of the San Francisco Fed should not be promoted to be president of the most important regional office in the entire Federal Reserve System,» Better Markets President Dennis Kelleher said in a sPresident of the San Francisco Fed should not be promoted to be president of the most important regional office in the entire Federal Reserve System,» Better Markets President Dennis Kelleher said in a spresident of the most important regional office in the entire Federal Reserve System,» Better Markets President Dennis Kelleher said in a sPresident Dennis Kelleher said in a statement.

President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was reportedly wiretapped by federal investigators in the weeks leading up to the raids on his home and office in early April, two people familiar with the legal proceedings told NBC News.

President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen's phones were tapped weeks before federal investigators executed a search warrant on his office.

Trump and his allies fear that documents and recordings that the FBI swept up from Cohen's home and office could come back to haunt the president, whose lawyers have joined Cohen's in New York in asserting attorney - client privilege and are asking a federal judge to approve an independent review of the material.

President Donald Trump blasted the Monday raid by federal authorities of the home, hotel, and office of his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen as «a disgrace» and «an attack on our country.»

NEW YORK — Federal investigators logged the phone calls of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, in the weeks before they raided his Manhattan home, office and hotel room, according to a report Thursday.

NBC News reports that federal authorities have been monitoring the phone lines of Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, since before the raids on Cohen's offices and home.

Federal law does not prohibit the president's involvement in private business while in office, even though lawmakers and executive branch officials are subject to conflict - of - interest rules.

As I said last week, the Federal Reserve Board has two vacancies that President Trump can fill as soon as he takes office.

In her new office, Patton will oversee the disbursement of billions of dollars in federal housing funds to the states in which the president's company owns the most property.

It is overseen by the Executive Office of the President and receives input from 13 federal agencies.

As New York Fed president I try to get out of my New York City office as much as I can to get a sense of regional economic conditions across what is known as the second Federal Reserve District.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

President Trump asked a federal judge Sunday night to allow him to review documents that FBI agents seized from the office of his longtime lawyer before criminal investigators have a chance to see the material.

When Paula Jones sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment 20 years ago, the Supreme Court set the precedent that a sitting president can't push off a federal case until after he leaves office.

President Barack Obama signed an executive order Wednesday clarifying the ground rules for religious groups partnering with the federal government through the White House's controversial faith office.

President Bill Clinton came into office with 3,083,000 and by the END of his TWO TERMS he reduced the number of Federal employees to 2,703,000.

Furthermore, the President established the first - ever advisory council within the White House Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which advises him on how the federal government can better partner with faith - based organizations.

When President Obama first took office, faith - based groups were especially concerned that organizations that discriminate in hiring based on religious beliefs would become ineligible for federal funding.

Everett Piper — the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, which sued the federal government over the ACA birth control mandate — and Montse Alvarado — executive director of Becket, a leading religious liberty law firm which represented the Little Sisters of the Poor in their contraceptive fight — spoke at the HHS announcement and applauded the new office, as did Jewish and Muslim representatives.

Evangelical institutions suing the federal government over the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate expected that their legal battle would end when President Donald Trump took office.

I can't wait till our gay president leaves office, then I'm gonna laugh laugh laugh when gay marriage is banned at the federal level.

For Devine — Daley's top deputy in the state's attorney's office, former Chicago Park District Board president and now a highly respected trial lawyer in private practice — that could include a federal judgeship or even U.S. attorney in Chicago if Jim Burns steps down.

Omishore said, «The attention of the office of the President of the Senate has been drawn to demand for more details regarding the earnings of senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

On the request by State Governments for a refund of amounts owed by the Federal Government, Mr. President directed that claims be subject to verification by the Debt Management Office and a team was established and given the mandate to scrutinise claims and reconcile with available records.

«The still high incidence of punishable hate posting shows a need for police action,» Holger Münch, president of the Federal Criminal Police Office, said in a statement.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

A HUD spokesman denied reports that the president had appointed Lynne Patton, an event planner who arranged Eric Trump's wedding, to lead the regional office that oversees federal housing in New York.

Michael Cohen, President Trump's embattled lawyer, appeared in a courtroom in Manhattan today as prosecutors and Cohen's lawyer continued to argue over the fruits — and future — of the extraordinary raids that federal agents conducted last week on Cohen's office, home and hotel room.

A federal judge in Manhattan appointed a special master to review material seized from the office of President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen.

Nwokocha - Ahaaiwe, a legal practitioner had alleged that Buhari was not qualified to aspire for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria because he did not sit for the Cambridge West African School Certificate, WASC, in 1961 as he claimed.

So while many federal employees serve at the pleasure of the president and swear an oath to office (not the person) of the presidency, none are shielded from the law for their actions.

There is currently a federal law against non-citizens voting in an election for a federal office (president / vice president, senator, or representative), but there is no federal law against non-citizens voting in any other state or local election.

Walter Shaub, the leader of the federal government's ethics office who previously criticized Trump over the president's business interests, submitted his resignation today.

As Ben notes, former City Council President and longtime New York political insider Andrew Stein was indicted on tax charges out of the Manhattan federal prosecutor's office, part of a large bust involving a financial adviser to the stars.

-- Invited the first openly gay couple to stay overnight in the White House — Encouraged her husband to fight the AIDS epidemic to the tune of $ 5.727 billion that was spent by the federal government by the time President Reagan left office — Sent a special message in support of Log Cabin Republicans that was read at our 2013 Spirit of Lincoln Dinner.

Even the president must abide by the limits that the Constitution and federal laws grant to the office, unlike a monarch, and part of the judiciary's job is to see that s / he does.

The push is modeled after a federal program that has ended since President Donald Trump took office in January.

Faced with a sprawling investigation by the special counsel in Washington, President Trump must also contend with an independent - minded office of federal prosecutors in his hometown, New York, who are investigating his longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen.

The Immediate past National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki retired has said that in all his dealing in the office he was only answerable to the President of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan.

Borough President Katz also proposed relocating the Queens Field Office to the vacant space available in the Addabbo Federal Building in Jamaica, Queens.

2017 State of the Borough Theme: «The Borough of Growth, The Borough of Families» Urges Re-Opening in Queens of Federal Citizenship Office; Borough - Wide Plan for Bike Lanes Proposes Soccer and Hockey Stadium at Willets Point Site; ULURP for NYC Hotel Permits; Parks Designed for Seniors JAMAICA, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz delivered her third annual -LSB-...]

He further said that as the NSA, he was in charge of collating security issues and reporting to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as demanded by the law that established the Office of the NSA.