Sentences with phrase «leader of the house jack»

Leader of the house Jack Straw, who is overseeing the reforms, is pushing for a 50:50 split between elected and appointed members.

Ministers have not officially commented on the bill, although the leader of the house Jack Straw this week implied he was sympathetic towards it.

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Trump held a meeting with a group of high - profile business leaders at the White House early Friday, including Elon Musk, Jack Welch, EY Global's Mark Weinberger and Stephen Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group.

Former Labour minister Jack Straw was forced to withdraw a remark calling leader of the House Andrew Lansley «a tad disingenuous».

Jack Straw, former leader of the House, said Hague's motion was «an underhand measure to try and undermine the incumbent in the chair».

Jack Straw, leader of the House of Commons, has called for caps on party spending to stop politics turning into a marketing exercise.

Cullen, who supported Trump's rival Jeb Bush during the race for the Republican presidential nomination, also represented Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican and former majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, during the investigation into corrupt Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Lib Dem shadow leader of the house David Heath said: «Jack Straw has fallen foul of a Tory party professing a desire for reform but doing all they can to frustrate the means, as well as the jurassic elements in his own party who are no more interested in reform.»

The next 12 months will see a series of small celebrations to mark the event, and today Scottish secretary Douglas Alexander and leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw will unveil a commemorative # 2 coin.

Leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw today performed a u-turn and abandoned his proposals to allow MPs to vote on the House of Lords reform using a preferential voting system.

Yesterday he held a meeting with Harriet Harman, leader of the House, Jack Straw, justice secretary and various civil servants.

In a new white paper, leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw set out proposals to finish the reform of the Lords that Labour started when it came to power in 1997.

Jack Straw, leader of the House of Commons «The Conservative party has lost one of its stars and this House has lost a great parliamentarian.

Commons leader Jack Straw is having another throw of the dice more than a decade after Tony Blair promised to do it, eight years since a «halfway house» was created and four years after voters were presented with the farcical sight of MPs throwing out seven options and leaving the government with no policy at all.

Biden, who has been the lead negotiator for the budget talks, sat down earlier this month with Republican and Democratic leaders, White House Chief of Staff William Daley and Budget Director Jack Lew to hammer out a deal which would reduce spending and fund the government.

* Alistair Darling, Chancellor; Alan Johnson; Home Secretary; David Miliband, Foreign Secretary; Lord Mandelson, Business Secretary; Bob Ainsworth, Defence Secretary; Yvette Cooper, Department of Work and Pensions; Ed Balls, Children's Secretary; John Denham, Communities Secretary; Andy Burnham, Culture Secretary; Peter Hain, Welsh Secretary; Douglas Alexander, International Development Secretary; Hilary Benn, Environment Secretary; Lord Adonis, Transport Secretary; Ben Bradshaw, Culture Secretary; Harriet Harman, Leader of the House of Commons; Jack Straw, Justice Secretary; Ed Miliband, Energy Secretary; Shaun Woodward, Northern Ireland Secretary; Baroness Royall, Leader of the House of Lords; Tessa Jowell, Cabinet Office Minister; Jim Murphy, Scottish Secretary; Liam Byrne, Chief Secretary to the Treasury;

White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew (left), and Jarrod Bernstein (right), the White House Jewish - outreach director, met for the first time with Jewish leaders at the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York office this morning.

Other people spin in and out of Jack's orbit, most notably wife Pam (Kelly Preston) and Tom DeLay (Spencer Garrett), the former Bush - era House Majority leader recently convicted of money laundering.

On June 11, 2008, the House of Commons met in the Committee of the Whole to allow the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, the Leader of the Opposition, Stéphane Dion, Jack Layton, the leader of the New Democratic Party, and Gilles Duceppe, leader of the Bloc Québecois to each offer apologies for the harm done to First Nations and other Aboriginal students through their residential school experiLeader of the Opposition, Stéphane Dion, Jack Layton, the leader of the New Democratic Party, and Gilles Duceppe, leader of the Bloc Québecois to each offer apologies for the harm done to First Nations and other Aboriginal students through their residential school experileader of the New Democratic Party, and Gilles Duceppe, leader of the Bloc Québecois to each offer apologies for the harm done to First Nations and other Aboriginal students through their residential school experileader of the Bloc Québecois to each offer apologies for the harm done to First Nations and other Aboriginal students through their residential school experiences.