Sessions was
elected to the Senate in 1996 and serves on the Judiciary Committee.
It's doubtful president -
elect Donald Trump will honour the commitment; on the campaign trail, he raised the possibility of dismantling America's Environmental Protection Agency altogether.
He published an op - ed in 2008 criticizing Keith Ellison, who had become the first Muslim
elected to congress.
He noted that he expects there to be a «more positive U.S. manufacturing business environment under President -
elect Trump,» but he said he «absolutely» would have done the same thing if Trump had not been elected.
«We're a bit hesitant on the ability of [President -
elect Donald] Trump to, one, get legislation passed in the time frame that the market is expecting and, two, the impact of that legislation if and when it is passed,» says the global macro strategist for Pavilion Global Markets in Montreal.
However, President -
Elect Trump has publicly stated that he will not stand in the way of state legalization of marijuana,» says Thorburn.
Lockheed came under fire from then - President -
elect Donald Trump in late 2016, when he slammed the program as too expensive.
Toyota Motor (tm) on Thursday said that company President Akio Toyoda met with U.S. Vice President -
elect Mike Pence in Washington earlier this week as the incoming U.S. administration pressures automakers to build more cars locally.
President Trump burnished his populist credentials on the campaign trail by regularly bashing the industry, pledging if
elected to bring down drug costs.
Cagle, who has earned an A + rating from the NRA every year he has served in
elected office, said companies should take different action than punishing the NRA.
Nearly 70 percent of Americans who voted for President -
elect Donald Trump and 89 percent of Hillary Clinton voters support mandatory paid family and medical leave, according to a post-election poll of 2,000 voters by the Center for American Progress.
If you're Thiel, you can abide all those things if you think Trump is what he actually may well be: a potential president so terrifying that a generation of Americans will come to fear the very idea of presidents — as well as the way that America
elects them.
There is already concern in Hollywood over how President -
elect Donald Trump's incoming administration will affect the U.S.'s relationship with China.
If she were to write the Democrats» autopsy for 2016 - and she'll have a hand in it as one of the newly
elected co-chairs of the House Democrats» policy and messaging arm - she says her message would be to «not only talk about jobs and the economy, but do something about it.»
CREW is suing the president for violation of the emoluments clause, which forbids
elected officials from accepting payments from foreign governments.
«I support President Trump and the platform upon which he was
elected.
The facts: Most of these investment initiatives were in the works before Trump was
elected.
At a rally in Texas last week, however, the candidate expanded on his dislike of the press, and said that he planned to make it easier to sue the media if he is
elected president.
Comey said the collusion inquiry began last July as part of a broader probe into Russian meddling in American politics, meaning Trump was
elected president as associates remained under investigation for possible connections to Russia.
He declared that Moore was «ghost - chasing» because he played a «key role» in getting Trump
elected.
In the key swing state of Ohio, Ted Strickland was
elected governor as a pro-gun Democrats in 2006, but largely reversed his views on guns before challenging incumbent Sen. Rob Portman this year.
The failure of far - right populist Gert Wilders to win the recent Dutch election was a boost for the EU but a threat awaits in the prospect of French President Marine le Pen, a far - right anti-immigration candidate who has promised to hold a referendum on France's EU membership if
elected, the same promise Cameron made.
Elected officials can see the fault lines in Canada's housing market just as well as anyone else — but fixing them is too politically unpopular
Elected representatives of all stripes will continue to stridently claim that their quick - fix schemes and economic master - plans can jump - start economic growth.
And if I didn't get
elected, believe me, they would have left.
As news spreads that President -
elect Donald Trump has picked Senator Jeff Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, for the role of attorney general of the United States, the state - legal cannabis industry is worried about Sessions» anti-marijuana rhetoric.
The finale ends with Jon laying in a pool of his own blood, stabbed to death by the men he was
elected to lead.
Beckwitt, 58, who was also
elected to Lennar's board, has been with the No. 2 U.S. homebuilder for the past 12 years and moved to the role of president in 2011.
But AT&T assumed that the recently
elected President Ronald Reagan would eventually drop the suit and rejected the offer.
As for General Motors and Ford, their plans were set in motion before Trump was
elected, and the companies said the decisions were not influenced by politics but by market forces.
The president -
elect had tweeted in 2014 that Obama's support for net neutrality was a «top down power grab» that would somehow «target conservative media» — there is no basis to this assertion, as net neutrality does not allow anyone to target any particular online service or media outlet; that's the point.
The creator of Romania - based misinformation site Ending the Fed, cited by Buzzfeed as responsible for four of most viral false election headlines on Facebook, told Inc. in November that he created the U.S. politics website with the intention of helping Trump get
elected.
A day after he was
elected to the post, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras objected to any further sanctions against Russia surrounding its support of separatists in Ukraine.
... Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should
elect as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who was likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?»
The board also
elected Chief Financial Officer Bruce Gross as the new CEO of its unit, Lennar Financial Services.
Bornstein's note claimed Trump would be the «healthiest individual ever
elected» and that his laboratory tests were «astonishingly excellent» — wording that appeared to mimic the vernacular of one Donald Trump.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: Not Enough
Elected Officials Are Using Their Voices for Equality
Conservative news website Breitbart News has gotten a lot of attention since Donald Trump was
elected, in part because former Breitbart chairman Steve Bannon is now a senior strategist advising the president.
On Monday he met Indonesian President -
elect Joko Widodo, who used social media extensively in his campaign.
And all small businesses that attend will interact with federal government officials, local
elected leaders, representatives from national businesses and other small business experts.
Federal officials have clarified that Petronas is welcome to keep trying, and the company has
elected to extend its bid to do precisely that.)
Automakers mindful of President -
elect Trump's attacks are highlighting their investments in the U.S.
The CAQ has come out swinging with the promise of balancing the province's budget within a year of being
elected.
The Carnegie Report, so named for industrialist Sir Roderick Carnegie's role as inquiry head, was the first major piece of economic advice the newly
elected Court Government received.
«During the Trump Administration, we will shift from playing defense at the FCC to going on offense,» Ajit Pai said in December last year, a month before president -
elect Donald Trump appointed him as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
If he fulfills the pledges he made as President -
elect, the results could be catastrophic.
Shareholders
elected a smaller board with three new members, and voted down six shareholder proposals.
«Not enough of
our elected officials are using their voice with due force and eloquence to elevate the ideal of equality.»
The Republican candidate repeatedly said during his long presidential campaign that if
elected he would not allow Ford to open a new plant in Mexico and would slap hefty tariffs on any Ford vehicles made in Mexico.
In the meantime, Americans can only hope that their national
elected representatives show an equal willingness to face up to and take responsibility for their failures, pettiness, and insistence on putting partisanship ahead of the country's manifest and urgent needs.