Sentences with phrase «obama administration official»
«So far, they've failed at every state of this, and at every level of the organization,» said Ari Ratner, a former Barack Obama administration official who now runs Inside Revolution, a strategic communications firm.
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Now, the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy has apologized... a rare act for an Obama administration official.
A senior Obama administration official said that the United States had pressed hard for a public commitment from China and was relieved that it had delivered.
Rud, does that mean that the Obama Administration official that mindlessly kept repeating the «97 % of climate scientists» mantra at a Congressional hearing to specific questions should have said «43 %?»
An Obama Administration official would not rule out shutting down the government over the UN «Green Climate Fund.»
An Obama administration official said he's encouraged by state plans developed to «ensure equitable access to excellent educators,» as required in 2014 by the U.S. Department of Education.
The report, written by former Obama administration official and current CAP Executive Vice President Carmel Martin, CAP's teacher policy director Lisette Partelow and CAP's vice president of education policy Catherine Brown, points out different ways to make teaching a more desirable profession.
«We expect to win reelection, and then we're hopeful we can get it done in 2013,» says Obama administration official.»»
That's precisely what Bellwether analyst (and former Obama administration official) Chad Aldeman surmised, telling Education Week's Alyson Klein that they didn't have a choice, that the new guidance is «using the same language and tools that NCLB allowed.
My Bellwether colleague (and former Obama administration official), the always straight - shooting Chad Aldeman, called it a «big ole nothing burger» that had «no real ambitions» for 95 percent of the nation's schools.
And the APS's route to its 2015 statement has been dogged by controversy and its own internal politics, including a coup d'état that led to the resignation of Steve Koonin, the head of the climate statement review committee and a former Obama administration official.
Former Obama administration official Ammar Campa - Najjar raised $ 176,000 and reported $ 299,000 in cash on hand at the end of the fourth quarter.
«It's not unrealistic at all, given the amount raised and spent in 2008 and the amount Republican interest groups and 527s will spend against him,» said a former Obama administration official.
But Democrats have what they consider two strong candidates in former Obama administration official Ammar Campa - Najjar and retired Navy SEAL Josh Butner.
In Issa's district, the party already has four well - funded challengers: Sara Jacobs, a former Obama administration official who boasts the endorsement of EMILY's List; Paul Kerr, a real - estate investor with a talent for raking in campaign cash; Doug Applegate, a veteran and attorney who narrowly lost to Issa in 2016; and Mike Levin, a lawyer.
LAS VEGAS — It wasn't lost on the 2,100 liberal activists gathered in Las Vegas at Netroots Nation for the annual four - day confab that the only Obama administration official who made the trip this time was Treasury Secretary Ray LaHood — a Republican.
Cuomo's probe also must resolve what if any role prominent Democrat Steve Rattner, an Obama administration official, took in the scandal.
Retired Navy SEAL Josh Butner raised $ 175,000 and former Obama administration official Ammar Campa - Najjar raised $ 170,000.
Alexandria, Virginia (CNN)-- A few hundred Mormons filed into a chapel just outside the Washington Beltway one recent Sunday to hear a somewhat unusual presentation: an Obama administration official recounting his conversion to Mormonism.
«So far, they've failed at every state of this, and at every level of the organization,» said Ari Ratner, a former Barack Obama administration official who now runs Inside Revolution, a strategic communications firm.
It may simply be, as one Obama administration official suggested, that the Sinaloa leadership is «more conscious of their brand.»
An offer for the studio from a group of investors led by former Obama administration official Maria Contreras - Sweet failed to produce a deal earlier this year, after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil lawsuit against the company and demanded more compensation for Harvey Weinstein's victims.
Shulkin, a former Obama administration official, had years of experience and was the only Cabinet member unanimously confirmed by Congress.
Among that chorus of voices, Lael Brainard, a former Obama administration official and since June 2014 a Fed governor, has become a central figure in shaping the image of a Fed that errs on the side of caution when interpreting data and events.
The United States government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of diffuse risks, a senior Obama administration official said on Tuesday.
In a letter sent to Rice, the lawmakers said it was «odd» she felt the need to send «such an unusual email purporting to document a conversation involving President Obama and his interactions with the FBI regarding the Trump / Russia investigation» to herself on her final day as an Obama administration official.
Mabus is one in a pattern of Obama administration officials to make the jump to Silicon Valley.
Obama administration officials told NBC News the White House believes its message was clear and effective and ensured there was no Russian meddling on election day.
The move follows reports that Obama administration officials thwarted drug prosecutions related to Hezbollah for fear of jeopardizing a nuclear deal with Iran.
THE FACTS: Ryan is right, judging by testimony from Obama administration officials at the hearing a day earlier.
Last year The Washington Post, in a report on the NTCT's disposition matrix, noted that Obama administration officials believe that U.S. global kill / capture operations «are likely to be extended at least another decade.
Last fall, in response to increasing scrutiny surrounding its role as a central instrument of Russian election interference, Facebook hired top aides to former Obama Administration officials (Biden, Kerry), as well as the former chief of staff for Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia.
On Thursday, Ruch's watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett's behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have «actively persecuted» him in violation of policy intended to protect scientists from political interference... In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.
Congressional Democrats and Obama administration officials haven't yet seen the House bill, but they apparently aren't happy with what they know about it.
Offering no evidence to back up his claim, the president said former national security adviser Susan Rice may have committed a crime by seeking the identities of Trump associates who were swept up in the surveillance of foreign officials by American spy agencies and that other Obama administration officials may also have been involved.
Susan Rice, the top national security adviser to former President Barack Obama, says it is «absolutely false» that she and other Obama administration officials used intelligence reports to spy on Trump associates for political purposes.
Former President Barack Obama warned Trump against hiring Michael Flynn to be part of his national security team when Obama met with his successor in the Oval Office two days after the November election, two former Obama administration officials said.
Democrat Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Trump, but some Republicans in Congress are intensifying their calls to investigate her and other Obama administration officials.
Obama administration officials provided no details about the program's costs or where the money would come to pay for it.
Williams, whose campaign has also released policy details, earned endorsements from Obama administration officials, including Bill Richardson, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Pete Rouse, former White House Chief of Staff, and Melody Barnes, former Director of the Domestic Policy Council.
He added, «The timing is curious — the fact that they're [Obama administration officials] leaving office in a few weeks.»
MANHATTAN — Obama administration officials will be meeting with hundreds of local parents, teachers, students and community leaders at a bullying prevention summit Saturday to address the safety of Asian American, Pacific Islander and Muslim American students.
Top Obama administration officials publicly warned Sunday that mandatory quarantines in the U.S. of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who have traveled to Africa to help Ebola patients risked worsening the epidemic.
Newly disclosed emails show top Obama administration officials were in close contact with Clinton's nascent presidential campaign in early 2015 about the potential fallout from revelations that the former secretary of state used a private email server.
(CNN)- Top Obama administration officials involved in the troubled roll out of the Obamacare website got an earful from Senate Democrats in a closed meeting on Thursday.
Obama administration officials including Rahm Emanuel and Kathleen Sebelius met privately in the Capitol with Democratic senators Tuesday.
He also spoke more frequently with Obama administration officials than many other Republicans.
Obama administration officials will join hundreds of local parents, teachers and students Saturday to address the bullying of Asian American, Pacific Islander and Muslim American students.
Obama administration officials and university presidents applauded the news.
Several top Obama administration officials also testified today, including U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Jon Wellinghoff.