Sentences with phrase «obama appointees»

Obama appointees seek to impose ideological control over our energy, economy and property Guest Post by Paul Driessen Gina McCarthy, President Obama's choice to replace Lisa Jackson at the Environmental Protection Agency, has been chastised for having lied to Congress, in claiming that EPA did not use «dangerous manmade climate change» to justify -LSB-...]

Obama appointees at the EEOC are busy harassing businesses that hire and fire based on merit, thus discouraging employers from hiring or expanding operations, and the EEOC is bringing costly, unjustified lawsuits against businesses.

As for the tax - dodging (cheating) Obama appointees: they should all be brought to justice, and made to pay all back taxes with interest and penalties applied to the fullest extend of the law — just like if it were you or me.

February 29, 2012 • Obama appointees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture say grants and loans supported by its Know Your Farmer initiative are a win - win that create new jobs and more locally produced food.

Republicans who have been critical of DOE and of Obama appointees to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) are likely to press both agencies on exactly how the Yucca Mountain project was terminated.

As has become standard practice for Obama appointees, Suresh announced his departure in a lengthy letter that lists his many accomplishments.

The job market is about to get even more crowded for Washington Democrats, as thousands of Obama appointees join the hundreds of Clinton campaign staffers looking for employment.

Accused wrong - doing by Obama appointees has been going on for a long time now, not just since the memo.

Trump initially asked the widely - respected Bharara, an Obama appointee, to stay on in the job but then abruptly fired him without explanation.

You've urged the Federal Reserve, under Obama appointee Janet Yellen, to use its power to force all 12 members of its board to step down, which she hasn't done.

It was the latest hill on a bureaucratic roller coaster that began with the abrupt departure on Friday of Richard Cordray, an Obama appointee who helped the agency aggressively expand its powers to punish rule - breaking companies.

Obama says he believes in an individual right to keep and bear arms, but if even one of the non-liberal Justices is replaced by an Obama appointee, you can be sure that we will have an anti-Heller and anti-individual right majority on the Supreme Court.

Here is a Obama appointee making the claim that there are other factors that each of us brings to the table that cause us to think, rule, interpret and govern in some ways that are different.

An Obama appointee, Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, ruled that Indiana's refusal to pay $ to Medicaid providers that also perform abortion interferes with Medicaid recipients rights to choose their own health care providers.

VA Secretary David Shulkin has proved to be something unique in President Donald Trump's Washington: an Obama appointee nominated by Trump who is beloved by almost everyone and getting stuff done.

VA Secretary David Shulkin has proved to be something unique in Trump's Washington: an Obama appointee nominated by Trump who is beloved by almost everyone and getting stuff done.

The New York Times first reported that Bharara was among the U.S. Attorneys asked to resign by Dana Boente, acting deputy attorney general — who rose to his position after Trump fired Sally Yates, another Obama appointee, for refusing to defend his Muslim travel ban.

Bharara, an Obama appointee President Donald Trump publicly asked to stay on in November, tweeted from his personal Twitter account at 2:29 p.m. Saturday that he had been fired.

Since, there has been speculation that the crusading crime fighter — an Obama appointee who also scored big wins against the mob, Wall Street swindlers and cybercrooks — was looking to get into politics himself.

WAMC's Political Observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts with David Guistina on the new lock box challenge which now includes WAMC's First Amendment Fund, President Trump firing his acting Attorney General and Obama Appointee Sally Yates, and President Trump naming his Supreme Court pick today.

Of course, Obama appointee Arne Duncan was familiar with how government agencies work, having run the Chicago school system.

Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur, former CEO of National Grid and the sole remaining Obama appointee, tweeted her support for Powelson's statements.

Speaking at the launch event for the plant, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Dr Julio Freedman, an Obama appointee to the US Department of Energy, told the audience: «I truly believe [this] is a historic event.»

He's «rallying his people» against a single Obama appointee who seems to be badly distorting the truth.

An Obama appointee 2nd and 3rd hand whom nobody in the «intelligence community» will back up?

Although Grant — if confirmed — will be replacing an Obama appointee, Julie Carnes, the replacement will not likely have an immediate effect on the ideological balance of the court because Carnes herself most frequently votes in divided cases with her more conservative colleagues (as did the judge that Lisa Branch replaced, Frank Hull).

Not exact matches

That's not to say Obama shared Pai's views — rather, the president was abiding by the convention that the minority party gets to nominate two appointees to the five - seat commission.

The ruling by O'Connor, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, gives an initial victory to the states, which filed their lawsuit amid building national conservative backlash to the Obama administration's stance on transgender rights.

Shortly before assuming office last year, Trump broke with tradition by ordering all of former President Barack Obama's political appointees to leave their ambassadorships immediately after the inauguration.

Trump fired Yates, an appointee of President Barack Obama, as acting attorney general within his first 10 days in office.

In just half a year, Trump and his appointees have dismantled many of President Barack Obama's policies to combat climate change and reduce the nation's reliance on fossil fuels.

If the economy deteriorates in the L - shaped «hockey - stick» rut that many economists forecast, what political price will President Obama and the Democrats pay for having returned the financial keys to the Bush Republican appointees who gave away the store in the first place?

We have no way of knowing whether that accusation is true or not (and there are some reasons to doubt it), but the implication is that Rosenstein, a Republican Trump appointee, is somehow part of the same Clintonite - Democratic - Obama administration plot against Trump.

But maybe as a former appointee of Obama, Hunstman has a sense of the inevitability of incumbency in this upcoming election.

The complainants lost with the unanimous judgment of a panel of three judges — two appointees of Obama and one of Clinton.

In January, Obama's political appointee at the Department of Health and Human Services issued the contraception mandate.

Because of my participation on this blog, which bears the name conservative (albeit postmodern), I have evidently not yet made it on the list of potential appointees to the Obama team.

As the Obama Administration's most high - profile Jewish appointee, Lew has served as the White House's point person for outreach to the Jewish community.

The lawyers were going into court to defend clients like the Little Sisters of the Poor, trying to resist mandates on abortion, and these lawyers were facing three - judge panels containing appointees of Clinton and Obama.

National Association of Evangelicals President Leif Anderson and Nancy Wilson, head of the and Metropolitan Community Church - the nation's largest denomination expressly serving LGBT Americans - are among the appointees to the panel, which was launched by President Barack Obama in 2009.

The national board includes appointees of President Barack Obama, who generally tend to lean pro-union.

As political appointees, they will want to put Obama's stamp on government and change agency priorities and objectives.

He has opposed the energy policies of President Barack Obama, declined to vote on both the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 and the DREAM ACT, voted for removing federal funding from Planned Parenthood in 2015 (but voted to preserve funding for the organization in 2017), and voted to confirm most of President Donald Trump's cabinet appointees.

Saying acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, an Obama administration appointee, had «betrayed» the Department of Justice by refusing to defend the president's immigrant travel ban, Donald Trump told her: You're fired.

Of the 29 failed Supreme Court appointees, there seem to have only been two that didn't have Senate hearings, one being Merrick Garland (Barack Obama's nominee), whose nomination expired on January...

The Obama administration eliminated all of George W. Bush's appointees in the same way.

He's one of few Bush era appointees that Obama liked enough to appoint.

The National Labor Relations Board vacated a decision overturning one of the Obama administration's most controversial rulings following an ethics complaint against a Trump appointee.

It's also not atypical in American politics: A different Times analysis found that 43 percent of appointees in the Obama administration are female.

Is a run at Attorney General in line for Preet Bharara, the former United States Attorney for the Southern District who was ousted by President Donald Trump as part of a purge of Obama administration appointees last year?