Sentences with phrase «president full authority»

So Rand Paul would support giving President full authority to commit drone strikes and to send US Troops into whatever Middle Eastern country he wants?

Not exact matches

If the president had full authority probably a lot more would get done.

As we rest secure in the sight of a new President, elevated to that office by unusual circumstances, yet acting with full authority and confidence, we are obliged to recognize exactly how our surviving insecurity and doubts arose, what made us see how fragile are the ligaments of political trust, how easily abused the tissues of our confidence.

When Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and president of the Palestinian Authority completes his address to the UN general assembly, expected to take place on September 23rd, he will be calling for the admission of Palestine as a full member state of the United Nations.

The President of IMANI - Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe, has challenged the National Communication Authority (NCA) to make public, the full details of every amount spent in producing a mobile cellular consumer satisfaction survey.

In 2008, the SUNY Board of Trustees gave Kaloyeros full authority over CNSE's finances and operations, power equal to that of a campus president, reporting directly to the SUNY chancellor rather than the UAlbany president.

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito vowed to further restrict the city's cooperation with federal immigration authorities under President Donald Trump, delivering a full - throated defense of immigrant communities in her fourth and final state of the city address.

At that time, he had full authority over CNSE's finances and operations, power equal to that of a campus president.

At the Albany stop, Gil Quiniones, President and CEO of the New York Power Authority, told a room full of community, business and government leaders that the focus of the tour is locally - based microgrids, a move precipitated by climate change.

«I support this effort and believe the president has the full authority to take these actions,» Blunt said in a written statement

We will know if the Obama Administration is truly serious about pursuing a 28 % reduction in America's GHG emissions by 2025 only if we see President Obama issuing formal directions to the EPA to use its full regulatory authority to the maximum extent currently allowed by law in suppressing US carbon emissions.

If Congressional Democrats aren't lobbying President Barack Obama and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to use the full legal authority of the Executive Branch in regulating America's greenhouse gas emissions, then those Democrats aren't being honest in claiming that they truly and sincerely want to address the basic causes of climate change.

So the question naturally arises, why aren't the most prominent leaders of America's progressive left — Robert Kennedy Jr., Al Gore, Elizabeth Warren, Edward Markey, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, etc. etc. etc. — why aren't they all publicly demanding that President Obama and the EPA use the full legal authority the Executive Branch already has in its hands to largely decarbonize America's economy?

Is it fair to suggest that maybe, just maybe, the reason that the President and the EPA Administrator are so very reluctant to invoke the full regulatory authority of the EPA is because they both fear the consequences of sparking a widespread popular backlash against the lifestyle sacrifices which most certainly must be made in reducing America's GHG emissions 80 % by 2050?

As I've demonstrated in other posts here on Climate Etc., the President and the EPA Administrator have the legal power and authority required to largely decarbonize America's economy, if they are willing to apply existing environmental law and regulation to the full extent the Clean Air Act not only allows, but also demands.

But in pursuing those goals, neither the President nor the EPA Administrator have come anywhere close to exercising their full legal authorities under existing environmental law.

The action was intended to provoke the president to use his full executive authority in confronting the climate crisis — «to have his ambition meet the scale of the challenge,» says Brune.