Sentences with phrase «senior aides»

Doctors, nurses and senior aides are reserved for private care and intensive environments.

After a successful inaugural Ministerial Dinner last year, once again tourism ministers, senior aides, and trade media partners from around the world will be invited to St. Paul's Cathedral on the evening of Tuesday, November 8.

Tourism ministers and senior aides from around the world will be entertained by Tenor Nicky Spence before the dinner, which is also being sponsored by National Geographic.

Mr. Bharara took special interest in the two trials, spending many days observing from the rear of the courtrooms with several of his senior aides.

The subpoena asked Green to provide «documents and correspondence, including any communications with Mr. Cuomo and his senior aides,» according to the Times.

Brown ignored her intervention but was then asked by senior aides in his entourage to meet her.

What is most disconcerting to House leaders, according to two senior aides, is their view that Mr. Rangel is more focused on limiting damage to his legacy than on preserving Democratic control of the House.

But Mr. Paterson and his senior aides believe the Silver plan is flawed, keeping the new borrowing while watering down the new powers suggested by Mr. Ravitch.

Paterson, criticized for giving fat pay hikes to more than a dozen senior aides and plunging in public - opinion polls, initially made his personal - pay - cut pledge in Niagara Falls Wednesday night, and reiterated it yesterday.

Lacewell says Percoco, who is charged, along with three others in engineering two bribery schemes, was one of Cuomo's four most senior aides and that the two were very close.

Washington (CNN)-- The Republican congressman and Democratic senator charged with hashing out a federal budget deal are «closer» to an agreement but not there yet, according to senior aides in both parties.

Senior aides are said to be add odds over the issue.

After narrowly winning the Nov. 2 general election, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is shaking up his staff, and has asked for resignation letters from 15 senior aides.

The subpoena asked for documents and correspondence — including any communications with Cuomo and his senior aides.

His successor, David Paterson, called a press conference the day after he was sworn into office to admit that he, too, had engaged in extramarital sex and was soon under investigation for a variety of other misdeeds, including interfering in a domestic - abuse complaint involving one of his senior aides.

Senior Aides and Senior Community Service Employment Grants: The Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint eliminates funding for the Senior Community Services Employment Program (herein referred to as «SCSEP») which is the federal agency that funds two of our grants: Senior Aides (herein referred to as «SRAIDS») and Senior Community Service Employment (herein referred to as «SREMP»).

Some of de Blasio's most senior aides — including his political fixer, top lawyer, first deputy's chief of staff and others — intervened in the dispute, which had until then been handled at lower levels.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos thanked his senior aides and chided the Assembly during his remarks, emphasizing two separate times that Cuomo had invited legislators to a celebratory reception at the Executive Mansion.

One of the governor's former senior aides, Joe Percoco, was convicted of wire fraud conspiracy and soliciting bribes in March.

The groundswell over the Harvey Weintein sexual harassment that has rocked Hollywood moved into California's capital as more than 140 women — including lawmakers, senior aides and lobbyists — came forward to denounce what they describe as pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men in the nation's most influential legislature.

A number of current and former senior aides to Cuomo have been caught up in an investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara into possible contract bid - rigging and kickbacks, while Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) has said his use of campaign funds is also being looked at by the FBI.

The signs that he was leaning towards a fresh coalition with the Tories — he criticised Labour for its «frothing bile» towards his party — also alarmed senior aides.

But senior aides and other associates who know the president say the firing was triggered not by any one event but rather by the president's growing frustration with the Russia investigation, negative media coverage and the growing feeling that he couldn't control Comey, who was a near - constant presence on television in recent days.

The president's most senior aides appeared eager to move on from the health care loss, busying themselves with their own pet projects.

Senior aides and other associates who know the president say the firing was triggered not by any one event but rather by the Trumo's growing frustration with the Russia investigation, negative media coverage and the feeling that he couldn't control Comey, who was a near - constant presence on TV in recent days.

Moon Jae - in and his senior aides have repeatedly thanked President Donald Trump for making a historic meeting between the Koreas possible.

Trump also leans on two senior aides, counselor Kellyanne Conway and communications director Hope Hicks, as well as some outside friends for advice.

The ouster of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, who has been mired in scandal over his charging taxpayers for luxury travel expenses and the infighting among his senior aides, had been widely expected and was made official at 5:31 p.m. by presidential tweet.

Unlike other senior aides — Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, counselor Kellyanne Conway and senior adviser Jared Kushner, the president's son - in - law — Spicer does not enjoy a close and long - standing personal relationship with Trump.

Inside the White House, the EPA chief has lost the backing of many senior aides, including Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, and communications officials, lawyers and Cabinet affairs officials, whose calls he ignores.

The next - highest turnover rate for an administration's first year was Ronald Reagan's, with 17 % of senior aides leaving their posts in 1981.

Embarrassingly for the government, the group of MPs associated with the latest revolt includes Suella Fernandes and Steve Baker, respectively senior aides to Treasury chief Philip Hammond and to the U.K.'s chief Brexit negotiator David Davis.

With a Dec. 8 deadline rapidly approaching for either extending federal funding in some way or triggering a partial government shutdown, the House next week will advance a temporary patch, according to a senior aide, and try to provide money through Dec. 22.

Rather, Jared Kushner, the president's son - in - law and senior aide tasked with reviving a Middle East peace process, wanted to table the nuclear question in favor of simpler alliance - building measures with the Saudis, centered on Trump's visit in May, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

Sara honed her skills while serving as a senior aide and White House Political Director for President George W. Bush.

USA Today in late February reported that Shulkin's assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, John Ullyot, in a call initiated by Cashour, had lobbied a senior aide on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade members of Congress to call the White House and request Shulkin's ouster.

The move came after Miller was revealed to be a senior aide who had an email exchange with former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who mentioned «interesting messages» from Moscow.

White House officials and others close to the president insist that last week's decision to pardon former Vice President Dick Cheney's senior aide I. Lewis «Scooter» Libby on perjury charges dating to his service in the George W. Bush administration was not intended to send a message to Cohen — but it nonetheless could go a long way toward reassuring the president's lawyer.

Senate Republicans aren't likely to settle on a way forward or make any specific decisions on how to proceed until they meet in person at their regularly scheduled policy luncheon Tuesday or Wednesday, according to a senior aide familiar with their plans.

USA Today's Donovan Slack reports: «John Ullyot, the VA's assistant secretary for public affairs, asked a senior aide at the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out... The move was unsuccessful — but audacious since Ullyot is the secretary's highest ranking aide tasked with publicly defending him and the agency.

She also served as a senior aide to now Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on his successful race for Attorney General and in that government office.

John Ullyot, the VA's assistant secretary for public affairs, asked a senior aide at the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out, said both individuals, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation.

We already know he's been hard at work on the campaign trail, Sundays included — though the senior aide we spoke to said he makes efforts to get to church when he can.

The security expert was commenting after a former Downing Street senior aide re-opened the debate about communicating with terrorists.

Richard Goldberg, a former senior aide to Sen. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.), told the Free Beacon that Kerry is seeking to bolster European efforts to sell the Trump administration on a series of fixes to the Iran deal that fail to address the Islamic Republic's ongoing nuclear research and development of ballistic missiles.

-- STILL NO PERCOCO VERDICT — New York Times» Vivian Wang and Benjamin Weiser: «The jury in a major New York corruption trial announced for the second time that it was deadlocked, dimming the prospects once again for a verdict in the trial of a former senior aide to Cuomo.

One is Andrew Ball, a senior aide to Cuomo.

A New York Times report alleges that a senior aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo interfered with the work of the Moreland Commission, the group the governor appointed to investigate corruption in Albany.

According to the New York Times report, the governor's senior aide, Larry Schwartz, then pressured the commission to withdraw that order.

Some Conservatives were angered by the intervention of a senior aide to Clegg, who said the Lib Dems would block parliamentary boundary changes in retaliation for a Tory rebellion.