Sentences with phrase «shortly after taking office»

If his nomination is confirmed, as FHA commissioner, Montgomery will need to address the suspension of the proposed mortgage insurance rate cut that Trump imposed shortly after taking office in January.

Newly sworn - in President Trump signed a series of executive orders at the U.S. Capitol shortly after taking office, among them, formal nominations, a waiver allowing retired Gen. James Mattis to serve as defense secretary and a proclamation for National Day of Patriotism.

[124] The Associate Secretary went on to explain that shortly after taking office, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs travelled to Wadeye and undertook immediate action to try to alleviate the situation and quell local riots.

``... Our preference would be to get a shelter dog, but, obviously, a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me... So whether we're going to be able to balance those two things I think is a pressing issue on the Obama household,» the president said shortly after taking office.

Moreover, as part of his economic stimulus package shortly after taking office, the president included $ 100 billion that saved tens of thousands of teachers» jobs.

First, recall her first visit to a public school shortly after taking office.

Shortly after taking office, Bush proposed the Math and Science Partnership (MSP) as a 5 - year, $ 1 billion initiative to strengthen student achievement by linking up university scientists and local educators.

Walker has long been the subject of vitriol from some political opponents after he effectively ended collective bargaining for public workers shortly after taking office in 2011.

Valesky credited Governor Spitzer for «using his mandate to smash the status quo,» and noted that the Governor set the tone for ethics reform shortly after taking office when he initiated changes in the regulations governing the Executive's office.

But shortly after taking office, de Blasio struck a deal with SUNY to keep healthcare services at the site, but not necessarily a full - fledged hospital.

Shortly after taking office, he announced plans to redirect $ 210 million over five years that had been set aside for the construction of charter schools.

(Bratton shut down the Demographics Unit shortly after taking office in January of 2014.

Yet shortly after taking office in 2009, he led the bid to stop Related Companies» effort to convert the hull of the Kingsbridge Armory into a mall, a plan that had the backing of then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Shortly after taking office, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that ending the pervasive violence at Rikers was a top priority of his administration, calling it a moral obligation.

This was made clear when Community Board 1, upon hearing that Governor Andrew Cuomo, shortly after taking office, was thinking of removing Chris Ward from the Port's helm, unanimously passed a resolution calling on the new governor -LSB-...]

Shortly after taking office as mayor, de Blasio tapped his network of donors to steer money into upstate legislative races.

Shortly after taking office, she was criticized for hiring her uncle as a bodyguard.

Shortly after taking office in January 2014, Borough President Katz endorsed former Borough President Helen Marshall's idea to repair and restore the remaining structure and surrounding plaza, and to repurpose and dedicate it to the women of Queens.

Shortly after taking office in January 2011, Cuomo's favorable rating with Republicans stood at an unusually high 60 percent, according to the Siena poll.

County Executive Rob Astorino made the decision shortly after taking office to terminate Westchester's membership in ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability which came to an end effective December 31, 2011.

Yassky, meanwhile, the sole Brooklyn candidate in the race, has served as the chairman of the Council Small Business Committee since shortly after taking office in 2001.

Mr. de Blasio and Ms. Olatoye officially cancelled the Bloomberg administration's infill proposals shortly after taking office, only to again begin selling off small parcels of NYCHA property this year, according to the Daily News.

«The faith of the prayer - giver does not matter at all,» said John Auberger, Greece's board supervisor, who began the practice shortly after taking office 1998.

He then said that «grandstanders should not have gone on» the council, which Trump formed shortly after taking office in January.

Trump used his executive powers shortly after taking office to greenlight the two pipeline projects that had been blocked by President Barack Obama.

Although far from complete, it is as close as Ottawa has come to establishing a national regulator since the late Jim Flaherty took the issue on as almost a personal crusade shortly after taking office in 2006.

Constructions crews spent roughly a month erecting the prototypes, in the first major step the Trump administration has taken toward fulfilling a January executive order to «immediately plan, design and construct a physical wall along the southern border» which the president signed shortly after taking office.

President Trump had asked two of his economic advisers to explore rejoining the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement he withdrew from shortly after taking office last year.

He is expected to discuss the auto industry's improvement after the government bailed out General Motors and Chrysler shortly after he took office.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke first broached such a sale shortly after he took office in March, proposing to offer 73 million acres for leases.

The stock market has been one major winner under President Obama, with the S. & P. 500 having more than doubled since it bottomed out in early 2009, shortly after he took office.

Shortly after he took office in January, Panepinto reportedly lobbied the state Workers Compensation Board to abandon plans to alter or reduce reimbursement rates paid to doctors and other medical service providers.

It is now chaired by Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife Chirlane McCray, whom the mayor appointed to the position in February 2014, shortly after he took office.

He also had to deal with a difficult situation, the Sandy Hook school shooting, shortly after he took office four years ago.

While Mangano and Singh had been friends for 25 years, the alleged bribes to Mangano began shortly after he took office as county executive in 2010, the Eastern District prosecutors allege.

Shortly after you took office, you said that American education needed «transformational» change, not incremental change.

Shortly after he took office, the White House seemed inconvenienced when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made climate change a top priority, moving swiftly to push a cap on carbon pollution through the House.

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The venture capitalist / SEC gathering took place shortly after the US Government Accountability Office published a 132 - page report, which found that distributed ledger technology remains in its infancy, and complex regulation threatens to stifle advancements.

It may take one to two weeks to complete an investigation into the accident, which occurred about 8 miles (13 km) from offices of American Energy Partners, the company that McClendon founded shortly after leaving Chesapeake.

One of Hunter's first Oval Office encounters with Obama came shortly after the president took office, at a time when the economy was shedding 750,000 jobs a Office encounters with Obama came shortly after the president took office, at a time when the economy was shedding 750,000 jobs a office, at a time when the economy was shedding 750,000 jobs a month.

Shortly after winning re-election to Congress, Grimm pleaded guilty to tax fraud in 2014 for underreporting more than $ 1 million in profits from an Upper East Side eatery he co-owned before he took office.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein, who exited the meeting shortly after Skelos went back to his third - floor office, had a different take.

Shortly after de Blasio took office in 2014, his team got involved in the initial part of a lengthy and complex series of transactions that paved the way for the final sale of Rivington House, according to emails sent to City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who released a report on the matter this week.

Though both are Democrats, the mayor and governor found themselves at odds shortly after de Blasio took office.

Lembo said he started working with Bridgeport mayor Joe Ganim on the idea shortly after Ganim took office.

In a letter to Nancy Zimpher, First Deputy Comptroller Pete Grannis said the comptroller's office was stripping SUNY of the privilege of speedy approval of spending requests because of a $ 270,000 report commissioned by Zimpher shortly after she took control of the 64 - campus public university system in 2009.

According to federal prosecutors, shortly after Mangano took office in January 2010, Singh asked him for help in getting loan guarantees directly from Oyster Bay, and Mangano told him «it would get done.»

It comes shortly after Mr Barrow took the oath of office at The Gambia's embassy in the capital of Senegal.

The team took office shortly after DOE had cancelled PPPL's unfinished National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX)-- now known as QUASAR — when construction costs exceeded the initial projections for the innovative fusion facility.

The FLOTUS has been a champion for fitness and healthy eating through her Let's Move campaign since shortly after her husband took office.