Sentences with phrase «u.s. national councils»

Erik also serves on the U.S. National Council of the World Wildlife Fund.

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Lighthizer [who is U.S. Trade Representative] and [National Economic Council] Director Kudlow to take another look at whether or not a better deal could be negotiated.»

Unfortunately, however, government resources are actually flowing the other way: according to a report from the U.S. - based National Resources Defense Council, since 2009, global subsidies for fossil fuels have almost tripled to an estimated US$ 775 billion this year.

Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the White House earlier this month, where he discussed Chinese tariffs and U.S. tax reform, according to Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council.

The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence estimates that 70 percent of an estimated 14.8 million U.S. individuals who use illegal drugs are employed.

The National Potato Council estimates that U.S. growers lost about $ 70 million in revenue over 31 months, a 50 percent cut from their third - largest export market.

He was also the National Economic Council lead for the White House «Smart Cities» program, which aims to infuse new technology in U.S. cities.

«There is no indication of a nexus to terrorism at this time,» said U.S. National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan.

As the firestorm over Trump's comment began late last week, the White House and Trump's National Security Council provided no guidance to the State Department about what to say to foreign countries who were incensed, said a U.S. official familiar with the conversations between the White House and other federal agencies.

The number of black women - owned businesses has more than tripled since 1997, making black females the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. Between 2007 and 2012, the number of black women - owned businesses grew by 67 % according to the National Women's Business Council's Survey of Business Owners.

The CD Howe Business Cycle Council (of which I'm a member) is based on a collective consensus, which is also the technique used by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research.

At a Senate hearing on Nov. 28, Christopher Ford, the National Security Council's senior director for weapons of mass destruction and counterproliferation, disclosed that the U.S. is discussing the issue with the Saudi government.

The study, conducted by Eli Lilly's (lly) Elanco Animal Health division at the request of the National Chicken Council, said that if one - third of U.S. broilers switched to slower growing breeds, that would mean 33.5 billion pounds more feed, 7.6 million acres / year more land, 28.5 billion pounds of manure, and 5.1 billion additional gallons of water.

He is also a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's National Advocacy Council of Young Entrepreneurs, which represents the voice of young entrepreneurs to congressional leaders.

He is also Chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council and served as U.S. Deputy Trade Representative.

According to the latest data from the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, nearly 1 billion packages of hot dogs were sold at U.S. retail stores in 2014, fueling the meals of people that prefer to eat at home instead of at a fast food joint.

Among the many scheduled American participants were the political advisor to the head of the U.S. Northern Command, the president for the Americas of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the senior director for the Western Hemisphere of the American National Security Council, the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Mexico.

Trump's director of the National Trade Council, Peter Navarro, argued in January that «there is no question» the U.S. needs a border adjustment tax (BAT) to bring jobs back and grow wages:

Blandin also served as: special assistant to the assistant secretary of administration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, from 1977 to 1981; executive director of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, from 1972 to 1977; executive staff assistant in the Office of the Governor, California Council on Intergovernmental Relations, from 1970 to 1971; and just prior to joining ASEC, Blandin served nine months as executive vice president of the Council for Excellence in Government.

Business and Professional Women (BPW) The Global Initiative for Women's Entrepreneurship Research (GIWER)(formerly Center for Women's Business Research) Institute for Supply Management Latina Style Magazine National Association of Minority & Women - Owned Law Firms National Association of Veteran - Owned Businesses National Association of Women in Construction National Minority Supplier Development Council National Women's Business Council US Business Leadership Network (USBLN) U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Women Construction Owners & Executives Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) Women Presidents» Organization (WPO)

Airport Minority Advisory Council (AMAC) National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC)

According to Lawrence Summers, former director of President Barack Obama's National Economic Council and former U.S. Treasury Secretary — he is also President Emeritus of Harvard University at the top of a shortlist of potential candidates to replace current chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke — the events of the last few years have thrown into question much of what he learned and taught about coherent economic models.

From L - R are IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, U.S. President Donald Trump, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and Wal - Mart CEO Doug McMillon.

Examples of third party certification agencies include: The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC), the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), or the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.

In consultation with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and President Bush's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation commissioned the first national study of the financial capability of American adults in 2009.

Federal Bureau of Investigation: Fraud Against Seniors MoneyWise: Elder Fraud National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse: Preventing the Abuse of Elders National Council for Aging Care's Guide on Elder Abuse U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: For Seniors

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe will take the stage, along with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez, and Mr. Jeffrey Zients, Director of the National Economic Council.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Larry Kudlow, head of the president's National Economic Council, are also in attendance.

Consider the Fed's hike in interest rates on March 21, the passing of a massive $ 1.3 trillion spending bill on March 23 that dramatically widened the federal deficit, the resignation of former director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn on March 6, the firing of former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 13, the tariff tantrum between the U.S. and China on March 1 and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

The delegation is expected to include U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and the director of the White House's National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow.

The Information Technology Industry Council, a Washington - based lobby group, has expressed concerns about the national - security exemption to the Canadian government, according to correspondence obtained by Gogolek's association through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.

National Security Council's Dr. Evan Medeiros and Leading Experts to Examine U.S. Alliances and Partnerships (November 24 2014)

From 1998 - 2005, Scott was a member of the Advisory Council of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy.

The National Science and Technology Council is searching for ways to make U.S. manufacturing competitive on the world stage.

Women business owners in the U.S. can join the global network if they are already registered with the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).

According to the National Multifamily Housing Council, renters account for more than one third of all U.S. households.

Sources: National Multifamily Housing Council, NAIC, I.I.I., U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

Left to right: Melanie Sabelhaus, Deputy Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration; David J. O'Reilly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron Texaco; Ronald E. Harrison, Senior Vice President, Global Diversity and Community Affairs, PepsiCo, Inc.; Donna Cole, Chair of the Top Corporations Selection Committee and President and Chief Executive Officer, Cole Chemical and Distributing, Inc.; Bruce Nelson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Office Depot; Susan Phillips Bari, President, Women's Business Enterprise National Council; William M. Daley, President, SBC Communications; Cheryl Stevens, Vice President, Supplier and Workforce Diversity, TXU; Thomas D. Christopoul, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Cendant Corporation; Javier R. Urioste, Chief Procurement Officer, Non-Information Technology, Global Procurement Services, JP Morgan Chase and Co.; William J. Moon, Vice President of Procurement Services, United Parcel Services

The Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) is the largest certifier of women - owned businesses in the U.S. and a leading advocate for women business owners and entrepreneurs.

Recently denounced by both the American Jewish Committee and the National Council of Churches, the movement has seldom been out of the public eye, whether at its own instance as in the blitz of pro-Nixon demonstrations which effectively introduced the group to the U.S., or as the target of lawsuits, legislative investigations, and parent - employed «deprogrammers.»

The National Council of Churches, United Methodists, and Presbyterian Church (USA) joined in a coalition with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to lobby for a complete lifting of sanctions against the Castro regime.

Robert Owen and the National Security Council were selling a positive image of the contras to the U.S. public even as they offered more - honest assessments among themselves.

Halperin once resigned his staff position on the National Security Council in protest over U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

They include — in addition to Boe's own denomination — the National Council of Churches, the U.S. Catholic Conference, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, the Lutheran Church in America, the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., and the Rt..

The proposed rule is opposed by the American Farm Bureau Federation, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, National Pork Producers Council and the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, which argue that the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 doesn't give the USDA the authority to prescribe practices to promote animal welfare.

These include the Potato Marketing Association of North America, U.S. Potato Board, National Potato Council, U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Statistics Service, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives and United Potato Growers of Canada.

The majority of U.S. dairy farmer cooperatives and dairy processing companies — members of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) or the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC)-- threatened to withdraw support from the pending Trans - Pacific (TPP) trade agreement if Japan and Canada refuse to follow through on pledges to provide comprehensive market access for...

The National Milk Producers Federation Board of Directors today endorsed the Trans Pacific Partnership after its staff and the U.S. Dairy Export Council spent the last few months analyzing the trade agreement.

Since the U.S. Dairy Export Council's inception in 1995, dairy farmers have primarily funded our efforts through Dairy Management Inc. and the national checkoff program.