Sentences with phrase «white house effect»

Then - Vice President George H.W. Bush ran for president of the United States pledging to combat the «greenhouse effect with the White House effect» (New York Times Editorial Board 1990).

In 1988, Republican George H.W. Bush pledged to «fight the greenhouse effect with the White House effect».

In the scorching summer of 1988, when global warming first hit headlines in a significant way, presidential candidate George H.W. Bush used a Michigan speech to pledge meaningful action curbing heat - trapping greenhouse gases, saying, «Those who think we are powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect forget about the White House effect.»

George H.W. Bush said he was going to fight the greenhouse effect with the White House effect in the 1980s.

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While Greenblatt was obviously looking to avoid any connection between Trump's long stint at NBC and the fact that the billionaire is now one election away from the White House, other media executives have previously spoken more freely about the positive effect Trump's political career has had on TV ratings.

Cohn, who came to the White House from a successful career at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, is mindful the effect his Trump tenure could have on his professional reputation.

Though the Trump White House has acknowledged that Russia meddled — while maintaining that it was not to help Trump and did not have an effect on the election's outcome — it has so far fallen short of making a specific statement or calling out Russia for its aggression.

As a practical matter, the executive order is unlikely to have much effect: the Bush White House was extremely disciplined when it came to stealthy, controversial, last - minute regulatory doings — or undoings.

The White House Office of Management and Budget still must sign off on some aspects of the FCC reversal before it takes legal effect.

The rule never took effect as the wireless industry fought it in court and before an office in the White House that reviews regulations.

With the heated political climate that accompanied President Donald Trump to the White House, she tells The Washington Post, there's been an unintentional social effect: More women are supporting each other.

«It's difficult, in effect, to get away inside the White House with the press corps in the same building,» said Bruce Buchanan, politics professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Trump also reportedly designed the NDAs so they're still in effect after he leaves the White House.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

Brian Graff, CEO of the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries, stated that the White House on Monday «launched an attack on advisors and so - called «hidden fees» and «backdoor payments» by moving forward with a regulation that has its own hidden backdoor effect — keeping many Americans from working with the trusted advisor of their choice, even in the critical decision regarding rollovers from their 401 (k) and 403 (b) plans.»

The National Association of Plan Advisors charged that the «White House launched an attack on advisors and so - called «hidden fees» and «backdoor payments» by moving forward with a regulation that has its own hidden backdoor effect — keeping many Americans from working with the trusted advisor of their choice, even in the critical decision regarding rollovers from their 401 (k) and 403 (b) plans.»

If the White House follows through with plans to curtail Chinese scientists» involvement in intelligence and military - related research, there could be a chilling effect on US innovation.

Speaking to steel and aluminum executives at the White House, Trump said the tariffs will go into effect next week and last for «a long period of time.»

White House officials reiterated on Wednesday that China must stop the «unfair» trading practices President Trump believes have disadvantaged American companies and workers, but they held out the possibility that tariffs on $ 50 billion worth of Chinese goods outlined on Tuesday might never go into effect.

On Wednesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, refused to say whether the tariffs would ultimately go into effect, adding, «I would anticipate that if there are no changes to the behavior of China and they don't stop the unfair trade practices, then we would move forward.»

In response to the petition, the White House added its voice to a growing chorus of opposition to such therapies while doing little to clarify the petition's confusion: «We share your concern about its potentially devastating effects on the lives of transgender as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual and queer youth,» wrote Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama.

But the overall effect of the stark pink - and - white color scheme and the playful chandeliers is, curiously, a little Barbie's Dream House, if Barbie's Dream House ran on solar power, and Barbie loved quinoa.

Yesterday, in conjunction with the signing of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the White House released this chart purporting to show what school meals will look like «before and after» the legislation is in effect: I know it's hard to read on... [Continue reading]

The personal mobile phone ban will go into effect next week, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said.

He shall be entitled also to the use of the furniture and other effects belonging to the United States and kept in the Executive Residence at the White House.

Public comments made by Trump allies and advisors, as well as Trump himself, have been cited in the Hawaii judge's decision, whose ruling temporarily blocked the White House's revised travel ban targeting six predominantly Muslim countries hours before it would have come in to effect.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is urging the White House to appoint a chief executive in charge of helping Puerto Rico recover from the effects of Hurricane Maria.

The pay cuts come a month after mandatory across - the - board spending cuts went into effect after the White House and lawmakers couldn't agree on a deal to cut the federal deficit.

He disagreed with the White House report's recommendation that big - data policies focus primarily on how the data is used: «Data collection can have a chilling effect» on the rights to self - expression and free association, he said.

This sample of recent environmental films includes looks at the ecological effects of roads and top predators, the impact of climate change on a native village in the Arctic, a search for seeds of wild relatives of staple foods, and the fate of solar panels from Jimmy Carter's White House.

The proposed increase in postdoc salaries to a minimum of $ 40,000 per year, if it survives budget negotiations and the changing of the guard in the White House, could potentially go into effect sometime in 2002, according to NSF's budget office.

Hammer, who came to the United States from Guatemala as a child, «has studied how the cities and regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and sea - level rise also have large Hispanic populations — something she learned firsthand growing up in South Florida,» according to a White House statement.

Whatever chilling effect the White House might project onto the climate issue, those senior officials have given some cover to the career officials in their agencies, Femia said.

There's a bit of Expendables - style flair and over-the-top effects that are more in line with what we can expect from Roland Emmerich's White House Down, but Fuqua's pedigree of bringing out the truth in his characters gives me faith that this will be more than just «Die Hard meets Air Force One on steroids.»

Finally, as Roland Emmerich's Presidential siege thriller «White House Down» grows more outlandishly wacky with every new plot detail, it's obvious he'll need a strong cast to carry the special - effects - laden narrative to success.

Desegregation programs in some cities prompted «white flight,» although over the long run it appears to have had only a small effect on housing patterns in most communities.

Consider the effect of such legislation on Alexandria City Schools, eight miles from the White House.

The criticism of the secretary's plan, which he and the president rolled out September 23 at the White House, stems from two issues: 1) the secretary's strategy of making receipt of the waivers conditional on states agreeing to maintain or adopt a series of reforms, and 2) the effect of the waivers on efforts to hold schools accountable for results.

On Inauguration Day, the White House issued an executive order delaying for up to 60 days the implementation of any Obama regulations that haven't yet taken effect.

The focus on negative outcomes among black men has led to programs to instill «grit,» charter schools that «sweat the small stuff,» i.e. suspend and expel children, and other initiatives that dismiss the effects of housing and employment discrimination, access to capital and the prison - industrial complex on black families while privileging white men.

Rumour has it Battlefield V is set during World War II, the video game industry is meeting Donald Trump at the White House, and Sega had to pull the Yakuza 6 demo.Alice has been chatting to the lead singer of The Police in Where The Water Tastes Like Wine, Rich isn't too fond of Fear Effect Sedna, and Colm's been playing Dragon Ball FighterZ as......

The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.

The US radiosonde, until recently made exclusively by the VIZ corporation and now under contract to two separate manufacturers, has followed the strategy of trying to insulate the thermistor from solar effects by ducting it inside a white plastic and cardboard housing.

With Republicans controlling the White House and Congress, environmental groups are, in effect, «lawyering up,» vowing to counter any «drill baby drill» efforts with a «sue baby sue» response.

Then, after giving a talk to the Bush - Cheney White House, he agonized about whether he should have ignored the cooling effects of aerosols because it gave Cheney an «out,» enabling him and others to make the specious argument that aerosols somehow balance out the trillions of tons of CO2 emitted every year.

Non-scientist political appointees in the Bush White House, most notably CEQ Chief of Staff Philip Cooney, made hundreds of edits to the Plan, each of which was designed either «to manufacture or elevate existing scientific uncertainties» or «to delete or downplay evidence of the human effect on global warming,» as reported in our recent CSPW White Paper.

But it also signaled that, inside the White House, the clean energy investment message that the president had used to such great effect in winning battleground states like Ohio and Colorado was seen as just that: a powerful message to use in the campaign, not a policy priority.

The fund, according to the White House, would go to research on the projected impacts of climate change, help communities prepare for climate change's effects and fund «breakthrough technologies and resilient infrastructure.»

But while the full - on embrace of climate skepticism may make political sense for the White House — only 25 percent of Trump voters think climate change is caused by humans — it likely won't resonate with the Texans who must now live through Harvey and its long - term effects.

Reuters: President Barack Obama's administration will announce on Wednesday the formation of seven «climate hubs» to help farmers and rural communities adapt to extreme weather conditions and other effects of climate change, a White House official said.