Sentences with phrase «white house meetings»

We can see how King, in his public appearances, or in his pressurized White House meetings with LBJ (Tom Wilkinson) to push voting rights legislation, deliberately maintains the statesmanlike aura.

Major financial firms lent hundreds of millions to Kushner Cos. after White House meetings with ex-CEO Jared Kushner.

In White House meetings with members of Congress and motorcycle maker Harley - Davidson, Mr. Trump reiterated his key election promise to either revamp or do away with the 1994 free - trade deal between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

If you're not remembering any made - for - TV White House meetings in which Medicaid or food stamps beneficiaries detailed their plight to President Trump and made the case for increased benefits, that's because such open groveling only happens with business titans.

A flurry of White House meetings ensued, with participation by representatives of the Defense Department, to translate Trump's announcement into guidance that could be implemented and would stand up to expected legal challenges.

«The President multiple times reaffirmed in general to all of us, and looked at Larry Kudlow, and said Larry go get it done,» Sasse said after exiting a White House meeting with the President about trade and agriculture that he attended with several governors and congressional leaders who represent states that they say will be adversely impacted by the President's recently announced tariffs.

During the White House meeting, Trump said he had made his decision, but the paperwork to enact it was not finished.

During a White House meeting with Republican Congressional leaders on June 6, President Trump discussed plans for his proposed US - Mexico border wall.

At a White House meeting of business leaders earlier this year, President Trump said that JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, was going to explain why Dodd - Frank should be repealed and replaced.

Workforce retraining will also be central to achieving Trump's economic growth agenda, and was a topic at last Friday's White House meeting, Rometty said.

It arrived as about a half - dozen senators were at the White House meeting with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence about the next steps in the GOP effort to ensure passage of the bill.

At a White House meeting on Dec. 5, a heated exchange took place between Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - Tenn.)

«We're not backing down,» Trump said during a White House meeting with Israeli...

The program that was being discussed at the White House meeting is called Temporary Protection Status.

At a White House meeting on Thursday, President Trump said that he did not want any nation to be exempted from the order.

Among those attending Monday's White House meeting were Dow Chemical Co. chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris and Siemens Corp. president and CEO Eric Spiegel.

At my request, the agenda for yesterday's White House meeting went from not mentioning the travel ban to having it be first and foremost

Finally, at a White House meeting with steel executives, Trump said that the tariffs would indeed be implemented.

The session was reminiscent of a bipartisan White House meeting Trump convened in January on immigration, in which the unpredictable president promised to sign any compromise solution Congress could craft, only to reject the outcome days later.

-- At that White House meeting with lawmakers, Trump called for measures that sharply break with the NRA, as well as leaders of his own party, whom he accused of being too «petrified» to take action.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who's made the IPO a key part of his ambitions to ready the economy for the post-oil age, is preparing to visit the U.S. for a trip that will include a White House meeting with Donald Trump on March 20.

I remember one White House meeting we came in and we were all around the table, and somehow it had been decided that 140 was the number.

That last biblical reference also loomed large in another 2011 White House meeting between Obama and a group of religious leaders.

«I would love to see just - in - time messages pop up,» suggests Stephen Balkam, the chief executive of the Family Online Safety Institute, who was invited to the White House meeting.

Yesterday, at a White House meeting with school nutrition leaders, you made headlines by giving what's being called «one of the most overtly political speeches during [your] tenure as First Lady.»

As the tax fight played out, a new battle opened on another front as Democratic congressional leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi skipped a White House meeting with Trump to discuss spending, immigration and other issues after Trump criticized them on Twitter.

He called the White House meeting yesterday «productive,» but also «inconclusive.»

Schumer said he nearly had a deal with Trump after their White House meeting on Friday, but that Trump later called and changed the terms of the agreement and then rejected it as he added more conditions that Democrats must meet.

Mayor Bill de Blasio looks on as President Barack Obama speaks after a White House meeting on policing.

Trump bristled at one suggestion during a White House meeting Thursday with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Florida Department of Education Commissioner Pam Stewart and Parkland Mayor Christine Hunschofsky.

De Blasio gave up a chance to push New York City's agenda directly with Trump by pulling out of what would have been his first White House meeting with the president, citing a Justice Department notice about a crackdown on sanctuary cities as the reason for skipping the 100 - plus mayor sit - down, where infrastructure and the opioid crisis were on the agenda.

«While the White House meeting was productive, it was inconclusive,» Cuomo's office said in a statement on Thursday evening.

One of the senators, David Perdue, who attended a contested White House meeting, denies Trump ever called a handful of nations «s — thole countries,» insisting: «(H) e did not use that word.»

Washington (CNN)- One day before a White House meeting between President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders from both political parties, a new poll suggests most Americans want Democrats and Republicans to compromise.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand attended a «high level» White House meeting to discuss sexual assaults in the military.

He made his remarks during a White House meeting with the bipartisan congressional leadership.

«Washington will no longer be a roadblock to progress,» Trump said at a White House meeting of state and local officials.

Policy staff from the House, Senate and White House met Monday to discuss the steps ahead.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- As a health care reform bill sponsored by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus got a cool reception from Republicans and some Democrats on Capitol Hill Wednesday, President Obama quietly held a White House meeting with two Senate sponsors of a rival health care proposal.

In response, Collins described a White House meeting last week where biotech CEOs and academic scientists explained how companies relied on NIH - funded basic research.

The different federal initiatives come as the offshore wind industry is «picking up momentum after a lull,» said Kit Kennedy, director of energy and transportation for the Natural Resources Defense Council, who was at the White House meeting.

The president chose the new direction for the U.S. human space flight program Wednesday at a White House meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, according to officials familiar with the discussion.

At the White House meeting last week, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation committed $ 3 million to further develop ShakeAlert, and another $ 1 million for MyShake.

The immigrants from low - income nations President Trump disparaged earlier this month in a closed - door White House meeting (he reportedly referred to them as «shithole» countries) may well have been driven from communities in rural Africa by economic hardship related to lack of power, Rogers said.

Last spring, after attending a White House meeting on measuring social - emotional skills, she and a colleague wrote a paper warning that there were no reliable ways to do so.

Both were at the White House meeting.

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Since Monday, we've heard from people involved with the process that the White House meeting has remained unorganized, and that solid information has been hard to come by.

CNN have revealed the final guestlist for President Trump's White House meeting on videogame violence.

Update, March 7: Anti-violent videogame activist Jack Thomspon wants to play a part in this week's White House meeting.