Sentences with phrase «about a minority president»

Do you think Ryan or McConnell are worried about a minority president?

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The president, who has repeatedly said he wants to accomplish the difficult feat of winning Democratic votes, joked about the minority party's support to Sen. Ron Wyden, D - Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

How do his private comments about women and minorities inform the policies he would implement as president?

What a remarkable contrast: President Donald Trump was in command at Davos talking about economic growth and prosperity, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., and disgraced former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman...

Influenced by advisors whose white nationalists views are well known, the president has waged a propaganda war against ethnic and religious minorities, stoking fear and hate by lying about crime rates, terrorist attacks, and voter fraud and by issuing executive orders that have already hurt many thousands of people around the world, including desperate refugee families.

The earlier one contained a provision to prioritize persecuted religious minorities once the refugee program resumed, and the president spoke in a TV interview about helping Christians in particular.

«[B] ecause Professor Hawkins is the first African American woman tenured at Wheaton College, the actions taken against Professor Hawkins will raise questions about how Wheaton College treats minority and female professors,» they wrote in an open letter to Wheaton's president and trustees.

The president started yesterday morning with a Twitter attack on U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over alleged hypocrisy about the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

The refund directive followed a review of the contract by the Attorney General, on the orders of Mr Debrah, after the Minority in Parliament, led by Mr Kyei - Mensah - Bonsu, raised red flags about the cost for the embossment of the portraits of three former presidents of the fourth republic, as well as that of the current President, on 116 intra-city Metro Mass Transit buses which are meant for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) purposes.

At 9 a.m., de Blasio, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Staten Island Borough President James Oddo and NYC Councilman Joe Borelli will make an announcement about the Staten Island South Shore Little League, Larry De Young Memorial Field, 245 Bedell Ave., Staten Island.

Here's the issue: the entire four - day message of the Convention was not about expanding Trump's base of support among minorities or women (the 2016 GOP platform says nothing about providing «equal pay for equal work»; it was not about proposing substantive solutions to problems facing the nation; it was not even about making amends with traditional conservatives and moderate Republicans to achieve party unity (the Republican governor of Ohio, John Kasich, the Bush family, and all former Republican nominees for president, except one, did not attend).

ALBANY — On the eve of Vice President Mike Pence's visit to the Buffalo area, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Monday urged New Yorkers to demand an explanation about Republican proposals to eliminate a major federal tax deduction used by millions of state residents.

Meantime, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat, called on President Trump to come out against what Schumer called «the absurd law about silencers.»

A Hicksville manufacturer of power transmission parts and its chief executive are being sued by a former vice president, who alleges he was fired because he complained about abusive behavior by the CEO, including the frequent use of racial epithets against minority employees.

«When you talk about having a center that's there not just for women and minority businesses but also for small business that are based in the city of Buffalo, to me that speaks volumes of the direction of this city,» Common Council President Darius Pridgen said.

REPUBLICANS TRY TO TURN THE TABLES: «It's pretty clear to me, at least at this point, that neither the Senate Democratic Majority nor the president of the United States have any interest whatsoever in entering into any discussions about how to resolve this impasse,» said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Members of the Minority side in Parliament have raised concerns about the President's intended assessment of the performance of his ministers.

But the Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu on Wednesday June 7 on the floor of parliament quoted Standing Order (53)(1d) to support his claim that the President violated the constitution by not informing parliament about the trip.

The Minority in Parliament has said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo has violated the 1992 constitution for failing to inform the House about his trip to Belgium on a national assignment.

The Office of the Former President has noted a regrettable pattern of false and inaccurate information put out by the Chief Executive of COCOBOD intended to slander the former President as a way of covering up bad management practices and decisions identified and highlighted by the NDC Minority in Parliament about the country's cocoa sector.

Mr. Mahama's office, described such claims as only «intended to slander the former President as a way of covering up bad management practices and decisions identified and highlighted by the NDC Minority in Parliament about the country's cocoa sector.»

To this end, The Office of the Former President, charged Boahene Aidoo's management to address the bad management practices and decisions identified and highlighted by the NDC Minority in Parliament about the country's cocoa sector, instead of covering up.

However, the White House spokesman refused to respond to questions about Trump's stance on the 1,500 hour rule — which the president ought to commit to, said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat.

However, some social commentators believe the opposition by the minority MPs is due to some comments Madam Djaba made about former President John Mahama.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) suggested the President «is floating trial balloons about derailing the Mueller investigation.»

Indy Politics talked to Council President Maggie Lewis as well as Minority Leader Mike McQuillen about the votes.

«If this arrangement was truly about helping minority communities, both the IDC and the Independence party would support a coalition government with the Democrats and help make a history by supporting the first black woman as a Senate President.»

On the back of the Minority Leader's comment, Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, told Citi News the President's address was more of a campaign speech, adding that all the president did was talk about what he is going to do instead of what his outfit had donPresident's address was more of a campaign speech, adding that all the president did was talk about what he is going to do instead of what his outfit had donpresident did was talk about what he is going to do instead of what his outfit had done so far.

2 B. C. Rodrigues, News release (30 March 2004) about report from Florida's Miami Dade College President Eduardo Padrón, A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low - income and minority access.

«For her to become president of NAS at this time, when there is a lot of talk about getting more women and minorities into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, here is an exemplary role model to those who might see themselves in those realms,» McEntee said.

Meanwhile, in declaring that «Schools should teach about the French Revolution, not have their parents act it out», Rotherham reinforces a conceit found far too often found among Beltway reformers (and, as evidenced from Teach For America President Wendy Kopp's thoughtless piece on releasing teacher performance data, even among some operator - oriented reformers): That families — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds — just aren't equipped to make smart decisions when it comes to school operations.

The Connecticut Parents Union, on the other hand, is as fierce a foe of the AFT and the NEA as they come; but its president (and Dropout Nation Contributing Editor) Gwen Samuel is skeptical of the propensity of some reformers to be as disdainful as traditionalists about the role families (especially those from poor and minority households) should play in education decision - making.

«Principals are of two minds about NCLB,» says Tony Harduar, president of the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the principal of Central Elementary School in Ferndale, Wash. «On the one hand, we see it as a way to have a positive impact on students who have been underserved for many years, like migrant kids and minorities.

The book includes «lessons and essays about racial profiling, environmental racism, unfair mortgage lending practices of Big Banks, the «overabundance of liquor stores» in minority communities, and slave - owning U.S. presidents,» EAGnews» Ben Velderman wrote.

«To have a comprehensive conversation, to talk about a plan in reference to bringing a pipeline of minority teachers up to the great state of Connecticut,» said Scot X. Esdaile, the president of Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches.