Sentences with phrase «about the nomination of»

This is about the nomination of Brett Joseph Talley to the position of District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.

They'll also talk about the nomination of Rep. John McHugh to be Secretary of the Army, ethics reform proposals, pension fund losses and much more.

Last month, both the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) joined other organizations in expressing a «deep concern» about the nomination of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.

Virtually every piece written about the nomination of Betsy DeVos describes her along the lines of as a «Michigan philanthropist» or a «leading Republican donor».

The inclusion of the Hummer H2 on the list might make some TreeHugger readers cheers, but what about the nomination of the Toyota Prius?

Our choice: Here's our selection of what's been said in the media recently about the nomination of Mr. Justice Rothstein to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court.

Not exact matches

The release of the Trump campaign's May FEC report showed the presumptive GOP nominee raised just about $ 3 million in his first month since sealing up the Republican nomination.

Some of the most respected news sources turned out to be way off the mark about Donald J. Trump's chances of securing the Republican nomination, or even remaining in the race for as long as he has.

Because of the way Tillerson's compensation is being dispensed, he will give up about $ 7 million compared with what he would have been paid if he retired in March as planned before Trump announced his cabinet nomination.

In a July 2015 email, Podesta frets to other campaign staffers about Sanders, who had challenged Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination all the way through to the end of the primary process.

The hearing wrapped up about a half hour ago (you can watch it on C - SPAN), but Senators skeptical of his nomination questioned Gottlieb's close financial ties to the health care and biopharma industries, which have paid him millions in speaking and consulting fees over the years.

CNN reported that Puzder has had «second thoughts» about accepting the nomination as secretary of labor.

I'm simply reading what she wrote about what the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be a federal court judge meant and what it would mean in history for her.»

That hearing was followed up by Trump announcing his seventh wave of judicial nominees, an additional 15 names that are about to be submitted to the Senate, bringing the total number of district and circuit court judges he's nominated to roughly 50 — blowing far past the number of judicial nominations made at this stage of a presidency by any recent predecessors.

Now its 2016 and Hillary Clinton can't say anything about what really happened in 2008 for fear of being accused of being a back stabber, so instead she takes the attacks that she is for Wall Street and the Banks even though she actually lost the 2008 democrat nomination because she stood up for the impoverished homeowner and not for wall street.

At the time that Democrats began paying for the research, Mr. Trump was in the process of clinching the Republican presidential nomination, and Ms. Clinton's allies were scrambling to figure out how to run against a candidate who had already weathered attacks from Republican rivals about his shifting policy positions, his character and his business record.

Fort McMurray - Athabasca Following the resignation of Conservative MP Brian Jean, rumours continue to swirl about who could seek the party nominations in an upcoming by - election.

A number of questions about how the entry satisfies the four criteria will help our judging body evaluate the nomination.

Accepting at face value the assertion that Rick Perry has a Divine calling to run for the Republican nomination, we are lead to the question of whether it was a call to Mr. Perry to become the nominee or whether it was, instead, a call to Mr. Perry to teach a lesson about how people should not take the Name in vain in order to obtain political office.

Washington (CNN)-- Senior members of the White House staff called key American Jewish interest groups on Sunday to tell them about the impending nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Defense Secretary and to try to answer their concerns about his record, several sources familiar with the calls told CNN.

Also surprising: a best actor nomination for Ansel Elgort in Baby Driver, because when you walked out of that movie you were definitely thinking about the acting.

Whether I speak in terms of what is considered to be important in terms of sexuality (or pretentiously called eros), or whether I present it in terms of a Brian De Palma movie about fate, apparently I must present it terms of the Republicans seeking the nomination in order to be take seriously.

Jordan Peele's horror - themed social satire Get Out and Christopher Nolan's WWII epic Dunkirk combined for 12 Oscar nominations, and now, they're heading back to theaters so you can see what all of the buzz is about.

Much of the retrospective commentary about Buchanan's 1996 run for president (when he finished second in the race for the Republican nomination) focuses on immigration, trade, and foreign policy.

Before I sign off I wanted to thank all of you who sent such nice notes about the James Beard nomination of Super Natural Every Day (here's a PDF of the nominees).

It is not about getting votes: regardless of whether a candidate receives one nomination or ten, each candidate is given equal consideration.

Kadeena and her incredible story about transitioning from an able - bodied athlete to a para-athlete in two sports also featured on the front cover of MS Matters magazine, and earned her a nomination for the UK Sport Inspirational Performance of the Year.

Sharpe says it was a casual conversation about Vision of Grace at an SNA dinner which led to her nomination.

While I continue to believe that an opportunity was missed in her address to more directly confront and acknowledge the mistakes she has made in her long political career, Mrs Clinton did something in her acceptance of the nomination that Mr Trump did not do in his: she did not make her candidacy about her personal greatness, but about her policies and what she will do to help those Americans most in need.

«This shameless act by this dissident group has exposed their level of desperation and extent they are willing to go to mislead the public about the true picture of events leading to the ward congress.For the avoidance of doubt, all eligible members of the APC obtained the nomination form before it closed and actively participated in the election as attested to by the congress committee chairman.

For a great example, see Mark Bowden's story in the current Atlantic showing how the work of a pair of essentially unknown conservative bloggers shaped the public debate about Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination, and in the process injected the «Wise Latina» meme into the public mindspace to the undoubted delight of pundits for years to come.

His nomination is one of the few things that might have fired up Virginia Democrats unenthusiastic about their own apparent «choice,» Terry McAuliffe, to run to against Ken Cuccinelli for governor (for a rundown of why Dems aren't so excited about McAuliffe, see Jonathan Chait's «McAuliffe - Cuccinelli Not Quite the Grimmest Rooting Choice in History «-RRB-.

«As a union that actively opposed the nomination of Andrew Puzder, a candidate clearly unfit to serve as the head of the Department of Labor, we will continue to ask questions about Acosta's record and his commitment to protecting workers» rights, and urge the US Senate to do the same.»

As I type, majority of the people who are about to be declared winners do not know the colour or texture of the nomination form.

Two of the Democratic candidates for the party's nomination to take on incumbent Republican John Faso for the 19th New York Congressional District's seat have set upcoming forums in Kingston about healthcare.

«This is a complaint that was made by the Scottish National Party (SNP) against me personally, in effect,» Mr Blair said, referring to the complaint made last year about four of his nominations, which prompted the whole inquiry.

Tom Dadey, chairman of the Onondaga County Republican Committee, said he has not spoken with Guy about the nomination.

She leaves office in January because of term limits, and she has spoken openly about a possible challenge to Cuomo for the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

Three days before testifying privately before the House Intelligence Committee about the campaign, Caputo said he recalled speaking with Trump Jr. around the time his father clinched the Republican presidential nomination in the spring of 2016.

On Dec. 1, the state Commission on Judicial Nomination will present the governor with a list of up to seven candidates to fill Pigott's spot — a process that invariably sparks a round of speculation in the state's legal and political circles about who may be named.

Riverhead Town Republican chairman John Galla said that as of noon Tuesday nobody from Riverhead had inquired about the nomination.

Even now, with Ms. Clinton marching ever closer to the Democratic nomination, Mr. de Blasio can't resist uttering niceties about her democratic socialist rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

But progressive voters seem to care less today about the strength of their party, or even about a particular checklist of issues, than about their confidence in a candidate's sincerity — as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a career independent, proved with his electrifying and magnetic charge at the Democratic nomination last year.

Since her husband, Carl, won the Republican nomination for governor of New York last week, the only story in the race as compelling as his upset victory has been their personal back story: that her husband not only had an affair, not only fathered a child with that other woman, but also told his wife of 40 years about it all the same week that their 29 - year - old son, Patrick, was killed in a car accident.

Two years ago, when Bernie Kerik's nomination to be chief of Homeland Security collapsed from a barrage of allegations about mistresses, misappropriations, mob ties, and missing nannies, Rudy Giuliani at first stood by his friend.

(CNN)-- After Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is one of the most talked - about potential candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.

Jacobs and Lavine said they made no deals about future political nominations as part of Lavine's agreement to leave the race.

This week on the Campbell Conversations two local political analysts engage in a lively exchange with host Grant Reeher about the Iowa caucuses, the upcoming New Hampshire primary, and the remainder of the nomination process.

Here's what I know about the latest activities of the candidates seeking the Libertarian presidential nomination:

The Senate has confirmed Gina Haspel as the first female director of the CIA following a rocky nomination process that reopened debate about one of the darkest chapters in the spy agency's history.