Sentences with phrase «administration officials»

A senior administration official said on a conference call that this process must consider test scores.

A senior administration official said that the «significance and scale of these steps» will have a profound impact on the Russian economy.

«I think of the legislature like my three - year - old, and our budget was broccoli,» one administration official told me.

During budget season, there are daily hearings with administration officials.

He and other administration officials sought to highlight individual schools that made dramatic improvements after receiving the money.

For the second time in the last four months, a major de Blasio administration official directly responsible for the city's efforts to address a persistent homelessness problem has announced plans to resign.

It also includes fundraising for various school projects and programs and lobbying administration officials for changes in policy or curriculum.

A senior administration official confirmed the program, stating that it ended in 2011.

A former administration official also said the president could include measures to promote offshore wind.

Those who oppose it will likely face criticism from administration officials and education advocates.

While administration officials cited procedural reasons for changing the rule, it was clear that political concerns were also a factor.

Instead, administration officials pointed to the installation of hundreds of private water treatment systems, extensive blood testing and the ongoing study of cancer rates.

Various administration officials helped with the selection of toys, school supplies, and clothing at different sites throughout the state.

Instead, they would need to show that administration officials took formal government action in exchange for payments or other things of value.

That stands to be a major fight in the courts, and many administration officials anticipate defeat.

He said he did not know whether the request reached administration officials before today's 9:30 a.m. meeting.

That group consists of exclusively administration officials, although business leaders have been invited to attend meetings.

Instead, administration officials aim to avoid unnecessary drama and focus on some of its core agenda items.

It also sought to make insights from research more available to society, for example by bringing together scholars and prison administration officials.

«It might not be the best choice of words politically, but from a policy standpoint, it's absolutely correct,» a former administration official said.

Senior administration officials with active corporate activities raises a potential conflict of interests, ethics experts have warned.

As a result, the resident and other administration officials have repeatedly said in recent weeks that the administration will not propose a carbon tax.

«After 18 months in office, Mayor de Blasio still is clueless in his dealings with Albany, a top Cuomo administration official said Wednesday,» Lovett wrote.

The former Obama administration official who helped oversee the funding behind New York City's superstorm Sandy recovery program says the U.S. in many ways remains unprepared for major disasters and the recovery that follows.

As one senior Trump administration official told reporters on March 8th:

Prominent Republicans warned President Donald Trump on Wednesday against taking further trade actions that could harm American workers, even as top administration officials meeting in Davos, Switzerland, rose to the defense of the president's «America...

I think, for instance, of the former Bush administration official who used to answer critiques of No Child Left Behind's famous 100 % proficiency decree by asking, «So, whose child are you ready to leave behind?»

The Clinton administration official told E&E News that, while he doesn't know Sam Clovis — reported to be Trump's pick for undersecretary for research, education and economics — scientific knowledge is especially useful in a position that requires coordination with scientific agencies within the government.

But he says the groups have had a good relationship with Cuomo Administration officials in the past and hope to now focus on ensuring better access to treatment.

Republican state Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse lawmaker, received 23 votes while former Pataki administration official Joe Holland netted five votes.

Many climate scientists at NOAA may no longer take calls from reporters, the story went on to say, unless the interview is approved by administration officials in Washington, and is conducted with a public - affairs officer present.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo vowed to defuse the state's pension time bomb yesterday as administration officials for the first time detailed sweeping plans to save billions on government retirements by...

The disclosure requirement, which does not appear in the order — and which Cuomo administration officials did not mention in a 30 - minute call last Friday or in several written statements — would dramatically water down the directive, even from the administration's first interpretation, freeing many more appointees to give cash to the governor's campaign.

The Administration must be held accountable for this indirect method of undermining the ability to understand, assess, and communicate what is happening with climate and associated global change — especially if we also take into consideration the extraordinary and disturbing developments with the NPOESS next - generation weather - climate satellite system that are taking place on the watch of Administration officials at DoD, NOAA, and NASA.

(Interestingly, the HRC has launched a pro-marriage effort here in NY that's headed by Brian Ellner, a former Bloomberg administration official who was in line to head ESPA, but was derailed by opponents who questioned his ties to the mayor).

After serving less than a month, Michael T. Flynn, the White House national security adviser, resigned last night after it was revealed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top Trump administration officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States.

As U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan works with other Obama administration officials on policy responses to the shootings at a Connecticut elementary school, he brings a personal and professional history that has acquainted him with the impact of gun violence.

The changes, which administration officials announced in a call with anti-abortion groups Friday, are aimed at chipping away at Planned Parenthood's federal funding.

ALBANY — The state will declare the polluted water of Hoosick Falls a Superfund site, conduct a health risk analysis of its residents and test more water wells to address toxic chemicals that have leached into a town water well, Cuomo administration officials announced alongside local elected leaders during a press conference Wednesday.

If the constitutional amendment now pending in the Senate to return prayer to the public schools were to become law, school officials would be permitted either to lead students in prayer or to offer a moment for silent meditation, a Reagan Administration official said last week.

De Blasio administration officials later issued a release saying he was on his way to Boston for the weekend.

Ten people, including top Cuomo administration officials Joe Percoco and Alain Kaloyeros, were accused of a scheme in which bids for construction contracts were rigged in exchange for money.

The senior administration officials added that a G - 8 declaration condemning the recent post-election violence in Iran will stop short of sanctions.

His policy applied only to the executive chamber — the governor's closest aides — and several Spitzer administration officials said all emails were archived, even if they were deleted from individual computers.

THE FACTS: Ryan is right, judging by testimony from Obama administration officials at the hearing a day earlier.

In recent weeks, Trump chose CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and he replaced economic adviser Gary Cohn with Larry Kudlow and national security adviser H.R. McMaster with former Bush administration official John Bolton.

Indeed, Minkel and two other top authority executives declined their new raises after feeling Albany's opposition, according to two Cuomo administration officials familiar with the situation.