Sentences with phrase «administration staffers»

... writes Norm Pattis in response to news reports that the special prosector assigned to investigate the leak of a CIA agent's identity may file indictments of high - ranking Bush administration staffers as early as today.

Trump's firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — and the departure of National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, as well as one of his staffers who was a climate negotiator in the George W. Bush administration — amounts to a purge of high - level administration staffers who believe the U.S. will benefit from international cooperation on climate issues.

She has repeatedly accused de Blasio and city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña of being late to approve deals concerning her network, and has threatened de Blasio administration staffers with press conferences and open letters when she perceived that City Hall was dragging its feet in finding space for her growing charter network.

FORMER top David Paterson administration staffers Charles O'Byrne and Sean Patrick Maloney deep in conversation over dinner at Le Singe Vert in Chelsea... BILL and Hillary Clinton holding hands at Cafe Carlyle (chaperoned by Chelsea) as Kelli O'Hara, on maternity leave from «South Pacific,» did her caberet act... KATY Perry and Estelle «doing lemon drop shots and downing champagne» at Greenhouse... MATTHEW Perry jogging in Runyon Canyon in LA, and «stopping so many times to play with his iPod, he probably would've burned more fat off if he stayed home on the couch eating ice cream.»

She has repeatedly accused de Blasio and city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña of being late to approve deals concerning her network, and has threatened de Blasio administration staffers with press conferences and open letters when she perceived that City Hall was dragging its feet in finding space for her growing charter network.

Are school district reserves high enough to cover state cuts, and efficiencies in management available that would make teacher cuts unnecessary, as Cuomo administration staffers maintain, or are these areas so thin that the scale of reduced state aid made teacher layoffs unavoidable, as school advocates claim?

Capel joined Mercury, which was started by a number of former Pataki administration staffers, in November 2008.

Fey reprised her role as Sarah Palin for a musical - themed segment that lampooned current and former Trump administration staffers, as well as other linked figures, including Rex Tillerson (John Goodman), Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon), Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant), Michael Wolff (Armisen), Omarosa (Leslie Jones) and Stormy Daniels (Cecily Strong).

Senior Trump administration staffers including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon have active — and private — email accounts on a Republican National Committee email system.

According to an internal memo by the governor's top legal aide, Mylan Denerstein, first obtained by Capital Tonight, Cuomo administration staffers are warned to avoid any contact with casino lobbyists or supporters about the placement process:

Under the new policy, administration staffers will manually delete emails as they choose, though emails containing certain records will be retained for longer.

The investigation is coming out of the office of the U.S. attorney of the Eastern District, according to this source, and started after the governor hired a number of former Obama administration staffers who were out of jobs after their ex-boss left the White House.

Cox couldn't gain admittance to any of the invitation - only regional speeches, which in Albany drew a strong representation of lobbyists, local elected officials and administration staffers.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has stepped up efforts to request tax information from dozens of tax - exempt «social welfare» groups founded by Karl Rove and by former Obama administration staffers who are believed to be spending millions on 2012 campaigns.

Cuomo also hired two former Bloombeg administration staffers: Kevin Kelly, who had served as deputy commissioner of NYC Business under the former mayor, will be COO of New York State Homes and Community Renewal; and Jamal Othman, who was chief of staff in the New York City Mayor's Office of Veterans Affairs will now be deputy director of the state Division of Veterans» Affairs.

Another Cuomo administration staffer is headed to work for Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

One of Rivera's opponents, the former Obama administration staffer Ronnie Cho, walked by, with actor and fellow Obama alumnus Kal Penn in tow.

ALBANY - A former assemblyman is the latest top - level Cuomo administration staffer to leave for a job in the airline industry as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans a $ 4 billion overhaul of LaGuardia Airport.

LG Kathy Hochul will hold a news conference tomorrow in Syracuse to announce that she and Gov. Andrew Cuomo endorse Democrat and former Cuomo administration staffer Juanita Perez Williams for mayor.

Rebecca Lynch, a de Blasio administration staffer and ex-Democratic district leader, and Sally Frank, a Comptroller Scott Stringer staffer, have also been mentioned as potential candidates.

In Pennsylvania, Sen. Patrick Toomey seems to have staved off the threat from Democrat Katie McGinty, a former Clinton administration staffer.

A former de Blasio administration staffer running for an open Queens City Council seat has won the first labor endorsement of the race.

Bob Friedrich, a prominent civic leader, is expected to enter the race and Rebecca Lynch, a de Blasio administration staffer, is considering a run.

Russlynn Ali, the former Obama administration staffer who has headed up the XQ Super School Project, says she was astonished by the response it drew and the creative optimism that it seemed to represent.

For that matter, McGeorge Bundy was a JFK / LBJ administration staffer involved with the Viet Nam war.

Not exact matches

In Trump's West Wing, once the rumors begin that an aide's exit is forthcoming, the «stink» on that staffer never leaves, according to one of the nearly dozen White House aides, former administration officials and outside advisers who spoke to The Associated Press under the same conditions.

Knight, a former Hill staffer who worked on the Bush administration's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, was promoted from her position as special assistant for tax and retirement policy to deputy director for policy in February, and was recently praised by the council's new head, Larry Kudlow.

It is common practice for a sitting president to maintain a war room of staffers who are responsible for monitoring media coverage of the president and his administration.

If you're eagerly awaiting juicy tell - alls from Gary Cohn, Hope Hicks, Reince Priebus, or any of the multitude of Trump administration officials who have headed for the exits, don't hold your breath: The president has reportedly required staffers to sign nondisclosure agreements that last, essentially, forever.

9) The arcs of top staffers like Cohn and Sessions and Reince Priebus and Rex Tillerson, who joined early on in the hopes that the Trump administration would be normal, or could be made normal, have shown everyone else that to work in the Trump administration is to court reputational ruin, legal risk, and public humiliation.

State Department staffers, demoralized after a tumultuous first year of President Donald Trump's administration, gave a round of applause to Pompeo, who responded as he boarded the aircraft with a casual, «Hi, I'm Mike.»

President Donald Trump initially seemed open to raising the age limit for rifle sales, but a plan from his administration to reduce gun violence instead called for funding to train school staffers to carry guns.

But, Politico reports, there's still considerable dissension within the administration, led by top White House tax staffer Shahira Knight.

Similarly, the Trump White House is mired in investigations circling the activities of Trump's motley, amateurish campaign crew — Donald Trump Jr. and Carter Page and George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn and Jared Kushner would have been nowhere near the center of a normal presidential operation — and those investigations are discouraging new staffers from joining the administration because they don't want the hefty legal fees of getting caught in the Russia investigation or whatever scandal may erupt next.

The Trump administration is a leaky, chaotic, dangerous place, where staffers operate under constant threat from Trump and each other, and in which the president is so uncertain of his own opinions and agenda that more staff energy goes into persuading him of what he believes than carrying out what he wants.

Shulkin, the only holdover from the Obama administration in Trump's Cabinet, said last week that he believed he was targeted and undermined by a group of VA staffers installed in the top ranks of the agency by the White House.

And former White House Faith - Based Office staffer Michael Wear suggested that the Obama administration helped by signing the Adoption Tax Credit in 2013, including maternal health supports in the Affordable Care Act, and expanding the child tax credit.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced two appointments today to the Empire State Development Corp. and turned to staffers from the lameduck Bloomberg administration.

However, as the TImes points out, two staffers — Drew Zambelli and Howard Glaser — both gave up lucrative consulting businesses to work for the Cuomo administration.

But knowing the hands - on approach of the Cuomo administration, it's hard to believe the governor and / or his top staffers weren't aware of the decisions that generated a nice windfall for some prominent campaign contributors.

Also, as a former Clinton White House aide, and staffer in both the Spitzer and Paterson administrations, Maloney is nothing if not well connected.

Howe told jurors that while Percoco was serving in the governor's office he spoke with him daily, but also counted former senior Cuomo aides Howard Glaser and Jim Malatras as close connections, along with other staffers in the Cuomo administration.

A former Presidential staffer in the John Mahama administration, Dr. Clement Apaak, has disclosed that his government ordered some 43 new vehicles few days before leaving office upon the request of the incoming Akufo - Addo government.

Parts of the 80 - page federal complaint against nine people — including two trusted staffers working within the Andrew Cuomo administration — read like a James Bond novel.

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to Trump and one of the most visible figures in the administration, is expanding her operation inside the White House by hiring a veteran congressional staffer — Renee Hudson — as her chief of staff.

In the voice clip that Sam George refers to, he admits that Presidential staffers purchased state vehicles, some 271 of them, but he seems to suggest (in the Facebook post) that those vehicles were not the same ones the current administration can not find in the Presidential fleet.

I put this question to the Cuomo administration, which responded by forwarding a copy of a November 2007 memo to executive chamber staffers from Thomas Irvin, chief of computer services.

MP for Ningo - Prampram and a Presidential Staffer in the John Mahama administration has denied a report attributed to him about the whereabouts of 200 vehicles missing from the Presidential pool.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has hired two more staffers from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's administration.

She was a White House staffer during the George W. Bush administration and a 2012 campaign aide for Mitt Romney, when she prepped Ryan, the vice presidential nominee, for his debate with Joseph R. Biden Jr..