Sentences with phrase «as cabinet secretary»

When I was serving as a cabinet secretary in the Ehrlich administration we passed the first charter school legislation here in Maryland.

But Betsy DeVos has signed an agreement with the independent Office of Government Ethics to divest, within 90 days of her confirmation, possible conflicts of interest identified by the ethics office, as every cabinet secretary is required to do.

The First Minister has invited Kirsty Williams to serve as Cabinet Secretary for Education and subject to ratification by the Welsh Liberal Democrats this weekend, she has accepted.

Three years later, on 15 June 2005, it was announced that O'Donnell would again replace Turnbull, this time as Cabinet Secretary, on the latter's retirement at the end of that summer.

As Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams has expanded the Pupil Premium, investing over # 90million in the current financial year.

[1][2] His post was then split into three positions: he was succeeded as Cabinet Secretary by Sir Jeremy Heywood, as Head of the Home Civil Service by Sir Bob Kerslake (in a part - time role), and as Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office by Ian Watmore.

Since Maurice Hankey's time as cabinet secretary in the First World War, the role of policymaking civil servant has been crucial to the smooth running of coalitions and, more signifi cantly, their conception.

The assembly member Carl Sargeant served as Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children 19 May 2016 until his resignation on 3 November 2017 following his suspension from the Labour Party due to «shocking and distressing» allegations about his personal behaviour.

Mr Sargeant, 49, is understood to have taken his own life on Tuesday, four days after being removed from his role as cabinet secretary for communities and children.

The 49 - year - old was found dead last Tuesday by his wife Bernadette, four days after being removed from his role as cabinet secretary for communities and children.

She was appointed as Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities in 2012.

David Cameron tired of his feuding Cabinet ministers and sent out Hammond this morning, as a Cabinet secretary whose local community was affected, to do a round of media interviews and visit affected areas.

Mirosal, you might want to take a tour down history lane... Ezra Taft Benson, a sitting member of the Mormon Quorum of Apostles, served in the Eisenhower Admin as Secretary of Agriculture... no problems way back then with either his service as a Cabinet Secretary OR as a leader in his church.

And he said his new position «pays a little more» than the $ 35,000 a year he made as a cabinet secretary.

Not exact matches

As the front - runner for U.S. secretary of state, Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Rex Tillerson would bring a global business savvy seldom seen in a Cabinet member, let alone the country's top diplomat.

But, as we all know, the former Cabinet secretary pulled out of the race in October, citing an inability to amass campaign contributions.

President - elect Donald Trump is expected to name former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as his nominee for Treasury secretary, a source said on Tuesday, putting a Wall Street veteran in the top U.S. economic Cabinet post for the first time in eight years.

Concerning Trump's Cabinet picks, Buffett praised Secretary of StateRex Tillerson, the former chairman and CEO of Exxon, as «the kind of person» he would have chosen.

Our view: Full Senate should approve Mike Pompeo as secretary of state despite his hawkish outlook After more than two centuries, the list of cabinet nominees to be either rejected by the U.S. Senate or withdrawn from nomination is on the order of once...

No formal announcement, no position papers had been prepared; significant cabinet officers, such as the secretaries of Defense and State, were caught off - guard, as were his party leaders in the Congress.

Yet, his Cabinet appointments and his hand - picked advisors seem to reflect the contrary to draining the swamp, with former hedge fund manager, Steve Mnuchin, as Secretary of the Treasury; former Exxon Mobil CEO, Rex Tillerson, as Secretary of State; and private...

As a member of President Clinton's Cabinet, Secretary Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many of the nation's public housing developments and with formulating policies which contributed to achieving the nation's highest ever homeownership rate.

An April 5 Associated Press story followed by a similar April 7 Washington Post story both asserted that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was suffering from diminished clout in the White House, as a more confident President Trump feels comfortable taking matters directly to new hires like John Bolton and Larry Kudlow, chatting on the phone with outside advisers, and firing Cabinet secretaries over Kelly's objections.

Premier John Horgan set the tone for gender equality in B.C. by appointing 11 women to his 22 - member cabinet, and on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, appointed Esquimalt - Metchosin MLA Mitzi Dean as Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity.

He has a long career in government and has served as deputy secretary to the cabinet at the Privy Council Office, associate deputy minister and then acting deputy minister at Public Safety Canada, associate assistant deputy minister of energy policy and assistant deputy minister of international trade and finance.

He previously served as secretary of the Ontario cabinet, head of the Ontario Public Service and clerk of the Executive Council.

As expected, an official has confirmed that President Barack Obama will nominate John Kerry to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, making Kerry the first pick of his second - term cabineAs expected, an official has confirmed that President Barack Obama will nominate John Kerry to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, making Kerry the first pick of his second - term cabineas secretary of state, making Kerry the first pick of his second - term cabinet.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

As the new American government took shape, Washington invited Hamilton onto his cabinet as the secretary of Treasury, giving him a unique opportunity to shape the new natioAs the new American government took shape, Washington invited Hamilton onto his cabinet as the secretary of Treasury, giving him a unique opportunity to shape the new natioas the secretary of Treasury, giving him a unique opportunity to shape the new nation.

The Catholic position had become so clear, indeed, that there had been calls from anti-Catholic quarters for Ms. Kelly to resign, on the basis of rumours that she had been trying to weaken or delay the regulations: as Toby Helm, the Telegraph's chief political correspondent had reported the previous October, under the headline «Kelly «must resign over delay to gay rights law»», «A fierce Cabinet battle has broken out over gay rights after Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, delayed plans that would penalise organisations — such as hotels — for denying their services tohomosexuals.

That the Cubs didn't wait is a bit of a surprise, especially since team co-owner Todd Ricketts was tabbed to be a part of Trump's cabinet, as deputy commerce secretary.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

As I shared on social media last week, President Donald Trump has filled his Secretary of Agriculture post, the last of his open cabinet positions.

The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation was registered in January 2006, and is run by a body of trustees chaired by Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, who, as Sir Robert Armstrong, was Heath's principal private secretary during his premiership (and was later Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet secretary for many years).

As the meeting broke up, minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude and chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, said: «While the talks are ongoing it is obviously disappointing that some unions have decided on industrial action.

The former work and pensions secretary, who resigned his Cabinet post in June 2009 as part of a plot to oust Gordon Brown as leader, has decided he doesn't want to spend his life in frontline politics.

Dewar first became an MP in 1966 at the age of 28, and oversaw devolution as Scottish Secretary in Tony Blair's first Cabinet.

He served as the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office before being promoted to become chief secretary of the Treasury in Gordon Brown's government.

The new PM is not leaving responsibility for home affairs to the new team: so often frustrated as Home Secretary by Nick Clegg's chairmanship of the powerful Cabinet sub-committee on home affairs in coalition, she's now chairing it herself.

As former cabinet secretary Lord O'Donnell has pointed out, the main impact of minority government is an increase in backroom political deal - making.

Cuomo, of course, was in Clinton's second - term cabinet as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

On June 9, the cabinet secretary watched as the other side of the board picked all the letters up off its tile rack and unfurled «MINORITY» across a triple word score.

Mention can be made of the Speaker of the 5th Parliament Joyce Adeline Bamford - Addo, Chief Justice Georgina Wood, Electoral Commissioner Mrs Charlotte Osei, former CEO of the Ghana chamber of Mines Joyce Rosalind Aryee, and other women ministers such as Hon. Hannah Tetteh, Gloria Akuffo and others, also high commissioners and ambassadors including ambassador Mrs Mercy Yvonne Debrah - Karikari (now a cabinet secretary) amongst other great women.

It is highly unlikely that if Clinton were to throw her hat into the presidential race the next go - around that Cuomo, who served in her husband's cabinet as HUD secretary for four years, would not seek the White House that year.

It's now clear what happens when a shadow Cabinet minister publicly expresses their difference of opinion with the Labour leader: They either get sacked or they get told to shut up, as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has been.

I'd like you to imagine this as me knocking nervously on the door of the Cabinet Secretary / headmaster with exercise books down my trousers in anticipation of the punishment I was to receive.

Cuomo, as you'll recall, served as a member of the Clinton cabinet as HUD secretary.

People often mistake the fierce rivalry that Jefferson had with Adams» cabinet secretaries as a rivalry.

Gove first took up Twitter then but he's continued to tweet since returning to the Cabinet table as environment secretary.

It was significant, I thought, that the first senior Cabinet minister to turn up in Downing Street on Sunday evening for pre-talks talks - or as No 10 put it «to discuss the latest state of play on the EU renegotiation» — was Theresa May, the Euro - sceptic leaning Home Secretary.