Sentences with phrase «by political appointees»

Over a year ago, we submitted a request to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics requesting an investigation into the relationship between the Administration and the Committee but have heard nothing back from the new Commission that was formed by Cuomo and run by a political appointee of his.

«I have been disappointed that there have been no resignations on principle by the political appointees of this administration.»

In the mid 2000s, he exposed political suppression of climate findings at NASA and editing of federal climate reports by political appointees with ties to the petroleum industry.

References to it were deleted from some government reports by political appointees in the White House.

Starting in late January with several interviews in The New York Times, Dr. Hansen, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, and several career NASA public affairs officials and scientists complained about what they said were intensifying efforts by political appointees in NASA, including Mr. Deutsch, to control more closely his lectures and Web presentations.

According to the New York Times, nearly $ 900,000 in campaign contributions were made by political appointees during that period.

The controversy over Price was a catalyst for Congress launching a bipartisan probe of travel by political appointees across the administration.

But the effort is being conducted in large part out of public view and often by political appointees with deep industry ties and potential conflicts.

«Sadly the New York City Campaign Finance System was once hailed as a nationwide model, but it has devolved into a nitpicking, imperious bureaucracy, now chaired by a political appointee who was illegally installed by the outgoing mayor,» the suit says.

Bloomberg at the time sought to overhaul what he described as a «broken» and inefficient system led by political appointees.

After years of financial turmoil and management scandals, NYRA was placed under state control by Cuomo in October 2012 in a deal that created a «reorganization board» dominated by political appointees.

A request by political appointees for an early look at data on resources in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve led to complaints from senior scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey.

The legislation is aimed at blocking attempts by political appointees to manipulate or suppress the results of research that could undermine the administration's position on an issue.

I thought there were supposed to be checks and balances integrated into the political system in order to prevent the type of racketeering that is being perpetrated on the state of Connecticut by political appointees and elected officials all the way up to the govorner.

John Bjornson, a crusading climate scientist modeled closely on the retired NASA scientist Jim Hansen, is muzzled by political appointees and betrayed by his twin sister and brother in law — both of whom are blinded to looming environmental danger by their investments in fossil fuels.

Their critique has been embraced by James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who was pressed in 2006 to rein in his comments about global warming by political appointees under President George W. Bush.

But George Gray, who was the assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Research and Development under former President George W. Bush, told the Guardian that scientific studies are typically reviewed at lower levels and rarely by political appointees.

Officials at the Commerce Department and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told ABC News today that they strongly disputed Waxman's allegations that scientists were being censored by political appointees.

Science sections of recent IPCC report were forced to change to fit the executive summary written by political appointees

After he and several other employees were pressured to follow President Bush's «vision» for the agency by a political appointee in NASA's Office of Public Affairs, Hansen took the battle public and spoke with the New York Times.

The version that finally emerged on Oct. 6 after review by political appointees was titled «Study Shows Potential for Antarctic Climate Change.»

EPA announced that it will require new and certain existing grants to be approved by a political appointee, who has told staff he is looking for references to «climate change.»

A review of public records and news reports shows that Adam Skelos has held a series of jobs at title companies, offices of public officials or entities run by political appointees.

In 2005 and 2006, he exclusively uncovered the suppression of climate science by political appointees.

In the mid 2000s, he exposed political suppression of climate findings at NASA and editing of federal climate reports by political appointees with ties to the petroleum industry.

Painter recommends that Congress pass a law right now that would require that when a President or his businesses have specific matters pending before a federal agency — like, say, an Internal Revenue Service audit, or a case before the National Labor Relations Board or the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a licensing issue before the Federal Communications Commission — that the matter must be decided by a career civil servant, rather than by a political appointee.

«In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries.