Sentences with phrase «cabinet meeting told»
Cuomo this week at the cabinet meeting told reporters there is sufficient independent oversight, pointing to the local, state and federal prosecutors in New York.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
«I told him that in Ontario this job was being part of the cabinet meetings that Bill Davis had,» Kinsella's quoted as saying.
Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman, chair of Mr. Trump's strategic and policy council, met with Mr. Trudeau's cabinet in Calgary on Monday and told reporters that U.S. - Canada trade is roughly in balance, so Canadians should not worry.
«Our National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation told us that every time they had their lobby in Ottawa, Conservative Cabinet Ministers and Tory Members of Parliament refused to meet with them, whereas in previous governments at least the Minister in charge of seniors would meet with the seniors» delegation.
What that means in practice is the TPP agreement as currently structured and finalized can only come into force if it is ratified by the United States,» Ms. Freeland told reporters after a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill on Tuesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump told a cabinet meeting on Monday that his administration is going to «give the American people a huge tax cut for Christmas.»
«I don't think he should be enormously worried, because Canada is held in very high regard,» he told reporters after his private meeting with cabinet.
Mrs May well remembers the «orchestrated and scripted» control exerted by Mr Cameron where Cabinet ministers were told what to say and to whom after weekly meetings.
The power of Mukerjee's telling of this man - made famine that killed — following Amartya Sen's analysis of famine mortality — around 3 million people, lies in the formidable marshalling of a wide range of data, from cabinet meeting records and papers of powerful politicians and officials to interviews in Bengal villages with survivors of the famine and militant rebels against the Raj.
Although he is not a member of the shadow cabinet, Mr Cameron told the meeting of the 1922 Committee last night that Mr Clarke would speak from the front bench «from time to time».
Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters at a cabinet meeting yesterday that he wasn't planning on getting involved in the city's politics, though he did praise Republican MTA Chairman Joe Lhota's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
He told the Committee he wanted to escape early so he could get ready for a crunch meeting of Theresa May's Brexit war cabinet.
Norris told the FBI about the kitchen cabinet meeting where Maziarz was not present.
I watched the audience at a fringe meeting in Manchester this week listen in sullen silence as one former cabinet minister, Dominic Grieve, told them it was impossible to tell if we might be better off in 30 years» time: all we could be sure of was that Brexit was «a sudden and profound shift», and therefore a huge economic risk in the short and medium term.
As I reported last week, there was outrage when Corbyn wrote to MPs opposing air strikes without first informing the shadow cabinet (I'm told that my account of that meeting was also raised).
I presented the idea at the cabinet meeting then and after a careful assessment, the governor applauded it but expressed reservations with the issue of funding because he told me point - blank that there were no resources to embark on such project.
Party membership figures are a controversial issue, with the former cabinet minister Peter Mandelson, who is opposed to Corbyn, telling a Labour meeting in the Lords last month that «30,000 long - term members have left the party, real members, tens of thousands».
Alan Johnson reportedly told Mr Brown at yesterday's Cabinet meeting that all three measures would likely be passed and it was important Labour MPs could exercise a free vote on some portions, in line with their Conservative and Liberal Democrat counterparts.
Jack Straw has told the House of Commons that publication of the minutes of Cabinet meetings in the lead - up to the war in Iraq in 2003 is not in the public interest.
And it's now clear from several government Tory sources that David Cameron told both his Shadow Cabinet that afternoon, and the meeting of all Conservative MPs that evening, the same thing.
«Our administration did bring about a change of culture in 2014... the Conservative cabinet has set some really firm foundations that I truly believe will help the Liberal Democrat and subsequent administrations,» she told the meeting.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal of seeking broader authority over moving money between state authorities and inking certain contracts isn't about power, but streamling government, he told reporters at a cabinet meeting earlier this afternoon.
The Observer has been told that the defence secretary, Philip Hammond, and the education secretary, Michael Gove, raised their concerns at last week's cabinet meeting, saying the changes, which are strongly backed by Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats, should not be a legislative priority.
«You can all smile now, you know»: We were told where to sit or stand for a photograph before a Cabinet meeting in 2012 took place, and naturally the Queen was herself seated right in the middle of the front row
The move by Cameron came as he prepared to tell a meeting of the first Tory - only cabinet in 18 years that he leads Britain's «real party for working people» which will make job creation and the expansion of childcare its main priorities.
«This was badly needed and long overdue, but it's going to be an empty gesture if we don't accurately gauge whether students are meeting those expectations,» she told Cabinet Report.
I met Louis Sylvestre an old PUP Cabinet Minister one day while waiting for a plane at the Caye Caulker airstrip a couple of years back and he told me then, that I had been before my time.
Harrabin advised me, «I phoned the Met Office about this statement and the Met Office press office told me they'd given information to the Cabinet Office that we were facing an early cold winter.»
For example, at the first meeting of the Ministerial Taskforce on Longer Term Economic Growth in 1985, which included five senior Hawke Government (Labor) Cabinet members, the Chair, Industry Minister Senator John Button, told the assembled economists etc (mainly economists) to forget ALP policy, to forget ACTU policy, what the government wanted to know was how best to proceed for the Australian community as a whole.