Sentences with phrase «cabinet post of»

Her own words: ««People feel betrayed to think that Gov. Romney, who went out of his way to question the character and the intellect and the integrity of Donald Trump now our president - elect would be given the most significant cabinet post of all,»

For all this, he apparently expected to get richly rewarded with the Cabinet post of his choice — leading the State Department, qualifications be damned.

The newly created cabinet post of special assistant for community affairs, which Bottcher will fill, is seen as a signal of Cuomo's intentions to push marriage equality in the coming months.

Not exact matches

Santi said a possible way around the impasse would be for a M5S - Lega government led by a compromise prime minister agreeable to both parties, «affording Lega control of some key ministries and leaving Forza Italia to play a less visible role, with direct or indirect control of some minor cabinet posts.»

That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

Arguably the biggest promotion in today's federal cabinet shuffle goes to François - Philippe Champagne, who vaults from parliamentary secretary to Finance Minister Bill Morneau, a supporting role just outside cabinet, to succeeding Chrystia Freeland in the high - profile post of minister of international trade.

As Sy explains, the President - elect's picks for various cabinet posts — apart from his selection of Rep. Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services — could well have a significant effect on Americans» health and well - being over the next several years.

Nonetheless, a number of Trump's picks for cabinet and other political posts have made similar admissions in the past weeks.

In 1990 he stepped down as Prime Minister in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yet remained in the Cabinet, first as a «Senior Minister» and then as «Minister Mentor,» vaguely defined posts that allowed him to oscillate between speaking engagements abroad while advising his ministerial colleagues on matters of state.

Tuesday's reshuffle also saw cabinet posts given to four senior members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)- the group overseeing the 1MDB parliamentary investigation.

After its initial passage, the draft was further reviewed by the Council of State, an advisory body reporting to Thailand's prime minister on legislative matters, before final approval by the Cabinet again on Tuesday last week, according to a local Thailand media outlet, the Bangkok Post.

According to The Washington Post, the Office of Government Ethics is currently researching whether the president himself would qualify for the tax break; even if he doesn't, the unprecedented wealth of Trump's cabinet promises to push this provision, and the financial incentives it creates, to the limit.

According to a transcript of a Florida Cabinet Meeting, «MR. [VP of Georgia - Pacific Palatka Ted] KENNEDY: However, as part of the administrative order, the DEP, EPA and Georgia - Pacific agreed that post installation of the technologies and subsequent optimization and testing period of a year each, we would test as to whether we could meet water quality standards in Rice Creek.

You are the personal attorney for the President of the United States — a man who is filling cabinet posts with poorly vetted and / or grossly unqualified candidates.

He has also filled a wide range of cabinet posts since he was first elected 32 years ago (Environment, Career Development, Public Works, Economic Development and Tourism, and as Deputy Premier).

It is speculated that Mr. Anderson could end up with a cabinet post in early 2015, to the ire of his new caucus colleagues.

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.

He held four cabinet posts under Premier Klein's government: in 1997 Stelmach became Minister of Agriculture, Food and Development; in May 1999, he was shuffled to the Infrastructure Ministry and later became Minister of Transport; and in 2004, he became the Alberta Intergovernmental Affairs Minister, a position he held until he resigned in June 2006 to become a party leadership candidate.

Giuliani had been widely expected to join Trump's administration but was passed over for secretary of state, the position he badly wanted, and eventually was left without a Cabinet post.

He joined the board after serving six years as an elected MLA and cabinet minister for the government of British Columbia, where his various responsibilities included three cabinet posts encompassing economic development, labour and small business.

After posting the image with the caption, «This is a cupboard that can never be opened,» the image of got more than 12,000 likes and more than 600 comments, with people from around the world talking him through the impossible task of opening of the cabinet.

Later, I will take a picture of the coffee pot in the cabinet and post it on Instagram, and I will laugh about it.

The American posted this interesting graph that examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900.

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.

In fact, in this post we will cover how to baby proof all your cabinets with the best baby proof cabinet locks to suit all your needs — these will help take the guesswork out of getting the job done right.

I'm going to try the DIY manicure one tomorrow and keep some CJ's in our medicine cabinet for the next time one of my boys» has gets a scrape - likely, tomorrow too;) Sara Vartanian recently posted..

Arthur Wellesley - 1st Duke of Wellington1841 - 1846Renowned for his post as Commander of the Allied Army and for defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington was Prime Minister of Great Britain twice and later served simultaneously as Minister without Portfolio and Leader of the House of Lords in Robert Peel's second cabinet.

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.

Labour sources said that Winterton was sacked at the start of a meeting to discuss a deal that would allow the party's MPs to elect some shadow cabinet posts.

Trump is nearly finished choosing nominees for his Cabinet and the top tier of his administration, and four posts await appointments as he wraps up the year and begins final preparations for his inauguration.

Guest post by Jon Trickett, Shadow Minister of State for the Cabinet Office.

Just saying that donald trump is battling leaks of classified information from his own cabinet, and indeed he said he would go after the manchester leakers post haste... so we can't really hold him responsible for this.

Now the dynamics identified in your post (together with the simple fact of Tory numerical supremacy within the coalition) mean that those issues not decisively closed off in the agreement will tend to be decided by the Tories in their own favour, and even those items that are dealt with in an apparently decisive way in the agreement will be pulled in a more «Tory» direction in their implementation, especially where being implemented by a Tory cabinet minister (or by David Laws, which amounts to the same thing...).

He was a contender in the 2010 leadership election and held a number of cabinet posts in Gordon Brown's government.

The electorate of Stoke - on - Trent voted to remove the post of elected mayor on 23 October 2008, to be replaced with a system of council leader and cabinet.

New York Post article on 60 percent of agency reps not attending a Brooklyn Borough Service Cabinet meeting, quoting BP Adams.

The post of NUS president has traditionally served as a good stepping stone for Labour cabinet ministers.

Senate Democrats, for their part, can still point to their role in derailing Ronny Jackson's nomination to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, another Cabinet post often seen as above politics in previous administrations.

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

According to the story, Media organizations and individuals requesting information under the FOIA last year were less likely to receive the material than in 2010 at 10 of the 15 Cabinet - level departments, according to a Washington Post -LSB-...]

They condition the probability with which different parties enter the cabinet, affect a cabinet's majority and coalition status, and may also have an influence on the relative advantage of different parties in securing key cabinet posts (formateur advantage).

He said: «It is unbelievable that some of the Cabinet ministers who decided that 2,500 post offices must close are campaigning to save the ones in their own constituencies.»

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post on the radicalism of the Cabinet Office and how, in some instances, that radicalism is being slowed by ruts along Whitehall.

By 9.30 pm on Sunday a further 11 members of the shadow cabinet had left their posts.

It is fascinating to consider the fact that the Cabinet Secretariat owed its existence to the formation of the Lloyd George government in December 1916 and to first secretary, the hardworking and feline Maurice Hankey, who held the post down until just before the Second World War.

Tory backbencher Philip Davies said: «I find it absolutely extraordinary that a Cabinet minister can stay in his post after being so openly defiant of the prime minister over government policy.»

Tim Collins A former press secretary to John Major and member of the Downing Street Policy Unit, he was elected MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale in 1997 and held a number of frontbench posts, including a series of roles in the shadow cabinet under three party leaders.

He had been a Labour councillor for 25 years when he defected to the Conservatives and has held a number of civic posts including chair of Housing, chair of Planning, chair of Recycling and Waste, Cabinet member for the Environment, deputy leader of the council and Mayor of Ealing.

«Lord Walker held a number of Cabinet posts during his parliamentary career.

It would be possible if all posts in the shadow cabinet were the same and all contenders were equally capable of performing any of them.