Sentences with phrase «cabinet posts elected»

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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.

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.

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).

In a recent blog post, former Edmonton PC MLA and cabinet minister David King asked «Should Albertans vote for a P.C. candidate, in any constituency, and elect a cog in a machine that is running amuck?»

Former Wood Buffalo municipal councillor Don Scott, who was elected MLA for Fort McMurray - Conklin in 2012, is suspected by some to be eyeing the Conservative nomination, but might be hard pressed to leave his provincial 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.

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.

Yes, he has an interesting biography but he was only elected in 2010, has never held even a shadow cabinet post and has no big following in the party or union backing.

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.

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.

After Trump's victory, however, Giuliani wasn't selected for any cabinet post, leaving him on the outside of an administration he'd helped elect.

In the event, the PLP voted to retain elections for all shadow cabinet members and to elect the Chief Whip separately (a post previously appointed from amongst elected shadow cabinet members).

An elected second house would lead to a form of professional political class like the one we have in the Commons; a class susceptible to cronyism, corruption and stupidity in return for a cabinet post or a vote.

While Jeremy Corbyn has stated his preference for a third of the Shadow Cabinet to be elected by members, a third by the PLP, and a third appointed by the leader, the right on the NEC have demanded all Shadow Cabinet posts are elected by the PLP.

She recounts one almost farcical encounter with Brown, in which he asked her to defend him publicly against charges of using women as window dressing, while refusing to give her, his elected deputy leader, the cabinet post that would make her title meaningful.

Mr Corbyn's team do not want to being back wholesale shadow cabinet elections but are considering allowing a small number of shadow cabinet posts to be elected as a peace offering to their divided party.

Many will argue that keeping the post but abolishing elections represents a reduction in accountability — Labour's leaders (though not, it seems, its shadow cabinet or cabinet) should be directly elected.

Since she came 35th in the shadow cabinet poll and this is the first junior post to be made public, it is an important signal that Ed Miliband (unlike much of the PLP who elected the shadow cabinet) wants -LSB-...]

Mayors work within combined authorities, with cabinets made up of council leaders — all of whom are indirectly elected through a broken First Past the Post voting system.

He may have served in Gordon Brown's cabinet, but few people outside politics had heard of Ed Miliband before he was elected leader of the Labour Party in 2010, a post he has now relinquished in the wake of Labour's election defeat.

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,»