The only change at
cabinet secretary level was Michael Moore, and to most observers it seems a harsh one.
Not exact matches
The Bush administration is sending its highest
level delegation to China next week led by Treasury
Secretary Hank Paulson, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and six
cabinet members.
President Donald Trump might fire any one of seven different
Cabinet -
level officials — Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Housing and Urban Development
Secretary Ben Carson,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt, or Interior
Secretary Ryan Zinke — in the coming days.
Fergus Ewing, Scottish Government
Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Connectivity, comments: «Scottish food and drink exports are at an all - time high — with world - renowned Scottish goods like salmon and whisky being consumed across the globe at record
levels.
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.
Former ethics counsels to Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, write: «Seldom have we seen a worse
cabinet -
level ethics mess than that presented by Betsy DeVos, President Trump's choice for education
secretary.»
The younger brother of David Miliband, who was promoted to environment
secretary in the reshuffle, Ed Miliband will report to Hilary Armstrong, the newly appointed
cabinet -
level minister for social exclusion.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats have welcomed the announcement by the
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services that the Nurse Staffing
Levels (Wales) Act will be implemented in full from today (6th April 2018).
It ranks at Parliamentary
Secretary level and is not a
Cabinet office.
In 2015 - 16, Mark Francois, Penny Mordaunt and Sajid Javid all paid their subscriptions to the organisation while holding jobs in government, and the ERG gained its first
cabinet level minister, as Javid became
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
But the febrile atmosphere reached what was called «absurd»
levels yesterday when the London Evening Standard reported that Yvette Cooper, chief
secretary to the Treasury, was to be urged by a
cabinet minister to stand as a «stop Harriet» candidate.
As allegations that Fox had breached the ministerial code mounted — it was alleged that Werritty was improperly using business cards claiming he was an adviser to Fox, and had gained access to high -
level meetings — an inquiry was launched by the Ministry of Defence's permanent
secretary and by the then
cabinet secretary, Gus O'Donnell.
You are right about all those ministers, although I would just note that Gavin Strang was at the same
level in the first Blair administration as Michael Meacher, they were both Ministers of State who sometimes attended
cabinet meetings - John Prescott was the
Secretary of State for the Department they were both ministers in.
Despite that Purnell's move is a blow to Brown because No 10 believed it was succeeding in isolating the
cabinet -
level rebellion after Hazel Blears, the communities
secretary, quit on Wednesday in a badly timed move that alienated many party activists since it was taken only 48 hours before yesterday's elections.
He has the highest -
level experience of the five MPs vying for the top job - having served in the
cabinet as environment
secretary and then foreign
secretary - and is perhaps the most intellectual, if not intelligent, person running for the leadership.
In 1924 he was
Secretary for Mines (not a
Cabinet -
level post)[9] in the First Labour Government.
The environment
secretary faced calls for his resignation today, as Green campaigners warned that a climate change sceptic should not be left at
Cabinet level during extreme weather conditions.
He suggests that Mr Cameron might appoint a new
Cabinet -
level Secretary of State for Veteran Affairs (entirely consistent with the Cameron - Fox emphasis on these issues) and also a
Secretary of State for Climate Affairs.
A group backed by the communities
secretary, Eric Pickles, is to urge the Conservative party next week to support a six - point pledge card that will include promises to raise the minimum wage, cut fuel duty, build new homes and appoint a consumer affairs
secretary at
cabinet level.
Limits: Home
Secretary Theresa May, pictured, has been one of the
Cabinet ministers pushing for curbs on EU free movement — including restrictions on countries whose
level of wealth is far below that of Britain
To guide the efforts, Bush created a
cabinet -
level global change committee headed by the
secretaries of energy and commerce in collaboration with the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
In reply, chief
cabinet secretary Yukio Edano told reporters that the situation did not «immediately require such action», although the
levels of radiation might pose a risk «over the long term».
In his first
Cabinet -
level appointment, Gov. - elect Gray Davis of California has tapped former state Sen. Gary K. Hart to be his
secretary of child development and education.
«We must recommit ourselves to the vision that all students have the right to equitable opportunities to learn at high
levels,» said Helen Mountjoy of Daviess County, a former education
cabinet secretary and chair of the State Board of Education as well as a current Prichard Committee member.
Four
Cabinet secretaries brought the Obama Administration's Rural Tour to rural Alaska today, with stops in Bethel and Hooper Bay, representing the largest
Cabinet -
level delegation to visit the state.
To ensure that this issue continues to receive the highest
level of attention, I direct: (1) relevant U.S. delegations attending meetings with Icelandic officials and senior Administration officials visiting Iceland to raise U.S. concerns regarding commercial whaling by Icelandic companies and seek ways to halt such action; (2)
Cabinet secretaries to evaluate the appropriateness of visits to Iceland depending on continuation of the current suspension of fin whaling; (3) the Department of State to examine Arctic cooperation projects, and where appropriate, link U.S. cooperation to the Icelandic government changing its whaling policy and abiding by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (4) the Departments of Commerce and State to consult with other international actors on efforts to end Icelandic commercial whaling and have Iceland abide by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (5) the Department of State to inform the Government of Iceland that the United States will continue to monitor the activities of Icelandic companies that engage in commercial whaling; and (6) relevant U.S. agencies to continue to examine other options for responding to continued whaling by Iceland.
SB 732 (Steinberg, Chapter 729, Statutes of 2008), recognizing the need for state agencies to work more closely together on this issue, created the Strategic Growth Council, a
cabinet level committee composed of agency
secretaries from Business, Transportation and Housing; California Health and Human Services; the California Environmental Protection Agency; and the California Natural Resources Agency, along with the director of the Governor's Office of Planning and Research.