Sentences with phrase «called on the administration»

Residents who live on and near Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes region have written to Gov. Andrew Cuomo calling on his administration to block permits for gas storage in the area.

At noon, Sen. Leroy Comrie joins the NAACP, National Action Network and others to call on the administration to stop the placement of homeless shelters in southeast Queens, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«I call on this administration today, talk about how we're going to bring problem - solving initiatives in our challenged communities, rather than talk about statistics that never trickle down to grandparents, to parents, to children who lose their loved ones on the streets of New York all too often,» he continued.

A handful of vehicle owners and even pedestrians, who spoke with Saturday PUNCH, called on the administration of Governor Ambode to hasten the construction work so as to reduce the stress they are currently passing through.

We're calling on the administration to hold off on issuing revised regulations until all of the science on the potential health and environmental impacts are in, and the public's questions have been answered.»

Should the visa plan proceed, the groups called on the administration to expand resources at U.S. consulates to manage such a fundamental change, and said the proposal should be subject to regular rulemaking procedures and not the proposed emergency review that limits consideration and public input.

It called on the administration to conduct its review «in accord with the democratic principles of governance.»

Join us in calling on the administration to disinvite the disgraced academic.

On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved a nonbinding resolution that called on the administration to develop a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and get involved in international negotiations.

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The delegation called on the administration to keep fossil fuels in the ground in front of hundreds of delegates and the media.

The American Sustainable Business Council, representing more than 200,000 businesses across the country, has called on the administration to reject the pipeline.

Supran: So just like at Harvard and around the country, at MIT we are calling on our administration to divest our $ 12.5 billion endowment from the fossil fuel industry.

SK Roy, the chairman of LIC, said, that Supreme Court, in a verdict commended by human rights groups, called on the administration to make sure that they (third gender) receive an equal treatment and the advice has been taken up for for implementation.

Not exact matches

Trump is releasing his first «budget blueprint» Thursday morning, providing the clearest glimpse yet at his Administration's war on the so - called «administrative state.»

The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza suggested that the Obama administration was «criminalizing reporting,» and the Daily Beast's Eli Lake called it a «war on journalism»:

President Donald Trump on Wednesday authorized the deployment of National Guard troops to the US - Mexico border, amid what his administration called a «drastic surge of illegal activity on the southern border.»

«USCMO calls on elected officials to reject the anti-Muslim rhetoric touted by the Trump administration in the name of national security,» Jamma added.

Peters, who was highly critical of President Barack Obama's administration, was suspended from Fox for a short period in 2015 for calling Obama a «total pussy» while on the Fox Business Network.

The Federal Aviation Administration is holding twice daily phone calls with airlines to talk about airport conditions, but does not plan to close the Miami airport on Friday, officials said.

The focus on the tax plan comes just three days before the President's 100th day in office, a point - in - time measurement Trump has called «ridiculous» despite sending his administration officials into overdrive to promote the work he has done so far.

In a background call with reporters on Sunday, a senior administration official declared the order's implementation «a massive success,» claiming it had been done «seamlessly and with extraordinary professionalism.»

«Obesity is a national epidemic that affects millions of Americans,» Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told reporters on a conference call on Monday.

«We are calling for better recognitions and dignity for all affected by the agenda of President Trump,» she told Fortune, adding that the Trump administration's anti-immigration rhetoric will be on many protestors» minds.

In February, Trump declared in a tweet that he was calling «my own shots» in his administration shortly after MSNBC «Morning Joe» host Joe Scarborough asked on air whether Trump's chief White House strategist, Steve Bannon, was «calling the shots» in the White House.

On trade, Ross lines up closely with Trump regarding his opposition to the landmark Trans - Pacific Partnership multinational trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim nations, calling the deal «horrible» and adding the administration will be skeptical of larger regional trade deals, instead preferring deals with individual nations.

On other diplomatic fronts, Shapiro said, the Trump administration has been cozying up dangerously to Russia, backtracking from free trade agreements and international organizations and calling into question Washington's NATO obligations.

Trump called on his Twitter followers to «ask Jeff Session» why the Obama administration is not the focus of the special counsel's Russia probe.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Novartis» Kymriah, the first drug for a new kind of cancer treatment called CAR - T cell therapy.

Global fast fashion retailer Zara was another company the Shanghai Cyberspace Administration publicly called out for showing Taiwan as a country in a list of nations on its website.

President Trump took to Twitter again Wednesday to call claims that his campaign colluded with the Russians during the 2016 election a «hoax» and laid out a checklist of issues his administration is working on.

And the administration has made clear in recent days it will leave formal drafting of a tax bill to GOP leaders on the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees who have been part of the so - called Big Six negotiating group, which includes Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn.

President Trump cited the Phoenix Veterans Health Administration scandal on Thursday as he called on Congress to pass a bill funding the Veteran's Choice Program.

«The challenge that this administration has refused to take on is that there is a very real call in the west to defeat and destroy the threat from radical Islamic terrorism, whether it fights under the name of Al Quaeda [sic]... or Boko Haram or ISIS or any of the other dozens of groups that are founded on the central principle of the destruction of the West and the imposition of Sharia law,» Pompeo said in an October interview with the Wichita Eagle newspaper.

Congress should look into these matters, and the press should be unashamed to call on press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and other administration figures for answers.

Call me a conspiricist (if that's a word), but I have to think this is posturing on the part of this administration to pretend that the economy is doing better than it really is.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

Sens. Murray, Cantwell Call on Trump Administration to Halt Expansion of Junk Health Insurance Plans

August 2016: The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the agency that oversees China's internet censorship, convened a meeting (link in Chinese) in Beijing with internet media companies calling for round - the - clock monitoring of livestreaming videos, as well as censorship of «bullet screen» comments common on the platforms.

Returning to the same south Texas courthouse where a Texas - led coalition won a sweeping victory against a key immigration policy of the Obama Administration more than three years ago, Texas and some of its former allies moved on Tuesday to scuttle the last remaining part of that policy — the so - called «DACA» program.

During the Obama administration, F.B.I. background checks on prospective firearms buyers — a rough proxy for sales — surged nearly 50 percent in the month of the Sandy Hook attack in 2012, compared with the same month a year earlier, as calls rang out for tighter legislation.

On Saturday, just two days after the administration announced tariffs on up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports, Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, called Liu He, China's economic czar, to congratulate him on his new role of vice premieOn Saturday, just two days after the administration announced tariffs on up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports, Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, called Liu He, China's economic czar, to congratulate him on his new role of vice premieon up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports, Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, called Liu He, China's economic czar, to congratulate him on his new role of vice premieon his new role of vice premier.

«We are able to act as quickly as needed as soon as the administration is able to put together an initial number that will be needed,» said a GOP aide who was on the call.

RICHMOND, Virginia — President Donald Trump is the ice - breaker ship that broke through 30 years of thick permafrost, according to former Trump administration official Dr. Sebastian Gorka, who called on 200 grassroots activists to be the flotilla that keeps the ice from reforming behind him.

The challenge that this administration has refused to take on is that there is a very real call in the west to defeat and destroy the threat from radical Islamic terrorism, whether it fights under the name of Al Quaeda... or Boko Haram or ISIS or any of the other dozens of groups that are founded on the central principle of the destruction of the West and the imposition of Sharia law,» Pompeo said in an Oct. 17 interview with the Wichita Eagle.

Last May, 144 GOP lawmakers signed a letter to then - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, calling on the Trump administration to hurry up and relax the rules.

President Trump's Twitter bombs and rhetorical attacks on what he calls the «worst deal ever made» and his administration's vague and confusing proposals have dismayed Canada, which is now exploring backup options.

Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald continue to hold a bullish stance on Spark Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: ONCE) after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the company a critical recommendation for its therapy called Luxturna.

Despite NAFTA's pivotal role in facilitating over $ 1 trillion of trade each year between Canada, the United States and Mexico, Trump's administration has on several occasions called for the end of NAFTA or to have significant portions of it re-negotiated to favour American interests.

NAHB today called on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to expand its small business compliance assistance to help home builders and other small business owners to improve the safety of their operations.