Sentences with phrase «delegation trips»

Another McCain protégée, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a Democrat, said she treasured how Mr. McCain treated her when they went on the congressional delegation trips he loves and foreign leaders would attempt to recognize the male lawmakers before her.

Earlier in 2011, Schock took what appear to be official congressional delegation trips to Saudi Arabia and Colombia.

The latest protest occurred Wednesday outside of Tenney's office in New Hartford while Tenney is on a week - long congressional delegation trip to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Katko, R - Camillus, said he has been studying the issue for the past two years, and saw the difference privatization can make when he was part of a congressional delegation trip to Canada.

Not exact matches

Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, a senior White House adviser, met Moon on Friday as part of a weekend trip to lead the U.S. delegation to the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics, but no official meeting between the American and North Korean delegations was planned.

In a brief statement, China's Commerce Ministry welcomed the delegation's trip to Beijing, set for Thursday and Friday, adding that Liu would meet its members to «exchange views» on issues of mutual concern about Sino-U.S. trade and business ties.

In a brief statement, China's Commerce Ministry welcomed the delegation's trip to Beijing, set for Thursday...

The minister has been leading a 30 - member delegation of Canadian politicians from five provinces, along with business and labour union representatives, on a trip to Germany and Great Britain to learn about their apprenticeship programs.

Mr. Trump said that the United States delegation was making the trip at China's request and that he was heartened by recent remarks by its president, Xi Jinping, suggesting that he was prepared to open his country's economy to more foreign investment and ease restrictions on imports of American cars.

The delegation also includes Robert Lighthizer, the United States trade representative, who, like Mr. Navarro, embraces a more combative approach to dealing with China than other advisers on the trip.

The delegation's trip comes amid a tit - for - tat tariff war between the world's two largest economies that could escalate if the Trump administration follows through on a threat to impose tariffs on up to $ 150 billion of Chinese imports.

Our delegation, which for part of the trip included B.C. Minister for Advanced Education Andrew Wilkinson, was greeted everywhere with enthusiasm and a palpable sense of...

Ford is leaving town on a trip to Austin, Texas, where he and a delegation of city councillors and music industry leaders are to try to glean lessons from the city as to how to better brand Toronto as a music - friendly town.

«As far as who pays, typically when people are invited to fly with the prime minister on a trip like this, as part of the delegation, the government of Canada will cover the costs for the travel.»

Catholic News Service: Trip of papal delegation to Syria postponed The visit of a papal delegation to the capital of war - torn Syria, previously announced for late October, has been postponed indefinitely, and the delegation's membership, which was to have included Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, will be changed.

November 1, 2015, Havana, Cuba — A delegation of members of the National Association of Beverage Importers (NABI) has successfully concluded the first trip by a U.S. alcohol importer group to Cuba in over 60 years, designed to better understand Cuban beverage alcohol production, sales and regulations.

The Republican raised dairy issues with Canadian officials and business leaders during a recent trip over the border with a North Country delegation.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver made a non-publicized trip to Washington, D.C. yesterday to meet for the first time with Democratic members of New York's congressional delegation, who are growing increasingly concerned about the state's redistricting process — a process that will reduce their number from 29 to 27.

A D.C. source close to the New York congressional delegation called in this afternoon to question why Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn't schedule some alone time with his fellow Democrats during his trip to Capitol Hill today, particularly since it's his first trip to Washington since he became governor in January 2011.

In late March and early April 2007, Ellison was a member of a congressional delegation on a «fact - finding trip to the Middle East».

Local tourism officials have embarked on several recent trips to Europe to sell organizers on Lake Placid — a delegation featuring Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism CEO James McKenna returned from Lithuania earlier this month — and have said large - scale events would be a boon for the region's tourism industry.

The Republican raised dairy issues with Canadian officials and business leaders during a recent trip over the border with a North Country delegation.

Mr. Cuomo will also meet with Democrats in New York's delegation, where the agenda includes «taxes, health care and infrastructure,» according to the person with knowledge of the meeting, who requested anonymity because the trip was not yet public.

The main purpose of the trip, though, was business: Malaysia, Indonesia and Japan were all heavily courted by No 10's delegation.

Cuomo in 2014 made a trip to Israel with a bipartisan delegation of state lawmakers.

Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit led a large delegation to Al - Hoceima last week, the latest in a series of government trips to the region.

He said the President had embarked on the trips under a very stringent budget, cutting his delegations to numbers far below what his predecessors used to travel with, while even the trimmed entourage had received reduced allowances on the occasions that the host governments have provided accommodation and feeding.

The trip is a combination of politics and policy, with meetings scheduled during the day between the Brooklyn senator and members of the NY congressional delegation and a fundraiser for the state DSCC at night.

The second describes a trip by a Home Office delegation to ETS» headquarters in the US.

Its specialty is cold weather training, something Stefanik said she grew to appreciate on her first trip to Afghanistan in February as part of a House Armed Services Committee delegation.

The eventful trip saw the delegation being flown to Kumasi in trenches aboard a chartered air force flight.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a delegation of state legislative leaders are scheduled to fly to Israel this week in the governor's first international trip since taking office in 2011, officials said Sunday.

Media Matters pointed out that in an April 10, 2007, speech, Romney criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her «partisan» trip to Syria, but he did not mention that a Republican was a member of her delegation, or that a separate Republican - led delegation had met with the Syrian President three days before Pelosi did.

At the end of trip, the delegation toured one camp in Jordan with 50,000 refugees, Tenney said.

The move to ground commercial air service came after the Cuban government blocked Katko and a delegation of Homeland Security Committee members from taking a trip to the island to inspect Cuban airports.

The trips, highly choreographed affairs known as codels, for Congressional delegations, are an annual rite of summer for lawmakers, but they have taken on fresh urgency.

The unannounced tour of Afghanistan — part of a Department of Defense - sponsored delegation that includes the governors of Tennessee, Missouri and Nevada — is Cuomo's second foreign trip since taking office.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul has made two trips to Washington in recent weeks for meetings with the state's congressional delegation.

After the AAAS delegation returned, Neureiter discussed the Iran trip during an hour - long look at science diplomacy on The Kojo Nnamdi Show, on WAMU - FM in Washington, D.C. [Listen to the archived show at http://www.aaas.org/go/kojo/].

The October 2 - 13, 1996 trip to Chita was planned in order to provide current information on environmental management and policy aspects of mineral development, particularly uranium mining, at the level of expertise and detail provided to the Russian delegation to New Mexico.

It also does not include money spent by corporate lobbyists at special parties for lawmakers or state delegations at some of the most expensive restaurants in San Diego, nor money spent by some of the corporations to fund the trips for state lawmakers to San Diego for what ALEC has dubbed «scholarships.»

This isn't your first trip to Japan; you went to the International Climate Champions delegation that met with the G8 Environmental Ministers in Kobe, Japan.

The visit included a trip to the Steve Jobs Theater, and was attended by Saudi ambassador to the United States Prince Khalid bin Salman and members of the Crown Prince's delegation.

When Dorcy learned that Wendy, Rod, and I were traveling to Washington, D.C., she wanted so much to be part of the trip and the delegation.

Our Realcomm delegation just returned from a trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi with more than a few unanswered questions regarding the future of the region and the desert dream conceived back in the 1990s by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai.

Key members of the delegation included 2014 NAR Immediate Past President Gary Thomas; 2014 Florida REALTORS ® President Sherri Meadows, CIPS, GRI, CRB; Carlos Fuentes, CIPS, CCIM, NAR Commercial and Global Services» regional coordinator for North America, Central America, and the Caribbean; Larissa Ortiz, CIPS, who did much of the planning for the trip; and Carol Kairis, CIPS, managing director, professional development, NAR Commercial and Global Services.

The delegation enjoyed sightseeing trips around Beijing and numerous sumptuous Chinese meals with potential new partners and the staff of Beijing Orient US - China Consulting Co., Ltd. which facilitated the Trade Mission.