Sentences with phrase «elected head of house»

In the Parker / Armstrong dining hall (from which whites are soon expelled when Sam is surprisingly elected head of house), Simien lets Kurt bark his complaints to Sam about affirmative action, and propose the dubiousness of colleges» diversity - driven enrollment practices, before spinning the tables back in favor of Sam, who claims Kurt's dad is promoting random housing out of fear that blacks will «congregate and cause trouble on his plantation.»

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In a sign of Mr. Trump's rightward tilt [on financial regulation], former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins is heading up the president - elect's transition team's work concerning the SEC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and other financial regulators that historically operate independently of the White House...

But Rep. Steve Stivers of Ohio, who heads the National Republican Congressional Committee - with overall responsibility for electing GOP House members - said that although 2018 is a challenging election year for Republicans, he is not worried about Faso.

In November 2016, Rep. Joseph Crowley (D - Queens / Bronx), who also heads the Queens Democratic Party, was elected as chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, making him the fourth - ranked Democrat in the House of Representatives.

Some 36 % (24 %) said voters should be able to sack their MP between General Elections; 33 % (47 %) backed an elected House of Lords; 24 % (25 %) supported a written constitution while 11 % (21 %) supported replacing the monarch with an elected head of state.

The direct participation of the royal and viceroyal figures in any of these areas of governance is limited; in practice, their use of the executive powers is directed by the Executive Council, a committee of ministers of the Crown responsible to the unicameral, elected House of Assembly and chosen and headed by the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador Dwight Ball the head of government.

Another piece of the transition puzzle fell into place recently when President - elect Trump announced his selection of Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R - SC) to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the White House office that oversees fiscal, regulatory, and management matters.

President - elect Barack Obama will reportedly name Nancy Sutley as head of White House Council on Environmental Quality, the top environmental post in the White House.

Medicine health school of earth environmental sciences and is headed by the presiding elected by the house of bishops to produce.

With Republicans controlling the House and Senate, a politically savvy conservative ideologue leading the federal education department, a vice president who earned notoriety in his home state for expanding vouchers, charters, and battling teacher unions, not to mention a president - elect who initially asked creationist Jerry Falwell Jr. to head up his Department of Education, the stars have aligned for market - driven education advocates.

Lord Phillips is now head of the judiciary, and soon the House of Lords will elect its own speaker for the first time.

Meanwhile, the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the house of representatives and a former domestic violence victim Linda Burney lashed out at the head of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council Warren Mundine for claiming in an Opinion Piece for The Australian (paywalled) that the Indigenous community ignores domestic violence.