Sentences with phrase «first cabinet position»

This came to fruition when she became the first Cabinet position in United States history to be confirmed by a vice president's tie - breaking vote.

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The head of the SBA was elevated to a cabinet - level position during Obama's first term in office.

At first, opposition rivals attacked him for failing to put his substantial holdings in the firm, which manages pensions, into a blind trust after he was named to a cabinet position responsible for regulating the industry.

This isn't the first time the former US senator / presidential contender's husband stepped in to assist her raise cash (which she is barred from doing herself due to her position in the Obama cabinet).

In Gordon Brown's first cabinet, announced on 28 June 2007, Burnham was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury, a position he held until 2008.

Corbyn came under criticism following his first round of Shadow Cabinet appointments, failing to appoint more women to senior positions and undermining his commitment to bring in «fresh faces».

The current justice secretary, the first sitting Cabinet member to appear before the inquiry, was in a privileged position as head of the Foreign Office throughout the build - up, execution and violent aftermath of the conflict.

The positions of First Minister and Elected Mayor of a Major City are of similar status to that of some of the more junior cabinet positions.

The intervention is the first major statement from the former shadow home secretary, who was being tipped for the Home Office role during the early stages of last week, when Cabinet position were gradually being filled by the new coalition.

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the first Muslim woman to hold a cabinet position in Britain, is fighting back against allegations that she made improper expense claims.

So the move of Diane Abbott up to the home secretary brief and promotion of Emily Thornberry to shadow foreign (incidentally, the first time a Labour shadow cabinet has seen an even gender split in the «great offices of state» as well as the elevation of a black woman to such a position) ensures that at the very top there's a unanimity of opinion.

Cameron will chair his first full cabinet meeting this morning before putting the finishing touches to the coalition government with the announcement of junior ministerial positions, which will include a number of Lib Dems.

In 1940 in Quebec women voted in a provincial election for the first time.Women now occupy half of the federal cabinet positions.

Jim Prentice (who held three cabinet portfolios in Harper's government before resigning to take a senior position in a big Canadian bank) recently said: «The Crown obligation to engage first nations in a meaningful way has yet to be taken up.

Ms. Campbell is widely known for her cabinet positions where she was the first female Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, the first and only female Minister of National Defence, and the first and only female Prime Minister of Canada.

Washington was the first state in the nation to create a cabinet - level position for its early learning agency leader, has a 10 - year Early Learning Plan, and uses a cross-agency governance system that encourages collaboration among public agencies.