Sentences with phrase «half years in office»

On what he wants to see happen next: «I would advise [Obama] personally call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous «State Secrets» privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years in office for any wrongdoing.

While they applaud the Harper Conservatives» shift toward engaging China after the chilly relations of their first two years in office, experts including Dobson wonder whether the government is sufficiently prepared to tackle thorny issues ranging from intellectual property protection to government procurement.

The Liberals have proposed an austerity plan that would find $ 1.3 billion in spending cuts in their first two years in office.

But while history may also be on the Democrats» side — the party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even when that President is not as controversial as the current occupant — they actually face a very difficult Senate map.

He had taken some steps to curb demand during his first year in office, such as raising the minimum downpayment for homes priced higher than $ 500,000.

Five years after staring into a political and personal abyss, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is out to prove that the man who threw in the towel after barely a year in office has what it takes to survive as a long - term leader.

Abe, now in his sixth year in office, had tried to put behind him questions over the sale of state owned land at a huge discount to a school operator with ties to his wife, Akie.

The researchers deliberately chose topics that were polarizing — the «surge» strategy of sending more U.S. troops into Iraq, and job growth during Obama's first year in office.

WASHINGTON — President Trump's major policy moves over the course of his first year in office have had a common denominator: They either overtly favor his base of support — the roughly one - third of voters who solidly back him — or they appear to penalize those states that vote Democratic.

Donald Trump's first year in office may have been laden with controversy, political squabbling, and tweet storms, yet the reality - TV star turned U.S. president also managed to get a singular piece of legislation through that should loom large for businesses big and small for years to come.

The party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even if the President isn't a controversial figure like Donald Trump.

In Trump's first year in office, the pair bonded over golf in Japan and the US and talked on the phone more than a dozen times, in addition to several in - person meetings.

That is a 71 % increase over 2013, Peña Nieto's first full year in office.

As President Obama wraps up his final year in office, entrepreneurs are taking a step back to consider his business legacy.

One of President Donald Trump's biggest foils on the campaign trail last year and in his first year in office is vitally important to the economies of many states.

Eisenhower loved movies, having watched about 200 in the White House's private theater during his eight years in office.

But two trade agreements President Obama wants to advance as part of an ambitious domestic agenda for his last two years in office — the Trans - Pacific partnership in Asia and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in Europe — are getting push - back from both the left and right.

More than 56,600 foreigners have been caught crossing from Mexico illegally between February and May, down from 137,800 people in the same period during President Barack Obama's last year in office.

And throughout his first year in office, Trump has taken an aggressive stance toward the fraying South American country's government.

Here's a timeline of North Korea's brazen missile tests during President Donald Trump's first year in office.

President Donald Trump spent the weekend in Washington, rather than at his Palm Beach estate, where he had planned to celebrate the anniversary first year in office with friends and supporters.

Donald Trump lifted the Dow Jones industrial average in his first year in office more than any other president since Franklin Roosevelt.

Most likely places where the money would be spent include upgrades on infrastructure, which President Obama, in his State of the Union address last week, mentioned as one of his top priorities in his remaining two years in office.

Republicans rode a wave of voter discontent to seize control of the U.S. Senate, dealing a punishing blow to President Barack Obama that will limit his legislative agenda and may force him to make a course correction for his last two years in office.

In Crist's first year in office — 2007 — the state ranked 37th.

During his 14 years in office, Chávez tightened his grip on PDVSA while simultaneously pursuing programs aimed at improving access to health, education and food for poor Venezuelans.

Republicans strengthened their grip in Congress in a move guaranteed to limit President Obama's legislative agenda for his last two years in office.

Barack Obama issued two in eight years in office.

This statement was right there in the first paragraph of Treasury Department's announcement of the tax proposal — which, I would note, was released in February of Bush's first year in office, not September.

The Senate passed the Republican tax reform bill early Saturday in a massive win for the party and President Donald Trump, who has seen many of his agenda items stall in the legislature during his first year in office.

An overhaul of the U.S. tax system was approved in December 2017 and has been broadly viewed as a legislative victory for Trump in his first year in office.

I didn't congratulate him for his first year in office or anything else but that I believe was a job well done,» Kaeser said.

In an interview with Fox News» Sean Hannity, Trump noted that the stock market has done well during his first year in office, then claimed that «maybe in a sense we're reducing debt.»

It dropped another 7.9 % in 2017, his eventful first year in office.

President Obama in his first year in office got the biggest budget increase in the history of the VA..

Perhaps because of the mustache, Trump hadn't taken Bolton's policy advice to heart in his first year in office.

It's also worth recalling that, even though he failed to reform health care during his eight years in office, President Bill Clinton still managed to tackle tax reform with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.

In one of the largest economic development projects in Malloy's seven years in office, Infosys — which had $ 10 billion in revenue last year — will receive up to $ 14 million in state grants.

Inside the FBI, which Trump has attacked as part of his effort to undercut Mueller's investigation throughout his first year in office, the feeling is that the Nunes fight could provide a small victory — at least for now.

In 2017, Mr. Trump's first year in office, sales fell 27 percent in the first nine months (the most recent data available) from the same period a year earlier.

Mr. Fazio resigned last week from his lifetime appointment as governor of the Bank of Italy, Italy's chief banking regulator, after 12 years in office.

But after almost nine years in office, the data simply does not confirm this story.

Russia's 2018 presidential election, the conclusion of the 19th Party Congress in China, and the beginning of President Trump's second year in office are creating new dynamics in the relations between Russia, China, and the United States.

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a nonresident senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution, found that the resignations, firings and promotions within the White House and executive branch during Trump's first year in office numbered twice that of the Reagan administration's and triple that of Obama's.

The current Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is approaching two years in office, and with a relatively new Minister of Immigration and a swathe of new approaches within the department, now is as good a time as any to reflect on how this government is faring on immigration.

[485][216] A Gallup poll, taken in the final days of Obama's term, showed that 68 % of Americans believed that the U.S. had made progress in the situation for gays and lesbians during Obama's eight years in office.

Yet as Trump approaches the conclusion of his first year in office, he's achieved the exact opposite of what he said.

Trump will be able to essentially remake the Fed's board during his first two years in office.

By the Numbers: Here's how the U.S. changed during President Trump's first year in office.

What do you think was the most memorable moment of Trump's first year in office?