Sentences with phrase «legislative affairs director»

White House legislative affairs director Marc Short also stressed to reporters Friday that Trump only said he was willing to take another look at the deal.

Mr. Bolten was the White House legislative affairs director for part of the administration of the first President Bush.

This week, Americans for Prosperity hosted an event in Washington with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the White House legislative affairs director Marc Short, who once worked for the Koch network, to present a united front on tax reform.

Jefferson, the New York state legislative affairs director of the national Paw Project, is among those pushing legislation that would ban the declawing of cats in New York except for specific health reasons, such as infection.

Bloomberg's state legislative affairs director Wendy Saunders writes in the city's opposition memo that the bill could be intrepreted to include a child's religious background and «lead to inappropriate placements.»

Yet, so far, the only Democrats to declare their candidacies have been Justin Brannan, Gentile's former legislative affairs director, and district leader Nancy Tong.

On the mayor's side, the negotiations are being conducted by housing commissioner Vicki Been, planning chairman Carl Weisbrod, intergovernmental affairs director Emma Wolfe, legislative affairs director Jon Paul Lupo and staffers.

State Board of Education Legislative Affairs Director Cecilia Holden said they would be pulling together principals, central office representatives and the business - backed non-profit BEST NC that pushed the principal pay legislation forward to identify fixes and areas for improvement.

Wolfson sat at the Milk Street Cafe with Judy Rapfogel, Silver's chief of staff, and Micah Lasher, the mayor's state legislative affairs director.

The White House counselor, Kellyanne Conway; the deputy press secretary, Raj Shah; the legislative affairs director, Marc Short; and Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, have all in recent days either denied that Trump is seeking to replace Kelly or expressed skepticism over reporting that Kelly could be on the way out.

Marc Short, the legislative affairs director for the White House, told the Washington Post the administration was «reluctant to reward» Gardner's maneuvering.

On CBS News» podcast «The Takeout» this week, Marc Short, the White House's legislative affairs director, acknowledged that Pruitt could better manage the agency.

As word trickled out Thursday morning on Capitol Hill that Durbin and Graham were heading over to the White House, legislative affairs director Marc Short began to make calls to lawmakers and shared many of Miller's concerns.

And as the president increasingly recognizes how much Congress controls his fate, Marc Short, the legislative affairs director, has sought to educate him by appealing to Mr. Trump's tendency to view issues in terms of personality, compiling one - page profiles of legislators for him, the congressional equivalent of baseball cards.

Many of the top White House staffers first appointed in January still hold their posts, including senior advisers Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller, counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, press aides Hope Hicks and Dan Scavino, legislative affairs director Marc Short, and White House counsel Don McGahn.

Oleg Chernyavsky, the NYPD's legislative affairs director, said the NYPD received 80 detainer requests from ICE in 2016 and cooperated with two, which he noted were federal arrest warrants.

The mayor's chief of staff, Emma Wolfe, and legislative affairs director, Jeff Lynch, put the squeeze on legislators both by phone and in person — even threatening to pull the mayor's political support down the road if they persisted, council sources said.

Multiple White House staffers, including Johnny Destefano, the director of the office of presidential personnel, legislative affairs director Marc Short, and political director Bill Stepien also are expected to attend.

The group pointed to Lasher's work in the attorney general's office as well as the legislative affairs director for Bloomberg in their endorsement announcement, saying he's worked on key issues for the LGBT community, such as a bill that would ban so - called gay conversion therapy.

In another measure of the close ties between the two sides of City Hall, de Blasio on Friday announced he had hired Brooklyn operative Jon Paul Lupo to be his legislative affairs director, tasked with negotiating bills with the council.

And Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short — the White House's liaison to Capitol Hill — was totally in the dark.

Andrew Watt, the school district's legislative affairs director, said he hopes the state will allow Florida schools to use the money for other security purposes if only a few school districts enroll in the program, known as the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program, which was named for the Stoneman Douglas coach killed during the shootings.