Sentences with phrase «new cabinet position»

He called for the creation of a new cabinet position with responsibility for counter terrorism, saying it was the only way to «inject energy and drive into dealing with this serious problem».

He repeated his call for intercept evidence to be allowed in court so more terror suspects could be brought to justice, and stressed that his party still backed a new cabinet position for homeland security and a dedicated border police.

Kucinich even proposed a new cabinet position: The Department of Peace.

Not exact matches

With a new U.S. president around the corner, there is talk that her next step could be into a cabinet position — Secretary of Commerce?

And he said his new position «pays a little more» than the $ 35,000 a year he made as a cabinet secretary.

On balance, Lighthizer looks like one of the Trump cabinet members who will seek to moderate the new president's more extreme rhetorical positions and channel them through the much - despised mechanisms of the Washington and global establishment.

Minister for Faith and Communities Baroness Warsi told Premier's News Hour she thinks the women appointed to cabinet have earned their new positions, she said: «Liz Truss, who've I've known for many years Nicky Morgan, Esther McVey; phenomenally talented women who quite rightly should be in cabinet, and it was right that they've built up their experience over the last few years since being elected and now they're going to serve at the top table.»

A new president appoints a number of individuals to serve as part of their cabinet, but most of these positions require Senate confirmation.

After the revised cabinet was announced yesterday, we take a look at the quirks of four MPs with new positions.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Rep. Mick Mulvaney, a South Carolina Republican, to lead the Office of Management and Budget in a narrow vote this morning, giving the congressman one of the most powerful positions in Trump's Cabinet and the responsibility of reconciling the new administration's conflicting spending priorities.

Theresa May is preparing a new year reshuffle that could see a number of cabinet figures losing their positions in an attempt to refresh the Conservative front bench.

19 July 2007: Jack Straw, in his new position of justice secretary in the cabinet of Gordon Brown, insists the government is determined to proceed with Lords reform and that the powers of the chamber, the method of election, financial packages and the number of members will (yet again) be discussed by a cross-party working group.

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.

The governor has promoted from within his administration to fill positions dealing with education policy and public safety — the new deputy secretary, Terry O'Leary, was announced last week at a Cabinet meeting — but other vacancies remain.

Jeremy Corbyn tells me there will be new Shadow Cabinet positions announced «imminently» #LabourLeadership

But he wanted a Cabinet position for the new Leader of the Commons, William Hague, whose most recent predecessors (Andrew Lansley and Sir George Young) had had the status of «attending» Cabinet, rather than full membership.

The researchers note that countries scoring high in United Nations rankings of economic development tend to have smaller executive cabinets — Iceland, number one in development, has a cabinet of 12; the U.S., in 12th position, boasts a cabinet of 17 — although there are glaring exceptions: Australia, Canada and New Zealand score high on development and cabinet size, according to Science News.

«Are We Ready for a Cabinet - Level Position for Culture,» Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, USA 1999