Sentences with phrase «of cabinet appointments»

Gov. Cooper challenged a law requiring Senate confirmation of his cabinet appointments under the state constitution.

Amid a flurry of cabinet appointments and immigration policies, the Trump administration has announced one thing it will not do: pursue policies that protect transgender children in public schools.

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There's no one single development that changes everything, but Katie's appointment changed our perception of what a bank board chair could look like, and this will change people's notions about cabinet in a similar way.

Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even with the election of a president who is making fossil fuel - friendly Cabinet appointments and promises to bring back coal.

Yet, his Cabinet appointments and his hand - picked advisors seem to reflect the contrary to draining the swamp, with former hedge fund manager, Steve Mnuchin, as Secretary of the Treasury; former Exxon Mobil CEO, Rex Tillerson, as Secretary of State; and private...

These appointments bring the size of Alberta's cabinet up to 19, which is larger than the initial 12 cabinet ministers appointed after the NDP won the 2015 election but is still the smallest Alberta cabinet in more than a decade.

The appointment of a greater number of female cabinet members in charge of important portfolios might also assist in this regard.

A handful of senior cabinet ministers appear to have caused all sorts of problems and turmoil that may require the personal attention of the Premier, or new cabinet appointments, to resolve.

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With no - one able to predict the election result, the Westminster rumour mill is dominated by discussion of shadow Cabinet appointments.

Trump is nearly finished choosing nominees for his Cabinet and the top tier of his administration, and four posts await appointments as he wraps up the year and begins final preparations for his inauguration.

Labour has accused Theresa May of turning to the right after she made a number of eye catching cabinet appointments.

Last year, a Pol.SE question asked How would a minority party in the Senate be able to delay the appointment of the President - elect's cabinet?

If the merit argument has little basis for understanding Cabinet appointments, the «demise of the middle - aged man» was also massively overstated.

In common with other appointments these Cabinet members share a strong advocacy of market based policies and a severely reduced federal regulatory role.

As such, the appointment of the new prime minister, Yatsenuk by the disputed acting president was accepted by the apparatus of the cabinet of ministers without a conflict (and yes!

Put simply, if the proportion of women in the Cabinet, on major company boards etc is increased, this will entail the appointment of women who are less well - qualified than the best male candidates for such positions.

@AzorAhai True, but I was thinking about all the other various powers of the Presidency (commanding the military, talking with foreign leaders, issuing executive orders, interim cabinet appointments, etc).

Sharpton demanded that the 48 - member Senate Democratic Caucus, led by Sen. Charles Schumer, attempt to obstruct the confirmation of Trump's Cabinet choices — much in the way Republicans stalled the appointment of Lynch, and blocked the ascension of President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland.

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».

However, he failed to persuade the new prime minister, Tony Blair, to support this course of action and was sacked just 14 months after his only appointment as a cabinet minister.

The slots of Kogi and Gombe states in the federal cabinet had been vacant following the death of the Minister of State for Labour, Mr. James Ocholi (SAN), in an accident on March 6, 2016; and the appointment of former Minister of the Environment, Amina Mohammed, as the Deputy Secretary - General of the United Nations.

The biggest beast of all though, Winston Churchill, was defeated when he had to contest a by - election in his seat in Manchester North West on his appointment to the cabinet in 1908.

Reading this biography one is struck by how Theresa May carefully got on with each of her Shadow Cabinet and Cabinet appointments, was mistress of her brief, and clung on it when insulted or demoted.

The most important aspect is the appointments of Cabinet ministers that must reflect regional, «gender» and religious balance.

Brought up in a council house by a single mother who at times relied on benefits, his appointment made a refreshing change to a Cabinet made up largely of millionaires.

Perry's signature would pretty much rule out the Perry - Giuliani ticket floated recently by former NY GOP Chair Bill Powers — or the appointment of the former NYC mayor to any cabinet posts (like US AG, for example), since the document requires the nomination of only antiabortion judges and appointees.

Rees Mogg makes the point that Obama's two key appointments — Joe Biden as his Vice President and Secretary of State John Kerry - blocked the extradition of IRA terrorists from the States to the UK after the Brighton bomb which almost killed Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet in 1984.

Lord Falconer, a surprise appointment to this shadow cabinet having been a key member of the Blair government and a former flatmate of the ex-Prime Minister, quit as Shadow Justice Secretary to take the number of vacant roles in Mr Corbyn's team to 10.

«If President Buhari could acknowledge that he had been working with a trimmed cabinet to avoid waste, one wonders the improvement that he has brought to bear on the country's economy to warrant his new decision to expand the Federal Executive Council to bring in more supporters of the APC and settle the party members with other federal appointments.»

The pressure group in a statement indicated that, the President's appointment of what critics have described as «elephant - sized» cabinet will only lead to corruption.

The former Labour cabinet minister has been widely expected to take over from Boaden and his political background has led Tories including John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary, and Damian Collins, a member of the culture select committee, to argue that his appointment could jeopardise the BBC's impartiality.

The Cabinet Office did not want to comment, but officials pointed out that the coalition agreement states that until Lords reform passes: «Lords appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election.»

Deputy Ministers prior to the enactment of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (enactment and legal separation takes place on appointment of the First Minister, post-May 2007) are not officially part of the Government, and not in Cabinet.

With a backdrop of bankers looting the EU's Treasuries (via a bailout that rivals George Bush's TARP) let us consider one of the most significant Lib Dem - Con cabinet appointments (and a non-appointment).

The paragraph above is part of a piece I wrote immediately after Ed Miliband's first Shadow Cabinet appointments.

The Constitution does explicitly gives the President the responsibility of enforcing the law and the appointment of cabinet members as he sees fit in order to do his responsibility.

The AG was to be a cabinet level appointment that directly reported to the President under Article 2 Section 2 of the constitution with the intention of helping the President and Congress with legal advice.

The Attorney General was brought about by an act of Congress but that law explicitly defines his office as a Cabinet appointment, directly under the President.

The newly elected Leader will make appointments to the Cabinet ahead of its first meeting on 19 June.»

The presence of a northern woman in the cabinet will not be the silver bullet to the issue of Tory unpopularity with urban voters and women, just as Sajid Javid's appointment has not made the Tories more appealing to ethnic minorities.

The move comes as Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, stands ready to overturn part of the Civil Service Act so that ministers can have more say over Whitehall appointments.

An even more innovative arrangement is the appointment of «ministers outside cabinet» who are bound to the government line only in the area of their portfolio, but can speak their mind on other policy issues.

He was a surprise appointment to Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet, having been a key member of the Blair government, and a former flatmate of the ex-Prime Minister.

Such elections were abolished by Ed Miliband in 2011, meaning all shadow cabinet appointments are currently in the gift of the Labour leader.

[12] Following her appointment as Prime Minister, May did not appoint him to the Cabinet on 14 July 2016; however, he returned to the Cabinet following the 2017 General Election as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Commenting on the appointment Jeremy Corbyn said: «I am delighted to announce the appointment of Dawn to my shadow cabinet.

The number of black and ethnic minority members in the new - look shadow cabinet is hugely impressive, while the appointment of former chief prosecutor Sir Keir Starmer — yes, another North London MP — give Labour some much - needed clout in the vital shadow Brexit brief.

I gather that someone called Luke Akehurst has complained that my comments on the recent Shadow Cabinet appointments did not compliment those who were successful, commiserate with those who were left out or discuss the personal qualities of the contenders.

Nick Clegg is teased over his private life and a lack of female appointments to the Cabinet by Harriet Harman.