Sentences with phrase «of staff briefed»
With Obama in Sweden and Russia trying in part to rally global backing to punish Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons, his chief of staff briefed two Democratic blocs - the solidly anti-war liberal Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
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He focused on how Comey called Trump and his staff «liars,» saying that Comey «thought so little of President - Elect Trump's first briefing reaction he started documenting everything» and pointing out that Comey «gave a first person account of an obstruction narrative.»
On Thursday, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R - S.D., sent a letter to Musk asking Tesla to brief committee staff by no later than July 29 on details of the incident.
U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the director of the Joint Staff, was also on hand for the Pentagon briefing and added that department will move «very quickly» once the department is aware of the full scope of the requirement.
On the date of my formal recusal, my chief of staff sent an email to the heads of the relevant departments, including by name to Director Comey of the FBI, to instruct them to inform their staffs of this recusal and to advise them not to brief me or involve me in any such matters.
Following a routine morning threat briefing, Mr. Comey spoke to me and my chief of staff.
Trump was briefed by Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford at a meeting of members of his national security team, the statement said.
BEIJING / HONG KONG Chinese authorities have barred senior staff at embattled Chinese conglomerate CEFC China Energy from traveling overseas amid a government investigation of the firm's chairman, three sources briefed on the matter have told Reuters.
«Considering they have a staff of, like, three people at headquarters, there's a lot of infighting,» one conservative who has been briefed on the situation told me.
Facebook said it would conduct staff - level briefings of six committees Tuesday and Wednesday.
Meeting regularly with congressional staff on USDA and FDA policy, delivering testimony and remarks on the benefits of plant - based and clean meat, and collaborating with other GFI staff to showcase their expertise via Hill visits and congressional briefings.
Overdahl has testified before Congress on behalf of the SEC and CFTC, and provided staff support and briefings for members of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets.
If not, their contacts with the hospital staff will probably be frustratingly brief and totally inadequate to give them the amount of help needed in handling their own crisis and in relating constructively with their patient.
Moved by these concerns, in awareness of such needs, pastors and teachers of theology, administrators and boards of theological seminaries and now groups of these gathered loosely around a staff of inquirers with their advisers have undertaken for a brief space of time to examine their work and to ask large and small questions about its adequacy and improvement.
Mr Clarke has been holding a series of «town hall» - style meetings in Melbourne with Treasury staff over the past 48 hours along with phone briefings for the major Treasury overseas offices following the announcement by the board that it had ended talks with private equity suitors about a proposed buyout after months of due diligence.
Laura Abshire, director, sustainability policy, National Restaurant Association; Andrew Harig, senior director, sustainability, tax and trade, Food Marketing Institute; and Meghan Stasz, senior director, sustainability, Grocery Manufacturers Association, represented industry groups at the staff briefing and co-presented with executives from their member companies to raise awareness of how companies are already successfully implementing food waste reduction strategies and what challenges remain in the supply chain that Congress can help provide relief.
Mr Clarke has been holding a series of «town hall» - style meetings in Melbourne with Treasury staff over the past 48 hours along with phone briefings for the major Treasury overseas offices following the announcement by the board that it had ended talks with private equity suitors on a proposed buyout after months of due diligence.
Sky Sports reports that the club's backroom staff has been briefed that it could be done ahead of next week, as Villa look to make swift changes ahead of featuring in the Championship next season.
The MomsTEAM staff and I are still digging into the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council's three - hundred - some - odd page report on sports - related concussions in youth sports, [1] but one thing jumped out at me at my first pass: When I did a search in the report for a discussion of impact monitoring devices (a / k / a hit sensors), I found only one brief mention of sensors in the committee's recommendation that the Centers for Disease Control fund large scale data collection efforts for research purposes, including data from impact sensors.
Unfortunately we got stuck on the M3 and arrived with only 30 minutes left to climb, but the staff were fantastic, and got the children briefed and wearing harnesses in super quick time so we could make the most of the time we had left.
The toolkit continues with fact sheets addressing common questions about breakfast in the classroom, as well as a brief breakdown of the roles of various stakeholders; teachers, as well as custodians and school nutrition staff.
In brief, Dina Emser is responsive to the needs of our staff, committed to advancing the achievement of all, and demonstrates great integrity with regard to time and services.
The slides give a brief background on HIV and infant feeding, and then describe the various tools available for different levels of staff on this subject.
Scheduling trainings based on the availability of the staff (brief trainings first thing in the morning and providing substitute staff during the school day so personnel can allocate time for training).
But that doesn't rebut Yates» claim that Cameron's chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn, turned down an offer to be briefed on the progress of the phone - hacking investigation.
Having joined the Conservative Research Department in 2004, Dowden served more recently as David Cameron's deputy chief of staff and now forms part of the crucial Wednesday morning briefing team for Prime Minister's Questions.
15:59 - We've got some more news now - Downing Street has released the brief email exchange between the Met's assistant commissioner John Yates and David Cameron's chief of staff Ed Llewellyn about the proposed meeting.
I suspect that there were plenty of people briefing staff editors and saying, «This is a really strategic concern.
The union claims staff from the House of Commons» media office worked with the Speaker's office to provide briefings on the bullying claims for pro-Bercow MPs as he fights calls for a formal inquiry.
The briefings by May and her chief of staff Gavin Barwell were to focus on the rival options for Britain's future customs arrangements with the EU that have split the PM's top team.
John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, told Trump last week that Scott Pruitt, the embattled administrator of the EPA, needed to go following damaging allegations about ethical infractions and spending irregularities, according to two officials briefed about the conversation.
Policy briefings with senior policy staff of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Lunch and refreshments will be served)
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja received briefing from the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. - Gen, Tukur Buratai, on the happenings in the Nigerian Army as...
McLennan - Murray made the comments in response to a Prison Reform Trust briefing highlighting the effect of the policy on prisoners and staff.
Normally, senior staff attend «gang of eight» intelligence briefings, but not this time.
Union chief raises fears of potential conflict of interest over use of media staff to help brief friends of John Bercow
In a brief assessment of the health of the economy while addressing staff and students of the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani yesterday, he said: «The economy is healthy, and so when somebody says the economy is in crisis, we don't see where the crisis is coming from.»
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai; and the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, on Tuesday took turn to brief President Muhammadu Buhari on security situations in the country.
Sen. Dino Melaye (APC - Kogi West), who spoke on behalf of the party at a Press Briefing held in Abuja on Friday, said that staff audit the world over was a periodic exercise to monitor and evaluate public servants for promotions, retirements, new employment opportunities and elimination of ghost workers.
In this regard, the defence spokesman said, «the Chief of Defence Staff held a Briefing session with the Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Air Staff, the Theatre Commander and Senior Principal Staff Officers of the military high command at the Military Command and Control Centre on 1st August 2017, on the reviewed strategic direction and operational plans, in compliance to the directive of the Acting President.
The briefing took place in the office of the President on 23 rd December 2011 in the presence of the then Chief of Staff, Mr. Newman, at which I produced a copy of the approval letter dated 9th December 2010 by the Attorney General addressed to the Minister of Finance.
The Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866 appointed The Committee of Public Accounts to oversee the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG)[1] The Committee continues to be assisted by the C&AG who is a permanent witness at its hearings, along with his staff of the National Audit Office, who provide briefings on each report and assist in the preparation of the Committee's own reports.
Early in Cuomo's tenure, a staff lawyer briefed a couple of Cuomo's deputies about a student - loan company that was essentially paying kickbacks to several colleges to be recommended by the schools» financial - aid officers to their students.
«We've been tested as have the people of New York and New Jersey have been tested,» Christie said, noting Cuomo was the first to call him following a staff briefing on the train crash.
Her chief of staff, Joshua Fitzpatrick, said she and Bonacic went straight to a luncheon at the governor's mansion where Cuomo was briefing Republican senators on his budget proposal for 2016 - 2017, but did not make it in time to learn more about his plan for NYRA.
«We were together with the Chief of Defence Staff and the Chief of Air Staff in Maiduguri where the theatre commander briefed us on the ongoing operation crack down.
The administration then plans to have the major players — Rice, Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper - hold a closed intelligence briefing for the entire Congress on Monday at 5 p.m. ET.
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This presentation — by Frank Mauro of the Fiscal Policy Institute and Ron Deutsch of New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness — was made at a budget briefing for legislators, staff and advocates.
The award presentation program began with a welcome and brief remarks from Jean Howard, Chief of Staff to Mayor Robert Duffy, and Dr. William Cala, Interim Superintendent of the Rochester City School District.