Sentences with phrase «of the administration officials»

In 1974 a number of administration officials were charged with crimes relating to Watergate and the cover - up, and President Nixon resigned in August 1974, succeeded by Vice-President Gerald Ford.

The White House said a high - level delegation of administration officials is heading to China on Thursday to discuss trade issues between the two countries.

Petition updates may come from a variety of Administration officials, including staff at the White House.

One of the administration officials helping to direct the overhaul of Dodd - Frank is National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, who recently stepped down as chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs.

At a meeting of administration officials and moderate Democratic Senators, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn pulled out his cellphone and took a call from Trump, who is traveling in Asia this week, according an account of the meeting from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio)-- one of the Democrats gathered for a meeting organized by Sen. Joe Manchin III (D - W.

Jim Malatras, Cuomo's former state operations director and one of the dozens of administration officials listed as recipients, said in December that he had repeatedly told Howe to use his government account for official business.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a delegation of administration officials traveled to the U.S. Virgin Islands to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Irma on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017.

Mr. Ponte has among the most difficult tasks of any administration official: reforming Rikers Island.

Seven attorneys who worked for Perez Williams declined comment for this story or did not return messages, as did a handful of administration officials.

But Stringer found that the process — dating back to the first days of the mayor's term — involved «dozens of Administration officials, including three Deputy Mayors, the Directors of the Mayor's Offices of Intergovernmental Affairs and Contract Services, three City Commissioners and numerous members of their staffs.»

This even though city Comptroller Scott Stringer later found that the process involved «dozens of administration officials,» including three city commissioners.

One longtime observer of state transportation issues and a former Department of Administration official, George Mitchell, said he is alarmed at DOT's current trajectory.

The advice of the administration officials is that the homeowners will no longer be requested to get an appraisal or required to undergo a full credit check.

Trump is working with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt and a small group of administration officials to work out how withdrawal will happen, Axios reported Wednesday.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, May 1 - The S&P 500 edged higher on Tuesday after comments from a Trump administration official on trade with China and the Mexican economy minister on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement provided cause for optimism.

Trump administration officials have said that in lieu of tariffs, steel - and aluminum - exporting countries would have to agree to quotas designed to achieve similar protections for U.S. producers.

Tillerson's departure just over a year into the Trump administration puts him on a short list of high - level government officials whose tenure have been incredibly brief.

We The People, the White House's official petition site, «provides a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country.»

U.S. officials said the Trump administration is expected to announce new sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector in response to Sunday's election of a constitutional super-body that Washington has condemned.

Administration officials have asked other countries what level of quotas they would agree to.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that Trump administration officials said the United States would not pull out of the agreement and had offered to re-engage in the deal.

The White House had no comment on specifics of the discussions, but an administration official said China should change its behavior and take action to change the trajectory of its trading relationship with the U.S.

Organized by the Small Business Administration, this is the 52nd year in a row that the president of the United States has declared one week per year the official celebration of the Main Street entrepreneur.

In announcing the ban, administration officials emphasized the dangers of secondhand smoke to children, saying it can increase the risk of asthma, ear infections, even sudden infant death syndrome.

In addition to the president, the Coalition has booked a number of Trump administration officials, including Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and White House Director of Policy and Interagency Coordination Carlos Rosillo.

Mabus is one in a pattern of Obama administration officials to make the jump to Silicon Valley.

«A lot of us joined this administration thinking we could bring to it the experience and expertise that the president didn't have an opportunity to gain in his business career, and to encourage some restraint in what he says publicly and to our allies,» said one senior official who is contemplating whether to resign.

«USCMO calls on elected officials to reject the anti-Muslim rhetoric touted by the Trump administration in the name of national security,» Jamma added.

That group consists of exclusively administration officials, although business leaders have been invited to attend meetings.

In Trump's West Wing, once the rumors begin that an aide's exit is forthcoming, the «stink» on that staffer never leaves, according to one of the nearly dozen White House aides, former administration officials and outside advisers who spoke to The Associated Press under the same conditions.

The U.S. Department of Interior was ordered to suspend operations of its Twitter (twtr) accounts after the National Park Service's official account retweeted two posts that were unflattering toward the Trump administration.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is one of several top Trump administration officials to catch flak for taking pricey flights instead of flying coach.

Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said officials needs to take a wait - and - see attitude over the impact of the Trump administration's proposed tariffs.

Top administration officials including Vice President Mike Pence and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney gave assurances on Thursday that Trump would sign the bill, which cleared both chambers of Congress that day.

Badlands National Park posted several facts about climate change on its official Twitter account Tuesday afternoon, sharing statistics that might contradict the beliefs of President Donald Trump's new administration.

The demand may prove a bigger problem than potentially increasing the overall North American automotive value content from the current level of 62.5 % for tariff - free shipments of vehicles within the region, which officials say Trump's administration also wants to raise.

Administration officials say no news is expected at the summit on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement or on new sanctions on the Venezuelan government.

David Acheson, a former official at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was brought on as an adviser.

Tony Fratto, a former official in the administration of Republican George W. Bush, criticized Trump as out of step with the party.

«Her teaching is highly valued,» administration officials said, «and she is welcome to resume teaching anytime at Yale, where freedom of expression and academic inquiry are the paramount principle and practice.»

He was ousted after questions about his official travel and amid an internal administration fight over how much of the medical care delivered to veterans could be outsourced to private insurers.

In February of last year, Trump described the removal of authorized immigration by his administration as «a military operation,» a comment that contrasted with other officials in his administration, who stressed that deportations would not be pursued en masse or in the style of a military operation.

Jacobson said she had no information about her successor, though a US official with knowledge of the decision told The New York Times that the Trump administration had selected a nominee.

Stonewall said it will lobby the UK Government, devolved administrations, and political parties for recognition and protection of non-binary people in law, as well as appropriate ways to record gender in all official documents.

However, the investigation appears to be gathering momentum, after the decision of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to plead guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations.

Arguably it dates back to the early days of the Reagan administration, when officials — under the influence of the pro-business, anti-regulatory Chicago school of economics — reinterpreted antitrust law.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday will sign a directive asking for a speedy probe into whether imports of foreign - made steel are hurting U.S. national security, two administration officials said on Wednesday.

«A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice.

Tech companies and trade organizations disclosed they had 48 arrangements with lobby groups that discussed NAFTA with administration officials or lawmakers in the second quarter, up from 17 groups in the first quarter and one group at the end of 2016, according to the data.

President Barack Obama is set to nominate Maria Contreras - Sweet, the founder of ProAmerica Bank, as the new leader of the SBA later today, according a senior administration official.