Sentences with phrase «of the aides said»

The satellite was lost, one of the aides said, and the other said both the satellite and second - stage rocket fell into the ocean.

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The president also claimed that Comey had said there was no evidence of collusion between his aides and Russia, though Comey said no such thing.

Tamerlan, neighbors said, often stayed home and took care of his 3 - year - old daughter while his wife worked as a home health aide.

Two Democratic Senate aides said the speech was an attempt by Democrats to harden their position ahead of «fiscal cliff» negotiations set to get under way after the Nov. 6 elections.

The White House released few details in advance about how Obama would spend his afternoon in Orlando, and aides said the trip had been hurriedly arranged in a fraction of the time usually required to plan a presidential trip.

Congressional aides said that the White House had suggested a three - year extension of the DACA program in exchange for $ 25 billion in funding for the border wall, a proposal Democrats rejected.

The first lady, who was a model, said she looked forward to «sharing my ideas and traditions of entertaining and social hospitality» with her new aide.

«There have been other companies that have written software that theoretically could do some of these things, but the major difference with Hometeam is that the home health aide is an employee of Hometeam,» Bruno says.

While tech companies often lobby Washington on privacy issues, the major firms have been hesitant to enter a fray over a controversial portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), industry lobbyists, congressional aides and civil liberties advocates said.

A former Obama aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, said this was an opportunity to lay down a clear second - term marker - «no more Mr. Nice Guy, no more pushovers» - as a message to political friends and foes alike.

«It could be a hell of a fight,» one senior Democratic congressional aide said.

UPDATE III: On background, a Democratic aide in the Senate says: «it's certainly a strange negotiating strategy to go out of your way to decrease your leverage by taking options off the table.»

If Gen. John Kelly wants to succeed as White House chief of staff, here are five things he needs to do, says former Bush aide Sara Fagen.

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

While the president was said to be upset with Flynn, he also expressed anger with other aides for «losing control» of the story and making his young administration look bad.

A U.S. official and two congressional aides, all familiar with the launch, said on condition of anonymity that the second - stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster rocket failed.

And so far, I don't see a lot of fight,» said Barry Bennett, a former Trump campaign aide.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Kellogg says it will no longer advertise on Breitbart.com, the website formerly run by one of President - elect Donald Trump's top aides, Steve Bannon.

«He's there, but he's not quite being of the circus aspect of it,» the aide said.

In a sign of deepening concern among Republicans about the bill's future, Trump will speak to the party's lawmakers in Congress on Tuesday about the healthcare overhaul, two House Republican aides said.

The aide said the photo perfectly illustrates «just sort of how I view» Porter in the White House.

A former Forbes reporter says that President Donald Trump lied to him in order to make the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, including impersonating an aide who didn't exist to claim wealth he didn't have.

«We see this as a new industry, and we want to be at the forefront,» said Aide Castro, mayor pro-tem of Lynwood.

Organizations such as the Canadian Association of Optometrists say only doctors should be responsible for issuing medical aides (which it believes glasses and contacts are), and have expressed concern this change will lead to people skipping eye exams, which could delay the diagnosis of serious eye disease.

(Bloomberg)-- The White House is scaling back its plan to seek cuts from already - passed spending bills in the face of resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and spending panel Republicans, two GOP congressional aides briefed on the plan said Thursday.

The timing of the announcement also came as a surprise to White House aides, even those who had been informed days earlier of the imminent shake - up, two sources familiar with the plans said.

The chaplain for the House said a top aide to the House speaker had told him last month his departure had been requested in part because of a prayer about the Republican tax law and because of his Catholic faith.

For example, Mr. Wolff reports a snub of the president by Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell that a McConnell aide says never happened.

More changes may be afoot under Kelly, who is continuing his personnel review and is said to be targeting aides without clear portfolios of responsibility.

Meehan resigned from Congress in April, and said he planned to reimburse taxpayers $ 39,000 he used to settle a complaint from a decades - younger former aide who accused him of repeated unwanted romantic advances.

But Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Representative Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, the Judiciary Committee's chairman, have given no indication of how they would proceed, and aides say privately that Republican leaders view the possibility of Mr. Mueller's firing as too improbable to warrant hypothetical discussions.

Stewart said Trump was «just wrong» to call Putin and congratulate him on his reelection over the objections of his own national security aides, who wrote talking points for him with the words «DO NOT CONGRATULATE.»

The officials said Kelly portrays himself to Trump administration aides as the lone bulwark against catastrophe, curbing the erratic urges of a president who has a questionable grasp on policy issues and the functions of government.

«Questions remain,» the aide said, about whether Sebastian Gorka's wife, Katie Gorka, an official at the Department of Homeland Security, would stay on after her husband's White House departure.

The former aide said Mueller's team wanted to know whether she was aware of the contacts when she said this.

Politico's Nicholas Vinocur reports, «During their discussions, an aide said that Macron had pressed the point that «we can not conceive of a trade war among allies,» and that France would only speak «in concert with Europe» on trade.

Career officials who typically handle international travel were also sidelined, at least in part, with Pruitt delegating the planning of his international trips to Greenwalt — his senior counselor and longtime aide, two administration officials and one source familiar with the matter said.

Which means 2017 just becomes a year of un-offset tax cuts, and it becomes a very expensive year as a result,» said Rohit Kumar, head of the tax policy practice at PwC and a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The sources said Pruitt's decision to put Greenwalt in charge of his international travel, which came just months into his tenure at EPA, fit a pattern of Pruitt assigning the most sensitive responsibilities to his small cadre of aides who had previously worked with him in Oklahoma before he became EPA administrator — aides who sources said were more likely to acquiesce to his demands, even as other EPA staffers objected to Pruitt's spending and travel decisions.

«Artificial intelligence is one of many leading - edge technologies that China seeks and that has potential military applications,» said the Cornyn aide, who declined to be identified.

John Ullyot, the VA's assistant secretary for public affairs, asked a senior aide at the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out, said both individuals, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation.

Aides do point to Carson's experience on corporate boards (which he says he will resign from now that he's running for president) and the business experience of members of his inner circle, such as Jeff Reeter, Carson's national finance chairman, a managing partner at Northwestern Mutual, as guideposts for his philosophy: the campaign's economic policy will be business - friendly.

President Donald Trump intends to nominate Justin Muzinich, an aide to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, to be the deputy secretary of the Treasury, the White House said on Monday.

The aides said their hope is that the federal government will reimburse many of the technical workers.

On December 13, an unnamed Senate aide told The Weekly Standard that Hagel exhibited «the worst kind of anti-Semitism there is» when he said in 2006 that the «Jewish lobby» in Washington tends to «intimidate» lawmakers.

The Pope wanted a «family» environment, with just a few top aides, the staff of Casa Santa Marta - the Vatican guesthouse - and the homeless men, one of whom brought his dog, the Vatican said.

25 Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, «Take him up, and cast him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the Lord uttered this oracle against him: 26 «As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons — says the Lord — I will requite you on this plot of ground.»

«I had not heard him speak that openly about his faith in a public setting prior to last night,» said Gary Marx, a former Romney aide who is executive director of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, in an interview on Thursday.

Where does God say,» Just do spiritual warfare on ONE ISSUE at a time???»... Ever since the day of John the Baptist a WAR has been RACING in the heavens, and the VIOLENT -LRB-... Holy Spiritually VIOLENT...) are taking it... BY FORCE!!!!... As for single moms???... The tiny home initiative has reduced homelessness in Utah by over 70 % and that takes about 45 - 60 % of a single year's aide to build it THIS YEAR and next to nothing to keep it going!!!!... Next issue....

that book says I only had to die once and then the judgement, but we may have to postpone the Big Day a bit so I can go down there and shed some blood because of those bone - headed followers of mine...» He hasn't gotten back to me... but you're right there, my son, William, they are pretty damn wicked....god - damned I'll tell ya... BTW, William, like your thoughts... If I do come back we'll have to get together... maybe you could be, like, an Aide or something... can't promise you it'll be good pay, but, we can always milk the Televangelist out of a few bucks... let me know...