Sentences with phrase «other cabinet nominations»
Republicans also advanced two other cabinet nominations — Steve Mnuchin as Treasury secretary and Georgia Rep. Tom Price for secretary of Health and Human Services — suspending quorum rules that require a member of the minority party to participate in confirmation votes.
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(As an aside, the week ended with a Cabinet nomination collapsing when it was alleged that, among other things, the nominee, a chief White House doctor nicknamed «the Candyman,» had handed out prescription drugs with abandon, including, on at least one occasion, an alarmingly large supply of Percocet.)
Senators» offices have been flooded with thousands of calls and letters opposing the nomination of Betsy DeVos — with some Democratic offices saying the opposition to DeVos is stronger than for any other Cabinet nominee.
In an effort to assist the scientific and engineering community digest developments since Election Day, AAAS has made information available about its actions in response to administration policy shifts that impact scientific integrity and tracked Cabinet nominations as well as other relevant policy issues at www.ForceForScience.org.
Robert H. Nelson, a professor of public policy focusing on public lands management at the University of Maryland and a proponent of the federal government transferring federal public lands to the states, said that what's most notable about McMorris Rodgers» nomination is that, unlike other Trump cabinet nominees, she does not appear to be a well - known activist.
«No other Trump cabinet nominee garnered the level of public opposition as Betsy DeVos and no other time in our nation's history has a Vice President of the United States stepped in to cast the deciding vote on a nomination.
New York's charter sector has «nothing to gain by coming out against [DeVos] other than to buff up their bona fides with the communities they work in,» said Michael Petrilli, the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education think tank in Washington, D.C. Petrilli said he believes new presidents should have deference on their cabinet selections and supports DeVos» nomination, though he said he personally «hates» Trump.