Sentences with phrase «own appointees»

That's not to say Obama shared Pai's views — rather, the president was abiding by the convention that the minority party gets to nominate two appointees to the five - seat commission.

«There may be dire consequences for them if DAPA is later found to be unconstitutional,» US District Judge Andrew Hanen, a George W. Bush appointee, said in his ruling.

And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration.»

«The hope is to partner with and educate new appointees (in Trump's administration) and point out the facts, and then we'll see,» said SunPower's Werner.

Surgeons General dating back to Ronald Reagan appointee C. Everett Koop have consistently cited the medical damage from gun violence as a major public health threat; Adams didn't reject that logic, but his wording underscores just how politically fraught the issue is.

Novartis's four appointees on the joint venture's board will step down when the transaction closes.

Sullivan is an appointee of President Bill Clinton.

«I have been disappointed that there have been no resignations on principle by the political appointees of this administration.»

Activist hedge fund investor and recent Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) board appointee Bill Ackman on Wednesday slammed the company's steep drug price hikes in testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, going so far as to say the cost bumps «contributed to healthcare inflation and called into question the company's commitment to the patients it serves.»

In his decision today, Judge Thomas B. Griffith, a George W. Bush appointee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, writes:

The ruling by O'Connor, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, gives an initial victory to the states, which filed their lawsuit amid building national conservative backlash to the Obama administration's stance on transgender rights.

They've now found themselves off kilter with the many voters and consumers who put the real estate mogul into office, and they're now anxiously awaiting word on how Trump and his appointees will treat the wealthy, often left - leaning industry.

The Maryland suit was assigned to U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis, an appointee of President George H. W. Bush.

It gets really egregious when you look at what kind of data political appointees at the EPA want to exempt from the rule: proprietary corporate data, according to internal discussions obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Perth - based arts manager and Bethanie Group chief operating officer Mary - Ellen King is the sole Western Australian among the 12 new appointees to the Australian Council for the Arts board.

And Trump's appointees seemed to be meeting those expectations.

«We're talking about presidential appointees, political appointees, FBI special agents in charge, U.S. attorneys, wardens, a chief deputy U.S. marshal, a U.S. marshal assistant director, a deputy assistant attorney general,» Michael Horowitz, DOJ's Inspector General, told The Post.

Shortly before assuming office last year, Trump broke with tradition by ordering all of former President Barack Obama's political appointees to leave their ambassadorships immediately after the inauguration.

The new appointees are all long - serving Samsung insiders whose elevations suggest continuity rather than any new direction at the $ 348 billion company.

The central bank is meeting as its board is undergoing a makeover, with a raft of new appointees by President Donald Trump who appear generally supportive of the...

Painter recommends that Congress pass a law right now that would require that when a President or his businesses have specific matters pending before a federal agency — like, say, an Internal Revenue Service audit, or a case before the National Labor Relations Board or the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a licensing issue before the Federal Communications Commission — that the matter must be decided by a career civil servant, rather than by a political appointee.

The central bank is meeting as its board is undergoing a makeover, with a raft of new appointees by President Donald Trump who appear...

Mueller, moreover, was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is not only a lifelong Republican, but a Trump appointee.

De Blasio's appointees to the city's Rent Guidelines Board delivered a two - year freeze in rents on rent - regulated apartments, which make up about half of all rental apartment stock in the city.

All three appear on a partial Trump transition team list of political appointees who had been asked to stay on.

Appearing after Reid, McConnell — who was part of a Republican - led majority that threatened «nuclear option» reform in 2005 — said that Reid and Democrats were overreacting to a few controversial appointees.

But he is a member of a Turkish economic relations board run by an Erdogan appointee.

Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller in mid-May as special counsel overseeing the the investigation into whether the President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russian officials during the 2016 election, noted that under the special counsel regulations, only the attorney general has the authority to fire such an appointee.

The decision differs from most other appointees in that it was made by the New York Fed board of directors and ratified by the Federal Reserve board, rather than by the president.

With Jerome Powell about to take over as chairman and most of the seven - member Fed board of governors to be new appointees, the tendency will be toward safe decisions and away from anything likely to unsettle Wall Street, said David Rosenberg, chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff.

The two bickered earlier this week about the so - called «nuclear option» Reid is considering that would dramatically change Senate rules in confirming Cabinet appointees, shifting the approval process to a simple majority vote in the Seante.

He has been engaged recently in a nasty intra-departmental fight with political appointees in the VA, a fight that has included him ceasing to use the VA's own spokesman as his contact for the media.

He is a George W. Bush appointee who earned the nickname «Hang «Em High Henry» for his tough - on - crime stand as a federal prosecutor and on the bench.

The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

Dos Santos» position at Sonangol had appeared to be in trouble in recent weeks, as the incoming president, Joao Lourenco, had installed his appointees in other key positions in government.

«She is the leading person who combines the trust of the political appointees with technical knowledge, and it is clear that she is speaking to the highest levels,» a former Treasury official told Politico last July.

If that were to happen, a third of FOMC voting members would be Trump appointees.

Trump fired Yates, an appointee of President Barack Obama, as acting attorney general within his first 10 days in office.

She and the authors of the report, «Education to Employment, Designing a System that Works,» call for countries to create the role of «integrator» — a government appointee or someone designated by a public - private partnership, to make sure employers, educators, and students are getting what they need out of the system.

In just half a year, Trump and his appointees have dismantled many of President Barack Obama's policies to combat climate change and reduce the nation's reliance on fossil fuels.

Powell can now pursue that end along with Trump appointee Randal Quarles, the Fed's new vice chair for supervision.

Trump initially asked the widely - respected Bharara, an Obama appointee, to stay on in the job but then abruptly fired him without explanation.

Most observers yawned when the new appointee assumed the leadership mantle from longtime CEO John Lau, despite Ghosh's immediate message to the market that he was going to aggressively reposition Husky.

The flap prompted scrutiny of other Cabinet members» travel, as the House Oversight and Government Reform committee launched a governmentwide investigation of top political appointees.

The controversy over Price was a catalyst for Congress launching a bipartisan probe of travel by political appointees across the administration.

Bayer may not have the toughest regulatory road ahead in its quest for a $ 66 billion mega-merger with Monsanto; but it's hoping the proposed acquisition will have an even better chance under President - elect Trump's Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department appointees.

«I'm not sure expertise really matters much because what is happening now is that the Trump administration, through its appointees, is implementing executive orders,» said Peter Wallison, who holds the Arthur F. Burns Chair in Financial Market Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

That's why officials adjudicating personnel - security cases must act in a mature, objective and nonpartisan fashion... But when it comes to vetting Trump appointees, they often aren't.»

Clockwise from top left: Gary D. Cohn, President - elect Donald J. Trump's choice to lead the National Economic Council; Rex W. Tillerson, the Secretary of State pick; Wilbur Ross, the Commerce Secretary pick; and Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary appointee.

Second, antitrust is one field where a President's appointees traditionally have significant autonomy, and it appears this President is likely to appoint traditional laissez - faire Republicans to DOJ and the FTC.