Sentences with phrase «reforming secretary of state»

He has been a reforming secretary of state for work and pensions.

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Clinton, a former secretary of state and U.S. senator, decried the spate of shootings, including the most recent murders of police in Baton Rouge, and she called for criminal justice reform.

He held a meeting with acting U.S. Secretary of State John Sullivan on Saturday during which the United States pledged its backing for Kiev but urged it to implement economic reforms, a U.S. representative said.

Steven Mnuchin, Trump's candidate to run the Treasury Department, has stated that comprehensive tax reform will be an immediate priority of Trump's administration, and that his focus as Treasury Secretary will be stimulating economic growth and creating jobs through tax reform.

Under the Welfare Reform Act the Secretary of State is required to lay an independent report before Parliament each year for the first five years of operation.

New Under - Secretary of State for Health Anna Soubry has announced her support for people having a right to die in their home, while new Minister of State for Care Services Norman Lamb has also said that reform should be looked at.

For now, California water rights reform seems like a political long shot; the state's natural resources secretary has called the prospect of reform «thermonuclear.»

The drumbeat for public financing pounded loudly on Monday when good government groups and Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill visited the Capitol to make the case for campaign finance reform.

I am sorry, but I will not be shedding any tears for the evangelical, aggressive and routinely failing welfare reforms that were the personal fiefdom of the Secretary of State for DWP.

The Reform Party's Roque «Rocky» De La Fuente, whose name will appear on the ballot in twenty states on Tuesday and is waging write - in campaigns in more than a dozen other states, filed an emergency writ of mandamus against California's Secretary of State late yesterday -LSB-...]

«The secretary of state is cutting back on re-sits for students but affords himself a fourth attempt at GCSE reform,» he observed to laughter in the Commons chamber.

The issue of electoral reform for the National Assembly is back on the agenda after the Secretary of State for Wales indicated she may change how AMs are elected.

This headquarters is centered out of a workshop owned by Rick Kasa, the Reform Party chairman of Franklin County, and the state party's Secretary.

The Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach): Ministers have received two letters and one Parliamentary Question from the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, answered by my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 29 September 2008 (Official Report, col. WA416) specifically about the presence of Law Lords in the House of Lords since the passing of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.»

«In the context of protecting the most vulnerable, let me first urge Ministers to continue to give full support to the welfare reform measures that are being pushed through by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

A subpoena for John Kerry to testify before Congress next week on Benghazi has been put on hold while the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the State Department negotiate when — or if — the secretary of state will apState Department negotiate when — or if — the secretary of state will apstate will appear.

I imagine I'll be writing the exact same article the next time a secretary of state for justice addresses prison reform.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Peter Mandelson was appointed Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform in October 2008; he was also briefly a member of neither the Lords nor the Commons while serving in this capacity.

However fluent a secretary of state may be, he or she needs sympathetic messengers to explain reforms.

Responding to reports that the Secretary of State for Education is planning to introduce an «Advanced Baccalaureate» as part of reforms to A-levels, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «This is another example of Michael Gove's ideological manipulation of the school curriculum.

Andrew Lansley's out - of - the - blue NHS reforms taught Downing Street the bitter lesson that even secretaries of state couldn't be trusted to be left to their own devices.

Responding to reports that the Secretary of State for Education is planning to introduce an «Advanced Baccalaureate» as part of reforms to A-levels, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said:

We sincerely hope that the secretary of state and his colleagues will read this report and will act on the committee's recommendation so that the government's reforms do not deny the most vulnerable people in society access to justice.

The price freeze will be brought in by a piece of emergency legislation that gives the secretary of state the power to reform the licences of energy suppliers.

At 8 a.m., the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce hosts a post-election summit on the future of immigration reform featuring a keynote by Deputy Secretary of State for New York for Economic Opportunity Jorge Montalvo, New York Law School, 185 West Broadway, Manhattan.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport Parliamentary under secretary of state - Barbara Follett (and minister for the east of England) Parliamentary under secretary of state - Gerry Sutcliffe Parliamentary under secretary of state - Stephen Carter (jointly with Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform)

Could it be that the Secretary of State is not confident that his education reforms will raise standards and is, therefore, is seeking to cover his tracks by removing anything that can provide a year on year comparator?

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union has commented on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education, setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment.

On 23rdMay, Mark Harper MP, Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Cabinet Office, revealed that of all the letters received by the Government on Lords Reform, the majority had concerned the bishops.

According to the Kansas Secretary of State, in June 2012, the ballot - qualified Reform Party nominated Chuck Baldwin for President and Joseph Martin for Vice-President, and certified these candidates to the Secretary of State.

When the Coalition Government was formed in 2010, Freud was made Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Welfare Reform at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Prime Minister: David Cameron Deputy PM & First Secretary of State: William Hague Chancellor of the Exchequer: George Osborne Leader of the Commons: Ken Clarke Home Secretary: David Davis Foreign Secretary: Sir Malcolm Rifkind Business & Employment Secretary: John Redwood Communities & Social Justice Secretary: Iain Duncan Smith Cabinet Office Minister: Francis Maude Defence Secretary: Dr Liam Fox Environment and Energy Secretary: Oliver Letwin Leader of the Lords: Lord Strathclyde Nations Secretary: Lord Trimble Education Secretary: Michael Gove Health Secretary: Chris Grayling Women & Equalities Secretary: Theresa May Pensions & Welfare Reform Secretary: David Willetts Trade & International Development Secretary: Alan Duncan Justice Secretary & Lord Chancellor: Dominic Greive Transport Secretary: Damian Green Farming, Food & Rural Affairs Secretary: Nick Herbert Housing & Local Government Secretary: Philip Hammond Culture Secretary: Julie Kirkbride

Adopting a line taken by ministers throughout the week, a spokesman for the parliamentary under - secretary of state for pensions reform said: «All her claims were in line with the relevant House of Commons rules and guidance and have been approved by the Fees Office.»

Theresa May, now Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, spoke today on the second reading of the Welfare Reform Bill.

Shadow Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for Justice (with responsibility for political and constitutional reform) Rt Hon Sadiq Khan MP

Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), condemned Conservative plans on welfare reform today warning that they risked taking the welfare state back to the Victorian era.

McPartland, a leading Tory tax credit rebel, wrote on his website yesterday: «I will not be shedding any tears for the evangelical, aggressive and routinely failing welfare reforms that were the personal fiefdom of the Secretary of State for DWP.»

The California Secretary of State must and should release the Reform Party voter registration statistics immediately.

In one of her first major speeches as a presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today called for sweeping criminal justice reforms in the wake of the deaths of unarmed black men in police custody — most recently in Baltimore, plunging the city into days of unrest.

Gillibrand said it includes the economy, education, health care reform, middle - class tax cuts, veterans» care, agriculture and, as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, even oversight of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton - whose Senate seat she holds.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

Somewhat similarly, in 1996 then - Secretary of State Robert Taft ruled that even though the Reform Party did not have enough signatures on its party petition by the deadline, he would waive the petition deadline, for any party (including the Reform Party) that just wanted to appear on the November ballot for President and Vice-President, but no other office.

At a time when thousands and thousands of businesses are in a desperate state, why is it that the Government will not allow the unelected Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to be answerable to elected Members in this Hstate, why is it that the Government will not allow the unelected Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to be answerable to elected Members in this HState for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to be answerable to elected Members in this House?

Shortly after accepting an «Outstanding Achievement in State Tax Reform» award from the Washington, D.C. - based Tax Foundation — which Mr. Cuomo's Secretary Larry Schwartz once called a «right - wing think tank» that manipulated data — the governor lavished praise on the current state legislature, which he credited with helping move New York State up in the Foundation's corporate tax rankings from number 25 to number four out of all 50 stState Tax Reform» award from the Washington, D.C. - based Tax Foundation — which Mr. Cuomo's Secretary Larry Schwartz once called a «right - wing think tank» that manipulated data — the governor lavished praise on the current state legislature, which he credited with helping move New York State up in the Foundation's corporate tax rankings from number 25 to number four out of all 50 ststate legislature, which he credited with helping move New York State up in the Foundation's corporate tax rankings from number 25 to number four out of all 50 stState up in the Foundation's corporate tax rankings from number 25 to number four out of all 50 states.

«As Secretary of the United States, it is my honor to announce to the world that the Reform Party has selected its nominee, and the next President of the United States.

When Reform Party Presidential candidate Roque De La Fuente submitted petitions for ballot access, the Arkansas Secretary of State's office accepted the submission.

The Secretary of State's web page has her listed with «(R)» after her name, but on the ballot she was on as a Reform Party candidate.

Bello who also retained three old permanent secretaries said the appointments were made in furtherance of the ongoing reform of the state civil service.