Sentences with phrase «said about the nomination»

Not exact matches

Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who isn't on the panel considering the nomination, said the allegations «raise questions about the White House vetting process,» and added that she had concerns about Jackson even before the new questions came to light.

«While Rex Tillerson is a respected businessman, I have serious concerns about his nomination,» Rubio said in a statement.

Now its 2016 and Hillary Clinton can't say anything about what really happened in 2008 for fear of being accused of being a back stabber, so instead she takes the attacks that she is for Wall Street and the Banks even though she actually lost the 2008 democrat nomination because she stood up for the impoverished homeowner and not for wall street.

Clarida may have said little about nominal GDP targeting to date — but with his nomination, the Fed may be getting a nominal GDP target advocate for the future.

So I really have nothing to say about the race for the nomination, because something is goin» on that eerily unprecedented.

Sharpe says it was a casual conversation about Vision of Grace at an SNA dinner which led to her nomination.

But there are various hybrid methods too: for example, there could still be rules about who can stand (eg being a party member for a year or whatever); there could be a nomination process within party structures; and then a vote open to either the general public or to anybody nominating themselves as a supporter I am not sure - in practice - whether there is much difference between an «anybody can come along» and «you have to say «I'm Labour».

With concern setting in among downstate Republican leaders that the three declared candidates vying for the nomination to take on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the fall will be crushed, state Republican Chairman Ed Cox called Rep. Bob Turner this weekend about possibly jumping into the race, a source familiar with the conversation said.

With only one declared candidate standing between him and the Republican nomination for New York governor, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco is feeling good about his chances, saying: «The momentum is definitely going in my favor.»

Wilson said he was told that the New York State Bar Association, when reviewing his nomination, could not find anyone who said anything bad about him.

As for his previous suggestion that the Democratic nomination fight could go all the way until the convention in July, Reid said: «I don't know about that, you know I had some meetings today and I think the race is moving along very quickly so we'll have to see, we'll have to see what happens next month.»

Speaking to Radio Ghana, on whether he is ready to file his nomination, he said the people are suffering and others are worried about filing nominations.

«This is a complaint that was made by the Scottish National Party (SNP) against me personally, in effect,» Mr Blair said, referring to the complaint made last year about four of his nominations, which prompted the whole inquiry.

Tom Dadey, chairman of the Onondaga County Republican Committee, said he has not spoken with Guy about the nomination.

Three days before testifying privately before the House Intelligence Committee about the campaign, Caputo said he recalled speaking with Trump Jr. around the time his father clinched the Republican presidential nomination in the spring of 2016.

Riverhead Town Republican chairman John Galla said that as of noon Tuesday nobody from Riverhead had inquired about the nomination.

Jacobs and Lavine said they made no deals about future political nominations as part of Lavine's agreement to leave the race.

De Blasio said he is keeping an open mind about Dr. Ben Carson's nomination to lead HUD, despite the fact that the famous surgeon and former Republican presidential candidate has no experience in housing policy.

While in in Jerusalem on a Mideast tour, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said he's still undecided about 2016, but intends to dedicate «reflection time» on whether to seek the Democratic nomination.

On Monday, after coasting to the Conservative Party nomination in Manhattan, Long said she wasn't worried about her ability to raise the money necessary to compete with Gillibrand, who had $ 8 million in her campaign account at the end of December, and has been raising aggressively since then, in part by using her Republican challengers as a foil.

Downing Street said that David Cameron called Jean - Claude Juncker, the new president of the European commission, yesterday and told him about Hill's nomination.

De Blasio, who gets to recommend four members to the board — subject to Cuomo's forwarding the nominations to the Senate, for its approval — now routinely responds to every question about problems with the city's mass transit system by saying that the MTA is a state creature.

In response to questions about why Krumpter's nomination has not moved ahead, Mangano, a Republican, said this week that he has no sense of Krumpter's support in the GOP - dominated legislature and wants to gauge reaction before formally nominating him.

Expanding on the brief statement the Canandaigua Republican issued on Friday, Kolb told WXXI News on Sunday that during the last couple of weeks he has been thinking about getting out of the race for the GOP nomination, but he says it really hit him last Friday when he told his wife he would be on the road for a while.

There was some speculation about Ed Balls, Patricia Hewitt, [18] David Miliband [19] and Jack Straw standing for the position, but no sign that they had ever said they were inclined to run and all had ruled themselves out before nominations opened.

If Wilson does not enter the race, the source said Giambra is about 90 percent sure he will seek the party's nomination.

His position reflects much of what some Republicans have said nationally about Trump's likely nomination at the July convention: His positions are antithetical to conservative orthodoxy and he's too erratic to lead a major political party.

Although Cameron denounced Juncker's nomination as a «bad day for Europe», a No 10 spokesman insisted Juncker said he was fully committed to finding a solution to British concerns about the EU.

Wilson said he was told that the bar association, when reviewing his nomination, could not find anyone who said anything bad about him.

De Blasio said more could be gleaned about Carson from the confirmation process, when his nomination comes under closer scrutiny.

«MPs / members annoyed about short nominations timetable: I have to say I agree,» he wrote on Twitter.»

A spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn has said voting is about to begin at the National Executive Committee on whether he needs the nominations of 51 MPs and MEPs to stand in the leadership contest.

Asked if Blumenthal is open to supporting Gorsuch, the senator said he will wait until after the Judiciary Committee holds hearings on Gorsuch's nomination to make a final decision but that he has «serious and deep concerns» about him.

«I respect Dan and my other colleagues,» Ms. Malliotakis said Friday, after hearing that about a dozen former and present elected officials and party leaders are urging Donovan to run for the GOP nomination.»

When asked about Paladino's numerous nominations against her, Nevergold said «it was a mockery of the process.

«The nomination of Alex Azar, the former head of Eli Lilly's U.S. operations, shows that Trump was never serious about his promise to stop the pharmaceutical industry from «getting away with murder,»» Sanders said.

Wyden, however, left open the possibility that he could support Zinke's nomination when it reaches the floor, if he likes what the congressman has to say about the administration's forest priorities.

Collins also sought to allay perhaps the biggest concerns about his nomination last month by President Barack Obama, saying that he will protect investigator - initiated science and that his religious interests will not influence how he runs the agency.

Onac is worried about how the government will fill the new council, because it asked universities, and not a broad array of scientists, for nominations: «Our experience is that the universities will always propose people who are high in their structures but not necessarily scientists with good publication records,» he says.

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.

Environmental microbiologist Rita Colwell, the former head of the National Science Foundation who chairs the National Academies of Sciences» Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, said that she and fellow committee members are «ecstatic» about McNutt's nomination.

Nikolai Denkov, a chemical engineer at Sofia University who participated in the protests, says he is cautiously optimistic about the nomination.

Margot told Ten Eyewitness News about the moment she heard about her nomination, saying she was surrounded by her family and friends after the premiere.

But having no SAG ensemble nomination, that says something about it, and what that something is is that they (the SAG nominating committee) liked five other movies more for that ensemble award.

Which means her name will be said over and over again — when they talk about contenders, when they talk about possible nominees, when they announce the nominations and, maybe, when they announce winners.

Allison Tolman, Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television, «Fargo» «Saying I'm excited about «Fargo's» Golden Globe nominations is a bit of an understatement.

We already had early signs that the Golden Globe nominations would be... shall we say, interesting, when Get Out, Jordan Peele's tremendous horror film about being a black man in America, was inexplicably classified in the Comedy category.

Sony Classics, which had a label - record 18 Oscar nominations this year, said it has been «actively talking with Brett Ratner about becoming involved» with I Saw The Light for a long time.»

That it's usually the documentaries, foreign - language films, and short films that I end up needing to catch up on in the weeks between the Oscar nominations and the Oscar ceremony says a lot about viewing habits (my own and the culture's at large).

That being said, I remember a previous post about the best actors / actresses currently working who have yet to get an Oscar nomination.