Sentences with phrase «say previous administrations»

And while they acknowledge that Cuomo is proposing spending a record amount on education in his budget, they say previous administrations actually enacted larger year - to - year increases.

Hours before the US launched the missiles, Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and former secretary of state, said the previous administration «should have been more willing to confront Assad» after previous chemical attacks killed thousands of innocent civilians.

The summary also says previous administrations have been «overly restrictive» of offshore drilling.

When he talked about the prisoners in North Korea, he said the previous administration had failed to get them out.

He said the previous administrations made financial mistakes.

Not exact matches

Gates said he hoped the new Trump administration would continue crucial malaria commitments, which he noted were ratcheted up by the previous Republican President, George W Bush, and maintained at those levels by President Barack Obama.

Obama said the actions were «not the sum total of our response» and that his administration would provide a report to Congress in the coming days related to Russia's «efforts to interfere in our election, as well as malicious cyber activity related to our election cycle in previous elections.»

Counter-intuitive as it sounds, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» decision to repeal the previous administration's Cole Memorandum — which had reduced federal enforcement of cannabis offences — could prove a catalyst for change, said Agnese.

Sir Gerald, a Christian, said the UK government may not have be privy to all the necessary information because the coalition wasn't in power at the time: «Much of this occurred at the time when we were not in government and we don't have access to the papers of the previous administration, so there are practical considerations here.»

Larison continues to say «What Spiliakos overlooks is that the GOP won't benefit from explaining their views more intelligibly so long as those views continue to be associated for good reason with the disastrous tenure of the previous administration.»

My attention has been drawn to a video which captures the Member of Parliament for Dome / Kwabenya, Deputy Majority Leader and Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Procurement, the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo claiming in the said video that the Community Senior High School constructed and commissioned in her constituency during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama was as a result of her personal intervention with the World Bank, that the Senior High School was not from the then NDC Government and that with the exception of the Dome / Kwabenya Senior High School project, all the other schools constructed during the previous NDC administration were executed in NDC strongholds.

Buhari said though there have been killings it is on record that his administration has better record of protection of lives than that of the previous government.

Robert Chote may well be right when he says that the budget would be regressive but for the measures already baked in by the previous administration.

Cutting nearly $ 1 trillion from Medicaid will give states the freedom to tailor the program to suit their needs, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said, as he defended a narrowly passed House bill that aims to undo parts of the health care law enacted by the previous administration.

He said his administration was poised to press further the anti-corruption battle saying he was aware some of the civil servants had been accomplices in the batiks fraudulent practices of previous political office holders.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has advocated for «a version» of broken windows policing, saying the term got a bad rap under previous administrations but that it is right in principle.

Speaking at a meeting with former appointees who served under the previous NDC administration, the former President said he was surprised over what he calls the failure of the president, Nana Akufo - Addo to deal with members of such groups who are causing mayhem.

It may be fair to say that this Coalition Government — our Coalition Government, has done more to address the deepseated malaise at the heart of our banking system in less than 12 months than the previous administration did in twelve years and more.

North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth also has a shower room in her office that was installed by a previous administration, but most other town leaders said they did not.

As we have said in previous debates, both in Committee and in the House, there are elections for the devolved Administrations - for the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly - but there are also elections scheduled next year for 81 % of England.

He said the government is only making frantic efforts to cause public disaffection towards the previous NDC administration by smearing former state officials with allegations of corruption and initiating legal action against them for same.

Second Republic lawmaker and prominent northern politician, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has said «President Muhammadu Buhari and his people have perfected corruption more than any previous administrations,» claiming...

«I've not said that we give no credit to the previous administration for anything they did.

«When the previous administration made those declarations, there were people that were dubious and skeptical because there's no guarantee,» Oddo said.

At a City Council hearing held by the general welfare and veterans committees, de Blasio administration representatives said they would meet a previous promise to find housing for all military veterans without.

Katko said he did not face any repercussions from Republican leaders or President Donald Trump's administration over his previous position, and he doesn't expect to face any new pressure from GOP leaders.

«If those are their issues, it's insane their bad performance art is aimed at an administration that is fighting to ensure millionaires don't get a tax break, that indigent legal services is extended statewide and — unlike the previous proposal — is actually funded and is pushing the Legislature to sign the homeless MOU that we signed months ago,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

«The amount of interaction already is more than we had with the previous administration combined,» Katko said Monday in a meeting with the editorial board of syracuse.com and The Post-Standard.

«I am still hearing the same arguments that the previous administration made to the City Council then,» she said.

That would have been for the consideration of our previous administration,» said William Napier, the county's director of communications.

He said that Nigeria was on the verge of collapse when President Buhari took over from the previous administration led by Dr Goodluck Jonathan.

It is important to note that all these debts were accrued under the previous administration,» he said.

The state government in reference to the previous administration said Dr. Bukola Saraki obtained a N17b bond in 2009 to fund major infrastructure projects in the state which was paid off in August 2013.

The legislators said under previous administrations, payments had been withheld.

«It was not done during my administration, it was done during the previous administration... and we concede that the wrong things were done,» Dr. Appiah Denkyira said.

However, Peña Nieto said he would wait for a final report from his top officials who arrived in Washington Wednesday to meet with the Trump administration, and previous meetings with Mexican legislators, before deciding which steps he would take next.

Meanwhile Owen Smith, who challenged Corbyn for the leadership last year, said: «I think Jeremy has cut through with the reality that Labour offers a very different set of priorities and choices to the public in a way the previous Labour shadow administration didn't.»

The current government, which came to power last May, said it inherited massive debts from the previous administration.

The previous administration had made the Iceland decision, he says.

We will look at how they spent the money because there is no power and nothing to show for the $ 16b investment by the previous administrations,» he said.

Westchester executive George Latimer, who took office in January, said the county would re-evaluate the previous administration's plan to privatize its airport.

It has emerged that about 48 Members of Parliament (MPs), who served as ministers under the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, are said to have received double salaries.

Referring to previous, unspecified administrations, he said: «In those days, government took the private sector for granted.

The government has also said it will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate suspect deals agreed under the previous administration in West Africa's second - biggest economy.

Councilors said the previous computer use policy would have given the Miner administration access to their emails, Internet browsing history and subject them to discipline if they violated the policy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a stop in Syracuse Wednesday he cares more about upstate New York than previous administrations.

And he admits that previous administrations, during the past few decades have dropped the ball on protecting the state's most vulnerable people, saying there was government «atrophy and apathy» and dysfunction.

Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, on Friday said he was supporting the anti-corruption fight of President Muhammadu Buhari the same way he supported previous administrations, including that of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Residents say they are unsure whether or not there will be real change from previous administrations

The Kogi State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Alhaji Haddy Ametuo, says the ruling party remains committed to save Kogi State from its current predicament which according to him was inherited from the previous administration.