Sentences with phrase «sitting cabinet secretaries»
The amendment states that if, for whatever reason, the vice president and a majority of sitting Cabinet secretaries decide that the president is «unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,» they can simply put that down in writing and send it to two people — the speaker of the House and the Senate's president pro tem.
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«I sat behind the ministers, and I was there to observe like a cabinet secretary.
Mirosal, you might want to take a tour down history lane... Ezra Taft Benson, a sitting member of the Mormon Quorum of Apostles, served in the Eisenhower Admin as Secretary of Agriculture... no problems way back then with either his service as a Cabinet Secretary OR as a leader in his church.
The Lib Dem leader sat round the coalition Cabinet table with May when he was business secretary.
Six weeks later, after being asked every week to do so by Maria Eagle when she met him at shadow cabinet meetings (I wasn't a member of the shadow cabinet, only the shadow secretaries of state sit in that meeting), Jeremy finally phoned me.
The elegant but razor - sharp Melanie Dawes is deputy cabinet secretary, sitting at the very heart of the most important decisions facing the PM every hour of every day.
The current justice secretary, the first sitting Cabinet member to appear before the inquiry, was in a privileged position as head of the Foreign Office throughout the build - up, execution and violent aftermath of the conflict.
In appointing Javid, May has attempted to maintain the delicate balance in her cabinet between remainers and Brexiters, which is particularly important because the home secretary sits on the Brexit «war cabinet», which meets this week.
They both sat in Gordon Brown's cabinet, with Ed filling the less high profile role of climate change and energy secretary.
But now he's foreign secretary, sitting around the cabinet table making a lot of seemingly important trips... and he's the bookies favourite to take over if Theresa's toppled as leader.