Sentences with phrase «top state department»

ALBANY — While the Cuomo administration has been extensively criticized for its slow reaction to the unfolding Hoosick Falls water pollution crisis, a new trove of emails and meeting notes shows how top state Department of Health officials actively dismissed the Obama administration's increasingly dire warnings and recommended safe consumption levels.

Two senior administration officials said the Trump administration told four top State Department management officials that their services were no longer needed as part of an effort to «clean house» at Foggy Bottom.

A top State Department official offered a bribe — a «quid pro quo» — to an FBI official in an attempt to declassify certain emails from Hillary Clinton's private server that were previously deemed classified, according to FBI documents released today.

A top State Department official pressed the CIA and the White House to delete any mention of terrorism in public statements on the Benghazi attack to prevent critics from blaming lax security at the consulate.

The White House fired a top State Department official after he contradicted the White House's account of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's ouster on Tuesday.

Not exact matches

Speaking at the State Department, the top U.S. diplomat said he will focus on an orderly transition for Trump's new choice to lead the State Department, CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

The department reached out to a group of state attorneys general — the top law enforcement officials at the state level — that earlier joined the review, the source said.

What I can say though, Wolf, is, as you said, we were public about the fact that we were dealing with cyber intrusions and the State Department was public about that, but the fact of the matter is that we have different systems here at the White House, so we have an unclassified system and then we have a classified system, a top - secret system.

That led us to go deeper into the report — by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the federal Department of Health and Human Services — to see what other states are near the top of the list for marijuana users, who leads in cocaine abuse, and which states» residents most abuse alcohol and other drugs.

A January 2016 email from the Clinton campaign's research director to top communications staffers includes excerpts from 15 of the more than 100 speeches she gave after leaving the State Department, appearances that netted her $ 21.7 million.

For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

He did not put a top aide on the payroll of the State Department, his family foundation, and his family corporate consultancy at the same time.

Jones» case is different from those of two career foreign service officers, former undersecretaries of state Patrick Kennedy, the department's top management official, and Thomas Countryman, its top arms control officer, who had risen to politically appointed jobs and were asked to leave in January.

In all, the Treasury Department, after consulting with the State Department, sanctioned seven Russian oligarchs and 12 companies they control, plus 17 top Russian officials, a state - owned weapons - trading company and a subsidiary State Department, sanctioned seven Russian oligarchs and 12 companies they control, plus 17 top Russian officials, a state - owned weapons - trading company and a subsidiary state - owned weapons - trading company and a subsidiary bank.

In all, the Treasury Department sanctioned seven Russian oligarchs and 12 companies they control, along with 17 top Russian officials, a state - owned weapons - trading company and a subsidiary bank.

Pompeo, in a statement relayed by the State Department, said he was «delighted» to serve as America's top diplomat.

-- «The head of the State Department's diplomatic security bureau has resigned and will leave his post on Thursday, leaving the two top positions vacant for the foreseeable future in the bureau in charge of embassy security around the world,» Josh Rogin reports.

In March, as Prince Mohammed met with Mr. Trump and top national security officials in Washington, the State Department approved the sale of an estimated $ 670 million in anti-tank missiles in an arms package that also included spare parts for American - made tanks and helicopters that Saudi Arabia previously purchased.

At the federal level, the Department of Education can implement STEM as a requirement in America's classrooms, and fund more initiatives like Race to the Top, a $ 4 billion dollar program that to incentivizes states to develop next - generation educational standards.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rebuked Russia on Friday for what he called aggression beyond its borders, and vowed to restore relevance to a badly demoralized State Department in his new role as the top...

Despite top terrorist groups» affiliation - sometimes tenuous - with al Qaeda, some do not fit the mold created by its former head, bin Laden, and current leader, Ayman al - Zawahri, said Benjamin, the former State Department counterterrorism coordinator.

Hey genius, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry is a top 40 public university in the nation with departments in chemistry, environmental science and environmental and forest biology among others.

Clinton's former State Department advisors organized meetings with top Roman Catholic and evangelical leaders to discuss the global development policies of a potential Clinton administration.

A top official from the Department of State was summoned for congressional testimony.

In a top secret raid in Libya, U.S. Special Operations captured Ahmed Abu Khattala, a suspected ringleader in the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound that left U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and State Department security official Sean Smith dead.

According to the company, it has won several awards in its industry, including: > Being ranked the one of the best workplaces for commuters of North Texas by the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Department of Transportation; and > DiversityBusiness.com ranking the company No. 47 as one of the top 500 women - owned businesses in the United States, as well as No. 4 1 on its list of the top 500 African - American owned businesses in the United States.

The Cincinnati football recruiting department prepared three different «The Ohio State Champion» graphics, waiting to go to top state talent heretofore uninterested in the BearState Champion» graphics, waiting to go to top state talent heretofore uninterested in the Bearstate talent heretofore uninterested in the Bearcats.

The top revenue athletic department in each state.

He played an instrumental role in ensuring New York State qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 educaState qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 educastate and local district K - 12 education.

Cahill was Pataki's top aide and is a former state Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner.

New York's top income tax rate of 8.97 percent for people who earn at least $ 500,000 a year is one of the nation's highest, but still below the record top rate of 15 percent that was assessed from 1969 to 1977, according to the state tax department's website: here

A top Senate aide to former majority leader Dean Skelos set up a meeting on fracking with the state Department of Health for AbTech Industries without disclosing the company was paying Skelos» son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month, a former state health official testified Wednesday at the Skelos corruption trial.

She said she saw the decision by Clinton, who like many lawmakers also used a private e-mail while in the Senate, to use a private address as the top U.S. diplomat as a continuation of «what she was doing before she arrived at the State Department.»

The poll was conducted after the news that the FBI director James Comey was again examining some of Clinton's State Department emails after more messages were found during a criminal investigation of her top aide's husband, former Congressman Anthony Weiner.

Iannuzzi says if Cuomo wants to reduce the schools bureaucracy, he should address the State Education Department's denial of some of the federal Race to the Top funds.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last month tightened his control over the State Department by taking back powers previously held by the top career foreign service officer, an action critics said would delay major decisions and marginalize career diplomats.

In fact, Judith Enck, the top official for the EPA in the Northeast, who has become increasingly critical of the DEC and the state Department of Health, told Investigative Post in 2013 that: «I certainly would not reach a conclusion saying that «the air is safe» in the neighborhood surrounding the Peace Bridge.»

The request from the waiver comes after state officials at the Department of Health in August and, more recently, last week sent letters to Holder and his top deputy asking for permission to import medical marijuana strains to New York.

Topping off New York's weeklong celebration of Earth Day, State Department of Environmental Conservation Chief of Staff Julie Tighe joined state and local officials for a ceremonial tree planting on ArborState Department of Environmental Conservation Chief of Staff Julie Tighe joined state and local officials for a ceremonial tree planting on Arborstate and local officials for a ceremonial tree planting on Arbor Day.

ALBANY — School funding and teacher evaluations are linked after all, a top official with the state education department said late Monday.

On top of that, the state is being sued by the Department of Justice to hold political primaries no later than Aug. 18 in order to comply with the federal MOVE Act.

James P. O'Neill, the police commissioner, wrote in a letter in February to the state's congressional delegation that the Police Department had spent $ 300,000 a day protecting Trump Tower between Election Day and Inauguration Day and $ 127,000 to $ 145,000 a day since then, on top of other costs.

From the Department of Good Timing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo released his top line campaign finance figures the same afternoon his expansive gun control package cleared its final hurdle in the state Assembly.

State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said protecting water quality in the region is a top priority.

On the day the results of the state tests were announced, state Department of Environmental Conservation acting commissioner Basil Seggos and top Cuomo aide Jim Malatras visited the Rensselaer County village to meet with concerned residents.

The top aide to recently defeated State Sen. Brian Foley is headed for the Brookhaven Highways Department as a $ 112,000 a year deputy to Highway Superintendent Jon Rouse, say high level town sources.

Clinton's attorney David Kendall said he obtained top secret clearance from the State Department in order to help the former secretary of state prepare to testify before Congress about the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on an American compound in Benghazi, LState Department in order to help the former secretary of state prepare to testify before Congress about the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on an American compound in Benghazi, Lstate prepare to testify before Congress about the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya.

Under the bill, introduced late last week, the top 20 percent of the state's highest performing school districts would be allowed to submit their current evaluation plans along with a request for a waiver to the Department of Education.

In his first «Crooked Hillary» tweet of 2018, Trump accused the Justice Department of being part of the «deep state» and urged prosecution against a top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Cstate» and urged prosecution against a top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James CState Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey.

A report on potential locations for a new $ 600 million Wadsworth public health lab under consideration by the state Department of Health could be completed within the next couple of months, according to the state's top economic development official.