Sentences with phrase «who met with president»

Kyle Kashuv, the Stoneman Douglas junior who met with President Trump and opposes further gun restrictions, appeared on Fox News on Saturday and criticized his fellow students for focusing on guns to the exclusion of the failures of the FBI, social service agencies and the Broward Sheriff's Office.

Besser, who met with the president yesterday at Howard University's Health Sciences Simulation Lab, asked the president why people should care about the impact of climate change on public health when there are so many other pressing health problems.

The Governors who met with the President include, Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State (PDP), Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State (PDP), Simeon Lalong of Plateau State (APC), Abdulaziz Yari of Kebbi State (APC), Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State (APC) and Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State (APC).

The Governors who met with the President include, Udom Emmanuel of Akwa...

Rometty sits on President Donald Trump's business advisory board and was among a group of U.S. and German leaders who met with the President and German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday.

Not exact matches

«The President multiple times reaffirmed in general to all of us, and looked at Larry Kudlow, and said Larry go get it done,» Sasse said after exiting a White House meeting with the President about trade and agriculture that he attended with several governors and congressional leaders who represent states that they say will be adversely impacted by the President's recently announced tariffs.

France doesn't see the need to enter into a trade round with the U.S., Le Mair said, adding that French President Emmanuel Macron — who met with Trump this week in Washington — «has been very clear with President Trump during the state visit... First of all we are waiting for an exemption for the EU from the American tariffs.»

Also, as I had done in other meetings with foreign officials, I asked Ambassador Kislyak if he would identify the best person (whether the Ambassador or someone else) with whom to have direct discussions and who had contact with his President.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructure program.

Sacca, who in a December Recode story loudly criticized leaders from tech's biggest companies for meeting with the president, tweeted that he could barely keep up with the response and continued to increase the amount he said he would donate.

Speaking in Sicily before the start of the G7 summit, Juncker — who had been in Brussels meeting with Trump — said reports of the President's conduct were exaggerated, Reuters reports.

For example, it was in a SWOT meeting that the product development director of my company, who was in his late twenties at the time, suggested that one of my company's weaknesses was my messing with the software code instead of just being the president.

The central bank is meeting as its board is undergoing a makeover, with a raft of new appointees by President Donald Trump who appear generally supportive of the...

The central bank is meeting as its board is undergoing a makeover, with a raft of new appointees by President Donald Trump who appear...

The president's comments were met with pushback from national security advisors, who urged that the fight against ISIS was almost finished, but that a complete withdrawal of American forces at this time would risk losing gains.

«There is no more safe haven with regard to the federal government and marijuana, but it's also the beginning of the story and not the end,» said Kevin Sabet, president and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, who was among several anti-marijuana advocates who met with Sessions last month.

The prime minister is also scheduled to meet with Chilean President Sebastien Pinera, who took office in March and whose country is an important political and trade partner with Canada.

«Today's proposal, along with past regulatory actions, will make it challenging for banks to meet the needs of the estimated 50 million consumers who access a variety of bank and nonbank small - dollar lending products each year,» said Virginia O'Neill, senior vice president of the American Bankers Association's Center for Regulatory Compliance, in a statement.

Appointed by the president, the chief of staff oversees approximately 4,000 White House staff, manages the president's schedule and decides who is allowed to meet with him.

Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions — who is currently under pressure to resign for failing to reveal his meetings with the Russian ambassador before President Donald Trump's inauguration — issued a memo reversing the Obama administration's decision to phase out its use of private prisons at the federal level.

In the week following former national security adviser Michael Flynn's guilty plea, new details have emerged about the meeting President Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., attended in July 2016 with a Russian lawyer who offered him «dirt» on Hillary Clinton, among other revelations.

Papadopoulos further told the FBI that he met with a Russian woman who claimed to be a relative of Russian President Vladimir Putin — Papadopoulos described her as Putin's «niece» in one email — before he joined the campaign, but he actually met her on March 24, according to the special counsel's office.

Prince Mohammed met last week with U.S. President Donald Trump, who welcomed him to the White House.

The National Rifle Association has championed the idea of «a good guy with a gun,» but no firearms will be allowed when Vice President Pence speaks at its annual meeting — sparking criticism from Parkland students, who say schools should be afforded the same protection.

Then, President Obama went to the Group of Twenty meeting, after Tim Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, had been on the phone with Europe, and said that if Greece didn't pay the French and German bondholders, the American banks had made huge bets and would go under — and so would big European banks who were counterparties.

Louise is now president of CASA (Coronado Area Social Association), an organization with hundreds of members who meet monthly for coffee socials and other events.

The veteran EU leader was speaking after a meeting with the EU's other three presidents: Donald Tusk of the European council, Martin Schulz of the European parliament and the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, who is chairing the EU's rotating presidency.

Plank also mentioned his meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss jobs in U.S. Plank described Trump as «highly passionate» and a pro-business man who is a «real asset» for U.S. companies.

The president of the Brazil Steel Institute, Marco Polo de Mello Lopes, who was meeting with Brazilian officials when they got the call from Washington, said the ultimatum came as a complete surprise.

The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.

At a special White House event this week, members of the American Trucking Associations (ATA), along with a contingent of Road Team Captains, a group of professional drivers who act as industry «ambassadors» as part of a national outreach program, met with President Trump to discuss a range of issues affecting motor carriers, including health care.

Louise is the president of the local social organization, with hundreds of members who meet monthly for coffee socials and other events.

According to testimony by Pierre - Yves Droz, who co-founded 510 Systems with Levandowski before Google acquired it in 2011, Levandowski met with Uber's vice president of mapping, Brian McClendon, around the summer of 2015.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP)-- Russian President Vladimir Putin called on European leaders Friday to heal ties with his country despite sanctions after meeting with European investors who said they want to expand their businesses there.

The White House said that Mr. Trump had accepted the invitation, and Chung Eui - yong, a South Korean official who conveyed it, told reporters that the president would meet with Mr. Kim within two months.

He has a big meeting coming up with his boss — the vice president of marketing — who is stressed about how the department's performance looks to other members of the C - suite.

Would a man who had the ear of the President of the United States and who was well known for his participation in shaping government policy and sitting in many government meetings with lots of insider information be allowed to continue investing, despite a volatile portfolio today?

The central bank is meeting as its board is undergoing a makeover, with a raft of new appointees by President Donald Trump who appear generally supportive of the Fed's cautious approach to rates since the Great Recession ended.

• Prior to the election, some Iranian commentators claimed that the so - called reformer Hossein Moussavi would actually end up taking a stronger line against the United States than President Ahmadinejad, who was widely denounced by hard - line clerics for agreeing to meet with Barack Obama.

The move came as Franklin and Billy Graham met with Mitt Romney, who was campaigning to be the first Mormon president, shortly before Election Day.

Graham is the son of Bill Graham, the famed evangelist with many political ties who has met with every president since Harry Truman.

She was denounced for meeting with unsavory politicians and businessmen, in order to assist the poor, but ironically, it is Hitchens who used the film to promote Jean - Bertrand Aristide, a notorious ex-priest whose record as Haiti's President was symbolized by corruption and abuse.

Adds the former president of a national environmental organization, who has looked in vain for support from religious groups in efforts to protect wilderness and wildlife: «The Unitarians occasionally let us meet in their buildings; that's been our primary contact with churches on this issue.»

inotherwards why can't our president be a agnostic or a buddist or even a good muslim or a hindi or admit he's not comfortable with organized religion???? Who really give a sh @@ t??? let's concentrate on the important issues, like the inability of this countries middle class to make ends meet!!!

Leslie Knope will probably be thrilled to meet the Vice President, but it's difficult to think of a politician who has less in common with Ron Swanson.

This was one of the few glimmers of hope held up by many of the Palestinians I met with at the turn of the year in the West Bank: «Who would have thought in Martin Luther King's day that you would now have a black president?

Your first meeting is with a Vice President in charge of programming — a tasteless thug who was once a network salesman.

The evangelist who has been called America's pastor and has prayed with every American president since Harry Truman said in a statement following the meeting that «It was a privilege to pray with Gov. Romney — for his family and our country.»

«Anything is possible - the president of Deportivo can do wonders while last year I met with Sevilla, who again are interested.»

Jim Harbaugh, who was in the nation's capital Monday meeting with Michelle Obama to discuss her «reach Higher initiative», returned to Ann Arbor with a message to his team from the President.