So I would expect that if any cabinet member were given that order, that cabinet member would refuse to comply or resign in the face of a plainly unconstitutional order.
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Ms. O'Dwyer, who was Australia's youngest female cabinet member and the first sitting cabinet member to give birth, is one of six women holding the top 23 positions in Mr. Morrison's government.
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Sessions isn't the only Cabinet member to face these allegations.
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Opinion Columnist Time to vote for the Worst Trump Cabinet Member.
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Cabinet member Bill Bennett and Reagan biographer, Craig Shirley will explain.
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A Reagan cabinet member and a biographer reveal the truth, next.
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"It's happening because he's the most effective cabinet member," he said.
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For Trump, the storyline provides yet another Cabinet member behaving badly.
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Opinion Columnist Time to vote for Donald Trump's Worst Cabinet Member.
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Two Democrats — Jay M. Gonzalez, a cabinet member under former Gov.
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I am not aware of any Cabinet member talking about that.
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James Mattis The defense secretary has been Trump's favorite Cabinet member.
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Your choice for Worst Trump Cabinet Member is … Attorney General William Barr!
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No other Trump Cabinet member has had a longer career in office.
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And as per tradition, one Cabinet member did not attend the speech.
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It's hard to imagine a more radioactive portfolio for a cabinet member.
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Nor is Ross the only cabinet member under a cloud of suspicion.
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And how many times have pranksters reached a sitting cabinet member before?
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Green is the third cabinet member to leave in two months. 5.
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After all, who's the President and who's just a Cabinet member. Amirite???
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If Acosta is confirmed, he will become Trump's first Hispanic Cabinet member.
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Gail Collins Who do you think is Donald Trump's worst cabinet member?
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"Every Cabinet member has a security detail that is armed," he said.
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Behind Vice President Mike Pence, DeVos is the longest-serving Trump Cabinet member.
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Sessions, a former Trump Cabinet member, represents the opposite side of that spectrum.
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Mr Price is not the only cabinet member averse to commercial air travel.
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It soon became clear that Trump planned to have every Cabinet member speak.
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Cook's guest was also the only former Obama Cabinet member in the room.
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Of course, not every Trump Cabinet member named thus far fits that bill.
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One Cabinet member reportedly fell asleep, and others didn't want to be there.
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It was the first time Congress had held any Cabinet member in contempt.
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Gail Collins Donald Trump has just voted in the Worst Cabinet Member contest.
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In fact, Jeff Sessions would probably be Donald Trump's least favorite cabinet member.
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Speaking of, nearly every Trump Cabinet member has denied writing the op-ed.
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A normal unhinged president might, say, fire a cabinet member on a whim.
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So the dirty work fell to Julián Castro, the former Obama cabinet member.
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But the results of our Worst Trump Cabinet Member reader poll are in.
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There's hardly a cabinet member who doesn't seem to be driving readers crazy.
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"I bring you greetings from the White House cabinet member Bible study," Drollinger said.
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But he isn't the only Cabinet member who will be under increased scrutiny Wednesday.
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He is the only Cabinet member so far to weigh in on the tweets.
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It's rare for a Cabinet member to be the subject of a DOJ investigation.
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Pruitt is only the latest Cabinet member to be accused of questionable financial decisions.
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The Trump Cabinet member underwent surgery earlier this month to repair the broken bone.
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One Cabinet member, Mulvaney, will start doing two Cabinet jobs in the new year.
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Elevating Haley to a Cabinet member broke with the tradition of previous Republican administrations.
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Unlike a normal Cabinet member, DeVos has no experience in politics or public service.
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Enfield councillor and cabinet member for the environment Daniel Anderson defended the fine saying.
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Elizabeth Warren and former Obama Cabinet member Julián Castro laid out their plans Tuesday.
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Now Trump's most embattled Cabinet member, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, appears to be responding.
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One challenge in picking a Worst Cabinet Member is that there's so much competition.
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There is not one cabinet member who has supportive or welcoming words for us.
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Members acknowledged Tuesday that Tillerson may not be the last Cabinet member shake-up.
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She is the wife of McConnell and a former Cabinet member under George W. Bush.
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This makes him the first known cabinet member to be questioned in the Russia investigation.
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He was the first sitting cabinet member to be arrested in more than two decades.
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Perdue's selection, meanwhile, disappointed Hispanic groups who hoped Trump would name a Hispanic Cabinet member.
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Zinke is the first presidential Cabinet member from Montana; he is a fifth-generation Montanan.
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She'd be a Cabinet member," she joked to ET. "She'd probably be Secretary of State.
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Pruitt isn't the only cabinet member seen as an impediment to Trump's anti-environmental policy.
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Shulkin, the only Cabinet member who also served in the Obama administration, was confirmed unanimously.
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The advisor is a top aide to the president but is not a Cabinet member.
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Pruitt might be Trump's most secretive cabinet member, but his motives here are transparently corrupt.
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Rosenstein missed a deputy Cabinet member meeting on Thursday morning, according to a source familiar.
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God, will we never get a cabinet member who likes to take the occasional bus?
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Shulkin had been the frontrunner in the competition over the next Cabinet member to go.
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Let me know your Worst Cabinet Member pick and we'll crown some winners next week.
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But there is no other cabinet member who understands Mr. Trump as Ms. McMahon does.
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The sick cabinet member, Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar, is Mr. Rouhani's deputy for women's affairs.
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A Trump cabinet member warns of "big hairy men" winding up in the ladies room.
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Sessions is the first Cabinet member known to be interviewed in connection with the probe.
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"Indian politics is not susceptible to modern, professional analysis," said one former Congress cabinet member.
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CNN's Jeff Zeleny has reported two officials said Shulkin remains the most vulnerable cabinet member.
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Kerry is the second Obama administration Cabinet member to endorse Biden in the presidential race.
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Jackson was the first president to publicly fire a Cabinet member who disagreed with him.
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It was one of the first tell-all memoirs by an embittered former Cabinet member.
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He patiently listened to each cabinet member and made decisions by consensus, Mr. Privert said.
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Grenell's appointment to the new position will make him the first openly gay cabinet member.
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Hillary, Obama thought, was an impressive and loyal cabinet member who was great in meetings.
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If he doesn't, Trump's best Cabinet member will find himself marginalized when he's needed most.
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Hauser is a former Netanyahu cabinet member who's now with the opposition Blue and White party.
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His 2009 opponent, Brian Moran, quickly made the transition from rival to friend and cabinet member.
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Zinke is the first Trump Cabinet member to join a lobbying firm after leaving the administration.
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A leading Cabinet member since Zimbabwe&aposs independence in 1980, he became vice president in 2014.
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No Cabinet member is expected to go this soon, but a West Wing shuffle looks likely.
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" A former Bush cabinet member, Christine Todd Whitman, accused him of using "hate-mongering and racism.
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A cabinet member who enthusiastically campaigned for Brexit admits that no-deal would be a catastrophe.
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The cabinet member who wants to charge $70 to get into our most iconic national parks?
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The House has only voted once, more than 100 years ago, to impeach a Cabinet member.
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You will feel an overwhelming sense of purpose when a cabinet member asks for your help.
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The articles tarnished the image of Mr. Bolsonaro's most popular cabinet member, Justice Minister Sergio Moro.
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While these include the power to block the appointment of a cabinet member, it's rarely used.
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Meanwhile, another Trump Cabinet member is in hot water over a baffling array of ethics issues.
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We're thinking Elle would be the perfect cabinet member to keep a certain president-elect in line.
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Until he became a Cabinet member earlier this year, he was himself a U.S. congressman, representing Montana.
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This isn't the first time Carson has caught heat for controversial remarks as a Trump Cabinet member.
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No Cabinet member left in the first year in any other of the previous five presidential administrations.
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"Designated Survivor" stars Sutherland as the last cabinet member alive after a bomb rips apart the Capitol.
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Over the weekend, Trump ousted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who was hardly a disloyal cabinet member.
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These briefings earned him the trust of the president, crucial to the success of any cabinet member.
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"I have never seen a cabinet member with the name ID of Betsy DeVos," he told me.
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It is never a positive sign for an administration when a Cabinet member is forced to leave.
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If you're unfamiliar, one cabinet member is always selected to watch the SOTU from an undisclosed location.
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He was originally a cabinet member, but resigned in 22006 in the wake of sexual harassment allegations.
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An earlier version of this article, in one instance, misstated the surname of a provincial cabinet member.
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The administration regarded this gathering as so important that it featured every single female cabinet member. Yes!
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Sandberg has also been floated many times recently as a possible cabinet member if Clinton were to prevail.
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MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has named an ex-Cabinet member to lead the Roscosmos state space corporation.
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He's the Cabinet member who's perhaps most closely aligned with Trump ideologically and most willing to follow orders.
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AND I NEVER REALLY SENT MESSAGES TO A PRESIDENT THROUGH A CABINET MEMBER OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT.
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And I've never really sent messages to a president through a Cabinet member or anything of the sort.
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Last week, Mueller interviewed Attorney General Jeff Sessions—the first cabinet member to speak to the special counsel.
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Their disclosure cost a state government cabinet member and two State Supreme Court justices, among others, their jobs.
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Ms. Murillo, 65, is already a de facto cabinet member, deeply involved in every aspect of the government.
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Speaking of personnel: One former cabinet member had some harsh words for Mr. Trump, who fired right back.
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A few months ago my colleague Gail Collins asked readers to help her select Trump's worst cabinet member.
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Then there is the question of what each Cabinet member brings to the table, both literally and figuratively.
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But Cavuto argued that the president's power to fire a Cabinet member who had disappointed him was absolute.
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My security detail assesses the risk and makes the decisions on how to best protect a Cabinet member.
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No Trump cabinet member has been more poorly treated than Sessions, the first senator to back his campaign.
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Michael Bennet, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, and former Obama Cabinet member Julian Castro – draw just 1%.
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He spent more than half of his 17-minute remarks thanking each Cabinet member individually for their accomplishments.
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She is the fifth Cabinet member to be confirmed even though Democrats did not push to delay her vote.
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In the Obama administration, you had a cabinet member who I believe paid nothing for a room, Timothy Geithner.
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Sessions is the eighth Trump Cabinet member confirmed so far, a slower pace than in many past confirmation processes.
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Moreover, the White House is reviewing Pruitt's housing deal, although Trump has publicly voiced support for his cabinet member.
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The Cabinet member yielded, but with a compromise: He would produce the documents only in executive session, not publicly.
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Sirisena has also accused Wickremesinghe and another Cabinet member of plotting to assassinate him, a charge Wickremesinghe repeatedly denied.
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He was the first Hispanic U.S. assistant attorney general, and would be Trump's first Hispanic cabinet member if confirmed.
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That's just being aggressive as the member of Congress or the Cabinet member or the VIP that you are.
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Hills, a Cabinet member in two Republican administrations, hopes the administration can at least pull off a modernized NAFTA.
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A former cabinet member who's been working in the library on a new book for the last two years?
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Mr. Trump's most loyal constituencies praise Mr. Sessions as the cabinet member most effectively delivering on the president's promises.
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No Cabinet member -- past or present -- has been bullied by Trump more than the nation's top law enforcement professional.
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In an unusual move for a sitting Cabinet member, Barr also openly criticized the president's comments on the case.
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Now he's definitely in the running for most awful cabinet member, even in a competition that includes Jeff Sessions.
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The minister stepped down after another recently departed Cabinet member said he pressured him to approve a property investment.
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It was the first time that a Trump Cabinet member was known to have been interviewed for that investigation.
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I'll let my colleague Gail Collins decide who is Trump's Worst Cabinet Member; she invented the competition, after all.
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Opinion Columnist The votes are in, and the winner of the Worst Trump Cabinet Member competition is … Wilbur Ross!
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To think that a cabinet member will have great influence on a president's overarching strategy is to ignore recent history.
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It is uncommon for the Marshals Service to protect a Cabinet member, who receive security protection through their individual agencies.
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Precious few -- only the Cabinet member in each case except for State, where the UN ambassador has also been announced.
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Under Canada's former Conservative government, Kenney served as a Cabinet member, responsible for portfolios including immigration, employment and national defense.
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It's also out of date, according to Paul Honeywood, a Tendring District Council Cabinet member with responsibility for Jaywick Sands.
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Under Canada's former Conservative government, Kenney served as a Cabinet member, responsible for portfolios including immigration, employment and national defence.
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"There are no victors in a trade war," Scott Brison, a senior Canadian cabinet member, said by phone from Detroit.
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The on sitting Cabinet member ever to be held in contempt of Congress, and he is talking about running again.
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Shulkin's ouster was the fourth high-profile one in March, including another fired Cabinet member, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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Two honored Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston and the third memorialized Confederate cabinet member John Reagan.
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A Cabinet member has not gotten confirmed without the endorsement of a committee in decades, according to The Washington Post.
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Christie is also seen as a potential Trump Cabinet member or vice presidential pick if he wins the White House.
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Haringey councillor Alan Strickland, Cabinet Member for Housing, Regeneration and Planning, maintains that the future of the market is secure.
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A sitting cabinet member with glaring conflicts of interest is also running a key regulatory agency involving his former donors.
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Whether it's appointing a Cabinet member, negotiating a treaty or signing an executive order, I will always uphold America's values.
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Former WWE executive and Trump Cabinet member Linda McMahon was dispatched to the group last year to help boost fundraising.
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On Wednesday, the Pentagon's inspector general opened up a probe into Shanahan's actions, which the Cabinet member said he supports.
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It was the first time in 30 years that a president had been denied his choice of a cabinet member.
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Mr. Tyler appraised Mr. Tillerson as "the most abused cabinet member that Trump has," adding that the competition was considerable.
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You will remember that Zinke was the cabinet member who rode to his new job on a horse named Tonto.
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Then, as a potential Donald Trump cabinet member when he talked to him about being secretary of state in 280.
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Other expenditures, like the congressional payouts, simply raise ethical questions about how a Cabinet member should handle leftover campaign funds.
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Only one cabinet member, Miri Regev, the minister of culture and sport, showed up to Mr. Netanyahu's post-indictment rally.
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The Trump-McConnell relationship and recent White House chaos have put one Trump Cabinet member in a particularly awkward spot.
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Johnson could even meet Trump during his visit to the U.K., despite him no longer being a sitting cabinet member.
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No cabinet member is more closely associated with the conservative nationalism that helped propel Mr. Trump to the White House.
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And at this rate, it's very possible DeVos ends up being the Cabinet member confirmed by the narrowest margin ever.
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"I'm not going to name names, but a cabinet member walked up to me at a restaurant in Manhattan," he recalled.
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The appearance was viewed widely as a performance for the President as he weighs his support for the embattled cabinet member.
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Ryan Zinke as Interior secretary, giving President Donald Trump another Cabinet member in what has proven to be a slow process.
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She has long been affiliated with the U.N. and served as a lead cabinet member under former secretary-general Kofi Annan.
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The least popular cabinet member was Education Secretary Betsy Devos who had a net -12% favorability, with 40% viewing her unfavorably.
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Trump said over the summer that he would "love" to have Palin serve in as a Cabinet member in his administration.
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The government has not a single black cabinet member; its predecessor, which called itself progressive, had one—for equality and rights.
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"There is nothing inappropriate with a Cabinet member appearing with her father or other family members," the spokesperson told the publication.
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Another Cabinet member who appears not to be going anywhere is former CIA Director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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His failed foreign policy and his flippant attitude to immigration law have angered many voters and discredited former Cabinet member Clinton.
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His approval ratings have slumped, and on Wednesday his interior minister resigned, the third cabinet member to quit in six weeks.
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Yes, the president may have more confidence in his appointed, and "loyal," Cabinet member than in that Cabinet official's first assistant.
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"The government has created destitution," says Barry Kushner, a Labour Party councilman in Liverpool and the cabinet member for children's services.
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The former Obama Cabinet member was polling at 1 percent shortly before ending his campaign, according to the RealClearPolitics polling index.
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"The short-term let market is far too easily exploited," says Danny Beales, Camden Council's cabinet member for investing in communities.
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After his upbeat introductory remarks on Monday, the president went around the table asking for a statement from each cabinet member.
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Another Cabinet member, Jane Philpott, resigned this week, saying she'd lost confidence in the government's inquiry into the allegations of pressure.
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Rex W. Tillerson is the first Trump administration cabinet member to complete, and have published, his financial disclosure and ethics agreement.
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Even in the face of Trump's ire, Sessions has proved to be a key Cabinet member in effectuating Trump's policy priorities.
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Pompeo currently enjoys enormous influence inside the Trump administration and is widely seen as the Cabinet member closest to the President.
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Over all, Mr. Pompeo has been more of an evangelist for the president's "America First" approach than any other cabinet member.
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A vocal supporter of gay rights and an openly gay man, Grenell will also be the first openly gay Cabinet member.
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Zinke is far from the only Cabinet member to spend taxpayer dollars on travel for his security detail on international trips.
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The only other cabinet member that Kuczynski has announced is Alfredo Thorne, appointing the former JPMorgan Chase director as his finance minister.
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The last Cabinet member reported unfavorably by a committee but eventually confirmed was Henry Wallace, who became secretary of commerce in 1945.
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" Another security cabinet member, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, told Israel's Army Radio: "Of course the American decision is not good for us.
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"Not, you know, whatever the cabinet member and him work out in terms of, say, the energy relationship or the ag" — i.e.
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In Nicolas Hulot President Macron has a cabinet member who wants to reduce the proportion of nuclear energy from 75% to 50%.
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After decades of playing the dissident or submitting to censorship, writers have the chance to play lawmaker, cabinet member, and even president.
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, the only African-American Cabinet member in the Trump administration, came to the President's defense.
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Absolutely. A Latino Cabinet member could give 55 million Hispanics, literally, a voice at the table when critical national decisions are made.
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"The Chinese thought they had an agreement with a Cabinet member, who was empowered and had authority from the President," said Allen.
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Later that month, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright became the first U.S. cabinet member to visit North Korea and meet with Kim.
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Yet, reports suggest that he has already aided Trump in choosing a Cabinet member who will make rules that heavily affect Icahn.
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Price is far from the only Cabinet member to take private flights however, so his resignation isn't likely to stem the controversy.
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For instance, in Spain in the late 1970s, Adolfo Suárez, a former cabinet member during the Franco dictatorship, delivered Spain's current democracy.
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For example, if a Cabinet member needs to recuse himself, there is always someone else in the chain who can take action.
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He escaped disaster Pruitt testified for nearly six hours, a grueling task for any Cabinet member, and seemed to mostly escape unscathed.
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Just how accurate is "Designated Survivor," the Kiefer Sutherland series about a cabinet member who becomes president when the Capitol is bombed?
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He began his career with Scotland Yard's Special Branch focused on international terrorism and the close protection of a British cabinet member.
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Aug. 27: On "Fox News Sunday," Tillerson says Trump "speaks for himself" on Charlottesville, a surprising rebuke from a Cabinet member. Aug.
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Ebrard — who is the closest cabinet member of Mexico's left-wing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador — hugged Morales on the airport tarmac.
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Let Them Eat Loans At this point, Wilbur Ross almost seems to be campaigning for the title of Worst Trump Cabinet member.
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In that same period, Trump met in the White House with another favored Cabinet member, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, just three times.
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So I evaluate him and his whole life's work, so I didn't think that mistake should disqualify him from being a cabinet member.
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It includes every current and former member of Congress, every current and recent governor, and every Cabinet member from the past two administrations.
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He has fired a cabinet member and a dozen senior officials over allegations of corruption, but no cases have been filed against them.
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One cabinet member from a major ASEAN country told Reuters there was little enthusiasm in the region for Trump's bilateral approach to deals.
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While Democrats rally behind Mike Espy, a black former congressman and presidential Cabinet member, Republicans face a bitter contest between appointed incumbent Sen.
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It's part of the left's war on the right MORE became the first sitting Cabinet member found to be in contempt of Congress.
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Trump, he believes, dragged his heels in nominating Perdue—the last cabinet member nominated—and the failure to get him confirmed is grating.
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" He added, "We don't have a lot of assets to be giving every single cabinet member an airplane every time at their whim.
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Fresh revelations about Price's travel came just hours after the embattled Cabinet member said he would pay back his portion of charter flights.
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This they did, in part by staging all-night speaking marathons; then they watched as Republicans confirmed one "extreme" Cabinet member after another.
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No other American — not a general, not a cabinet member, not a Supreme Court Justice — can stop him or her from using them.
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The President wasn't too torn up about losing Gary Cohn, who was not a Cabinet member as director of Trump's National Economic Council.
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The attorney general is a Cabinet member who can and should advise the president on policy and carry out the president's policy goals.
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Other candidates, like New Jersey senator Cory Booker and former Obama administration cabinet member Julián Castro, have failed to meet the polling threshold.
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But the only Cabinet member who regularly listened to him was former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis -- who called him "Saint Rex," Ward writes.
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In Israel, Tzachi Hanegbi, a Cabinet member close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, described Palestinians' rejection of the "peace to prosperity" plan as tragic.
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Washington (CNN)A photo-op Sunday with Donald Trump may have revealed prospective Cabinet member Kris Kobach's plans for the Department of Homeland Security.
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The gathered officials, reflecting on the volatility of the administration, mention that HUD Secretary Ben Carson is the only original Cabinet member still remaining.
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Gorod compared the situation to if Trump tried to appoint a cabinet member or Supreme Court justice without going through the Senate confirmation process.
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In January 2017, I was offered a potential position inside the newly forming Trump administration: a job as communications director for a cabinet member.
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DeVos, who helped to destroy Michigan public schools and is on track to do the same thing nationally, isn't exactly a beloved cabinet member.
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In November, an Israeli cabinet member disclosed covert contacts with Saudi Arabia, a rare acknowledgment of long-rumoured secret dealings which Riyadh still denies.
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In Israel, Tzachi Hanegbi, a cabinet member close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, described Palestinians' rejection of the "peace to prosperity" plan as tragic.
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Lynch, a Democratic cabinet member, pretended to not know that she was being asked whether she is biased and unable to oversee the investigation.
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In an interview, a cabinet member confirmed that there had been an intelligence operation supported by the police, the Security Ministry and the presidency.
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"I feel deceived as a cabinet member and revolted as a citizen," Paulo Melo, the state official in charge of antipoverty programs, told reporters.
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In November, an Israeli cabinet member disclosed covert contacts with Saudi Arabia, a rare acknowledgment of long-rumored secret dealings which Riyadh still denies.
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While the Muslim-majority country has only one female cabinet member, it boasts 220006 out of 2202 female members of parliament, nearly 2628 percent.
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Another likely cabinet member, U Than Myint, has said he has a master's and a doctorate from Pacific Western University, an unaccredited correspondence school.
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And concerningly, Kassam said a number of the president's closest advisers, allies, and one cabinet member were also in contact with the infected individual.
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In addition to the presidential impeachments, Congress has carried out 253 other trials for federal officials including judges, a cabinet member and a senator.
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Mr. Grenell, who has pushed to advance gay rights in his current post, is also thought to be the first openly gay cabinet member.
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A hawk brimming with bravado and ambition, Mr. Pompeo is ostensibly the cabinet member who smooths America's relations with the rest of the world.
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But only one Cabinet member has ever been confirmed after not being reportedly favorably out of committee: Henry Wallace as Commerce secretary in 1945.
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When Julián Castro (a former Obama Cabinet member) attacked Biden on health care, he did so by accusing Biden of betraying Obama's moral vision.
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Think about the implications — can you imagine a president murdering a cabinet member or a federal judge and then pardoning himself a moment later?
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"I don't think it puts her in any more of a tough position than she was in before," said one former Republican Cabinet member.
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One cabinet member, Culture Minister Ehab Bseisso, arrived in Gaza on Sunday and held a meeting with deputies and employees after taking up his post.
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Only adult male imperial family members were allowed to attend the centuries-old ceremony, but Japan's lone female cabinet member, Satsuki Katayama, was in attendance.
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Americas' former presidents can draw an annual salary of $207,800, equivalent to that of a cabinet member; they also get generous support for their offices.
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But Trump's summit with Kim will put Mattis in the spotlight, even though Mattis may not be Trump's go-to Cabinet member on the issue.
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It has tried to distance itself from the rancor and drama involving yet another senior campaign adviser (and cabinet member) obfuscating about conversations with Russia.
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It was the first time in history that the vice-president's vote was needed to break a tie over the appointment of a cabinet member.
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Of the two, Fink would be the more likely Cabinet member as he's made it clear in the past that he would like to serve.
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As usual, we got a lot of complaints about the Worst Cabinet Member contest from people who said it was impossible to pick just one.
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In Israel, Tzachi Hanegbi, a cabinet member close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, called Palestinians' rejection of the $50 billion "peace to prosperity" plan tragic.
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And it's why at home and abroad, no one is really sure that anyone besides Trump — even a Cabinet member — is speaking for the administration.
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The news ratcheted up tensions in the volatile region, already home to messy territorial disputes, with a senior Japanese cabinet member labeling China's actions unacceptable.
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The news ratcheted up tensions in the volatile region, already home to messy territorial disputes, with a senior Japanese Cabinet member labeling China's actions unacceptable.
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Each cabinet member plays a vital role in assisting the President-elect and delaying them cripples the president-elect, which only harms the American people.
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On security, the two discussed a visit this week by Defense Secretary James Mattis, the first trip to the region by a Trump cabinet member.
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Paul Honeywood, the Tendring District Council Cabinet Member who oversees Jaywick Sands, blasted Stella for using an old image of the village for political gain.
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The current president, Donna E. Shalala, a respected former cabinet member and university president, has not said whether she will stay on past this year.
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He will play the lead in ABC's "Designated Survivor," about a low-level cabinet member who becomes president after a catastrophic attack on the capitol.
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No executive branch official below the cabinet rank has ever been impeached, and not even a cabinet member has faced such proceedings in 140 years.
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Critics of the meeting, including Democrats and liberal groups, say a request like that from a Cabinet member violates anti-lobbying laws for government officials.
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Critics of the meeting, including Democrats and liberal groups, said a request like that from a Cabinet member violates anti-lobbying laws for government officials.
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Critics of the meeting, including Democrats and liberal groups, say a request like that from a Cabinet member violates anti-lobbying laws for government officials.
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Mr. Price is hardly the only Trump cabinet member to have racked up a big tab while the administration has supposedly been draining the swamp.
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Particularly since a cabinet member read one of your columns at a press conference after the president announced we were withdrawing from the climate accord.
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Mr. Tillerson's remarks on Sunday stood in stark contrast to those of another cabinet member, Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, who defended Mr. Trump's response.
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One Trump Cabinet member, Housing secretary Ben Carson, is moving to scrap an Obama policy withholding federal funds from cities if they don't address segregation.
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Trump later tweeted he was ousting Shulkin, the last remaining Cabinet member appointed by former President Obama, and replacing him with White House physician Adm.
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"Designated Survivor" is about a nondescript cabinet member, Kirkman, who becomes president when a terror attack kills practically every other member of the American government.
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In his wake, the administrator has done more to damage the economy, our environment, public safety and American global competitiveness than any Trump Cabinet member.
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Saturday, Amber Rudd, a senior cabinet member, quit over concerns that Johnson wasn't actually trying to reach a Brexit deal before the October 31 deadline.
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If Tom Daschle couldn't become a cabinet member for not paying taxes for a household employee, the same standard ought to apply to Mick Mulvaney.
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Trump went as far as deriding his former Cabinet member by mocking his Southern accent and his decision to bow out of overseeing the investigation.
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HAYES: Pruitt&aposs extraordinary list of ethical scandals prompted a debate among historians whether he&aposs the most corrupt cabinet member in the nation&aposs history.
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Not scandal-free A former Obama administration official, Shulkin had years of experience in the VA and was the only Cabinet member unanimously confirmed by Congress.
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Under U.S. law, somebody can only be an acting cabinet member for 210 days, so the White House will have to replace Maguire by March 11.
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Frances Perkins — the first female cabinet member in history — soon emerged as a powerful labor secretary in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's cabinet during the Great Depression.
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SCOTT PRUITT, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is still standing after a fusillade of scandals that would have felled a lesser cabinet member.
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Designated Survivor, in which Kiefer Sutherland plays a cabinet member who suddenly becomes POTUS after the Capitol is blown up, had been a recent mindless pleasure.
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Sessions was the first Cabinet member to go after the midterms when Trump announced on Twitter the day after the elections that he had been ousted.
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Ryan Zinke Another Cabinet member who may be on thin ice is Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, not because he's fallen out of favor with the President.
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McMaster—whose ouster has been rumored for months—would be gone already, except the White House is concerned about the optics of losing another cabinet member.
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Tillerson was at the White House for an event on Thursday, and President Trump, asked about the Cabinet member, didn't offer a definitive voice of support.
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While the president could consult the Defense secretary during the minutes he is making the decision, the Cabinet member serves in an advisory role, Perry said.
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The Department of Agriculture, which as I recollect is a federal agency that you as president oversee and is run by a cabinet member you appointed.
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A senior cabinet member, who wished not to be named, has told journalists that the race for Ms. Merkel's successor within the ranks has already begun.
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Champions of other nominees for Worst Cabinet Member argue that DeVos is so out of her depth that she may not be able to accomplish much.
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She was also the first federal Cabinet member in US history to be cited for contempt of Congress for her refusal to turn over subpoenaed documents.
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But he was a longtime member of Congress — like Mr. Reichert — and a powerful one: a committee chair considered impressive enough to become a cabinet member.
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"I cannot appoint her as a cabinet member if that is the way her mouth behaves, there can never be a position for her," he said.
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If CICIG has done its job equipping local institutions, says a future cabinet member, then Guatemala should be well placed to fight graft on its own.
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Jordan&aposs King Abdullah II has appointed Cabinet member Omar Razzaz, a leading reformer and former senior World Bank official, as the country&aposs new prime minister.
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"Good bye Scott Pruitt, the worst Administrator in EPA history and perhaps the word cabinet member ever," said Richard Painter, President George W. Bush's chief ethics lawyer.
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If elected, she'd be the first Cabinet member to become president since 1928, and one of the few with significant foreign policy experience in the postwar era.
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McLaughlin noted, though, that Trump's inclusion of Haspel as a Cabinet member—which not all CIA directors have been by their respective presidents—complicates things a bit.
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The former South Carolina governor told Trump she wanted to be a cabinet member, on the National Security Council and have the ability to speak her mind.
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The scandal-ridden cabinet member is gone from his post as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, but the costs of his tenure are still being tabulated.
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Sessions is the administration's most effective cabinet member when it comes to crafting policy, but this isn't enough to qualify as a "great job" in Trump's eyes.
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Temer said last month that he would suspend any cabinet member who is placed under investigation and would dismiss them only if they are indicted for corruption.
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Victims included a family member of two former presidents, a former Cabinet member, former Joint Chiefs of Staff member and a former presidential advisor, according to prosecutors.
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Also part of the new coronavirus response team is Alex Azar, the secretary of health and human services — a veteran cabinet member and experienced former pharmaceutical lobbyist.
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I've really been enjoying these "worst cabinet member" competitions; I've done four since Trump came into power and they show how intently people are following the news.
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The series stars Kiefer Sutherland as Tom Kirkman, who was a nondescript cabinet member until the Capitol was blown up during the State of the Union address.
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Democrats intent on making this year's elections a referendum on President Donald Trump's policies are targeting a Cabinet member who galvanizes their base: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry, a Cabinet member who's been caught up in the impeachment inquiry of the president over his actions in Ukraine, has officially tendered his resignation.
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He was the fourth Cabinet member Temer has lost due to corruption allegations since replacing impeached leftist Dilma Rousseff earlier this year and vowing to clean up government.
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A legal fight over the acting secretary of veterans affairs could have big ramifications for Donald Trump — or any president who wants to replace a fired Cabinet member.
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Note: The "net favorability" score is found by subtracting the percentage of respondents who view the cabinet member unfavorably from the percentage of those who viewed them favorably.
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The one thing Pruitt has going for him is that more than any other cabinet member, he has been enormously visible in enacting President Trump's agenda through deregulation.
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In 1997 she became the youngest post-World War Two cabinet member, serving as telecommunications minister - a post now folded into her current portfolio as internal affairs minister.
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And so far Scott Pruitt, the former EPA administrator, is the only Cabinet member who has attracted bipartisan oversight scrutiny for a seemingly endless series of corruption allegations.
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He's back to film a new series in which he plays a low-ranking cabinet member who becomes president after an attack wipes out Congress and the president.
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But her first scheduled visit to China as a Trump cabinet member was canceled after an ethics question was raised to officials in the State and Transportation Departments.
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Headlines and anti-immigration politicians call it a crisis, and the cabinet member in charge of migration policy has labeled it a "major incident" fueled by criminal gangs.
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Mr. Price — a multimillionaire orthopedic surgeon who as a congressman took actions that benefited his personal stock portfolio — isn't the only Trump cabinet member polluting the public trough.
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Shulkin: When you're a Cabinet member, you serve at the pleasure of the President, and, you know when the President makes a decision, that's the way that goes.
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And even if the House votes to impeach Koskinen, a sub-Cabinet member, the Senate would have to convict him by a two-thirds majority, which is unlikely.
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The other major candidate – Labor Secretary Tom Perez – is a well-known lawyer and long time D.C. operator who was assessed as President Obama's most liberal cabinet member.
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Former shadow cabinet member Angela Eagle was expected to announce her interest in vying for the Labour leadership, but she backed down Thursday evening, giving no official reason.
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Nelson Rockefeller in the '70s, was frequently rumored to have political ambitions, and his name was even floated as a possible Cabinet member appointee under President George W. Bush.
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Their disclosure cost a state government cabinet member and a State Supreme Court justice, among others, their jobs, and has led to an ethics investigation involving a second justice.
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President Trump held his first full Cabinet meeting at the White House this morning, with each Cabinet member introducing themselves to the assembled media while heaping praise on Trump.
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"Pakistan's honesty and sincerity with regard to the Afghan peace process has always been a question," said an Afghan cabinet member, echoing the sentiment of several officials interviewed there.
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"If Tom Daschle couldn't become a cabinet member for not paying taxes for a household employee, then a same standard ought to apply for Mick Mulvaney," he told reporters.
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Ironically, this law was adopted in 1924, after the Teapot Dome scandal, to give Congress the power to protect against financial improprieties by any president or Cabinet member. Two.
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Mueller was a front-and-center Bush cabinet member when the president, scorning a unanimous 2628 Supreme Court ruling, decided he was entitled to impose warrantless wiretaps on Americans.
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The move also comes during Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's visit to Moscow on Wednesday, a first official visit to Russia by a Cabinet member since President Trump's inauguration.
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Sutherland plays Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tom Kirkman, the Cabinet member chosen during the State of the Union to stay home in case the others are attacked.
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"If Tom Daschle couldn't become a Cabinet member for not paying taxes for a household employee, then a same standard ought to apply for Mick Mulvaney," he told reporters.
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While at Google, he licensed or used products from companies he also owned, the kind of financial subterfuge more befitting a Trump administration cabinet member than a Google engineer.
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"It's always been expensive to deliver services to rural communities because the population is so spread out," said Peter Thornton, the council's deputy leader and cabinet member for finance.
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As France's labor minister, and its wealthiest cabinet member, Ms. Pénicaud has been handed the reins to carry out the divisive task of overhauling France's famously voluminous labor code.
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Mr. Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, invited every Cabinet member and their spouses and he will convene the fourth session with the group of his presidency on Saturday.
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He has enforced Mr. Trump's agenda more successfully than perhaps any cabinet member, imposing conservative policies on immigration and violent crime that are popular with Mr. Trump's core supporters.
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At first Ornstein refused to pick for Worst, arguing that the contest for most awful cabinet member should be treated like a kid's athletic competition where everybody's a winner.
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Remember, the Commerce Department is run by Wilbur Ross, whom readers of my colleague Gail Collins voted Trump's worst cabinet member, which is quite a distinction given the competition.
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That tact appeared to shift some in Thursday night's debate in Houston, during which former Obama Cabinet member Julián Castro accused Biden of "forgetting" details of his health plan.
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The latest scandal had deepened rifts within the ruling coalition as Azmin, a senior cabinet member, has been regarded as a possible challenger for the premiership promised to Anwar.
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"If Tom Daschle couldn't become a cabinet member for not paying taxes for a household employee than a same standard ought to apply for Mick Mulvaney," he told reporters.
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A British Cabinet member has resigned from her position, citing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to expel 21 members of the Conservative Party as one reason for her departure.
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Even if they otherwise could act within four days, it will take the president a good deal less than that to fire every Cabinet member who voted against him.
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Sacks compared Corbyn's comments to the infamous "Rivers of blood" speech by Enoch Powell in 1968 in which the then-Conservative shadow cabinet member warned of the dangers of immigration.
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Carvey's impression of Bolton is bombastic, aggressive, and prone to calling his formidable mustache "General Snowball," highlighting all the warnings about the potentially dangerous and war-happy new cabinet member.
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Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is this year's designated survivor, ie, the Cabinet member who is left out of the chamber while the president gives the State of the Union address.
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"Oh I think it's because I'm just such a darned good Cabinet member, and very capable, and probably pretty knowledgeable about the energy industry," he said at an energy conference.
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Although having a cabinet member more orange than Trump might be considered some kind of threat, Hogan would infuse the Trump administration with the pro-wrestling edge it currently lacks.
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"Pitch" actually has something in common with one of the fall's other more promising newcomers, ABC's "Designated Survivor," in which Kiefer Sutherland plays a cabinet member who suddenly becomes President.
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Washington (CNN)A Trump Cabinet member who was with the President the night he launched a military strike in Syria characterized the attack as a form of "entertainment" on Monday.
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Chao, who is a veteran Cabinet member and is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
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Ms. Dungey's new lineup will include the Kiefer Sutherland drama "Designated Survivor," about a low-level United States cabinet member who takes over the presidency after a large-scale attack.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine lawmakers rejected President Rodrigo Duterte's choice of health secretary on Tuesday, making her the fifth cabinet member to have been turned down since Duterte came to power.
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The latest example of the administration's engagement came Saturday night when Jeh Johnson, the secretary of Homeland Security, became the first sitting cabinet member to address the Islamic Society's convention.
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It seems that Kendall is still in charge of oversight at Interior, and that Zinke still might be the next cabinet member to lose his job over a travel scandal.
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Yet another Cabinet member, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, is going home trailed by scandal, in another rebuke to the idea that the Trump administration was ever about draining the swamp.
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We've known from the start of his administration that Kelly is Trump's favorite Cabinet member -- first as director of the Department of Homeland Security and now as chief of staff.
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"I don't think that's the function of the secretary of Interior, nor should it be the function of any Cabinet member, to be the enforcers for the administration," Grijalva said.
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"Every Cabinet member serves at the pleasure of the president and it's the president's prerogative to have a team around him that he thinks is doing the job," said Shulkin.
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"The United States can prevent a permanent Iranian military presence in Syria," Minister of Intelligence and security cabinet member Israel Katz told CNN, urging the US to get more involved.
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Ironically, Mr Masuzoe, a TV commentator and ex-cabinet member, entered office promising to run a clean administration and to restore the city government's tainted reputation ahead of the Olympics.
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Last year, when I asked readers to vote on Worst Cabinet Member, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos won because friends of public schools were worried about her crusade for privatization.
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He is well suited for it — in his third term, having previously been a governor and a cabinet member — and he doesn't need to let himself get pushed around again.
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Editorial It should be among the easier tasks of a cabinet member to affirm, without hesitation, that the president he or she serves represents the values of the American people.
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Barr, who served in the same role for President George H.W. Bush, advocates a theory of expansive presidential power, one reason why he has become perhaps Trump's favorite Cabinet member.
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Mr. Pompeo is considered the most powerful cabinet member, the top-level adviser in the Trump administration who seems to have an uncanny ability to read and channel the president.
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And on Trump's favorite Cabinet member: Grassley has also defended Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whom he had privately urged to recuse himself from the Justice Department's investigation of Russian meddling.
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Travel bans were imposed against 17 Americans — including the son of a cabinet member/former congressman — who sought refuge in the U.S. embassy, plunging U.S.-Egyptian relations into a crisis.
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Pro-EU MP Chuka Umunna said it was "extraordinary" that a shadow cabinet member should be sacked for advocating a Brexit policy that commands the overwhelming support of the party.
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And it reveals that even a Cabinet member like Mattis, a four-star general with ample experience in wartime, found himself unable to make a difference in shaping major decisions.
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Mr. Pompeo is considered the most powerful cabinet member, the top-level adviser in the Trump administration who seems to have an uncanny ability to read and channel the president.
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Before we move on, can we mention that McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, is the nation's secretary of transportation, and possibly on her way to serious contention for Worst Cabinet Member?
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The Singapore media and political analysts say Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung and cabinet member Chan Chun Sing are contenders to be the island's next leader.
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He was secretary of energy and later the treasury under President Felipe Calderon of the PAN and was the only Cabinet member to remain when Pena Nieto was elected in 2012.
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He asked his daughter Ivanka Trump, who is not a Cabinet member but is a staff member, to stand and be recognized in his speech at a manufacturing company in Springfield.
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Although Forbes lists his net worth as $700 million based on financial disclosure forms he filed during his cabinet member nomination process, Ross has insisted he is actually worth $3.7 billion.
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Accused of acceptingnearly $400,000 in bribes in exchange for oil leases in Wyoming, Fall becamethe first former cabinet member in history to be sent to prison for crimescommitted while in office.
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Unfortunately, a terrorist attack kills everyone else at the Capitol, forcing the untested cabinet member to become the new president since he's the only one in the line of succession left.
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Trump's most respected cabinet member, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, could play the role of Nixon's Kissinger—or of Kim's Jo Myong Rok: the stern military man sent to deliver a message.
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On "Designated Survivor" he plays a low-ranking cabinet member who ascends to the Oval Office when Congress is wiped out by an attack during a State of the Union address.
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Mulvaney then requested that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross — the cabinet member responsible for the NOAA — ask the organization to issue a public statement rebuking the forecasters in Birmingham, the Times reported.
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Zuma is widely believed to want his ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a former cabinet member who just finished a term at the helm of the African Union, to succeed him.
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Even his favorite Cabinet member, Mike Pompeo, got shoved aside; the secretary of state was mercilessly skewered by the North Koreans and even coldly stood up on a visit to Pyongyang.
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President Trump just lost another cabinet member -- Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is resigning after getting a taste of what Sarah Huckabee Sanders went through at Red Hen.
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But Mattis is the highest-ranking cabinet member to resign over differences of policy and principle since Cyrus Vance quit the State Department in 1980 after Jimmy Carter's Desert One fiasco.
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An Israeli security cabinet member, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, even broached the possibility in a television interview Sunday that Iran would try to launch missiles at Israel from its own territory.
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The cabinet member, Andrea Leadsom, left her position as leader of the House of Commons at the end of a day of swirling rumors about a cabinet coup against Mrs. May.
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"It would be very difficult for many states to be able to do that," said Christine Todd Whitman, the former New Jersey governor and Cabinet member under President George W. Bush.
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Work to remove statues of two Confederate generals, Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston, and the Confederate cabinet member John Reagan began late Sunday and continued into the early morning.
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Kraninger says she is eager to take on shady student loan practices, but also appears reluctant to escalate a fight with a Trump Cabinet member who is popular in conservative circles.
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Nearly every Trump administration Cabinet member — not to mention both houses of Congress — will be packed into the same room for President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night.
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The former Obama Cabinet member defended his tactics in the debate when he accused Biden of forgetting details of his health care plan and whether it would require a buy-in.
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"I was in Washington for eight years, I've gone through this, I've seen this movie," said Mr. Cuomo, a second-term Democrat who was a cabinet member under President Bill Clinton.
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Ms. Chao's office had made a series of unorthodox requests related to her first scheduled visit to China as a Trump cabinet member, according to people with knowledge of the email.
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" Hazel Blears, a former cabinet member in the Labour Party who also sat on Rifkind's committee, adds: "Social media companies as good corporate citizens have a responsibility to aid us [against terrorism].
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Jerry Falwell, Liberty's president, reached out to neurosurgeon-turned-cabinet member Ben Carson for advice, which eventually led to Liberty sending for Arizona spinal surgeon Dr. Dilan Ellegala, who performed the operation.
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Sessions was the first senator to endorse Trump, and has been the most effective cabinet member in making Trumpism a reality, leading an immigration crackdown and issuing extreme law-and-order measures.
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Benjamin Netanyahu opposes a Palestinian state, a senior Israeli Cabinet member says, but leaves it unclear whether the prime minister would say that publicly in talks with Trump in Washington this week.
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Key civil servants have taken a strong stand, and a cabinet member and several advisers have quit while others are fighting from within to contain Mr. Morales and preserve the constitutional order.
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She has the distinction of being the only cabinet member whose spouse the president shaved bald and faux-body-slammed, to cheering throngs at a WrestleMania "Battle of the Billionaires" in 26.
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Mr. Johnson did send an emissary in his stead: Michael Gove, a cabinet member who formerly served as the environment minister, but Channel 4 said the debate was for party leaders only.
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Former retail sector boss Andy Street won a tight contest with Labour for the West Midlands area around Britain's second city Birmingham, although former Labour cabinet member Andy Burnham won Greater Manchester.
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Le Monde newspaper was first to report that Delevoye had resigned following a string of media reports about positions that he had held while being a cabinet member without declaring them publicly.
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"The Japanese people's severe criticism of a cabinet member is something I take personally and seriously," Mr. Abe said after accepting the resignation of Ms. Inada, a protégée and close political ally.
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According to the Congressional Research Service, of the 15 federal judges, one senator and one cabinet member whom the House has voted to impeach since 1797, the Senate convicted eight federal judges.
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Hours after news broke Tuesday that Robert Mueller's team had interviewed its first Cabinet member, Donald Trump moved to undermine the investigation with some late-night Twitter paranoia directed at the FBI.
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McMahon has distinguished herself as a rare high-ranking administration official deemed broadly unobjectionable," and then they said, "There is no other cabinet member who understands Mr. Trump as Ms. McMahon does.
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It was a brag sheet for a cabinet member eyeing a presidential race, and the Clinton team's eagerness to claim credit for her prompted eye-rolling at the White House and the Pentagon.
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Trump, who a day before described Acosta as a "really great" Cabinet member, has privately expressed concern at how the labor secretary's handling of the Epstein case reflects on him and his administration.
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Wellington (Reuters) - New Zealand Police Minister Judith Collins said on Tuesday she will stand as a candidate to replace outgoing Prime Minister John Key, becoming the third Cabinet member to announce their candidacy.
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Former Catalonian vice-president Oriol Junqueras, former cabinet member Joaquim Forn and two leaders of civic groups ANC and Omnium Cultural, faced with charges of sedition, have been refused bail, Spain's Supreme Court.
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Pruitt is also known to insist that his drivers use flashing lights and sirens when driving him around Washington: a standard practice for the president and vice president, but no other Cabinet member.
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The report underscores persistent fears surrounding May's handling of an onslaught of crises facing her Conservative Party, including a weakened majority, internal divisions over Brexit, multiple sexual harassment allegations and cabinet member departures.
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Dr. Jackson's January examination of President Trump, and subsequent news conference, give us great pause because they evinced a disturbing lack of independence — one of the most important qualities in a cabinet member.
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READ: Paul Manafort is suing Mueller over the Russia probe Sessions may be the first Cabinet member to get pulled into the investigation, but he's not the first member of Trump's inner circle.
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I should add that Ross already had a fairly strong case to be a repeat winner for Worst Cabinet Member, given his handling of the Census Bureau's attempt to add a citizenship question.
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Outside of congratulating the National Teachers of the Year, the man himself was in sight only for events in which he announced that a cabinet member had been directed to look into something.
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Ms. DeVos is the perfect cabinet member for a president determined to appoint officials eager to destroy the agencies they run and weigh the fate of policies and programs based on ideological considerations.
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The policy is threatening to derail what could otherwise be a cordial and bipartisan relationship between Democrats and Chao, a veteran Cabinet member who is highly respected on both sides of the aisle.
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Yankel Rosenthal, a former minister of investment under current Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, and cousin Yani Rosenthal, a former Honduran cabinet member, disclosed their plans in filings on Monday in Manhattan federal court.
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"I believe Mr. Tillerson is smart enough to understand that … the objective and responsibility for the secretary of State, like any Cabinet member, is the interest of the United States," the former secretary added.
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Richardson, a former Clinton administration cabinet member, quit as the 10-member advisory board was making its first visit to western Rakhine State, from where nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled in recent months.
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The president suggested that Mr. Sanders should broaden his platform beyond his core issue of fighting income inequality, leading some to infer that Mr. Obama would prefer his former cabinet member to succeed him.
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The constitution adds the SARB "must perform its functions independently and without fear, favour or prejudice, but there must be regular consultation between the bank and the cabinet member responsible for national financial matters".
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LONDON (Reuters) - A few hours before Theresa May lost her second cabinet member in a week, the British prime minister found time amidst the crisis to meet one of the world's most powerful bankers.
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The expenses scandal has since drawn in another Cabinet member, innovation minister Greg Hunt, who has claimed A$20,000 in expenses for trips to luxury resorts with his family over the past 10 years.
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On Monday, Eric Holder—the first African-American attorney general in US history and an Obama cabinet member for five-plus years—confirmed to Stephen Colbert that yes, he was mulling a presidential bid.
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In a show of support for Georgia, foreign ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, and a Cabinet member from Ukraine, visited Tbilisi Tuesday, urging Russia to withdraw its troops from Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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If Clinton doesn't face charges, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the Justice Department will certainly come under criticism from conservatives who will suspect President Obama's administration of covering up for a former Cabinet member.
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One Cabinet member is typically chosen to not attend a State of the Union or presidential address to a joint session of Congress as a precaution for an incident like an attack on Congress.
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This list was compiled before this election, and at the time it was every current and former member of Congress, every current and recent governor, and every Cabinet member from the past two administrations.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - One of the contenders to be Singapore's next leader, cabinet member Chan Chun Sing, on Monday said he and his colleagues had an obligation to be ready to take on the job.
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"If a president can fire a cabinet member and replace them with staffers who have never been reviewed by the Senate, that is a major historical precedent," said Walter Dellinger, a former solicitor general.
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The constitution adds the SARB "must perform its functions independently and without fear, favor or prejudice, but there must be regular consultation between the bank and the cabinet member responsible for national financial matters".
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"Social housing is there to provide much-needed homes for our residents, not to generate illicit profits for dishonest tenants," Andrew Smith, Westminster City Council cabinet member for housing services, said in a statement.
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"I am deeply troubled that members of the committee would publicly release law enforcement sensitive information regarding the safety and security of a Cabinet member and his family," Barrasso said in a statement Tuesday.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's minister of public works, a 31-year-old former refugee who was the youngest cabinet member in the country's fragile government, was shot to death by soldiers on Wednesday, officials said.
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"When you're a cabinet member, when you're a senior adviser in the White House, and the president is right, you should help him achieve his objectives and run with his thinking," Cotton told Politico.
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That said, female leaders are not always needed to enact pro-female policy — in 2000, it was a male cabinet member who put into law minimum board quotas (40 percent) for women in Norway.
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Eight months after taking control of the executive branch, the Trump administration saw its first Cabinet member — Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price — resign after questions were raised about his conduct in office.
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Ever the loyal cabinet member — some would say mouthpiece — he tried to pretend Mr. Trump never mentioned the lack of nuclear threat, but Mr. Tapper presented him with the exact words from Mr. Trump.
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Or about how Monroe, by Unger's own description, "ignored both the law and the Constitution" in securing loans to fund American forces during the War of 1812 (while Monroe was still a Madison cabinet member).
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The two Asian countries were chosen as the destinations for the first overseas visit by a Trump Cabinet member and US Defense Secretary James Mattis gave Seoul and Tokyo exactly what they were looking for.
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It's a fairly stunning turn of events for Shulkin, a man who was confirmed by the Senate in a 100-0 vote and spent most of 2017 as the Trump administration's least controversial Cabinet member.
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Washington (CNN)The Senate voted Monday to confirm former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as the next treasury secretary, the latest Cabinet member to be approved after a lengthy and at times contentious confirmation process.
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The Qataris had a history of terrorist sympathies and one cabinet member in particular, a member of the royal family, seemed to have ties to groups like al Qaeda and appeared to have sponsored KSM.
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With strikes and protests roiling the country, FDR turbocharged the New Deal, with the help of Henry A. Wallace, his most trusted cabinet member, his future vice president — and our grandfather and great-grandfather respectively.
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Swamp creatures Trump enters another week looking for another new Cabinet member after announcing the resignation of Zinke, who was facing multiple ethics probes and was a top oversight target of the new Democratic House.
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Kiefer Sutherland stars as Tom Kirkman, a low-ranking cabinet member about to be fired when a bomb explodes at the State of the Union address, and suddenly he's the president of the United States.
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Defense Secretary James Mattis is the most popular Trump cabinet member with a 20% net favorability rating, according to the latest Morning Consult/Politico survey, with Education Secretary Betsy Devos receiving the highest unfavorable rating.
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But some officials privately grumbled that it was Kudlow who was confused and not Haley -- who is a Cabinet member, required Senate confirmation, and by all measures outranks the director of the National Economic Council.
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Based on every public appearance we've seen so far — whether it's from a cabinet member or the director of the Centers for Disease Control or the president himself — the answer is clear: not the public's.
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The House Oversight Committee, led by Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, has opened an inquiry into Mr. Pruitt's actions at the E.P.A., the first Republican-led investigation of a Trump administration cabinet member.
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" Shulkin also addressed reports that he has posted an armed guard at the door of his 10th floor office, saying that "every Cabinet member has a security detail that is armed, I am no different.
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And Burford was married to yet another controversial Reagan Cabinet member: former Environmental Protection Agency chief Anne Gorsuch Burford, whose short tenure was marked by a scandal over the mismanagement of the Superfund cleanup program.
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Perez, an Obama Cabinet member who endorsed Clinton in her bid for the party nomination before the presidential primaries began, is backed by the White House and seen as a more centrist candidate than Ellison.
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In July, his defiance alongside Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross of congressional subpoenas prompted a House vote to hold them in criminal contempt — the second time in U.S. history that's happened to a sitting Cabinet member.
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"I think the market's going to be looking forward to the Fed meeting next week and any Cabinet member [appointments] coming out of the Trump headquarters," said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott.
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There are better ways to voice your displeasure for President Trump than by dragging the First Lady through the mud, and T.I. has gone waaaay too far ... so says former Barack Obama cabinet member Julian Castro.
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"The security measures and threat awareness at Croatian airports have been raised following the events in Brussels yesterday," a cabinet member of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure said in an email to Mashable.
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The comments by the Cabinet member — published by The Intercept, which Greenwald co-founded — have raised questions about whether he conspired to keep Bolsonaro opponent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva out of the 2018 presidential election.
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There was a big development in the scandal Friday when legal docs became public, naming other prominent, private and public, individuals, including a senator and former cabinet member who were allegedly involved in Epstein's sexual exploits.
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Considering Holder was the first sitting attorney general and first sitting Cabinet member in U.S. history to be held in criminal and civil contempt of Congress by both Democrats and Republicans, I strongly beg to differ.
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Designated Survivor Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor Kiefer Sutherland (24) returns to primetime in a conspiracy thriller as Tom Kirkman, a lower-level cabinet member who unexpectedly becomes president after a devastating attack on Washington.
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He may not yet have nominated a single cabinet member, or sent emissaries to the federal agencies, or held a news conference as president-elect, but Mr. Trump does have a presidential inaugural committee lined up.
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But his own position became more moderate, and as he held increasingly prominent positions within the exile government, including speaker of Parliament and cabinet member, he became a leading advocate of the Dalai Lama's Middle Way.
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In July, Finance Minister Henry Rotich was arrested on corruption charges related to a multimillion-dollar project to build two massive dams, becoming the first sitting cabinet member to be charged with financial misconduct in Kenya.
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Minister for Finance and Revenue Kelly O'Dwyer was the latest cabinet member to express a change of heart about the Royal Commission investigation, which she previously opposed as an "inquiry looking for something to inquire about".
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For every State of the Union or presidential address to a joint session of Congress, a Cabinet member is chosen to sit out as a precaution for an incident such as an attack on the Capitol.
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Yoav Gallant, a retired military general and current security Cabinet member, says Monday Israel will not allow Iran to establish a presence in neighboring Syria but will not dictate who leads the country after its civil war.
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If evidence of such charges emerges, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions will have a very difficult choice: prosecute a former Cabinet member from his own administration or explain why he's letting a possible felon off the hook.
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Trump 'Not Happy' About Tom Price's Private Jet FiascoThe president revealed he's annoyed with the health and human services secretary, Tom Price, after the Cabinet member used private jets extensively, costing taxpayers at least $250,0003 since May.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Donald Trump's election as the next U.S. president presents Israel with a unique opportunity to recast its Middle East policies, a far-right Israeli cabinet member and staunch opponent of Palestinian statehood, said on Monday.
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"I have been left genuinely stunned…I am furious," tweeted Johnny Mercer, an ex-captain who fought in Afghanistan, on September 12th after he and some fellow Tory MPs spoke to a cabinet member about the issue.
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The departure of Richardson, a former Clinton administration cabinet member, came as the 10-member advisory board was making its first visit to western Rakhine State, from where around 688,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled in recent months.
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Yankel Rosenthal, a former minister of investment under current Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, and Yani Rosenthal, a former Cabinet member in Honduras, filed papers late on Friday in federal court in Manhattan to dismiss their indictment.
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WASHINGTON — For a cabinet member whose department had just erupted into open disagreement with the White House, Secretary of State John Kerry's reaction to a critical memo on Syria policy signed by 51 diplomats was remarkably mellow.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's finance minister has met the Palestinian prime minister, Israeli officials said on Thursday, in a rare visit by an Israeli cabinet member to the occupied West Bank as part of a U.S. peace push.
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Grave faces on Capitol Hill and the shaken voices of retired military men on cable news reflected the Pentagon chief's renown as more than a decorated warrior, retired four-star general and the most admired Cabinet member.
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"Commissioner Moscovici has always been as a principle, more in favor of dialogue than sanctions, as he believes that if the process gets to the stage of sanctions it is always a failure," the cabinet member said.
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Téa Leoni, who plays Elizabeth McCord on "Madam Secretary," has been scheduled to do a conference call with the real-life former cabinet member Madeleine Albright to discuss the CBS drama's fifth-season premiere, airing Oct. 7.
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If the situation were reversed, and a very different president had promised to implement a very different policy, those who worry now would be calling for every aide and cabinet member to follow through on a promise.
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The resulting showdown led to a legal defeat for the administration, which wound up having to surrender the documents; Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. became the first sitting cabinet member to be held in contempt of Congress.
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Former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis An early Biden endorser, the former Obama Cabinet member has a long executive and legislative record to bring to the table, including having been the first Latina in the California state Senate.
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Sessions became the first known Cabinet member to be questioned by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team as part of the investigation in the Trump campaign's ties to Russia last week, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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"This isn't something that's just happened as a Cabinet member: I saw this as a legislator, I saw this when I was governor, I see it now, I see them do it to other women," Haley said.
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" There is no identifiable policy in Syria, where a reprisal missile strike for Bashar al-Assad's renewed use of chemical weapons occurred in a vacuum and was later likened by a cabinet member to "after-dinner entertainment.
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When asked if any American president or Cabinet member has ever taken a Mensa admissions test before, Brown pointed out that while the group can confirm membership, it doesn't release who's actually taken the brain-busting exam.
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The four men — Catalonia's former vice-president Oriol Junqueras, former Cabinet member Joaquim Forn, and civic group leaders Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart — face charges including sedition for their role in the unauthorized independence vote on Oct. 1.
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" Asked on Wednesday why he may have been asked to replace Pence, Perry said, "Oh I think it's because I'm just such a darned good Cabinet member, and very capable, and probably pretty knowledgeable about the energy industry.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's new Socialist government signalled key cabinet member names on Tuesday, including the foreign, economy and budget ministers, as the former ruling party considered torpedoing its own 2018 budget proposal in the upper house of parliament.
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A former banker and a long-time cabinet member, Simsek is widely seen as one of few orthodox voices left in the cabinet after the former economy chief, Ali Babacan, was left out of the government in November.
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It should surprise no one when this "resister in chief" is unmasked and we find out that he or she is not a cabinet member or senior White House official but, in all likelihood, an Obama-era holdover.
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Instead, the home secretary, who oversees police and internal affairs, approves the warrant if that cabinet member finds that it is "necessary" for national security or to prevent serious crime and that it is "proportionate" to the intrusion.
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WASHINGTON —The Ukraine impeachment inquiry has created the first rift between President Donald Trump and the Cabinet member who has been his closest ally, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, according to four current and former senior administration officials.
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Last year, Congress accused Mr. Kuczynski of "permanent moral incapacity" for profiting from contracts with Odebrecht, the Brazilian corporate giant now troubled by scandal, during a period in the early 2000s when he served as a cabinet member.
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" According to British news media reports, the idea of a "managed no deal" was also dismissed by one cabinet member, David Gauke, the justice secretary, who reportedly described the approach as a "unicorn that needs to be slaughtered.
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Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina and the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has started an investigation into Mr. Pruitt's actions at the E.P.A., the first such Republican-led inquiry into a Trump administration cabinet member.
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Then, in a media interview, he, first, acknowledged that as a cabinet member he couldn't "promote anything that I'm involved in"; then, second, added, "but you should all send your kids to 'Lego Batman,'" a movie he produced.
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Because somebody thought it was a good plan to go for a cabinet member with a history that includes employing an illegal immigrant housekeeper and an ex-wife who once went on "Oprah" to talk about spousal abuse.
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Heather Acton, cabinet member for public protection and licensing at Westminster City Council, described the findings as "deeply disturbing", adding it was now apparent that "short-term letting is out of control and occurring on an industrial scale".
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Meanwhile, the president's least favorite Cabinet member, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, told a room full of reporters the Department of Justice was reviewing policies that allow journalists to protect the identity of unnamed sources without going to jail.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Michel Temer sought on Monday to contain a new corruption scandal involving allegations a minister pressured another Cabinet member to allow construction of a luxury high-rise in a historic preservation area of his hometown.
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Putin's intelligence services, according to multiple sources, have been spreading fake news stories attacking Emmanuel Macron, the former Socialist cabinet member and independent candidate who analysts believe is the most likely candidate to face Le Pen in the runoff.
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His most popular cabinet member, Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, is a former investment banker who converted Hollande to supply-side economics and has openly attacked Socialist totems such as the 26-hour week and public sector jobs for life.
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"Take anybody who's been named to the transition team or has been floated as a [cabinet member] and [search for] their name with pornography," said Michael Stabile, the Communications Director for adult industry advocacy group the Free Speech Coalition.
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The short tenure of the designated survivor has an oversize presence in the public imagination: There is a TV series by the same title, about a low-profile cabinet member who suddenly assumes the presidency after a terror attack.
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Never in modern history has a president attacked a Cabinet member as frequently and harshly in public as Trump did Sessions, 71, who had been one of the first members of Congress to back his presidential campaign in 2015.
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The president's decision ended a partnership that soured almost from the start of the administration and degenerated into one of the most acrimonious public standoffs between a commander in chief and a senior cabinet member in modern American history.
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Before the 2015 elections, Mr. Sirisena had been a cabinet member in the government of Mr. Rajapaksa, a former president who had been accused of corruption and human rights violations during the country's long civil war against Tamil separatists.
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If Mr. Ross stands to benefit, albeit indirectly, from a Russian firm controlled by members of Mr. Putin's inner circle, it poses a potential conflict with his role as the lead cabinet member on trade policy, ethics experts said.
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The University of Texas at Austin became the latest institution to remove Confederate monuments in the middle of the night: those of the Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston and the Confederate cabinet member John Reagan.
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A side note: Given the combination of his census exploits, his lies about those exploits and his shady stock trades, Ross may now deserve consideration if my colleague Gail Collins revisits her analysis of the worst Trump Cabinet member.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry took a chartered jet to Ohio last week, according to an airport management company, the day before fellow Cabinet member Tom Price resigned over his use of private charter flights for government business.
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However, his diplomatic skills will get their biggest test on the last leg of his trip when he becomes the first Trump Cabinet member to visit China and seeks to tap the country's perceived leverage over the North Korean regime.
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And while it's not odd for a US administration to cozy up to authoritarian rulers, especially Saudi ones, it's quite jarring to see a US Cabinet member warmly palling around with MBS in the midst of such a huge scandal.
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Andy Burnham (Labour, Leigh, 250-2017) A cabinet member under Brown and a former Labour leadership candidate, Burnham had said he would stand for mayor of the northwestern city of Manchester in May, and resign his seat if he won.
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As President-elect Donald Trump continued to plug away at his transition planning this week, announcing new cabinet member nominations and meeting with Kanye West, incoming first lady Melania Trump was spotted miles away from Trump Tower — in a Maryland courtroom.
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Singapore's media and political analysts have narrowed the list of potential successors down to three most likely candidates - Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung and cabinet member Chan Chun Sing - but there remains no obvious frontrunner.
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"We looked at our Carillion contract and to be honest for now it doesn't quite fit," said Councillor Lorraine Lindsay-Gale, the cabinet member for property of the council, which did not incur any cost in ending the arrangement early.
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Perez has a big fan base among civil rights and progressive groups, and his reputation as the leftmost Cabinet member in the Obama administration might serve as some consolation to Bernie supporters, particularly given his role in the overtime decision.
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" Shizuka Kamei, who lost his sister in Hiroshima and went on to become a powerful, conservative cabinet member, was more direct, telling a group of journalists: "If President Obama's not coming with an apology, he should not come at all.
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This week, Cabinet member Gary Cohn resigned over Trump's push for new tariffs, and 107 Republican lawmakers sent Trump a letter urging him to reconsider the idea (though they asked him to focus on China if he were to push ahead).
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I mean, the President&aposs star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as a Cabinet member&aposs boat, as well as Cabinet members being thrown out of restaurants and the Press Secretary being thrown out of grocery stores.
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In a statement on Wednesday, the government said a task force set up to review the allegations found no indication of a secret pact between former cabinet member Pierre Graber, or any other Swiss representative, and PLO official Farouk Kaddoumi.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE was the highest cabinet member present.
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As a high-profile cabinet member - in a role that has traditionally been shadowed by the secretary of state - Haley's first visit to Central America is also shedding light on U.S. foreign policy for the second year of Trump's administration.
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And while it's nice to see there's a limit to the number of scandals a Cabinet member can accrue before being pushed out, the EPA's course will likely remain antithetical to its mission: Protecting human health and the environment for everyone.
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White House officials saw a fresh opening to sway Trump against Pruitt late last week after the Atlantic published a report accusing a Pruitt aide of trying to spread negative stories about a fellow Cabinet member, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
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The president's propensity to determine which top adviser or Cabinet member is in or out at the drop of a dime, or often the push of a tweet, leaves those working for him in the lurch, fearing the worst could happen.
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That's not a great look for a Cabinet member -- especially one who is leading the charge on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, a move that could lead to billions fewer dollars going to the states to cover health care.
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The party said in a statement that Culture Minister Roberto Freire had already resigned, but its other cabinet member, Defense Minister Raul Jungmann, would stay on for the sake of the country's security at a time of crisis and uncertainty.
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Through hearings or investigative reporting, or more likely, both, it will be interesting to see whether clearer ties between Secretary Zinke and Whitefish Energy emerge, especially now that the Trump administration has already jettisoned one cabinet member with a distracting scandal.
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Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey and a cabinet member in the administration of George W. Bush, said she has long feared the fury that Mr. Trump's words could arouse in his supporters and detractors alike.
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"I'm not going to name names, but a Cabinet member walked up to me at a restaurant in Manhattan — Manhattan, that's a hint — and he goes, 'I gotta tell you something,' " Baldwin said in a Hollywood Reporter interview published Monday.
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The show stars Kiefer Sutherland of "24" fame, who plays a low-level Cabinet member who becomes president of the United States after a catastrophic attack kills everyone above him in the line of succession, according to the International Movie Database.
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Chaotic Trump transition leaks: Debates must tackle how Democrats will govern differently MORE over the controversy surrounding the costs of his travel on charter aircraft is a rare instance of a scandal claiming the job of a presidential Cabinet member.
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A prominent Trump supporter set off alarm bells by citing World War II-era Japanese-American internment camps as a "precedent" for an immigrant registry, and the specter of race shadows Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a possible cabinet member.
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While they can uncover no further evidence that he is taking advantage of that haven for financial shenanigans, they do get a direct hit on his fellow cabinet member Todd Krakow (Danny Strong), the unctuous hedge funder turned treasury secretary.
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Hours after the indictment on Thursday, Riaz Hussain Pirzada, a cabinet member, held a news conference in which he urged Mr. Sharif to hand over the party leadership to his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif, who is chief minister of Punjab Province.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's opposition called on Tuesday for a cabinet member and prominent ruling party figure to clear his name after Australian media reported that he had been jailed for four years on a drugs charge in Australia in the 1990s.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's opposition called on Tuesday for a cabinet member and prominent ruling party figure to clear his name after Australian media reported that he had been jailed for four years on a drugs charge in Australia in the 1990s.
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Credit...Jessica Lehrman for The New York Times The first president to be impeached stood in the way of Reconstruction, fired a Cabinet member without the then-required Senate approval and brought "disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt and reproach" on Congress.
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Secretary of Veterans' Affairs David Shulkin remains the most vulnerable Cabinet member, two officials believe, given the continued focus on his ethics violations and a damning inspector general's report the faulted his spending on a 2017 official trip to Europe.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - A former top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denied on Wednesday inappropriately pressuring a Cabinet member to help a major company as Trudeau planned to address a scandal that is threatening his prospects in an October election.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen became the latest Cabinet member to pay the price for not letting Trump do what he wants -- and on the issue he cares about more than any other -- when she was forced to resign on Sunday.
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Yisrael Beiteinu, led by former Netanyahu cabinet member Avigdor Lieberman, opposes many of the special privileges given to religious Jews under Israeli law — and, in particular, demanded a bill undermining the exemption from mandatory military service provided to ultra-Orthodox men.
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Carson, meanwhile, has been seen as largely ineffective at running a large federal agency, but senior administration officials and others close to the White House say Trump aides harbor reservations about ousting him because he is the only black Cabinet member.
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Nor do they really explain why it's okay for Obama to publicly campaign for Clinton, and for Castro and other Cabinet members to endorse her before the primaries had even started, if Cabinet member speeches at the convention are not kosher.
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The EU trade negotiator said that not even the "pre-negotiation preparations" have been started, and Germany's senior cabinet member warned that the World Trade Organization (WTO) can function without the U.S. — a preemptive strike against Washington's demand for trade and economic reforms.
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But Congressional Republicans argue the move is unnecessarily aggressive and constitutes unsuitable treatment for a sitting Cabinet member who has already released a mostly complete copy of the Mueller report, despite not actually being required to do so by any law or regulation.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A senior British minister suggested on Thursday he could campaign to leave the EU if the bloc failed to meet Prime Minister David Cameron's "demands for change", in one of the strongest criticisms of the bloc from a cabinet member.
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Abdul Razak Dawood, Pakistan's cabinet member for commerce, industry and investment, told the Financial Times in September, that he believes CPEC should be put on hold for a year, adding that Chinese companies in the country held an undue advantage over local firms.
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At a meeting with ministers from his Likud party, Netanyahu acknowledged the meeting took place, though he said it was his own initiative to try and bring about a regional summit, according to a cabinet member present, who declined to be identified.
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A former cabinet member at the heart of a crisis that could cost Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau his job on Friday released documents to back up her case that she had been pressured to help a large corporation avoid a corruption trial.
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It also renewed scrutiny of powerful people who allegedly had sexual encounters in proximity to Epstein and his entourage, and could even force the resignation of former federal prosecutor Alex Acosta, the Trump administration cabinet member critics say helped the financier escape accountability.
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DeVos' hour-stay was closed to the press as only a small group of student journalist and yearbook staff were granted access to follow the Trump Cabinet member as she met with Broward County School representatives, a therapy dog, grief counselors and students.
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This is most eloquently embodied by Uri Savir, an Israeli cabinet member portrayed juicily by Michael Aronov as an exuberant rock-star dignitary, and Ahmed Qurie , the P.L.O. finance minister played with a careful balance of wariness and warmth by Anthony Azizi.
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"I know that he understands the necessity of the party spending time and resources and being physically present in rural areas, not just the month or two before the election, but throughout the year," Vilsack added of his fellow Obama administration Cabinet member.
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In March, The New York Times reported that nine of the top 21 White House and cabinet positions have been emptied and refilled at least once; neither Obama nor Bush had lost a single cabinet member by that point in their administrations.
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London was Mr. Pompeo's first stop on a five-nation tour that includes Ukraine, where he will become the first United States cabinet member to visit the country since President Trump's July phone call with the newly elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
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She became the first truly national female political leader in American history, so famous and respected that Theodore Roosevelt considered naming her to his cabinet if he won the presidency in 1912 (she would have been the country's first female cabinet member).
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Garzon is a card-carrying member of the Spanish Communist Party - one of his books published in 2017 is titled "Why I am a Communist" - and his appointment marks the first time in eight decades that a Communist has become a cabinet member.
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" Brad S. Karp, the chairman of Paul, Weiss, said Mr. Johnson had a track record "as a senior cabinet member responsible for the overall protection of our nation, including many of the most sensitive legal, regulatory and security issues facing our country.
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"No one in my family will have an office in the White House, will sit in on meetings as if they're a cabinet member, will in fact have any business relationship with anyone that relates to a foreign corporation or foreign country," Biden said.
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It is a remarkable rebuke of the president by a sitting Cabinet member: The defiant statement comes after Trump has needled the Justice Department for days over its prosecution of his longtime confidant Stone who was convicted of lying to Congress and witness tampering.
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OTTAWA, March 29 (Reuters) - A former cabinet member at the center of a major crisis facing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday released documents to back up her case that she had been pressured to help a large corporation avoid a corruption trial.
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Why it matters: Not a single cabinet member received more than 50% favorability, with Ben Carson receiving the highest favorability score of 42%, however he had more haters than both John Kelly and James Mattis, which put him in third place for net favorability.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - A former cabinet member at the heart of a crisis that could cost Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau his job on Friday released documents to back up her case that she had been pressured to help a large corporation avoid a corruption trial.
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Chaotic Trump transition leaks: Debates must tackle how Democrats will govern differently MORE said Thursday evening he looks forward to regaining President Trump's trust after Trump said he was not happy about his Cabinet member using pricey private charter jets for official government business.
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BRASILIA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - President Michel Temer has decided his minister in charge of relations with Congress will continue in his post despite allegations he pressed another cabinet member to allow a luxury building in a historic preservation area, a spokesman said on Monday.
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He may be the lone cabinet member to have survived with his status and dignity intact, and in the process his Pentagon — perhaps the one national institution that is still fully functional — has inherited an unusually powerful role in the shaping of American foreign policy.
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He was an ardent foe of the Iraq War within weeks of it being declared; he has longstanding connections to the labor movement and the "Fight for $15" minimum wage campaign; he's widely considered Obama's most liberal Cabinet member; union leaders have loved his work.
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WASHINGTON — Since her confirmation as the education secretary, Betsy DeVos has been the Trump cabinet member liberals love to hate, denouncing her as an out-of-touch, evangelical billionaire without the desire or capacity to protect vulnerable poor, black, immigrant, gay or transgender students.
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Zoltán Kovács, a Cabinet member in Hungary who serves as the government's spokesperson, says the damage is not in the numbers but in Trudeau's message: that the West should welcome asylum seekers, whether or not a given country is the first safe port of call.
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On paper, Peters has more in common with Labour policies, including curbing immigration, and those who know him say that he'd find the option of serving as a high-ranking cabinet member to a relative political newcomer like 37-year-old Ardern an attractive proposition.
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In 1977, when Mr. Sadat decided to go to Jerusalem, his foreign minister, Ismail Fahmy, resigned in protest, as did another cabinet member, the minister of state for foreign affairs, Mohammed Riad, reflecting opposition to the overture in Egypt's dominant Muslim majority and in the Arab world.
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A taste for luxury flight has already taken down one Cabinet member, former health secretary Tom Price, and there are rumblings about the travel choices of others, including Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin.
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Without the limit, Zuckerberg has the opportunity to be appointed or elected to a more significant office and have as much time as he wants to make an impact, rather than just dipping in potentially as a cabinet member whose terms typically last less than two years.
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Abdul Razak Dawood, the Pakistani cabinet member for commerce, industry and investment, suggested that all projects in the $57-billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor program could be eligible for suspension in a review to be conducted this week under the orders of new Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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The Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, which lays out general rules for temporarily filling vacant executive branch positions, could be interpreted as allowing the president to replace Sessions or Rosenstein on an interim basis with a Cabinet member who has already been confirmed by the Senate.
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Until then, a Cabinet member would occasionally join them, but the meals were largely a chance for Trump and Pence to spend time together alone, chatting about politics, policy and whatever popped into Trump's mind -- sometimes prompted by the television in the room tuned to Fox News.
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Many trees planted more than a century ago are coming to the end of their expected lives and are being replaced by saplings, while the roots of others are cracking sidewalks and damaging property, said Bryan Lodge, cabinet member for the environment at Sheffield City Council.
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California's governor spoke to emergency response officials at the State Operations Center late Monday, then told reporters afterword he spoke to a Trump cabinet official about the request for assistance but Brown wouldn't divulge the name of the cabinet member other than to say they had been confirmed.
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If the Trump team is going to follow through on those promised changes, this may have to be one of those cases where the cabinet member charged with carrying out those changes simply has to do what the president demands and keeps his own input to a minimum.
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According to the indictment, Lehel "hacked into the email and social media accounts of high-profile victims, including a family member of two former U.S. presidents, a former U.S. Cabinet member, a former member of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former presidential advisor," the statement said.
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In a March profile, the New York Times magazine called him "the lone cabinet member to have survived with his status and dignity intact," and noted his commitment to maintaining the United States' traditional diplomatic alliances, which, as Mattis highlighted in his letter, Trump does not exactly share.
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No other Cabinet member has an unfavorable rating that high, with the closest being Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE.
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This prime-time drama, which explores what would happen if a lower-level cabinet member (Kiefer Sutherland) suddenly became commander in chief after a huge attack killed the president and all those in the normal line of succession, is back for the second half of its maiden season.
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" Sessions isn't the only Cabinet member who gave testimony that turned out not to be true Sessions had replied: "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I didn't have -- did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it.
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We know he likes to gossip with Trump about his fellow cabinet member (and former GOP senator) Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE.
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I know we're in a new era of relations with Russians seeing as how the country had more influence in the 2016 presidential election than the citizens of Delaware with their whopping 3 electoral college votes but HOW DO A PAIR OF RUSSIAN RAPSCALLIONS GET A CABINET MEMBER ON THE PHONE?
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TOM FITTON, PRESIDENT, JUDICIAL WATCH: I saw her call on people to get a crowd together if you see a cabinet member of the Trump team, if they are at department stores or restaurants or a gas station, get a crowd together, push back and tell them they are not welcome.
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"Not being a cabinet member reinforces the idea that she was probably chosen to help explain the administration policy to external audiences rather than to be a force for policymaking internally," said Ivo Daalder, president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and an ambassador to NATO under Mr. Obama.
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It already has many of the elements of a John Grisham thriller: a cabinet member caught in apparent lies; revelations from a recently deceased Republican operative's computer hard drives discovered by his estranged daughter; a last-minute cliffhanger that may bring the case back to the court even if it rules this week.
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"As Singapore Prime Minister Lee pointed out, the reason bilateral trade deals are so attractive for the USA, is precisely why no one will want to enter into one with the USA: because the USA could bully anyone on a bilateral basis," said the Cabinet member who did not want to be named.
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But they need to be part of a centralized effort commanded by a new cabinet member who will have explicit, unambiguous authority over these programs, now in the hands of many others, and see to it that we effectively treat those who are addicted and prevent the next generation from becoming addicted.
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Joe BartonJoe Linus BartonGOP trading fancy offices, nice views for life in minority Privacy legislation could provide common ground for the newly divided Congress Texas New Members 28500 MORE (R-Texas) suggested that Pruitt is a victim of "Washington politics," where opponents of an administration's policy tend to attack a Cabinet member personally.
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Kerry is the second Obama administration Cabinet member to endorse Biden in the presidential race after former Agriculture Secretary Tom VilsackThomas James VilsackUSDA: Farm-to-school programs help schools serve healthier meals OVERNIGHT MONEY: House poised to pass debt-ceiling bill MORE threw his support behind Biden's White House bid last month.
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Mr. Carson, the retired neurosurgeon-turned-cabinet member, chose a close friend and a comedian — Armstrong Williams and Steve Harvey — to conduct the interview, and with that friendly audience, he was able to avoid any discussion of how he might deal with President Trump's proposal to cut his agency's budget by 13 percent.
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The press call, ostensibly held as a briefing on Facebook's efforts to improve its content moderation practices, became a bid for damage control after the report drew attention to the roles of Zuckerberg and, more critically, Sandberg — a bestselling author who was once seen as a potential Cabinet member for Hillary Clinton.
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While Mr. Trump is inside fielding phone calls from world leaders and conferring with his inner circle, the surrounding sidewalks have become a cacophonous plaza, luring out-of-town visitors, curious New Yorkers, angry protesters and a scrum of reporters craning their necks to spot a potential cabinet member entering or exiting.
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The aides said the administrator — who is the subject of multiple investigations over ethics and other issues, but has been defended by President Trump as a champion of environmental deregulation — had also made it clear that he had no hesitation in leveraging his stature as a cabinet member to solicit favors himself.
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To recap: DeVos sat down with Lesley Stahl of 260 Minutes for an interview that aired Sunday, in which the Cabinet member struggled to answer basic questions, including about the performance of schools in her home state of Michigan and why she rolled back an Obama-era policy on campus sexual assault.
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While the impeachment bid is not expected to gain sufficient backing, Brazil's public prosecutor is already studying whether to investigate the charge by the former minister, Marcelo Calero, that Temer had sided with another Cabinet member who lobbied him to override historic preservation rules for a luxury apartment building in Salvador, Brazil's former colonial capital.
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It added up to a major crisis for a cabinet member who, despite months of criticism over costly first-class travel and other practices, had aggressively helped the otherwise tumultuous Trump administration achieve one of its central goals — the rapid rollback of regulations covering climate change, clean water and the use of chemical pesticides.
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In addition to Mr. Powers, the Enron board included a former federal regulator; a member of the British House of Lords and former British cabinet member; current and former board chairmen and several senior executives of large corporations; the head of a private investment firm; and current and former leaders of a major medical center.
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Rating The first is a surprisingly straightforward story about what would happen if a bomb took out the US Capitol building during the State of the Union address and left the titular "designated survivor" — the Cabinet member who holes up in a secure, undisclosed location in case of an attack on the speech — the president.
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The first First Lady to accept and fail at an important policy role (overseeing an overhaul of the nation's health care system that even a Democratic Congress could not swallow) and the first Cabinet member to list copious airplane travel as one of her primary accomplishments, has moved within striking distance of becoming our nation's first female President.
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REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko Around the country -Billionaire and charter school advocate Betsy DeVos won Senate confirmation as education secretary with a vote from Mike Pence, becoming the first Cabinet member in history to need a the vice president's help to break a tie.. Democrats are concerned she will promote charter schools in a way that would undercut public schools.
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They offer a road map of sorts to the kinds of potential conflict of interest questions that are already emerging as Mr. Giuliani's name is floated as a possible Trump cabinet member, particularly given that Mr. Trump repeatedly mocked Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent, for the many speeches she and her husband gave after they left public office.
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Veterans Affairs Secretary David ShulkinDavid Jonathon ShulkinPress: Acosta, latest to walk the plank Senior Trump administration official to leave post next week Trump sent policy pitch from Mar-a-Lago member to VA secretary: report MORE is rumored to be the next Cabinet member out the door, although the White House has sent mixed messages on his status.
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READ: Colleges are just ignoring Betsy DeVos on campus rape It's not the first time Devos has demonstrated a failure to grasp the basic issues related to education policy in the U.S. She fumbled her own Senate confirmation hearing — so much so that she's the only Cabinet member to ever need a tie-breaking vote from the vice president.
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The site selection was not an accident; it was the first and last time that the location of the national capital was held hostage to the demand of a prospective cabinet member: John Jay agreed to become secretary of state only if the Confederation Congress — the country's governing body in the 1780s — vacated Trenton, N.J., and convened, instead in New York.
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It is a sign of the times that former President Bill Clinton has teamed up with the crime writer James Patterson to pen a White House thriller, while ABC's "Designated Survivor," about a low-level cabinet member who becomes president after the real president and much of the chain of command is killed during an attack on the Capitol, is attracting large audiences.
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Still, Mr. Pruitt's supporters, including some of Mr. Trump's most prominent friends in the coal and oil industries, note that the E.P.A. administrator, perhaps more than any cabinet member, has pushed through a policy agenda that allows Mr. Trump to claim that he is fulfilling a core campaign promise: stripping away regulations that he says stymie the growth of the American economy.
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossTrump administration delays penalty on Huawei for another 90 days WaPo calls Trump admin 'another threat' to endangered species Recession fears surge as stock markets plunge MORE reportedly lost his security detail during a trip to Southampton, N.Y., resulting in his detail handing out business cards at a local restaurant in its search for the Cabinet member.
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They are: • Alice Austen, an L.G.B.T.Q. photographer • Antonia Pantoja, a Puerto Rican educator and community activist • Beverly Sills, an opera soprano • Dorothy Day, a founder of the Catholic Worker movement and newspaper • Frances Perkins, the first female United States cabinet member • Mabel Lee, a suffragist and Chinatown community activist • Shirley Chisholm, the country's first African-American congresswoman and a groundbreaking presidential candidate.
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Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffHouse Republicans voice concerns about White House's impeachment messaging New York Times reporter fact-checks McCarthy on whistleblower claims Republicans seize on reports of whistleblower consulting with Intel Committee MORE (D-Calif.) should be investigated for treason, and whether they believe that any president or Cabinet member should threaten or solicit support from foreign leaders to attack a domestic political opponent.
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It shows a large group of smiling Democratic and Republican colleagues, including the late Congressman John DingellJohn DingellEnergy efficiency cannot be a partisan issue for Washington Polling director: Young voters swayed by health care, economy, gun control McCain and Dingell: Inspiring a stronger Congress MORE, the late Senator Pete Domenici, and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, the lone Democratic Cabinet member of the Bush administration.
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Corey Booker who, while far back in the polls, had an impressive performance at the Detroit debate; former Obama Cabinet member Julián Castro; former Texas Congressman Beto O'RourkeBeto O'RourkeCastro qualifies for next Democratic primary debates 2020 Democrats react to NYPD firing of officer in Garner case: 'Finally' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall MORE, the biggest disappointment of the campaign so far; Colorado Sen.
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It's a dim political reality that led the president to start asking his longtime friends and members of his inner circle earlier this spring if keeping Pence on the ticket was a shrewd decision heading into 2020, when someone like Nikki Haley — the former South Carolina governor and Trump Cabinet member, whose name the president circulated as a possible running mate — could be more effective in courting women and suburban voters.
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For those keeping score at home, the House of Representatives has only impeached 22019 individuals in the history of the Republic — 15 federal judges, one senator, one cabinet member, and two presidents (Andrew Johnson and Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonBen Shapiro: No prominent GOP figure ever questioned Obama's legitimacy The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump tries to reassure voters on economy 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE).
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A Mexican Cabinet member said Wednesday that the country's government is prepared to "talk to the devil" to defend Mexicans in the United States if Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE wins the presidency in November.
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Committee Democrats plan to put a spotlight on one cabinet member who has largely, though not completely, avoided the spotlight: The Republican majority has ignored the fact that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is the most ethically challenged member of the Trump administration — they haven't held any oversight hearings on his tenure, which has featured more than a dozen formal investigations by the DOI inspector general, the Office of Special Counsel and other watchdog agencies.
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"Every Cabinet member serves at the pleasure of the president and it's the president's prerogative to have a team around him that he thinks is doing the job," Shulkin told Fox News on Thursday, acknowledging that Trump "wasn't happy with the pace" at the VA. Shulkin is set to make two more TV appearances Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" and NBC's "Meet the Press," where he's sure to be pressed for details of his dismissal.
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Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE (R-Mt.) promised that the National Park Service's maintenance backlog would be one of his top priorities as a Cabinet member in the incoming Trump administration.
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The 2020 Democratic race started last year with a slate that rivaled a Coca-Cola ad— the first black woman to serve as attorney general of California, the first black (and likely first vegan) senator from New Jersey, a Latino former Obama Cabinet member, an openly gay Midwestern mayor, an Asian American entrepreneur turned philanthropist—but has since dwindled to "two straight white septuagenarian men fighting over the soul of the party," as The New York Times wrote on Wednesday.
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