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He described the stipulation as President Donald Trump's official position.
But, again, church's official position is more permissive than Alabama's.
But, as of Monday, that became the agency's official position.
Medical societies have adopted Medicaid expansion as an official position.
An official position could be released later in the week.
But the CFTC has not yet taken an official position.
NASS has not taken an official position on the bill.
But, the White House has offered no official position yet.
But an undivided capital is not the Trump's Administration's official position.
The White House's official position is that the women are lying.
Her official position is general manager of Microsoft Studios Global Planning.
But all the while, the league's official position remained the same.
The Congressional Black Caucus has taken no official position on impeachment.
The statement is significant because it breaks with the government's official position.
Mr Subramanian's official position meant he could not say that loudly then.
His opinions do not reflect an official position of the National Park Service.
The American Academy of Pediatrics does not have an official position on binding.
Anwar took no official position in Mahathir's administration, but helped to shape policies.
Ankara's official position is for historians to independently evaluate the events of 1915.
This is now the official position of the G-7 and G-20.
Trump's official position is that the emoluments clause does not apply to him.
"You don't have to hold an official position to speak for equity," says Lindsay.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman said it had no official position on Philippe's electoral victory.
In the American system, there is no official position as leader of the opposition.
The White House's official position on the accusations is that the women are lying.
Ukeles has held the official position for 39 years, though it's never been paid.
The group says it won't take an official position until it sees the text.
Last October, the White House said its official position is that those women are lying.
Northwestern University spokeswoman Marla Paul said the school had no official position on the issue.
The opinions contained in Monday's report do not necessarily reflect the central bank's official position.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus took an official position against the measure on Wednesday evening.
That contradicted the official position of his own White House and GOP leaders in Congress.
Their official position was a desire for a unity government with Mr. Netanyahu's party, Likud.
Her official position before becoming queen was as deputy head of the king's personal guard.
Several senators who opposed the last Obamacare repeal effort haven't taken an official position yet.
Israel's official position is that the territory in the West Bank is disputed, not occupied.
For decades, the bank's official position had been to play down or deny its involvement.
A spokesman said Ms. Sandberg's tweet was not the official position of the Sanders campaign.
Furthermore, seeking Shokin's ouster was the official position of the U.S. and the European Union.
Our official position on the unfortunately eventful non-eventness of the event in question, assuming that it did in fact happen and that our perceptions of reality are not in fact a hologram, is that we do not have an official position on it.
The Federalist Society actually does not take an official position on any legislative or confirmation matter.
The president turned to her for advice on state affairs, although she held no official position.
So, after some fraught internal discussions, it decided to take no official position on I-20182.
His office says there is "no official position" on whether he will stand again for president.
The network's official position, taken Sunday with no caveats, was that Trump's immigration ban was anathema.
Why it matters: Tillerson's rhetoric doesn't line up with the official position of the White House.
It is our government's official position that North Korea should not proceed with such provocative acts.
Her official position is that she will vote for Mr Trump, but she isn't endorsing him.
Currently, the IOC's official position is that the Olympics will begin on July 24, as scheduled.
Iraq's official position is that there are no U.S. bases on its soil, only American instructors.
" The White House noted that the president "has not taken an official position on settlement activity.
Chinese state media also emphasized the official position that trade disputes should be resolved through discussions.
The views in this article are not intended to reflect the official position of the organization.
With no official position within this administration, where is the proof of her "need to know"?
They do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Without enough of its members agreeing on a position the caucus will not take an official position.
The American Hospital Association, an industry trade group, has taken no official position on medical debt lawsuits.
Last year she was the first woman to be offered an official position in the village assembly.
The opinions contained in the report did not necessarily reflect the official position of the central bank.
After meeting with Rouhani, Putin showed support for Iran's official position of noninvolvement in the Saudi attacks.
There is no indication that these proposals are supported by the Iranian government as an official position.
Many Labour lawmakers criticized their leader's view, which is in contrast with the party's official position on Trident.
The official position of the Justice Department is we don&apost charge a sitting president with a crime.
Kong said China did not believe India had changed its official position that Tibet is part of China.
The Freedom Caucus, he said, would meet Wednesday to take an official position on the tax-reform proposal.
And then there was Marguerite LeHand, whose official position was personal secretary to the president, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Federal ethics regulations say that an employee cannot accept any gifts given because of the employee's official position.
Mr. Smith said he supported the Trump proposal, though the Tax Foundation had not taken an official position.
Pacolli claims the document has no legal standing and says the CAR has not changed its official position.
Apple's official position is that it builds products so that the user is the only one with the key.
That almost seems to be the official position I have heard from not all, but many on the left.
And by way -- by the way, no person an official position has come out and just told this story.
Following that testimony on the eve of Trump's inauguration, Burnett asked Brown for his official position on the nominee.
The Bureau's official position is that they are still fact-gathering, though they are not calling it an investigation.
Rally participant Eugenia Sarrigiannidou says she hopes the protest will harden Greece&aposs official position in negotiations with Macedonia.
Huberfeld no longer had an official position at Platinum at the time, but Bell said he still wielded influence.
But her attorney said she will not have an official position in the White House or get a salary.
The candidate told us people have twisted his words, because his official position simply isn't that cut and dry.
It also instructed members not to "directly or indirectly" contradict the official position if they talk to Vatican investigators.
The American Medical Association and the National Association of Medical Examiners say they have no official position on it.
"She can lob attacks on her own time but not using her official position," he added in another tweet.
Think about it — the DOJ's official position is that Trump criminally misled American voters to secure an electoral advantage.
And she made it clear that she has no plans to cease abusing her official position to influence voters.
During the 2016 campaign, McCrory's official position was that if Charlotte repealed its ordinance, HB2 could be repealed too.
To be clear, my official position on video games in my own house is hostile and can involve shouting.
The role doesn't have to change or doesn't have to end when you're no longer in the official position.
The comment appeared to be at odds with the White House's official position, which was supportive of the measure.
The monthly report on macroeconomic and market trends said its views may differ from the central bank's official position.
Its official "position on climate change" is: The risk of climate change is clear and the risk warrants action.
The MMM conversation has been extended to churches, where the official position varies from one place of worship to another.
In Philadelphia, the department's official position is that the Lichterman controversy was a matter of tattoo exhibition and nothing more.
China's courts have set few reliable precedents on VIEs and the official position is one of toleration rather than approval.
Also, it is the White House's official position that all the women accusing the president of sexual misconduct are liars.
It will become the EU's official position if none of the 28 member states raise formal objections by 1200 GMT.
The views in this article are not intended to reflect the official position of the organization View the discussion thread.
Trump has denied the reports and the White House has said its official position is that the women are lying.
In the meantime the state has consolidated its official position as one of the country's most dangerous places for women.
In 1967, Mr. Chau left his official position and successfully ran for a seat in the South Vietnamese National Assembly.
Mr. Lawson, of the F.B.I.'s cyber division, said the bureau's official position was that victims should not pay ransoms.
AANA's official position statement, A Holistic Approach to Pain Management: Integrated, Multimodal, and Interdisciplinary Treatment, was published in July 2016.
Trump has denied the reports, and the White House has said its official position is that the women are lying.
While it was not a formal government statement, commentators in North Korea do not depart from the government's official position.
Trump has denied all of the allegations, and the White House's official position is that all the women are lying.
Trump's announcement is a near-total reversal by the president of the official position his White House has taken so far.
It is the government's official position that that is not constitutional and instead the correct solution would be impeachment by Congress.
And it appears to contradict the Trump Administration's official position that they only intend to withhold discretionary funding to sanctuary cities.
And while she doesn't have an official position in Trump's White House, she is considered a powerful influence on her father.
Because I was appointed by the Secretary but not reconfirmed by the Senate, my official position was Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.
Mr. Quitain said that Mr. Duterte had made the remark "off the cuff" and that it didn't reflect his official position.
Mr. Shwe Mann now has no official position, other than as head of a new political party with a skeletal membership.
U.S. Figure Skating later released a statement clarifying that those comments expressed Auxier's personal views and not the federation's official position.
The government will announce its official position following a meeting of the National Security Council later on Monday, Abdul Mahdi said.
And the conservative House Freedom Caucus announced on Wednesday night that its "official position" would be to oppose the caps deal.
Because I was appointed by the Secretary but not reconfirmed by the Senate, my official position was Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.
The White House has said its official position is that the women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct are lying.
Though she never held an official position, revelations showed that Choi was also given advance access to presidential speeches and other documents.
Although she promised to abide by all ethics rules in her unofficial role, an official position legally holds her to ethics standards.
The Legends Football League -- made up of women playing in lingerie -- have taken an official position on the national anthem ... "WE STAND"!
"The Russian market looks confident compared to other countries," the analysts, whose comments do not reflect the central bank's official position, wrote.
Mulvaney further clarified that Trump's tweet demanding a vote on health care before any other legislation was the White House's official position.
Revelations about the draft statement add yet another layer to questions about whether the president used his official position for personal gain.
Such acts could also be prohibited under the Hatch Act, which bars the use of an official position to influence an election.
"The OIG concludes that Ms. Gosling gave a gift of the Wimbledon tickets because of Secretary Shulkin's official position," the report states.
"The Saudi foreign minister said these statements do not reflect the official position of the kingdom towards brotherly Iraq," the statement said.
We at Refinery29 take no official position on who should win, but let's just say we're also all for girl power around here.
The phone call triggered a whistleblower complaint alleging Trump tried to use his official position to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election.
The CBI and Enforcement Directorate - India's financial crime fighting agency - have alleged that Chidambaram abused his official position while he was finance minister.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in October that the administration's official position on these women is that they are lying.
But though the official position was "settlements are bad," every US president since the Oslo process began basically carving out loopholes for Israel.
The official position of the Clinton campaign was that spreading the photos wasn't racist, and in fact objecting was the really racist response.
Though she never held an official position, revelations showed that Choi Soon-sil was given advance access to presidential speeches and other documents.
Trump has denied all of the allegations and the White House has said its official position is that all the women were lying.
Her family and employer have always insisted she was visiting family on vacation, which is also the official position of the British government.
ATF spokesman Brad Engelbert told USA Today that the emails reflect individual personal opinions, and are not the official position of the ATF.
The White House did not respond to a request for clarification about the Kushner's nor the White House's official position on sentencing reform.
Trump has denied the allegations and the White House has said its official position is that the women are not telling the truth.
He reiterated that the official position of the government, often labeled eurosceptic, did not put under discussion Italy's membership to the euro zone.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer Thursday did not provide an official position on the border-adjustment tax when asked by a reporter.
As second lady, Karen Pence occupies a quasi-official position with an office staffed by federal workers and a robust presence at WhiteHouse.gov.
Trump has denied all of the allegations, and the White House has said its official position is that all the women are lying.
All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the CIA.
It is unclear if the entire Freedom Caucus will take an official position, which would require support from 80 percent of its members.
If, however, you're wondering what the official position might be, we actually talked to For Honor creative director Jason VandenBerghe about this very topic.
There was little change in the official position of the two countries on Ukraine, Iran or Syria, and no breakthrough on nuclear-arms reduction.
Van Geenhuizen said RDW was considering the matter internally and would make its official position known - if it decides to issue one - on Tuesday.
Despite being bullish on the future of the US' official position on the matter, Trump eventually reneged and committed to the decades-long policy.
Since the first lady is not an official position, a president can assign the role to another person, even if they're not romantic partners.
While his group hasn't an official position on Trump's recent remarks, he said it doesn't believe it will cause lasting damage to the cause.
A nursing college graduate, Ms. Sineenat had enjoyed her official position, which is separate from that of wife, for only a matter of weeks.
She co-wrote this OpEd in her personal capacity; the opinions expressed here are hers and do not reflect the official position of CIRI.
However, it triggered an intelligence community whistleblower complaint alleging that the president used his official position to solicit foreign interference in the upcoming election.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus, a gang of roughly 30 conservative members, announced that its official position would be to oppose the funding deal.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family and employer have always insisted she was visiting family on vacation, which is also the official position of the British government.
Darrell Issa would not reveal his official position on eliminating the deduction but tells The Hill that it all comes down to the details.
Arquímedes, though he is proud of his government connections (and adept at exploiting them), has neither an official position nor any particular ideological commitment.
The office had sent a lawyer to monitor at least one hearing in Pursglove's lawsuit, but had taken no official position on her claims.
The whistleblower complaint, which Trump has dismissed as inaccurate, alleged that Trump used his official position to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election.
The phone call triggered an intelligence community whistleblower complaint alleging Trump was using his official position to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election.
The Freedom Caucus has not taken an official position on the bill, but caucus spokeswoman Alyssa Farah said one could come in the future.
"Such acts could also be prohibited under the Hatch Act, which bars the use of an official position to influence an election," he added.
It's unclear, however, whether this proposal is an official position of French President Emmanuel Macron's new government, and if so, how it will be implemented.
Until this week, Facebook's official position was that the company was unaware of any cases of Russian agents buying ads designed to influence US politics.
Telegram's official position is that it technically can't hand over encryption keys because they are stored on individual users' devices, not in a central location.
The FT said that after an emergency board meeting on Friday Longworth was suspended for breaching the BCC's official position of neutrality on the issue.
So far, Mr. Carter and the White House have not taken an official position on the matter, nor has Hillary Clinton, a Democratic presidential contender.
Many thus require generals to purchase their stars as a down-payment on loyalty, in return for license to exploit their official position for profit.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-North Carolina, said his group hasn't taken an official position on the budget or the spending bill yet.
"We are still waiting for North Korea's official position," Moon Sang-gyun, a spokesman for the South Korean Defense Ministry, said at a Thursday briefing.
The Freedom Caucus took an official position Tuesday urging Congress to cancel the August recess to work on tax reform and other issues of importance.
The conservative caucus met Tuesday night, where the group of roughly 30 hard-liners took an official position that Rosenstein should testify or else resign.
Biden represented the US's official position on the matter, one that was shared by most of the West as well as the International Monetary Fund.
However, Radha Stirling -- the CEO of UK-based advocacy group Detained in Dubai -- accused Robinson's account of being too similar to the emirate's official position.
Nevertheless I think it is important to make your voice heard, even — indeed, especially — if it's the FCC's official position that your voice doesn't matter.
Just last week, he fired Owen Smith, his Northern Ireland secretary, after Smith broke with Labour's official position and called for a second Brexit referendum.
Britain is supposed to submit its official position on the Brexit deal to the EU, after having voted on it in Parliament, by Jan. 21.
Mr. Skelos, 70, and Adam Skelos, 123, are accused in an eight-count indictment of operating "a corrupt scheme to monetize" the senator's official position.
The whistleblower raised concerns that Trump was using his official position to solicit foreign interference in a U.S. election in raising Biden on the call.
Specifically, Democrats laid out that Biden was representing the US's official position when he demanded Shokin's dismissal, given that Shoken was widely accused of corruption.
It is far from the first time that questions have been raised about how Trump is using his official position to benefit his business interests.
The 102-page indictment released Friday said Joyce's objective was to "secretly profit" from his official position, where he'd served nine consecutive terms since 1998.
The 0893-page indictment released Friday said Joyce's objective was to "secretly profit" from his official position, where he'd served nine consecutive terms since 1998.
"The responsibility for representing the official position of the city in court is vested in the Corporation Counsel," a Law Department spokesman said in a statement.
He was arrested in Moscow and faces up to 10 years in prison if he is convicted of using his official position to steal state property.
If Kushner takes an official position in the administration — and he's hired lawyers who say he could, despite anti-nepotism laws — he will be more constrained.
While Prince Turki holds no official position, his presence suggests Saudi Arabia has crossed a line in terms of willingness to publicly support Iranian opposition groups.
They argue their religious speech should be protected because it comes from a group of individual employees and is not the official position of the agency.
Taking its first official position on potential Brexit movers, the European Banking Authority warned against granting banks a foothold in the EU with letterbox-style operations.
Trump has denied all of the allegations, and the White House has said its official position on the accusations is that all the women are lying.
His often impulsive Twitter blasts can upend negotiations and shift the focus of events, sometimes at odds with the official position of his own White House.
That eight-page missive established the White House's official position of refusing to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry, which persisted throughout the House's months-long proceeding.
The House Freedom Caucus, a band of roughly 30 conservative hard-liners, slammed the proposal as fiscally irresponsible and took an official position against the package.
Glencore's official position has not changed since a presentation in Miami in May when it said it expected to complete asset sales in the second quarter.
Death, dynasties and disaster in the Blue House Corruption scandal Despite never holding an official position, Choi was given advance access to presidential speeches and other documents.
"We want trading rules that set up a level playing field," Drake said, adding that the AFL-CIO hadn't yet taken an official position on the deal.
These views expressed here are the author's alone and do not represent the official position of the Navy, the U.S. Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.
The individuals accused in the case face charges of "abuse of official position and criminal conspiracy in giving illegal approval," a CBI official told reporters last month.
He also was found guilty of illegally obtaining a large amount of state secrets and using his official position to help others get promoted and acquire houses.
"Our official position is that it is not in the budget," Amir Abu-El-Hawa, a member of the family that owns the restaurant, told the publication.
Tonight the Freedom Caucus took an official position that Rod Rosenstein needs to come testify before the Judiciary committee within the week or he needs to resign.
The White House announced Tuesday that Ivanka Trump will be taking on a larger advisory role within her father's administration but will not have an official position.
The White House's official position on the women who accused President Trump of sexual harassment is that they are lying, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders affirmed Friday.
The official position of the US government is that North Korea's nuclear program is unacceptable and that Pyongyang has to give up all of its nuclear weapons.
The Kremlin's official position — that Russia never messed with the American politics — means that hardly anyone on the Russian side is willing to discuss the issue, either.
He was promoting the US's official position when he called for Shokin's ouster, as well as that of the entire western world, including the International Monetary Fund.
Mendelson did say that White's words were "inappropriate" but never returned my call concerning why the D.C. council did not take an official position on this matter.
This isn't the first time Conway has been formally cited for using her official position to make an endorsement that she is not allowed to, by law.
The White House's official position on the women who accused Trump of sexual harassment is that they are lying, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said last month.
Trump has denied the accusations and the White House has maintained that their official position on the matter is that all of the president's accusers were lying.
His work for multiple different Trump entities had previously alarmed some campaign finance lawyers, and an official position within the campaign would draw more attention to those concerns.
The city's official position is that Lyft misunderstands the terms of its contract with the regional Bay Area MTC, and San Francisco refused to enter dispute-resolution process.
But the organization's official position appears to be that the threats can be managed and minimized due in part to Huawei's involvement centering on "non-core" network infrastructure.
Or how about this other Brexit pledge, from the leaflet setting out the government's official position, which was sent to every single British household ahead of the referendum.
Thus, Ivanka's partisan Twitter activity can easily be read as that of a government employee, albeit an unpaid one, using her official position to promote political campaign issues.
The American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry's biggest trade group, meanwhile, issued a statement saying it had never taken an official position on the Paris accord.
The White House has not issued an official position on the bill and spokesmen have been careful with their language, stopping short of issuing a full veto threat.
Gohmert said he thinks Comey ruined his own credibility and said Lynch was using her official position to help the campaign of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the co-chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, told reporters that the conservative group would not be taking an official position on the legislation.
But Amnesty criticized Suu Kyi for not using the power she does have in her official position as State Counselor to enact reforms that would benefit human rights.
And Sanders herself, from the White House podium, has said that Trump's official position is that the women who accused him of sexually inappropriate conduct are simply lying.
The White House is pushing back against allegations that a tweet from a top Trump aide violated longstanding prohibition on using an official position to influence an election.
While my official position remains administrative in title and description, I have taken over most of the high-level responsibilities for one of the departments my supervisor oversees.
Mulvaney said that he, personally, thought an increase in the debt ceiling should be paired with spending cuts and that the administration doesn't yet have an official position.
"It is not the official position of the I.R.S." A Treasury spokeswoman said that neither Mr. Mnuchin nor the department's leadership team was previously aware of the memo.
I guess the official position of the DCCC is that Ossoff's decision not to live in the district should be replicated by all aspiring or incumbent Democratic Congressmen.
Kate McCord, associate director of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group, said the organization had not taken an official position on parole.
Republicans largely backed the plan, though the House Freedom Caucus, which consists of roughly 30 conservative members, took an official position against the package because of fiscal concerns.
Labour lawmakers voted against him in a confidence vote, citing, among other things, his failure to do enough to promote Remain, Labour's official position in the 2016 referendum.
Mark Meadows, the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said the group will not take an official position on the vote until they get more reassurances from leadership.
Despite the claims from lawmakers, the Freedom Caucus still has not taken an official position on House leadership's bill as a unit, just individual members have expressed their opposition.
It has been noted, however, that the U.K. should submit its official position on the Brexit deal (that it, after a vote in the House) by January 21, 2019.
But secondly, and more importantly, a vote on this issue forces everyone in Congress to take an official position on net neutrality and the FCC's choice to dismantle it.
Rudy Giuliani is, of course, Trump's personal lawyer, who has no official position in the government but whom these State officials seem to be working with or even for.
In his report, Mueller cited complicated and unresolved legal issues with that decision, such as the government's official position that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime.
Details: The memo was reportedly penned last fall by a lawyer in the Office of Chief Counsel and is not reflective of the agency's "official position," per the Post.
NEWS: Freedom Caucus announces official position of support for AHCA with MacArthur amendment included But it isn't clear if they alone deliver enough votes for the bill to pass.
He said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had told him the Kurdish insurgents could not be trusted, in what Cavusoglu said was a departure from Washington's official position.
The UK government was due to announce its official position on allowing Huawei's equipment into the country's 5G networks on Monday, but instead it decided to postpone the judgement.
The views expressed here are his and do not reflect the official position of the United States Air Force Academy, Department of the Air Force or Department of Defense.
Meadows could not say how many members were in the meeting but there were "enough for an official position" and that not one person spoke up with any doubts.
Calhoun's contract as a special adviser at UConn doesn't expire until March, so for now his official position here is "consultant," but unofficially he is the program's head coach.
But economists say patchy growth and worries about a global slowdown could eventually force the government to reverse its official position and avoid placing an extra burden on households.
Official position: US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said there's a chance trading hours could be shortened, but that there's consensus right now that the markets should stay open.
The views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the United States Military Academy, Department of the Army, or Department of Defense.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tweets by U.S. President Donald Trump are viewed in Moscow as his official position and read by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
Trump's rejection of South Korea easing sanctions alone outlines the official position of the United States and South Korea that the two countries remain in lockstep on North Korea.
The Rohingya are a stateless ethnic minority who regularly face persecution -- the official position of Myanmar's government doesn't recognize the term "Rohingya" and instead says they are illegal Bengali migrants.
Moreover, Biden was representing the US's official position, as well as that of the rest of the Western world and financial institutions, when he demanded Shokin be fired for corruption.
Of course, Metta said he'd be down ... but seemed more excited about the idea of Drake taking over the role, since he already has an official position with the team.
"The post is not the official position of the US Army," the statement added, saying that the employee responsible has had their access to the Army's social media account suspended.
And perhaps more surprisingly, Harbin said Americans for Prosperity was not lobbying Trump directly -- only as part of an "ongoing conversation" -- even though the White House's official position is uncertain.
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway was also rebuked in February for violating federal ethics regulations by using her official position to promote Ivanka Trump products, according to the group.
" Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, tweeted: "Official position of the leadership of the Republican Party: Trump is an inexcusable bigot, and Trump must be our next president.
Though he has embraced the goal of a two-state solution for the Israelis and the Palestinians — the official position of the current government — he has been at best lukewarm.
Many conservatives are still furious with AAN for the round of ads they ran in early 2015 — though the Freedom Caucus did not take an official position on the matter.
Meadows said that the while his group has not come out with an official position yet, the House Freedom Caucus will meet Tuesday night following a conference-wide GOP meeting.
"Raphael Sanchez betrayed that solemn responsibility and abused his official position to prey upon aliens for his own personal gain," Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan said in a statement.
Republican lawmakers have asked the Trump administration since last summer for its official position on the bill, and to date they haven't gotten an answer, according to a spokesperson for Sen.
Beijing views Taiwan as a renegade province and it has been the official position of the United States since 1979 that the government in Beijing is the sole government of China.
Shu has flirted with selling the company and some say he would accept an offer at the right price, even though his official position is that Deliveroo is not for sale.
"With regard to measures undertaken by the FBI, I've read in the media but have not been informed of anything official and I can't express an official position," Jubeir told reporters.
"China always considers this a scientific question, which should be addressed in a scientific and professional manner," he said, avoiding questions on whether Zhao's tweet represented the Chinese government's official position.
"China always considers this a scientific question, which should be addressed in a scientific and professional manner," he said, avoiding questions on whether Zhao's tweet represented the Chinese government's official position.
A spokesman for the Sierra Club declined to comment on the record about their official position, which is that they wouldn't support a trade of EPA regulation for a carbon tax.
The official position of the Trump administration, like that of its predecessors, is that North Korea's nuclear program is unacceptable and that Pyongyang has to give up all its nuclear weapons.
WASHINGTON — President Trump is once again pursuing a national security strategy at odds with the official position of his government, ordering a pullback of American forces just inside the Syrian border.
Speaking in an interview with broadcaster A Haber, Erdogan said Turkey would announce its official position on the referendum after its National Security Council and cabinet have convened on Sept. 22.
But Earnest said he is not aware of "any official position that I can articulate from the White House" on the incident, adding he hasn't heard the president comment on it.
Trump as a standard bearer for global anti-corruption measures would be an international embarrassment to the U.S. The use of an official position in government for personal gain is corruption.
The House Freedom Caucus, a band of roughly 30 conservative hard-liners, took an official position against the package on Wednesday evening, after revolting against the measure earlier in the day.
President Trump appears to be using his official position as President to coerce the Ukrainian President to investigate possibly false corruption claims in an attempt to smear his Democratic political rival.
The IMF said in an emailed statement on Friday that the views of the executive director for Sri Lanka represent the country's authorities and are different from the fund's official position.
But as MAGA-hatted tourists outside the Trump Hotel in Washington tell me every time I ask them about it, they believe everyone in DC is profiting from their official position.
The campaign's official position is that their primary focus is going after Joe Biden, as Sanders's pollster Ben Tulchin told Huffpost, sharing a text message script aimed at persuading Biden voters.
And Orient noted that just because a study or editorial is published in the AAPS's journal does not mean that it represents the official position of the organization, or its members.
The "official position" is that Woodard murdered both children; they're going after a posthumous conviction and that's that, despite Hays (Mahershala) voicing his objections about how little sense any of this makes.
The 250-year-old became politically active in his 21972s and had been a so-called "backbencher" — an MP without an official position in the government or the opposition parties — since 211.
" Berman pressed Pierson on whether her comments on Ryan's speakership reflected the official position of the Trump, but she responded, "(Trump and Ryan) are going to meet next week, let's find out.
"Our official position is such: We are developing an interactive information project together with foreign investors," Levik said prior to his dismissal, in a Skype chat obtained under freedom of information laws.
The House Freedom Caucus, known for bucking Republican leadership on legislation including healthcare, has taken an official position on the traditional five-week break Congress takes from Washington: They don't want it.
Berlin has said it is looking for an alternative base for its forces to Incirlik, and that Jordan is an option, but Erdogan said Germany had not made its official position clear.
The official position is that religious soldiers can always serve in their own separate formations, and that decisions to allow women to serve in combat are made according to strictly operational considerations.
While all three economists are part of the Fed's research team, it is important to note that the paper is not to be interpreted as the official position of the Federal Reserve.
Shu has flirted with selling the company and sources speculated that he would accept an offer at the right price, even though his official position is that Deliveroo is not for sale.
"The forces involved in the nuclear mission should be exercised openly and regularly, without undermining their specific nature," said the magazine, which the alliance said did not necessarily reflect its official position.
Ryan will need to rely on dozens of Democrats after the House Freedom Caucus, which consists of roughly 28503 conservative members, took an official position against the package because of fiscal concerns.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump's 28-year-old personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, who had worked directly under him since his presidency began, left her official position as director of Oval Office operations.
In fact, the Justice Department's official position is that the Civil Rights Act should not be construed to protect LGBT individuals, and they filed a brief asserting so in the Zarda case.
Bill Shorten, the leader of the opposition Labor Party, who is also supportive of Israel, is facing pressure to declare his party's official position as backing recognition of a state of Palestine.
Despite Beijing's strict official position on the issue, Greenpeace last month said almost all samples taken from cornfields in some parts of the north-east, China's breadbasket, tested positive for GMO contamination.
When the more or less official position of your party is that climate change is a hoax and evolution never happened, you won't get much support from people who take evidence seriously.
YouTube's official position regarding Crowder is confusing and difficult to parse, but it has major implications for YouTube's many communities, especially those consisting of marginalized creators who are often subject to abuse.
Less than a year ago, Hillary Clinton and Sanders were sparring on the campaign trail about whether $15 an hour was impractically high; Clinton's official position embraced a $12 federal minimum wage.
The official position of the Trump administration is that any unauthorized immigrant in the US should be "looking over [her] shoulder" and worried that ICE will come after her at any time.
Despite the shift, the White House said it hadn't taken an official position on Israeli settlements, saying it would wait until Trump meets with Netanyahu later this month to formally develop a position.
Park Geun-hye, the conservative president, has admitted that she turned to an old friend, Choi Soon-sil, for advice on matters of state, even though she had no official position in government.
In a normal presidential administration, statements from the national security adviser, the secretary of state, or the president would all be viewed as articulations of the official position of the United States government.
At present it is difficult to imagine the party doing enough to make a difference—not least because it has yet to abandon its official position that some population-control measures remain essential.
" This week he put it this way: "The official position of Russian authorities - the government, president, all of us -- is that there's no place and can't be any place for doping in sports.
Until then, the Basel III committee is not aware of the official position from the U.S. President Trump has said that banking regulation does not allow lending to the economy to take place.
Bill Flores, who represents Texas's 17th Congressional District, said he thinks the President's best move is to remove all of his children from his administration, whether they hold an official position or not.
The Democratic Alliance (DA), the largest opposition party, in April complained that Dlamini-Zuma is enjoying protection services afforded to visiting heads of state or elected representatives, while she holds no official position.
"  J. Michael Cole, writing in May 220006 in The Diplomat, says, "However, one thing that is certain ... Washington does not recognize the 2202 Consensus – its official position is that it has 'no position.
As a regular participant on energy industry calls with the Romney campaign, I dutifully called headquarters for the official position and was told that the campaign supported free-market competition for renewable energy.
"Embassy should avoid taking any official position on validity of Alan's claim to be son of George Gershwin," said a State Department memo from 1973 signed by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.
Giuliani's efforts, as well as Trump's call with Zelensky, formed the basis for an intelligence community whistleblower complaint alleging Trump was using his official position to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election.
In his last official position, as chairman of President Barack Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, he persuaded lawmakers to impose new restrictions on big banks — a controversial measure known as the Volcker Rule.
The arrangement the White House initially announced appeared to defy Justice Department legal opinions that said advisers either had to have an official position or be informal and outside the White House operation.
Peña Nieto's office released a statement on Friday afternoon announcing that the president will be "presenting Mexico's official position," at the special session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
Kushner is expected to present the comprehensive plan next week to President Donald Trump, who will decide whether to adopt it as his official position or send it back for changes, the sources said.
"The Trump administration has not taken an official position on settlement activity and looks forward to continuing discussions, including with Prime Minister Netanyahu when he visits with President Trump later this month," Spicer said.
The individuals accused in the case face charges of "abuse of official position and criminal conspiracy in giving illegal approval," an official of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told reporters at a briefing.
The company's official position on content moderation remains political neutrality, a spokeswoman told me in an email: Google is committed to free expression — supporting the free flow of ideas is core to our mission.
The future The official position of the Djibouti government may do little to reassure skeptics who believe China's investment program is a front for a more sinister motive of establishing a military footprint worldwide.
Though Cook's letter inspired impassioned responses on both sides, tech companies so far appear to be reluctant to take an official position on the mater — even those that have previously advocated for strong encryption.
Mr. Mackie, the director of the Office of Tax Analysis, had no official position on the estimates but told the inspector general that they are "widely considered to be reasonable," according to the report.
And with Trump in charge — a man who has no shame whatsoever and is willing to viciously insult anyone who gets in his way — that's essentially become the official position of the Republican Party.
By taking advantage of his official position, the lawsuit said, Mr. Trump violated clauses of the Constitution that prohibit a president from accepting any government-bestowed benefits, or emoluments, either at home or abroad.
The White House and Cabinet members denied the report, but continued to place an asterisk on the official position: that the United States could remain a party to the deal under the right terms.
In previous budgets, the White House's official position on replacing the Affordable Care Act was a legislative proposal co-sponsored by Senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both Republicans.
While Israel regards Jerusalem as its capital, the official position of most countries is that Jerusalem's status must be determined through negotiations as part of a broader agreement between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's federal police have charged former finance minister P. Chidambaram with abuse of his official position and criminal conspiracy over the approval of a telecoms deal in 2006, they said on Thursday.
"In responding to a journalist's question about the 2016 election, I offered my opinion to the interviewer after making it clear that I was articulating my personal view and not an official position," Castro wrote.
Trump (who does not have an official position in the Trump White House) sat in Row F between Nikki R. Haley, her father's ambassador to the UN, and Trudeau, according to The New York Times.
The FTC official position has been, at least in years' past, that any future data security legislation needs to simplify its rulemaking process, so as not to immediately hamstring the agency's ability to enforce it.
Korea's national assembly voted overwhelmingly to impeach Park on Friday, following six weeks of large-scale protests over allegations that she was improperly influenced by a friend, Choi Soon-sil, who held no official position.
"I expect them to be in the bill but I am not supporting them...Most in the Freedom Caucus would vote against CSR's," Meadows told me, adding that the caucus has taken no official position.
One of the women had regularly lobbied Mr. Silver on behalf of clients with business before the state; he had "used his official position," prosecutors said, to help the other woman get a state job.
However, it continues to hold off on setting an official position on whether to allow or ban Huawei from supplying the country's next-gen networks — as the U.S. has been pressurizing its allies to do.
"Official position: HFC calls for House to stay in session through the weekend and next week, instead of gaveling out and taking a break," the House Freedom Caucus said in a statement posted to Twitter.
But the House Freedom Caucus, a band of roughly 30 conservative hard-liners, took an official position against the package on Wednesday evening after revolting against the measure earlier in the day over fiscal concerns.
Callimachi: Eventually, I got a hold of people in the ministry that is in charge of dealing with people like Huzayfah, and they said that their official position is not to comment on ongoing investigations.
Crimea: The provision preventing the United States from recognizing Russia's sovereignty over Crimea was one of several Trump said dictates the official position of the United States despite the fact that is the president's authority.
Political analysts believe the motion to investigate secession will be passed by a majority of the 500 conference attendees this weekend, at which point it would become the official position of the state's Liberal Party.
The Justice Department's involvement in this affair is striking for another reason: It is the department's official position that Mr. Trump cannot be indicted on a charge of obstruction of justice as a sitting president.
Independent blog pioneers were accused of being "cyber-mercenaries" who were trained by the Central Intelligence Agency, and a project called Operation Truth began at Cuba's University of Information Sciences to back the official position.
BRUSSELS, April 10 (Reuters) - France and Italy are divided over policy towards Libya despite the official position of EU unity stated by the bloc's foreign policy chief, the head of the European Parliament said on Wednesday.
When he called for Shokin to be fired, Biden represented the US's official position on the matter, one that was shared by many other Western governments and anticorruption activists in Ukraine, according to The Associated Press.
The statement added that the Trump administration had not yet taken an official position on the settlements issue, and would discuss the matter further with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting later this month.
Substantively, while Michael Cohen never held an official position on the campaign team, his guilty plea reportedly says he acted at the direction of a candidate (presumably Donald Trump) with the purpose of influencing the election.
The protesters are calling for Park's resignation after it was revealed that she shared secret documents with her longtime advisor Choi Soon-sil, even though the religious leader didn't hold an official position in the government.
Reuters reported on Wednesday that Ramírez has been stripped of his ambassador title, but that hasn't yet been confirmed by the government itself and analysts are unsure of what his official position is at this moment.
"Raphael Sanchez betrayed that solemn responsibility and abused his official position to prey upon aliens for his own personal gain," John P. Cronan, the acting assistant attorney in the department's criminal division, said in a statement.
Getting compensation from the state for ruined housing is nearly impossible: Ukraine's official position, also set in law, is that since Russia is to blame for the war, all complaints should be addressed across the border.
"There should be a very strong reluctance to bring a presidential candidate who has no official position right now before the committee without a really strong basis, and I see no basis right now," he said.
NASA is one of the lead federal agencies in observation and science of the atmosphere and the climate, and its official position is that human activity, via greenhouse gases, is the main cause of climate change.
She also claimed her husband never used his official position at the FBI to bolster her candidacy, but the facts show he used his official FBI email to encourage friendly FBI colleagues to show their support.
He urged the commission, which includes medical and drug treatment experts, as well as the heads of various state departments, to take an official position opposing the legislation, which it did at its meeting last month.
The study, which does not portray the bank's official position, estimated that a 1 percent rise in the dollar against the real would add 0.1035 percentage points to inflation in the long term in times of crisis.
The opposition Labour Party has yet to reveal its official position if a vote were held, but a third of the 24 Labour lawmakers who responded to the survey said they would back triggering Britain's EU exit.
One level deeper: For the record: A spokesman for AFPM said the group has never taken an official position on the Paris Climate Agreement, and is committed to reducing carbon emissions by making more efficient transportation fuels.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The conservative Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives said in a note posted on Twitter on Wednesday that it had taken an official position in support of the Republican framework for tax reform.
Exiled in London for about two decades during the time of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Ghannouchi has been a major force since Tunisia's 2011 revolution, but he has never run for any official position.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is currently investigating a number of hoverboard fire incidents across the U.S., but at the time of publication the only official position from the federal government is a safety warning.
Both before and after receiving your letter, I personally met with Ms. Conway and advised her that her comments regarding Ms. Trump's products implicated the prohibition on using one's official position to endorse a product or service.
The U.S. government's official position is apparently that we will deny you asylum from violence and we will take your children to dissuade you from trying to save your families from violence and, yes, a predictable death.
"The Greek government asks the I.M.F. for explanations whether pursuing the creation of bankruptcy conditions in Greece, just before the British referendum, is the fund's official position," Olga Gerovasili, a Greek government spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Washington's "One China Policy" differs from that advocated by Beijing, and the US takes no official position on the future status of Taiwan other than to oppose the unilateral changing of the status quo by either side.
A second vote on the issue is scheduled to take place on Friday, Edmondson said, though OutVets is not yet sure if they will march in the parade even if the parade council changes its official position.
Poland's nationalist ruling party says it is ready to finance homes and schools to help Syrians return, although it will not break with the EU's official position not to rebuild Syria until a political transition is underway.
"We want currency levels to reflect economic fundamentals," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told reporters in Davos, saying this was the official position of the Group of Seven, of which the United States is a member.
She was also indicted by the United States this year as part of an Uzbek corruption scheme in which she is accused of using her official position to solicit $865 million in bribes from three telecommunications companies.
The views expressed here are his and do not reflect the official position of the United States Air Force Academy, United States Military Academy, Department of the Air Force, Department of the Army, or Department of Defense.
Further, it was shown that Pruitt had used his aides to seek other employment opportunities for his wife, including from major GOP donors — raising questions about whether Pruitt had used his official position to benefit his family.
In less than two weeks, the United States' official position has reversed from one of tacit support for Syrian Kurdish control of northern Syria — to one of total deferral to Turkish territorial ambitions in the same area.
When he called for Shokin to be fired, Biden represented the US&aposs official position on the matter, one that was shared by many other Western governments and anticorruption activists in Ukraine, according to the Associated Press.
Prosecutors said that around that time, Mr. Mangano used his official position to pressure officials to award Nassau County contracts to Mr. Singh, including one to provide food to hurricane relief workers that brought him about $230,000.
It's the latest twist in allegations that Exxon internally knew far more about climate change and the role fossil fuels played in it than the company told the public, particularly when its official position doubted global warming.
Let's assume, purely hypothetically, that one day special counsel Robert Mueller becomes a villain even to the anti-Trump crowd, and he comes under criminal investigation for conduct having nothing whatsoever to do with his official position.
The White House's official position is that, by increasing economic and political pressure, it aims to bring Iran back to the negotiating table in order to replace the JCPOA with a new deal that bears Trump's name.
Although Prince Turki does not presently hold any official position in the Saudi leadership, his views are described by insiders as often reflecting those of the kingdom's top princes and as influential in Riyadh foreign policy circles.
In sum, Nordstrom made a business decision not to do business with the president's daughter because her clothing line was not selling well, and the president used his official position to attack the company for this decision.
When he called for Shokin to be fired, Biden represented the US&aposs official position on the matter, one that was shared by many other Western governments and anticorruption activists in Ukraine, according to The Associated Press.
The memo — which the IRS told the Post was a draft written by a lawyer in the Office of Chief Counsel and didn't represent the agency's "official position" — effectively stated the lawmakers don't need a legislative purpose.
Over at least six years, Joyce received a "stream of concealed bribes and kickbacks" in exchange for his official position on certain matters, which included pressuring other officials to act in that interest, according to the indictment.
It's a trend that Trump has long tapped into, once having been a big skeptic of Obama's religious affiliations and ethnic origins, campaigning on a platform with the official position of, "Keep Muslims out; they don't belong here."
The Problem Solvers Caucus announced their official position to support a "clean" spending bill with approval from more than 75% of the bipartisan group -- a measure meant to help expedite the process of pushing the bill through Congress.
It would be much more feasible for Priebus, or other Republican leaders, to take the official position that Republicans should "vote your conscience" in November — supporting Trump themselves, but making it clear that others could choose not to.
BoE Governor Mark Carney came under fire from some pro-Brexit lawmakers earlier this month for exaggerating the dangers of leaving the EU, though the central bank does not have an official position on whether Britain should remain.
As Oklahoma Attorney General, Pruitt had a habit of taking press releases from local oil and gas companies, stamping his letterhead across the top and passing them on to the EPA verbatim as the official position of Oklahoma.
A former chief ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush White House is calling on the Trump administration to fire a top aide, alleging he violated a longstanding prohibition on using an official position to influence an election.
The whistleblower, whose identity remains unknown and who is subject to protections under federal law, alleged that Trump was using his official position to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election, a claim that Trump has rejected.
Mr. Trump "appeared sympathetic and did not have any official position on the matter and was merely nodding his head, indicating that he understood the domestic problem that we faced on drugs," said Harry Roque, Mr. Duterte's spokesman.
Mr. Hoa, who was arrested in April, is one of a growing number of activists in Vietnam who use Facebook and other online platforms to post videos, photographs and commentary that are contrary to the government's official position.
The official position of many people in government was that women with young children should be the last people brought into the labor force, but by 1942 it was obvious that more women were working outside the home.
Although Ms. Macron already has an office, secretaries and a security detail, giving her an official position might enable her to claim more of the budget and hire "numerous collaborators, drivers, security and take other advantages," he said.
Washington's "One China Policy" differs from the policy advocated by Beijing, and the US takes no official position on the future status of Taiwan other than to oppose the unilateral changing of the status quo by either side.
He said he realized his view differed from the official position - that sanctions could only be eased when the Minsk peace accord was fully implemented - but that it was in the world's interests to break the current impasse.
"It is not clear if NASCAR is now taking an official position in opposition to semi-automatic rifles —with the AR-15 variants often referred to as America's Rifle — and bolt action rifles," according to the NRA post.
The director of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) says White House counselor Kellyanne Conway misused her official position by hawking Ivanka Trump's product line on TV and is recommending that the White House discipline her for it.
A senior adviser to President Donald Trump on Saturday urged a primary challenge against a House Freedom Caucus member, prompting charges that he may have violated federal law against using his official position to sway an election campaign.
"Until now, the official position of the Department has been that Title IX protects all students and that they were evaluating how that protection applies to the issue of bathroom access," she said in an email to BuzzFeed News.
A FEMA spokesperson told The Hill that Kaniewski, whose official position is deputy administrator for resilience, is leaving "to pursue an opportunity outside of the government," adding that Kaniewski served his country "honorably" during his tenure with the agency.
Zinke, an avid hunter and angler, emerged as a surprise pick to head the department in part because he has embraced federal stewardship of public land, diverging from the Republican Party's official position to sell off acreage to states.
"The House Freedom Caucus has taken an official position in support of the House staying in session through the August recess to continue working to accomplish the priorities of the American people," the group said in a statement Tuesday.
The concerns included repeated failure to pay taxes in a timely manner, multiple credit issues and defaults on loans, criminal charges concerning driving while intoxicated, and allegations of using of an official position to attempt to influence legal matters.
"Congressman Grayson has never used his official position to advance any business interests or create a personal gain, and there is literally nothing in the New York Times report that even implies, much less demonstrates, otherwise," the statement said.
Koffsky argued that the president is given broad powers to hire and manage his staff in the White House and that anti-nepotism laws mainly apply to individuals holding an official position within an agency of the executive branch.
However, the leak in early June of a ministry document suggesting the reform could be more radical than previously floated left the government scrambling to assure unions that the paper was merely for reflection and not an official position.
The party's official position is to seek to retain the benefits of the single market in exit talks with Brussels, but its Brexit spokesman has previously said that full membership is incompatible with a need to tighten immigration rules.
Mr Lee - whose official position is vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics Co. (SEC, A+/Stable) - faces charges of perjury, embezzlement and bribery over claims that Samsung gave funds to President Park Geun-hye's adviser in exchange for political favours.
"The risk of injury to bones, muscles and joints is directly related to the gap between a person's usual level of activity and a new level of activity," the college explains in its official position paper on prescribing exercise.
They are incensed by the idea that Ms Choi—who was privy to presidential files on ministerial appointments and state visits even though she held no official position—might have pulled the strings of Ms Park's administration for her personal profit.
Her comments fly in the face of the official position of House Democratic leadership, which has long been that it's too early to talk about impeachment and that special counsel Robert Mueller must complete his investigation before Democrats can consider impeachment.
While the official position of the United States remains that Mr. Assad must leave office, Mr. Kerry and his aides will not say when he must leave, or whether he could participate in the process of selecting a new government.
"By taking an official position as a member of the Board of Directors, Mr. Lee is demonstrating his commitment to the future of the Company and to delivering benefit to the Company and its shareholders," the company said in a statement.
Yoon said in a later briefing that after the attache admitted a possible mistake and expressed regret, which was taken as Moscow's official position, Russia "altered" its account by sending a document stating that it did not violate any airspace.
With the Conservative Party divided, a pivotal factor in the referendum outcome will be the willingness of those who normally vote for the Labour Party to turn out and cast their ballots to remain in the union, their party's official position.
Ironically, Cotton's opposition counters the official position of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), which after studying the issue for decades has heeded the research and best practices, and now supports closing the status offender loophole.
While the official position remains to be confirmed, all the signals suggest the U.K.'s 5G security strategy will be tied to tightened regulation and oversight, rather than follow a U.S. path of seeking to shut out Chinese tech giants.
He is a Trump donor and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and he testified that he twice visited Trump Tower during the transition to meet with Steve Bannon — though he had no official position on the Trump team.
"We've asked for data on [asylum] claims and on crime rates—arrests and convictions—to try and understand why the focus is on this, and the official position from the government is that we don't keep this data," Muqit said.
For its part, Tunisia's main Islamist party, Ennahda, adopted an official position of reserve and silence — perhaps reasoning that open resistance would cast it in a bad light even as the country prepares for local elections in a few months.
Yet while our official position was that we were sending forces to help South Vietnamese fight, the truth was that more and more battles were being fought exclusively by Americans, rather than by United States and South Vietnamese units together.
And while White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that the administration doesn't have an official position on the bill, senators expect it would need to ultimately get a two-thirds majority — enough to override a presidential veto.
"By taking an official position as a member of the Board of Directors, Mr. Lee is demonstrating his commitment to the future of the Company and to delivering benefit to the Company and its shareholders," Samsung said in the statement.
"Like other economic players, we are following the evolution of the matter, and are also following the EU's official position on this topic," said a spokesman for PSA, adding that PSA hoped the EU's position regarding Iran would be a "singular" one.
According to the New York Times, Federalist Society members apparently love Trump appointments — especially those to the Supreme Court, including Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault by numerous women — though it doesn't take any official position on nominees or appointments.
President Donald Trump's senior counselor Kellyanne Conway should be removed from the federal government for repeatedly violating a law that bars executive branch employees from using their official position for political purposes, the government agency charged with enforcing that law said Thursday.
The first daughter (who does not have an official position in the Trump White House) was an active participant in the meeting, and spoke of hoping to collaborate with task force members on confronting the challenges facing women in the workforce today.
Under the last two years of the Obama administration, the government's official position was that immigrants would be prioritized for deportation if they were convicted of certain serious crimes, or if they were recent border crossers or had recent final deportation orders.
That decision or action may include using his official position to exert pressure on another official to perform an "official act", or to advise another official, knowing or intending that such advice will form the basis for an "official act" by another official.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has indicted the daughter of the late president of Uzbekistan on corruption charges for allegedly using her official position to solicit more than $865 million in bribes from three telecommunications companies, the Justice Department said on Thursday.
LONDON (Reuters) - A group of 16 opposition Labour Party lawmakers seeking re-election in London said on Friday Britain needed to remain a member of the European single market after Brexit, contradicting the party's official position ahead of a June 8 election.
So the European Commission's official position on Monday and reactions from European political leaders to the events in Catalonia were largely uniform and hardly surprising — Spain is sovereign, the referendum was illegal, but the violence was terrible and the parties should talk.
Adding to the confusion, the Trump administration's official position is that Congress should extend the expiring laws without any changes — the kind of "clean extension" that Attorney General William P. Barr urged Republicans senators to back at a closed-door lunch on Tuesday.
Replacing Trident has been controversial because of the cost and because the current leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, long an antinuclear campaigner, is opposed to retaining Britain's nuclear deterrent, while his party's official position has been to retain and renew it.
Those mechanisms include using the influence of high-ranking friends and relatives to obtain power; using bribes to ascend the Party ranks; leveraging family backgrounds to obtain an official position; and the planting of "negative pieces of news" against political opponents, VNA said.
RELATED: House Democrats face tough choice over budget deal and immigration On the Republican side, the House Freedom Caucus took an official position against the bill and I'm told another two dozen or so lawmakers are likely with them in that camp.
Kong, speaking to reporters in the central Chinese city of Wuhan after an informal summit between the leaders of China and India, also said China does not think the Indian government has changed its official position that Tibet is a part of China.
Shaub, who has been a fierce critic of the administration,said in his own tweet that Sanders used her official govt account to condemn a private business for personal reasons she can lob attacks on her own time but not using her official position.
But Ms Park could not be trusted to uphold the constitution, they said, since she had divulged state secrets to Ms Choi (who held no official position) and colluded with her to coerce conglomerates to funnel donations to two cultural organisations that Ms Choi controlled.
"His willingness to do so raised a reasonable question about his ability to act impartially on Clinton-related matters in connection with his official duties," the report said, although it concluded that because the information was public, Kadzik did not misuse his official position.
"Corbyn's office, for which he must take full responsibility, consistently attempted to weaken and sabotage the Labour remain campaign, in contravention of the party's official position," Labour MP Phil Wilson wrote in an op-ed after the referendum in which he called for Corbyn's resignation.
At the 2012 Democratic convention, delegates booed officials who reinstated in the party platform a recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a view at odds with the United States' official position that the city's status must be negotiated between Israelis and Palestinians.
Yet on Monday, the British Fashion Council (which does not have an official position on the issue) completed a poll of 500 member designers, and of the 290 who replied, 90 percent were in favor of remaining, with only 4.3 percent in favor of leaving.
"Based on CREW complaints, the Office of Special Counsel has found that Kellyanne Conway's repeated violations of the Hatch Act by using her official position for partisan purposes warrant her removal from federal service," the group says on a website page for its petition.
The Defense Department's official position (Directive 3000.09) is that humans must be able to "exercise appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force," meaning that robots are officially precluded from independently deciding to kill someone and a human has to pull the trigger.
An answer in a Q&A article on March 11 about whether Iran's recent missile tests call into question its commitment to the landmark nuclear agreement reached last year with world powers misstated the official position of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps concerning the agreement.
At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, delegates lustily booed officials who reinstated in the party platform a recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, at odds with the United States' official position that the city's status must be negotiated between Israelis and Palestinians.
Mr. Low, a Malaysian, helped set up 1MDB after its founding in 2009 and, though he never held an official position at the fund, has been described by the authorities in the United States as a key figure in moving money out of it.
A prosecutor told the jury in an opening statement that Mr. Silver had obtained nearly $4 million in illicit fees in exchange for using his official position to benefit a cancer researcher, Dr. Robert N. Taub at Columbia University, and two real estate developers.
A Commerce Secretary who acts like a cartoon version of a Wall Street fat cat, awash in financial conflicts, intertwined with Russian financial interests, suspected of swindling millions from his business partners and using his official position to pump up his fortune through shady stock trading.
"The official position, and this is from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is that Russia is risking a lot and has nothing to gain" from cooperating with the United States, Aleksei V. Malashenko, a researcher at the Carnegie center in Moscow, said in a telephone interview.
The first daughter, who did not yet have an official position in the Trump White House at the time, was an active participant in the meeting, and spoke of hoping to collaborate with task force members on confronting the challenges facing women in the workforce today.
Many Labour lawmakers represent areas that voted heavily in favour of Brexit in Britain's 2016 referendum and fear their party's new official position to support a second referendum - given the current lack of a parliamentary majority for any sort of Brexit deal - could alienate their constituents.
Federal law and regulations prohibit the following: Every career professional involved in foreign and national security policy knows that the use of official position for political gain is corruption and that it is improper and illegal to solicit or accept foreign assistance for domestic political purposes.
INTERNATIONAL An answer in a Q&A article on March 11 about whether Iran's recent missile tests call into question its commitment to the landmark nuclear agreement reached last year with world powers misstated the official position of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps concerning the agreement.
She can lob attacks on her own time but not using her official position Stephanie Wilkinson, the co-owner of the restaurant, said she asked Sanders and her family to leave because of previous comments she had made defending the Trump administration's ban on transgender military members.
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Absent extraordinary circumstances that might justify it, a public communication about a pending F.B.I. investigation involving a candidate that is made on the eve of an election is thus very likely to be a violation of the Hatch Act and a misuse of an official position.
"I hope that the new administration will carefully measure its policy toward the city and continue to adhere to the declared and official position of the U.S. about Jerusalem," Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, the chief Palestine Liberation Organization representative to the United States, said in an email.
Yet this paranoid fantasy has in effect become the official position of the G.O.P. Climate change deniers have pretty much given up on arguing about the evidence, although the old line "it's a cold day, so global warming is a myth" still pops up now and then.
And on Tuesday the OSC agreed that Haley broke the law: OSC has concluded that Ambassador Haley violated the Hatch Act when she retweeted President Trump's June 19 message about Ralph Norman on an account that repeatedly invoked her official position as Ambassador to the United Nations.
Though the Ministry of Health did not take an official position on the issue, Maria de Fátima Marinho, who represented the ministry before the court, made clear that unsafe abortions created public health challenges, leading to overcrowding of facilities as well as preventable illness and death.
Rebecca Hammel, the superintendent of schools for the Catholic Diocese of Nashville, told the outlet that the Catholic Church does not have an official position on the Harry Potter books, which tell the story of a boy wizard and his friends at their wizardry boarding school.
From an American perspective, the French furor over defining an official position and responsibilities for the first lady looks like a tempest in a teapot: First ladies, whether Republican or Democrat, at least since the presidency of Herbert Hoover, have pushed boundaries — some more than others.
"The McConnell campaign's use of an article, which draws critical attention to Chao's use of her public office to disproportionately benefit her husband's constituents, raises new Hatch Act issues about whether she has authorized him to use her official position for partisan political activity," Canter said.
So it is now the official position of President Trump's administration that all of the ACA — the private insurance markets that cover 15 million Americans, the Medicaid expansion that covers another 15 million, and the protections for people with preexisting conditions and other regulations — should be nullified.
Thursday, the White House issued a brief statement that the new administration has not taken an official position on settlements in the West Bank but adding that "the construction of new settlements or the expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful" in achieving peace.
Pyongyang&aposs official position hasn&apost changed substantially since the New Year&aposs address Kim used to kick off his regional diplomatic campaign — the county is shifting its focus to developing the national economy and updating its foreign relations because it has successfully "perfected" its national nuclear forces.
The official position of our president-elect remains vague on many issues, but there's one on which Trump is painstakingly clear: for nearly the length of his presidential campaign, the president-elect has said that he plans to deport millions of people as soon as he takes office.
Protopopov, who Kommersant newspaper said was once the recipient of a medal for fostering "spiritual unity" in Komi while heading the region's prison service from 2010 to 2015, faces charges of misappropriating state property while using his official position, a crime punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
After the meeting, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said that "human rights briefly came up" regarding the drug war, but Duterte's spokesman pushed back on that characterization, telling reporters that human rights was not discussed and Trump "did not have any official position" on the country's drug war.
Wei Ling and Hsien Yang also took aim at Lee's wife, Ho Ching, accusing her of having "pervasive influence" despite holding no elected or official position in government, adding they suspect the couple of milking Lee Kuan Yew's legacy and harboring political ambitions for their son, Li Hongyi.
If you've never heard about the Jordan wall, it is because — despite its position at the physical center of the US war with the Islamic State group — the official position of the Jordanian government is that there are no US troops in the country, much less US military bases.
Hill also told the House Intelligence Committee that it was clear to her and those around her that Giuliani was pushing a different agenda than the official position of the United States, and that his actions concerned her and frustrated her boss, then-national security advisor John Bolton.
The justices also announced Monday that when they hear arguments in a trio of cases about efforts to subpoena President Donald Trump's financial records, they will hear not only from a personal lawyer for Trump but also from an attorney representing the official position of the U.S. government.
The bloc's members are not unified in their attitudes toward Israel, but the European Union's official position is that it supports what Federica Mogherini, its foreign policy chief, called the "international consensus" from which Mr. Trump departed last week when he announced a reversal of decades of American diplomacy.
Now, in what Democrats said was a desperate attempt to deflect attention just two days before a crucial midterm election, Mr. Kemp used his official position Sunday to announce, with scant evidence, that the Democrats were under investigation for allegedly trying to hack the state's voter registration files.
Hegseth had no official position in the administration—he was once rumored to be a potential Veterans Affairs secretary, but veterans groups objected, and the post ultimately went to Robert Wilkie—but even from his perch in New York, he was able to exert influence on Trump's military decisions.
The outline for the fund, created at the end of January, does not say a donor is prohibited from talking — or writing — to a recipient about a donation that the contribution was made because of the person's official position, which has been another point of contention for Democrats.
Republicans seem to recognize the Democratic advantage, twisting themselves in knots to argue that they too support the most popular parts of Obamacare, even though the party's official position for eight years was that the law must be repealed root and branch with little attention paid to the details.
While HR 1 says no member should use their official position to introduce or pass legislation to further their own monetary interests, it doesn't explicitly mention insider trading: No Member, officer, or employee of a committee or Member of either House of Congress may knowingly use his or her official position to introduce or aid the progress or passage of legislation, a principal purpose of which is to further only his or her pecuniary interest, only the pecuniary interest of his or her immediate family, or only the pecuniary interest of a limited class of persons or enterprises, when he or she, or his or her immediate family, or enterprises controlled by them, are members of the affected class.
The delay of the parliamentary vote has loosened May's grip on power — and fueled speculation as to whether the U.K. will ever actually leave the EU. Britain is supposed to submit its official position on the Brexit deal to the EU, after having voted on it in Parliament, by Jan.
Though she does not hold an official position within the government, members of the ruling PML-N party say she was instrumental in implementing a health program offering free medical care for the poor at government hospitals, a loan scheme for youths, and the upgrading of primary schools in Islamabad.
A recent study by The Wall Street Journal revealed that out of 68 times the eldest Trump daughter posted her outfits on her official Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook accounts since taking her official position through the end of October 2017, she was wearing the Ivanka Trump label in 46 instances.
China 'won't solve' North Korea for Trump While more voices are diverging from Beijing's official position, nobody seems to be suggesting that China is willing or able to bring more pressure to bear on its neighbor -- something US President Donald Trump has long insisted could fix the North Korea problem.
Applying this theory to VA healthcare, logic dictates that, as long as the prevailing government policy is preservation of the VA healthcare system, as was the official position of the Obama administration, public opinion will continue to move towards privatization, a position traditionally viewed more favorably by Republicans, including President Trump.
If the department finds that Mr. Zinke willfully used his official position to influence the deal and benefit himself, he could be prosecuted under a federal conflict of interest law and, if convicted, face a sentence of up to five years in prison and a $50,000 fine for each violation.
Yes, the title is a bit salacious, but the book itself isn't — it's a look at one of the most important forces adjacent to the crown throughout history and how the role of royal lover has changed over the years (it used to be practically an official position at royal courts).
Anyone can see how ridiculous it is for the president's doodles on a weather map with a Sharpie marker to become the official position of the government, but the same dynamic is at work in subtler ways across federal agencies, coming straight from the White House and top political appointees.
To review: A private, for-profit company -- one where the President's name appears everywhere you look, and one that continues to direct money, to the President's benefit, despite his official position -- is trying to further cash in by using a symbol that represents the chief servant of the American people?
As Vox's Dylan Scott wrote: So it is now the official position of President Trump's administration that all of the ACA — the private insurance markets that cover 15 million Americans, the Medicaid expansion that covers another 15 million, and the protections for people with preexisting conditions and other regulations — should be nullified.
While BDS does not take an official position on Israel's existence, the size of the Palestinian refugee population means that if it gets what it wants on the right of return, Palestinians could potentially outnumber Israelis, ending Israel's status as a Jewish state and giving Palestinians the power to dismantle the Israeli state.
Toyota, when contacted for comment regarding Cain's comments and the car maker's official position on NHTSA's proposed rules, provided the following statement to TechCrunch: We are pleased that NHTSA is exercising leadership by issuing federal guidance on automated vehicles and trying to address the emerging patchwork of state laws regulating automated vehicle performance.
The House must answer the call of history and impeach Trump for his long pattern of abusing his office for the unconstitutional purpose of promoting racism and bigotry, by misusing agencies of the executive branch to punish, humiliate, and unlawfully discriminate, and misusing his official position to promote hatred, hostility, and unlawful violence.
More common, so far, has been the reaction of another designer, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not ready to take an official position, but who told me that he had been contacted by a member of the Trump family who wanted to borrow a dress for a public occasion.
It's possible, though, that once Price is confirmed to the HHS secretary position he'll choose to interpret the executive order aggressively; the Trump administration could even decide to stop enforcing the individual mandate, as adviser Kellyanne Conway (who doesn't have an official position in the administration) hinted could happen in an interview Monday.
When Israel retook these areas in a defensive war that Jordan started by shelling civilian homes in West Jerusalem, and opened them up as places where Jews could pray, study, receive medical treatment and live, the United States took the official position that it would not recognize Israel's legitimate claims to Jewish Jerusalem.
According to the allegations detailed in the report, lawyers for the council alleged that Evans' work with NSE led to multiple instances in which a rule that forbids public employees from use their official position to influence a particular matter in which they or a connected party to them has a financial interest .
" Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said on Twitter that for those who benefit from the Affordable Care Act, "it is now the official position of the White House to take away your health coverage, with no sign of a plan to help you if they win and you lose.
This is not the government's official position on unaccompanied minors — the Trump administration has argued that it is not actually infringing on minors' constitutional rights, since they could get an abortion by returning to their home countries or finding someone to sponsor them in the United States, allowing them to leave ORR custody.
The former Navy SEAL commander, an avid hunter and angler, emerged as a surprise pick to head the department in part because he has embraced federal stewardship of national parks, forests and refuges - rejecting the Republican party's official position to sell off acreage to states that might prioritize drilling, mining and grazing in some areas.
" During a speech in August, Warren described one such official, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, as a "cartoon version of a Wall Street fat cat, awash in financial conflicts, intertwined with Russian financial interests, suspected of swindling millions from his business partners and using his official position to pump up his fortune through shady stock trading.
"With his statements, General Votel not only discredited the official position of his supreme commander-in-chief, but also exacerbated the illegality under international law and US law of the military presence of American servicemen in Syria," the Russian Ministry said in a statement published on social media in response to an interview Votel gave to ABC News.
European Union antitrust commissioner Margrethe Vestager emphasized Facebook's size when asked Friday whether she viewed the company as a monopoly, although she added that the bloc has no "official position" on that question: Why it matters: Vestager's comments came in response to Mark Zuckerberg's testimony at a Tuesday Senate hearing that he doesn't view Facebook as a monopoly.
"Like what happened today (Friday), we mostly exchange what we call a 'telephone notice,' which basically means that a liaison officer calls the other side and reads a document carrying a proposal or official position on the other's proposal," said a senior official with South Korea's Ministry of Unification, which mans the phone and fax lines at the office.
In 2014, The New York Times reported that Mr. Pruitt's staff took a letter written by lawyers for the Oklahoma-based oil and gas company Devon Energy opposing E.P.A. regulations, copied it almost word for word onto state government stationery, and sent it to the agency as the official position of the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office.
And now all of that — and indeed the bedrock principles of limited government power that go back to Thomas Jefferson — lies in shambles as a president seeks not only to use his official position to promote the business of the Trump family but also to retaliate against other businesses for the decisions they make in the marketplace.
A lawyer representing the school district, Stephen Rehfuss, disputes the police version of events, saying there was "absolutely no truth" to the reports that school officials had heard rumors about Spratt's sexual misconduct: The district's official position is that no faculty member or administrator "had any inkling that anything like this was going on" until Spratt was arrested months later.
As Vox's Andrew Prokop argued Wednesday, the Democratic Party leadership's official position is that its alliance with corporate donors is the best of bad options — that the party is, in principle, in favor of reducing money in politics, but that it has to work within the confines of the existing system to have a chance of beating well-financed Republicans.
Senate Democrats are divided over whether to throw their full support behind the House impeachment inquiry into President TrumpDonald John TrumpWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE, with some senators saying they want more information before taking an official position.
He will remain the subject of what is already a raging Hall of Fame argument centered around the value of a career designated hitter—it's an official position that allowed Ortiz to have had more value than he would have had otherwise, and, yes, Edgar Martinez should go first, but the argument will go on anyway—and the question of a never-verified failed steroids test.
The House Freedom Caucus took an official position Tuesday not to back President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's spending deal and agreement to lift the debt ceiling, citing concerns with its impact on the national debt.
Read more: A Ukraine gas company tied to Joe Biden's son is at the center of the Trump-whistleblower scandalBut foreign-policy experts and current and former government officials have pointed out that Biden's call to oust Shokin represented the US's official position on the matter and was also part of a broader international push that included most Western countries and the International Monetary Fund.
In a multiple choice format, the survey asks respondents to answer 25 questions, including: Trump's White House has been embroiled in scandal since leaks last week revealed that close Trump ally and now former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn discussed sanctions with a Russian diplomat before he was in an official position to do so, and then misled Vice President Pence and the general public afterward.
" Trump's tendency to "speak in a code," as Trump fixer Michael Cohen explained to a Congressional committee, is worth remembering when you read the rough transcript of the President's call with Zelensky, wrote Paul Callan: "President Trump appears to be using his official position as President to coerce the Ukrainian President to investigate possibly false corruption claims in an attempt to smear his Democratic political rival.
An investigation from the special counsel in March found that White House counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Florida first lady to miss Women for Trump event due to planned execution Trump adopts familiar mantra on possible recession: fake news MORE violated the Hatch Act on two separate occasions, once after using her official position to promote products from Ivanka Trump.
Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is "fine" with same-sex marriage and doesn't think the Supreme Court needs to revisit the matter, the president-elect said Sunday, diverting from the Republican Party's official position on the matter.
But a federal official may not use his or her official position, while on duty, or in a federal workplace, to urge a particular political outcome, like the ouster of Mr. Amash, or use it to raise money for a political cause, which led the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics group to also file a complaint against Mr. Amash with the Office of Congressional Ethics, which has jurisdiction over members of the House.
The influential conservative caucus takes an official position one day before House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Lewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid MORE (D-N.
The statement from Meadows doesn't mean the Freedom Caucus has taken an official position on the plan, but the fact that Meadows did not reject the deal outright could be significant, as Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) is expected to run into serious opposition from fellow Republicans if the bill advances to the House.
After the Jerusalem Post reported today that Trump is opposed to new Israeli settlements, the White House put out a clarifying statement:While we don't believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace, the construction of new settlements or the expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful in achieving that goal ... The Trump administration has not taken an official position on settlement activity and looks forward to continuing discussions, including with Prime Minister Netanyahu when he visits with President Trump later this month.

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