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"point person" Definitions
  1. a person (such as a principal spokesperson or advocate) who is in the forefront : POINT MAN

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Mr. Mnuchin is the administration's point person for selling the plan.
Flynn apparently would have been the US point person, the source said.
He had been the company's point person on a series of scandals.
There remains no senior point person for Iraq in the Trump administration.
But even after all that, Bryan is still made point person over her.
Ms. Callan became the point person at Lehman for dealing with Mr. Einhorn.
The rest of the group can Venmo the point person for their share.
We're calling for a clear point person, a CEO of Response & Recovery. pic.twitter.
Pitts and Smith both mentioned wanting a reliable point person to assist them.
Cornyn is the point person for the GOP leadership and has McConnell's trust.
" Representative Sander Levin of Michigan, House Democrats' point person on trade, was blunt. "T.
You were the point person on Ukraine at the time — if you can answer.
"She had many allies, but Bunny Sandler was the point person," Ms. Langelan said.
He is also point person in in the annual U.S.-China strategic and economic dialogue.
But with such a delicate conversation, a point person may help negotiations along, per CNN.
And it would have required a point person to lead and to prepare the President.
Biden also coincidentally was point person for the Obama Administration's China policy at the time.
Biden was vice president in President Barack Obama's administration and the point person for Ukraine.
" He went on: "I will not let you fuck with my job and playing point person.
Tayeb leads the tech team and is the company's point person for AR and AI development.
"Brett was able to retain his role as the point person, without a lot of oversight."
And the CISO will be the point person to bridge the business side with the technical.
Cohen had been the point person for the Trump Organization on the proposed Trump-branded tower.
Select a friend or relative to be the point person to call if you become separated.
But now he's most often the author and point person for any major address Clinton delivers.
As vice president, Joe Biden served as point person on American policy toward China and Ukraine.
"  "As vice president, Joe Biden served as point person on American policy toward China and Ukraine.
As DHS secretary, Kelly would probably be the point person for actually building such a wall.
In reality, while Mr. Kushner has spent time on this, he isn't the point person on it.
Shokin was pushed out in March 2016, when Biden was the Obama administration's point person on Ukraine.
Well, I am saying that the CEO has the ultimate ... He's the point person- Sets the tone.
Pence has been the Trump administration's point person on coordinating the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
With the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, Joe Biden became point person in Ukraine as well.
We also wanted to speak with Kellyanne Conway, the White House's point person on the opioid crisis.
The president has rewarded Mr. Pompeo's loyalty by anointing him the point person on several signature issues.
In March, the Washington Post spoke with David Vladeck, the former FTC point-person on the Facebook settlement.
In a recent op-ed, Volker urged Pompeo to name Biegun as the "point person" for Ukraine negotiations.
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce would be the point person in the House for a war authorization.
Lisa Curtis, point person at the National Security Council for South and Central Asia, attended the inaugural forum.
State Senator Martin Sandoval, the Senate Democrats' point person on infrastructure, said Pritzker's plan has been eagerly awaited.
She's "been the point person to keep everybody informed and she's been there for John," Kunhardt tells PEOPLE.
It has named one of its top executives, Marcelo Claure, as the point person for its WeWork efforts.
Despite Ukraine not being an EU member, he became a point person on managing Washington's relationship with Kyiv.
Miller also noted that Biden was the point person for the Obama administration's Ukraine efforts at the time.
Some administration officials have grumbled there isn't a clear point person responsible for shepherding nuclear talks with Russia.
Over the 300-mile journey, he will control the GPS and be the point person for all his team.
Jeremy Hunt's Tory leadership campaign received funding from the UK's point person for Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
During a followup presser today helmed by Presidential COVID-19 point person, Mike, Pence, the additions were made official.
Mario Maker 2 would greatly benefit from some kind of community lead, a person who became the point person.
A new ambassador could help normalize the U.S.-Ukraine relationship by providing Kyiv with an official American point-person.
GRAY It's a bit sensitive, because my agent who was the point person died, and there was a miscommunication.
When Hunter Biden joined Burisma, Joe Biden was the vice president and point person for U.S. policies on Ukraine.
As former President Barack Obama's top deputy, Biden served as the administration's point-person for US-Ukraine policy and relationships.
Trump's trade war with China thrust Schwarzman into a role as the private sector's point person for dialogue between countries.
A parent coordinator serves as the school's point person for students' families, but beyond that, the position is loosely defined.
He was the point person on all things financial, with a particular understanding of how the various Trump businesses interacted.
He has also served as the state's point person in the lower delta region for the distribution of antiretroviral medicine.
Since becoming the top US diplomat, Pompeo has been the point person for the administration's "maximum pressure" campaign against Tehran.
Since then, a guy who lives close to them has been designated point person and sends updates every few days.
MacGregor was the point person for much of the discussions, and traveled with Zinke for the Tallahassee rollout, records show.
While gang bangs are a form of group sex, they differ from an orgy in that there's usually one point person.
During the presidential campaign, Cohen functioned as a spokesman and point-person on inquiries that related to the company in particular.
Cohn, who is still the administration's point person on the development of a tax reform plan, is apparently in the doghouse.
He has become Selina's point-person on the recount and her most prized adviser even though nothing he says makes sense.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is Trump's point person on opioids, and she has been working with the Cabinet and Congress.
Babar Bin Atta, Prime Minister Imran Khan's point person on polio eradication, acknowledged in an interview that the situation remains challenging.
It comes after extensive negotiations between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Trump's point person on the issue.
Zinke will be his point person for that on federal lands, and the fossil fuel industry cheered his appointment last week.
Campbell's Chief Financial Officer, Anthony Disilvestro, has been serving as point person for much of the strategic review, the people say.
Hinrichs was the point person when the F-150 was changed from a steel to aluminum body in a 2014 redesign.
That gives the GOP a strong talking point, because Volker was supposed to be Trump's point person for all things Ukraine.
John Barrasso, an orthopedic surgeon for more than two decades and often a point person on health care in the Senate.
On major policy issues, there is a need for a "point person" — someone senior in charge who reports to the president.
Others say the only real point person is Trump himself, who has tweeted furiously on the subject for the past three days.
"Murdoch" soon connected her with someone she claimed to be her assistant, named Aaron, who became the main point person for Rudd.
In Mahlman's words, he's become "the one point person" who can bring together the supply and demand side of AOL's ad business.
"We oppose radical solutions - such as completely abandoning regulation," the commission's point person for telecoms, Juergen Kuehling, told the same news conference.
That position, created by Dodd-Frank, is meant to serve as the point person for all regulatory matters at the central bank.
Meanwhile, the calls are growing across the aisle for the administration to appoint a "czar" or point person to lead the effort.
This makes him one of Fed Chair Jerome Powell's chief advisers and the central bank's point person on Wall Street and markets.
I ask Dan the Amp Guy if there was ever a point person, a puppet-master orchestrating it all from the shadows.
He is also the perinatal point person for the California Department of Public Health to handle questions related to the Zika virus.
It was a big deal in many internet companies — especially by Reed Hastings, who was sort of the point person from it.
At Morgan Stanley, Michael Grimes, the firm's star tech banker, was the point person, assisted by Kate Claassen, head of internet banking.
As in the United States, ratings have slipped "in the single digits," said Arturo Olive, the N.F.L.'s point person in Mexico.
But despite not being actually in government, he's been the point person for digging up information on the Biden family in Ukraine.
Kurt Volker, US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations The administration's point person on Ukraine, Volker is a key figure in this story.
Now he's out of the race — do you still have the same point person to hit and draw a contrast between now?
While I mostly worked with my regional team, I was often a point person when the LA higher-ups came to town.
Another staffer, Lauren Jennings, was several hours away in Orange County, so she became the point person for posting stories to the website.
That leaves a man who may believe the US President was improperly involving US politics in Ukraine as the country's point person there.
Speier has been one of the leaders in the House on the issue of sexual harassment and a point person on this legislation.
The European Union's top Brexit negotiator says urgent talks with Britain's point person did not result in their reaching agreement on outstanding issues.
"The honest truth is that [sanctions] have yet to change their policies," says Evelyn Farkas, the former Russia point person at the Pentagon.
The region has also benefited from Obama's critically important decision to designate Vice President Joe Biden as his point person on Latin America.
Tony Podesta, a well-known Democratic lobbyist and brother of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, was the point person for Podesta Group.
During the tax debate, he was a point person for Senate GOP leaders in negotiations with House GOP leaders and the White House.
Cobb, Trump's point person in the White House for the Mueller probe, announced earlier Wednesday that he was leaving the president's legal team.
By delegating Mr. Pence to attend the APEC meeting, President Trump dispatched the administration's point person for its get-tough-on-China policy.
Democrats have called for the White House to replace Pence as point person on the virus, arguing he has no public health experience.
I had a meeting with my point person on Monday and was asking questions about the company's ability to weather all of this.
The secretary, or his designated point person, should have clearly laid out how this situation would be fixed and avoided in the future.
Under cross examination on Monday, defense attorney Kevin Downing attempted to show that Gates was the point person in dealing with the accountants.
The point person whose name is on the bill might get stuck covering for a delinquent friend who doesn't pay by the due date.
On the American side Mr Trump made his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, his point person on Mexico, but key diplomatic posts remain vacant.
The Trump administration picked Fiona Hill, former National Intelligence Officer for Russia under the George W. Bush administration, as their point person on Russia.
Harwood: You, I imagine, are the point person in the White House for big CEOs because you come from their world, they know you.
Lloyd is the point person on separated children, but he has not made any public appearances or statements since early April, Equity Forward says.
The search again turned up no concrete evidence, but, from 1982 until 2009, when Mooney retired, he became the point person for tiger sightings.
He remains the point person with Saudi Arabia, where he recently visited and talked late into the night with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Pelosi earlier in the day had said she was close to an agreement with Treasury Secretary Steven Munchin, Trump's point person on the issue.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the administration point person for talks, told reporters Trump "absolutely" would sign the bipartisan stimulus agreement if it passed Congress.
The two baked a loaf of banana bread and served it to Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, the Vatican's point person at the presentation.
" Mr. Engel continued: "We need to hear directly from the administration's point person on Afghanistan to understand how this process went off the rails.
Mr. Schmidt was Volkswagen's point person in dealing with American clean-air regulators, overseeing Volkswagen's emissions compliance office in Michigan from 2012 until 2015.
Who will be the point-person in the event of an unhappy customer, and who has final say on how to manage their demands?
Keir Starmer, a high-profile proponent of a second public vote, is Labour's point person on Brexit and has occasionally disagreed publicly with Corbyn.
The point person on this effort will be Lisa Murkowski, the maverick Republican from Alaska who heads the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Brooke Lovell, who is helping to create guest houses for location-independent entrepreneurs in Kathmandu, says that having a point person back home is crucial.
Essentially, the intimacy coordinator's job is to be the point person for all nude or intimate scenes, making sure the actors are comfortable and safe.
His work required cooperation among Fed officials who had very different views, and Corrigan described himself as a point person who helped Volcker achieve consensus.
The FBI's self-interest was evident to Ed Saxon, the Silence of the Lambs producer who was the bureau's point person on the 1991 film.
Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney and fixer, had been the point person on Trump Organization negotiations over the building of a Trump Tower in Moscow.
"That is a problem," said Paola Refice, a government art historian who is a local point person on the dispute for the Ministry of Culture.
The director is in effect the point person in the White House for economic issues, coordinating advice from across the cabinet and the West Wing.
The governor praised Kellyanne Conway, the White House counselor, as a smart pick to be point person within the West Wing on the opioid issue.
The president should tap a respected figure, preferably someone apolitical and with experience in crisis management, to serve as the point person for these briefings.
For 13 years, he worked for the N.F.L. benefit plan as the point person telling players what paperwork they needed to apply for disability benefits.
Typically this is the first step you should take, unless there is only one point person to report to and that person was the harasser.
"After the strike, you were the administration's point person making the case that we had to kill Soleimani at that moment on January 3rd," Rep.
As a New York real estate developer and the point person for the presidential transition on many diplomatic issues, Mr. Kushner had many such contacts.
Ditto House members like Ms. Dingell, whom Mr. Trump randomly attacked again over the weekend, and Mr. Schiff, who was the point person on impeachment.
In Los Angeles, the point person is Adia Smith Parker, who served in a similar capacity for Barack Obama during both of his presidential campaigns.
That might include training for senior employees or having a point person in the human resources department whom domestic abuse victims can consult in confidence.
The Labour party's point person on Brexit, Keir Starmer, said this week that Johnson will face consequences if he is found to have acted unlawfully.
At HBO, the co-head of documentaries Nancy Abraham was the point person... Her boss Casey Bloys and CEO Richard Plepler both supported the project.
There is no dedicated agency or point person for restaurants in city government, and few resources specifically for restaurants within the federal Small Business Administration.
Pence is the Trump administration's point person for getting Congress to approve the new deal, known as USMCA, which he has pledged will happen this year.
It was the first visit for Biden, the White House's point person on Iraq, since U.S. forces withdrew in 2011 after nearly nine years of occupation.
Last month, at a dinner in Washington put on by the conservative Kemp Foundation, Scott singled out Ivanka Trump as his point person on the initiative.
Price, an orthopedic surgeon and the House point person for crafting legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act, would be particularly well-suited for the role.
When I asked if being the point person on this issue ever got to be a burden, he insisted the contrary, that it is a privilege.
Now, she's the point person between the RNC and Trump's top lieutenants: campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, convention manager Paul Manafort and national political director Rick Wiley.
A point person, an incident commander, a czar, someone in the White House who can manage these various entities and claims and force movement and solution.
He also requests she become his main point person at the firm, which angers Christine's boss David Tellis (Paul Sparks), who formerly handled all XHP business.
"We need to take the bull by the horns and accept there are problems," said Babar Atta, Prime Minister Imran Khan's point person on polio eradication.
But for the average security startup, a CSO should also act as the point-person for all technical matters associated with their company's product or service.
He is the point person for talks between the administration and China over trade, an issue likely to dominate the first part of 2019 and beyond.
In her current acting role, Wheelbarger has been the Pentagon's point person on a host of issues, from the conflict in Syria to relations with NATO.
Trump designated Mnuchin to be the point person, which, according to multiple sources, was fine with Chinese officials, who preferred dealing with the moderate Treasury secretary.
Fauci had been booked for several Sunday shows over the weekend, but he canceled them after Pence became the point person for the administration's response efforts.
Trump has also weighed selecting another point person as alarm about the outbreak is on the rise, though he has not followed through on it yet.
Three Liberal sources say Trudeau's team is seriously considering whether to make her minister of intergovernmental affairs, the government's point person to deal with the provinces.
Three Liberal sources say Trudeau's team is seriously considering whether to make her minister of intergovernmental affairs, the government's point person to deal with the provinces.
Kushner is viewed as the White House's point person on the US-Saudi relationship and is known for having a close relationship with the crown prince.
Durbin, the point person for Senate Democrats on the Dreamer issue, has also made clear he is not on board with key parts of Tillis' bill.
"We had to contact members of Congress to give us a point person to even apply for the waiver, which added another level of insanity," Murray said.
"It really comes in waves," says Tracy, who is the organization's main point person but credits her three children with the spirit and operation of the nonprofit.
"They'll have a point person they can go to that's really well trained because you've taught them leadership and installed all the policies and procedures," he said.
Pence — Trump's point person for getting the deal through the U.S. Congress — is scheduled to meet with Trudeau on Thursday to discuss USMCA ratification and other issues.
Each person should also have some financial responsibility, whether it's paying bills, managing a retirement account or being a point person for the accountant or financial advisor.
Along with the Making History Campaign Director, serve as point person for the work being completed by various CBF staff as it relates to the Voices Campaign.c.
Chinese officials have expressed frustration that the United States has not empowered a point person in the trade talks who can speak on behalf of Mr. Trump.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would hold a vote after negotiating through the night with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Trump's point person on the issue.
But his profile was again raised in January, when Democratic leaders of California's Legislature hired him as their legal point person for matters involving the Trump administration.
Such advisors can still play a major role going beyond coordination, such as Susan Rice's role as point person on China policy during President Obama's second term.
Flynn served as a key campaign surrogate and adviser during Trump's presidential campaign before being tapped as Trump's point person for national security in the White House.
At various points meetings included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, the Trump administration's point person on the negotiations.
Yermak was appointed on the same day as the Kremlin installed a new point person for Ukraine, a move that could signal a slight thaw in ties.
The disclosure comes in a letter from Evers to Foxconn executive Louis Woo, a special assistant to Chairman Terry Gou and the company's point person on the project.
"I'm waiting anxiously to hear his speech and his proposals and see the math of how this works," said State Representative Greg Harris, House Democrats' budget point person.
On Tuesday, the Trump administration assigned Mnuchin as the point person on the debt issue, a decision interpreted as an effort to signal its favored approach to Congress.
Influence in the Trump White House is often a fleeting commodity, and we don't know how long Mulvaney's tenure as administration point person on health care will last.
State Representative Greg Harris, the Democrats' budget point-person, said the Republican governor is expected to sign the bipartisan spending plan, which the Senate overwhelmingly passed on Wednesday.
He owned a 15 percent stake in the conglomerate, helped create the complex web of ownership, and was the point person for many of the company's business dealings.
He did say that Pence's office wanted him to run interviews past it for re-clearance once Pence was named the White House's point person on the virus.
U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence, the administration's point person on coronavirus, vowed on March 3 to offer real-time information in a steady pace and be fully transparent.
Aides said the president wanted governors and members of Congress to have a single point person to communicate with, eliminating any jockeying for power in a decentralized situation.
On the prorogation, the Labour party's point person on Brexit, Keir Starmer, said this week that Johnson will face consequences if he is found to have acted unlawfully.
These companies are growing rapidly, making it even more vital for founders to have a trusted point person and confidante who can keep them focused and on track.
Deese was a leading negotiator for the Paris climate deal and the White House's point person on climate change policy during the later years of the Obama administration.
And every governor should designate a senior official as the point person for Opportunity Zones in his or her state to ensure strong accountability and coordination of resources.
Nichols had been the point person in the team's negotiations with U.S. Soccer and a fierce advocate for the women in their equal pay dispute with the federation.
Greenblatt was one of Kushner's chief negotiators and a point person in the region as the White House crafted its long-awaited blueprint for peace in the region.
Quarles took up his position in October and until now has mainly focused his comments on banking supervision in his role as the Fed's point person on financial regulation.
In other infrastructure news: D.J. Gribbin, the Trump administration's infrastructure point person, is leaving the White House, which looks to have delayed its investment plan until after the midterms.
The now–former vice president had traveled to the country in 2016 as the White House's point person on Ukraine to demand that Shokin be stripped of his job.
In place of a single point person in charge of guiding and shaping US cyber policy, the task will now fall instead to two National Security Council senior directors.
Republican strategist Brendan Steinhauser floated the possibility that Trump could seek to replace Sessions with Rudy Giuliani, who is currently serving as the point person on Trump's legal team.
Mr. Fallarino appeared to be the point person who handled Mr. Manafort's loan applications, but he was never called to testify, as were some other employees of Citizens Bank.
There was an editor search committee, but Grusd was the point person here, interviewing a number of well-known candidates, said sources, including another former Times editor Jim Roberts.
Ambassador Debbie Birx, who serves as the U.S. government's leader for combatting HIV/AIDS globally, will report to Vice President Mike Pence, the administration's point person for the response.
McCarthy invited former county sheriff-turned-lawmaker Dave Reichert, a point person in the House for law enforcement matters, to meet with him early this week to discuss options.
After the merger of the National League and the American League with the commissioner's office in 2000, she became the point person on scheduling, particularly when weather caused havoc.
Though Susan Thornton has become one of Tillerson's most trusted aides, her broad Asia portfolio could necessitate a point person who deals just with North Korea, one official said.
Lindsey Graham has painstakingly developed a chummy relationship with President Donald Trump — but he may soon be the Senate's point person on an issue that sharply divides them: immigration.
Behind the scenes in Warsaw, Mr. Sondland, the American envoy who was Mr. Trump's point person on getting the Ukrainians to agree to the investigations, had a blunter message.
That's why Trump has put him in charge of issues as big as Middle East peace, and why he has served as point person on the U.S. relationship with China.
"Libor may remain viable well past 2021, but we do not think that market participants can safely assume that it will," said Powell, the Fed's point person on the issue.
Higgins said he wasn't promised a vote on the legislation, just a commitment that he will be the point person of the effort to shepherd it through the legislative process.
That was a radical step -- and perplexing, from what I understand, to the Japanese, who were looking for Bernie to be the point person for their Zen project in America.
The Trump transition team's Iran point person is Yleem Poblete, it said, a former senior staff official for the House Foreign Affairs Committee deeply involved in drafting past sanctions legislation.
It is the first time that Biden, the point person for the White House on Iraq, has visited the country since the United States officially withdrew its forces in 2011.
The trip is the first time that Biden, the point person for the White House on Iraq, has visited the country since the United States withdrew its forces in 2011.
President Trump named Vice President Mike Pence his point person to coordinate the government's response to the coronavirus, expressing confidence that the United States would prevent a widespread domestic outbreak.
But she's become the point person for more experienced operatives in Washington who've helped guide her through the past six months of recruiting and training more candidates, operatives and volunteers.
He also said, in an interview, that he had advised a daughter of Mr. Logan's, who has become a point person for the family, not to speak with Mr. Buttigieg.
To take one example, Cohen was the Trump Organization's point person for the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2015, even asking the Kremlin for help to get the project approved.
Officials said the parties were pushed to wrap up negotiations because Mr. Netanyahu's point person on the matter, Avichai Mandelblit, was leaving his post as cabinet secretary to become attorney general.
A DOJ point person for the task force, Jeffrey Hall, referred inquiries to a DOJ spokesperson, who cited a transcript of Sessions' speech and a memo, which also didn't provide answers.
Responsible for tasks like immunizations, referrals and emergency assessment, an ANM serves as the point person for maternal health care — and an app called Suyojana is helping ANMs along the way.
" He details the struggle of everyday life, getting up in the morning and facing the world without the presence of McNamara, who was the family's "point person, researcher, planner, and expediter.
Mnuchin said nothing to contradict the tripod, which confirmed to Cramer that the economy will grow under Trump, since Mnuchin will likely be the point person to pass these big changes.
Some companies may have a team of data scientists supporting business units, while others may prefer each business unit to have its own point person to work with the data department.
But While Cipollone is more reserved and has stayed out of the public spotlight, he's been forcefully staking his claim on being the White House's point person leading the impeachment defense.
Wysong, O'Rourke's longtime chief of staff and the manager of his Senate campaign, has been the point person for conversations with Democratic operatives interested in working on a potential O'Rourke campaign.
That leaves Ms. Brainard, the other member of the committee that oversees supervision, as the Fed's point person on the Wells case, although Mr. Powell would also participate in significant decisions.
Jared Kushner, Trump's point person on Middle East peace, is visiting the region this week to follow up on June's conference in Bahrain on the economic part of the peace plan.
Quarterly, Riihimaki sits down with her YouTube partner manager — a point person YouTube assigns to check in with top creators — to talk about what&aposs been working and what hasn&apost.
The deal is likely to raise further concerns about Jared Kushner's dual role as a White House point person on the Middle East and a continuing stakeholder in the family's company.
The point person for the government (who will be reporting to Vice President Pence) is Deborah Birx, a longtime leader in the U.S. government's efforts to contain the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
President Donald Trump finally has a point person for rural issues after the Senate approved Sonny Perdue to lead the Department of Agriculture by a vote of 87-11 Monday evening.
As deputy director of the National Economic Council, Knight was the White House's point person on the tax cuts package that passed Congress earlier this year - the administration's main legislative accomplishment.
As for the issue of having a point person on China, some White House officials said they decided not to adopt that model because it ran against the normal bureaucratic structure.
Meanwhile, it sets Obama and much of the Democratic base against Schumer who, as incoming minority leader in the Senate, is going to be the point person in opposing Donald Trump.
The fact that Trump has made Dannenfelser his point person on reproductive rights issues makes it seem even less likely that affordable, accessible contraception would be a priority in a Trump administration.
Emily, with her consulting background, serves as the point-person for negotiations and monitoring the performance of portfolio companies, as well as maintaining relationships within the larger cannabis industry for future deals.
In the days following the September 11, 2012, attacks on the Benghazi consulate that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, Rice became the Obama administration's point person on the matter.
They argue a criminal enterprise can, for instance, keep individual ownership stakes below 25 percent and list anyone as a point person, even if he or she has no real management responsibilities.
John Kasich of Ohio dispatched Kerry Knott, who served as chief of staff to Dick Armey, a former House majority leader, to attend and serve as the point person for transition preparations.
Bernhardt has been the point person on numerous major Interior initiatives, such as changes to the Endangered Species Act and efforts to start drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Now Trump's new point person at this consumer agency—which ostensibly looks out for everyone from student debtors to people getting bilked for extra debit card fees—wants to finish the job.
Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and a point person on the peace process, visited both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas in the region the last week of August.
"There is no case of the military killing Muslim civilians," said Dr. Win Myat Aye, the country's social welfare minister and the governing National League for Democracy party's point person on Rakhine.
During a visit to Washington in early March, Liu had requested Washington set up a new economic dialogue mechanism, identify a point person on China issues, and deliver a list of demands.
Grassley helped Kavanaugh by creating a difference between "handling" Pryor's nomination, and generally working on the nomination, making clear that Kavanaugh was not the primary point person on this particular judicial nominee.
As Republican leaders in the House met to discuss the package, Mnuchin, who has served as the Republican Trump administration's point person on the economic aid package, predicted they would support it.
Its point person on tackling debt, a senior economic official named Liu He, has also been deeply involved in trade negotiations, though Chinese officials say Beijing has the bandwidth to handle both.
Still, as fears of hypothermia set in, he put in an emergency call to Finland's point person for the European Cycling Federation, who arranged provisional housing through a network of good Samaritans.
USTR needs an effective point person to focus on farmers, and rural America needs to have their concerns heard and be considered alongside all other industries in this and future trade negotiations.
The US State Department's point person for East Asian and Pacific affairs, Susan Thornton, is also in Seoul, where she is scheduled to meet with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha.
Instead, as has been widely reported, he wound up taking a backseat to other officials like Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and point person for drafting a proposed peace plan.
As the Post notes, he was the campaign's point person for a Republican Party platform committee discussion in which he advocated against language endorsing the US sending lethal defense weapons to Ukraine.
As her husband's point person on education, Hillary Clinton had a broad mandate to shift public policy and fundamentally alter the conditions of children in the state — and she did so aggressively.
Berri, Lebanon's point person with Satterfield, is a close ally of the powerful Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, a political and military organization backed by Iran that has fought numerous conflicts with Israeli.
The Supreme Court nominee's mother was a point person in President Reagan's efforts to gut federal regulatory bodies by stacking them with administrators who would dismantle programs from within the agencies they ran.
Choe's remarks continue the North's attack on Trump's point person on the nuclear negotiations, after another foreign ministry official rejected Pompeo as a counterpart, demanding a switch to someone "more careful and mature".
For one, they said, the Defense Department could assign a point person for protecting cultural heritage and take more of a leadership role in enforcing a 1954 Hague Convention on protecting cultural property.
"He indicated that he wanted this to be a serious process," Anita Decker Breckenridge, Mr. Obama's deputy chief of staff for operations and the point person on the process, said in an interview.
You'll likely want to speak with the human resources point person (or team) at your job who oversees employee benefits, but don't expect them — or anyone else — to tell you what to choose.
More food for thought • Meet Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division and the administration's point person on the Time Warner deal, as profiled by Cecilia Kang of the NYT.
Three individuals with knowledged confirmed to the Post that Hupp was the point person on the housing search, which included contacting local real estate companies and viewing properties for both rent and sale.
Andriy Yermak was speaking a day after his appointment by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, which coincided with Russia installing a new point person on Ukraine who is seen as less hawkish than his predecessor.
Ms. Reist, the Frick's Pharos point person and the consortium's president, used a famous artwork as an example of how Pharos will work: Hans Holbein the Younger's 2000 portrait of Sir Thomas More.
While he holds seats on two important panels dealing with government spending -- Appropriations and Budget -- he ‎isn't the most senior member and hasn't been the point person for the party on any leading issue.
Hurdles The issues raised by Wyden, specifically on the appearance of conflicts of interest, threaten to create new hurdles for Trump's selected economic point person before he can take his position in the Cabinet.
Shortly into his new role, Kabbani was the point person for the purchase of PillPack, according to three people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the discussions were private.
"Dismantling collective bargaining rights in this state is a non-starter for Democrats," said state Representative Greg Harris, a Chicago Democrat whom Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan has anointed as his budget point person.
Amari played a central role in negotiating the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement, and has been the point-person overseeing the growth strategies that make up Abe's "Abenomics" stimulus policies.
Treasury Secretary Steven Munchkin, Trump's point person on the issue, has proposed a variety of tax breaks, while Pelosi Democrats have called for expanding the safety net to help those who may lose work.
His ties to Russia predated the campaign — he sat with President Vladimir V. Putin at a 2015 event in Moscow — and he was a point person on the transition team for dealing with Russia.
Facebook's point person on Capitol Hill: The company is sending its general counsel, the former Washington lawyer Colin Stretch, to testify for it at the congressional hearings into Russian electoral interference on Nov. 1.
On Friday, as the news emerged, a senior Ukrainian defense official said that with Vindman's departure from the National Security Council, his country is left with no real point-person at the White House.
The charges against Trump stem from his request that Ukraine investigate Joe and Hunter Biden, who worked at a Ukrainian gas company while his father was the Obama administration's point person on Ukrainian policy.
Pence, the Trump administration's point person for getting the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) approved by Congress, made the remark at the start of a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa.
Jay Dickey, who described himself after the fact as "the NRA's point person in Congress," legislators passed a one-sentence rider in that year's federal omnibus spending bill that added an additional hurdle for researchers.
However Babar Atta, the prime minister's point person on eradicating polio, said the main problem faced by the campaign was lack of access to children whose parents were reluctant to allow them to be vaccinated.
You are clearly a precise, punctual, and to-the-point person, which means you are efficient with your time and can't waste precious seconds on anything beyond asking a timer to be set for you.
The Fed's well respected vice chair, Stanley Fischer, and its point-person on bank supervision, Daniel Tarullo, stepped down earlier this year as the overhaul gained steam in the wake of the 2016 U.S. election.
At the managerial level, this is a job that pays well but also shoulders a lot of responsibility, as they are the point person between consumers, insurance companies, biotech firms and, of course, the government.
Kushner, the president's son-in-law, has served as a point person for global affairs in the White House, meeting with foreign leaders and working on policies like a peace plan for the Middle East.
Cecilia Muñoz, the White House's point person on immigration, defended Obama's decision to wait until the end of 2014 to take action on his own, saying he wanted to give Congress a chance to move.
It's the vice president, who is the point person of the Obama administration's policy on Ukraine, and his son is suddenly hired to be a director on the board of Ukraine's largest private gas producer.
Sorin Moisa, a center-left member of the European Parliament who helped steer CETA through and is now the parliament's point person for a potential EU-Mexico deal, said the EU should move beyond CETA.
Hedayatullah Stanekzai, the health ministry's point person on polio, said that out of some 9 million children eligible for vaccination, around 860,000 had not been administered polio drops in 2018, mainly due to security threats.
While Robert Lighthizer, President Trump's top trade official, has been leading the talks, Mr. Mnuchin has been the point person for promoting the film industry because of his background as a Hollywood producer and investor.
Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard, who is the point person on CRA for the central bank's board, laid out in a speech some options for measuring CRA activity that more closely track the current framework.
As Vice President Mike Pence, the administration's new point person on novel coronavirus, riled up the crowd in the Potomac Ballroom on Thursday, several CPAC attendees told Insider they weren't especially panicked about the coronavirus.
Trump has vowed to broker a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians — a task that has eluded presidents with more experience in the region — and has designated Kushner as the point person on the effort.
Chief whip Andrew Leslie, who helps oversee members of the ruling Liberal Party in the House of Commons, will be made parliamentary secretary to new Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland - Trudeau's point person on the U.S. file.
But allegations and insinuations that Kislyak was the point person for this — and that it could have played out in broad daylight at meetings on Capitol Hill or at Trump campaign events — are preposterous, they say.
At the Chevron protest, one group of local people wanted to nominate a point person who could have a say in where the development funds went, forcing the Delta state government to mediate between rival factions.
That leaves Okuliar as the point person for the tech probes within the Antitrust Division, helping manage day-to-day questions from the more than 30 lawyers assigned to work on the cases along with Shores.
While Mr. Farkas hasn't been vocal in seeking to influence federal policymaking, he has repeatedly worked with a prominent businessman from the United Arab Emirates, where Mr. Kushner is a point person for American foreign policy.
In the CNBC interview, anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin also pressed Kudlow on the role of Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer who has served as Trump's point person in pursuing a Ukrainian investigation of the Bidens.
He was a central player in the rollout of Trump's high-profile bid to end new HIV transmissions in a decade, and has served as HHS' point person in its efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.
Hacking attempts disguised as text messages appeared on the cellphone of the executive secretary for the investigators, the point person for all contacts with the group, on March 1 and 4, 2016, the forensic analysis found.
The three of us will collaborate across all our seed and early-stage investments, though Omar will be point person on post-seed, and Will and I will continue to focus on pre-seed and seed.
With detention centers at the border overcapacity and large numbers of unaccompanied minors straining federal resources, top administration officials increasingly believe they need a point person who can coordinate the efforts of multiple agencies and departments.
Mr. Malpass, currently the under secretary for international affairs at the Treasury Department, has been a point person in the Trump administration's trade negotiations with China and has overseen the government's relationship with the World Bank.
The president's move has "rallied people, and they are saying they can't let this happen", says the Reverend Sally Bingham, an Episcopal priest who is also the point-person for the environment in the diocese of California.
The official confirmed that Pompeo has taken the lead on planning because after the departure of Joe Yun, the State Department's point person on North Korea, intelligence agencies are the main source of expertise on the country.
But he also supports energy development on federal land -- including mining and drilling, something most Democrats oppose -- and Dems appear to worry he will be President Trump's point person for overhauling conservation laws to make that happen.
And then, as the point person behind the "Buffalo Billion," the governor's signature economic development project, Dr. Kaloyeros steered more than $600 million in state contracts to companies run by Mr. Cuomo's donors, according to federal prosecutors.
A native Spanish speaker, he proved to be the point person for photographers from Latin America, a region that — along with Africa and Asia — had seen robust growth thanks to the accessibility of digital technology and platforms.
Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser, has been the administration's point person in dealing with many of those companies in order to set up mass testing centers, including Walmart, Target, Walgreens and CVS.
And the president's naming of Mr. Pence as his point person immediately drew partisan fire even as he vowed to ensure that the "full resources of the American government" were deployed to protect Americans from the coronavirus.
As the point person on the push to get Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Mr. Giuliani likely knows more about the origins, scope and details of the effort than almost anyone.
As the point person for Samsung's partnerships with various sports leagues, he set up its college football partnership with ESPN and brokered a deal that brings the 2020 National Championship Game to fans in native 4K resolution.
He was the Mexico point person for an Open Society Foundations report, published in March, which detailed accusations of extreme physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at drug rehabilitation centers around Latin America, with an emphasis on Mexico's anexos.
Ryan worked out a deal with House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan, who has been the point person lobbying for a House vote, to hold a special meeting next Thursday with all House Republicans to discuss the issue.
The transition has stated that Wilbur Ross, the secretary of commerce nominee, will be the administration's point person on trade issues, which makes sense given that the Department of Commerce has a lot of discretion in setting tariffs.
Under Obama, Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Trump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button MORE was the main point person for the agreement.
Despite its hardline criminal justice directives, the White House has embraced prison revisions with Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner -- the White House point person on the issue -- hosting an event on the issue last Friday.
The resignation of House Speaker John Boehner in 2015 changed that trajectory -- Ryan would end up not just atop a committee, but the whole House -- but the goal remained, with a new point person at its helm: Rep.
Now the entire nation knows what it did not know before: That Hunter Biden accepted a job from a reportedly corrupt Ukraine oligarch while Joe was the point person for the White House in that notoriously corrupt country.
"Even though they will reallocate someone to become the point person, that person won't be able to take regular cases that are popping up all over the place," like caretakers stealing checks out of their elder charges' mail.
She coordinated with senior executives and the "incident commander," a rotating position she had created to ensure that every "escalation" — that's corporate-speak for "a terrible thing found on our platform" — had a point person overseeing the response.
Vice President Mike Pence is the Trump administration's point person for revitalizing the space program, including leading the charge for a Space Force, reforming cumbersome regulations and accelerating plans to return American astronauts to the moon by 2024.
Mr. Senard will be Renault's point person for managing strategic and operational issues in the alliance, including turning the focus as soon as possible back to the companies' business, as the automakers face headwinds in their key markets.
Mr. Malpass, whose loyalty to the president runs deep, has also been the Treasury Department's point person on trade talks with China and traveled to Beijing last month to set the framework for last week's talks in Washington.
Powell also benefited from burgeoning relationships through his work on the technical aspects of markets, and his assumption of the role as the Fed's regulatory point person after the resignation of former Fed Governor Daniel Tarullo in April.
"They are all under the impression that they will be in Europe in a jiffy," said Eldada, who, despite her age, is among the longest-serving members on the Aquarius and is the point person for the rescued people.
Lee Zeldin, R-New York, as asking questions that seemed to suggest that by meeting with Ukrainian government officials, Vindman -- the point person on the White House National Security Council for Ukraine policy -- was perhaps involved in nefarious deeds.
Mr. Cohen was the point person at the Trump Organization for the project, and he admitted to having lied about how long the talks lasted and how much Mr. Trump — called "Individual 1" in the court documents — was involved.
Negotiations with Lael Brainard, the single remaining Democrat on the Fed board and the central bank's point person on CRA, helped shape the metric that would look at the distribution of loans, along with other aspects, Otting has said.
Hunter Biden said Tuesday that he made an error in judgment by joining the board of directors for a Ukrainian energy company at a time when Joe Biden was the point person for the Obama administration's policies in Ukraine.
Further, in this White House, there is no go-to political point person — a role that Karl Rove and David Axelrod filled in previous administrations — and no high-ranking official overseeing the president's role in the party and campaigns.
Weisselberg was described anonymously in the Cohen indictment last week as the point person for reimbursing the former Trump attorney for expenses, including payments he made to quiet one woman who claimed to have had an affair with Trump.
When Joe Biden was vice president and Barack Obama's point person on cleaning up Ukrainian corruption, his son Hunter took a lucrative board seat on a company founded by a former Ukrainian politician who was widely seen as corrupt.
The sudden departure of the Trump campaign's state director has left officials without a point person in one of its 17 "target states" for the 2020 cycle, where paid staffers have been operating on the ground since early spring.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's point-person on the theory of how high to raise interest rates said on Friday that estimating this "neutral" level is getting more difficult and less relevant as the U.S. central bank continues tightening policy.
Senate Democrats boycotting HHS, Treasury nominees The focus has trained on a series of finance entities, all offshoots of the hedge fund run by Mnuchin up until he was selected as Trump's pick to be the country's economic point person.
We're having a serious problem with the guy who is supposed to be developing our website and I agree to be the point person on the project because I think the other lady is being way too nice to him.
Also in the photo are then-senator Jeff Sessions, now Trump's attorney general, and J.D. Gordon, a former Pentagon spokesperson who would be the Trump campaign's point person on foreign policy platform issues at the Republican National Convention three months later.
"He was the point person for all the businesses — he heard from dozens of CEOs and others who said it was a bad direction," said Mindy Lubber, the president of the nonprofit group Ceres, which mobilizes business leaders for environmental advocacy.
The Obama White House usually had at least one very caffeinated point person and two others dedicated to watching Twitter, online publications, print media, and cable news, and then compile relevant clips and send them around to White House aides.
Kushner became the White House's point person on US-Mexico relations at the beginning of Trump's presidency, working to maintain and improve ties between the two countries in the wake of Trump's divisive and insulting rhetoric toward Mexico and Mexicans.
The campaign also plans to bring on additional staff to help with the news media, and it is seeking a point person for surrogates, who would recruit and book Trump supporters to speak on television and hone their talking points.
That Kushner will not stay with Trump throughout the entire 12-day trip signals a reduced diplomatic role for the 85033-year-old, who had been considered an important point-person for international relations in the Trump administration, particularly on China.
Bossert's most prominent role at the White House came after a series of devastating hurricanes hit several US states and Puerto Rico last fall, when Bossert served as the White House's point person for the emergency response and rebuilding efforts.
The details: Fears "will serve as the President's Homeland Security Advisor and my point person on an array of vital tasks ranging from overseeing the NSC Cybersecurity Directorate to coordinating the interagency efforts during disaster response," according to the White House.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's point-person on Wall Street appealed to Congress on Monday to "do no harm" as it considers slicing back regulations put in place to protect the U.S. economy in the wake of the financial crisis.
Mr. Pompeo did not meet with Mr. Kim, as he had in past visits, but held talks with Kim Yong-chol, a senior official who has been the country's point person in deliberations with the United States, South Korea and China.
NEW YORK - U.S. bank stress tests conducted during an "interim" period this year will help the Federal Reserve decide what permanent changes to make to the closely followed examinations, the Fed's point person on financial supervision Randal Quarles said on Wednesday.
Correia was often the trio's point person in dealing with business contacts in Ukraine, and his work included drafting contracts and memorandums of understanding that the group could present to potential business partners, according to four sources who deal with them.
Tuesday began with ABC News airing its exclusive interview with Hunter Biden, who conceded that he exercised bad judgment by serving on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company while his father was the Obama administration's point person on Ukraine.
Hunter Biden held a lucrative role on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings, while Biden was the point person for U.S. policy in Ukraine, and recently said he would leave the board of a Chinese private equity firm.
GOP leaders came away from the gathering saying that Mnuchin would be the point person on debt talks, an interesting development given that the Treasury secretary has called for a clean debt hike — a move that surely would anger fiscal conservatives.
Trump co-owned the beauty pageant from 221 to 227, and, in 222 and 123, he spoke to local oligarchs about plans to build a tower in Moscow; Cohen was his point person for the Trump Organization at the time.
Vindman is an Army officer who currently serves as the director for European affairs on the National Security Council, working first under Fiona Hill and then under Tim Morrison as their point person on defense-related issues involving Russia and Ukraine.
Biden repeated his father's assertions that the two never discussed Hunter's foreign business interests, even as he sat on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company while the then-vice president was a U.S. point person on Ukraine policy.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The European Union should spend more than the 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) already allotted to fund Syrian refugees in Turkey, and speed up the flow of that money, the Turkish foreign ministry's EU point person said on Saturday.
Signatures included Apple CEO Tim Cook, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and, naturally, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who has been the Silicon Valley point-person speaking out against state-level laws that negatively impact the LGBT community.
"People are going to be worried they're going to go into a grocery store and stuff costs a lot more," Wyden, whose committee position makes him the point person on tax reform for Democrats in the Senate, told CNN in an interview.
Lawmakers and foreign officials have been pressing for the appointment of a special representative, saying the secretary of state has too many other concerns to be the point person on delicate and time-consuming negotiations with North Korea over that country's nuclear program.
"Some people might call that espionage," Yoo said, referring to the fact that Vindman reportedly advised Ukrainian officials on how to deal with Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who earlier this year was the White House's unofficial point person for Ukraine policy.
"This is a suspension for three months just to wait out the European elections in two months time after nine years of breaking down democracy and the rule of law," said Dutch Green Judith Sargentini, the European Parliament's point person on Hungary.
And while he holds the official title of senior adviser, Kushner has become his father-in-law's point person on a sweeping array of issues, including Middle East peace, U.S.-China relations, criminal justice reform and overhauling how the government is run.
Verma, who was crucial in the House vote earlier this year and attempted to play a similar role in the failed July Senate efforts, is back and is considered the point person on getting Murkowski comfortable with the legislation, two aides say.
Alas, again: While Uber board member Arianna Huffington is willing to come to Code, she tells us she can't discuss the review, which she has been point person on for the board, because it won't be released to employees before she goes onstage.
Yun's departure leaves the State Department without a point person for North Korea policy at a time Pyongyang has signaled it may be willing to talk to the United States after a period of diplomatic contacts with South Korea during the Winter Olympics.
Instead of a single point person with a clear set of demands, the White House is sending six trade and economic officials with differing ideas on how to approach China and who are deeply divided over the desirability of a trade war.
Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), the Intelligence Committee chairman, challenged the briefer on what struck them as an effort to play down the assessment given last month by Shelby Pierson, the intelligence community's point person on foreign election threats, a fourth official said.
Yet few have tried to downplay the pressure Pence faces as the point person for a new viral epidemic — one that has thrust global markets into violent swings and threatens to knock the U.S. economy into recession — under a famously mercurial president.
Democratic Senators with serious ideas about foreign policy should think twice about opposing the Pompeo nomination and thereby complicating their relationship with a man who will be the president's point-person for dealing peacefully with world problems grave enough to merit bipartisan unity.
But as the virus began to spread around the globe and infections were confirmed in the United States, Mr. Trump named Vice President Mike Pence as his point person at the end of February, and more administration officials were added to the panel.
That year, after two Choate graduates came forward with accounts of sexual misconduct by teachers, Alex D. Curtis, who became headmaster in 2011, named his associate headmaster, Kathleen Wallace, as the "point person" for receiving reports about past or present sexual abuse.
"We don't want to wait until we get into a space war and aren't prepared for it in order to go ahead and recognize those problems," Douglas Loverro, the Pentagon's point person for space policy during the Obama administration, told me recently.
Trump and his allies, in a crusade led by Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, have asserted that Hunter Biden was hired by Burisma in 2015, while his father served as the U.S. point person on corruption in Ukraine, because of his family ties.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has remained the administration's point person on North Korea, is expected to meet with a North Korean counterpart on the sidelines of this week's UN General Assembly, with a second summit one of the main agenda points.
Mueller, a former FBI director, is now the point person for all Justice Department work involving Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, and it means that the major questions involving this active and politically sensitive criminal investigation are best handled by Mueller.
"At this moment Costa Rica is absolutely overwhelmed with our immigration situation and we're doing our best to protect the human rights of the people who are coming," said Mauricio Herrera Ulloa, the Costa Rican Communications Minister and point person for the migration crisis.
But the judge concluded that Postman, as the Chamber's point person coordinating strategy with Uber, likely had access to Uber documents relevant to the class action, which claims that Uber enjoys an unfair advantage over ordinary limousine companies because it classifies drivers as independent contractors.
Pence - Trump's point person for getting the deal through the U.S. Congress - has been traveling through U.S. states dependent on trade with Canada and Mexico to make the case for the deal, which faces a tricky path ahead of presidential and congressional elections next year.
Pence, Trump's point person for getting the deal through the U.S. Congress, has been traveling through U.S. states dependent on trade with Canada and Mexico to make the case for the deal, which faces a tricky path ahead of presidential and congressional elections next year.
"It is decentralized, so people in Davenport are not calling the person in Des Moines, they have a local point person who lives in their community, and part of that staffer's organizing portfolio is to do local outreach," said Lily Adams, Clinton's Iowa spokeswoman.
A night mayor is a city's point person for issues that crop up at night, which municipalities traditionally have not separately planned for, said Jim Peters, president of the Responsible Hospitality Institute, which has helped cities like Toronto, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando create similar positions.
Nor was the governor accused of wrongdoing in either of the two other major corruption trials this year, even though they led to the convictions of Joseph Percoco, once one of Mr. Cuomo's top aides, and Alain Kaloyeros, Mr. Cuomo's former economic point person.
Records about the subpoena fight show that the point person on the issue for prosecutors until recently was Jonathan Kravis, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney and as deputy chief of the Fraud and Public Corruption Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington.
That hasn't stopped journalists from digging into whether there was a conflict of interest at play since the vice president was not only the Obama administration's point person on Ukraine, but had hyped the potential of Ukraine's natural gas sector while in that role.
Gonzalez tried to reach the White House domestic-policy adviser Cecilia Muñoz, the daughter of Bolivian immigrants and a longtime immigrant advocate who was the administration's point person on the issue, to set up a meeting at an exurban Starbucks where no one would recognize them.
The key to success is to use the alerts at the appropriate times and not to overuse them, said Josh Gottheimer, who was a point person at the Federal Communications Commission during the creation of the alert system in New York City, which started in 2011.
Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu, the Mexican administration's point person on a new strategy to revamp the country's image in the United States, addressed the American Jewish Committee in Washington Monday and held closed-door meetings with Ryan and members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday.
But Quarles has only made modest changes to the central bank's framework since being confirmed as its point person on banking regulation and he has already faced Republican criticism for the Fed's initial efforts to rewrite the crisis-era "Volcker Rule" that bars risky trading by banks.
The dismissal on Wednesday of George David Banks, who was the White House point person on climate change, was seen as a particularly galling move after 13 months in which nobody in the West Wing had seemed particularly concerned about enforcing a standard for past conduct.
She is not the "opioids czar," as some news outlets reported this week, but her stepping out as point person on the government response to this public health crisis stirred hope of concrete action from a White House that so far has offered little more than talk.
China has expressed frustration that the United States has not established a clear point person in the negotiations, which have been led by an alternating group of officials including Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary; Robert E. Lighthizer, the United States trade representative; Mr. Ross; and others.
In 2013, as a newly confirmed assistant secretary of state, she became the point person for the increasingly fraught situation in Ukraine, where large protests against the president, following his decision to pull out of an economic agreement with the European Union, eventually led to his ouster.
In Oslo last month, Joseph Y. Yun, the State Department's point person on North Korea, met with Choe Son-hui of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, who handled relations with Washington, to push for the release of all four American citizens then being held in the North.
Congress's impeachment hearings revealed the depth of the crisis: Mr. Trump used the staff and others to help shake Ukraine down for dirt on a political rival, while Colonel Vindman, the staff's Ukraine point person, and the rest of the council pursued a different policy altogether.
Mr. Lackey, who was the F.A.A.'s point person for Island Express off and on during his 17 years at the agency, said the tensions between him and the company's management began sometime around 763, and N.T.S.B. records show that he issued warning letters to the company.
Trump's allies, however, are digging in on Biden being the point person for the Obama administration in Ukraine at a time when his son was on the board of directors for a company that was owned by a Ukrainian oligarch who was under investigation for corruption.
Michael Flynn will become Trump's point person on advice for how to handle national security issues once he enters the White House, but he'll be one of the more controversial members of Trump's team; Flynn has peddled debunked conspiracy theories and takes a hard line approach to American security.
It will also include on the American side Sung Kim, who the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines who really is the point person here in dealing with the North Korean delegation about the finer points of diplomacy here and what they can and cannot get done as well.
"In a normal White House, there would be a point person at the White House, on the National Security Council, to coordinate all the different agencies and to work with the states and the social media companies to make sure our democracy isn't so vulnerable to attack," Sen.
The "Department of War" While Cipollone is more reserved and has stayed out of the public spotlight, he's been forcefully staking his claim on being the White House's point person leading the impeachment defense in a sometimes-chaotic White House without a clear impeachment strategy or leadership structure.
Vice President Mike Pence -- who has been the Trump administration's point person on coordinating the government's response to the pandemic -- and second lady Karen Pence were tested Saturday for the virus after it was revealed a member of the vice president's staff had tested positive for Covid-19.
But the image of his son making as much as $50,000 per month from a Ukrainian energy company while his father was the Obama administration's point person on the country creates potential headaches for the Biden campaign — particularly at a time when populism is ascendant in both parties.
Mr. Giuliani has been Mr. Trump's point person in pushing Ukraine for an investigation, and in recent days, he has thrown out a dizzying series of allegations and conspiracy theories about the country involving Hillary Clinton, George Soros and others plotting to take down Mr. Trump in 2016.
Role of John Kelly Lawmakers want Trump's chief of staff John Kelly, who previously served as head of the Department of Homeland Security, to be the point person on the negotiations because they want someone who understands the issue and is constantly invested in talks, the source told CNN.
Specifically, DeFazio cited two POLITICO stories, one detailing Chao's disproportionate number of meetings with Kentucky officials during her first year in the position and another suggesting she had designated a member of her senior staff to serve as a point person for Kentucky issues, which the agency denies.
But Mr. Kushner's aggressive involvement has also been described as something of a defensive move: By positioning himself as the point person on raising money for the campaign, he prevents antagonists and potential rivals from taking over a job that comes with great power and proximity to the president.
"It is certainly not Mr. Trump's view that settlement activities should be condemned and that it is an obstacle for peace, because it is not an obstacle for peace," Jason Greenblatt, the Trump team's point person on Israel — and rumored potential new envoy to the region — told Israeli Army Radio Thursday.
"With Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on the road with Vice President Pence, a decision was made: Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, would become the point person, though officials insisted Price had not been sidelined," reporters Philip Rucker, Robert Costa, and Ashley Parker wrote.
At this point the sex abuse scandal broke in Boston, and elsewhere — and the Washington archbishop became the avuncular, reassuring media point person for his fellow bishops, issuing statements of concern and condemnation that if he really feared the punishments of hell would have turned to ashes in his mouth.
In a dramatic two-hour hearing in Federal District Court here, prosecutors said that Ms. Butina, who is charged with conspiracy and illegally acting as an agent of the Russian government, was the point person in a calculated, long-term campaign intended to steer high-level politicians toward Moscow's objectives.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has not announced a point person dedicated to cyber security policy or staffing in his administration, an omission that could make the United States more vulnerable to threats and worsen a government cyber talent shortfall, current and former national security officials said.
Trump has largely stayed on the sidelines of those negotiations, allowing Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinTrump signs coronavirus aid package with paid sick leave, free testing McConnell takes reins of third coronavirus bill GOP embraces big stimulus after years of decrying it MORE to serve as the White House's point person.
A shutdown would be a terrible thing," And Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby, the Alabama Republican who has been tasked as the congressional GOP point person on briefing the President on the deal, tweeted Wednesday night that he had just spoken to the President about the deal and Trump "was in good spirits.
When the White House sets up the war room to respond to any revelations that are made public, the setup is expected to include lawyers from the counsel's office, communications staffers and an overall point person -- similar to the way former White House Counsel Donald McGahn steered Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's nomination and confirmation.
And for the next two years, she will be the Democratic point person for the investigative and legislative showdowns with 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.
In fact, Trump's House Freedom Caucus allies on Monday night forced a vote on a resolution to censure Democrats' point person on impeachment, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffSchiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails Trump urges GOP to fight for him House rejects GOP measure censuring Schiff MORE (D-Calif.).
And there are other indications that the United States may be weighing a tougher stance on Pakistan, among them General McMaster's reported pick of a point person on the country who has strongly advocated that the United States stop treating Pakistan as an ally and condition any future military aid on fighting terrorist groups.
The payments are part of a controversial package totaling more than $210.5 billion in incentives and other assistance the state agreed to in 22018, believed to be the largest such package ever offered to a foreign company in the U.S. The company's point person in Wisconsin told CNBC that its long-term goals for the project are unchanged.
For the moment, most everyone says publicly they trust that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who has had more than a dozen calls with Pelosi over the last 10 days, even while he's been in France for the G-7 finance ministers meetings, and has served as the point person on the talks, speaks for the White House.
Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCotton warns China: Crackdown on Hong Kong would be 'grave miscalculation' Pompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests Pompeo acknowledges 'places where ISIS is more powerful today' MORE tapped State Department veteran Elliott Abrams on Friday as the government's point person to handle the escalating crisis in Venezuela.
In search of a bipartisan deal, Pelosi met with Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinHouse Democrats unveil coronavirus economic response package Democrats push for paid leave in coronavirus response House Democrats jam GOP with coronavirus bill MORE, Trump's point person on the economic response, in her Capitol office on Tuesday, and spoke with him again Wednesday morning.
Flood was hired to Trump's legal team this week to replace outgoing lawyer Ty Cobb, who up until now has been Trump's point person for special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election.
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 point person on Venezuela on Tuesday said the administration is considering granting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for migrants fleeing that country's political and economic turmoil.
James LankfordJames Paul LankfordHillicon Valley: GOP hits back over election security bills | Ratcliffe out for intel chief | Social media companies consider policies targeting 'deepfakes' | Capital One, GitHub sued over breach The Hill's 12:30 Report: Biden camp feels boost after Detroit debate GOP punches back in election security fight MORE (R-Okla.) is the "point person" as Republicans consider the change.
IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: He's only been on the job for three months and hasn't been confirmed by the Senate, but Ken Cuccinelli has quickly become one of the main players in the Trump administration, particularly as he becomes the point person for its immigration agenda since taking over as acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
In nearly three months on the job, Cuccinelli — who was not confirmed for the position by the Senate — has emerged as the point person for President TrumpDonald John TrumpJoe Biden's record – not his gaffes – is dooming his campaign Trump defends shift of FEMA funds, citing Dorian's change in path Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively donate M to help migrant children, social justice MORE's immigration agenda.
Under former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE, Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryTrump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button #FreeAustinTice trending on anniversary of kidnapping in Syria MORE was the key point person in developing the Paris pact.
After hours of talks and trading of proposals, including eight separate phone calls over the course of the day between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, President Donald Trump's point person on the talks, negotiators are still attempting to iron out differences on specific language over a package that is expected to include paid leave, expanded food assistance, extended unemployment insurance and free coverage for coronavirus testing.
Another two firms are being paid $125,000 a month — Hogan Lovells, which has Norm Coleman, a former senator of Minnesota, as its point person for Saudi work, and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, which has a bipartisan team composed of Marc S. Lampkin, a former aide to the former House speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, and Alfred E. Mottur, a top fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
"They were talking about repealing the Magnitsky Act so that Russian torturers and murderers could freely travel and keep their money in the U.S." Browder alleged that not only was Veselnitskaya the point person for the Kremlin, but that Rinat Akhmetshin, the Russian-American lobbyist who is believed to have worked with a Russian counterintelligence unit and was also present in the meeting, was also working on behalf of Moscow.
People like the University of Georgia Chief of Police, the university's Spirit Coordinator, the band director, four associate athletic directors, their point person with stadium concession company Aramark, the guy from the stadium cleanup company, someone from private security firm CSC, UGA Campus Transit, the caterer for two personal boxes including Coach Richt's personal box, the head of a portable bathroom company, gameday parking, American Red Cross and the university's EMS service.
But the AIPAC gathering also comes as Trump and Netanyahu both face growing legal investigations in their respective countries, while the president's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared KushnerJared Corey KushnerTop immigration aide experienced 'jolt of electricity to my soul' when Trump announced campaign Dick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Trump Jr. dismisses conflicts of interest, touts projects in Indonesia MORE — his point person on a Mideast peace deal — finds himself in a political firestorm.
"I understand that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has designated Kellyanne Conway as his point person on this issue, so her input would help the Committee with its ongoing efforts to evaluate the status of the Commission's recommendations," Cummings wrote.
In their letter, the lawyers listed several potential conflicts for Mr. Barr, including that the transcript of Mr. Trump's telephone conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on July 25, 2019, contained multiple references to Mr. Barr — along with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer — "as being the point person for the Zelensky administration to work with in commencing an investigation into the president's chief political rival," former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The letter also cited a reference to Mr. Barr in the Aug.
Hagin — who is reportedly looking to leave his job, potentially for a top spot at the CIA — is a force for stability in the White House and was most recently Trump's point person in arranging his meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Two people close to the administration told BuzzFeed News they think of the director of Oval Office operations, Karem, who spends a lot of time with the president, as a "spy" for Hagin, who worked in the administrations of presidents George W. Bush and H.W. Bush.
The announcement came after hours of negotiations between Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinTrump signs coronavirus aid package with paid sick leave, free testing McConnell takes reins of third coronavirus bill GOP embraces big stimulus after years of decrying it MORE, President TrumpDonald John TrumpDe Blasio calls on Trump to deploy military to set up hospitals in New York Hillicon Valley: Facebook launches portal for coronavirus information | EU sees spike in Russian misinformation on outbreak | Senate Dem bill would encourage mail-in voting | Lawmakers question safety of Google virus website Trump signs coronavirus aid package with paid sick leave, free testing MORE's point person on the second round of emergency coronavirus relief.

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