The SEC chairman, who is presidentially appointed, is responsible for hiring division directors.
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Acosta served in three presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed positions from 2900 to 220006.
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Trump tweeted, oh so presidentially, that Schwarzenegger had been a terrible California governor.
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Adam was not the first assistant; he wasn't presidentially appointed, confirmed by the Senate.
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The Copyright Office MUST be led by a presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed individual.
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He has served in three presidentially-appointed senior financial management positions in the Pentagon.
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Fellows are selected by a presidentially appointed commission over a grueling yearlong application process.
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I thought he acted and spoke as presidentially as I've seen him so far.
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Obama is proving that one can be elected president without knowing how to behave presidentially.
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They were not meant to protect businesses from competition from presidentially owned enterprises, he ruled.
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The current position does not have the power or authority of a presidentially appointed finding.
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No presidentially designated monument under that law has since been removed by a later president.
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There are a total of 57 presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed positions at the Department of Defense.
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Boente said a message Friday to presidentially appointed US attorneys applied to everyone, including including Bharara.
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He also said he would not put financial industry executives on the Fed's presidentially appointed board.
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This is a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed position, which would be announced by the White House.
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That is what President Obama did in presidentially legislating the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program.
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But the controversy over a presidentially-inspired character is unusual, especially given past iterations of the play.
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It is led by five presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed commissioners, although one position is currently vacant.
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The agency's commissioners, who are presidentially appointed, should have named them, not SEC staff, the justices said.
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By contrast, in the U.S., a strong case to sanction Google was quashed by a presidentially appointed commission.
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The law provides a legal framework for acting officers to fulfill presidentially appointed positions that require Senate confirmation.
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They'll also point to a string of victories by presidentially endorsed candidates since Trump won the White House.
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Dreeben argued Mueller is an inferior officer and subject to the direction and supervision of presidentially appointed officials.
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Under this bill, presidentially declared emergencies would generally terminate after 30 days unless Congress voted to approve them.
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Currently, the SEC hires its in-house judges through a bureaucratic process and not by its presidentially-appointed commissioners.
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And in 2013, the presidentially appointed commissioners of the FTC overrode their staff, voting unanimously not to file any charges.
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The S.E.C., an independent agency composed of a bipartisan group of presidentially appointed commissioners, is less subject to political considerations.
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In a presidentially declared disaster, Disaster Unemployment Assistance is also available to individuals whose work has been lost or interrupted.
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Instead, election years are a time to pander to the voters — perhaps, this time around, with a presidentially-approved tax cut.
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Some inspectors general, such as the EPA's Arthur A. Elkins Jr., are Presidentially appointed, while others are designated by their agency heads.
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"Decisions don't get made as well, as quickly or as effectively without a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed, person in place," Stier said.
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Despite the lop-sided results, the department said a delay is justified because time is needed to complete the presidentially mandated review.
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Under the changes, a cabinet of ministers, now all elected members of Parliament, will be replaced by presidentially appointed advisers and deputies.
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"Unfortunately," many senior leadership positions continue to "suffer from a lack of permanent, Presidentially Appointed and Senate confirmed officials," wrote the watchdog.
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In less than a day, a Breitbart story accusing the Obama administration of wiretapping Trump Tower became, via tweet, a presidentially asserted fact.
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Before he was presidentially humiliated, Sessions, the US attorney general, was elected four times to the US Senate by the people of Alabama.
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But it is another thing entirely to attack a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed judge's legitimacy, or to attack another based on his heritage.
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He has served in a number of Presidentially-appointed capacities in the Executive Office of the President of the Clinton and Bush Administrations.
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But his legacy on larger policy matters remains uncertain — and, of course, Kelly largely failed to get the president to behave more presidentially.
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Basically all positions in Cabinet departments and executive agencies that are normally presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed can be filled under the Vacancies Act.
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Even if the DOJ prevails in the district court, it'll have to go through the liberal (and presidentially antagonized) Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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"My understanding is that (Tillerson) has the jurisdiction to keep this freeze in place as we go about this presidentially-mandated" reorganization, Toner said.
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They also suggest that a presidentially appointed Commission chair would be tantamount to an "election czar," with vast power to persecute the president's opponents.
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To be eligible, your company must have insurance to cover that situation or you must qualify for federal assistance in a presidentially declared disaster area.
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At one point, Hunt and Fine argued that a commission would ensure stability and that having a presidentially-appointed director would create dramatic shifts in policy.
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But a federal district court rejected that argument, relying on a 1988 Supreme Court case holding that independent counsels did not have to be presidentially appointed.
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The legislation would codify the Office on Cyber Issues into law and elevate its leader to the rank of ambassador, a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed position.
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The bill would create a presidentially appointed commission to review the closure of underperforming VA facilities, which House Democrats opposed when the plan was drafted in March.
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It is high time that the Copyright Office be led by a presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed individual, and be equipped to handle 22019st century copyright issues.
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IGs are independent appointments, either presidentially or by boards, with an average of a five-year terms which are designed to overlap the administrations of their appointees.
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Congress often followed up to give these lands even more protection, by converting presidentially-designated national monuments into some of our most cherished and visited national parks.
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"In 2011, we reported that there were more than two dozen presidentially appointed individuals with biodefense responsibilities," said Currie, with multiple federal agencies assuming some sort of responsibility.
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The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would make the Register of Copyright a presidentially appointed position, instead of a part of the Library of Congress.
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Her moment at center stage follows notable turns from some other members of the so-called 2020 caucus, as some on Capitol Hill have labeled the presidentially curious.
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The security detail for Plaisier, a mid-level FDA executive not in a presidentially-appointed position, encompassed pulling 11 staffers from their day-to-day duties investigating crime.
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By Tuesday night, the agency's presidentially appointed commissioner had decided the gate would be closed at night due to security concerns, but kept open during the day, Kuczmanski said.
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At this time, the overwhelming majority of the senior positions at DHS are filled with either Senate confirmed or Presidentially Appointed officials or someone pending a current Senate confirmation.
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Do you have any sense of decency or shame in what you say to the American people that are part of your duty to serve respectfully with dignity, presidentially?
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"So many national parks were presidentially proclaimed monuments first – Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Olympic, Arches – and the locals didn't really like those monuments," he said.
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That's also why Congress must pass H.R. 28503, the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act, which would make the Register of Copyrights a Presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed position.
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HUD is developing guidelines to spend $21.4 billion in block grants supporting mitigation activities, but those funds are focused on places that experienced presidentially declared disasters from 2.83 through 22.8.
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It notes that a National Vetting Centre opened in December, describing it as "a presidentially created clearing-house and co-ordination centre for vetting information", mostly for those visa waivers.
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It now appears the best way to ensure all this is to amend the Constitution and relevant statutes to provide for a separately elected, rather than presidentially appointed, attorney general.
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The spokeswoman said he was tapped by the Justice Department to serve as U.S. attorney in an interim capacity from 2007-2008 but was "never presidentially nominated" for that position.
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"The memorandum seeks to show that presidentially mandated refusals to disclose information to Congress — though infrequent — are by no means unprecedented acts of this or any other administration," he wrote.
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"But critics who tell Trump to behave more maturely, even presidentially, are missing something crucial: The President-elect probably cannot control himself," D'Antonio wrote in the New York Daily News.
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Provincial assemblies modeled on the national assembly are eliminated in the new version and replaced by a presidentially appointed governors and deputy governors, whose nominations must be ratified by municipal governments.
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"There are 93 presidentially-appointed US attorneys, and it would be virtually impossible for a President to meet with all of them prior to nomination," said the former White House counsel.
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Third, and most importantly, the rescission may well impact larger Executive-Congressional relations, including defense spending negotiations and confirmations of Presidentially appointed positions which have already threatened to be held up.
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Indeed, there's something uniquely heavy, and even cruel, about the persistent theme of loss -- about having to reckon with its inevitability -- in today's political climate of at times presidentially abetted bigotry.
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"The memorandum seeks to show that presidentially mandated refusals to disclose information to Congress — though infrequent — are by no means unprecedented acts of this or any other administration," the opinion states.
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Angus King (I-Maine) introduced a bill to create a permanent, presidentially-appointed global health security adviser to manage outbreak response efforts and authorize annual funding to advance health security goals.
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But even if Congress doesn't act, Wheeler can retain the EAB structure simply by making its actions advisory and requiring a presidentially-nominated, Senate-confirmed officer to make the final decisions.
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Similar arguments have been made for decades, and consistently rejected on the merits by the Postal Regulatory Commission, the independent overseer of USPS whose members are presidentially appointed from both parties.
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"I think if Trump behaves himself and acts presidentially, and isn't so much of a bully — which women tend to not appreciate, either — he can move those numbers a bit," Kelly said.
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Before I was approached to run for office, even though I'd been a presidentially appointed United States attorney and served as deputy mayor of Indianapolis, I'd never seriously considered running for office.
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FOX29 San Antonio reporter Joe Galli tweeted a photo of the presidentially signed hat sent to 16-year-old Hunter Richard, who made national news after a video of the incident went viral.
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O'Connor has served in a number of presidentially appointed positions, including as the first statutorily mandated chief privacy officer in U.S. federal government when she served at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Here's how an effort for a presidentially initiated round of debt ceiling brinksmanship will go: Trump could try to make it out to be the Democrats' fault for refusing to cave to him.
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"The amendment provides Congress and the applicable state legislatures a three-year window to approve presidentially declared national monuments, ensuring that land-use decisions finally have an input from the various states," Sen.
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But it's notable that many people who voted for him hoped he would behave more normally in office, and he himself did pledge to behave more presidentially (and stop tweeting) if he became president.
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Ginsburg pressed further, asking why the 90-day requirement is lifted if a first assistant is confirmed by the Senate, but not for people who are presidentially appointed and senatorially confirmed from other agencies.
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Latest Plan to Rescue Puerto Rico Is Met With Disdain on Island | The plan calls for putting Puerto Rico's finances under a presidentially appointed oversight board — a bitter pill to many on the island.
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A day into their retreat in West Virginia, members had thought they'd be taking a victory lap on tax reform and responding to President Donald Trump's refreshingly-reserved, presidentially-toned State of the Union.
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We Build the Wall founder Brian Kolfage slammed the commission in a series of social media posts Tuesday, accusing the federal agency of overreaching its authority and calling for its presidentially appointed commissioner to resign.
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Following the retirement of career diplomat Anne Patterson last January, the bureau has been without a presidentially appointed leader for almost a year as the Middle East lurched from one political crisis to the next.
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Tom Marino (R-Pa.) and Judy Chu (D-Calif.) introduced the Copyright Office for the Digital Economy Act—which would have made the Register a presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed position like HR 1695—on Dec.
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A year ago this week, Rod Rosenstein left his post as the country's longest-serving presidentially appointed federal prosecutor to join the senior leadership of the Justice Department as the number two official at the department.
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The existing screening procedures are so defective that we need to resume a blanket presidentially ordered 28503-day suspension of entry covering the nationals of six countries, plus a more damaging blow to the refugee program.
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Why it matters: Although the administration is making progress, Trump's nominations have been delayed from the start and there are around 1,200 federal positions total to fill, per the 2016 Plumb Book, which tracks presidentially appointed positions.
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Of course, there have been some Hispanic presidentially appointed cabinet officers in the succession line for president — the highest-ranking (seventh in the succession line) of them having been President George W. Bush's attorney general, Alberto Gonzalez.
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Brainard, who is in charge of a medium-sized airport, said while he began noticing the shift in priority in 2012, it ramped up in 2017, when the TSA's presidentially appointed head, David Pekoske, took the reins.
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SEC Administrative Law Judge Cameron Elliot found him liable the next year, barred him from the industry and ordered him to pay $300,000 - a finding later upheld in a 3-2 vote by the SEC's presidentially-appointed commissioners.
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Zogby, the founding president of the Arab-American Institute and a former member of the presidentially appointed US Commission of International Religious Freedom, said he was at Mass last Sunday when the priest began to talk about Wuerl.
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His lawsuit, filed on Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges a series of violations of the Federal Advisory Commission Act, which requires that presidentially established commissions "be fairly balanced" and meet transparency requirements.
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Here is the complete list of presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed senior Pentagon positions that are vacant or filled by temporary officials as of July 8: Secretary of defense: Mark Esper Deputy secretary of defense: David Norquist Chief of naval operations: Adm.
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The plan, being drafted by Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee, in consultation with Democrats in Congress and the Treasury Department, calls for putting Puerto Rico's finances under a presidentially appointed oversight board — a bitter pill to many on the island.
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Presidentially embarrassing guests have included Paula Jones, the Bill Clinton accuser, whose security detail barred others when she used the ladies' room, causing insurrection; Susan McDougal, convicted in the Whitewater affair; and Valerie Plame, the C.I.A. spy exposed by the George W. Bush administration.
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A coalition of longtime Republican Trump critics in the Senate, like Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, as well as more Trump-friendly politicians like Pat Toomey, are pushing hard for a vote on a bill that would require congressional approval for certain types of presidentially-imposed tariffs.
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MIAMI — For all of the cable news chatter, Twitter skirmishes and presidentially bestowed nicknames, this week's prime-time Democratic debates mark the entry point for millions of Americans who are just now tuning into a presidential contest that will dominate news coverage for the next 16 months.
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Presidentially directed indictments against specific individuals would be a massive breach of the independence of the Justice Department; the general expectation that prosecutors are supposed to issue indictments based on an examination of the evidence at hand; and the democratic norm against prosecuting political opponents for political acts.
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For a president who now jokes about behaving more presidentially, the event featured the brand of pageantry kitsch that Mr. Trump once used on television and his own live entertainment projects: tuxedo-clad announcers, bikini-clad women who circled the octagon and elaborate entrance routines by the fighters.
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Deductions for unreimbursed casualty and theft losses, now eligible when they are at least 2250 percent of adjusted gross income plus $220 for each occurrence, are being eliminated beginning in 2200, with an exception: when disasters occur during officially — and presidentially — declared natural disasters like hurricanes or floods.
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The apocalypse is upon us if you consider the number and type of presidentially-declared disasters currently active in the United States in the month of September alone: Of course, that list from September doesn't include Hurricane Harvey, which hit the Texas Gulf Coast and Harris County (Houston) Texas.
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Traister continues: If, as in this election, a man who spews hate and vulgarity, with no comprehension of how government works, can become presidentially plausible because he is magnetic while a capable, workaholic woman who knows policy inside and out struggles because she is not magnetic, perhaps we should re-evaluate magnetism's importance.
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Between 1996 and 2008, battleground states received 7.6 percent more federal grants than other states and about 5.7 percent more grant money — and both numbers went up when an election was approaching, according to John Hudak, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who analyzed nearly $1 trillion in presidentially controlled federal grants.
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As we observe Black History Month, it's particularly important to recall how the findings of the presidentially appointed Kerner Commission rocked the nation, becoming a best-seller that combined passionate advocacy with principled social scientific inquiry to trace the roots of violence often characterized as "long hot summers" of racial and civil discontent.
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He must forcefully acknowledge Russian meddling (which can easily be done without sacrificing his own legitimacy), and he must launch a presidentially appointed task force of military leaders, homeland security officials, intelligence officials, tech industry experts, election administrators and experienced campaign operatives charged with detecting and stopping Russian interference in 2018 and 2020.
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Traister continues: If, as in this election, a man who spews hate and vulgarity, with no comprehension of how government works, can become presidentially plausible because he is magnetic while a capable, workaholic woman who knows policy inside and out struggles because she is not magnetic, perhaps we should reevaluate magnetism's importance.
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Indeed, as the year has unfolded, Fox's evening talk shows and its presidentially endorsed morning show have proven to be a particularly egregious and odious swamp of fetid, metastasizing lies and bad faith feedback loops that leave its viewers—and, notably, its Presidential Audience of One—foaming at the mouth with outrage and bile.
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"There's a lot of scuttlebutt and fear that the Kochs and people like that, who've always been focused on the states will cut their losses presidentially and put more money on the state, so I made the case to our donor weeks ago that that's all the more reason to be focused on the states," LaMarche told CNN.
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After comparing America's gun culture to Chernobyl on Monday, Stephen Colbert began Tuesday night's Late Show with a few more pointed minutes on Donald Trump's continued struggles to respond presidentially to the previous weekend's shootings in Texas and Ohio — including a quick rundown of the El Paso officials who really don't want a president whose rhetoric seems to have inspired the shooter.
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While understandably skeptical of such astral flights and their pastel visions, Gottlieb is careful not to mock the credulous believers, reserving his disdain for the right-wing huckster and felon (now presidentially pardoned) Dinesh D'Souza, whose "Life After Death: The Evidence" tries to annex eschatology as another battlefield in the culture wars, where the Christian righteous smite the atheist rabble.
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Ms. Goitein and other experts who have studied emergency-powers laws have said there are serious — if not dispositive — arguments that Mr. Trump's legal team can make that at least two such statutes could be used to erect border barriers by redirecting military construction funds that can be freed up, in a presidentially declared emergency, to build something Congress has not approved.
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However, the MSPB is far from an idyllic portrait of justice; federal employees won relief in just three percent of cases over the last three years, and federal employees are temporarily without an option for a mid-level appeal, because the three-member, presidentially appointed board at the MSPB is currently without any members, and has been without a quorum for the past two years, creating an exhaustive backlog of cases.
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Vacant Watchdog Positions Agency/Establishment Date Vacated Department of the Interior*, December, 6900 Export-Import Bank of the US*, June, 2628 Central Intelligence Agency*, February, 28503 Department of Energy*, October, 22019 Department of Defense*, January, 2016 Postal Service, US, February, 2016 Office of Personnel Management*, February, 2016 Social Security Administration*, May, 2016 National Security Agency*, May, 2016 Small Business Administration*, December, 2016 Federal Election Commission, March, 85033 Intelligence Community, March, 2017 Department of Housing/Urban Development*, June, 2017 Office of Government Ethics*, July, 2017 *Presidentially appointed with Senate Confirmation Patricia Harned is chief executive officer of the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI).
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