In Congress, Vitter promoted President Bush's tax cuts, seeking to make them permanent, but differed from the White House when it came to immigration and the Central America Free Trade Agreement, because it did not exempt sugar imports.
Earlier today, the President joined a meeting National Security Advisor Tom Donilon was hosting with Ambassador Susan Rice at the White House for the Permanent Representatives to the United Nations of the fifteen current Security Council members, and of the five countries whose two-year elected terms on the Council begin in January.
Sir Nicholas MacPherson KCB, permanent secretary, HM Treasury and Sharon White, director general public services , HM Treasury.
Initially, the White House asked for a permanent extension of these breaks, before accepting a two-year extension, some of it applied retroactively, in the face of resistance from the Senate GOP.
The rest still work in the White House behind what amounts to almost permanent presidential protection.
Presidents have regularly complained about the power of the permanent bureaucracy, and there are often tensions between the White House and the Departments and agencies which are responsible for implementing presidential directives.
Unlike previous presidential envoys who have come to Israel every few weeks and then disappeared when reality proved stronger than their peace fantasies, Obama has ordered Mitchell to cast reality to the seven winds and set up a permanent forward command post in Jerusalem directly subordinate to the White House.
"Democrats agree that there should be permanent extension to the middle-class tax cuts, that there shouldn't be a permanent extension of tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, " said White House press secretary Bill Burton.
Standing next to Aznar in the White House, Bush also saluted Spain, a non-permanent member of the U.N.
Most applauded the economic stimulus package worked out by Congress and the White House, but said they'd go further with permanent, not temporary, tax cuts, and more incentives for business.
Ken Mehlman, the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, will not return for a second term next year and lots of fingers are pointing at White House political advisor Karl Rove, whose vision for a permanent Republican majority suffered this week.
The Duckmill Weir White Water Arena on the River Great Ouse in Bedford opened in May 2012 after permanent slalom uprights, lines and gates were added to the Duck Mill weir.
Before the Dean boom the Democrats were beginning to look like a permanent minority party in the making: too timid to do anything but go along with the White House's grand schemes for eliminating taxation or democratising the Middle East.
Remember those white-knuckle flights through stormy weather where unexpected plunges in altitude result in near-permanent relocations of major internal organs?
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