Previously, Kayyem was President Obama's Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security.
In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving nuclear forces, arms control and U.S.-European defense relations.
The President was joined in the Situation Room by Chief of Staff Jack Lew, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security John Brennan, Press Secretary Jay Carney, Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco, Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security Richard Reed, White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs David Agnew, Deputy Communications Director Jen Palmieri, and other senior members of the President's team.
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Lisa is currently Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary and previously served as Co-Chair of the Agency Review Working Group for the Obama-Biden Transition Project.
The current case in point is Mr. Dodd's refusal to allow a hearing and vote on President Bush's nominee for assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, Otto Reich.
Copies were also simultaneously sent to Counselor to the President David Gergen, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Anthony Lake and Secretary of Defense Les Aspin.
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Onetime deputy assistant secretary of defense under President Reagan, later appointed ambassador to Austria.
He's a former assistant secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton and now a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
To maintain momentum, the American president has appointed John Wolf, an assistant secretary of state, to lead a team to monitor progress.
Otto Reich -- President Bush's nominee to be Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere -- still can't get a hearing in Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd's subcommittee.
Using the pretext of the years' end expiration of the U.S.-Soviet START Treaty, the President has dispatched an inveterate denuclearizer, Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, to negotiate in haste a new bilateral agreement with the Russians.
Its regular attendees (both statutory and non-statutory) are the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
Today, the President convened a call with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security John Brennan, Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco, and other senior members of his response team.
Josh Earnest is Special Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Press Secretary.
Supply-side economist and scholar Paul Craig Roberts was the former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Reagan and wrote the Kemp-Roth tax cut bill.
This report is notable due to the fact that it was co-authored by Rose Gottemoeller who reportedly is President Clinton's choice to serve as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy -- the top Pentagon position responsible for nuclear weapons policy.
The President also convened a conference call with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security John Brennan and Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco.
In recent days, leading national newspapers have published a number of spirited defenses of Morton Halperin, President Clinton's controversial nominee to be the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Peacekeeping.
But the other half of the aisle and many liberal and consumer groups are cheering her appointment as Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Unfortunately, the disarmament agenda Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller is helping President Obama pursue will make the world more dangerous, not safer for America and its interests.
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Frank Mora, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs and most importantly Dan Restrepo, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at The National Security Council.
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In the run-up to the election, the European Union (EU) said it would only have limited contact with a president who faced trial at the ICC, while US Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson warned Kenyan voters that "choices have consequences".
Earlier today, the President convened a call with Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano, FEMA Administrator Fugate, Chief of Staff Jack Lew, Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security Richard Reed, and other senior members of his team.
Gaffney Jr. is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy under President Reagan.
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At a briefing Monday, Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy Pamela Olson said President George W. Bush has asked the Treasury to study the AMT problem and come up with a permanent fix to be proposed in next year's budget.
At today's hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on President Clinton's nomination of Morton Halperin to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Peacekeeping, one fact looms large: The nominee aided and abetted a man who was arguably this century's most notorious American traitor -- Philip Agee -- and is determined to conceal that fact.
Right after Lee's surprise statement, Washington reportedly canceled a meeting assistant treasury secretary Timothy Geithner was to have had with the president in Taipei.
That is also the aim of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke who met with Croatia's president in Zagreb Wednesday.
The UK and France said recently they would only have limited contact with a president who faced trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC), while US Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson warned Kenyan voters that "choices have consequences", reports the Reuters news agency.
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