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The United States hopes that any future Lao Cabinet would not become Communist dominated.
In the federal government, the executive branch, led by the president, controls the federal executive departments, which are led by secretaries who are members of the United States Cabinet.
The particular draft assented to by the War Cabinet and afterwards by the Allied Governments and by the United States ... and finally embodied in the Mandate, happens to have been drafted by Lord Milner.
Category: African-American members of the Cabinet of the United States
The first recorded use of the word cocktail in the United States is said to be in The Farmer's Cabinet on April 28, 1803:
* 1844 – A gun on explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.
As of early 2010, AI said that at least two senior military officers named by the United Nations as potentially having individual criminal responsibility for events constituting crimes against humanity, remain in positions of influence in the Guinean Presidential Cabinet, despite the formation of a new transitional government.
Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands ".
She was the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
* 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Sununu opposed it at first as did most of the Cabinet, but in August 1990 Sununu, at the urging of United States Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, encouraged President Bush to endorse Kemp's Economic Empowerment Task Force.
Category: Female members of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom
* 1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
The House of Delegates was elected directly by the voters ( male, propertied ) and the equivalent to the Senate was the Cabinet appointed by the Governor and by the President of the United States.
By the 1830s the Westminster system of government ( or cabinet government ) had emerged ; the Prime Minister had become " primus inter pares " or the first among equals in the Cabinet and the head of government in the United Kingdom.
* 1979 – The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U. S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
Until 2005, the Lord Chancellor fused the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, as he was the ex officio Speaker of the House of Lords, a Government Minister who sat in Cabinet and was head of the Lord Chancellor's Department which administered the courts, the justice system and appointed judges, and was the head of the Judiciary in England and Wales and sat as a judge on the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, the highest domestic court in the entire United Kingdom, and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the senior tribunal court for parts of the Commonwealth.
United States Secretary of State: Chief executive officer of the Department of State, member of the United States Cabinet, answers directly to the President of the United States.
The Joint Intelligence Committee ( JIC ) is the part of the British Cabinet Office responsible for directing the national intelligence organisations of the United Kingdom on behalf of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom and providing advice to the Cabinet related to security, defence and foreign affairs.

Cabinet and Kingdom
Category: Committees of the United Kingdom Cabinet Office
In the United Kingdom, the sovereign theoretically holds executive authority, even though the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Cabinet effectively implement executive powers.
* July 13 – In what the press dubs " the Night of the Long Knives ", United Kingdom Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses 1 / 3 of his Cabinet.
In the United Kingdom, the Sovereign is the de jure executive authority, even though executive decisions are made by the elected Prime Minister and his Cabinet on the Sovereign's behalf, hence the term Her Majesty's Government.
Heath sacked Enoch Powell from the Shadow Cabinet in April 1968, shortly after Powell made his inflammatory " Rivers of Blood " speech which criticised Commonwealth immigration to the United Kingdom.
In the United Kingdom, a non-departmental public body ( NDPB )— often referred to and also known as a Quasi Autonomous Non Governmental Organisation or a quango — is a classification applied by the Cabinet Office, Treasury, Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive to certain types of public bodies.
Downing Street in London, England has for over two hundred years housed the official residences of two of the most senior British Cabinet ministers: the First Lord of the Treasury, an office now synonymous with that of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Second Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Category: Members of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom
In Yes Minister he is the Minister for Administrative Affairs ( a fictitious ministry of the British government ) and a Cabinet Minister, and in Yes, Prime Minister he becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
In 2004, the Joint Committee ( of both the House of Commons and House of Lords ) tasked with overseeing the drafting of the proposed Civil Contingencies Bill, published its first report, in which, amongst other things, it suggested amending the bill's clauses that grant Cabinet Ministers the power " to disapply or modify any Act of Parliament " as overly wide, and that the bill should be modified to preclude changes to the following Acts, which, it suggested, formed " the fundamental parts of constitutional law " of the United Kingdom ( names are shown as they appear in Hansard: ):
Category: Cabinet Office ( United Kingdom )
* Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet ( United Kingdom )
The Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a senior member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

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" Johnson is a particular favorite for the bottom of the pile because of his impeachment, despite his acquittal, and also due to his mishandling of Reconstruction policy, his inept dealings with his Cabinet and Congress, his bristling personality and his sense of self-importance.
A Cabinet is nominated by the Premier and appointed by the Governor.
Executive authority is vested in both the Prime Minister and Cabinet who are collectively responsible to Parliament.
The Prime Minister and Cabinet is formed by the political party which gains a simple majority in the general elections held in Barbados.
* Earl Jellicoe and Lord Lambton sex scandal ( 1973 ): Conservatives, junior defence minister Lambton is arrested for using prostitutes and Cabinet minister Jellicoe also confesses.
This declaration, which is always known as the Balfour Declaration, should rather be called " the Milner Declaration ," since Milner was the actual draftsman and was, apparently, its chief supporter in the War Cabinet.
In nearly all cases, the monarch is still the nominal chief executive, but is bound by constitutional convention to act on the advice of the Cabinet.
" A modest man, but then he has so much to be modest about ", is a quote about Attlee that is very commonly ascribed to Churchill ( although Churchill in fact denied saying it, and respected Attlee's service in the War Cabinet ).
The CRTC is run by up to 13 full-time ( including the chairman, the vice-chairman of broadcasting, and the vice-chairman of telecommunications ) and six part-time commissioners appointed by the Cabinet for renewable terms of up to five years.
They include the existence of a prime minister and Cabinet, the fact that the governor general is required to grant Royal Assent to bills adopted by both houses of parliament, and the requirement that the prime minister either resign or request a new general election upon losing a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons.
De facto the Danish Cabinet is the commanding authority of the Defense, though it cannot mobilize the armed forces, for purposes that are not strictly defence oriented, without the consent of parliament.
Article 65 explicitly vests the executive power in the Cabinet, of which the Prime Minister is the leader.
The other detailed regulation of the Emperor's duties is laid down in article 7 of the constitution, where it is stated that the " Emperor with the advice and approval of the Cabinet, shall perform the following acts in matters of state on behalf of the people:
Executive power is vested in the Federal Cabinet ( Bundesregierung ), and federal legislative power is vested in the Bundestag ( the parliament of Germany ) and the Bundesrat ( the representative body of the Länder, Germany's regional states ).
The Cabinet of Germany ( Bundeskabinett or Bundesregierung ) is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Premier then directs the Governor to appoint other members of parliament to the Executive Council of New South Wales known as the Cabinet, and it is in practice only from this group of ministers of the Crown that the Queen and governor will take direction on the use of executive power, an arrangement called the Queen-in-Council or, more specifically, the Governor-in-Council.
The advice given by the Cabinet is, in order to ensure the stability of government, typically binding ; both the Queen and her viceroy, however, may in exceptional circumstances invoke the reserve powers, which remain the Crown's final check against a ministry's abuse of power, this was last fully exercised in 1932, when Sir Philip Game dismissed Premier Jack Lang.
For example, members of the Irish Cabinet are dismissed by the President on the advice of the Taoiseach ; in other instances, the head of state may be able to dismiss an office holder unilaterally ; other heads of state, or their representatives, have the theoretical power to dismiss any office-holder, while it is exceptionally rarely used.
Urquhart is secretly contemptuous of Collingridge, but expects promotion to a senior position in the Cabinet.

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