The president said Governor Ridge would receive cabinet-level status and be "reporting directly to me," as he seeks to coordinate the myriad intelligence, defense and law enforcement agencies involved in identifying and thwarting terrorist activities against domestic targets.
The legislation that last month received cabinet approval is an attempt to fulfil this obligation, admittedly enacted with an eye to the likely political gains to the ruling coalition at the poll booths.
The project, which received cabinet approval a few weeks ago, would place a satellite in an elliptical orbit around the Red Planet and monitor its atmosphere.
NIU's Office of University Marketing received cabinet approval of a social media policy in 2011 that emphasized promoting "community through engagement and coordination across multiple social media platforms".
Though its own representation fell dramatically in the National Assembly, it received four cabinet posts in the new socialist government.
It emerged on Tuesday that Charles receives all cabinet memoranda circulated to secretaries of state but which ministers of state are not allowed to see.
His party received four cabinet positions in Mr. Gbagbo's government, out of 23. "The people of the Ivory Coast have suffered enough," Mr. Fologo said.
Ministers should have been more open about the fact Prince Charles has been receiving confidential cabinet papers for decades, the chair of the House of Commons constitutional committee has said.
In a speech outlining a wishlist of measures and powers to tackle extremism in Britain, the home secretary acknowledged that the work of the new unit had received only cabinet approval so far.
Prince Charles has been receiving confidential cabinet papers for decades, giving him access to the inner workings of British government, according to a Whitehall manual released after a three-year freedom of information battle.
Brown also said that he had taken a pay cut and was now only receiving a cabinet minister's salary, rather than the prime minister's salary to which he is entitled.
