Many represent a pittance relative to the government's $3.5 trillion annual budget, but the budgetary minutiae served to dramatize the administration's green-eyeshades approach.
The prospect of more violence in the Mideast served to undermine the administration's efforts to build a new coalition of Arab states that might support military operations against Iraq later this year.
But the mere revelation of the new threat also serves to underscore the administration's contention that it has yet to finish the job against Al Qaeda and its ilk.
This missile attack may also serve to distance the Trump administration from the Kremlin a key supporter of the Assad regime in the face of growing evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
"Bonus points if the candidate is a woman, but convincing one to serve in the administration is likely to be a challenge".
Reid said the proposal applies only to those tapped to serve in the administration, not for lifetime posts as judges.
These ultrastructural abnormalities, together with the significant shortening of cilia, serve to explain the perturbed flow following administration of ofd1 MOs.
Indeed, just as the administration has successfully converted many of D.C.'s Professional Liberal organizations into administration sycophants (what Firedoglake's Jane Hamsher calls corralling them into the "veal pen"), so too may it try to use the carrot of access to coerce liberal-labeled media to serve as the administration's house organ of political defense.
On Wednesday, press secretary Robert Gibbs was tasked, once again, with defending the granting of a waiver to allow a former lobbyist -- in this case, Mark Patterson of Goldman Sachs -- to serve in the administration as chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Trevor was educated in Michigan at Grand Valley State and went on to work at a local TV station and then to serve in the administration of Governor Granholm.
McMillan urged Obama to call him up on the phone and invite him to serve in the administration.
