Look, I think what Secretary Clinton -- what Secretary Clinton said about the IRGC obviously is -- they're a powerful force in the country that has taken actions to support Iran's nuclear program, taken actions to repress the universal rights of its citizens, and to facilitate its state sponsorship of terror, which led the Treasury Department just last week to tighten sanctions on the IRGC.
Sinn Fein for its part believes that it's carried out it's obligations under the Good Friday agreement and is angered at what it sees as a British Secretary of State acting in collusion with a unionist party.
So the secretary, smelling what she thinks is a health insurer skunk, set up a process to monitor health insurance premium increases, and woe to the company that offends her sense of how much health insurance should cost.
"What we're saying to the health secretary is we need a bit of leeway here, " he said.
What I can guarantee is that Secretary Kerry is going to be spending a good deal of time in discussions with the parties.
This is a polite way of saying what Robert Gates, the previous defence secretary said more baldly, that having seen the paltry defence efforts that Europe is willing to make, its time for the US to drawdown.
"The central government will be in a position to decide what is a state secret, " says Siu-Lan Law, the general secretary of the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
But the defence secretary looks genuinely stunned by what has happened (and he is not a man who likes to look anything but in charge of the situation).
To that end, Secretary Geithner is here to speak for a few minutes about what the President and the leaders talked about and take some questions on what was talked about around financial reform.
And I think as Secretary Napolitano said, what we're trying to do is to stay a step ahead.
This is what made it so vital to Mr Blair to bring Alan Milburn, a former health secretary, back into the cabinet to snatch oversight of the manifesto and the election campaign from Mr Brown.
Smith said what he wants to do with the challenge is to force Congress to pass a law authorizing the Treasury Secretary to appoint these officers and adding some training and experience requirements.
Former Justice Secretary Jack Straw has mounted a high-profile campaign against what he says is the large increase in dubious whiplash claims, tabling a private member's bill in 2011 urging reform of motor insurance.
Donald Tsang, Hong Kong's far more popular chief secretary, will take over though for how long and by what arrangements is a subject of fierce debate in the territory.
Even Robyn Kelly is a hoot in the small part of Max's unfunny secretary, who longs (what else?) to write jokes.
What sounds like a new split is, in reality, the public rehearsal of a private argument which the business secretary has been having with the Treasury for some time with Labour cheering him on.
The President had occasion to speak with Admiral Mullen and several of the Joint Chiefs yesterday to discuss what is now being implemented in terms of a working group to -- that will lead to the certification by the Secretary of Defense, the Chair of the Joint Chiefs and the President that the policy is officially ended.
The home secretary said "there is still a job to be done" to communicate to the public what the PCC role would entail.
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