Trump also thanked Perry for "the outstanding job he has done", and said he would leave his post "at the end of the year to pursue other interests".
He previously confirmed reports that the urged Trump to place the July 25 phone call to Zelensky at the heart of the House impeachment inquiry- but not to discuss digging up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. "We already have his replacement".
His wife was working as a nurse with the military when he met her.
"I don't know of a single issue where he differs from the president", McMonigle said. It was after that trip, both men testified, that members of the delegation met with a President Trump to convince him of recently elected President Volodymyr Zelensky commitment to reform, and the importance of US assistance to the country. Those documents are due October 18, according to the subpoena. "Today the USA leads the world in energy production, we launched AI & Cyber Security Offices, & made environmental progress unseen for decades cleaning up the legacy of the Manhattan Project", he wrote in his Twitter post.
The White House charged in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week that its impeachment inquiry was "illegitimate" and "unconstitutional", and that it would not participate in the investigation.
Perry has won plaudits from lawmakers for an easygoing style that reflects a life in politics, and he has frequently distanced himself from severe budget cuts to energy programs sought by the White House.
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Obama's support for Trudeau comes at a sensitive time for the Canadian prime minister, who was once a darling among progressives. "The world needs his progressive leadership now, and I hope our neighbors to the north support him for another term".
Perry, who twice ran for president before taking the job at Energy, has kept a relatively low-profile in his 2 ½-year tenure. That agency was the Energy Department.
Perry said he aimed to "get Ukraine back in the sphere of influence in the United States". "It's outrageous", said Sen.
However, after Perry dropped out of the race and Trump became the Republican party's presumptive nominee, he started to endorse Trump. The policy is created to help Ukraine and other Eastern European countries escape the political dominance that Russia's control of the region's energy supply has helped give Moscow. Earlier this month, it was reported that Perry was making plans to step down. But there are no allegations that Perry improperly arranged natural gas deals to benefit oil friends. That's made it less of a targeted customer for Western natural gas sales than, for example, Poland.
He has traveled from Japan to former Soviet states to Qatar and Israel and beyond, promoting US natural gas and natural gas production companies.
Upon arrival, the President told reporters that he had accepted Perry's resignation.
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