Sentences with phrase «affairs committee voted»

Led by opponents of women's health, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 23 — 17 yesterday to eliminate U.S. funding for to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

Last week the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee voted on the VAT issue and it was successfully passed with with 48 votes to one, with two abstentions.

Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted last week to pass two resolutions: one calling for support of the creation of an international war crimes tribunal to prosecute those involved in Syria, and the other calling the crimes perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities there «war crimes,» «crimes against humanity,» and «genocide.»

Review, discussion and the Regulatory Affairs Committee vote encompassed most of the APA Thursday morning session.

Not exact matches

Along with requiring companies to switch auditors regularly, the Legal Affairs Committee also voted to prohibit auditors from supplying certain non-auditing services.

In reaction to the vote by the Legal Affairs Committee, Michael Izza, chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, pointed out that a number of the changes voted through by the members of the European Parliament seem to align the EU audit reform proposals more closely with international standards, which he considers a positive.

The Home Affairs Committee heard harrowing evidence of hate crimes following the Brexit vote at its latest hearing into the issue.

Yvette Cooper's home affairs select committee has heard evidence of increased hate crime attacks since the Brexit vote

House votes to appoint former Labour minister who stood down from home affairs select committee over sex scandal

That you have to circumvent the committee process to get a vote on gun control in New York State,» said Hunter College public - affairs professor Joseph Viteritti.

But the Welsh Affairs Select Committee says that should only happen if the people of Wales vote for the change in a referendum.

Rocco DiVeronica, chairman of the Native American Affairs committee and one of the supervisors involved in negotiations, leaned toward supporting the agreement when it was announced but ended up voting no today.

Keith Vaz, the Labour chair of the home affairs committee, says he will be voting for Dominic Raab's amendment.

(ii) FOREIGN AFFAIRS SELECT COMMITTEE — ONE VACANCY (all Labour MPs may vote in this contest) CANDIDATES: Bob Ainsworth, Jeremy Corbyn, Fabian Hamilton, Mark Hendrick, Yasmin Qureshi

Prominent remain campaigner easily defeats Kate Hoey, as Yvette Cooper wins vote to head home affairs select committee

If the DNC moves up Michigan's primary date, Anuzis and the GOP state committee would likely keep its primary on Feb. 5 but would try to make it a closed affair — meaning that Republicans would likely dominate the voting.

In such cases Parliament should assert itself by calling him before the relevant select committee (home affairs) and if after a detailed examination he is found in a vote of the committee to be clearly liable, a report of the proceedings should be sent forthwith to the relevant minister which in the absece of exceptional circumstance should lead to his dismissal.

Many opposition MPs, such as Labour's Mike Gapes, a former chairman of the Commons foreign affairs select committee, tried to «talk it out» by giving long and irrelevant speeches in a bid to make it run out of parliamentary time, but it eventually passed without a vote.

He told MPs: «The government will conduct further consultations on the arrangements for this vote, in particular with the European scrutiny committees, and the Commons and Lords home affairs and justice select committees and a further announcement will be made in due course.»

Among Labour MPs voting for the Liberal Democrat motion were home affairs committee chairman Keith Vaz, ministerial aide Stephen Pound and former cabinet minister Andrew Smith.

And it is right for the opposition, before voting for a commitment which would cost, according to Crispin Blunt [the Tory chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee] # 168bn, we have to make sure that it works.»

Espinal's opposition is significant because he chairs the Council's consumer affairs committee, which has heard and voted on other legislation to regulate the industry, including a bill to require down time, annual physicals and strict work hours for the horses.

The Foreign Affairs Select Committee has decided by a majority vote that they do not support the Prime Minister on proposed airstrikes against the so - called Islamic State in Syria, ITV News understands.

Sen. Pedro Espada wanted to be co-leader of the Senate; Carl Kruger wanted to be chair of the powerful Finance Committee, Hiram Monserrate wanted to chair the Consumer Affairs Committee and I just wanted the commitment that the Same Sex Marriage Bill will not come to the floor for a vote.

There will be a celebratory rally outside of City Hall on Tuesday at 11 a.m., then the veterans affairs committee of the Council will vote through the department bill, followed by the full Council.

«The Parliament's all - party constitutional affairs committee today voted to clarify the rules on forming political groups», they say.

The Consumer Affairs Committee has voted to pass City Councilman Rafael Espinal's proposed bill to establish an Office of Nightlife and a Nightlife Task Force on Friday, the Brownsville representative announced Friday.

In addition, the Committee shall annually present to members of the Council for election by mail ballot, or by electronic means, at least two nominations for each position to be filled on the Committee on Council Affairs by vote of the Council.

(d) The Executive Officer shall be a member of the Board without vote; a member of the Council, of the Committee on Council Affairs, of the Executive Committee, and of the Committee on Investment and Finance; shall serve as secretary of the Board, of the Council, and of the Committee on Council Affairs, and as staff officer of the Committee on Nominations; shall be in charge of the Association's offices and shall manage the affairs of the Association in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Board; shall be custodian of the current operating funds; and shall have the authority to enter into contracts for the Association that have been approved by the Board or that are required for the conduct of the Association's activities specifically provided for in the approved annual bAffairs, of the Executive Committee, and of the Committee on Investment and Finance; shall serve as secretary of the Board, of the Council, and of the Committee on Council Affairs, and as staff officer of the Committee on Nominations; shall be in charge of the Association's offices and shall manage the affairs of the Association in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Board; shall be custodian of the current operating funds; and shall have the authority to enter into contracts for the Association that have been approved by the Board or that are required for the conduct of the Association's activities specifically provided for in the approved annual bAffairs, and as staff officer of the Committee on Nominations; shall be in charge of the Association's offices and shall manage the affairs of the Association in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Board; shall be custodian of the current operating funds; and shall have the authority to enter into contracts for the Association that have been approved by the Board or that are required for the conduct of the Association's activities specifically provided for in the approved annual baffairs of the Association in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Board; shall be custodian of the current operating funds; and shall have the authority to enter into contracts for the Association that have been approved by the Board or that are required for the conduct of the Association's activities specifically provided for in the approved annual budgets.

(b) Although not submitted in writing at least sixty days in advance, (i) it is brought up for consideration by a member of the Council under the item «new business,» and two - thirds of the members present vote to take it up, or (ii) it was proposed by the Board or by the Committee on Council Affairs.

The Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee on Friday postponed a vote until at least next week after Sen. Paul Pinsky, a Democrat who chairs the education subcommittee, suggested striking language from the bill that would reduce the state board of education's ability to weigh in on the denial of a charter school application at the local level.

The bill had a hearing in the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, chaired by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, and is awaiting a commitCommittee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, chaired by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, and is awaiting a committeecommittee vote.

Student Members shall not be eligible to vote in Association affairs, but may serve on committees.

Update June 23, 2008: Â Â There is likely to be a vote as early as tomorrow in the House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee on H.B. 2525, more commonly known as the Pennsylvania puppy mill bill.

In another amendment the Canine Health Board, created by amendment in the Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, has been weighted in favor of breeders with an amendment allowing a quorum with only 5 people and a vote of 3 for passage of any measure. There will be no proxy votes.

Shipman also quotes Bernard Jenkin, Conservative MP and current chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC), as stating «[the Vote Leave NHS funding pledge] was deliberately controversial».