Sentences with phrase «chair of the committee on»

Earlier today we sent the following e-mail to Councilmember Grosso, the Chair of the Committee on Education, and to all DC City Councilmembers.

Pediatrician Jeffrey W. Britton, chair of the Committee on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), says to keep in mind «monkey see - monkey do»: If parents don't wear helmets, neither will kids.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz speaking as Chair of the Committee on Corporations Authorities and Commissions.

Alistair Graham, former chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, called the situation «bizarre» and said «there are clearly questions to be answered».

With critics questioning its legality, a Republican lawmaker on Monday announced she is refusing the $ 12,500 bonus she's getting as vice chair of the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction.

Labour MP Sheila Gilmore has written to the Chair of the Committee on Standards to make a formal complaint over Maria Miller's personal statement in the House of Commons.

Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo of Brooklyn, chair of the Committee on Women's Issues, held a more than hour - long press conference yesterday to criticize Brattons» remarks encouraging women to use a «buddy system» in order to reduce the likelihood of being assaulted, and demanded a more thorough police strategy to combat sexual assault.

Kavanagh is currently the Chair of the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection, where he successfully advocated for increased consumer protection legislatively and in the State budget.

Albany, NY — Host Alan Chartock is joined by Assemblyman Steve Englebright, a democrat representing New York's Fourth District and chair of the Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports.

City Councilmember Carlos Menchaca, chair of the Committee on Immigration, also voiced his support for the mayor's plan.

«That's absolutely absurd and completely disingenuous,» Councilman Rory Lancman (D - Queens), chair of the committee on courts and legal services, said.

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, chair of Committee on Transportation, thinks it's possible, as do several organizations and companies.

«Whatever Gilbert Taylor's qualifications may be, the appearance of using a Family Court judgeship as a soft landing for someone who botched the city's response to the homeless crisis is concerning,» said City Councilman Rory Lancman (D - Queens), chair of the Committee on Courts & Legal Services.

Council Member Torres, Chair of the Committee on Public Housing, allocated $ 3 million dollars toward security cameras and layered access in the Parkside development.

Senator Bill Perkins, Chair of the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, will discuss these reports and announce the Committee's public hearing to be held April 22nd.

Assemblymember Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat and chair of the Committee on Higher Education, said that funds would have been better allocated to operating aid for CUNY, but did not think there was anything inappropriate about the governor requesting support from members of the system.

He was appointed Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis and Investigation in February 2011, after previously serving as the chair of the Committee on Libraries and Education Technology, the Legislative Task Force on People with Disabilities and the Subcommittee on Mitchell - Lama Housing.

Speaking to the Sunday Times the outgoing chair of the committee on standards in public life argued Mr Blair has been personally responsbile for a «very significant loss of trust» between politicans and the public.

The bill is co-sponsored by Council Member Laurie Cumbo of Brooklyn, who is the chair of the Committee on Women's Issues.

Council Member Margaret Chin, chair of the Committee on Aging, was particularly proud of the budget's increased funding for seniors.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Standing with local community advocates and the brother of one former Rikers Island inmate held for three years without a trial, Brian Benjamin, Democratic nominee for the 30th District of the New York State Senate, and Council Member Rory Lancman, chair of the Committee on Courts and Legal Services, today unveiled a new strategy to close the city detention center within three years.

As Chair of the Committee on Public Safety and as a representative of the Bronx, I was particularly pleased to see the Governor address education, public safety and counter-terrorism, and homelessness and poverty.»

As chair of the Committee on Labor, he has not passed much legislation to attract overwhelming accolades or scrutiny.

NYC Councilmember Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Committee on Public Housing: «For too long the state has abdicated its responsibility to public housing and complacently accepted its rapid decline.

Albany, NY — State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), New York City Council Member Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Committee on Public Housing, Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn), Senator Adriano Espaillat (D - Manhattan / Bronx), Democratic Ranking Member of the Senate Housing Committee, and more than 500 hundred New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) tenants, today rallied at the state capitol to call for increased state funding to update and repair deplorable conditions in NYCHA developments in the Bronx and beyond.

Representative John Mica, Florida — 7 (R) and chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, writes:

Senator Tom Harkin, Iowa (D) and chair of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, writes:

Other than the need to improve the postdoctoral experience of many of the 52,000 postdocs across the U.S., Maxine Singer, chair of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), which wrote the report, believes if the U.S. is to develop «a healthy research enterprise» then postdoctoral employment conditions must be «significantly improved.»

«Helium is a commodity that is frequently overlooked and often only considered when purchasing balloons for parties,» said Senator Jeff Bingaman (D - NM), chair of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, at a hearing on a bill he has introduced that would alter the terms under which the United States is selling off its once - vast reserve of helium gas, held underground in a natural geological formation near Amarillo, Texas.

«Italy also risks severe sanctions from Brussels,» comments Roberto Caminiti, a physiologist at the University of Rome La Sapienza and chair of the Committee on Animals in Research for the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies.

Members will hear from the Executive Director, the Secretary - Treasurer, the Editors - in - Chief of AAI journals (The Journal of Immunology and ImmunoHorizons), and the Chair of the Committee on Public Affairs on the financial standing of AAI and other matters of importance to the membership.

Meredith served as the Medical Director of Trauma Programs of the American College of Surgeons from 2006 through 2010 and chair of the Committee on Trauma from 2002 to 2006.

At a March 5 event in DC, Senator Lamar Alexander, chair of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, will make a keynote address.

Senator Lamar Alexander, chair of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, will make a keynote address.

Dr. Boudreaux has served as the Faculty Athletics Representative since 2010 and is also the chair of the Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics.

Just last year, in a letter to California Assembly Member Katcho Achadjian, Chair of the Committee on Local Government, opposing AB - 2343, Longcore argued (using L.A.A.S. data through 2012) that «policies put in place after the Hayden Act [1999] have resulted in an increase in the percentage of cats taken in to shelters that are deemed to be feral, suggesting that the stray / feral cat problem has become worse» (emphasis mine).

She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2005 and served as chair of the committee on cultural and media affairs from 2009 to 2013.

Imma Mayol, fifth Deputy Mayor of Barcelona City Council and chair of the Committee on Sustainability, was urging us to act faster, and to get away from the phantom created by politics, that sustainability would stop progress.

As a result of the Energy & Environment paper, lead author Stephen McIntyre, a Canadian, was flown to Washington, D.C., to brief U.S. business leaders and the staff of Sen. James Inhofe (R - OK), chair of the committee on Environment and Public Works.

In November, 2008, Bill was appointed the Vice Chair of the Committee on America's Climate Choices, commissioned by Congress to develop a multi-decadal roadmap for America's response to climate change.

These shortfalls are characterized in a letter from the Chair of the Joint Science Committee from the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and from the Chair of the Steering Committee from the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) to the Chair of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS).

Kornstein is a graduate of Yale Law School, a past president of the Law and Humanities Institute and past chair of the Committee on Law and Literature of the New York County Lawyers Association.

I have just described mine as chair of the Committee on Justice for Children, which I am handing over to my most able friend and colleague, Justice David Nahmias.

While it is unclear who is ultimately accountable for correcting PACER's shortcomings, this responsibility may belong to the chair of the Committee on Court Administration and Case Management — as of this writing Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges (M.D. Fl.).

The article examines David Greenfield and his role as chair of the Committee on Land Use on the New York City Council.

She has also served as chair of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, chair of the Committee on Rules and Calendar of the House of Delegates, chair of the Coalition for Justice, and chair of ABA Day, the Association's Congressional outreach effort.

Nicole is chair of the committee on professional ethics of The New York City Bar Association, co-chair for the Ethics Committees of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, and on the board of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.

In addition to being a partner in the litigation and professional responsibility groups at Frankfurt Kurnit, Ms. Hyland is the chair of the committee on professional ethics of The New York City Bar Association, co-chair for the Ethics Committees of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, and on the board of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.

As Chair of the Committee on the Judicial Branch, I have been very much involved in the effort to address the inadequacy of judicial compensation.

Not exact matches

To ensure that the Government delivers on its commitments, a new results and delivery approach will be implemented that includes the establishment of the Cabinet Committee on Agenda, Results and Communications, chaired by the Prime Minister, and a Results and Delivery Unit, housed in the Privy Council Office.