Sentences with phrase «change committee called»

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Back in 2001, the International Olympics Committee read about my business — which was previously called «Improv Olympics» — and they told me that I had to change the name because it was causing confusion.

A Republican National Convention delegate screams as the Chair announces that the convention will not hold a roll - call vote on the Republican National Convention Rules Committee's report and rules changes and rejects the efforts of anti-Trump forces to hold such a vote.

Senator Doug Black is pleased that the National Finance Committee has taken on the task of reviewing the Government's proposed tax changes, as he called for in August.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R - Texas, is developing what he calls «Tax Reform 2.0,» which would include making the individual cuts permanent along with some other changes he said he's working on with the White House.

After vigorous debate, participants issued statements condemning the Gulf war, passed on others to the WCC Central Committee calling for sweeping changes in South Africa, the Baltic states, and other hot spots, and embraced the WCC's own «new world order» scheme.

The foreign affairs committee, publishing its report on East Asia today, calls on the government to change its policy towards China, which it describes as a major «regional and international player».

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has welcomed the Energy and Climate Change Committee report into Smart Meter Roll Out published today, calling it «comprehensive and balanced.»

We can only hope that this book adds to the calls being made, by the Treasury select committee and others, that there is still the opportunity to amend the legislation that will hand so much power to an institution whose constitution has not changed to reflect modern times.

Indeed, in an example suggesting that the rhetoric of change might have outpaced the reality of reform, a presidential bill regarding criminal responsibility for improperly launching criminal cases was recently adopted by the Duma without amendment, in spite of calls for significant changes voiced by the lead committee and the Duma's Legal Department.

The seemingly endless series of reports from parliamentary committees and expert organisations calling for reform of Britain's drug policy continued today, after a cross-party group of peers called for a change in the law.

Having passed committee scrutiny, the bill will go before the full parliament in the next few weeks and cheap calls could be in place before the summer peak travel period, assuming EU nations approve the changes.

Yeo is not surprised the chancellor's deal with the Lib Dems did not feature the decarbonisation target he and his energy and climate change committee has called for.

Holyrood's local government committee calls for widespread changes to the government's Planning Bill.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

Earlier Tuesday, key committee leaders released a detailed, 262 - page budget plan that called for rejecting Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's controversial plans to change the education cost - sharing formula and to force towns to share one - third of the cost of teachers» pensions.

Off topic questions included a Department of Investigations report detailing problems with corrections officers at Rikers Island, de Blasio's message to protestors resuming anti-NYPD protests, his relationship with police unions, a call by the head of the Lieutentants Benevolent Association to strengthen laws concerning resisting arrest, an increase in police protection for Jewish organizations and sites and Dov Hikind's claim of a decrease in police presence, delays in the implementation of the City's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requests.

As Chairwoman of the Health and Human Services Committee, which reviews items from DSS, I sponsored a local law that called for changes to the Erie County Community Coordinating Council on Children and Families, which supports CPS.

The City Council's general welfare committee voted unanimously to pass a resolution this morning calling on the state Assembly and Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo to change state budget language to allow New York City to use state funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homeless.

After nearly a week of below - freezing overnight temperatures, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Council Member Annabel Palma, who chairs the general welfare committee, called for the city's Department of Homeless Services to enact immediate changes to emergency housing that would ensure families have a warm place to sleep on cold nights.

Now supporters of the rules change have ammo to support their cause, as a panel set up by the Democratic National Committee — the Unity Reform Commission, which included Sanders and Clinton campaign representatives — issued a report calling for all state parties to pass laws, change party rules or file lawsuits if necessary, to make it easier for voters to switch their registration to vote in Democratic primaries.

During last week's prime minister's questions, David Cameron was confronted by Caroline Lucas MP on why the government had done nothing to change our rotten extradition laws, despite a clear call from two separate parliamentary committees, a Commons motion in December last year and well - supported public petitions to do just that.

The committee called for immediate changes to maximise departments» ability to implement the # 80 billion of spending review cuts, including penalties for civil servants who do not deliver on their value for money commitments.

«To the newly inaugurated committee, I want them to know that this assignment should not be seen as a political reward, you should rather see it as a call to be part of history because our government is bent in changing the face of education in the state of Osun and we will be surely remembered for it»

The Council's General Welfare Committee passed a resolution this morning calling for the language to be changed after the Cuomo administration's rejection of a request from City Hall to make the change on the grounds that it was made too late.

An emergency meeting was called by the committee when it was learned that Mayor Bramson had enlisted State legislators to change the Armory's deeded conditions.

Intrigued as to what changes have been agreed, I have been making enquiries, culminating in a conversation with party chairman, Eric Pickles, yesterday and have established that since the Board met on July 20th, the candidates» committee has also met and Board members have since participated in a conference call where the following measures appear to have been agreed:

said Adam Green, an activist who runs a group called the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which ran ads this week in the congressional district of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - Calif.)

Released by the political committee New York City Is Not for Sale, the ad called «Nowhere to Go» criticizes Quinn for supporting the zoning change that allowed the ailing Greenwich Village hospital to be redeveloped into luxury condos.

(CNN)-- It was sort of lost in the headlines but Democratic members of the so - called super committee proposed some major changes in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid spending — something Democrats in general strongly oppose.

JACKSON HEIGHTS — Sen. Jose Peralta faced hundreds of constituents at a packed town hall meeting over his choice to join the senate's Independent Democratic Committee — as some called him a «traitor» and threatened to vote him out of office over the change.

In the wake of the Straw and Rifkind case, Sir Alistair Graham, former chairman of the committee on standards in public life, has also called for the entire parliamentary standards regime to be changed to ensure it «genuinely represents the broader public interest».

House of Lords committee likely to call for halt to proposed changes to way trade union members contribute to party funds

Although the draft decision expresses «its utmost concern» regarding the impacts of climate change on the World Heritage reefs, any action is delayed by a call «to further study the current and potential impacts of climate change» for possible action when the committee meets in 2018.

The committee that wrote the report also included further findings on topics examined in its March 2015 report, which discussed how NFIP premiums are set and the changes called for by the Biggert - Waters Act and the subsequent Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act (HFIAA) of 2014.

His views: As chair of the Republican National Committee, Priebus oversaw the creation of the 2016 party platform that called the widely respected Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change «a political mechanism, not an unbiased scientific institution.»

The committee is also calling for the commission's name to be changed to the «social justice commission».

Decades of best practice, cutting edge research in early education including the Head Start Impact Study, expert advice, and The Secretary's Advisory Committee's recommendations all culminate in a call to action for policy changes that ensure all Head Start programs provide a consistently high quality early learning experience that prepares children for Kindergarten and has long - term effects on their academic success and overall health.

The group, calling itself East Nashville United, is forming a Political Action Committee (PAC) and is calling on Register to start over on any plans to change the way schools work in East Nashville.

Further, while we applaud the Brookline School Committee's position and extensive work toward eliminating MCAS as a graduation requirement and resisting changes to curriculum solely to address MCAS, the BEA calls upon the Brookline School Committee to support the legislation filed by the MTA or like - minded proposals and to develop and distribute policies to ensure that:

«The winding down of the current program and the governor's call for change presents an opportunity to rethink the administrative and programmatic structure of the state's facilities program, and to better align the program design with the state's policy objectives,» said committee chair Sen. Carol Liu, D - La Canada Flintridge, the bond bill's author.

The chairmen of House education committees reached out to school district superintendents last week to solicit suggestions for changes to HB 5105, the so - called «schools of hope» legislation that is in play in the still - fluid budget negotiations.

Now the committee is calling for performance data changes, and wants Ofsted to ensure it looks across the whole curriculum when visiting primary schools, rather than focusing on key stage 2 results in core subjects.

A national, pro-charter school, anti-teacher, corporate - funded group called Democrats for Education Reform has formed a new political action committee in Connecticut called Change Course CT..

We call on the Scientific Committee of the Alley Cat Alley organization to review their «fact» sheet and make appropriate changes.

In its report, the committee called for the laws and regulations to be changed in line with the Association's position, as well as strengthening of legislation covering the keeping of dogs, among other things.

The new plan calls for Radisson to gain ground and become one of the top three hotel companies in the world as it heads into the «start of an exciting era,» said Federico J. González, president and chief executive of the Rezidor Hotel Group and chairman of the new global steering committee of Radisson Hotel Group, in an announcement last week about the name change.

I was on the IGDA Women In Games steering committee for two years; Marie Claire called me «The Game Changer» when they named me one of «20 Women Changing The Ratio» in male - dominated industries.

Returning the school to financial health and restoring free tuition «is going to take a dramatic change in the way Cooper Union is run, therefore Bharucha has to go,» said Richard Emery, a lawyer who is representing a group of faculty, alumni and students called the Committee to Save Cooper Union in a lawsuit challenging the tuition.

The potential for abrupt climate change in our future was explored by a National Research Council committee and published in a very readable book called Abrupt Climate Change, Inevitable Surprises (2002), published by the National Academy change in our future was explored by a National Research Council committee and published in a very readable book called Abrupt Climate Change, Inevitable Surprises (2002), published by the National Academy Change, Inevitable Surprises (2002), published by the National Academy Press.

The committee most recently backed the so - called Secret Science Reform Act, which Rep. Mike Honda, D - Calif., characterized as «an attempt by climate change deniers to stop the EPA from doing its job.»