Sentences with phrase «change committee only»

Some individual committees fared particularly badly: as Figure Four below shows, the Energy and Climate Change Committee only took evidence from two women out of 32 (or 6 %).

Some individual committees exhibited a particular gender imbalance: the Energy and Climate Change Committee only took evidence from two women out of 32 (or 6 %).

Not exact matches

* At a recent House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance meeting, a number of Conservative MPs objected to my characterization of the GPT changes affecting «thousands and thousands» of products, when the changes only apply to roughly 1290 tariff classifications.

Budget Omnibus Bills should be restricted to proposed tax changes only and all proposed spending initiatives should be presented either through the Main Estimates or through separate legislation, submitted to the applicable Parliamentary Committee for review.

Of course they're going to resist change, and pretend, as an organization, that the process is essentially perfect, and in fact could be improved only by a) fewer grenades thrown by impudent non - members / non-voters like me, and b) the dissolution of the Veterans Committee, which after all was invented largely to redress any (supposed) errors made by the BBWAA.

«This change clearly reflects the original intent of the committee to abort only the approach and have the opportunity to restart the approach.»

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.

The Assembly never moved the bill out of committee and despite numerous comments about reviewing, discussing, considering, and conferencing the legislation, ultimately didn't change the bill from the Senate amended version and only amended the bill in the final week of the legislative session.

A report by the Commons» energy and climate change committee published today warns that government proposals will effectively provide subsidies to nuclear generators - despite the coalition agreement only permitted new nuclear power stations «provided they receive no public subsidy».

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

At present not every party is represented on every committee, when there may be only 12 members, and this would not change whether DPR Voting or any other electoral system is used to elect the lower House.

«I think progressives are looking for him not only to talk about progressive issues, but to talk about them with authenticity and sincerity,» said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which bills itself as representative of the «Warren wing» of the Democratic Party, a reference to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.).

Commentators including Parliament's Energy and Climate Change Committee and IPPR have argued that the only logical solution is for the UK to scrap the CPF and push for a high carbon price across the whole of the EU instead.

«Our main conclusion is that constitutional change, particularly, should be made only by parliament through primary legislation, not ministers using delegated powers,» said Lord Holme, the chairman of the committee.

Community Board 11 Transportation Committee Chairwoman Peggy Morales said the change is only the first the board is working on to improve safety in the area.

The by - election, caused by the surprise resignation of the previous Chair, Stephen Dorrell MP, was only the third in this parliament (apart from the required sessional re-election of the Chair of the backbench business committee), with only the defence and procedure committees previously having seen changes.

The additions and deletions decided in those private caucus meetings were presented to the Republican legislators just prior to the actual votes on the changes in the Budget and Appropriations Committee (for the additions, only 20 minutes prior to the actual vote), and we were denied the necessary time to do our due diligence, conduct a proper review of the changes and suggest additional modifications.

The two candidates for the chairmanship of the 1922 Committee only got 20 minutes» notice of the changes.

There is a great deal of continuity from 2010 in which party will chair which committee — only five of the 26 chairs available have changed party.

The only other committee to change hands is Science and Technology — which will now be chaired by a Conservative instead of a Labour backbencher.

• The CSEA Negotiating Committee has continually asked for the county to discuss the proposals that were introduced from the onset of negotiations; the only thing that was agreed to by the county was changing the title of «vacation time» to «annual time».»

«Only this City Council and this committee have the jurisdiction and the authority to make this change,» she said, predicting a backfire from the powerful tech sector like the one de Blasio and his team faced when they attempted to cap the number of new e-hail cars in 2015.

Fact 1: Republicans control both houses of Congress Fact 2: A Republican controlled ethics committee voted THREE TIMES to censure Tom Delay for ethics violations Fact 3: The Republican leadership, not liking this, removed the Republican on the committee who was voting to censure Delay and replaced him with a Republican who accepted Delay's leftover campaign money for his own campaign Fact 4: The Republicans further tried to shield Delay by making a change to the rules to allow a Congressman under indictment to retain their leadership post, relenting only when Democrats had a field day trumpeting that little change in the media

Only the French representative on the committee voted against the change.

In the first of almost three dozen amendments put before the committee, he proposed removing the offending paragraphs and leaving only the requirement that NSF report back to Congress on any procedural changes it makes based on a study now under way.

Several amendments were adopted, but only minor changes were made to the relatively unambitious funding levels approved by the Science Committee, seen here.

By a 10 - 2 vote, the Senate education committee approved a bill last week that would not only change the state tests students take, but also erase several years» worth of judgments about school effectiveness that have been made based on the test scores.

Superintendent Tommy Chang presented a plan to the Boston School Committee that would eliminate middle schools and change the grade configuration of other schools in Boston so that students only have to change schools once during their education, James Vaznis reports in the Boston Globe.

Since you can not change your past record, scholarship essay is the only tool left with you to convince the scholarship committee.

Roaming cats would no longer be picked up on sight, as the ordinance now allows, but would be taken only if there is a signed complaint about the animal or if the cat is not wearing a collar and the owner can not be found.Larry Jones, the county's director of health and human services, said the staff will complete its rough draft by Oct. 22 and mail copies to veterinarians, committee members, animal rights activists and anyone else who wants to comment about the changes.

In any case the NSF program directors have the finally say about who is funded and at what level, subject only review and potential changes by the NSF oversight committee.

Based on a curious report by the UK House of Lords Economics Affairs committee (in which they made clear that they had no scientific expertise), Lawson demands that the only global scientific assessment process on climate change be shut down, and replaced with....

Curious as to whether there are two Peter Lilleys with an interest in climate change, or whether comment # 12 is from the right wing Tory MP, Vice Chairman and Senior Independent Non-Executive Director at Tethys Petroleum, member of the House Of Commons Select Committee on Climate Change (no conflict of interest there, then), and one of only three MPs to vote against the Climate Changchange, or whether comment # 12 is from the right wing Tory MP, Vice Chairman and Senior Independent Non-Executive Director at Tethys Petroleum, member of the House Of Commons Select Committee on Climate Change (no conflict of interest there, then), and one of only three MPs to vote against the Climate ChangChange (no conflict of interest there, then), and one of only three MPs to vote against the Climate ChangeChange Act?

Among the scientists who testified before this Committee on the issue of climate change in the last Congress, Pat Michaels was the only one to dismiss the need to act on climate change... Dr. Michaels may have provided misleading information about the sources of his funding and his ties to industries opposed to regulation of emissions responsible for climate change.»

DeSmog reported that the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology hearings «have officially turned into theater to stage climate science denial,» noting that Michael Mann was the only witness on the committee to represent the 97 % consensus view that humans cause climatCommittee on Science, Space and Technology hearings «have officially turned into theater to stage climate science denial,» noting that Michael Mann was the only witness on the committee to represent the 97 % consensus view that humans cause climatcommittee to represent the 97 % consensus view that humans cause climate change.

Other than the obvious predisposition of the committee's chairman, it should not be forgotten that the Climate Change Bill was passed by a large majority, only 4 (or thereabouts) MPs voted against it; this gives an idea of the mindset of most MPs on AGW.

Last July, they were the only two MPs to vote against the Energy and Climate Change Committee's acceptance of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of global warming.

Climate council focuses on human influence His skepticism derives from the statutes of the IPCC: The committee has the mission to explicitly investigate only the human impact on climate change.

[1] Among the scientists who testified before this Committee on the issue of climate change in the last Congress, Dr. Michaels was the only one to dismiss the need to act on climate change.

Committee members would receive the successive drafts only once every 2 - 3 months, without sufficient information as to why particular changes had been made from one draft to the next.

Not only are Joint Health and Safety Committees (or Health and Safety Representatives in smaller workplaces) now the rule instead of the exception, new roles have been introduced (i.e. supervisor) and others significantly changed (i.e. prime contractor).

changing the voting rules at the last stage of the comitology procedure (the Appeal Committee), so that only votes in favour or against an act are taken into account; this will reduce the use of abstentions and the number of situations where the Committee is unable to take a position and the Commission is obliged to act without a clear mandate from the Member States;

The Committee is convinced that the time has come when important changes and solutions can be implemented only if a Family Court is created with original exclusive jurisdiction over the entire field of matters affecting the family.

Within the UK, we now have the draft Climate Change Bill, which includes not only provision for a new Carbon Committee to advise government on appropriate targets, but also provision for significantly extending the range of activities to which greenhouse gas allocations might be applied.

After only four days of debate, the House Ways and Means committee passed through a winning vote (24 to 16) on the Republican bill, but not without changes.

In the Board of Directors meeting Saturday, those opposed to the change suggested both sending the proposal back to the MLS committee and changing the AVM data feed requirement so that it would only apply in states where disclosure of sales price is mandated by state law.