Sentences with phrase «committee worked very»

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«It is very strange, very strange that the two of them would be working for the support of this bill,» said Representative Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee.

There were committees that scrutinized everything, from whether the windows would open, to where the white boards would go, to the type of furniture involved, including the option of getting standing desks... I became very interested in how all of this would impact how people interact with one another at work.

By a very close vote (56 to 49) it was returned to the committee for further work.

«I want to be very clear on this: Because we've had five candidates who have, over the year, worked hard to get substantial support throughout the state committee and have that support, I am going to allow a two ballot process which will end up letting all five on the ballot,» Jacobs told me this morning.

There is almost no discussion of Parliamentary debates or of significant select committee reports, and very little of academic / policy work that doesn't get mainstream media coverage.

Casale said Cox is also working on raising money from some «very big» donors, and asking members of the party's finance committee to recommit.

«In the very end, my committee and I will support the candidate selected through this process and work diligently to ensure that he or she is victorious in the election.»

«I think it's very clear my members, especially in the Independent Democratic Conference, who work very hard, held it out they they've been vice chairs of committees.»

Just ask former Rep. Jane Harman of California, who watched a very pregnant Gillibrand work through a committee session while enduring 12 hours of pre-labor pains.

For groups like Working Families Party (WFP), Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), and Democracy for America (DFA), which have sought to reacquaint the Democratic Party with a left / labor base and replace corporate - captured Democrats with genuine progressives, the Sanders campaign is a very encouraging sign.

I'm certainly willing to give the restrictions a chance to prove themselves, purely out of respect for everyone who worked very hard to make it happen — all the folks who served on the committees, Councilwoman Kathee Burke - Gonzalez who worked tirelessly and showed incredible courage, and the East Hampton Town Board for taking the historic first step in the right direction to bring long - sought relief of helicopter noise in the region.

In European parliaments for example, party discipline is often very strong, the legislative work is prepared by the parties, the committees and the government.

You would see clearly that the committee comprises people who have rich knowledge and experience in party organization and more importantly, on legal matters since these considerations are very critical to their work.

And several fundraisers said they knew of very few major events in the Hamptons — the summer playground for the wealthy that was long worked by the Clintons, who used it for simultaneous socializing, vacationing and rainmaking for the national party committees.

In the document, Milne argued that communism had frightening connotations for most people in Britain «mainly due to ignorance» and he set out a vision where «factories and farms will be run by committees of workers, elected by workers (as in China where this has proved to work very well)».

«I have vocally made it very clear to the leaders of the party, to the state executive committee, to county leaders... I just can not accept how anyone can take the Working Families Party endorsement and Conservative Party endorsement,» Long said.

The statement finally added that the Burial Planning Committee was satisfied with the progress of the work and looked forward to a very successful event which it stated had already kicked off beautifully and successfully in Lagos, Abuja and Enugu.

«I spent a very long time working extremely hard to give you the opportunity» he insisted, telling the committee that working out how to regulate the press «is your problem not mine».

Osinbajo however commended the committee which he said had done very well removing skepticism on whether anti-corruption initiative can work well in the country.

While setting up a Democratic county party website is a good first step, «it is crucial to demystify the process more; they could use some testing to see how they are able to explain how this very old school county committee process works,» said Moore.

«We as a party, and certainly our officers, have been very focused and worked with the Senate Campaign Committee to identify target districts and talk about the kinds of resources we need to get to those districts.»

Our second challenge is time because the kind of work we do as a Committee involves a lot of hardwork and sometimes we don't have adequate time to peruse the reports very well because we are going to use one week to look at all the MMDAs, Technical Universities and Pre-University Institutions in the Brong Ahafo and Ashanti Regions using two days to do that.

--------------------------------------- State lawmakers have been chosen to work on Conference Committees to negotiate the differences in the budgets from both houses of the legislature, Local Assemblyman Pete Lopez said that after former leaders Silver & Skelos were convicted of corruption, that lawmakers would tighten up ethics governing their own behaviors, but they've proposed very little:

The committees are meeting, and we're working very well.

«I was very focused on it for a number of months and worked very hard reaching out to committee people and making a case that we have a message in our campaign that is very meaningful and is going to resonate with people in our party and people in our city,» Maxwell said.

«If the committee could pull together what we already know... and make very strong recommendations» regarding changes in science and engineering education, the effort would be worth it, says Elaine Seymour, who works in the Bureau of Sociological Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Besides, everyone knows your committee work will count very little in your tenure decision.

Offering that «it's very hard to do a systematic change,» Girard cited her work as the chairwoman of Boston's interagency green building committee, in which every major construction project has to pass a checklist produced by the agency to comply with new adaptation codes.

INRA «is very advanced and flexible, and is recognized as the leader in its field in Europe,» Rabbinge told reporters at the AERES briefing The committee's recommendations include reorganizing INRA's science council, increasing its international visibility, streamlining the agency's organizational structure, and developing more detailed socio - economic measurements of the impact of INRA's work.

I worked very hard with Mr. [Lamar] Smith -LSB-(R - TX), chairman of the full committee] on this issue, and I think we've got it to a place we can live with.»

«There are times when the science committee works in a bipartisan manner, and there are times when that bipartisanship is challenged,» says Foster, who as a teenager launched what became a very successful theater lighting business.

«Bringing a very high - field superconducting magnet to UCSB to create the MRX facility would provide a unique opportunity to fulfill a national need and enable many experiments that can not be done at the NHMFL,» said chemistry professor Songi Han, a member of the «Big Mag @ UCSB» program committee who has been working with Sherwin for more than a decade on filming proteins in action.

The union nationally has been working very closely with SPOT and The President sits on its Steering Committee.

They also coordinate what we consider our social - emotional learning, our SEL committee work, in making sure that we're being very intentional about what we're doing to touch every child and make sure that we're connecting with every student in some way.

Earlier, the committee had heard how it had become an urban myth in schools that teachers needed to mark in green and purple ink and give very detailed assessments of the work.

In 1894, when the Committee of Ten was doing its work, very few teachers were well educated.

First of all, OverDrive is very grateful for the great advocacy work of ALA and the digital content committees.

A thesis proposal is a very significant body of work that shows your advisory committee that you have the ability to write a professional and well - researched thesis on a particular area of study.

The Selection Committee had a very rewarding time viewing all the works and they are proud that the resulting exhibition will present an enticing breadth of work, including a good number of videos, in all, promising to be thoroughly lively and challenging.»

Although my region has very little gas development in comparison to other parts of the commonwealth, I've spent the past five years working for the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee within the commonwealth's general assembly.

Though I highly respect IPCC & am very thankful to its contributors and committees & all their hard work, I feel a bit as Flannery does about it.

Culver City then submitted an impacted party comment letter to the Public Works Committee making the assertion that the proposed exemption was illegal since it was «improperly piecemealing» a very large project into a set of related smaller components.

And given the intense but very inappropriate procedures imposed by CGSB, Treasury Board bought itself an agreed - upon opportunity to have one of its employees be a member of the Technical Committee's Working Group, and also the Working Group's Chair.

Up to the time of our resignations, there have been several very improper procedures used, including allowing people without legal training to edit our work on the legal section of the draft standard without allowing us to review the results of such editing before the draft went to the full committee for review.

Their private organisation and membership have no authority on those that are actually participating in technical committees to develop standards; indeed most «standardisers» are company experts on the pay role of their respective employers; they participate voluntarily in standardisation work for they see an interest for their very own business, not necessarily for society as a whole.

I was fortunate enough to attend on two missions in Africa; in addition, as a Committee member, it is very rewarding to hear the positive stories from our partners on the concrete and positive impact some of this work is having.

On 30th January, the joint Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee and Work and Pensions Committee heard evidence from two of the Carillion pension scheme trustees, one of whom was only very recently appointed.

Very experienced in debtor - side work and the representation of creditors» committees.

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

Currently, higher surgical training includes very little cosmetic surgery so the work being done between the Cosmetic Surgery Interspecialty Committee, the GMC and the Royal Colleges is paramount to laying the foundation for training and producing competent future cosmetic surgeons.