Sentences with phrase «finance committee did»

Others accused him of violating their religious freedom.Grassley's staff said in the report that they did not issue subpoenas to further the investigation because witnesses feared retaliation if they spoke out publicly and the Finance Committee did not...

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That would create time and space for people like me, Gordon, Stanford, Moffatt and others to harass the House Finance Committee into doing its job and conducting hearings on the central bank's target.

It is done behind closed doors by an inter-agency committee in Ottawa led by the deputy minister of finance.

Poloz was at his sunniest when he testified recently to the finance committee in Ottawa — «We don't believe we're in a bubble,» he told the assembled MPs, saying he sees no signs of the speculative activity that typically characterizes a bubble, like people buying multiple houses to flip them.

Cohen didn't follow Trump to the White House after the election, instead leveraging his influence to include a partnership with a Washington law firm and a senior position with the Republican National Committee's finance team.

Morneau, for example, rejected advice from the House finance committee to do even more to help first - time homebuyers.

Last year, when asked about balanced budget legislation he told the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance «I don't think writing something into law, and then expecting that future governments will be held by that, is realistic.»

«Apparently that mainstream economic analysis had to be purged because it basically didn't jibe with the Trump team's patter,» Wyden said at a Senate Finance Committee hearing.

Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, called tariffs «a tax hike the American people don't need and can't afford.»

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

Cohen said he had three clients: Trump; Elliott Broidy, the former deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, who impregnated and then paid a woman with whom he had an affair; and a third party that Cohen said did not want to be identified.

Senate Finance Committee aides said they planned to make adjustments to the legislation because it probably does not comply with the rules for a special Senate procedure they hope to use to pass the bill with 50 votes, rather than the 60 votes typically needed to beat a filibuster.

Indian Finance Minister Awaits Committee Results But Does Not Award Bitcoins With Legal Tender Status In The Meantime Arun Jaitley, the Finance minister of India...

«I personally wish they had done more to directly link corporate rate reductions and pass - throughs, for that matter, to real and tangible benefits for employees, things like IRA matching or employee profit sharing or employee ownership,» Dean Zerbe, managing director at the tax consultancy Alliantgroup and former tax counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, told me last year.

The city's Finance Committee has deferred a decision for the time being on what to do with a projected $ 1.1 million budget surplus.

As the Senate adjourns for Thanksgiving, I wanted to update you on what I am doing regarding the proposed changes to Small Business Tax and the hearings that the Senate National Finance Committee have started.

Presidents of both U.S. parties rely on Wall Street for major political campaign contributions, as do heads of the key Senate and Congressional banking and finance committees.

Said «Don't be scared but church will talk about money next sunday» Ha, my husband was head of the finance committee.

Craig Talsma, director of the Park District's finance and business division, told the committee that the 1998 budget does not call for any increased tax levy over that of the current year.

Cuomo ultimately did make some final Hail Mary passes on ethics: A «menu» of options for closing the LLC loophole in campaign finance law and a plan to curb coordination between campaigns and independent expenditure committees.

Ross reports the following lawmakers are in the room: Democratic Sens. Kruger and Krueger (the dynamic duo who don't always get along, but are charged with heading up the Finance Committee), Republican Sens. Tom Libous and John DeFrancisco and Assemblyman Michael Benjamin (he rarely misses the opportunity to sit in on anything....)

Flint has cleverly used the work of the public accounts committee to inform and promote her Finance Bill amendment on tax transparency, most select committee reports do not really change or initiate policy.

At one point, things got so heated that Finance Committee Chairman Carl Kruger, who, like Parker, is a Brooklyn Democrat, told Parker he would have to be removed from the room if he didn't calm down.

Kruger and Krueger co-chaired the Finance Committee when the Democrats briefly controlled the Senate, and to say that they didn't get along terribly well is a massive understatement.

However, Finance Minister - designate, Ken Ofori Atta, answering questions when he appeard before the parliamentary Appointment Committee denied the President's pledge saying «I don't know where we (NPP) promised to pay all contractors in 100 days.»

The Education Committee, as well as Finance Committee, also resolved that Pakistan needed to spend more on education, or, at least, as much as other countries in South Asia do.

«If the registration and issuance of cards are not being done by the National Treasurer or continue after this resolution, the General Secretary should take immediate action, including legal action, to stop the unauthorized registration,» the Chairman of the Finance Committee announced.

«And we do have a progressive tax,» the chair of the state Senate Finance Committee added.

«I just don't know how many people it's going to affect and how many people it won't,» said DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

As you'll recall, the Ethics Committee's attorney, Blake Chisam, made it very clear that he did not find evidence of corruption by Rangel, determining instead that he had been «overzealous in many of the things he did and sloppy in his personal finances.»

A political action committee associated with Jonathan Soros is prepared to spend millions of dollars against Republican state senators on Long Island if state lawmakers don't approve a system of public campaign finance.

We're definitely going to do some oversight, and there'll be some hearings about how this money is going to be used going forward,» said Sen. Martin Golden, a Brooklyn Republican who is on the Senate Finance Committee.

«I am as frustrated as everyone else is, and more frustrated because I know the MTA can do so much better,» Lhota told members of the Senate's finance committee, who unanimously approved his nomination.

Campaign finance records do not show any donations from the committee to Farley challengers in the last three election cycles.

Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, says he's not surprised that the GOP is doing well in the campaigns.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) said Skelos» «level of support is fine; what we are doing now is setting the agenda for the last two months of the year and that's the priority for everybody here.»

Senator John De Francisco, a Republican from Syracuse who holds the powerful post of Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, says he's not surprised that the GOP is doing well in the campaigns.

New York State Senate Republicans on the Elections Committee cast a vote on closing a campaign finance loophole that has played a role in recent corruption trials of former legislative leaders, but doing so might have doomed the measure for the 2016 session.

That befuddled many campaign finance experts, who noted that super PACs, by definition, are political committees that solely do independent expenditures, which can not be coordinated with a candidate or political party.

Common Councilor Nader Maroun, who chairs the finance committee, said the mayor did not need council approval to hire Jewett because the contract is with the urban renewal agency.

Also note how all that «experience» he has didn't exactly help him become Chair of the Finance Committee.

During a CapTon interview last night, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. John DeFrancisco shot down the suggestion the GOP might be open to reauthorize the so - called millionarie's tax under the pretense that to do so would not technically be breaking the «no new taxes pledge.»

Silver notably did not choose to highlight public campaign finance reform, which has generated a lot of support on the left (Citizen Action, Working Families Party, Strong Economy for All etc), or a reduction of contribution limits for regular candidate committees or PACs.

«The Governor says people who support quality public schools are playing politics, meanwhile he is robo calling voters homes and there is a committee of millionaires doing direct mail to force through school cuts and finance tax cuts for the wealthiest New Yorkers.»

«Oh definitely he made calls, definitely, no doubt about it,» the Senate Finance Committee chairman said, adding: «He can do whatever he wants, but be honest about it.»

The finance team was under - resourced and inexperienced, the human resources section was short staffed and the department did not have basic finance, procurement and human resources policies and procedures in place, the committee concluded.

DeFrancisco quickly dismissed the talk, saying he thought he could do more for Syracuse as chair of the Finance Committee in the New York State Senate.

East Harlem Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito, chairwoman of the council's Parks and Recreation Committee, along with Comptroller John Liu and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, objected to the proposed expansion because they said the tennis center had not released requested information about its finances and what it does to help the poor surrounding communities in East Harlem and the South Bronx.

Four Capital Region developers have given more than $ 600,000 to local and state political committees during the past five years — and they've done it by funneling the cash through at least 48 different entities, according to a Times Union analysis of campaign finance reports.

The report, prepared by the Council's Oversight and Investigations Committee, found that by withdrawing $ 43.5 million in financing from the Durst Organization project in Halletts Point, the city «did a demonstrable disservice to the more than 3,000 residents of Astoria Houses, who will have no assurance of reliable heat and hot water.»