Sentences with phrase «health committee voted»

The Senate health committee voted 14 - 9 — with two Democrats joining all the Republican members — to approve physician Scott Gottlieb to be the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, sending the nomination to the full Senate.

The New York City Council Health Committee voted unanimously to ban the use of exotic animals in entertainment, approving a bill that is expected to come to a full council vote next week.

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But this latest effort may not succeed given the tight time constraints and skepticism from Senators like Arizona Republican John McCain, who has been insisting that any health care legislation go through a bipartisan committee process in regular order (rather than a pure party - line vote).

In a key House committee vote Thursday, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), or Trumpcare, officially got its first GOP «nay» votes.

Georgia Congressman Tom Price has been cleared as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after an ugly confirmation battle which included Senate Democrats boycotting his vote by a key panel (a tactic that was rendered useless as the majority Republicans changed committee rules to push his nomination forward).

The resolution, which contains instructions for key health care - related committees to begin drafting legislation to undo the health law, must also be passed by the House of Representatives (and is expected to get a vote there this week).

Interestingly, Sen. John McCain, who the day before complained about Republicans» method of «trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle,» voted against the Democratic amendment to send health - care back to the starting line in committee.

In a Glass Lewis Proxy Talk held April 17, 2014, Anne Simpson of CalPERS and Michael Garland of the New York City Comptroller's Office discussed why they think shareholders should vote against the re-election of four Duke Energy Corporation directors for what they believe to be a failure of the directors to fulfill their obligations of risk oversight as members of a committee overseeing health, safety, and environmental compliance at the company.

It never made it to the floor; it was voted down by the Health and Human Services Committee, which Obama chaired.»

Senator Paula Sandoval sponsored the legislation, which passed the Health & Human Services Committee by a vote of 8 - 0.

House Bill 158, which was voted onto Alabama's House floor by a health committee yesterday, would allow adoption agencies within the state to refuse services based on «deeply - held religious beliefs,» including theologically - motivated opposition to LGBTQ parents.

The MEPs voting for the Resolution were heeding the expert opinions of medical and public health bodies from across Europe, US, Asia and Latin America and from UN bodies, including WHO, UNICEF, Save the Children, the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), the European Midwives Association, Eurochild, Association of European Cancer Leagues, the European Federation of the Association of Dieticians (EFAD), the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN), COFACE (the Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union), EPHA (the European Public Health Association) BEUC (the European Consumers Association), the German Midwives Association, the California Women Infants and Children Association, Sustain's Childrens Food Campaign, the National Childbirth Trust, the Baby Feeding Law Group and the International Baby Food Action Nhealth bodies from across Europe, US, Asia and Latin America and from UN bodies, including WHO, UNICEF, Save the Children, the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), the European Midwives Association, Eurochild, Association of European Cancer Leagues, the European Federation of the Association of Dieticians (EFAD), the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN), COFACE (the Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union), EPHA (the European Public Health Association) BEUC (the European Consumers Association), the German Midwives Association, the California Women Infants and Children Association, Sustain's Childrens Food Campaign, the National Childbirth Trust, the Baby Feeding Law Group and the International Baby Food Action NHealth, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), the European Midwives Association, Eurochild, Association of European Cancer Leagues, the European Federation of the Association of Dieticians (EFAD), the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN), COFACE (the Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union), EPHA (the European Public Health Association) BEUC (the European Consumers Association), the German Midwives Association, the California Women Infants and Children Association, Sustain's Childrens Food Campaign, the National Childbirth Trust, the Baby Feeding Law Group and the International Baby Food Action NHealth Association) BEUC (the European Consumers Association), the German Midwives Association, the California Women Infants and Children Association, Sustain's Childrens Food Campaign, the National Childbirth Trust, the Baby Feeding Law Group and the International Baby Food Action Network

The European Parliament's committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) today voted to stop the claim that DHA, a long - chain fatty acid found in breastmilk, when added to follow - on formulas and baby foods improves babies»committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) today voted to stop the claim that DHA, a long - chain fatty acid found in breastmilk, when added to follow - on formulas and baby foods improves babies»Committee (ENVI) today voted to stop the claim that DHA, a long - chain fatty acid found in breastmilk, when added to follow - on formulas and baby foods improves babies» vision.

2012: est'd mission, vision, bylaws, & steering committee with strategic planning; implemented Mother - Friendly worksite initiative at TCPH; achieved 501c - 3 status, through the guidance of the director of Mothers» Milk Bank of N TX; voted unanimously to remain a grassroots coalition, instead of exist under the umbrella of a parent health coalition, HTCC.

A House rules committee voted 8 - 7 earlier this month to kill a midwifery bill he sponsored that would have allowed its practice by health care workers with specialized training, a relaxation of current law - which requires midwives to have registered nursing degrees.

The vote in the European Parliament Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee took place this morning with MEPs voting for one of the three Objections tabled by European Parliament by Green MEP Keith Taylor.

The European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) will, on Thursday 14th January, vote on whether to object to proposals for new laws from the European Commission on the marketing of baby foods and formulas and to strengthen them in line with the World Health Assembly Resolutions.

But these were rejected by his fellow MEPs in the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) last week, meaning only the objection to sugary baby food was put to the vote at today's plenary session in Strasbourg.

Controversial federal legislation to limit funding for subsidized school lunches and change some of the program's nutritional standards passed a House committee on a 20 - 14 vote May 18, and the proposal is being hammered by critics who believe it would endanger the health of American school children.

UK Green MEP Keith Taylor tabled three objections to the delegated acts — part of the Food for Specific Groups (FSG) regulation — in December, which were voted on by the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) today (14th January).

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week launched new salvos against Republican Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney over their votes in support of the American Health Care Act, the House GOP bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Wednesday, Republicans deployed a workaround — Republicans on the committee used a «unanimous consent» clause to suspend all of its rules for the meeting, then voted to confirm the nominations for Steven Mnuchin, up for Treasury secretary, and Tom Price, nominated for Health and Human Services secretary.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching a digital ad campaign against 10 House Republicans who voted for the health care bill.

Still, adding to the political dimension of the vote over the health care legislation, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee blasted Faso's vote for discharging the bill from cCommittee blasted Faso's vote for discharging the bill from committeecommittee.

For the first time in 11 years, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted 15 - 7 in favor of a bipartisan bill that would prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

The New York State Assembly's Environmental Conservation Committee has voted in favor of a law that would defer the issuance of new hydrofracking permits amid increased environmental and health concerns about the controversial natural gas extraction method.

This bill has been stalled in our NY State Senate's Health Committee, where the members of the committee refuse to bring it to the floor for a vote, even after our Assembly has appCommittee, where the members of the committee refuse to bring it to the floor for a vote, even after our Assembly has appcommittee refuse to bring it to the floor for a vote, even after our Assembly has approved it.

«The Assembly Health Committee had the opportunity to show leadership today by voting down physician - assisted suicide legislation,» said the Rev. Jason McGuire, the group's executive director.

With many Democrats already unhappy over the vote by McMahon (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn) against health - care reform, Democratic county committee member John Lavelle Jr. said it was «disturbing» to see the lawmaker's campaign staffer on Ms. Malliotakis» page, especially given the fact that Ms. Hyer - Spencer represents a swing district crucial to McMahon's re-election chances this fall.

In the immediate wake of the House's narrow passage of the health care bill last week, the Democratic campaign committees launched digital ads attacking Republicans, even those who didn't vote for the bill.

Wollaston (pictured) continues as chair of the health select committee, after seeing off her only opponent, David Tredinnick, by 532 votes to 64.

She recently used a parliamentary procedure to force the measure onto the Senate Health Committee agenda, and Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos has said he expects there will be a full Senate vote on some version of the med - mar bill before the session is over next month.

«Republicans in New York who voted for the House bill sent a clear message that they'd rather be puppets to ultra conservatives in Washington than protect the nearly 3 million New Yorkers who will lose their health care coverage because of this bill,» the email signed by Cuomo sent by the state Democratic Committee states.

Larkin cast the deciding vote last month that allowed the Compassionate Care Act to move out of the Health Committee.

Pataki took a pass on running statewide this year to instead focus on his Revere America committee, which dropped more than $ 2 million to opposes candidates who voted «yes» on, or simply spoke in support of, health care reform (or, as he puts it, «Obamacare»).

The NYC health committee passed a ban on smokeless tobacco in baseball stadiums, sending the bill on to a vote by the full Council today.

Former Gov. George Pataki's Revere America Committee has added a second New Yorker — Democratic Rep. Bill Owens — to its list of members of Congress being lambasted in TV ads for voting «yes» on the health care reform bill opponents have taken to calling «Obamacare.»

A bill that would have codified the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in New York State law was voted down in the Senate Health committee Wednesday.

In the end, however, just one Conservative MP, the chair of the health select committee Sarah Wollaston, voted with Labour.

This year, the DNR bill passed the health committees on Tuesday and will move on to a vote by the full state Senate and Assembly, Ferrara said.

While Savino estimates that at least 39 senators support the measure - seven more than is needed for approval - it is unclear whether the new revisions will be enough to persuade key Senate leaders, including GOP leader Dean Skelos and Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, both Republicans from Long Island, to allow a vote.

«They planned this hearing as soon as possible to make this lawsuit go away,» Vallone told me after this morning's meeting of the Council's health committee meeting, where he cast the only dissenting vote on the bill.

-- First in the 202: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching a digital ad campaign against 10 House Republicans who voted for the health care bill.

[46] Swartz led the first activism event of his career with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, delivering thousands of «Honor Kennedy» petition signatures to Massachusetts legislators asking them to fulfill former Senator Ted Kennedy's last wish by appointing a senator to vote for health care reform.

The Legislature's vote followed months of fact - finding, committee meetings, and public hearings in which several doctors, medical experts and public health organizations, including the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, the Buffalo - Niagara Tobacco Free Coalition, the Wellness Institute of WNY, and the Commissioner of the Erie County Health Department warned of the dangers and risks that the emissions from Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping pose to the public's hhealth organizations, including the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, the Buffalo - Niagara Tobacco Free Coalition, the Wellness Institute of WNY, and the Commissioner of the Erie County Health Department warned of the dangers and risks that the emissions from Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping pose to the public's hHealth Department warned of the dangers and risks that the emissions from Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping pose to the public's healthhealth.

Engel Opposes GOP Resolution Curtailing Health Care Access Washington D.C. — Congressman Eliot L. Engel, a top member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, voted against H.J. Res.

First, it determined that VOTE / COPE Committee, which has attacked Republican Assemblyman Sean T. Hanna's positions on hydraulic fracturing, women's health and gun control, is actually the political arm of the teacher's union, New York State United Teacher.

Frelinghuysen, chair of the Appropriations Committee, is a Democratic target this cycle, and he's facing fresh heat for voting for the Republican health care bill last week.

After Democrats boycotted committee votes on Trump's Treasury and health secretary picks for the second straight day, the GOP unilaterally changed the panel's rules to approve both nominees without their votes.

The Municipal Labor Committee, an umbrella group of New York City unions, voted in support of a proposal championed by de Blasio that the mayor says will generate $ 3.4 billion in health - care savings.