Sentences with phrase «members of the commission said»

Members of the commission said they wanted to produce an analysis which would «do for the car economy what our 1976 report did for nuclear power».

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Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

One of the two remaining members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says she will not seek a second term, a move that could leave the five - member panel with a single commissioner and further hobble its ability to make decisions.

«Member states may prohibit and punish, as a matter of criminal law, the illegal exercise of transport activities in the context of the UberPOP service, without notifying the Commission in advance of the draft legislation,» the ECJ said in a statement.

«We don't need mandates,» said Lauren «Bubba» McDonald, a member of the Georgia Public Service Commission, who is widely credited with helping jumpstart the state's solar industry.

Shown pictures of some of the people who apparently voted twice, including at Ust - Djeguta's polling station no. 217, Leila Koichuyeva, a member of the election commission there, said: «They could be twins.»

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, asked the four other members of the commission to vote to kick off a process to decide if the nation - wide cap, set at 39 percent of television - owning households, should be eliminated or raised, the agency said.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, in a notice to the four other members of the commission, asked that an initial vote be cast to begin a process to decide if the existing ownership cap should be eliminated or raised, the agency said.

At the start of June, before the new law went through, the European Commission said EU member states should avoid «imposing disproportionate obligations» on people who occasionally offer services through platforms such as Uber.

Rep. Ann Wagner, R - Mo., who sponsored the Retail Investor Protection Act, bipartisan legislation passed in the House that would require the Securities and Exchange Commission, not DOL, to take the lead on crafting a fiduciary rule, said Wednesday that she was «working closely with House leadership and members of the Education and Workforce Committee on using the Congressional Review Act to stop [DOL's] ill - advised rule.»

Principal Financial President and CEO Daniel J. Houston said the «levelized commissions,» which have already «been in place for a long time,» would only marginally affect members of the Principal Advisor Network, a proprietary distribution channel.

Online political advertising was seen «initially as a force for good,» because it offered a lower cost way for candidates to advertise and could serve as a counterweight to the influence of big political donors, said Ellen Weintraub, a veteran Democratic commission member who now serves as its vice chairwoman

So, I think this is a serious challenge, and this should not be allowed at all,» said Das, currently a member of the 15th finance commission that has been tasked with reviewing the government's financial situation.

When Mignon Clyburn, a Democratic member of the Federal Communications Commission, announced last month that she would leave the agency by May 10, it signaled the end of a tenure that she says was devoted to individuals «who are too seldom heard.»

In a statement the Charity Commission said: «In March 2014 complaints were received from members of the public alleging the charity was being used for private advantage.

Commission members are to open their April plenary by meeting with victims privately, and discussions are continuing to create an «international survivor advisory panel» to advise the commission and make sure the voices of victims are heard in all its deliberations, the stateCommission members are to open their April plenary by meeting with victims privately, and discussions are continuing to create an «international survivor advisory panel» to advise the commission and make sure the voices of victims are heard in all its deliberations, the statecommission and make sure the voices of victims are heard in all its deliberations, the statement said.

The Druid Network, which has about 350 members, sought charitable status for «the advancement of religion for public benefit and no other purpose,» the commission said in its ruling.

Chief executive Dr David Staples said he had written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission about concerns its members are the victims of gross misrepresentation and discrimination.

«I assisted a friend who served on the Chesapeake Bay Commission, and this is inaccurately being tied to Smithfield Foods,» Hart said in an emailed statement, referring to Treacy, who's a member of the cCommission, and this is inaccurately being tied to Smithfield Foods,» Hart said in an emailed statement, referring to Treacy, who's a member of the commissioncommission.

UNESDA, which represents the soft drinks industry, said the Commission study, «finds hard evidence from a number of member states on the negative impact which food taxes can have on competitiveness and jobs, leading to an increase in administrative burdens.»

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — Members of the Arlington Heights Youth Commission said Thursday they would invite officials of the park district, the village and Lattof YMCA in Des Plaines to develop a plan for at least one skating park in Arlington Heights.

The project could include the efforts of the Burr Ridge Park District, commission members said.

Commission member Ben Weese, who was chairman of the permit committee, said that Park District officials had worked with Logan Square residents over several months on an aesthetically appropriate design and, given that the changes are reversible, said that it was a «noble experiment» worth pursuing.

Trade group Specialised Nutrition Europe (SNE) says the objections could derail the result of two years of «intense discussions» between the European Commission, members state experts and stakeholders.

«While my policy as leader is not to sign the many pledges that are presented to me, I want you to know my position on the three issues that you have raised with the members of the State Legislature: I support the concepts of applying generally accepted accounting principles to our state budget, requiring disclosure of lawmakers» non-government income and appointing an independent commission to redraw legislative district lines,» Sampson said in a statement released by NY Uprising.

My attention has been drawn to a video which captures the Member of Parliament for Dome / Kwabenya, Deputy Majority Leader and Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Procurement, the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo claiming in the said video that the Community Senior High School constructed and commissioned in her constituency during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama was as a result of her personal intervention with the World Bank, that the Senior High School was not from the then NDC Government and that with the exception of the Dome / Kwabenya Senior High School project, all the other schools constructed during the previous NDC administration were executed in NDC strongholds.

Pollster and Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch Newspaper, Ben Ephson has said, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ascended to the height of double standards, when it questioned the credibility of the five - member team that was empanelled by the Electoral Commission (EC) to assess calls for a new voters register.

Specifically, Cuomo - appointed commission members said lawmakers should back measures to limit or ban private - sector income in exchange for the pay hike, leaving open the possibility of another meeting before the end of the year.

State Senate Democrats are accusing Julie Killian, the newly minted Republican choice in an upcoming key Westchester County state Senate race, as a «no - show» politician, saying she missed over half the meetings and skipped over 80percent of the votes taken while she was an appointed member of the Westchester County Charter Commission.

Levy appoints one member of the commission; Lindsay said Levy recommended the other two, and they were approved by the Legislature.

Although the Commission investigated a number of different areas of potential wrongdoing by members of the Legislature, including the improper claiming of per diem allowances and outside employment, multiple Moreland sources said that at the time the Commission was disbanded, the personal use investigation had become one of its main focuses.

different areas of potential wrongdoing by members of the Legislature, including the improper claiming of per diem allowances and outside employment, multiple Moreland sources said that at the time the Commission was disbanded, the personal use investigation had become one of its main focuses.

Another member of the commission, Onondaga County district attorney William Fitzpatrick, told Capital's Laura Nahmias he would have liked to keep digging as Bharara suggested the body should have, and said he was pleased the commission's findings were now in the hands of the U.S. attorney, who he said was «if not the best, one of the best in the business.»

Sen. José Peralta (D - Queens), an IDC member, defended getting $ 12,500 as vice chair of the Energy and Telecommunications Commission, saying he received $ 14,500 as minority whip.

Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday that he selected members of a Charter Revision Commission examining city campaign finance laws based on merit — not whether they donated money to his...

The governor says he told commission members when he disbanded the panel that they should turn over any possible evidence of wrongdoing to law enforcement.

However, it became apparent on the final sitting day of 2010 that the commission had not been established, and I again put the question to my hon. Friend the Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire (Stephen Crabb), the Minister on duty, who said that

«For an Italian American to use a slur to defame another member of our community is despicable and contrary to everything we stand for,» said a joint statement from Robert Ferrito, the president of the Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America and John Fratta, the president of the New York Chairman Commission for Social Justice.

The Public Integrity Commission has refused to heed a call to investigate whether four members of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Medicaid Redesign Team violated the Public Officers Law, saying a complaint filed by the Center for Justice and Democracy «failed to establish a basis» for the probe.

«In the Assembly, of course I'm an Assembly member, so some might say I can not be objective, but I think outside experts have said the same thing, that in the Assembly LATFOR commission executed due diligence to consider the demographics, the change in the demographics of the district.»

She also said that the commission had fixed August 10 for the last day for submission of names of verification agents for the member sought to be recalled and the petitioners.

The Cuomo administration aggressively interfered when the Commission started asking questions of the Real Estate Board of New York, the powerful trade group that has donated generously to Governor Cuomo, and forbade members from investigating the Committee to Save New York, a lobbying group created to support Cuomo,» Teachout said in a statement.

«This could be used as an instrument for the people, that is, the citizens of Erie County, to improve the framework of their county government,» said Commission Member Kenneth Farrell.

The former minister, who has been in Holland since 2015, said if the EFCC continued to harass members of his family and search his properties, he would be forced to sue the commission for harassment.

Three council members were absent from the meeting, one of whom, Alderman Michael Schumacher, said he would request a revote and support overturning the commission's decision.

The governor says he did speak to several members of the Moreland commission, and they agreed to release personal statements that he said corrected «inaccuracies» that were in the initial New York Times report on the controversy.

No consolidation plan has been voted on by the 19 - member commission, said Neil Murphy, one of three co-chairs.

But Mark Green, the former New York City public advocate who was a member of Mr. Cuomo's first Moreland Commission, which investigated the performance of the state's power utilities after Hurricane Sandy, said the advertisement ran the risk of politicizing the new panel.

When I was asked to participate in this Moreland Commission, one of the first things that I said as a commission member inside our meetings was, we need to change theCommission, one of the first things that I said as a commission member inside our meetings was, we need to change thecommission member inside our meetings was, we need to change the policies.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he has not spoken to federal prosecutors investigating the demise of his anti-corruption commission, but declined to say with authority whether any members of his administration had.