Sentences with phrase «policy committee which»

Every two years, the party elects a Policy Committee which is responsible the Welsh Liberal Democrat's policy - making process and for commissioning research and policy development.

It is also ironic to read the content of the speech regarding the content of the 2015 manifesto, as a member of the Federal Policy Committee which agrees the thing.

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JPMorgan Chase «s operating committee, which includes CEO Jamie Dimon, avoided directly criticizing the policy.

However, Democrats on the Small Business Committee immediately vowed to reverse the order, which they called «arbitrary» and «bad policy.»

Members of the Fed's Board of Governors are permanent voting participants of the Federal Open Markets Committee, which decides monetary policy for the US.

In 2013 Scott Gottlieb was appointed by the Senate to serve on the Federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee, which advises the Department of Health and Human Services on health care information technology.

House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over U.S. trade policy,...

«I expect it to be front and center» at the meeting, said Kevin Brady, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, which oversees U.S. trade policy.

He also also sits on multiple other committees which have a big say in health policy.

But he gave up that position in 2013 to take the gavel on the House Financial Services Committee, which has allowed him to reshape regulatory policy.

Democratic legislators, who are far outnumbered in the House and Senate and wield no power over which legislation gets considered, tried repeatedly over three committee hearings on Monday and Tuesday to amend the gun control bills to include an assault weapons ban and other, more stringent policies.

Rep. Kevin Brady (R - TX), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees trade policy, met Trump at the White House twice last week to make the case against the tariffs and suggest alternative proposals for how to revive American steel.

For the time being, the most effective way to address these concerns is to ensure that our policy actions align with our commitment to achieving the existing inflation target, which the Committee has recently clarified is symmetric around 2 percent — and not a ceiling - along with maximum employment.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Among the R.G.A. documents is a 21 - page schedule of the policy committee's Carlsbad meeting last year that lists which companies attended, who represented them and what they contributed.

We used a placeholder of $ 100 billion, which is close to either the Tax Policy Center's estimate of switching to a territorial system as part of the House GOP tax plan or the Joint Committee on Taxation's estimate of a voluntary repatriation holiday (though a permanently lower rate would be more expensive).

The resolution, which will be marked up by the House Education and Workforce Committee on Thursday, is co-signed by Rep. Phil Roe, R - Tenn., chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, along with Rep. Charles Boustany, R - Louisiana, chairman of the Subcommittee on Tax Policy.

After its last major policy meeting, which took place in March 2017, the Federal Open Market Committee stated:

This research, which was honoured with the William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Financial Research, was completed during a particularly relevant time when the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Committee of European Securities Regulators were evaluating their market information disclosure policies.

To address this matter, the BOE has a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) which holds a meeting once in every month in order to assess the country's economy.

Monetary policy is the process through which the monetary authority (central bank, currency board, or other regulatory committee) of a country controls the size and rate of growth of the money supply, which in turn affects interest rates.

So, for example, my colleague Don Kohn, who was the vice chairman of the Fed when I was there, is a member of the British financial policy committee, which tries to identify such problems and, when it does, it makes recommendations to the parliament to impose restrictions.

The recently published minute of the Fed's meeting last month showed some members of the policy committee have argued for raising interest rates more quickly in coming months because of strong economic growth, a robust job market and rising inflation, which last month exceeded the Fed's target of 2 percent.

He coordinates and chairs the Global Policy Committee, which formulates the firm's house view, leads the firm's bi-annual Investment Forums and communicates the firm's investment outlook through articles and press appearances.

Following these instructions, committees of jurisdiction identify specific policies to meet these goals in the form of a reconciliation bill, which can be enacted on a fast - track basis.

Before joining DFAIT, he worked at the Department of Finance, including from 1983 - 1990 with the Financial Sector Policy Branch where he served as Project Director, Financial Institutions Reform Project, and chaired the Inter-Departmental Legislative Review Committee, which guided the development of the 1992 reforms that overhauled the federal financial institutions statutes (the Bank Act, the Insurance Companies Act, the Trust and Loan Companies Act and the Cooperative Credit Associations Act).

Monetary policy consists of the actions of a central bank, currency board or other regulatory committee that determine the size and rate of growth of the money supply, which in turn affects interest rates.

Thus, many people have been able to assume that our leaders were justified in lying about the Cambodian bombings, that a labor union can pursue a policy which its members would deem immoral on the level of individual behavior, that a committee to re-elect a president is perhaps justified in engaging in acts not acceptable in private behavior.

ACOG's Ethics Committee, which produced the opinion, says that the burden of proof should fall on those who advocate for a change in policy in support of elective cesarean delivery (which replaces a natural process — vaginal delivery — with a major surgical procedure).

Her former position as the State Breastfeeding Coordinator supported and promoted breastfeeding endeavors for all of the Commonwealth of Virginia, which includes the development of public policy and media campaigns, curricula, publications and training; oversight of the Virginia WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program; and service as the Virginia Department of Health liaison to the Virginia Breastfeeding Advisory Committee.

The FTSE4Good BMS Advisory Committee, of which CFB is a member, presumably advocated or supported the weakening of the FTSE4Good Breastmilk Substitute (BMS) Criteria, Nestlé's inclusion in the Index (despite weakening its policy) and Nestlé's continued inclusion in the face of FTSE assessments finding evidence of violations of the Code and Resolutions.

Ruth Lawrence, the American Academy of Pediatrics» breastfeeding committee's past chair, says formula companies» influence has shaped U.S. policy in a variety of ways, for example by inhibiting U.S. hospitals from joining UNICEF's Baby - Friendly Initiative, which requires hospitals to promote breastfeeding and refuse promotional handouts from formula makers.

He also serves as a member of the executive committee of the National Fatherhood Leaders Group, which promotes responsible fatherhood policy, research, advocacy and practice.

The foreign affairs committee, publishing its report on East Asia today, calls on the government to change its policy towards China, which it describes as a major «regional and international player».

According to Mumuni, the Bank Access to Information Committee (AIC) in its Decision on appeal issued in Case number AI3982 - A dated 29 April 2016, and sent to SERAP held that although the appeal by the organisation was not filed within 60 days of the Bank's decision as required by its Access to Information Policy, SERAP appeal nonetheless «contains a request for additional information, not previously submitted by the requester, and which the Bank has neither considered nor denied.

«Rather, the Assembly process at issue here (including the appeal) is governed by the Assembly Sexual Harassment Policy, which contains no provision for — or even any suggestion of — a full evidentiary hearing with open discovery and full cross-examination rights, either at the Ethics Committee level or in the context of an appeal,» Levine wrote.

He told politics.co.uk his policy committee functioned as an «early warning system» against steps taken by the coalition government which «could cause significant problems for a significant number of Liberal Democrat MPs».

Friends of the Earth's director of policy and campaigns Craig Bennett responds to the public accounts committee's report on flood management in England, which warns of uncertainty about who will pay:

The power, which was compared by human rights groups to the policies of Saddam Hussein, was rejected by the peers last month when they voted to send the clause to a parliamentary committee.

The Suffolk County Republican Committee works hard to advance the interests of taxpayers by reigning in out - of - control spending at the state level and lowering taxes in New York, which is already the highest taxed state in the nation thanks to the policies of politicians like Andrew Cuomo and Charles Schumer.

The Lib Dem manifesto - writing sausage factory is a curious mix of democracy and patronage which characterises much of the party's internal processes — the mostly - elected, 27 - member Federal Policy Committee, chaired by Clegg's former PPS, Duncan Hames, appointed a 12 - member manifesto working group to be chaired by David Laws, who was nominated by Clegg.

Without descending into the detail of policy appraisal or the delivery of operational targets — both things that my environmental audit committee will scrutinise — the best snapshot of effort will come from the big policy packages that define the government's agenda, and which have the greatest environmental impact.

Third, the committee recommends «an impact assessment applied to every government policy, statutory instrument, and new bill, which asks the simple question: «what substantively will this do to build social capital, people power, and social entrepreneurs?»»

They will be aided by Congress member Luke Messer, from Indiana and chair of the Republicans» House Policy Committee, and by Vice President Mike Pence, also from Indiana of which he is former governor and a former ten year member of the Congress.

The main reason Cuomo has such a huge campaign war chest: He doesn't have to spend money to promote his budget and policy agenda because the business community — through the Committee to Save NY, which dropped $ 12 million last year — does it for him.

Brown contrasts the disastrous policy choices of Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong with the subsequent periods of communist rule in which policy was made, in both cases, by oligarchical committees where different perspectives could be aired.

There will be a written ministerial statement later today about the decision by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee to ensure that the inflation target is met and that the economy does not fall below that target by putting extra money into the economy, which is described as quantitative easing.

It meets two or three weekends a year to discuss in detail documents produced by the policy commissions, of which there are six, jointly set up by the NPF, the Party's National Executive Committee and the Government.

A new liaison committee was established with members of the TUC General Council, the NEC, and the Labour Shadow Cabinet, which gave the unions direct access to policy making.

[125] The job was approved by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, which stated that during Osborne's time as Chancellor «there were no specific policy decisions... that would have affected BlackRock», and the Permanent Secretary at the Treasury had «no concerns» about Osborne taking up the role.