Sentences with phrase «senate appointed every member»

The House of Representatives announced their list of conferees Tuesday afternoon, and the Senate appointed every member of its Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) to the conference committee.

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The head of the Liberal government has appointed four cabinet members to the nation's Senate in an effort to push the legalization bill forward.

When Lillian Dyck was appointed to represent Saskatchewan in the Senate in 2005, the NDP refused to recognize her as a member of their Parliamentary Caucus.

As clunky and dysfunctional as the Senate is, experts say a prime minister can not starve the institution to death rather than appoint new members.

She was AGAINST gay marriage as a member of the House, FOR gay marriage the day she was appointed to the Senate.

So when Governor Cuomo's appointed members of the commission began openly suggesting in the media this past summer that they are not likely to vote for a pay raise, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan probably didn't take it all that seriously.

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.

«It's a 12 - member council, appointed by the governor, with four members recommended by the Senate and the Assembly, two each.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

b. (l) The commission on judicial conduct shall consist of eleven members, of whom four shall be appointed by the governor, one by the temporary president of the senate, one by the minority leader of the senate, one by the speaker of the assembly, one by the minority leader of the assembly and three by the chief judge of the court of appeals.

New York State Senator Jim Tedisco (R,C,I,REF - Glenville) today was appointed as a new member of the Senate Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction by Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan.

Section 144 (1) of the Nigerian Constitution provides that such a medical panel should be appointed by the Senate President following a resolution passed by two - thirds majority of the members of the Executive Council of the Federation.

If at anytime a committee member is unable to serve, the President of the Senate can appoint another senator.

(Albany, NY)-- Today, Senator Brian Kavanagh announced that Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins has appointed him as the Ranking Democratic Member of the Senate Elections Committee.

The November ballot amendment would permit the Senate and the Assembly to appoint members to what the amendment describes as an «independent» commission to redraw legislative district lines every ten years, as required by the census.

Four members would be appointed by the Senate, and four by the Assembly.

With one member each appointed by the Senate and Assembly, 7 or 15 members would be appointed by state officials.

NYRA is supporting two options; one would replace the reorganization board with 15 private members; a second would place four publicly appointed leaders on the 15 - member board, including two recommended by the governor, one by the Senate, and one by the Assembly.

ALBANY — The State Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would change the way the Board of Regents is selected, allowing most members to be appointed by the governor and giving more power to minority legislative conferences.

«As a member of the Task Force appointed to oversee the redistricting process, and having not been included in any discussions of an additional legislative district, I would ask how Senate Republicans are able to determine the size of the senate without having ratified a final prisoner count and reallocSenate Republicans are able to determine the size of the senate without having ratified a final prisoner count and reallocsenate without having ratified a final prisoner count and reallocation?

According to Diaz, who chairs the Senate's Puerto Rican / Latino Caucus, Sampson has appointed Sen. Martin Malavé Dilan to serve as assistant minority leader for Senate Policy and Administration; Sen. José Peralta to serve as Senate Democratic Conference minority whip; and Sen. Adriano Espaillat, to serve as chair of Senate Minority Business Development and as the ranking member of the Senate Housing Committee.

(A) NUMBER AND APPOINTMENT - The Commission shall be composed of 8 members, to be appointed equally by the majority and minority leaders of the Senate and the Speaker and minority leader of the House of Representatives.

The campaign finance board will include members appointed by the governor, Senate president (a role Klein shares with Dean Skelos, a Republican), and the minority leaders of the Senate and Assembly.

Cuomo would appoint eight members, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos would appoint two members each and NYRA would appoint five.

The state Senate has passed legislation to create a new process for selecting Board of Regents members, which are the appointed officials tasked with crafting public education polices for schools in New York.

On February 23, the Court of Appeal appointed a commission of five members to map out new districts because the Republican - majority Senate and the Democratic - majority Assembly could not agree on a new apportionment.

The Committee on Committees is appointed by the President of the Senate and has five members including the President.

The bill in question will add two new members to Horizon's board: One appointed by the Assembly speaker and one appointed by the Senate president, bringing the total number of board members to 17.

Two other members of the board were appointed by the Governor and one each from the Senate and Assembly.

Assembly rejects the Executives proposal and replaces it with a five member «fair elections board» appointed by the governor and each legislative leader of the senate and assembly.

The governor, the State Senate Majority Leader and the Assembly Speaker appoint the supposedly independent board's members.

Senate Education Chair John Flanagan says Republican Senators will be attending a joint session of the legislature to appoint board of Regents members to new terms.

Mr Obama decided that the Senate was, in fact, in recess, and appointed three members to the NLRB, which adjudicates American labour disputes and requires a quorum of at least three members to do its work.

FYI from Article V of the state constituion: Except as otherwise provided in this constitution, the heads of all... departments and the members of all boards and commissions, excepting temporary commissions for special purposes, shall be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate and may be removed by the governor, in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Three panel members were appointed by the governor, one by the chief judge of the Court of Appeals and one each by the Senate and Assembly.

The commission consists of 14 members, three appointed by the leader of the Senate, three appointed by the Assembly speaker, one appointed by the Senate's minority leader, one by the Assembly minority leader, and six appointed by the governor.

On Wednesday the Board of Education was reconstituted (with seven members, one appointed by each borough president and two by Bloomberg himself) and met for a nine - minute session, wherein they voted to retain Joel Klein as schools chancellor, and to disband themselves for good if and when the State Senate (ever) passes mayoral control for real.

The Senate majority leader and the speaker of the Assembly each appoint three members and the minority leaders of both houses each appoint one member.

Eleven members of the board are appointed by elected officials: seven by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and two apiece by the majority leaders of the Assembly and Senate.

Within days, congressional leaders will appoint members of the House and Senate to a special conference committee to meld two bills into one.

The Board of Education consists of nine members appointed by the Governor with advice from the South Dakota State Senate.

The Senate Committee on Conditional Review on the 1999 Constitution has proposed an amendent that will compel the president or governor to appoint members of his...

«Section 2 (3) provides as follows: The chairman and members of the commission other than ex-officio members shall be appointed by the President and the appointment shall be subject to the confirmation of the Senate.

Section 2 (3) of the EFCC law, according to the letter, further provides that chairman and members of his commission other than ex-officio members shall be appointed by the president and the appointment shall be subject to confirmation of the senate.

The commission will consist of seven members: three appointed by the governor; one appointed by the Senate majority leader; one appointed by the speaker of the Assembly; and two appointed by the chief judge of the Court of Appeals.

The commission is comprised of three members appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, one apiece from the Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and two by the state's chief judge.

In New York, Ms. Gillibrand, a former House member from a conservative upstate district who had just been appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, was moving to the left on several issues in anticipation of a primary this year.

The commission comprises seven members: the governor, state auditor, secretary of state, one person appointed by the speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, one person appointed by the House leader of the largest political party of which the speaker is not a member, one person appointed by the President of the Ohio State Senate, and one person appointed by the Senate leader of the largest political party of which the president is not a member.

Senate Dems say Julie Killian missed over half the meetings and skipped over 80 % of the votes taken while she was an appointed member of the Westchester County Charter Commission.

ALBANY — Members of the Assembly's Democratic majority were angered Tuesday night over a plan they said was developed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senate Republicans to hold back a school funding increase until June, when an appointed commission would recommend a new teacher - evaluation system.