Sentences with phrase «senate appointee»

Columnist Lisa Belkin discusses that question in her piece «The Senator Track,» where she argues that recent Senate appointee Caroline Kennedy's past experience on the board of the NAACP and the Commission on Presidential Debates, and authorship of books on privacy and the Constitution duly qualifies her to hold the Senate seat.

Sheesh... Nancy Greene (Olympic skiing champion, longtime climate contrarian and Harper Senate appointee in 2009) was the driving force behind the presentation, in order to hear «both sides».

Such is the tense, and oft - times hostile, relationship these days between state school officials and charter proponents such as Hawkes, a state Senate appointee to the CSAB who's one of many charter advocates lashing out at the state board this week.

Hedges and Senate appointee James Lack, however, said the commission shouldn't expect lawmakers to testify for their own raises, especially in the midst of an election season.

But Maziarz, who has pleaded not guilty, remains one of four board - members - and the only Senate appointee - on the state Economic Development Power Allocation Board that recommends companies for state power contracts.

Paterson will also be on the ballot in 2010, so his Senate appointee would be running alongside the governor on the Democratic ticket.

− Stanley S. Litow, Vice President, IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs & President, IBM International Foundation (Chair) − Senator John Flanagan, Senate Education Committee Chair (Senate appointee) − Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, Assembly Education Committee Chair (Assembly appointee) − Linda Darling - Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University Graduate School of Education − Todd Hathaway, Teacher, East Aurora High School (Erie County) − Alice Jackson - Jolley, Parent (Westchester County) − Anne Kress, President, Monroe Community College − Nick Lawrence, Teacher, East Bronx Academy for the Future (NYC) − Delia Pompa, Senior Vice President of Programs, National Council of La Raza − Charles Russo, Superintendent, East Moriches UFSD (Long Island) − Dan Weisberg, EVP & General Counsel, The New Teacher Project

He also reinstalled NYRA board member Anthony Bonomo, formerly a Senate appointee.

Cuomo named John Hendrickson, who has been a Senate appointee to the NYRA board from Saratoga Springs, as a special adviser.

Senate appointee Abe Lackman is a senior officer for civic affair at the Simons Foundation, the charitable organization founded by James Simons, the former head of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund.

I could spend the next few months talking about the terrible judgment of my plutocrat fixer - in - chief and my TV - star Senate appointee.

Not exact matches

Activist hedge fund investor and recent Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) board appointee Bill Ackman on Wednesday slammed the company's steep drug price hikes in testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, going so far as to say the cost bumps «contributed to healthcare inflation and called into question the company's commitment to the patients it serves.»

The two bickered earlier this week about the so - called «nuclear option» Reid is considering that would dramatically change Senate rules in confirming Cabinet appointees, shifting the approval process to a simple majority vote in the Seante.

The three appointees are: Brandon Lipps, who will serve as the Administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service and as until the Senate confirms a permanent presidentially - nominated appointee; Maggie Lyons, who will serve as Chief of Staff and senior advisor to the Under Secretary; and Kailee Tkacz, who will serve as policy advisor.

This could include White House Staff, Cabinet members and other political appointees whether or not they require Senate confirmation.

He also said the appointee will be mainly there for the Congressional lines, a piece I heard from Senate Republicans earlier today as well.

If a committee approves an appointee, it does not move to the Senate Calendar but rather the Executive Calendar and is scheduled differently than the bill.

Of the 29 failed Supreme Court appointees, there seem to have only been two that didn't have Senate hearings, one being Merrick Garland (Barack Obama's nominee), whose nomination expired on January...

She's an appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo (approved by the Assembly and Senate) and the leak has raised questions over whether the investigation is motivated by the governor's rivarly with the mayor.

In the statement, Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan knocked Gov. Andrew Cuomo's appointees on the commission for calling for ethics measures be linked to the first pay hike in 18 years.

Batra, a controversial appointee of Senate Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, at one point asked if there was a problem with political campaigns that «launder» money through 501 (c) 4 groups, a line of questioning that was cut off by JCOPE Chairwoman Janet DiFiore, an appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

JCOPE is composed of appointees by the legislative leaders of the Assembly and Senate as well as the governor.

All direct employees of the Senate and Assembly are at will appointees, even those doing things like Information Technology and Broadcasting (which elsewhere in the State Government would fall under the Civil Service in the Executive Agencies).

In 1911, Roosevelt as a newly elected state senator blocked the Tammany Hall - appointee for the U.S. Senate, back when Legislatures had that power, which was ultimately a way of granting patronage posts.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, a gubernatorial candidate, criticized Cuomo for accepting campaign contributions from political appointees, saying the governor violated his own executive order.

In a statement early Saturday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - New York, denounced the slam of Robart, an appointee of former president George W. Bush.

All school districts should have a degree of oversight, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan told reporters Monday as he defended his bill to have a state appointee monitor mayoral control of New York City schools.

In yet another «screw you» to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Republican - controlled Senate departed Albany without acting on the mayor's appointees to the MTA Board, multiple sources confirm.

I fully expect that Senate Democrats are going to use the filibuster as much as possible to stonewall Trump appointees to the courts.

Velazquez was also mentioned as a statewide contender (as an appointee to fill Hillary Clinton's US Senate seat — a post she lost out on to her former House colleague, now - Sen.

The panel is comprised of three gubernatorial appointees, one appointee each of the Assembly speaker and temporary Senate president, and two appointees of the state's chief judge.

The board, known as the PACB, consists of one appointee each by the governor, Assembly speaker and Senate majority leader and once killed then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg's dream of a West Side stadium.

It was just two years ago that, as a prospective appointee to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, Kirsten Gillibrand essentially had to audition for liberal interest groups wary of her for her opposition to strict gun control and amnesty for illegal immigrants, the very positions that had made her so popular in her conservative House district upstate.

One source said two of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» JCOPE appointees voted for Biben and one abstained, but did not vote against her.

The appointees were «new» and there wasn't enough time to vet them, Senate Republican spokesman Scott Reif said.

Jacqui Thurlow — Lippisch, an appointee of fellow Martin County resident Senate President Joe Negron to the Constitution Revision Commission, defended the bundling of topics in six of the eight amendments the 37 - member panel agreed this week to put before voters in November.

The Republican - controlled State Senate never got around to confirming de Blasio's three appointees to the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which controls New York City's subways and buses.

De Blasio's three new appointees — Veronica Vanterpool of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, David Jones of the Community Service Society and City Council transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez — will remain in limbo until the Senate reconvenes at some still - indeterminate point.

The state's governor would have two appointees, while the leaders of the Senate and the Assembly would have one each.

It's the latest escalation in a war of words between Cuomo and de Blasio after an inspector general report determined a memo recommending criminal prosecution over the mayor's fundraising activities in support of Senate Democrats was leaked by a Republican appointee at the board.

It will also likely confirm four more of Cuomo's administration appointees, all of whom are being considered by the Senate Finance Committee as I type.

He said the appointees are directed to resume duties in acting capacities pending their confirmation by the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

As usually happens at the end of session, the Senate confirmed a host of gubernatorial appointees, including several who for the past few months have been in «acting» status: DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos, Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon, Secretary of State Rossana Rosado and Department of Financial Services Superintendent Maria Vullo.

He touted the 150 state Senate confirmations for appointees, including MTA Chairman Joe Lhota and Court of Appeals Judge Paul Feinman.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Trump's attack on Robart, a 2003 George Bush appointee, would firm Democratic resistance to the presient's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.

As U.S. Senate Republicans embark on a flurry of confirmation hearings this week, several of Trump's appointees have yet to complete the background checks and ethics clearances customarily required before the Senate begins to consider cabinet - level nominees.

Its structure has been criticized, because appointees of the governor, Assembly Democrats and Senate Republicans have the ability to block enforcement actions from proceeding.

The ethics panel is run by appointees of Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate leaders, and Silver, the Assembly speaker.

But this «resolution» doesn't take into consideration the fact that Paterson's lieutenant - governor appointee, Dick Ravitch, will be president of the Senate if his nomination passes legal muster.

These appointees will not receive a salary and their appointments do not require Senate confirmation.