Sentences with phrase «actually chairs of committees»

They believe the practice of paying chairmanship stipends to Senators who are not actually chairs of committees violates language in the state's constitution.

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During his presentation, «The Coffee Journey,» Brett Anderhub of Rekerdres & Sons Insurance, covered the perilous movement from farm to cup (who knew that the concept of General Average is actually in the Bible), while Jack Steijn, chair of ISO and CEN committees on sustainable and traceable cocoa and co-founder of Equipoise, a consultancy for sustainable commodities, talked about the new ISO Standards for sustainability that will be issued in 2018, and whether or not sustainable practices that are being used in cocoa production can be applied to coffee.

Seven lawmakers in the Senate receive stipends under the arrangement in which they are reported to the comptroller's office for holding the post of chair of a committee when they do not actually hold that post.

Eight of the nine Democratic Senators who have given Republicans control of the Senate earned extra stipends meant for committee chairs, even though some of them don't actually chair a committee.

The bloodletting actually began late last week, when Flanagan stripped four IDC members of their committee chair positions and replaced them with Republican senators.

But on Thursday, the New York Times revealed that Peralta, along with colleagues in the IDC, got thousands of dollars in taxpayer money from the state after GOP officials submitted fraudulent paperwork claiming they were the chair of committees that were actually led by Republican senators.

Instead, Senate leaders identified her as chair of the Crime Victims, Crime and Correction committee — a post that's actually held by state Sen. Patrick Gallivan, a western New York Republican.

Meanwhile, the IDC has been reeling from a scandal that followed the revelation that some of its members were awarded stipends called «lulus» for chairing committees they weren't actually heading.

State Senators Patty Ritchie, Thomas O'Mara, and Patrick Gallivan were identified by the Senate, in correspondence to the State Comptroller's office, as the chairs of the Health, Transportation, and Education Committees, respectively, even though all three were actually vice chairs.

Cathy Young has some baggage based upon her claiming two STAR exemption for a number of years (while serving as Chair of the Housing Committee) and DeFrancisco had large income from his law practice until recent years — if Bharara is looking for proof that an attorney actually provided services for fees that will be tough for JD to explain.

Meg Hillier, the chair of the public accounts committee, said: «The Ministry of Justice is seeking to modernise our justice system but needs to be clear about which of the promised benefits it will actually be able to deliver.»

The Senate sent information to the state comptroller's office asking for approval of the stipends for committee chairs, who are actually only serving as vice chairs.

The bill was sponsored by Councilman Danny Dromm, chair of the education committee, who said the measure will help the Council learn how long it takes from the time students receives a special education referral to the time they actually receive it.

Klein said the letter that asked the comptroller for the payment authorization was actually a kind of «coding» that did not specifically state that the Senators who were paid the stipends actually held the committee chair posts.

But another senator, Republican Pam Helming of Geneva, said in a brief statement that she is giving back the stipend she received for chairing the Crime and Correction Committee when she is actually the vice chair.

Peralta is falsely listed as chair of the Energy and Telecommunications Committee on the payroll documents; he is actually the vice chair.

In response to Stuart Weir's post, and as Chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee of the House of Commons, can I invite those who are commenting or viewing to help actually influence this development by sending my Committee some evidence, it will be most welcome.

Klein said the letter that asked the comptroller for the payment authorization was actually a kind of «coding» that did not specifically state that the senators who were paid the stipends actually held the committee chair posts.

Peralta is falsely listed as chair of the Energy and Telecommunications Committee on the payroll documents, when he is actually the Vice Cchair of the Energy and Telecommunications Committee on the payroll documents, when he is actually the Vice ChairChair.

But another Senator, Republican Pam Helming, of Geneva, said in a brief statement that she is giving back the stipend she received for chairing the Crime and Correction Committee, when she is actually in fact the vice chair of the cCommittee, when she is actually in fact the vice chair of the committeecommittee.

Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Senator Jeff Klein, for the first time publicly answered questions from the media about news stories that some of his members received stipends for committee chair positions that they do not actually hold.

Graduate STEM education committee chair Alan Leshner, the CEO emeritus of AAAS (which publishes Science Careers), emphasized the importance of the effort — which he humorously termed «report number 26» — actually contributing to change.

«We have some 30 papers in peer - reviewed journals where we are actually sure that they are fake, and there are more to come,» says Pim Levelt, chair of the committee that investigated Stapel's work at the university.

Indeed, Rogers quoted Representative Obey, chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, asserting that a White House veto threat (in response to a proposed $ 500 million cut to Race to the Top) actually helped Dems pass the bill in the House.

The latest legislation comes from state Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), the influential chair of the state Senate's education committee, who has long talked about a new bill and now has actually filed one.

Most of would choose rational, science - based limits on climate pollution, but we can't have them; instead, the chair of the relevant committee in the United States Senate is chaired by a guy who actually brings snowballs to the Senate floor in defense of climate denial.

In a 2007 interview with REM's Kathy Bevan, Rossi said that chairing the Code of Ethics Committee at RECO was «one of my most cherished roles, to actually develop with a group of very knowledgeable people, a Code of Ethics that lives on.