Sentences with phrase «affairs committee says»

Don Cook, a director and chair of the Civic and Legislative Affairs Committee says, «With the strong likelihood of rising interest rates making housing less affordable, WinnipegRealtors views any changes the province can make to lessen the burden of land transfer taxes on homebuyers as a way to keep homeownership a possibility for more Manitobans.....

The Commons» Scottish affairs committee said evidence from Unite suggested claims of blacklisting of employees worried by issues like health and safety and their employment rights required rapid investigation.

A report presented to Parliament by the Foreign Affairs Committee said the two: Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al - Dhuby, should be allowed to stay in the country because they posed no threat.

«Allegations of political bias, whether justified or not, are almost inevitable given the attorney general's seemingly contradictory positions,» today's report by the Constitutional Affairs Committee said.

«Aipac Judge Orders Open Arguments on Government Proposal»: The New York Sun today contains an article that begins, «A federal judge in the trial of two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee said yesterday that a government proposal for keeping classified information out of the public record has «no precedent,» and he ordered open arguments on the matter.»

Not exact matches

The president spoke hours after Senator Johnny Isakson, chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, said he and the panel's ranking Democrat, Jon Tester, decided to delay a hearing on Jackson's nomination that had been scheduled for Wednesday and sent a letter to Trump seeking more information.

«The Senate Committee on Veterans» Affairs is postponing the hearing to consider the nominee to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in light of new information presented to the committee,» Isakson and Tester said in a joint statement releasedCommittee on Veterans» Affairs is postponing the hearing to consider the nominee to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in light of new information presented to the committee,» Isakson and Tester said in a joint statement releasedcommittee,» Isakson and Tester said in a joint statement released Tuesday.

«I just think the White House does not vet their nominees so it leaves us as members having to look at their personal and leadership and other qualities,» said Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington, a member of the Veterans» Affairs Committee.

Trump said he had scheduled a major speech the same night — before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — and was surprised to hear Fox had planned another debate.

Said Rep. Ed Royce, R - Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: «I am very concerned by reports of deep cuts that could damage efforts to combat terrorism, save lives, and create opportunities for American workers.»

Cummings said in the letter, which he wrote with the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel, that «it appears that General Flynn violated federal law by omitting this trip and these foreign contacts from his security clearance renewal application in 2016 and concealing them from security clearance investigators who interviewed him as part of the background check process.»

«This year one of the things we're looking at is we are running two pilot programs,» House reportedly said in addressing the home affairs select committee about countering online recruiting of terrorists.

In response to Russian provocations, the Pentagon is developing new unmanned systems, a new long - range bomber, a new long - range stand - off cruise missile, and a number of innovative technologies, McKeon said in testimony to a joint hearing of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R - Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement that he was «disappointed» that DOL issued its fiduciary rule, «despite widespread concern about the rule's complexity and the harm it may do to low - and middle - income investors.»

Cohen said he had three clients: Trump; Elliott Broidy, the former deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, who impregnated and then paid a woman with whom he had an affair; and a third party that Cohen said did not want to be identified.

USA Today's Donovan Slack reports: «John Ullyot, the VA's assistant secretary for public affairs, asked a senior aide at the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out... The move was unsuccessful — but audacious since Ullyot is the secretary's highest ranking aide tasked with publicly defending him and the affairs, asked a senior aide at the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out... The move was unsuccessful — but audacious since Ullyot is the secretary's highest ranking aide tasked with publicly defending him and the Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out... The move was unsuccessful — but audacious since Ullyot is the secretary's highest ranking aide tasked with publicly defending him and the agency.

John Ullyot, the VA's assistant secretary for public affairs, asked a senior aide at the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out, said both individuals, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the sitaffairs, asked a senior aide at the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out, said both individuals, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the sitAffairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out, said both individuals, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation.

Mogra, who chairs the mosques and community affairs committee of the Muslim Council of Britain, said burning a Quran is in fact an appropriate way to dispose of one that is damaged.

Gahatraj said the government ministries of culture and interior affairs have created a committee to identify land for a Christian cemetery in the crowded capital of Kathmandu.

Advancing the practices for sustainability is also a prime motivator for the industry's vintners and growers,» said Chris Savage, Director of Environmental Affairs at E. & J. Gallo Winery and Co-chair of the Wine Institute Technical Committee's Environmental Working Group.

The industry supports the official recommendations made in the report by the Senate's Rural and Regional Affairs and recommendations made in the report by the Senate's Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee» said the CEO, Mr Geoff Parker.

«That to me is an irresponsible suggestion,» says Ron Stone, an insurance executive who is a member of the board's athletic affairs committee.

«This is a made - for - TV event,» says John Krimsky, U.S. Olympic Committee deputy secretary general and managing director for business affairs, «and there are a number of things we can do to enhance that.

The foreign affairs select committee says there is no «material difference» on foreign policy in the two documents.

On April 10, ISNA quoted Mohammadreza Pour Ebrahimi, a member of the parliament's Economic Affairs Committee, as saying: «In addition to the approved figures, $ 1.5 billion has been allocated to prop up defense of the country and this amount has been approved by this committeCommittee, as saying: «In addition to the approved figures, $ 1.5 billion has been allocated to prop up defense of the country and this amount has been approved by this committeecommittee.»

Downing Street sources say she speaks well in the Commons and has impressed on the home affairs select committee.

The recommendations, released by the Lords» economic affairs committee, say that implementing such a target prioritises money spent over results achieved.

Dputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hannah Tetteh has no right to speak on behalf of the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) without consulting the body.

But the House of Commons» Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Committee chair Neil Parish said: «Councils in the dozens of other English cities currently exceeding EU pollution limits must also be given the option of using such powers if their communities support action.»

Alcohol promotions should be banned to help overrun police deal with alcohol linked crimes, MPs on the home affairs committee have said.

«What they are doing at Rikers is running an alien program rather than a criminal alien program,» said Daniel Dromm, Chair of the NYC Council's Committee on Immigrant Affairs.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, when asked if the lawmakers would suspend their current recess to consider Buhari's letter, said he was somewhere in his constituency (Niger North Senatorial District) and would not speak on the matter without having all the details.

Meanwhile Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said internet service providers should do more to tackle extremism online.

In a memorandum sent this month to the foreign affairs select committee, before the allegations of poisoning in Salisbury emerged, the Foreign Office said Russia was increasingly defining itself in opposition to the west.

And on a recent visit to eastern Europe, the Home Affairs Select Committee said there was little evidence of people wanting to come over to the UK to work.

Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said: «The committee wants to establish what information on Orgreave the Government and police still have that has never been pCommittee, said: «The committee wants to establish what information on Orgreave the Government and police still have that has never been pcommittee wants to establish what information on Orgreave the Government and police still have that has never been published.

The movement they say is relieved that Zakzaky is still alive as revealed by members of the contact committee set up by the National Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, that visited their leader where he is being held by the federal government.

The senator sits on the Senate Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee and said he holds a similar ceremony twice a year, at 38 - 50 -LSB-...]

[241] On 19 July, Lord MacDonald the former Director of Public Prosecutions engaged by News Corporation to review the emails handed to Harbottle & Lewis in 2007, said in evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee:

However, the public administration committee and the Electoral Commission have delayed their investigations on the advice of the police, and last night the Scottish National party (SNP) said the constitutional affairs committee should have followed suit.

That you have to circumvent the committee process to get a vote on gun control in New York State,» said Hunter College public - affairs professor Joseph Viteritti.

But Higgins, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says the U.S. can not impose itself in every conflict.

Christopher Graham, giving evidence to the Commons» home affairs committee for its inquiry into phone - hacking allegations, said his role was «frankly pretty limited».

Sir Richard Branson was said to have blown into Westminster, a gust of glamour, his white - blond lion's mane blowing behind him, to tell the Home Affairs Committee his views on drugs.

Speaking after the Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) Committee meeting, BASC NI director Tommy Mayne said: «BASC commends the Minister, the Committee and the department for their pragmatic approach to what some people might consider to be an emotive issue.

Home affairs committee chair Keith Vaz offered his support to the campaign, saying a referendum would «determine the modern, settled view of the British people».

«We may have said things that could be interpreted as being misleading», detective sergeant Stuart Hinton told the home affairs select committee.

Appearing in front of the home affairs committee, Paul Pugh said «of course» he was sorry for delays to families getting their passports.

Cooper has said she is not opposed to the idea of serving Corbyn although she is running to become chair of the home affairs select committee at the moment.

But the Welsh Affairs Select Committee says that should only happen if the people of Wales vote for the change in a referendum.