Sentences with phrase «agency commissioners in»

Governor Cuomo convened a cabinet meeting of State agency commissioners in Liverpool, Onondaga County on September 30, to demonstrate the State's commitment to the people of Central New York.

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Doug New is a partner at Fasken Martineau but earlier in his career served as a special adviser to the deputy commissioner of the Foreign Investment Review Agency.

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb wants the agency to take «more forceful steps» in combatting the opioid crisis.

Cheryl LaFleur, the agency's other Democratic commissioner, said in an interview that the proposal was long on «generalizations» but short on «evidence.»

Newly sworn - in FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb has issued some of his first marching orders to the agency: a reorganization of the FDA's inspection staff, which is tasked with making sure manufacturing facilities hew to regulatory standards and investigating customer complaints.

«There's agreement at the commission that the DOE proposal wasn't sufficient,» Richard Glick, one of the agency's two Democratic commissioners, said in an interview.

«I believe that the monetary penalty should be significantly higher in order to represent a sufficient punishment,» Bart Chilton, a commissioner at the agency, said at the time.

If Democrat commissioner Mignon Clyburn departs the agency when her term ends in June, though, it would leave the FCC with too few members to proceed, and delay the process even further.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wasn't resting on its laurels in 2017: The agency under new commissioner Scott Gottlieb approved 46 new medicines — i.e., completely new therapies, not just additional indications on already - approved drugs — the highest number of approvals in more than two decades.

Though the president publicly weighed in on the subject, surprising many in the industry, the FCC is an independent government agency, overseen by five commissioners — currently three Democrats, including Wheeler, and two Republicans.

Conrad believes Utah's commissioner Todd Kiser, who founded Kiser Insurance Agency, has been influenced by friends in the industry, and he intends to fight back.

Brian Quintenz, commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said Wednesday that setting policy through enforcement is «something agencies in general need to avoid.»

A now - former SEC commissioner said in a speech earlier this year that investment advisers can expect to be examined by the SEC only once every 12 years because the agency is short - staffed.

Update: The agency has now put out a statement in which privacy commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboroit states that Facebook told it 558 Filipino users had installed the personality quiz app that was used by CA as the route to harvest Facebook friend data — and ultimately to pull data on up to 1,175,312 more local users.

In November 2017, the commissioner of the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission indicated that the agency was weighing whether to classify digital assets issued in ICOs as securitieIn November 2017, the commissioner of the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission indicated that the agency was weighing whether to classify digital assets issued in ICOs as securitiein ICOs as securities.

On January 28, 2014 — European Data Protection Day (yes, it's been celebrated in Europe since 2006)-- EU vice president and justice commissioner Viviane Reding said in a speech that European citizens were «in shock» over the extent of the National Security Agency snooping.

The agency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which sued Mr. Corzine in 2013 over MF Global's collapse and misuse of $ 1 billion in customer money, could announce a deal by the end of this year if the agency's three commissioners approve it.

«People don't know the job, and they think we are the train guys,» said Mr. Sitton, an elected commissioner on the state's oldest regulatory agency, created in...

Under MLB commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who took the job in 1984, fear of losing out on profits combined with the players» agency to decide where they were going to sign had helped to unify the owners against the players.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency forwarded the report to the Naperville Park District last week, and district commissioners have responded by temporarily suspending shooting in the park near the center of town.

RAY BROOK Adirondack Park Agency commissioners last week welcomed a clear and experienced local business voice discuss the future of manufacturing in the Champlain Valley.

Commissioners and agency heads will be instructed to maximize savings in non-personal services.

AIB commissioner Akin Olateru told journalists that the agency, which released a preliminary report on the crash in September 2012, spent so long on the investigation because of cash shortages.

The DEC has become a Ground Zero in the ongoing battle between the governor and the public employee unions over layoffs ever since its former commissioner, Pete Grannis, was fired for insubordination after the leaking of a memo he wrote warning further cuts at the agency would render it unable to fulfill its core missions.

At a transportation budget hearing Wednesday, Department of Transportation commissioner Polly Trottenberg said the agency has been in talks with various companies over getting bike share in all boroughs.

As the commissioner of the traffic and parking violations agency, Troiano was leading an agency with 45 employees that generates nearly $ 64 million in revenue from traffic fees, parking fees and surcharges, according to a November 2017 county budget report.

Former Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle began her new job today as a commissioner at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, where she took part in her first meeting of the regulatory agency.

The commissioner assured residents that the state government would work in conjunction with other relevant agencies and the Federal Government to provide succour to affected communities.

RAY BROOK — At their March meeting, Adirondack Park Agency commissioners discussed proposed enforcement proceedings against local car repair shop and junkyard in Port Henry.

There's word that the commissioner of the state's environmental agency is leaving, just two days after Joe Martens issued the final environmental impact statement banning hydrofracking in New York.

«The Environmental Protection Agency's role in the Hoosick Falls situation was certainly not helpful, and was, at times, counterproductive,» wrote Zucker and Basil Seggos, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation.

But Politico's Laura Nahmias asked about a campaign promise he'd made in 2013 — to disclose not only his own meetings with lobbyists, but those held by agency heads and commissioners as well.

Marc Gerstman, the department's acting commissioner, said government agencies routinely lobby the Legislature on issues they determine are in the state's interest, and NYCO's proposal to mine state land easily met that standard.

Cuomo confirmed that talks in recent days have seen the inclusion of a provision creating a commission to look at — and recommend — new salary levels for lawmakers as well as agency commissioners and other top administration officials.

A now - former deputy commissioner at the agency, Ricardo Morales, says he was fired because he complained about City Hall's involvement in the case.

The Times Herald Record, a Hudson Valley daily newspaper, reported in early 2012 that three Aaron employees had in several preceding years gone «to the state commissioner of labor to be awarded $ 22,000» after the agency found Aaron had violated state labor laws.

Last month, Cuomo asked some of his New York commissioners to boycott the Port Authority's public board meeting in protest of the ongoing dispute with New Jersey over what to fund in the agency's 10 - year capital plan.

«That's something we'd never seen before, you know: a commissioner and deputy mayor saying «where are there city employees who might have a few extra hours in their day that aren't occupied with work relevant to that agency,»» she said.

Julie Tighe, DEC's assistant commissioner for intergovernmental and legislative affairs, said at the hearing that the draft regulations would allow the DEC to track construction and demolition debris in a similar fashion to how the agency tracks hazardous waste.

The commissioner further disclosed that a joint operation by the security agencies in the state was carried out on Gbishe in search of Akwaza in connection with armed robberies, kidnappings, assassinations and cattle rustlings.

But two key agencies involved in that effort — consumer affairs and information technology — do not yet have commissioners.

As outlined in the cultural plan law, the agency will work with a specially formed «citizens» advisory committee» - made up of 12 members appointed by the mayor, city council speaker, DCLA commissioner, and borough presidents - to gather information and make recommendations.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is appointing Lorelei Salas commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs, replacing Julie Menin, who left the agency to lead the mayor's office of media and entertainment in February.

But questions have been raised about the relationship between the Cuomo administration and JCOPE since the agency was established in 2011, especially since all three leaders of the agency previously worked for Cuomo, despite calls from JCOPE commissioners in 2015 for a leader from outside state government.

The union says the commission's chair Trevor Phillips and its 13 other commissioners are going further than the Tory - led government's imposed cuts, proposing a new structure in advance of ministers publishing their plans for the EHRC, and appear to want to strip the agency of almost all of its public service functions.

With the agency in flux after the departure of its founding commissioner, two dozen senior employees have left the Department of Financial Services over the last seven months, a POLITICO New York analysis of payroll records found.

David Hansell, who currently works for the consulting firm KPMG, has been named as the new commissioner for the NYC Administration for Children's Services — an agency that has been under heavy scrutiny in recent months.

De Blasio has taken a more hands - on and ideological approach than his predecessor in managing the city's 44 agencies, a style that sometimes drags out decision making and frustrates some of his commissioners.

His resignation letter to Commissioner Michael Michel, president of the Board of Commissioners for the city agency, doesn't specify his reason for leaving, but Castorina said in a phone interview Monday that he's informally preparing for a run.