Sentences with phrase «as assembly members»

Marchione said the bill represents the efforts of her conference as well as Assembly members including Democrat Carrie Woerner, who also represents Saratoga Springs.

The elected candidates are known as Assembly Members (AMs).

Stakeholders such as Assembly members, District Chief Executives from the Shama, Sekondi - Takoradi, Nzema East Municipal, Ahanta West and the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipal assemblies, as well as journalists and other known opinion leaders were present.

They included state Sens. James Seward of Oneonta and Marty Golden of Brooklyn, as well as Assembly members Kevin Cahill of the Hudson Valley, Edward Braunstein of Queens and Dan Quart of Manhattan, who called the regulation «poorly conceived» and warned it would «destabilize» the real estate industry.

I urge Mohawk Valley Senators James Seward, Joseph Griffo, David Valesky, and Jim Tedisco, as well as Assembly members Anthony Brindisi, Bill Magee, Marc Butler, Ken Blankenbush, and Brian Miller to pass a bill immediately and I will sign it.»

«As Assembly members, we vote our conscience, presumably.

~ Our Constituency Executives led by Chairman Popo, MCE and PC as well as some assembly members are preparing seriously towards the day and the enthusiasm here is wonderful.

He also called on Ghanaians to elect patriotic people as assembly members and explained that committed assembly members would be in a better position to ensure effective planning and implementation of issues that would reflect the interest of the people.

We're not allowed to campaign as assembly members, but over there I can campaign to my heart's content.»

«I've lived in and served the 6th District for my entire life — as an Assembly member, a community board member and a civic leader.»

Like the mayor, I have made the tough, but necessary choices to deliver for my constituents as an Assembly Member — a habit I plan to continue as a member of Congress.

Silver's defense attorneys asserted in court that no Assembly member can possibly have outside income without running into some form of a conflict of interest as an Assembly member.

Tony served as Assembly member beginning in 1978 but finally resigned in 2009 after pleading guilty to a single count of fraud, saying he had wrongly advanced the interests of a consulting client in connection with state business, according to a report in the New York Times.

The rally featured two citywide elected officials, Scott Stringer and Tish James, as well as Assembly Member Phil Goldfeder, State Senator Joe Addabbo, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Council Members Eric Ulrich and Vincent Gentile.

I would certainly say that Governor Cuomo has an enormous influence in the region, and actually the regional director of Empire State Development, Sam Hoyt, is very powerful, no longer elected but might be more powerful than he was as an Assembly member.

«As an Assembly member and prior to that a staffer, he was widely respected by his peers and his partners in government,» Cuomo added.

On 5 May 2016 James was re-elected as the Assembly Member for Swansea West by a higher majority than her previous term [3] and was tipped at the time to be a likely candidate for a cabinet position.

Mr Davies lost his position as Assembly Member for Mid and West Wales in May's elections.

As an Assembly Member Donna would be a hardworking and effective voice for Alyn and Deeside.

In her first year as an Assembly Member she won the ITV Wales Politician of the Year «One to Watch» award.

«As an Assembly Member that represents a huge rural region, I speak to many small and medium size businesses and they tell me that they feel that they are being left behind in the economic recovery.

Empire State Development did not provide guidance on how to read the report, so anyone not privy to state definitions of certain terms may have come to the same conclusion as the assembly member.

The four included the party's Organizer for New Juaben South, Obeng Manu, who also doubles as the Assembly Member for the Koforidua Nsukwao electoral area.

Or whether the former disgraced Tory MP Neil Hamilton should be given a route back to public life via being elected as an Assembly Member in Wales.

State Senator Jose Peralta, who opposed congestion pricing and East River bridge tolls as an Assembly member, is the first state legislator to publicly endorse the Move NY toll reform plan.

Sen. Jose Peralta, a Queens Democrat who opposed congestion pricing and East River bridge tolls as an Assembly member, became the first state legislator to publicly endorse the Move NY toll reform plan.

«As an Assembly member and prior to that a staffer, he was widely respected by his peers and his partners in government.»

DiNapoli, who served as an Assembly member for two decades starting in 1987, can recall a time when the budget process was more transparent, though he admits that even then, there were some years «where last minute decisions were made» and lawmakers were «presented with a stack of bills that you didn't really have time to read.»

In the same election, Rowlands was elected as a Assembly Member for the South Wales East, alongside fellow UKIP candidate Mark Reckless.

Three candidates are vying to replace Darryl Towns as the Assembly member from Brooklyn's 54th district.

«He said that over the last three years he and his campaign team had concentrated not on winning the election but on improving public services in the area, and that this emphasis, plus his eight years as an assembly member had satisfied the constituents.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader Kirsty Williams AM said: «If my several years as an Assembly Member have taught me anything, it's that members of other parties enjoy a good game of political football.

Not exact matches

Racine Mayor Cory Mason, who helped pass the compact through the Wisconsin Legislature as a Democratic member of the state assembly, said he believes the application meets the compact standards.

Democratic state Sen. Bob Hertzberg and Democratic State Assembly member Marc Levine have both introduced legislation that would require social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to identify automated accounts — essentially, a sort of sticker that says, «I'm a bot.»

This week Edmonton - Centre Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman was recognized in the Legislative Assembly as being the «longest - serving member to serve exclusively in opposition in Alberta's history.

-- Lethbridge - East MLA Bridget Pastoor scored a win for the Liberal Opposition this week when the Assembly approved her motion to ``... urge the Government to establish an independent Commission to review the current salaries and benefits for Members of the Legislative Assembly...» It is important to note that as this was a Private Member's Motion, it is non-binding.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

Mr. Liepert's ties to the provincial PC establishment date back to the Peter Lougheed era, when he worked at the Legislative Assembly and was appointed as a staff member at Alberta's trade office in Los Angeles.

There are as many members of the Assemblies of God as there are Presbyterians.

UN observer Lorne Gunter comments: «Rather than the People's Assembly being comprised of members or deputies from around the world, elected by and accountable to the people they represent [as is at least theoretically the case with the General Assembly], it would likely be made up of the heads of civil society NGOs, and, under most scenarios, only those NGOs accredited by the UN.

By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.

There are no professional clergy in the Baha'i faith but in areas where there are a large number of the faithful, members elect a national spiritual assembly who provide guidance and perform religious ceremonies such as weddings and funerals.

This is illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint texts of Deuteronomy 32:8 — 9, in which El, as the head of the divine assembly, gives each member of the divine family a nation of his own, «according to the number of the divine sons»: Israel is the portion of Yahweh.

The pastor of the Pakistan Gospel Assemblies church in Yousufwala village, on the outskirts of the Punjabi city of Sahiwal, told the news source that around 20 armed men violently attacked the church members as they built the wall ahead of the Sunday morning service.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

At the recent meeting of the CCNFSDU, IBFAN members lobbied for the inclusion of the International Code under the scope of the infant formula standard, and the age of introduction of complementary foods to be at «about six months» as recommended by World Health Assembly Resolutions 47.5 and 49.15.

Elisabeth Sterken, IBFAN Convenor, addressed the assembly as member of the Consumer's International delegation.

In addition, the Democrats lost two members of their conference: Mark Schroeder's seat (145th AD) out in Western NY up for grabs, as the WNY Democrat (and thorn in Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's side) stepped down to run for Buffalo comptroller; and Republican - turned - Democrat Mike Spano (93rd AD) will be giving up his seat to start his new job as mayor of Yonkers.

Molinaro, a former member of the Assembly and mayor of Tivoli, is seen as a youthful and energetic candidate with less baggage than DeFrancisco.

Humanist MP Michael Connarty has been working closely with the BHA and the European Humanist Federation in his role as a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe — a forum within the Council of Europe that provides an opportunity for representatives from member states to discuss human rights issues.