Sentences with phrase «as the watchdog panel»

Four commissioners on the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics say the recent hiring of State Police First Deputy Superintendent Kevin Gagan as the watchdog panel's chief of staff and special counsel is «plainly invalid,» and another example of «incessant interference» in its operations.

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H.R. 1150 serves as an update of the 1998 bill that established a religious freedom office in the State Department and an independent watchdog panel, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

See also Maggie Lu Yueyang, «Regulator overturns ban on AGL's MacGen buy» (Business Spectator, 25 June 2014), Anthony Klan and Andrew White, «Watchdog warns of energy price rise as AGL deal gets nod» (The Australian, 26 June 2014) and John Durie, «Panel's decision a huge blow to Sims» (The Australian, 26 June 2014)

His call came as Labour promised to reform Parliament's standards system in the wake of controversy over the decision of a panel of MPs to overrule a watchdog's judgment on Mrs Miller.

Ten months after departing JCOPE, Letizia Tagliafierro has a new job working for Gov. Andrew Cuomo: The former executive director of the ethics watchdog panel will serve as the governor's special counsel for public safety.

The governor also named recently retired President of the state's AFL - CIO Denis Hughes, as well as the head of the watchdog group Citizens Budget Commission, the Mayors of Syracuse and Buffalo, and a construction union leader to the panel.

Recognizing the need for a citizens panel to serve as environmental watchdog, he established the Northeast Queens Nature and Historic Preserve Commission to protect the Northeast Queens shoreline.

The comparison of the three - and - a-half-year-old watchdog panel to an adolescent — still figuring things out, but ready for more responsibility — was made Tuesday as JCOPE's commissioners engaged in an occasionally sharp debate on the best way to conduct the search for its next top administrator.