Sentences with phrase «become chair of a committee»

«Normally, when you become chair of a committee, you look at what bills are referred to the committee, what bills should be voted out,» he testified.

At age 25, when I became chair of the committee, I told the members we would only schedule meetings when we had something we had to accomplish.

Not exact matches

Those appointments came under fire earlier this year as it became clear that HP's newly appointed chair, Ray Lane, circumvented the board's independent nominations process by involving the CEO in identifying board candidates and deciding to oversee the process himself (although he had a long - standing relationship with the CEO and was not a member of the nominations committee).

The Senate Banking Committee held a hearing on the nominations of Mary Jo White to become chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

James P. Geiskopf became a director of nFusz in May 2014, and as an independent director is currently the Chair of the Audit Committee and Compensation Committee.

At the Roundtable, it was acknowledged that Dale Patterson, Executive Vice President of the Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund, will become the Chair of the Founding Steering Committee and MaRS Discovery District will serve as the Council's Secretariat.

Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser, who will become chair of the rules committee in the fall, voted in favor of widening the lane.

(Which is how I ended up becoming Chair of the Playmakers Committee.)

I became the chair of our school's fledgling parent nutrition committee this year.

Wollaston became chair of the Health Select Committee in 2014.

According to the Parliamentary Affairs Minister, the fact that Nana Akufo - Addo was a ranking member on the committee Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin chaired and the former has become president does not necessarily suggest the NDC longest serving Member of Parliament can also become a president.

Disgraced Assemblymember Vito Lopez lost his position as Housing Committee chair after a sexual - harassment scandal last year — but despite opposition from tenant groups, the omnibus property - tax - break bill he tried to push through at the end of the 2012 session became law at the end of January.

Greenfield, who chairs the powerful Committee on Land Use, will become executive director at a major city nonprofit — the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty — which has been trying to recover since a 2014 scandal involving a former top executive married to ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's onetime chief of staff.

Alban Bagbin has become the face of Ghanaian politics not for his 25 years so far in parliament and still counting, but for the extraordinary role he played as two terms Minority Leader, twice Majority Leader and Chairman of some strategic committees of Parliament such as Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Committee, which he chaired twice, Public Accounts and Appointments Committee.

After Emanuel's election as chairman of the Democratic Caucus, Chris Van Hollen became committee chair for the 110th Congress, and thus for the 2008 elections.

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.

A more positive reading might be that select committee chairs are becoming increasingly attractive to former frontbench MPs as an avenue for exercising real influence that does not depend on the patronage of party leaders.

Before assuming his current position as town supervisor of Schoharie in 2015, he became the vice chair of the county's Republican Committee, and advanced to the chairmanship last year.

Prior to becoming a member of the Town Board in January 2014, she served as chair of the town's Environmental Commission for six years, as commission liaison to the Planning Board for three years, as deputy town supervisor from November 2011 until January 2013 and as a member of the Zoning Code Review Committee from 2008 to 2013.

[52] Becoming active in the politics of the London Borough of Camden, Livingstone was elected Chair of Camden's Housing Committee; putting forward radical reforms, he democratised council housing meetings by welcoming local people, froze rents for a year, reformed the rate collection system, changed rent arrears procedures and implemented further compulsory purchase orders to increase council housing.

She was one of only 288 women elected to the House and the first woman ever to become chair of the rules committee.

During 1982, Livingstone made new appointments to the GLC governance, with John McDonnell appointed key chair of finance and Valerie Wise chair of the new Women's Committee, while Sir Ashley Bramall became GLC chairman and Tony McBrearty was appointed chair of housing.

Also note how all that «experience» he has didn't exactly help him become Chair of the Finance Committee.

Zeilman, 41, of Ballston, now becomes the youngest county chair in the party's history, according to the committee.

Norman beat four rivals to become chair of the culture, media and sport committee.

It needs to not only help those who are homeless but also prevent those vulnerable families and individuals who are at risk of becoming homeless from joining them,» Clive Betts MP, chair of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee, said.

She fought for, and became Chair of the Council's Disabilities Committee and was the prime sponsor of the accessible ferries bill, which passed, and fought for a 100 % accessible taxi fleet.

So it was only natural that Frankie went to work for Denny in 1994, when Denny became Chair of the Ways and Means Committee.

About a hundred people gathered in London on Saturday to determine the future of Labour Briefing — whether it should remain an independent magazine or become the house journal of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) of which John McDonnell is the chair.

Second, Sarah Wollaston joins Rory Stewart MP, recently elected Chair of the defence committee, as the second member of the 2010 intake of MPs to become Chair of a departmental committee.

Scollin said he first became aware of Martz's change in registration as part of his twice - annual duties of obtaining the current Franklin County voter roll, part of routine work regularly undertaken by county committee chairs.

«I am working to ensure that civic hackers like those at the Sunlight Foundation can build an open API with bulk downloads so the transparency the rules and people demand becomes a reality in the coming months,» City Council member Ben Kallos, chair of the Government Operations Committee, said in a statement e-mailed to techPresident.

Prof Alabi, onetime Member of Parliament for Krowor in the Greater Accra Region, rose through the ranks at UPSA as lecturer, founding head of the Marketing Department, Dean of Faculty of Management Studies, Pro-Rector, Acting Rector, Rector, chaired several committees before becoming the vice-chancellor.

As a result of the GOP controlling the Senate, Chautauqua County's representative — Republican Sen. Cathy Young of Olean — became a high ranking member of the legislative body and served as the Senate's Finance Committee Chair.

George Kynoch, ex-deputy chair of the Scottish Conservatives and Andrew Wiseman, chair of the Lib Dems Federal Finance Committee, are also similarly honoured while Conservative MEP and businessman Malcolm Harbour becomes a CBE for his services to the UK economy.

«Since becoming chair of the senate social services committee, Senator Avella has hired only one additional staffer to handle the committee's workload.

Walker, who became chair of the science committee in November, has had the behavioural sciences in his sights for a while, particularly research funded by the National Science Foundation.

Nishikawa, who chairs the education ministry's review committee, says continuing scrutiny of ES cell derivation is warranted because of concerns about handling tissue «with the potential to become a human being.»

«With technological improvements, medical imaging has become an increasingly vital tool in diagnosing and treating patients with heart disease, but the rising use of the tests has led to increasing radiation exposure over the past two decades,» said Reza Fazel, M.D., M.Sc., chair of the writing committee for the statement and cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

The same expert committee, chaired by economist Jim O'Neill, formerly of investment bank Goldman Sachs, reported earlier this year that companies are not developing new antibiotics fast enough to keep up with the rate at which bacteria are becoming resistant to existing ones.

«Vehicles must become dramatically more efficient, regardless of how they are powered,» said Douglas M. Chapin, an engineer who chaired the committee that wrote the report, in a statement.

But when the pain signal continues for an extended period, «it can become a disease in its own right,» Philip Pizzo, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine and chair of the committee that wrote the IOM report said at the news conference where the report was released.

Today, ScienceInsider is taking a closer look at the three veteran politicians running to become chair of the House of Representative's Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Representatives Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA), F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R - WI), and Lamar Smith (R - TX).

Those wondering why need look no further than 2002, the year that Ms. Moskowitz, then a Democratic City Council member, became chair of the city's education committee.

With the recent passage of Senate Bill 1, drafted by State Education Committee Chair and CL4E Member Mike Wilson, Kentucky became one of the first states to legislatively respond to ESSA with comprehensive standards and a strong accountability plan.

Committee chair Neil Carmichael said he and colleagues were «determined» to take a close eye to the proposed education policies, and said the hearing would provide an early opportunity for MPs to «press the secretary of state on her plans for all schools become academies by 2022».

This document, produced by SPR's newly reconstituted Advocacy Committee chaired by Bob Saltz, and initiated by SPR's incoming president, Tony Biglan, provides guidance to the SPR board and SPR members as the Society seeks to become more actively involved in education and discussion with policy makers toward the achievement of SPR's mission.

Responding to a question from committee chair Robert Halfon, who warned that of the 48,000 children in alternative provision, there were only «clear Ofsted inspection data for around 16,000», Morris - King said the regulator was looking into whether a provider where a child spends a «couple of days» should become registered.

Yesterday it became official that Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA) will assume the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP).

Neil Carmichael MP, Chair of the Education Select Committee, said: «One of the best ways to give back to your local community is by serving as a governor and supporting local schools to become more successful and their pupils to achieve their best.