Sentences with phrase «bipartisan group of leaders»
A bipartisan group of leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee including committee chairman Greg Walden, R - Ore., and ranking member Frank Pallone, D - NJ, have also asked Zuckerberg to testify, Axios reported.
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«We commend the bipartisan group of leaders including Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (CA), and Senators Joseph Lieberman (CT) and John Warner (VA) among others, and we stand behind them in their efforts to initiate and drive this critical piece of legislation that addresses one of the most important issues facing our nation today.»
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When announcing the creation of his political advocacy group, Zuckerberg wrote a Washington Post op - ed, saying that technology leaders must band together to «advocate a bipartisan policy agenda to build the knowledge economy the United States needs to ensure more jobs, innovation and investment.»
The bipartisan group of legislators temporarily put aside their politically charged negotiations over reducing the U.S. debt - some of which is owed to China - to show their admiration and affection for the man regarded by the Chinese government as the leader of a separatist movement.
The Marriage Index is the product of a bipartisan group of scholars and leaders who selected five indicators as fundamental:
On Thursday, a bipartisan group of 10 state lawmakers from New Jersey and 10 members of Congress — including the state's two U.S. senators — sent a letter to the city leaders who have been objecting to the terminal plans.
After meeting privately with a bipartisan group of business leaders at City Hall on Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio told members of the media that there is widespread agreement mayoral control of city schools must be extended by Albany lawmakers.
While Klein has made overtures to reunite the conferences in the past, as recently as May he told a bipartisan group of senators at a private dinner that «if I have anything to do with it, John Flanagan is going to be the leader for a long, long time,» according to several sources who spoke with the Daily News.
WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today joined a bipartisan group of elected officials and environmental leaders to announce that the county has entered into an official partnership with Sustainable Westchester, a consortium of local governments that facilitates green initiatives like Solarize Westchester, Community Choice Aggregation and the Municipal Solar Buyers Ggroup of elected officials and environmental leaders to announce that the county has entered into an official partnership with Sustainable Westchester, a consortium of local governments that facilitates green initiatives like Solarize Westchester, Community Choice Aggregation and the Municipal Solar Buyers GroupGroup.
WASHINGTON, DC — Following a meeting between The Committee of 40 — a bipartisan group of black business leaders — and Republican Congressional leaders earlier this month, John Burnett, CEO of JLB, Holding, LLC and Strategic Advisor for the New York Republican State Committee, issued the following statement:
A bipartisan group of House education leaders signed a letter to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings that raises concerns over why the test scores of some students are apparently not being counted under the No Child Left Behind Act.
The School Finance Research Collaborative, a broad - based, bipartisan group of business and education experts from metro Detroit to the U.P., applauds Grand Rapids philanthropist Jim Brooks and other business leaders for proposing ways to prepare Michigan students for the competitive 21st century workforce.
GCI, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, is a centrist think tank led by a bipartisan group of former state lawmakers, economists, community leaders and academicians.
«We are a diverse and bipartisan group of business leaders and education experts, from West Michigan to the western U.P., who agree it's time to change the way Michigan's schools are funded.»
In 2001, President George W. Bush and a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders passed the No Child Left Behind Act («NCLB») that sought to improve public education through greater accountability.
A bipartisan group of high - profile education leaders — including former governors Jeb Bush of Florida and Mitch Daniels of Indiana, both Republicans, and Democratic governors Andrew Cuomo of New York and Deval Patrick of Massachusetts — also championed the Common Core.
So last year, two of the state's leading education reform organizations, Texans for Education Reform (TER) and the Texas Institute for Education Reform (TIER), partnered to establish a new group: Texas Aspires, a bipartisan, non-profit organization of education, business and community leaders committed to advancing public policies that benefit all Texas students.
The project is an initiative of the School Finance Research Collaborative, a statewide, bipartisan and diverse group of business leaders and education experts who agree it's time to reexamine how we fund Michigan's public schools.
The project is an initiative of the School Finance Research Collaborative, a bipartisan and diverse group of business leaders and education experts from Metro Detroit to the U.P. who are leading efforts to reexamine school funding in the state.
The School Finance Research Collaborative is a diverse, broad - based and bipartisan group of business leaders and education experts from all corners of Michigan that formed in 2016.
The center hosted governors, senators, mayors business leaders, a bipartisan group of 11 states, and attendees from around the world, reflecting the openness that has always characterized the American spirit.
Whereas it is desirable that a bipartisan group of Senators be appointed by the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate for the purpose of monitoring the status of negotiations on Global Climate Change and reporting periodically to the Senate on those negotiations: Now, therefore, be it
It depends on the definition of «default,» but many economists — including those at nonpartisan and bipartisan groups with ties to former economic advisers of Republican leaders — warn Paul's narrow definition underplays how the marketplace would react to any default of payments, whether to bondholders or others.
Subsidies and tariffs to promote domestic ethanol production are «fiscally irresponsible and environmentally unwise» and should be ended, a bipartisan group of United States senators declared in a letter to the chamber's leaders on Tuesday.
The Council is a national, bipartisan group of five organizations comprised of law enforcement leaders, retired admirals and generals, business executives, pastors, and prominent coaches and athletes who promote solutions that ensure our next generation of Americans will be citizen - ready.
On August 1, the leaders of a House subcommittee that regulates online commerce issues launched a bipartisan working group to examine online privacy issues and determine whether legislation is necessary to address concerns over the way companies are handling vast troves of data.