Sentences with phrase «by lawmakers of»

The president of the board would be appointed by the governor and other members by lawmakers of both parties, according to a release on the proposal.

Why this has happened in the first place is unclear, but perhaps represents a fundamental misunderstanding by lawmakers of the importance of these funding mechanisms not just to students, but also to the whole research enterprise.

This year, the governor downplayed the issue, listing it with a number of other steps he wants to take, including stricter penalties against bribery, creating an independent agency to police campaign filing violations and greater disclosure by lawmakers of their private law clients who have business before the state.

Having been nominated for the position, his fate will now be determined by the lawmakers of the Seventh Parliament.

The broad skepticism by lawmakers of both parties was captured with an equally concise question posed by Representative Janice Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat: «Who's going to protect us from Facebook?»

Not exact matches

Back in 2005 the China Offshore Oil Company, or CNOOC, got burned when U.S. lawmakers made noises to block its US$ 18.5 - billion takeover of integrated Unocal Oil Company, eventually bought by Chevron.

An Oval Office bill signing attended by lawmakers and financial services interest groups devolved into a venting session about Richard Cordray, the embattled director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to six people in the room and two people briefed on the conversation.

The hearing will give lawmakers the chance to ask the Facebook CEO directly about the company's involvement in the improper harvesting of data from an estimated 87 million users by Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that worked for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Top Democratic lawmakers are now calling on the Defense Department to investigate whether Flynn ran afoul of the US Constitution by accepting money from the Kremlin.

The timeline of claims made in an unsubstantiated dossier presented by top US intelligence officials to President Donald Trump and senior lawmakers last month has increased scrutiny of events that unfolded in the final months of the Trump campaign.

The government will «take all measures to eliminate the use of these crypto - assets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payment system,» India's finance minister told lawmakers in New Delhi in February, according to a transcript by The Hindu newspaper.

Poland's biggest political standoff in years began on Friday when opposition lawmakers objected to plans by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to curb media access to parliament, and blocked the plenary hall podium ahead of a budget vote.

Fwd.us sought to avoid getting caught up in partisan politics by adopting a strategy of backing lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who support an immigration overhaul.

As lawmakers told Zuckerberg during the second day of his congressional hearing, Facebook has repeatedly apologized over data privacy mishaps followed by further missteps.

«The battleground has shifted to the legal courts and the court of public opinion,» he said, referring to lawsuits filed by tribes and an effort planned by the Lakota People's Law Project to rally lawmakers and others in Washington, D.C., to their cause.

U.S. lawmakers have raised concerns that Moscow might use the firm's products to attack American computer networks, a particularly sensitive issue given allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia hacked and leaked emails of Democratic Party political groups to interfere in the 2016 presidential election campaign.

A decree that will open up an area of the Amazon roughly the size of Denmark to mining has been widely criticized by everyone from supermodel Gisele Bundchen to lawmakers.

Written by Philip Auerswald, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy is due out in April, but you can get a taste of Auerswald's most optimistic take on the entrepreneurship and global economy with this video of an animated, 10 - minute talk he gave recently to lawmakers.

Earlier, about 100 conservative South Korean lawmakers and activists staged a sit - in near the border with North Korea, facing off against about 2,500 South Korean police to protest against the arrival of a northern delegation led by an official accused of being behind a deadly 2010 attack on a South Korean warship.

While details are thin, Trump has described hiking tariffs on goods made by U.S. companies — a move that's been widely panned by lawmakers, including key members of the Republican leadership in Congress.

The price of the Angola 5 prosecution has figured prominently in an ongoing study of death penalty costs by a committee of Louisiana lawmakers, which is expected to conclude by the end of the year.

Patrick received a letter of support signed by 21 lawmakers, but Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy of Lynn, Massachusetts, wasn't one of them.

Legislators have announced efforts to improve the visa process and retain more highly skilled, foreign - born workers, but perhaps unsurprisingly considering the general lack of productivity in the current congress, these efforts have been largely ignored by lawmakers.

Jeh Johnson, the former Homeland Security secretary, told lawmakers Wednesday that the Obama administration's warning of Russia's campaign to interfere in the 2016 US election was overshadowed by the infamous «Access Hollywood» tape.

The honeymoon between Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. has been fading quickly over the past year and a half, with lawmakers questioning to what extent Facebook had influenced the outcome of the presidential election by allowing fake news and Russian - backed political ads onto its platform.

Last November, British lawmakers called for a tax on sugary drinks as a means of tackling childhood obesity but the idea was ruled out by the government which said it was not the right course of action.

Brexit poses a fundamental challenge to the future of the United Kingdom by removing the European Union law that has helped to bind it together, a committee of lawmakers from the British parliament's upper house said on Wednesday.

But it's widely supported by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have faced intense lobbying campaigns by patient groups and the biopharma industry.

Fallon's was the first high - profile resignation after a growing number of allegations of inappropriate behavior were made against ministers and lawmakers, fuelled by sex abuse allegations against Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein.

The MOX project, at the Energy Departments Savannah River Site in South Carolina, has been kept on life support by Congress thanks to the influence of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and other lawmakers.

The Washington - based Organisation for International Investment (OFII), which represents the North American operations of HSBC and other global companies with US operations, is resisting the CFIUS legislation by lobbying lawmakers, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Daily fantasy sports, where players draft a roster of football players to compete for points in a single - day worth of games, were acknowledged by Virginia lawmakers as a game of skill vs. pure chance, a key difference that allows sites to avoid a federal ban on online gambling.

We've seen that before: The bill that averted a debt - ceiling crisis earlier this year — by temporarily suspending the borrowing limit — would have frozen Congressional pay if the House or Senate had failed to pass a budget by April 15 (lawmakers would have received their salaries anyway at the end of the current legislature).

By running the risk of higher deficits, the Trump plan could damage the credibility of Republican lawmakers who spent years railing against the rising national debt under former President Barack Obama.

Originalists such as Gorsuch also apply their philosophy to resolve disagreements over laws crafted by Congress or state legislatures, focusing on the text and intention of the lawmakers.

The specific issue of «insider play» by employees has been addressed now, but the ensuing media storm brought these companies to the attention of lawmakers.

«The government does not recognize cryptocurrency as legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate the use of these crypto - assets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payment system,» Arun Jaitley told lawmakers in New Delhi, according to a transcript by The Hindu newspaper.

Public housing vouchers for the poor are targeted as well, much to the consternation of the pragmatic - minded lawmakers on the House and Senate Appropriations committees, whose programs were significantly curbed by a hard - fought 2011 budget and debt agreement.

In the months and weeks leading up to the congressional debate, she's met with dozens of lawmakers, conservative advocacy organizations, and business groups to build consensus and support for a plan that adopts parts of a 2015 proposal by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Mike Lee.

The company is facing questions from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic about how it handles personal user data after a pair of weekend reports by The Observer newspaper in the U.K. and The New York Times alleged research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

Related: Privacy of Location - Based Services on FCC's Radar A trade group known as The Internet Association, which counts Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay among its members, said it would work with both the FCC and lawmakers on Capitol Hill to prevent «anticompetitive actions by gatekeepers.»

It's not clear whether the amendment will be approved by lawmakers when the bill goes back to the elected House of Commons.

None of this shift in popular sentiment is likely to soften the debate within the «supercommittee» of six Democratic and six Republican lawmakers who have until Nov. 23 to find a way to close the 10 - year budgetary gap by another $ 1.5 trillion.

Both Price and Gottlieb were questioned on their intimate involvement with biopharmaceutical and health care companies by lawmakers; Price specifically was the subject of sharp ethics questions about his financial investments in medical firms that would also benefit from legislation he was pushing while serving in the House of Representatives.

But draft legislation obtained by Charlotte news station WBTV suggests lawmakers may be walking back portions of the bill.

Once the new measures are approved by Greek lawmakers, Euro zone finance ministers will then discuss the disbursement of loans at the next scheduled Eurogroup meeting on May 22.

As a lawmaker in the State House of Representatives, I am working to solidify Washington as a model for ensuring that jobs created by innovative firms are good ones.

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 - Republicans in U.S. House of Representatives began staking out their positions on final tax legislation on Tuesday, days ahead of talks with the Senate to shape the tax package lawmakers hope to send to President Donald Trump by year end.

The leasing of set - top boxes has been a financial boon for cable companies, according to a report issued by lawmakers last year.

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters)- Republicans in U.S. House of Representatives began staking out their positions on final tax legislation on Tuesday, days ahead of talks with the Senate to shape the tax package lawmakers hope to send to President Donald Trump by year end.