Sentences with phrase «chair of a committee when»

Seven lawmakers in the Senate receive stipends under the arrangement in which they are reported to the comptroller's office for holding the post of chair of a committee when they do not actually hold that post.

Sir George, who used to be chair of the committee when the Mr Lyon made the suggestion in 2009 but is now leader of the House, wrote to MPs: «The government fully supports these proposals.

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Army Col. John Hope was the director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

He is Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz and member of its International Executive Committee, Chair of President Obama's Global Development Council and author of the NYT / WSJ bestseller «When Markets Collide.»

About two years ago, the attorney at law firm Cooley took over as chair of the Partnership Nominating Committee, and the numbers weren't inspiring when it came to women's progress.

At a time when Fed Chair Alan Greenspan was being held as the leader of a «committee to save the world «-- as the famous Time magazine cover read — she advised him to raise interest rates and keep an eye on the booming stock market.

He had barely started when the chair of the committee, Conservative MP Leon Benoit, demanded that Laxer halt his «irrelevant» testimony.

It is expected that MLAs will choose a new Deputy Chair of Committees to replace Mr. Feehan as he moves into his new ministerial role when the Legislature returns on March 8, 2016.

When Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of Washington, D.C., voluntarily testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, chaired by Harold Velde (R., Ill.), to clear himself of charges of disloyalty to the country, liberal Christians found a new hero.

When asked about Steve Alford's team after the bracket was revealed, selection committee chair Scott Barnes pointed to UCLA «gaining steam» at the end of the season as one of the major reasons for their inclusion.

The former chair of the parliamentary standards and privileges committee - which regulates Commons expenses - resigned his position when it emerged he had claimed nearly # 30,000 for a second home in which he rarely stayed.

«It has never been more obvious that the term «Representative» is misapplied when it comes to Chris Collins, and the decision released today by the House Ethics Committee to continue its investigation of him reinforces that,» said Judith Hunter, the Livingston County Democratic Chair.

The memo from counsel David Lewis comes after it was revealed late last week seven lawmakers — three members of the Independent Democratic Conference and four Senate Republican conference members — were designated committee chairs on payroll documents given to the state comptroller's office when they are, in fact, vice chairs.

Graham Allen, chair of the political and constitutional reform committee, hasn't been particularly happy with the debate about what exactly happens when the voters return a hung parliament.

The Senate Republicans were the first to break the glass ceiling when they elevated Sen. Cathy Young, of Olean, to chair the Finance Committee in January 2016.

But the first snub occurred early, when Smith broke a promise to appoint then - senator Bill Stachowski to chair the powerful finance committee, instead giving the post to Carl Kruger of Brooklyn.

Cuomo has had little contact with party committee members and has given no indication of when he will pick a new chair.

The bloodletting actually began late last week, when Flanagan stripped four IDC members of their committee chair positions and replaced them with Republican senators.

The question of abortion rights as a litmus test for Democrats roiled the party in early 2017, when Bernie Sanders and Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez campaigned on behalf of Omaha mayoral candidate Heath Mello.

He noted Towns, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, was noncommittal when asked by Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican, to subpoena records from the «Friends of Angelo» loan program through which the former CEO of Countrywide Financial charged with fraud and insider trading by the SEC provided sweetheart mortgages to Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and others.

Additionally, Middletown Republican Sen. John Bonacic, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he was in «no rush» to confirm whoever Cuomo nominates to fill the Court of Appeals vacancy that came up earlier this year when former Judge Sheila Abdus - Salaam died.

Brodsky says when he was chair of the oversight committee, he sponsored a law to close a previous loophole that also led to secret economic development contracts and potential corruption.

When state Sen. Pam Helming received a $ 12,500 stipend after being falsely listed as chair of the Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee, she was surprised.

It was one of the proudest days of my life when I was elected Chair of Labour's National Executive Committee at Conference in September 2014.

The discussion surrounding stipends arose when Democratic Sen. Mike Gianaris sought to raise the issue of vice chairs of committees receiving payments normally reserved for committee chairs.

Monmouth MP David Davies found cross-party support when he told MPs in the Welsh Grand Committee that he'd summoned Defence Ministers to explain their thinking about the future of the Welsh Cavalry at a one - off hearing of the Welsh Affairs committee which hCommittee that he'd summoned Defence Ministers to explain their thinking about the future of the Welsh Cavalry at a one - off hearing of the Welsh Affairs committee which hcommittee which he chairs.

Last year, the Senate Republicans broke the glass ceiling when they elevated Sen. Cathy Young, of Olean, to chair the Finance Committee.

Also speaking at the event were Upper West Side City Councilmember Mark Levine, the new chair of the Health Committee, Dr. Eunmee Chun, the director of sexual health at the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, which added 105 sexual health visits to its weekly schedule when the Chelsea clinic closed, and Dr. Freddy Molano, vice president of Infectious Diseases and LGBTQ Programs at the Community Healthcare Network.

When looking at individual rebellion rates, however, there is some evidence that Select Committee chairs are more independent of the instructions of their party managers than other comparable MPs.

That changed in 2011, when she assumed the chair of the Senate housing committee.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco is Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and was involved in the leadership battle in the Senate when former leader Dean Skelos resigned as Majority Leader after being arrested on federal corruption charges.

First of all I chaired our backbench committee on Political and Constitutional Reform, where I must admit I felt a complete outsider — not unreasonably when the lead Government spokesman on political and constitutional reform was the Leader of my Party and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.

The release, which failed to indicate the names of the Committee members, as well as state exactly when the Committee will start its work, said it will be chaired by a Justice of the Supreme Court.

ALBANY — The state attorney general's office and a federal prosecutor are both looking into the payouts of thousands of dollars in questionable stipends to state senators who were identified in pay records as committee chairs when they weren't, the Daily News has learned.

Bryant continued: «This decision is ludicrously premature when the CPS is still considering corporate charges against News Corp, when the House of Commons privileges committee has still to rule on whether three News Corp executives lied to Parliament, as claimed by the select committee when it was chaired by John Whittingdale, and when the Leveson inquiry has to still to complete the second part of its work into the events at the News of the World.

In 2003, when Langone was chair of the New York Stock Exchange compensation committee, he personally approved a $ 140 million compensation package for NYSE CEO Richard Grasso — a «golden parachute» that came in the wake of major corporate scandals including Enron and WorldCom.

Keith Vaz, the chair of the home affairs select committee, quipped that he never thought he would see the day when Harman was attacked «from the left» by Field.

On occasion, when neither the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker, nor any Member entitled to serve as Deputy Speaker has been available to take the Chair (or in the past to take the Chair in committee as Deputy Chairman) other Members have taken the Chair with the concurrence of the House so that business could proceed.268 On 18 September 1986 when neither the Deputy Speaker nor any of the Deputy Chairmen were available to take the Chair at 8 p.m., the Member for Hindmarsh (Mr Scott) took the Chair with the concurrence of the House so that business could proceed.269

to take the Chair of the Main Committee (as Deputy Speaker) when requested to do so by the Deputy Speaker, or in the absence of the Deputy Speaker, the Second Deputy Speaker; and

Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell, chair of the Correction Committee in his house; and Bob Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government; co-authored an OpEd urging the repeal of a law that treats police and correction officers differently from all other public employees when it comes to FOIL.

The Conservative chair of the Treasury committee, Andrew Tyrie, echoed Labour leader Ed Miliband this Saturday when he said there was no «coherent and credible plan for the long - term economic growth rate of the UK economy».

This came to the fore when the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament chaired by Kwaku Agyeman - Manu, Friday, met officials of the Ministry of Health and the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to interrogate them on the query raised by the Auditor - General in his 2012 audited report.

«When public trust in the police is tested by complaints of negligence, misconduct and corruption, a strong watchdog is vital to get to the truth: but the IPCC leaves the public frustrated and faithless,» committee chair Keith Vaz said.

Grisanti chairs the Senate's Environmental Committee, and also earned a big chit with the governor when he crossed party lines as one of four GOP senators to vote «yes» on gay marriage in the summer of 2011.

Is this the same Assemblywoman who wanted to turn most of OGS's procurement authority over to Alan Hevesi, I mean the state Comptroller, when she was the Chair of the Assembly Government Operation Committee, so that everyone who wanted a state contract had to get a procurement lobbyist?

The call for a cap seemed to have a different rationale when it came from upstate lawmakers like Republican Senator Kathleen Marchione, chair of the Local Government Committee.

«And when that argument fell upon deaf ears, I made one last desperate plea to the committee's sense of honor, highlighting the fact that the state Chair had given his word not only to me, but to Ms. Malliotakis....

«When you see a number that says 80 % of the residents went without heat or hot water — that's damn near everybody,» Ampry - Samuel, chair of the public housing committee, said.

It's hard to say, especially when both of them refused to appear last week before the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, which is chaired by Mr. Brodsky, a Westchester County Democrat.

But Ms Cooper — who is now the chair of the Commons Home Affairs Committee — hit back, telling the Prime Minister: «Do not try to hide behind me or the Labour Party when she was warned repeatedly of the damage her obsession with her net migration target was doing.