Sentences with phrase «chair of the select committee on»

The elected officials scheduled to participate in the hearing include the Honorable John A. Perez, Speaker of the California State Assembly, Assemblymember Steven Bradford, Chair of the Select Committee on the Status of BMoC in California, and Assemblymembers Jones - Sawyer, Brown, Wilk, Bocanegra, and Ridley - Thomas.

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And U.K. lawmakers «may well» call on other big tech firms to give evidence related to Facebook scandal, Damian Collins, chair of Britain's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, told CNBC Wednesday.

Mr. Meresman was selected to serve as a director on our board of directors due to his background as chair of the audit committee of other public companies and his financial and accounting expertise from his prior extensive experience as chief financial officer of two publicly traded corporations.

Devin Nunes, a Republican member of Congress and chair of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, authored the memo.

As finance critic, deputy chair of the select standing committee on finance and a member of the select standing committee for children and youth, I have had a busy fall.

In the 38th Parliament (2005 - 2009) he served as Chair of the Legislature's Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts Committee, Deputy Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Education and Deputy Chair of the Special Committee to Appoint an Ombudsperson.

Yvette Cooper is rebuilding her political career in the serious role of chairing the Home Affairs select committee while constantly being asked about her husband Ed Balls» embarrassing dad dancing on Strictly Come Dancing!

His activities are deeply unusual for a select committee chair; a couple of other chairs earn over # 10,000 from legal work on the side, but these fall far short of his levels of earnings, or the proximity of those earnings to his policy area.

On top of that he will receive # 66,396 for his salary as an MP in the 2013/14 financial year and a further # 14,728 top - up because of his select committee chair role.

The chair of the Health Select Committee said she could not support the claim that the UK could get back # 350m per week from its EU budget contributions and spend the money on the health service.

«Last November, I mentioned to the Government chief whip and the parliamentary commissioner for standards my concern, on behalf of the House, about what many might regard as an inherent incompatibility between chairing a select committee and having commercial interests, even though fully transparently registered, in the sector covered by that committee,» the Speaker wrote.

On Tuesday, committee members selected Onondaga County Republican Chair Tom Dadey and Darlene VanDerWater, vice chair of the Onondaga County Republican Committee, to serve as Trump dcommittee members selected Onondaga County Republican Chair Tom Dadey and Darlene VanDerWater, vice chair of the Onondaga County Republican Committee, to serve as Trump delegChair Tom Dadey and Darlene VanDerWater, vice chair of the Onondaga County Republican Committee, to serve as Trump delegchair of the Onondaga County Republican Committee, to serve as Trump dCommittee, to serve as Trump delegates.

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.

Is there any evidence then that the election of Select Committee chairs has brought in a different kind of parliamentarian — younger, less biddable, more rebellious, representing parliament rather than government, and focused on scrutiny rather than climbing the ministerial ladder?

Nicky Morgan, the chair of the Commons Treasury select committee, said businesses were «crying out» for details of a proposed period to cushion Britain's withdrawal from the EU from March 2019, calling on ministers to swiftly resolve their differences and reach a deal with Brussels or face damaging consequences.

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.

One explanation for this shift is the set of reforms to the Select committee system introduced in 2010 on the recommendation of the Committee for Reform of the House of Commons chaired by MP Tony Wright, and collectively known as «the Wright reformcommittee system introduced in 2010 on the recommendation of the Committee for Reform of the House of Commons chaired by MP Tony Wright, and collectively known as «the Wright reformCommittee for Reform of the House of Commons chaired by MP Tony Wright, and collectively known as «the Wright reforms».

One of them is Graham Stuart, the chair of the education select committee, who wrote for Politics.co.uk on Friday:

Graham Allen, MP and former Chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee will also give his view on the direction of political and constitutional reform.

Andrew Tyrie, who has been campaigning on it entirely separately to his work as chair of the Treasury select committee, has been pleased with the government's approach ever since David Cameron hinted he would take this route in a recent appearance before MPs.

Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs select committee, commented on the government's policy on student visas:

His comments are revealed in an email to Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs select committee which has been hearing evidence on the case for extending detention without charge.

«It is really, really hard to do cross-cultural humour,» advised Tugendhat, who is chair of the foreign affairs select committee, in a not - so - coded attack on Boris Johnson.

Then there's the select committees - and the case for the defence will be made by the chair of the Press Complaints Commission on Thursday.

Stephen Dorrell, the Tory chair of the health select committee, voice disapointment about the failure to meet the promise to legislate in this session of parliament on social care, with a promise only of a draft bill.

This is important because the role of a select committee chair is a high profile, influential one; an increase in the number of female chairs has a direct impact on the visibility of women in Parliament, and may encourage more women to play a role in the committee system and politics itself.

Conference also welcomes moves to put the Office of Budget Responsibility on a statutory footing, siting it outside the Treasury and subjecting the appointment of its Chair to approval by the Treasury Select Committee.

Last week the House of Commons Liaison Committee — the Committee made up of the Chairs of the House's 34 select committees — has published its Legacy Report on select committees in the 2010 - 15 parliament.

There has been widespread interest in the impact of these elections on the select committee system; many commentators argue that they have given Chairs a stronger mandate and reinvigorated the system.

Our report reviewed progress since 2009 on the recommendations of the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons — known as the Wright Committee after its Chair, Dr Tony Wright.

1 Instead of the Committee of Selection being dominated by the Whips, it could be elected by the whole House on a similar basis to the method of election of Select Committees, i.e. places are allotted to each party according to their proportion in the House, Members of each party then vote for their own representatives on the committee, and the Government has the right to choose tCommittee of Selection being dominated by the Whips, it could be elected by the whole House on a similar basis to the method of election of Select Committees, i.e. places are allotted to each party according to their proportion in the House, Members of each party then vote for their own representatives on the committee, and the Government has the right to choose tcommittee, and the Government has the right to choose the chair.

Lamb leads a cross-party group of Lib Dem, Labour and Conservative MPs, including the chair of the health select committee, Sarah Wollaston, who recently met the prime minister and pressed her to put the funding of the NHS and social care on a more sustainable footing.

«I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Director Comey's termination,» tweeted Burr, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

In a little - observed statement in the House of Commons on Monday this week, the Chancellor George Osborne — in responding to a question by Tory backbencher and Chair of the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee, Bernard Jenkin MP, over the «orderly break - up of the euro» — stated in his reply, ``... as I say, it would not be sensible to advocate to our European colleagues the break - up of the euro.

Both of those candidates were selected by Democratic committee chair Rich Schaefer on Friday, as the party failed to fill those positions at its May 22 nominating convention.

A quota of perhaps half a dozen reports each year, selected by the Liaison Committee composed of the chairs of all the Select Committees, should be put on to the floor of the House for debate and vote, and likewise if passed, referred on to the Lords for confirmation (or otherwise) and thence to being implemented.

Wright, chair of the all - party public administration select committee, made the suggestion of a «new special committee of authoritative reform - minded MPs» in a private letter to Brown on 1 June, saying his ideas would not threaten the government's legislative programme, but «would help make a more vital Commons from which other reforms would flow».

In a Daily Politics film, Eleanor Garnier reports on how Tory MP and chair of the public administration select committee, Bernard Jenkin, has written to Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood and Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, warning them that he may call them in front of his committee for answers.

GA: I wouldn't know because I'm not on the front bench, I'm a parliamentarian, elected for the first time ever by all parliamentarians to be a Select Committee chair, and to chair a Select Committee of people elected in a secret ballot by their parties for the first time.

The Commons Home Affairs Select Committee chair Keith Vaz said: «The evidence of Assistant Commissioner John Yates today raised a number questions of importance about the law on phone - hacking, the way the police deal with such breaches of the law and the manner in which victims are informed of those breaches,» he said.

This morning's Times reports on the battle to chair one of the most important committees, the Treasury Select Committee.

In the spring, a House of Lords select committee chaired by Lord Dainton will report on the training of forensic scientists.

So, in response to this we pulled together a debate between an eclectic panel of education experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in the sector.

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, Mr Hinds once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister and Ms Greening.

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, he once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister, and his immediate predecessor, Justine Greening.

«This program has been selected because it prepares teacher candidates from diverse, multicultural backgrounds to gain the foundational knowledge and experiences necessary to advocate for the educational equity for all children,» said Janine Allen, chair of the AACTE Committee on Global Diversity, which oversees the award.

The lack of thought underpinning Gove's White Paper (which was, as we now know, based on the false premise that the UK was plummeting down PISA league tables) is an example of what Neil Carmichael, chair of the Education Select Committee, describes as the «Acting first; thinking later» approach of the DfE towards education reform.

He was chair of the National Competitiveness Committee for the National Venture Capital Association, was selected by Obama to represent the United States at the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 focusing on global education issues, and has funded several education initiatives.

In a letter to chair of the education select committee, Neil Carmichael, education secretary Nicky Morgan said she agreed the subject was «crucial for preparing young people for life», so would focus on the quality of teaching.

The chair of the education select committee has written to deputy general secretary of the NUT Kevin Courtney accusing him of misrepresenting its views on academies.