Sentences with phrase «chair of the committee»

The senators were reported to the state comptroller's office, which approves payroll, as chairs of the committees.

The next thing you know I was named vice chair of the 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.

The senators are the vice chairs of the committees.

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.

I am especially honored to serve as Chair of the Committee on Aging, and I am committed to ensuring that our seniors have the resources, support, and dignity they deserve.

A 52 - year - old Danish national, Morten Helveg Petersen is the ALDE Vice Chair of the Committee for Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), and an active member of the Committee, having acted...

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.

Alistair Graham, former chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, called the situation «bizarre» and said «there are clearly questions to be answered».

I am Past President of the New Jersey Psychological Association, past Chair of the Committee on Professional Practices and Standards of the American Psychological Association, recipient of the APA's Award for Advocacy, and the NJPA's Psychologist of the Year, Distinguished Teaching Award, and Lifetime Achievement Award.»

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.

After hearing evidence on the subject in January, Conservative chair of the committee Sarah Wollaston called for an immediate stop to the practice while a full review was carried out.

A member of Foley Hoag since 1993, John served as a member of the firm's Hiring Committee from 1995 to 2006 and as Chair of the Committee from 2003 to 2006.

Although she is not chair of the committee, as Speaker, Mark - Viverito can set the agenda and force a vote on the bill, Peggy Shepard, executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, said.

Ms Loane, who is also a director of NSW Waratahs rugby club, deputy chair of the Committee for Sydney and a governor of the Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation, is the fourth senior executive to depart Coca - Cola Amatil since former GrainCorp chief Alison Watkins took the helm in March.

Adrian Bailey MP, chair of the committee said of LEPs: «At the moment they are an unproven innovation.

Dr. Hauser is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Physicians, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (currently Chair of the Committee on Gulf War and Health Outcomes), an editor of the textbook Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, and editor - in - chief of Annals of Neurology.

When Susan Hinkins became chair of the American Statistical Society's committee on scientific freedom and human rights, «it felt as if every new chair of the committee had to reinvent the process and rebuild the connections,» she said.

That hearing never occurred and all of a sudden I'm no longer chair of the committee,» Avella said.

Meaning, within hours of each other, Education Secretary Duncan said the President believes that «No teacher should have to teach to the test,» while the Governor of Connecticut, who said he has no problems with teaching to the test as long as the scores go up, is named chair of the committee developing education policy for governors and their states.

Sums up David Eaton, chair of the committee authoring the report, in an accompanying press release: «E-cigarettes can not be simply categorized as either beneficial or harmful.»

And how will the independent chairs of the committees for the HP board be determined going forward?

Chair of the committee Lord MacGregor emphasised that the committee was not opposed to humanitarian aid, but that development aid should be made more fiscally accountable.

«The shift to the focus on victims is not only the morally right thing to do in and of itself, it is essential if we are to get the prosecutions necessary to try to end this evil,» chair of the committee Frank Field said.

Vaz is the longest - serving chair of the committee after taking up his post in July 2007.

Instead Margaret Hodge, chair of the committee resides over a series of Q and As where two witnesses are responsible for the As - namely Sir Alan Reid, Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the Queen, and Mike Stevens, Deputy Treasurer to the Queen.

If Dave Natoli, with the imprimatur of Frank Patience and John Flanagan mailed his fraudulent documents to the Casper Milquetoast NYS Comptroller to pay non existent chairs of committees, it would be a clear case of mail fraud.

In a preview to the report last week, the outgoing chair of the committee warned Mr Blair had undermined public trust in politics, blamed on part on his «disregard» for cabinet government.

Chair of the committee Malcolm Bruce said the ODA «appears to be being used as a way of fudging the figures to help other European countries meet the target for 0.7 % of GDP to be given as aid».

Chair of the committee Tim Yeo MP said: «Coming in the wake of the Stern Review, the PBR's lack of boldness raises major doubts as to the Treasury's seriousness about implementing Stern's recommendations on domestic policy.

Sir Robert Smith is stepping in as interim chair of the committee, although he will not be drawing Yeo's salary.

Chair of the committee Margaret Hodge said: «Rather than the over-optimism which has held sway at the start of major projects, what is needed is realism: about the complexities of projects, the long - term costs of decisions taken today and the implications down the line of short - term budget cuts.

Chair of the committee Louise Ellman said: «The number of deaths and injuries on our roads far outweighs the deaths and injuries in other transport modes or in other work - related accidents.

They believe the practice of paying chairmanship stipends to Senators who are not actually chairs of committees violates language in the state's constitution.

Opening the Launch, on the evening of January 14th, were three distinguished speakers, including Mary Robinson, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and former President of Ireland, and Sidney Verba, current Chair of the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academies.

In fact, the Republican chair of the committee, Rep. Steve Kestell of Elkhart Lake, called the funding mechanism for the legislation in its current form a «fatal flaw» in a telephone interview Friday.

Chair of the committee Graham Stuart (pictured) says there is «overwhelming support» for statutory SRE.

Chair of the committee Andrew Miller said: «It is hugely disappointing that on such an important issue as this - inspiring the next generation of scientists - the government has failed to accept many of the recommendations in our report.

His father, former diplomat and patron of the neo-Malthusian Optimum Population Trust, Sir Crispin Tickell, who made the first arguments influential for the greening of the UK Government in the 1970s with his book, Climatic Change and World Affairs, was appointed chair of a committee to check the integrity of carbon - offsetting firm, Climate Care, part of JPMorgan's Environmental Markets group.

Chair of the Committee Labour MP Joan Walley says, «Recent Budgets have created the perception that environmental taxes are simply being used to pinch extra pennies from people.

It should be noted that Judge Julie A. Robinson (D. Kan.) was chair of this committee at the time the large document removal took place.

Further poisoning the well in the eyes of the IDC have been calls from the leadership of the mainline conference for an investigation into the arrangement in which vice chairs of committee receive paid stipends normally reserved for committee chairmen, including three conference lawmakers.

And when you violate that, there's deception,» says Krimsky, a former chair of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes Science).

Kornstein is a graduate of Yale Law School, a past president of the Law and Humanities Institute and past chair of the Committee on Law and Literature of the New York County Lawyers Association.