Sentences with phrase «chairman of the committee in»

The committees have been constituted and we know the people that were appointed, that is, the chairmen of the committees in the 17 Local Government Areas.

Charles Eickhoff, Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees in the first two Parliaments of Southern Rhodesia.

He was appointed chairman of the committee in 1979, a position he kept until he ran for Congress in 1992.

[13] He became chairman of the committee in May 2008.

Not exact matches

It all started in March, 1942, when Harry S. Truman, Chairman of the Senate War Investigation Committee, implied that the relationship between Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and Germany's I.G. Farben hindered the war effort.

He served as a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association from May 2010 through December 2011, as chairman of the then New York Cotton Exchange from August 1992 through June 1995 and was instrumental in the creation of its Financial Instrument Exchange.

At his first press conference as Fed chairman, Jerome Powell said the committee expected this fiscal stimulus to affect the economy only starting in the second half of the year.

Ralph Northam, a folksy Democrat from the Eastern Shore, beat out Ed Gillespie, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, in Virginia's heated gubernatorial race.

Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 21, 2018

In the House, former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R - WI) took the gavel on the Ways and Means Committee at the start of this year, beginning a six - year term as its chairman.

Michael «Mike» Pearson, chairman and chief executive officer of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., left, speaks as Howard Schiller, former interim chief executive officer and former chief financial officer of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, center, and William «Bill» Ackman, founder and chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, listen during a Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on Valeant Pharmaceuticals in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, April 27, 2016.

The chief executive of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and HSBC chairman renewed calls for the U.K. government to clarify its future relationship with the European Union (EU) in a meeting with MPs at the Treasury select committee on Tuesday.

Moreover, the spectrum auctions will be key in keeping the US at the forefront of 5G deployment, according to a joint statement by US House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden and Representative Marsha Blackburn.

Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, testifies during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 27, 2018.

In one of the strongest statements by Republicans, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said, «I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Director Comey's termination.»

«International investors have embraced the positive changes in the accessibility of the China A shares market over the last few years and now all conditions are set for MSCI to proceed with the first step of the inclusion,» Remy Briand, MSCI Managing Director and Chairman of the MSCI Index Policy Committee, said in a release.

U.S. Senator Mark Warner, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a statement that it would not be an «exaggeration to suggest that a breach such as this represents a real threat to the economic security of Americans.»

«Even during the Great Depression of the 1930s, policy rates and longer - term rates in the most affected countries (like the U.S.) were never reduced to such low levels,» wrote William White, chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee at the OECD in Paris, in a recent paper.

McCain, who is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and served in the US Navy for 23 years, said Trump's statement was «unclear» and it served as «yet another example of why major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter.»

Burr and Warner would not comment on the investigation in the House, where the chairman of theintelligence committee, Trump ally Devin Nunes, has been under fire over his handling of the matter.

Committee Chairman Richard Burr and Mark Warner, its top Democrat, pledged at a joint news conference that they would work together, in contrast with the partisan discord roiling a similar probe by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee.

Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the house oversight committee, has been vocal in calling for the ouster of Archuleta.

Flanked by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Kevin Brady (R - TX), President Donald Trump speaks about tax reform legislation in the Cabinet Room at the White House, November 2, 2017 in Washington, DC.

«After an extensive evaluation of all final proposals received, the Special Committee decided on the proposed scheme, which we believe is compelling and value - enhancing for all shareholders,» Seek Ngee Huat, chairman of GLP's board, said in a joint statement with the winning consortium.

In the wake of Ferguson, Senator Carl Levin (D - Michigan), the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, says he will review the 1033 program.

«I applaud the president for targeting unfairly traded steel and aluminum,» Representative Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told reporters in Mexico City on Sunday.

Around 53 million of the total 164 million shares that voted opposed the reelection of David Kilpatrick, chairman of the compensation committee and, since 1998, the president of Kilpatrick Energy Group, a consulting firm to oil and gas companies; Vicky Bailey, president of Anderson Stratton International, LLC, a strategic consulting and government relations company in Washington, D.C; and private investor Keith Carney.

In September, after a lengthy investigation by staffers at the Senate Judiciary Committee, chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) blasted the service for using forfeiture funds to pay for perks and luxury items such as «high - end granite countertops and expensive custom artwork,» much of it installed, appropriately enough, at a new Asset Forfeiture Academy in HoustoIn September, after a lengthy investigation by staffers at the Senate Judiciary Committee, chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) blasted the service for using forfeiture funds to pay for perks and luxury items such as «high - end granite countertops and expensive custom artwork,» much of it installed, appropriately enough, at a new Asset Forfeiture Academy in Houstoin Houston.

It hit roadblocks when The House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte, R - Va., despite supporting the «core» of the bill, did not push it any further in 2016.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell appeared Thursday before the Senate Banking Committee in the second part of his semiannual remarks to Congress.

In addition, the Senate is considering a bunch of additional provisions dreamed up by Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus that small businesses, especially, might find appealing.»

In the years ahead of the financial crisis, Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman, systematically raised the benchmark rate a quarter point every time he gathered the Federal Open Market Committee.

Nargolwala, who became chairman of the compensation committee in April, said the bank decided to simplify its compensation policy after talks with investors.

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Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement on Thursday that «pardoning any individuals who may have been involved» in Russia's election interference «would be crossing a fundamental line.»

«The Committee does not believe it is appropriate to count shares that have not been voted as having been voted in support of any particular alternative,» committee chairman Alex Mandl said in an announcement of the initial aCommittee does not believe it is appropriate to count shares that have not been voted as having been voted in support of any particular alternative,» committee chairman Alex Mandl said in an announcement of the initial acommittee chairman Alex Mandl said in an announcement of the initial agreement.

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee also said firing Mueller could help Democrats in the midterms.

Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady, R - Texas, talks with President Donald Trump during a meeting on tax policy with Republican lawmakers in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday, Nov. 02, 2017.

Sessions began contemplating the option after House Judiciary Committee chairman Robert Goodlatte asked Sessions in July and September to appoint a special counsel to investigate «matters which may be outside the scope» of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, including whether members of President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow to sway the election in his favor.

In an unusual mid-December display of bi-partisanship, the House Financial Services committee announced plans to hold hearings to address SEC settlement practices and «concerns about accountability and transparency,» according to Chairman Spencer Bachus.

Late Monday, House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R - Texas) pushed through a measure blocking section 528 of the bill, H.R. 4909 — which requires women to register for the draft — from being included in the version that will be sent to the House floor.

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, inserted a last - minute «unmasking» provision that would change the intelligence community's process for identifying US citizens caught up in foreign surveillance.

In an analysis penned by Andrew Warford, who is chairman of Maverick's stock committee, the fund set out its thesis for why the smartphone market has hit a «tipping point.»

In front of the Senate Banking Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell answers questions from Sen. Robert Menendez (D - N.J.)

On Thursday, the day after Fusion officials appeared before the House Intelligence Committee in a closed - door session after being subpoenaed by chairman Devin Nunes, Trump tweeted, «Workers of firm involved with the discredited and Fake Dossier take the 5th.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan did try to prepare markets for higher short - term interest rates in testimony before the Joint Economic Committee a few days before the February 1994 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee at which the tightening began.

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 - U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said on Thursday getting rid of the so - called Cadillac tax on high - cost employer - provided health insurance could be part of the spending deal now under negotiation in Congress.

Conroe is near Houston and in the congressional district of Republican Representative Kevin Brady, chairman of the House tax committee and a champion of restricting the SALT deduction.

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters)- U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said on Thursday getting rid of the so - called Cadillac tax on high - cost employer - provided health insurance could be part of the spending deal now under negotiation in Congress.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R - TX) holds up an example of the «postcard - sized» form he wants people to use when filing their taxes during a markup session of the proposed GOP tax reform legislation in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill November 6, 2017 in Washington, DC.