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After 25 years in seminary education, Clymer is particularly well equipped to handle his present responsibilities as chairman of the committee which functions as a liaison between the church's Council of Bishops and the denomination's ten seminaries.

Not exact matches

Pennsylvania Representative Bill Shuster, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has encouraged his Republican colleagues to consider raising the gas tax as a way to keep the Highway Trust Fund — which funds road, bridge and transit projects — solvent after 2021.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

«I expect it to be front and center» at the meeting, said Kevin Brady, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, which oversees U.S. trade policy.

A bill prepared by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby doesn't include many of the provisions floating around Capitol Hill which Fed officials find most distasteful.

Then Hensarling served as executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which works to get GOP candidates elected, while Gramm was its chairman.

From January 2014 to February 2015, Mr. Bell served as a director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Hennessy I, which merged with School Bus Holdings Inc. in February 2015 and is now known as Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ: BLBD).

From January 2014 to February 2015, Mr. Shea served as a director and chairman of the Compensation Committee of Hennessy I, which merged with School Bus Holdings Inc. in February 2015 and is now known as Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ: BLBD).

From July 2015 to February 2017, Mr. Bell served as a director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Hennessy II, which merged with Daseke in February 2017 and is now known as Daseke, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSKE).

Our Compensation Committee, which is comprised of all of our independent directors, determined the 2010 compensation of Mr. Blankfein, our CEO, Mr. Cohn, our President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), David A. Viniar, our CFO, J. Michael Evans, a Vice Chairman, Global Head of Growth Markets and Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia, and John S. Weinberg, a Vice Chairman and Co-Head of Investment Banking (collectively, our Named Executive Officers (NEOs)-RRB-.

From July 2015 to February 2017, Mr. Shea served as a director and chairman of the Compensation Committee of Hennessy II, which merged with Daseke in February 2017 and is now known as Daseke, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSKE).

Mr. Kwauk is currently a senior consultant of Motorola Solutions (China) Co., Ltd. and serves as an independent non-executive director of Thunder Power Co. Ltd., a Taiwan company with its shares traded on Taiwan's Gre Tai Securities Market; Sinosoft Technology Group Limited, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, of which Mr. Kwauk is also the chairman of its audit committee; and several private companies.

The resolution, which will be marked up by the House Education and Workforce Committee on Thursday, is co-signed by Rep. Phil Roe, R - Tenn., chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, along with Rep. Charles Boustany, R - Louisiana, chairman of the Subcommittee on Tax Policy.

In that role he also served as the chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which as the Fed's principal monetary policymaking committee makes decisions on interest rates and managing the U.S. moneCommittee (FOMC), which as the Fed's principal monetary policymaking committee makes decisions on interest rates and managing the U.S. monecommittee makes decisions on interest rates and managing the U.S. money supply.

I am Chairman of the Banking Trade and Commerce Committee of the Senate, which has just completed a study on the barriers within Canada to interprovincial trade.

So, for example, my colleague Don Kohn, who was the vice chairman of the Fed when I was there, is a member of the British financial policy committee, which tries to identify such problems and, when it does, it makes recommendations to the parliament to impose restrictions.

Mr. Jiwan has served on numerous boards of directors and advisors, including: (i) Future Finance Loan Corporation, a European private student lender that has helped students at over 130 universities fund their education, where Mr. Jiwan is a co-founder and non-executive Chairman; (ii) BFRE, a Brazilian private real estate finance company, which was subsequently sold to affiliates of BTG Pactual; (iii) GP Investimentos, one of Latin America's leading private equity firms, where he served on its shareholder advisory board; (iv) NewPoint Re, a Bermuda - based reinsurance business; and (v) Kaletra QD product development program with Abbott Pharmaceuticals, where he served on the Joint Oversight Committee.

The chairman of the committee, Lord Bew, has raised concerns about the small numbers of MPs going to induction courses which are offered on ethical standards.

All this has attracted the attention of one Barry Sheerman, chairman of the parliamentary cross-party committee on children, schools and families, who now wants to haul offending bishops (the good news is that there are at least two) in front of his committee for an inquisitorial going - over (which by the time you read this may have taken place).

François Houtart (session chairman): «We have here the representatives of the four organisations which have created the «Other Davos» initiative: Susan George with the committee against the MAI, Doug Hellinger of Saprin, Samir Amin of the World Forum of Alternatives and Christophe Aguiton of ATTAC.

Harrington is the national chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC, pronounced Dee - Sock), the strategy of which has been to build a socialist presence on the left wing of the Democratic Party.

New York Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, convened Thursday's hearing, which he says will focus on «radicalization in the American Muslim community.»

«We decided to conduct these activities on the occasion of the world food day celebration because we want to generate a strong public opposition against golden rice which we believe is a poison disguised as food,» said Diego Dela Cruz, chairman of the advocacy committee of MASIPAG.

Another option cited in the report, which Chairman Christopher Smith said a majority of committee members supported, is for the village to wait for citizens to initiate a referendum measure to create a new park district or to annex into an adjacent one.

Plans to run these blunt ads infuriated the politically powerful infant formula industry, which hired a former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a former top regulatory official to lobby the Health and Human Services Department.

But my favorite Vilsack line came in response to committee chairman John Kline's (R - MN) characterization of school meals as too skimpy to feed hungry athletes, a common refrain from opponents of reform (which Woldow also recently debunked.)

«However, in his testimony which was beamed live on National television and which has been widely reported in the national print media, the chairman of the Appointments Committee and first deputy speaker of parliament, Honourable Joseph Osei Wusu, mentioned our client as having told him that the bribery allegation was made up,» it added.

Since Tony Blair's leadership, the liaison committee, which draws together the chairmen of 31 Commons committees, has called the prime minister every six months.

He further passed the bill for second reading and referred it to the special committee on constitutional review shortly after Ayorinde Olabode, the Deputy chairman rules and business, cited order 8 rule 98 of the house rules, which states that any bill that seeks to alter the constitution be sent to the special committee.

It will interest you to know that the National Council of Elders of the party through the instigations of the flagbearere Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, wrote a petition to the Disciplinary Committee, to demand amongst other things that, the National Chairman, Mr. Paul Afoko, be made to step aside until after the 2016 elections which goes contrary to the party's constituetion.

The committee, which was formed by the NDC's Functional Executive Committee (NEC), and approved by its Council of Elders, is being chaired by a Former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, Kwesicommittee, which was formed by the NDC's Functional Executive Committee (NEC), and approved by its Council of Elders, is being chaired by a Former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, KwesiCommittee (NEC), and approved by its Council of Elders, is being chaired by a Former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, Kwesi Botchwey

«None of the current controversy with which I am associated is relevant to my work as chairman of the intelligence and security committee of parliament.

Following his arrest in the spring of 2009, Parker was stripped by Senate Democratic leaders (at the time, Senate President Malcolm Smith still held the majority leader title) of his posts as majority whip and Energy Committee chairman, which carried a $ 22,000 stipend.

Flanagan pointed Seward's work as chairman of the Senate Insurance Committee, which he said will help craft prevention plans on the panel.

The entire delivery of the 2012 project is being monitored by the Olympic Board which comprises Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, British Olympic Association chairman Colin Moynihan and London 2012 Organising Committee chair Sebastian Coe.

Councilman Rafael Espinal Jr., Chairman of the Consumer Affairs Committee (which currently has oversight of the carriage industry) held a press conference and officially announced he'll oppose the elimination of carriage horses in Central Park.

We've had an amazing few weeks of momentum on DADT repeal following the mention of DADT in the State of the Union, the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing during which both the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs both stated their support for repeal, and the unexpected support we've received from former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell and former Defense Secretary and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Rep. Buck McKeon, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has said he would rather pass no defense bill at all than one which doesn't ban marriage for gay and lesbian service members.

One day he was the deputy speaker of the House of Lords and (oh, the irony) chairman of the Lords committee for privileges and conduct which investigates breaches of conduct by peers the next he was the disgraced «sneer of the realm» allegedly prone to bad - mouthing political colleagues whilst indulging in adulterous, illicit, drug - fuelled sex sessions.

State Sen. John Bonacic (R - Mount Hope), chairman of the Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee, proposed permitting betting on professional and college sports, with casinos giving the state 8.5 percent of gross revenue, which could bring in $ 10 million to $ 30 million annually to state coffers.

22 July 2014 — PEERS: ATTENDANCE Question: To ask the Chairman of Committees how many, and which, Members of the House of Lords have not attended a sitting of the House since the last General Election.

Harris Beach Attorneys at Law is expected Tuesday to announce Martins» hiring as a partner in its Uniondale office, which is led by Thomas J. Garry, vice chairman of the Nassau Democratic Committee.

The extent to which the state controls the primary election machinery appears from the Texas statutes, as follows: Art. 3118, Vernon's Texas Statutes, provides for the election of a county chairman for each party holding a primary by the «qualified voters of the whole county,» and of one member of the party's county executive committee by the «qualified voters of their respective election precincts.»

Even those anoraks who apparently sit glued to the Parliamentary Channel will find scarce coverage of the work of select committees and, in a dozen years as a chairman of legislative committees, I can think of no single occasion upon which a television camera has been present.

This law, which has been rightly labeled a legal «revolution», by none other than Professor Itse Sagay, chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption, could not have come at a better time than now, when Nigerians are yearning for justice.

He told Politics.co.uk last year: «I believe I'm a much better chairman of the committee because I not only have a political and academic network, but also a range of business connections which would not be available to me if I was not still active in the business world.

Alban Bagbin has become the face of Ghanaian politics not for his 25 years so far in parliament and still counting, but for the extraordinary role he played as two terms Minority Leader, twice Majority Leader and Chairman of some strategic committees of Parliament such as Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Committee, which he chaired twice, Public Accounts and Appointments Committee.