Sentences with phrase «chairmen of committees even»

At issue is the decision by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - East Northport) to provide lucrative stipends of about $ 12,500 to chairmen of committees even though the three IDC senators don't chair their committees.

Not exact matches

«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.

It's even more extraordinary to have a single CEO testify before nearly half the United States Senate,» said Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Commerce Committee.

, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said Wednesday evening that he would release a new set of revisions to the bill Thursday.

Sen. Bob Corker, R - Tenn., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said the legislation «will help ensure that defending religious freedom remains at the core of our engagement in even the most repressive parts of the world and that we have the most effective policies in place to be successful.»

Indeed, the new Chairman of the Republican National Committee is very considerably more anti-life, even in the usual sense of the term, than is the new Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

For, here we were when a Senator emerged from the Agodi Prisons in Oyo State; represented his people of Osun East senatorial district; was elected Chairman of the nation's most critical Senate Committee, Appropriation and even made spirited moves to become the governor of his state.

The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, voted for the bill — even though some of his most vulnerable colleagues opposed it — while Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Jon Tester of Montana opposed it, with similar divergences in his owchairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, voted for the bill — even though some of his most vulnerable colleagues opposed it — while Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Jon Tester of Montana opposed it, with similar divergences in his owChairman Jon Tester of Montana opposed it, with similar divergences in his own party.

«I can't even imagine the Democrats would go there,» said Mark Lundberg, the former chairman of the Sioux County Republican committee in Iowa.

The chairmen of the committees already receive higher stipends for other work; the money is then funneled to the vice chairmen, even though there is nothing in state law that explicitly allows, or forbids, such a pass - through.

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.

He wondered why President Mahama, will veer into the gallery of issues he has little or no knowledge about; adding the decision to suspend National Chairman, Paul Awentami Afoko, was taken by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party when the NPP flagbearer was not even in the country.

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans, a Newsday review of public records shows.

Gentile was notoriously on Speaker Quinn's pay - no - mind list, and suffered the indignity of being denied chairmanship of a committee or even a subcommittee: instead he was made Chairman of the Select Committee on Libraries, of which he was the solcommittee or even a subcommittee: instead he was made Chairman of the Select Committee on Libraries, of which he was the solCommittee on Libraries, of which he was the sole member.

King now seems quite content to make waves from his post as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and says he has no foreseeable aspirations, even if the Republicans lose the majority.

He said, «Indeed, it may interest you to know that after meeting with Sheriff, the former president also met with Senator Ahmed Makarfi, leader of the PDP Caretaker Committee, and the party's Board of Trustees Chairman, Senator Walid Jibril, later in the evening.

The complainants (who at the moment will remain anonymous) even alleged that they was willing to go to News 12 and the Journal News to expose the actions of Mr. Lafayette concerning the process to challenge the signatures, fraudulently having people on Democratic voter rolls and abusing his absolute power over the voting process as Westchester democratic chairman, Mount Vernon City Committee Chairman and Westchester County Democratic Commissioner of Elections which they felt was illegal in nature and the DA's office was against the complainants going public with their comchairman, Mount Vernon City Committee Chairman and Westchester County Democratic Commissioner of Elections which they felt was illegal in nature and the DA's office was against the complainants going public with their comChairman and Westchester County Democratic Commissioner of Elections which they felt was illegal in nature and the DA's office was against the complainants going public with their complaints.

Representative Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said he had spent Tuesday evening calling potential House candidates and urging them to watch the returns, telling them, «I just want to encourage you to turn on the television, if it's not already on.»

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R - Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in a letter sent to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy late Wednesday that he wants to know «how and why» the residents of Hoosick Falls were not warned of a deadly carcinogen in their water supply even after the agency was made aware of the problem.

The Republicans initially cited «Obamacare» in the wake of the same - sex marriage bill passage as the reason why they wouldn't follow the Assembly's lead last summer and pass the health care exhange bill, even though one of their veteran members, Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, had been involved in drafting the measure and supported it.

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans.

But even a concerted assault on O'Donnell by Castle, Delaware Republican Party Chairman Tom Ross and the National Republican Senatorial Committee could not overcome the momentum and energy of the grass roots.

Southold Democratic Committee chairman Art Tillman kicked off the evening by saying this year's slate featured an eclectic arrangement of candidates he's feeling very optimistic about.

«All agricultural experts in this world and the country must interrogate the figures of 745,000 persons employed under planting for food because even the committee chairman's own constituency the numbers are not what they are reporting... someone independent, if you have the list, please publish it for us because its important.

Earlier in the evening Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz was unanimously re-elected as Chairman of the Bronx Democratic County Committee.

According to them, he may not even make a chairman of any important committee.

Earlier this week at a briefing for the press, Nevada Sen. John Ensign, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, suggested that the GOP could break even in the fight for control of the upper chamber this fall.

A member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Kukubor, has charged the party's Council of elders to take «swift action» against some ten regional Chairmen who have endorsed the candidature of John Dramani Mahama for election 2020 even before campaigning officially starts.

Meanwhile, a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Kukubor, has charged the party's Council of elders to take «swift action» against some ten regional Chairmen who have endorsed the candidature of John Dramani Mahama for election 2020 even before campaigning officially starts.

One recent submission, for instance, shows Gallivan listed as «chairman» of the education committee, even though he's not, according to copies of the documents furnished under the Freedom of Information Law.

«The Chairman of the technical committee has reported that his report will be ready latest this evening or by the very most, early tomorrow morning.

A tweet from Westchester attorney Andrew Barovick, the chairman of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Medical Malpractice, Monday evening read «In light of election loss,.@SheriffMoss mulling offers to be new spokesmodel for either Cream of Wheat, or Uncle Ben's Rice.»

Earlier in the day, Senate Education Committee Chairman John Flanagan said disagreements remain over the level of disclosure the bill allows for, specifically whether non-parents can figure out who teachers are even under a limited disclosure provision in the bill.

Phil is still in the process of living in a false illusion of being a chairman and can not even get all the committee members to believe in his validity as such.

Payroll records revealed that eight senators — including three members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, who collaborate with Republicans to run the Senate — have received tens of thousands of dollars in stipend payments as vice chairmen of committees during the last three years, even though the money is earmarked for the committee chairmen.

Perhaps it is important that we aver our mind to the historic election petition of 2013, which was not referred to the constitutional committee then headed by Hon. Ayikoi Otoo and the verifiable fact that none of the members of the constitutional committee, not even the Chairman, were on the Party's legal team at the Supreme Court.

The state chairmen and other officials, who are members of the National Executive Committee, started arriving in Abuja on Friday evening ahead of Monday's NEC meeting.

But Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said an even bigger focus this year will be renewed attempts by Democrats to clobber Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan on the campaign trail.

But the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. John DeFrancisco, says everything is still on the table and that even issues that are said to be settled could be reopened once again, as the night and day talks go on.

Democratic lawmaker Gary Pretlow, the chairman of the Assembly Committee on Racing and Wagering, said he expected the industry to generate even more money but that $ 3 million is better than nothing, especially considering the state faces a deficit of more than $ 4 billion.

He remains popular among Democratic Party leaders, even after he was removed as chairman of a powerful House committee chairmanshipand even after he suffered a humiliating censure from his colleagues for failing to pay taxes on income from overseas properties and other ethical lapses.

He told the BBC on Wednesday evening «I heard about it, candidates for the chairman of the 1922 Committee only heard about it, ten minutes before the meeting.»

I am glad to say that the chairman of the technical committee has said his report will be ready this evening (Wednesday) or tomorrow (Thursday).

In a release issued by the Chairman of the Publicity Committee of the Organisation, Mr Kolawole Olabisi, «the boast of the APC which had been sedentary in its approach to canvassing for votes in the State is that they would rig this election even if only one vote is cast for them.

We feel neglected even though our community is a major food basket in the Atwima Nwabiagya North district,» Unit Committee chairman of the area Osei Tutu Collins told 3news.com.

I hope that the Deputy Leader of the House will say that even the gelded Liberals would not stand for the Government's trying to elect a Back - Bench committee's chairman.»

In an article behind The Sunday Times» paywall Graham Brady, Chairman of the 1922 Committee, thinks Lords reform shouldn't even be discussed until we have restored public confidence in the Commons - the primary chamber of parliament.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- In effort to show fellow Democrats he hears their deep concerns about his health care plan, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus plans to make changes to his own proposal even before the committee starts voting Tuesday on hundreds of proposed amendments to the $ 774 billion dollar plan.

That year, part of the GOP strategy was to remind voters about the House bank scandal and a stamp scandal involving the powerful Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee as symbolic of the corruption that had infiltrated the Capitol building (even though Republican members had also been implicated in the bank scandal).

Even so, two former chairmen of the state's major political committees - Democrat John T. Sullivan Jr. of Oswego and Republican Pat Barrett of Manlius - maintain an Upstate candidate will someday regain the job.