Sentences with phrase «committee leadership posts»

The partnership, as it worked in 2011 - 12, would give Republicans breathing room on some controversial bills and give Klein a better chance to pass legislation and garner legislative perks, such as committee leadership posts.

Klein also said he had «no ill will» toward Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) who, following the reunification announcement, removed IDC members from committee leadership posts and moved them to smaller offices.

Not exact matches

Poolman has also held many leadership posts with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) during his tenure, serving as Chairman of the Life Insurance and Annuities Committee for two years and Vice President of the organization in 2004.

At the Brennan Center in 2004, Creelan wrote what has become an ur - text of state government dysfunction, which was especially withering of the arrangement in which state lawmakers receive «lulus» or stipends for leadership and committee posts.

That includes passing term limits, Jacobs said, something which the Senate has already done legislatively and in their rules for committee chairs and leadership posts.

The four senators in the IDC who chaired committees were stripped of those leadership posts, just two days after their conference decided to dissolve and rejoin the Senate's mainline Democrats.

Lawmakers earn a base pay of $ 79,500, but many earn more for committee chair posts, ranking member positions and leadership titles.

Never facing a serious challenge over his nearly 39 years in the Assembly, Silver was elevated to a leadership post in 1987, when new Speaker Mel Miller made him chairman of the Codes Committee.

Lulus, once shorthand for payment in lieu of salary, now refer to prized bonuses attached to leadership duties or top committee posts.

While the head post of the Politburo Standing Committee is presumably going to be assigned to Xi Jinping, other important leadership positions are still open for fierce power struggles within the Chinese Communist Party.

Senators holding leadership posts or committee chair assignments receive stipends.

It's not yet clear if the unit will be preserved under Johnson's term, but earlier this month, when he announced committee chairmanships and leadership positions, Johnson said the Council's technology and digital communications efforts would be led by the a «deputy leader for digital communications» — a newly created post given to Council Member Rafael Espinal.

But, government reform groups are in favor of the pay raise, as long as it is accompanied by reforms — including banning or severely restricting outside income (which factored into the corruption convictions of two former legislative leaders), and eliminating extra stipends for committee chairs and leadership posts.

In addition to Senate Republicans that have benefited from the practice, three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, which has a power - sharing arrangement with the GOP, receive stipends despite not serving as committee chairs or having leadership posts.

Senators may accept one stipend for either a committee chair position or leadership post.

Some lawmakers earn extra stipends for leadership or committee chair posts.

Defransisco, who is chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, is among a list of potential successors to the leadership post, if Skelos is forced out.

The four Senators in late 2008 formed a faction within the then newly elected majority party Democrats, and demanded leadership and committee posts to expand their influence.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader and Senate Co-President Jeff Klein announced this afternoon in a statement he has stripped Sen. Malcolm Smith of his various leadership posts and committee assignments as the result of his arrest on bribery charges this morning.

A GOP source in Wednesday's meeting told CNN that despite anger towards Murkowski, the conference decided not to even take up the question of the Senate Energy Committee post because «there was a sense that she's resigned her leadership post, she lost her primary, she will probably lose her race, and she'll be gone.

At least four state senators who collect tens of thousands of dollars in leadership «lulus» regularly skip meetings of the committees they're supposed to be helping to run, The Post has learned.

He crossed swords with NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, mounting a failed challenge to her leadership post that resulted in his loss of his committee chairmanship.

Currently majority leader of the Council, Van Bramer could wind up with another top leadership or committee post.

At an extended executive committee meeting Monday, a party source told Joy News the two constituencies have resolved to petition President John Mahama and the NDC leadership to relieve the DCE of his post citing claims of ill - health against the DCE.

Smith, a Democrat, who had chaired the Independent Democratic Conference, has been stripped of the committee assignments and coalition leadership post he held in Albany, and state Sen. Daniel Squadron has called on him to resign.

And Silver hasn't formally named the chairs of a score of legislative committees and leadership posts, which gives him instant leverage over the conference, as the titles each carry cash stipends worth thousands of dollars.

According to a 2013 report by the Center for Investigative Reporting, California State Assembly Speaker John Perez «gave lawmakers who raised the most money the best assignments in the new Legislature — posts on the speaker's leadership team and seats on the powerful «juice committees.»»

State legislators receive a base pay of $ 79,500, though many lawmakers also get extra stipends for leading committees or serving in party leadership posts, which boost average pay closer to $ 100,000.

Many also receive extra stipends for committee chairs or leadership posts.

I guess you could take this claim to mean Monserrate's chairmanship of the Senate Consumer Protection committee was a leadership post.

Every senator in the chamber receives some form of a lulu, either for a committee post or for a leadership title.

Lerner says if the pay is raised to $ 113,000 a year or more, then all of the extra stipends given to committee chairs and for leadership posts should also be eliminated.

She has been a favorite of party leadership and rewarded with key committee posts.

The actual chair of the Transportation Committee, Sen. Joe Robach, instead accepts a higher stipend for holding a leadership post as the secretary of the Senate Majority Conference.

Rather than fight heavyweight Queens Boss Joe Crowley and Brooklyn's Vito Lopez for the top Finance and Land Use chairmanships, he glommed leadership roles on several heavy - duty committees and beefed up Joel Rivera's majority leadership post while getting him co-chairmanship of the Rules Committee.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Lawmakers in many states get paid extra if they hold leadership posts or oversee important committees.

In the U.S., individuals associated with the movement have successfully sought Democratic Party office in some elections, particularly Democratic County Central Committee posts, and been nominated for state and federal office as Democrats, although the party leadership has periodically voiced its disapproval.

Parker is the ranker on the Energy Committee (recall that he lost his chairmanship and leadership post after he was indicted on assault charges and was later found guilty of two misdemeanors).

The four Senators in late 2008 formed a faction within the then newly elected Majority Party Democrats, and demanded leadership and committee posts to expand their influence.

Fact 1: Republicans control both houses of Congress Fact 2: A Republican controlled ethics committee voted THREE TIMES to censure Tom Delay for ethics violations Fact 3: The Republican leadership, not liking this, removed the Republican on the committee who was voting to censure Delay and replaced him with a Republican who accepted Delay's leftover campaign money for his own campaign Fact 4: The Republicans further tried to shield Delay by making a change to the rules to allow a Congressman under indictment to retain their leadership post, relenting only when Democrats had a field day trumpeting that little change in the media

The actual Chair of the Transportation Committee, Senator Joe Robach, instead accepts a higher stipend for holding a leadership post as the Secretary of the Senate Majority Conference.

I believe I came to a decision [on leadership and committee posts] that would truly reflect the work we have ahead of us.»

More Democratic Senators in Albany could, ironically, jeopardize the leadership and committee posts that Valesky and his IDC colleagues hold.

State lawmakers earn $ 79,500 a year, plus extra stipends for committee chair posts and leadership positions.

To help quell investor rumblings in mid-2011, the company announced that it was appointing an independent committee to review its leadership structure; one of the points of contention was the dual role of the co-CEOs as co-chairmen of the board, and a report today from Canada's Financial Post suggests that the committee might be gearing up to take action.

The organizing committee posted a statement on the website of Service Employees International Union Local 500 that criticized the nonprofit for «the unexpected and unexplained path our leadership has taken in response to our efforts to unionize,» adding that «the actions of Media Matters executives have placed employees in the impossible position of continuing to produce content espousing pro-labor values for an employer who is challenging our right to unionize.»

Duncan Weston will retain his post as CMS executive partner for global development, with all three sitting as part of a seven - strong leadership committee that also includes the leaders of Olswang and Nabarro.

In recent years he has earned leadership posts with various American Association for Justice committees and the Attorneys Information Exchange Group.

Since this 1997 letter by Steve Mantis was first posted in Injuredworkersonline.org, Steve has continued his leadership in the movement through his work with the Ontario Network of Injured Workers» Groups, as community lead in the Research Action Alliance on the Consequences of Work Injury, and currently as Executive Committee member of the Centre for Research on Work Disability Policy.

A year ahead of the end of Arthur «A.B.» Culvahouse's four - year term, O'Melveny & Myers's policy committee has narrowed to three the field of partners being considered to succeed him in the firm's top leadership post — and expects to have its ultimate choice put to a partnership vote by summer's end.