Fran Becker (R - Lynbrook) and co-sponsored by all 18 other county lawmakers, cleared the seven - member GOP -
controlled Rules Committee Monday and will go before the full legislature on Dec. 21.
November 18, 2013: County legislature's Republican -
controlled Rules Committee approves contract; Chief Deputy County Executive Rob Walker later executes the pact
The County Legislature's GOP -
controlled Rules Committee, the final legislative stop for contract approvals, unanimously approved CG - 3PL's agreement in September 2014 with no debate.
But the bill, approved unanimously by the GOP -
controlled Rules Committee, breaks with past Democratic proposals by allowing the legislative majority to hire or terminate the inspector general in a majority vote.
Not exact matches
Now the GOP leadership is reasserting
control: the party has changed its nomination
rules to discourage rebellious Tea Party candidates and warned mutinous congressmen to behave, or lose their
committee seats.
Because we will be a «
controlled company» under the
rules, our Compensation
Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance
Committee will not be required to be fully independent.
Under these
rules, a company of which more than 50 % of the voting power is held by an individual, a group or another company is a «
controlled company» and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements of the, including (1) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (2) the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance
committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the
committee's purpose and responsibilities and (3) the requirement that we have a compensation
committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the
committee's purpose and responsibilities.
If such
rules change in the future or we no longer meet the definition of a
controlled company under the current
rules, we will adjust the composition of the boards and its
committees accordingly in order to comply with such
rules.
In January 2009, China's Communist leaders set up a special
committee called 6521, designed to
control unrest linked to the commemoration of 60 years of Communist
rule (October 1); 50 years since the Tibetan rebellion (March 10); 20 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre (June 4); and 10 years since the official ban on Falun Gong (July 20).
Late in the day, the Democratic State
Committee which is
controlled by Cuomo issued a new
rule.
The procedure
committee recommended that the
rules controlling the process by which a Speaker is elected should be changed.
The
rule itself says it covers «any political action
committee controlled» by the bond dealer in question.
This renewed offensive was as a result of the recent Supreme court
ruling placing his own faction at a disadvantage and ending the reign of his
control over the State Executive
committee of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun state, which were all secured through various controversial court orders without any democratic process whatsoever.
In order to avoid voting on a controversial gun bill during an election year — a move that no doubt would have further enraged their conservative allies who were still smarting over passage of the SAFE Act - the Senate Republicans moved the bill from the Codes
Committee to the
Rules Committee, which is
controlled with an iron fist by the leadership.
Flow
control found support, however, on the Ulster County Legislature's Environmental, Energy and Technology
Committee where Chairman Carl Belfiglio said he had advocated for the new
rules since July.
Senator Dan Squadron, a Democrat who represents lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, says Republicans also pulled over 300 bills sponsored by Democrats from
committees and sealed them up in the
Rules committee, which is under the
control of the Senate Majority Leader.
Then there is Senate
Rules Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein of California, who may have bent a few rules by steering over a billion dollars» worth of defense contracts to companies controlled by her hus
Rules Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein of California, who may have bent a few
rules by steering over a billion dollars» worth of defense contracts to companies controlled by her hus
rules by steering over a billion dollars» worth of defense contracts to companies
controlled by her husband.
In the New York State Assembly, the
rules cede
control over the
committee process to the Speaker of the Assembly, which effectively strips
committees of their chief legislative purpose.
Whether or not specific municipal bond executives gave to the specific PACs, though, may be a moot point: Regulators and ethics experts note that the
rule covers «any political action
committee controlled» by the bond dealer.
The chamber also passed legislation that would make «technical changes to rent
control» that had no sponsor except the Senate's
Rules Committee, which came under fire by Sen. Dan Squadron.
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
A new report on the ethics of Ebola, released today by the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, takes a nuanced view of the questions about study design; the
committee doesn't
rule out placebo -
controlled studies but allows room for other designs as well.
Because we qualify as a «
controlled company» under the corporate governance
rules for publicly - listed companies, we are not required to have a majority of our board of directors be independent, nor are we required to have a compensation
committee or an independent nominating function.
With a distributed ledger, data is
controlled by a
committee of participants following and enforcing a constitution of technical
rules, rather than by a single participant who makes commitments via a Terms - of - Service legal contract.
This relationship is
controlled by the Ethics
Rule of USPAP, which prohibits an appraiser from discussing or disclosing an appraisal or the results of an analysis of value, repair costs, replacement costs, or other valuation factors with anyone other than the lender client, government agencies, and professional peer review
committees.