Sentences with phrase «falsely as committee»
Helming is one of seven lawmakers in the Senate — three Independent Democratic Conference members, plus four Senate Republicans — who were listed falsely as committee chairs on Senate records forwarded to the state comptroller's office.
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Democratic Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Tuesday called for an investigation of arrangement of falsely designating some lawmakers as committee chairs on payroll records in order to receive paid stipends.
Falsely reporting senators as committee chairs so they can receive lucrative stipends has shined a light on a more commonplace practice in both the Senate and Assembly: The so - called lulu system of doling out extra pay for leadership positions.
Sen. Pam Helming received a $ 12,500 stipend after being falsely listed as chair of the Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee, she was surprised, and said she thought she was receiving the money by mistake.
The use of falsely classifying lawmakers as committee chairs came under scrutiny on Friday as The New York Times reported members of the Independent Democratic Conference — Sens. David Valesky, Jose Peralta and Diane Savino — have received stipends, or «lulus» in Albany parlance, despite holding the post of vice chair.
One of the seven falsely listed as committee heads, Republican Sen. Pamela Helming from Ontario County, said she has not cashed two checks she received and plans to return them.
State Sen. Pam Helming has returned the stipend she received after being falsely listed as chair of a Senate committee.
When state Sen. Pam Helming received a $ 12,500 stipend after being falsely listed as chair of the Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee, she was surprised.
Washington (CNN)-- The Republican National Committee has cancelled a fundraiser with conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is under fire for promoting an edited video that falsely portrays former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod as having boasted about discriminating against a white farmer looking for her assistance.
It was falsely paid to her as chair of the Crime and Corrections Committee, when she is, in fact the vice chair of that cCommittee, when she is, in fact the vice chair of that committeecommittee.
Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Rep. Steve Israel (D., N.Y.) falsely claimed Democrats have not used Congressional Select Committees as a tool for fundraising.
Peralta is falsely listed as chair of the Energy and Telecommunications Committee on the payroll documents; he is actually the vice chair.
She is one of seven senators who received stipends after falsely being listed as committee chairs.
It was falsely paid to her as chair of the Crime and Corrections Committee when she is the vice chair.
Peralta is falsely listed as chair of the Energy and Telecommunications Committee on the payroll documents, when he is actually the Vice Chair.
Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Smithtown) and GOP staff submitted payroll records to the comptroller's office to steer thousands of dollars in higher stipends to three members of the IDC by falsely identifying them as committee chairmen, when they were actually vice chairmen of the panels.
By «meager» scientific work, he means Judith Curry is the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences and the co-author of Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans and a member of the National Research Council's Climate Research Committee - as opposed to running around falsely claiming to be a Nobel Laureate and playing Jessica Alba's personal climatologist on a James Cameron crockumentary.
As noted above, Spanier had falsely reported to the Penn State trustees and the public that the Penn State Inquiry Committee had properly interviewed critics and had examined the Climategate documents and issues «from all sides».
In a letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, Planned Parenthood outlined how a video released last week was edited to falsely claim that the organization violated laws, as well as how the broader attack was perpetrated, the extremist ties of the individual who led the fraud, and what additional tapes they may be planning to distort in order to make false charges.