Sentences with phrase «first public hearing in»

FDA public hearing on regulation of cell therapy Last week FDA organized first public hearing in the history of cell therapy field.

This could eventuate the first public hearing in this case.

The team, after the engagement with the Western Regional House of Chiefs, moved to hold its first public hearing in Sekondi Takoradi.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's second wage board, charged with considering an hourly pay increase for workers in the state's fast food industry, holds its first public hearing in Buffalo today.

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Zuckerberg, who faced five hours of questioning from a rare US Senate joint committee hearing, had reportedly hired external consultants to prepare him for his first time explaining Facebook's operations to the US government in public.

After that came a massive anti-Keystone rally in Washington and John Kerry's two pointed mentions of global warming during his congressional hearing to become America's next secretary of state and in his first public speech as such.

This misjudgment (perhaps initially due to management downplaying the incidents) could explain why the board got engaged so late in the process, and why they did not impose penalties on executives until after the first scathing Congressional hearing and weeks of public outcry.

To be clear, Warner's public call for Zuckerberg to speak, delivered earlier this morning by way of a Tweet, was not the first time that the Intel Committee has requested Zuckerberg to testify: it had also invited him to the original hearing in November of last year, where lawyers were sent instead.

In the last few months, the American public has begun to take accounts of sexual misconduct more seriously, and some survivors have felt safe going public about their experiences for the first time, knowing that their reports, now, may actually be heard.

I hope that every child, every parent, every person who was harmed by our great sins towards First Nations is able to tell their story, hear an apology, and witness first - hand what repentance and justice looks like in puFirst Nations is able to tell their story, hear an apology, and witness first - hand what repentance and justice looks like in pufirst - hand what repentance and justice looks like in public.

«Because I first heard Rachel's voice in reaction to public tomfoolery about women's roles in the church and society, I half - expected A Year of Biblical Womanhood to be sort of... reactionary.

His alleged victims testified in the first two weeks of the preliminary hearing via a video link from a remote location to a room closed to the media and public.

I was 12 the first time I heard the F - word in public.

Baby Milk Action worked with Richard Howitt MEP, who appears in the first Mark Thomas film, on the first public hearing into corporate malpractice held by the European Parliament's Development Committee.

We didn't seriously contemplate sleeping with the baby at night, mostly because of the safety concerns we had heard about, but we planned to keep the baby's crib in our room for the first six months to facilitate breastfeeding (as recommended by Canadian public - health officials.)

Both of my children were breastfed, the first one, miserably, hidden away in public toilets or upstairs rooms («we set this one aside for you»), or on the sofa at home, following a long trudge back from town («no, I can't feed you now, I know you're hungry, I hear your cries, but someone might see»).

UPDATE 2/23/18: Following the announcement of station closures in Upper Manhattan, State Assembly member Linda Rosenthal is calling on the MTA to halt its plans until it holds a public hearing first.

The questions came at the first of these two joint Senate and Assembly public hearings, but the talk was dominated by the contamination of drinking water in Hoosick Falls, as well as issues that have developed in Petersburgh and Newburgh.

Five of the 18 - person panel hosted the public for more than two hours in Queens Borough Hall, at the first of five scheduled hearings.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says he'd first like to hear an explanation from Speaker Sheldon Silver about the details of alleged payments from a law firm specializing in real estate taxes.

You've got to feel just a bit sorry for the members of County Legislator Ed Romaine's tick task force, which held its first local public hearing in Peconic last week.

Onondaga County is hosting the first of several public hearings on a plan to import trash from Cortland County to burn at Onondaga County's incinerator in Jamesville.

The first, the Ulster County Legislature's Energy and Environment Committee will meet on Thursday, May 3rd at 5:30 pm (at UCRRA located at 999 Flatbush Road in Kingston, NY) and, more importantly in order for your voice to be heard, a public hearing is set for May 23rd (VIEW our facebook event) with a potential vote to follow that would establish both new policy and a higher fee for our current commingled system imposed upon Kingston.

The first public hearing will be held on April 25 at 6:30 p.m. at McKee High School Auditorium, 290 St. Marks Place in Staten Island.

Lawmakers held the first in a series of public budget hearings.

During an infamous public hearing to discuss Michael Bloomberg's mixed - use plan for SPURA, Pisciotta witnessed first hand the bitter divisions that have sabotaged every redevelopment effort in the past 43 years.

Washington (CNN)- In the middle of his first congressional hearing as the new head of the embattled Internal Revenue Service, Daniel Werfel was asked Monday how he would restore public trust in the agency after revelations that conservative groups seeking tax - exempt status were targeted for extra scrutinIn the middle of his first congressional hearing as the new head of the embattled Internal Revenue Service, Daniel Werfel was asked Monday how he would restore public trust in the agency after revelations that conservative groups seeking tax - exempt status were targeted for extra scrutinin the agency after revelations that conservative groups seeking tax - exempt status were targeted for extra scrutiny.

First, fiscal discipline is fundamental to Labour's thinking and policy development, underpinning every proposal we make, every argument we advance — not only because our wider message will not be heard if people see us only as spenders, and not also as reformers — but also because we simply will not be able to deliver the changes we want to make in government if we do not have strong public finances.

About 50 members of Italian American groups protested de Blasio's controversial monument commission across the street from Columbus Circle outside of Central Park on Saturday, the day after the public got its first chance to weigh in at a Queens hearing.

The approved spending plan, which was first introduced in late October, garnered little attention from the general public during three recent hearings.

The first public hearing will be October 16th at the Common Council meeting, with a second the first Monday in November.

This will be the first public hearing on this 32 - year - old proposal since November 2014, when the Southold Town Board and the Southold Town Planning Board agreed to a Stipulation of Adjournment in Contemplation of Settlement.

Bharara had eagerly testified at the Moreland Commission's first public hearing, telling its members, «It is your challenge, amid high hopes, to hold public officials to account, to expose obscure corners of graft and greed, and to restore faith in honest government.»

The nonpartisan commission charged with drawing new City Council districts has isolated itself from criticism by not completing a comprehensive first draft, critics of the process contended at the final public hearing in Queens last week.?

«I'm all for more transparency and oversight, but instead of jumping to be the first to legislate in response to a controversy, why don't we take a slower, more deliberative path and hold public hearings to see what's best,» he said.

Hoosick Falls residents will have their first chance to directly confront state officials on Tuesday in a public hearing to address the PFOA contamination in the village's drinking water.

Legislator Lorigo encourages residents to visit the NFTA's website to review the changes that the NFTA made since holding its first round of public hearings in January and February.

Representatives from the de Blasio administration testified in «strong support» of a package of legislation to make feminine hygiene products readily available and free in New York City public schools, shelters, and correctional facilities on Thursday at the City Council's first hearing on the bills since they were introduced in

The first of three public hearings will be held Thursday night in Buffalo.

In his first public comments since the proposed maps, which include a 63rd Senate district, were released last week, Skelos said he expected some of the lines to be altered following the weeks of public hearings.

State law, which supersedes a town's, states in the very first paragraph of Section 271 of NY State Town Law, on planning boards, «The town board of each town is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a planning board of five members or seven members in the discretion of the board, and shall have the authority to remove any member of such planning board for cause and after a public hearing.»

Also, some people are trying to change their flights home so they can be on hand to hear what the governor - elect has to say in what is shaping up to be his first public appearance (unless he makes one tomorrow) since his big win last Tuesday).

The first public hearing was held in April in Parliament, where the committee considered financial infractions of the Bank of Ghana, Food and Drugs Authority and other agencies.

The Moreland Commission — a special commission by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to root out corruption in state government — will hold its first public hearing tomorrow at Pace University.

The vote isn't final — the full community board will hear the proposal March 9, after which Borough President Marty Markowitz, the City Planning Commission and the City Council will all have a say — but it is the first public rejection of the project, which entered an eight - month public review process in early January.

This is not the first the public has heard of such institutional brutality in state prisons, and it is another dimension of an undisciplined, sometimes lawless culture in state prisons.

Strauss - Kahn was talking in Paris at a public hearing on Superphenix, the world's first commercial scale, fast - breeder reactor.

First, local, state and federal agencies should enhance public participation in regulatory decision making so that even the disadvantaged can be duly heard.

But with billions of dollars at stake, elite university combatants, and high - profile scientists fighting over inventorship, the CRISPR battle has turned into a drama - filled epic, and this hearing was the first time lawyers for the University of California (UC) public faced down their opponents representing the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

On 29 March in Chicago, Illinois, the department is holding the first of eight public hearings around the country to discuss how they will select final resting places for the waste.