Sentences with phrase «for committee work»

I've been reading, reading, and reading some more for the committee work I'm doing for the Cybils Award (Fiction Picture Books committee), and there are several nominated titles that I've yet to discuss but want to tell you about.

As principal, I try to make collegiality the norm by setting expectations for committee work and creating mechanisms that enable teachers to observe one another and offer feedback.

That development came on the heels of a scandal surrounding the Senate Republican and IDC's use of lulus to pay members for committee work they didn't actually do and a mounting display of grassroots protests against IDC members in their districts.

State lawmakers rake in thousands of dollars in extra pay for committee work, some of them with «vice chair» titles, but skip many of the actual committee meetings.

By unanimous consent, the Republicans gathered in the hearing room agreed to change the committee's standing rules, which normally require at least one member of each party to be in attendance for committee work to proceed.

Not exact matches

McConnell stayed on the attack, sending out word that the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the conference's campaign arm, was effectively blacklisting an outside consulting firm that had done work for the SCF — a move designed to send a shock wave of fear through the party's vendor class.

«We appreciate the efforts Facebook and its employees have already made to assist our committee and will work with them to find a suitable date for Mr. Zuckerberg to testify in the coming weeks.»

It's a catch - 22,» Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist who previously worked for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, wrote in an e-mail to Fortune.

Consultants, when or if needed, work for you, the compensation committee ---- or at least they should.

Only when the independent committee completes its work, which won't be for another two to three months, will we have a better idea of whether Block is correct, or whether he just created a massive buying opportunity.

«It is very strange, very strange that the two of them would be working for the support of this bill,» said Representative Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee.

After the bill's release, Trump said in a statement that he applauded the House Ways and Means Committee for its work on the bill.

Ashley Schapitl, a spokeswoman for Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the committee, said the senator is working with the Justice and Treasury departments to get technical assistance as the bill moves forward.

That experience, along with a genuine passion for athletics, has brought him to where he is today: for the last several years, he's worked as the Canadian Olympic Committee's Chief Marketing Officer.

That account was questioned in 2013 and 2014 by investigators working for the Senate Intelligence Committee, which also issued a lengthy report in December that challenged the CIA's assertions on the effectiveness of torture.

His confirmation for the role awaits a vote of the full Senate after an unusual and ultimately unsuccessful boycott by Democratic Senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee.

In March, a U.S. Senate committee reported findings from its own investigation, concluding that JPMorgan ignored risks, misled investors, fought with regulators and tried to work around rules as it dealt with mushrooming losses in the portfolio for which Iksil was trading.

After months (well, technically, closer to a decade) of wait for an official Republican plan to replace Obamacare, the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees unleashed legislation dubbed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday that would nix the existing health law's unpopular mandate to buy insurance and pare back its far more popular expansion of Medicaid for the working poor, among other provisions.

FORTUNE — Over the past three years, Alexis Herman, a Coca - Cola director and a member of the drink company's executive compensation committee, has received $ 2.9 million for her board work.

Gates, a longtime associate of former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, worked for Barrack on Trump's inaugural committee and then for Barrack's investment company, Colony NorthStar.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Stone - who claims he isn't working for Trump anymore - is launching the Committee to Restore America's Greatness to combat attacks against the business mogul.

After earning his law degree in 1979, Jones worked as staff counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for Alabama Senator Howell Heflin.

Congress extended it to January 19, but the new bill has pitted House committees against each other — people working on the Intelligence and Judiciary committees have told Business Insider they've been «stuck in FISA hell» for weeks.

Airbnb's work to prepare for the Olympics began when it signed a deal last year with the Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016, says Airbnb's Brazil manager, Leonardo Tristao.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- A Senate committee voted along party lines Wednesday to advance President Donald Trump's picks for key posts at the Environmental Protection Agency over the objections of Democrats who pointed to the nominees» past work for corporate clients they would now regulate.

Sandy Parakilas, who worked in data protection for Facebook in 2011 and 2012, told a U.K. parliamentary committee Wednesday that the company was vigilant about its network security but lax when it came to protecting users» data.

Derek Harvey, forced out of the White House this summer, is set to work for one of the committees central to the congressional Russia investigations.

Committee chair Collins asked whether he thought it was odd that Facebook now employs his former co-director at GSR, Joseph Chancellor — who works in its research division — despite Chancellor having worked for a company Facebook has said it regards as having violated its platform policies.

Despite apparently lamenting the breakdown in his relations with Facebook — telling the committee how he had worked with the company, in an academic capacity, prior to setting up a company to work with SCL / CA — Kogan refused to accept that he had broken Facebook's terms of service — instead asserting: «I don't think they have a developer policy that is valid... For you to break a policy it has to exist.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

The chair of the Compensation Committee works directly with the Committee's compensation consultant, Frederic W. Cook & Co. (Cook & Co.), to provide a decision - making framework for use by the Committee in determining incentive plan payouts and setting target compensation opportunities for the Chairman and CEO.

In connection with its work for our Compensation Committee, Semler Brossy reviews the information provided to the Committee by our CFO, our HCM Division, and our firm's compensation consultants.

Conservative communications pro David Sachs argued that Harper gummed up Parliament's committee process for a reason — he wanted us to believe minority governments don't work.

The chair of the Committee works directly with the Committee's compensation consultant to provide a decision - making framework for use in making a recommendation for the Chairman and CEO's total compensation.

She is a member of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) Listed Equities Steering Committee and ESG Integration Sub-Committee, and the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Asset Management Working Group.

Committee chair Damian Collins asked Kaiser whether the viral app approach to harvesting Facebook data, which CA had developed for work in the U.S., would have been used by the company in other markets too.

The evaluation process should determine whether clear expectations are established for the work conducted by committee members and whether committee reports are effective in keeping the full board informed about issues facing the company.

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

She worked as Minister across nine Canadian government departments, and her service included the role of Vice Chair of the Treasury Board and chair of the cabinet committee for public safety, justice and aboriginal issues.

More than 80 % of the companies we have studied have at least one formal system for managing commitments across silos, including cross-functional committees, service - level agreements, and centralized project - management offices — but only 20 % of managers believe that these systems work well all or most of the time.

Prior to joining the Committee, he worked on economic and revenue issues for the Senate Budget Committee under Chairs Patty Murray and Kent Conrad.

Yesterday Wylie told the committee that Kosinski had asked for $ 500k up front from CA and 50 % equity in the commercial venture to work on the project — which he said was ultimately why it ended up signing a data licensing deal with another Cambridge professor, Aleksandr Kogan, who agreed to work first on gathering the Facebook data and to discuss commercial terms later.

Committee chair Damian Collins concluded one round of dark ads questions for the Facebook CTO by remarking that his overarching concern about the company's approach is that «a lot of the tools seem to work for the advertiser more than they do for the consumer».

Senator Massicotte: Thank you for being here and for your interest in our committee work.

A committee spokesperson said the appearance is still unconfirmed, and the committee «is continuing to work with Facebook to determine a day and time for Mr. Zuckerberg to testify.»

The audit committee has direct responsibility for the appointment, compensation, retention and oversight of the work of our independent registered public accounting firm, KPMG LLP.

In the U.K., The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is working on a discussion paper for digital currencies with the Treasury Committee and...

F.W. Cook did not provide any other services to the Company and worked with the Company's management only on matters for which the Compensation Committee is responsible.

This feature article draws on recent work by the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) to investigate trends in market - making and what they mean for the financial system (CGFS (2014)-RRB-.2 We use a simple conceptual framework to assess how supply and demand for liquidity have changed in fixed income markets, particularly in markets for sovereign and corporate bonds.

In the latest broadcast, which aired Tuesday evening in Britain, Nix downplayed his private testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in December when he was asked about his firm's work for Trump's presidential campaign.