Sentences with phrase «group of assembly members»

The finalised manifesto was presented at the reception to a large group of Assembly Members, animal welfare charities and other invited guests and is now available online.

Twenty - five years after Gov. Mario Cuomo proposed building high - speed rail between New York and Boston, a group of Assembly members will introduce legislation on Wednesday establishing an «exploratory commission» to «study and develop Hyperloop and High Speed Rail within New York State.»

Not exact matches

In October, three former members of Sunday Assembly NYC announced the formation of a breakaway group called Godless Revival.

At every General Assembly, our members elect the World Board, who shape the direction of our work and appoint Affiliates to committees, working groups and task forces on topics like the development of standards or the facilitation of Organic Agriculture in developing countries.

Hon Nii Lante Vanderpuye who is known as a grassroot man and the longest serving Assembly Member in the Accra Metropolitan Assembly used the occasion to engage opinion leaders from the various ethnic groups in the Old Fadama and Kokomba Yam Market community and members of the National Democratic Congress in his constituency to share ideas on how to mobilize people and make the Party more appealing to the constituents.

The Millennium Dome is the first venue to come under scrutiny, and local campaign groups, the police, religious groups and members of the Greater London Assembly will have a chance to have their say.

The two citizens» assemblies — Assembly North in Sheffield and Assembly South in Southampton — provided a chance for a small group of ordinary members of the public to engage in structured deliberation on the hot topic of local and regional devolution.

Kathy Hochul, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, was joined at an Upper West Side rally today by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and a group of Manhattan Democratic elected officials that included Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Assembly Members Keith Wright and Linda Rosenthal, Council Members Dan Garodnick and Inez Dickens and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

This will include social events and happy hours for members and guests all along the 73rd Assembly District, co-sponsored events with like - minded civic and community groups as well as the hosting of events that delve deeply into issues that the community is concerned about.

Grechen Shirley said she and other members of activist groups known as «pop ups» had worked for Democrat Christine Pellegrino's successful state Assembly election, which Schaffer sat out, and planned fundraisers for Democratic county legislative candidates.

As an active trade unionist, he is co-ordinator of the UNITE Group of Labour Assembly Members.

Hours before Sheldon Silver resigns as Speaker of the State Assembly, six government reform groups sent a an email to all members of the NYS Assembly calling on them to enact four basic reforms that will make the Assembly more transparent, participatory and democratic.

And this group includes every freshman member of the Assembly.

The letter, signed by a bipartisan group of 133 Assembly members, specifically asked for 10,150 units for families.

Richard Barnes, Assembly Member for Ealing & Hillingdon and Leader of the Conservative Group, says the Conservative budget for the GLA is the only one that offers value - for - money.

But you can help us kick out these UKIP AMs in 2021 and return another group of effective Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Members in their place.

«IPOB and all other aggrieved groups are advised to articulate their position on all national issues and submit to the Committee of Governors, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and National Assembly members from the South - East Zone, through their chairman, South - East Governors Forum.

The bulk of those who have not previously been Parliamentary candidates have experience of local politics - there are two Members of the Welsh Assembly, as well as numerous councillors and group leaders on the list.

It was with profound sadness that I received the news this afternoon of an attack on members of the Ada East District Assembly during confirmation polls for the nominated District Chief Executive (DCE), allegedly perpetrated by the so - called «Invisible Forces», a notorious vigilante group.

We also thank the members of the Assembly's All Party Group on Country Sports for their support.

Led by Senate and Assembly higher education committee leaders, Ken LaValle and Deborah Glick, a group of students, along with UUP and PSC members, are making a last - minute push to extend a «maintenance of effort» law that will expire at the end of this month unless it is renewed.

Nearly 1.8 million residents live in districts without a current Assembly member or state senator, according to a fact sheet from Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The group endorsed IDC Sens. Diane Savino, David Valesky and David Carlucci, three lawmakers who are part of the five - member conference (The Business Council today also endorsed 29 members of the state Assembly: 24 Republicans and five Democrats).

In some respects, it's a parallel to what happened in the Assembly in January, when the effort to oust Sheldon Silver as speaker was pushed for by a group of relatively new members hungry for change in the chamber.

The New York League of Conservation Voters, which has steadily increased its political spending in recent years, this morning sent an email to members of the Assembly who it backed in the last election cycle, reminding them that this issue is the group's «top priority for the 2015 session, and as you may recall this was specifically communicated to you in 2014 when you applied for NYLCV's endorsement.»

At noon, Assemblyman David Weprin, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Correction, will be joined by fellow Elected Officials, members of clergy, and advocacy groups to speak out against the Executive Budget proposal to reduce visitation days for inmates at New York State's maximum - security prisons.

Assemblyman Michael Cusick (D - Mid-Island) and Assemblyman Matthew Titone (D - North Shore) had opposed a proposal in January to replace Silver with a five - member group of Democratic Assembly members.

Some prominent members of the Yoruba socio - cultural group, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), have called on Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, Speaker of the state House of Assembly and relevant security agencies, to bring the National Coordinator of the group, Otunba Gani Adams to book for his role in the anti-Jega rally, held in Lagos on March 16, 2015.

According to Assembly Member Gary Pretlow, co-chair of The Assembly Working Group on Operations, Participation and Transparency, the release of a 49 - point report is imminent.

Ceretto changed parties from Republican to Democratic in 2015, in part because members of the Assembly's Democratic majority find it easier to access state funds to assist groups in their districts.

The entire budget is currently worth # 2.6 million, so the cut proposed by the Conservatives equated to just shy of a 10 % cut (the budget is split between every group in the Assembly, with each group allocated roughly 4 % of the budget for every Assembly Member in their party, ie about # 104,000 per Member at present).

However, the party's path is complicated by Agir, pro-Macron members of The Republicans (LR) who sit with the UDI within the same group in the National Assembly, as well as the departure of two parties from the UDI: Hervé Morin's The Centrists, and Yves Jégo's Radical Party after its reunification with the Radical Party of the Left to form the Radical Movement.

The business - backed group gave 100 percent scores to eight members of the Assembly GOP conference in a report that considered legislation ranging from the 2015 and 2016 budget plans to bills like universal health care (the group is opposed) to eliminating the wage board and regulatory reform (both supported by Unshackle).

The human rights group also charged Nigerians on the need to form a united front and troop out en masses to protest against the hash economy and huge corruption allegedly perpetrated by the members of the National Assembly, saying there can be no better time for Nigerians to return to the street than now.

The delta force, a vigilante group linked to the NPP stormed the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly Circuit Court where there was an ongoing trial of 13 members of the group.

As if we needed more evidence on Gannett's Jon Campbell's impact as the LCA's resident fracking scoop artist, a coalition of groups and Senate and Assembly Democrats today seizing on his report that one of the experts hired by the Department of Environmental Conservation to help write hydrofracking regulations is a member of the gas industry trade group.

The Matagbamole group has the support of NASS members (Senators & House of Reps) and some in the state Assembly and you think all these people are feather weight and write offs.

An estimated # 6 million went to political assistants to party groups on local councils in England; Healthy additional sums were spent on allowances to members of the regional assemblies and of the European Parliament.»

SA cabinet and assembly members discussed SA's bill at length, but a vote was tabled, as it was at the group's final meeting of the fall semester.

In 2013, for instance, at their annual «Champions of Education» celebration, the group honored then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, UFT President Michael Mulgrew, and Ocynthia Williams, a parent, advocate and founding member of NYC Coalition for Educational Justice, another AQE - allied group.

A group of politicians including the two hosts, State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, and Assembly Members Grace Meng and Francisco Moya called for reopening Elmhurst's Long Island Railroad Station, shuttered in 1985 due to low ridership.

Fourteen GOP members of the Assembly support a ban on conversion therapy for minors as does Long Island Senator Phil Boyle, but the group's «primary goal» in the 2016 election «is to build a pro-GENDA majority in the State Senate.»

The coalition is calling for Assembly majority leader Joe Morelle of Rochester — a Silver loyalist who is one of the five members of the proposed leadership group — to become interim speaker.

No senator or assembly member won the group's annual legislator of the year award — they scrapped the prize for 2012.

Government, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, other members of the National and state assemblies as well as groups, organisations, corporate bodies and philanthropists to come to the aid of the ailing girl.

Democrats have long held sizable numeric advantages in the State Assembly but have been thwarted in efforts to win control of the Senate, which is currently led by a coalition of Republicans and a five - member group of breakaway Democrats.

The members of the group were received at the National Assembly by, Hakeem Baba - Ahmed the Chief of Staff to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, who promised to convey their message to his principal.

The CitizensUK assembly was one of the biggest gatherings of the election, bringing together 2,500 members of church, mosque and school groups and community organisations in Westminster's Methodist Central Hall.

An Assembly member since 2004, Latimer has received the endorsement of Tenants PAC, a group that works to elect pro-tenant candidates in New York State.

The bill prompted swift criticism from both Democratic members of the Assembly and the Partnership for New York City, a business group, which warned that it would return the schools to a chaotic and dysfunctional form of governance.