Sentences with phrase «hall meetings»

Instead of talking to each other in this phoney setting - why not take some questions from the media / press... Better yet - why not listen to your constituents - have a few budget related town hall meetings.

They pointed to the town hall meetings held by Collins» congressional neighbor — and fellow Trump backer — Rep. Tom Reed this past weekend, which were at times confrontational.

He demonstrated this in September when he flagged off his quarterly town - hall meetings that saw him render account of his stewardship directly to the people.

He has promised that the town - hall meetings will move from one senatorial district to another in order to constantly feel the pulse of the electorates.

Michael Aron, a political reporter in New Jersey for more than four decades who has studied crowd reactions during Christie's town hall meetings, says, «Invariably everyone is smiling.

The town hall meetings across Nigeria began in April, 2016 under the title «Federal Government Discuss» as a means of bridging communication gap between government and Nigerians

Since proposing the merger, Consensus officials have held several town hall meetings across the county to garner public opinion.

Assemblymember Guillermo Linares insisted that community involvement, including additional forums and town hall meetings, would continue to be part of the planning process.

Shelly Silver could soon be speaker of the Big House: The cushy prison where he wants to do his time features town - hall meetings for its inmates.

Some voters in New York's vast 21st Congressional District are urging their Republican Representative Elise Stefanik to hold town hall meetings, but on WAMC's Congressional Corner Thursday the congresswoman who has just started her second term tells WAMC's Alan Chartock that she prefers smaller, private meetings with constituents.

It is the perfect time to hold town hall meetings and to brief constituents on how they are being represented.

Meredith Corp. held a series of town hall meetings in New York and Des Moines, Iowa — and in at least one of them, staffers pressed chief executive Tom Harty...

Sen. Jose Peralta, the newest member of the IDC, is among those who faced a backlash this past winter at town hall meetings in his Queens district, where they chanted «throw him out.»

As a member of the CNY Solidarity Coalition, Balter has been one of the leading activists protesting Trump's policies and urging Katko to hold town hall meetings.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer continued his series of town hall meetings focused on Hurricane Sandy recovery, visiting the Arverne Section of Rockaway Wednesday evening.

After countless town hall meetings throughout the region, engaging thousands of individuals, hundreds of elected leaders, and dozens of municipalities, One Region Forward established a clear vision for our region's future.

Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined Monday night by a standing - room only crowd in the meeting room of the North Collins Public Library for the first of several Town Hall meetings this month to present his administration's school expense report, «Examining School District Expenses and Potential for Consolidation in Erie County» and to discuss the report with residents.

The coordinated campaigns are starting to target local members of congress by pressuring them to hold town hall meetings.

To roll out his latest plan, Poloncarz scheduled four Town Hall meetings throughout the county, starting Tuesday at the Merriweather Library in Buffalo.

«These town hall meetings are an important way to educate residents on how this program would work and how they can benefit through financial incentives it will provide,» County Executive Steve Bellone said in a statement.

This was contained in the quarterly publication made available by the state government to mark the second quarterly town hall meetings of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of the state, stating the activities of the government ministries and agencies.

At town hall meetings earlier this winter, some of its members faced angry crowds, who called them traitors and demanded they be thrown out of office.

Collaborating through Indivisible groups, Action Network, an existing MoveOn event - scheduling app, social media and other channels, activists made in - district town hall meetings a place of dread for Republicans.

The Walsh administration has increased public access to government through both public forums and live streaming of city hall meetings.

Hundreds attended the event, which is the first in a series of town hall meetings New York's junior senator plans to hold across the state.

The Independent reports that Nick Clegg has been holding Town Hall meetings in Councils his party controls.

As federal elected officials face noisy constituents at town hall meetings nationwide, New York's senior U.S. Senator and that body's minority leader took questions Wednesday about his own ability to be reached.

LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Republican congressional members nationwide have felt the heat at recent town hall meetings with constituents, and invites for Rep. Chris Collins to return to the 27th District and hear people out in person remain open - ended.

After watching and reading accounts of protests and town hall meetings against new homeless shelters in East Elmhurst and Elmhurst, City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D - Sunnyside) kept quiet because the controversy lay outside his district.

Two Democratic candidates hoping to take on GOP Rep. John Faso are hosting town hall meetings as activists look to sustain focus on gun control issues following the Feb. 14 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

My official website won a prestigious award, and I have communicated with more than 107,000 constituents through my Telephone Town Hall meetings.

Backers of Obamacare are hoping to generate enough of their own events this summer to counteract any repeat of August 2009, when tea party activists swarmed town hall meetings to try to stop what was then still a health reform bill with a shaky future in Congress.

This week I began a month of Town Hall meetings on this subject at a crowded North Collins public library as the communitywide conversation began in earnest.

Faso has also taken heat for declining to appear at town - hall meetings organized by progressive activist groups.

Town hall meetings got loud for some Republican members of Congress this week, as they defended the passage of the American Health Care Act by the House of Representatives.

The complaint was filed by a reporter of Progress New York after the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio (D - New York City) indicated that it would take one year for the City to process a FOIL Request seeking records about the Brooklyn - Queens Connector, or BQX, and about two of his Town Hall meetings.

The town hall meetings, which were electrified by his presence during the long summer campaign, are also not enough.

In 1989 a city - wide scheme of participatory budgeting began, giving every citizen a voice in directly deciding municipal expenditure on capital projects in a year - round series of town - hall meetings.

Ben Chodor of online videoconferencing firm Stream 57 was also in the «room» (we did the whole thing over the phone, since Karen's on the West Coast), talking about his company's experience working with candidates to do virtual town hall meetings.

Southern Tier Republican Rep. Tom Reed, who faced overflowing crowds of protesters at town hall meetings.

Congressional town hall meetings under siege about healthcare?

Rep. Tom Reed came into Chautauqua County on a wave of optimism Saturday for two town hall meetings following the controversial vote on the health care measure.

The Tory leader was more sure - footed when taking questions from the studio audience, drawing on his experience gained from years of Cameron Direct town hall meetings.

The new chair of the House Rules Committee came under attack for proposing a constitutionally questionable procedural maneuver to pass the controversial Affordable Care Act in 2010, refused to hold town hall meetings during the height of the Tea Party movement, and compared Republicans to Nazis during a fight over abortion access in 2011.

«Our priority remains on continuing our record of caring, conservative leadership, bridging the partisan divide as the co-chair of the Problem Solver Caucus, and remaining accessible with our over two hundred Town Hall meetings.»

Be ready to show up at town hall meetings and flex your voice on social media if Republicans escalate this food fight.

April recess for federal legislators is today through May 2, and many members of Congress will be hosting Town Hall meetings in their home districts.

Soon they formed an opposition group that helped fill Arlington Heights Village Hall meetings with people critical of the plan.

Many coffee communities around the world, including the SCA UK Chapter are holding «town hall meetings» this week to discuss the SCA's new policy and its effects.

In our communities, it could be going to town hall meetings and listening to the grievances of our neighbors that are being wrongfully pursued in various ways within law enforcement.