Sentences with phrase «hearings on the issue»

A Delaware judge temporarily blocked the exchange plan on April 11, according to Bloomberg, and a hearing on the issue is scheduled for June 26 in Wilmington, Del..

First they seemed reluctant to have any hearing on this issue.

(Take that, House of Commons Finance Committee, which is holding hearings on the issue next week.)

The House and Senate intelligence committees each held a hearing on the issue Nov. 1.

Those were some of the findings of a survey conducted by the Youth Sexual Health Project, funded by the D.C. Council Committee on Health, whose chairman, council member David A. Catania (I - At Large), had a hearing on the issue Wednesday.

«We're trying to raise awareness that more than one side needs to be heard on the issue of homosexuality, and we're helping to ensure Christian students have the chance to express their viewpoint,» said Candi Cushman, a Focus on the Family education analyst, in the release.

In 1947, the House Un-American Committee had congressional hearings on the issue.

The student senate came out in favor of a hearing on the issue — which caused the rest of the students to call for an impeachment of the senate.

During a public hearing on the issue, district officials explained the staff cut was based in part on the current number of students registered for school next year.

So in today's Motherlode piece I ask Confessore what, if anything, parents can do to be heard on this issue over the powerful voices of lobbyists and politicians.

So far, more than 1,200 signatures have been sent over to the DuPage County Zoning Board of Appeals whose members will meet Thursday to continue the public hearing on the issue.

A public hearing on the issue will start at 7 p.m. in the Frick Center at Elmhurst College.

Eric Hentges, an Agriculture Department official testifying at a Senate hearing on the issue, rejected Fitzgerald's criticism.

«We have studied these issues at length,» said NBA Vice President Dan Spillane during testimony at a Senate hearing on the issue.

Bonacic had previously signaled he would move forward with sports betting legislation after a hearing on the issue in January.

Sen. Brad Hoylman, the sponsor of a bill to make it easier for child sexual assault victims to seek justice as adults, is pushing for a state Senate hearing on the issue.

In order to assure a transparent and accountable process for examining and determining the petitions, the EC assembled a Panel of Eminent Ghanaians to chair the two - day public hearing on the issue.

It had assigned its front line Ministers to the front bench of the NPP and the strategy was to respond, to heckle, to cajole, to admonish and to literally make it impossible for the NPP MPs to be heard on the issue.

But the Senate's one - house budget plan excluded a mayoral control re-authorization and instead decided to hold hearings on the issue.

The mayor earlier this month did attend a hearing on the issue in Albany.

The push, which advanced on Monday in Albany with a Senate hearing on the issue, comes as the IDC is facing pressure from the left for their coalition government with Senate Republicans in the new era of uncertainty for liberals under the Donald Trump administration.

Senate Republicans will hold two hearings on the issue of mayoral control of New York City schools, a provision that is due to once again expire in June.

New York earlier this year held a hearing on the issue, and Sen. John Bonacic in his statement pointed to previous efforts to study the issue of sports gambling.

«So many things need to get done, and we don't seem to be getting a hearing on our issues, so now is the time to push back,» said AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes, who added that he's been pressured by his affiliates to do something about the dysfunctional Senate for well over a year.

But Leave voters are also positive, with some saying that it is important to ensure that the people's voice is heard on this issue of a generation.

This year, the Senate GOP has pointed to a $ 2.5 billion package on clean water spending, which came after a series of statewide hearings on the issue.

The New York State Gaming Commission is holding hearings on the issue of gambling addiction.

New York earlier this year held a hearing on the issue, and state Sen. John Bonacic in his statement pointed to previous efforts to study the issue of sports gambling.

McLaughlin took to Twitter this week to rail against Flanagan's decision to not hold hearings on the issue.

In a statement released Thursday afternoon, Flanagan said he had reviewed Wednesday's Senate hearing on the issue and wasn't impressed with the mayor's testimony.

The House Oversight Committee is launching an inquiry into the state's handling of the initial reports of the PFOA contamination as well, which Rep. Chris Gibson hopes could lead to congressional hearings on the issue.

Republicans in the Senate, however, have been deeply skeptical of de Blasio's handling of education and criticized his decision to not attend a second public hearing on the issue in New York City last month (de Blasio traveled to Albany earlier to personally pitch a mayoral control extension.

Tensions spiked between Senate Republicans and de Blasio last month over the issue, with Flanagan insisting the mayor's performance at a public hearing on the issue of extending the program wasn't sufficient.

What has been an environmental and health crisis for village residents was quickly snowballing into a political headache for top state lawmakers, including the Senate GOP, which had been criticized for not pushing for public hearings on the issue.

But at the same time, it's noted in the Senate resolution during the last «significant extension» in mayoral control in 2009, the Legislature held five hearings on the issue.

The Senate this week held a hearing on the issue, with talks centering in part on how to fund family courts to take on the new cases.

The BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body, has now written to the two parties, asking them to prepare for an oral hearing on the issue between April 22nd and 27th.

And after a hearing on the issue Thursday, City Councilman James Oddo, along with Speaker Christine Quinn and other members of the Council are calling on Albany to change the state law to distinguish between Sandy repairs and putting an addition on a home.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said: «Delegates representing every part of the teachers union got a chance to have their voice heard on this issue and their message is clear — individual merit pay hasn't worked and doesn't work for schools and kids.»

The Senate also held hearings on the issue of criminal justice reforms following the death of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man whose death in police custody led to protests in New York and around the country.

The Assembly's final hearing on the issue of criminal justice reforms is scheduled for Thursday in New York City.

Instead the strongest opinions we heard on the issue this weekend came from man on the street interviews, the occasional Congressman, lame duck Mike Bloomberg and d - list Hollywood types like Alec, no Billy, no Danny, er Stephen Baldwin.

«This is not about science,» said Entergy vice president Fred Dacimo during a public hearing on the issue earlier this month.

Anderson said he doesn't get involved in community or political groups, but makes sure his voice is heard on the issues.

He said «you must let your intelligent opinions be heard on issues concerning the elections instead of rather fighting each other as political opponents.

The US Senate Judiciary Committee held a first - ever hearing on the issue of marijuana legalization and the tension between state and federal marijuana laws.

«In order to assure a transparent and accountable process for examining and determining the petitions, the EC has assembled a Panel of Eminent Ghanaians to hold a two - day public hearing on the issue.

Senate Republicans starting this month will hold a series of hearings on the issue, with Majority Leader Dean Skelos pledging to review whether elected officials helped create a negative atmosphere that ultimately played a role in the recent shooting deaths of two New York City police officers.

De Blasio's prospects of getting the Legislature to renew his control of New York City's schools were thrown into doubt yesterday, when the leader of the State Senate, John Flanagan, issued a statement harshly criticizing the mayor's performance at a hearing on the issue.

A public hearing on the issue is scheduled for 6 p.m. on June 4 at P.S. 158 - The Bayard Taylor School, 1458 York Ave. at East 78th Street.