Sentences with phrase «held a hearing last»

As evidence, these advocates charged the City Council had rushed the bill through, holding hearings last week and passing it today.

The Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on immigration held a hearing last week on proposals to reform and reduce legal immigration.

The Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management held a hearing last week on the efficacy of health - education programs.

The Senate Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism held a hearing last week on support programs for troubled families.

The Senate Juvenile Justice Subcommittee held a hearing last week on gang intervention and prevention strategies included in pending crime legislation.

«It allows us to spotlight the integrated approach that blends strong academics with expanded vocational and technical education,» said Rep. Frank Riggs, R - Calif., the chairman of the House subcommittee that held a hearing last week at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science...

Computer Network The House Science Subcommittee held a hearing last week on plans for a computer network that would include education data.

Deaf Education The House Subcommittee on Select Education held a hearing last week on the Education of the Deaf Act.

A national standard could enshrine those goals into law, and Senator Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is working on a draft (he held a hearing last week).

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission held a hearing last week to discuss whether refusing to hire unemployed people is illegal.

The Senate Banking Committee held a hearing last week on S. 1376, the «FHA Solvency Act of 2013,» introduced by Senators Johnson (D - SD) and Crapo (R - ID).

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President Barack Obama nominated Garland to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court last year after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but McConnell declined even to hold a hearing.

Last month, the DOL held 4 days of hearings regarding its proposed fiduciary rule.

From the gospel accounts of his spoken words at the Last Supper, the unity of Catholic tradition holds that the Real Presence is divinely given in the sacrament of the Eucharist — substantively more than any lesser parallelism on our part of either seeing or hearing.

Many in the community came out in favor of Rep. Peter King's, R - New York, insistence last year on holding congressional hearings on radicalization within American Islam, even as other Muslim groups blasted the hearings as anti-Muslim.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

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In turn, it came as no surprise to hear the former England boss rule out an exit last week, with Football.London noting that Spurs held an interest in the winger.

I agree that for whatever reason SANCHEZ holds a grudge is against WENGER mostly and it was definitely by benching him against Pool in probably the most critical game for us last season, if the man is not happy let him go, we don't need a disgruntled player in our dressing room no matter who he is, now this being said, it was because of him that we are now seeing changes and active transfer window, WENGER motivated and actively pursuing WC players, looking to drop under performing players, if it was not because ALEXIS and the Fans who last year had their voice heard and made it clear to the board and WENGER that is enough is enough....

With regards to last night's match between England and Poland I only heard it on the radio and all the commentators were shitting themselves for most of the second half, hoping England would hold on.

Upon hearing that news, Inter sprung straight back into action and held another maxi summit in a Milanese restaurant last week.

The hearing was held in response to a Tribune investigation last year that found unsafe practices in the factories that make school meals and in the kitchens and cafeterias where they are served, congressional leaders said.

You may remember that we talked here last month about the possible link between food dyes and attention and behavior problems in children («FDA to Hold Hearings on Possible Link Between Food Dyes and Kids» Behavior «-RRB-.

The interconnected world of the «net gives EVERYONE the potential to find someone to see or hear what we do — a very different situation than what we're used to, since for the last century or two (since the rise of mass - distribution publications such as newspapers and magazines and ultimately television), we've lived in a top - driven media world that annoints certain people as «stars,» to be held up above all of the rest of us.

Last week, the New York State Assembly Higher Education committee held a public hearing to review the performance of the new Excelsior Scholarship program.

Last week, the mayor held a town hall meeting to hear from students about gun violence in schools.

Last week, NYC Council's Committee on Technology held a hearing on the NYC Open Data Law's implementation, as well as on a package of seven bills to amend the law.

His frustration boiled over last week, when Flanagan reiterated to reporters he would not hold hearings on water issues in the aftermath of a PFOA contamination in the village in order to assess the response by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration (Conservative critics of the Senate GOP have been deeply critical of the conference's relationship with Cuomo, especially in the wake of the passage of the SAFE Act).

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.

Following two lengthy public hearings last month, the Council's Democratic caucus has held two private meetings to air concerns.

Last fall, Senator Gillibrand held women's economic empowerment roundtables across the state, and heard firsthand from small business owners.

Howard Zemsky, who leads ESD for Cuomo, defended the state's dealings with Soraa and NexGen at budget hearings held by the Legislature last month.

East Hampton Town will purchase a second property on Squaw Road in Springs, near Three Mile Harbor, after the town board held a hearing on the acquisition last Thursday night.

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.

Schimminger says he is breaking with tradition and holding a hearing in August in part because there is «a big gap» between how Governor Andrew Cuomo's Start - Up NY was touted and the the only 332 jobs it created last year.

A Suffolk judge has granted a motion requested by the pickup driver involved in the fatal limousine crash in Cutchogue last year to hold a hearing to determine whether blood alcohol results were properly taken.

The atmosphere in Hasbrouck Park last Friday morning was festive, even electric as a crowd of approximately 1,300 people congregated to hear Socialist Vermont senator and former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders deliver a ringing endorsement of Zephyr Teachout's bid to reclaim New York's 19th Congressional District seat for the Democrats, after it was held for three terms by retiring Republican Chris Gibson.

The joint hearing was the last of 13 held as the Legislature and Cuomo negotiate a final state budget, due to be in place April 1.

On Jan. 30, a slimmed - down Matthews, wearing prison greens, shackled hand and foot and escorted by a pair of state corrections officers, appeared briefly in the hallways of the Ulster County Courthouse en route to a holding pen where he was to await a hearing on his alleged failure to abide by restitution order imposed by the court last year as part of his sentence on two counts of grand larceny.

Among the news from public hearings held at the Palisades Center Mall and the Westchester Marriott Hotel in Tarrytown last week, state officials released information that twelve properties in the Village of South Nyack will be affected by the necessary widening of the New York State Thruway Authority's right - of - way there.

Then - President Barack Obama nominated Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland to fill Scalia's seat last year, but McConnell refused to hold hearings on the appointment, and the nomination expired earlier this year.

Promptly thereafter, and in no case more than thirty days after the last date to submit a written reply, the Committee may, in its discretion, dismiss the complaint, issue a reprimand or admonition to respondent or schedule a hearing on the merits of the complaint, except that if a respondent requests that a hearing be held, the Committee shall schedule a hearing.

State lawmakers have held three hearings on water issues over the last several weeks, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo this month signed legislation that would require all schools to test for lead in school drinking water.

There was much criticism from Republicans last year when the legislature failed to hold joint budget hearings.

The hearings also come as Senate Republicans, the IDC's governing partners, last week announced plans to hold a hearing on fraud and abuse in the New York City public financing system.

At 9:30 a.m., the last in a series of 13 joint legislative budget hearings on the governor's 2017 - 18 spending plan will be held, focusing on the housing portion of his proposal, Hearing Room B, LOB, 198 State St., Albany.

The Water Board will be holding hearings next week in each borough, though the members who began to challenge the status quo last year were for the most part replaced by the Mayor.

City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R - Ozone Park) fought a lonely battle against a barrage of Walmart criticism in Manhattan last Thursday when the Council held its second hearing on the retail giant's possible move into the five boroughs.

Over the last year, the Commission has held hearings in each of the five boroughs, and conducted an online survey of 300 business owners to better understand the challenges faced by New York City's small businesses.

The Town Board and representatives of Pilgrim Pipeline Holdings, LLC blamed each other for the last - minute cancellation of a public information hearing scheduled for Thursday, June 18.