Sentences with phrase «housing policy representative»

Sehar Siddiqi is the National Association of REALTORS ®» federal housing policy representative.

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House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over U.S. trade policy,...

«I expect it to be front and center» at the meeting, said Kevin Brady, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, which oversees U.S. trade policy.

The Committee on Foreign Investments has nine members, including the secretaries of the treasury, state, defense, homeland security, commerce and energy; the attorney general; and representatives from two White House offices (the United States Trade Representative and the Office of Science and Technology Policy).

See Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy, Testimony before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, February 26, 2008.

There, Representative Michael Burgess (R)» [e] xpress [ed] the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should adopt a national policy for technology to promote consumers» access to financial tools and online commerce to promote economic growth and consumer empowerment.»

The Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Pennsylvania's Rep. Galusha Grow, managed the Act through Congress and echoed a point made years earlier by former President James Madison that population growth would eventually make obsolete a broad - based property ownership policy limited only to the ownership of land.

And with the Senate and the House of Representatives divided between the two major political parties, the chances are slim that new, significant fiscal policies will be forthcoming.

Photo: «Petition of Ohioans to the Senate and House of Representatives Regarding Land Sale Policy, 01/10/1810,» The U.S. National Archives / Flickr.

The United States» chief trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, who testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday, indicated that the administration was specifically concerned about Chinese policies that compel American companies to share technology when they make investments in China.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

On June 11, 2009, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (NY) and Senator Jeff Merkley (OR) introduced the Breastfeeding Promotion Act in both houses of Congress, to provide a unified national policy to keep mothers, their children, and their communities healthy.

At the start of the year, the opposition to these policies was largely within NGOs and charities working with migrants and refugees, race equality organisations, and a number of concerned parliamentarians and representatives including Brian Paddick in the House of Lords, Sian Berry on the London Assembly, and Caroline Lucas in the House of Commons.

Because the US is so polarized politically, there is very little chance that a Republican controlled House of Representatives would choose to impeach a Republican President even if there were overwhelming evidence that he had accepted a direct bribe from the Russian government (such as, for hypothetical example, a 19 % interest in the Russian gas company Rosneft) in return for promulgating policies favorable to the Russians, let alone confirmation of the allegations that his Presidential campaign had coordinated election strategy and tactics with the Russians.

But top Democrats in the House of Representatives said Thursday they'll be back next year to press for an increase in the minimum wage, new protections for victims of sexual harassment and other liberal policy priorities.

The Connecticut House of Representatives has approved a $ 12 annual surcharge on the insurance policies of every residential homeowner in the state.

The 18 Democrats who represent New York in the House of Representatives endorsed on Wednesday Gov. Andrew Cuomo's agenda for women, a package of proposed legislation and policies that include reforms to sexual harassment laws and guidelines.

Florida House Representative Loranne Ausley is one of 14 people who have been selected to join a national network known for pushing progressive policies.

According to this Reuters article, «A Senate Democratic aide said Republicans in the House of Representatives were insisting on including policy language aimed at restricting abortions, as well as prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon emissions.»

«SERAP is also concerned that the proposed bill is coming at a time the members of the Senate and House of Representatives are proposing amnesty and immunity for themselves against prosecution for corruption and other economic crimes; and the government is proposing a social media policy to restrict and undermine citizens» access to the social media ahead of the general elections in 2019.»

Reed was ranked as the 32nd most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the 114th United States Congress (and the seventh most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York) in the Bipartisan Index created by The Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy that ranks members of the United States Congress by their degree of bipartisanship (by measuring the frequency each member's bills attract co-sponsors from the opposite party and each member's co-sponsorship of bills by members of the opposite party).

«As promised, House Minority Leader John Boehner, along with Reps. Aaron Schock (R - IL) and Peter Roskam (R - IL), huddled this morning with representatives of the most powerful conservative business and trade groups in the country to field policy ideas and build a legislative agenda ahead of the November elections, when Republicans could retake the House.

The Twifo Omanhen, who is also the Central Region representative on the House of Chiefs, was optimistic on the sustainability of the Free SHS Policy and called on all Ghanaians to eschew cynicism and help with ideas to make the policyPolicy and called on all Ghanaians to eschew cynicism and help with ideas to make the policypolicy work.

In a November 8 letter, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner, expressed «grave concerns regarding the prospect of a 50 percent reduction in the budget of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP),» as proposed by the U.S. House of Representatives.

«That debate was at full boil last week, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act, which sets policy for NSF and two other federal research agencies, and the House Appropriations Committee adopted a 2016 spending bill that includes NSF,» Mervis wrote.

As if to illustrate that point, Representative George Miller (D — CA), who chaired the 30 April hearing and represents the congressional district just north of Berkeley, commented that «as chairman of the [House] Education [and Labor] Committee and chair of the Democratic Policy Committee, I meet all of the time with leaders from the research - university community.»

Bolden announced the new policy, which he called a temporary measure pending an outside review of NASA security policies, at a 20 March hearing before a U.S. House of Representatives spending panel that oversees NASA's budget.

According to Matthew Hourihan, director of the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program, current legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives would reduce support for the National Science Foundation's geosciences directorate by approximately 16 percent in fiscal year 2016, compared with current levels, while NASA's Earth Sciences program would receive a 5 % funding cut.

The big policy news this week is the U.S. spending bill, which last night survived a vote in the House of Representatives unscathed but by just 13 votes.

In addition to the new online tool, the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program tracks federal R&D appropriations on a weekly basis, and it issues reports comparing the budget recommendations of the president, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Senate.

In the wake of immigration proposals late last month from both the White House and the Senate's «Gang of Eight,» the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee last week held a hearing to discuss U.S. immigration policy and the potential for reform.

The Council on Environmental Quality and Domestic Policy Council will lead a White House Interagency Working Group on Offshore Wind, which will also gather representatives from other federal agencies, according to a statement from the White House.

Robert Walker, the Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House of Representatives Science Committee, wants to create a Department of Science, merging NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Geological Survey, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and parts of the Department of Energy into a mega cabinet agency.

Pielke is a target of an investigation by «Representative Raul Grijalva (D — AZ), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives... into the funding sources of seven academics who have studied climate change or testified before Congress on the matter, often to criticize research findings or policy proposals.»

They also prompted Representative Raul Grijalva (D — AZ), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, to launch an investigation last week into the funding sources of seven academics who have studied climate change or testified before Congress on the matter, often to criticize research findings or policy proposals.

In particular, I was a Department of Commerce Science and Technology Fellow, serving as a member of the subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and as a special director in the Office of Cultural Resources of the National Park Service.

At yesterday's hearing of the Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Representative Lacy Clay (D — MO), several witnesses expressed concerns that public - access policies could harm journals.

The U.S. House of Representatives could vote as early as this week to approve two controversial, Republican - backed bills that would change how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses science and scientific advice to inform its policies.

As reported in the previous Policy Alert, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Secret Science Reform Act (H.R. 1030).

In a 20 February letter to members of Congress, including the heads of the House of Representatives science committee and the Senate's environment panel, Greenpeace Executive Director Ann Leonard urges lawmakers to take the disclosure issue «seriously» and examine policies.

In letters sent on 18 June, Representative Joe Barton (R - TX), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and investigations subcommittee chair James Greenwood (R - PA) asked the Commerce, Energy, and Health and Human Services departments and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others, to describe their policies on outside activities by employees and report the amounts paid since 1999.

The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), which has identical versions in the House of Representatives and the Senate, would expand to other research agencies the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) 4 - year - old policy requiring investigators it funds to submit copies of their peer - reviewed manuscripts for posting in a public database.

Requested by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the report draws on discussions at a two - day conference last spring that brought together scientists, officials from city and state governments, business leaders and representatives of federal agencies.

Holt, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 16 years, brought his dual experience as a scientist and lawmaker to a number of discussions focused on the difficult question of how scientists can best help to inform policy.

► Wednesday, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives rolled out a long - expected and controversial «reauthorization» bill covering NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, research at DOE, and federal science education policy.

Letter from C. Shuey to A. Kellermann, MD, MPH, Health Policy Fellow, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, October 22, 2007.

Republicans seized control of the U.S. House of Representatives and significantly bolstered their majorities in the Senate in Tuesday's election, an outcome that will almost certainly mean an end to emergency education aid to states and will heighten pressure for a more limited federal role in K - 12 policy.

Also in 2010, Representative Phillip Owens, the chair of the House Education and Public Works Committee introduced a bill aimed at establishing a more sustainable funding policy for CSD, and despite being stalled by opponents representing traditional districts, the 2011 - 12 state budget included a funding increase for CSD schools.