Sentences with phrase «job chairing our committee»

Commenting on the resignation, Umunna, a fellow Labour member of the committee, said: «Keith has done a fine job chairing our committee for almost a decade, a view widely shared across the House.

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Andrew Tyrie, the Tory MP chairing the committee, opened questioning by asking Carney why he initially refused the job.

The chair of the communities and local government committee, whose Sheffield South East constituency borders Rotherham, said the failure to implement child protection policies means at least one officer should join Labour's council leader Roger Stone in losing their job.

as a national catchphrase that was emblazoned on T shirts, cost Vaz his job chairing the Home Affairs select committee.

His job as chair of the Commons» energy and climate change committee makes him one of the most influential policy influencers in the country on energy and climate change.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has rejected tens of thousands of dollars in stipends for five state senators — including two IDC members — after an investigation revealed that the lawmakers had been assigned false titles as chairs of committees they did not lead and as a result had been paid for jobs they did not hold.

The job also has a sizable staff — bigger than any other Assembly committee chair.

So, for instance, Sen. David Valesky is not being listed officially as the Senate Health Committee chair, but is being scheduled to receive the stipend for that job.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has rejected tens of thousands of dollars in stipends for five state Senators after an investigation revealed that the lawmakers had been assigned false titles as chairs of committees they did not lead and as a result had been paid for jobs they did not hold.

Heastie joked during my last interview with him that pretty much every member of the conference wanted the job, though Assembly Health Committee Chair Dick Gottfried, the longest - serving member of the Assembly, insisted that he's perfectly happy where he has been for the past 30 years.

Lord Smith of Kelvin's task of steering the commission for more Scottish devolution is set to a timescale that makes his job chairing the organising committee of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games look like...

The new committee, which he will chair, advocates for bipartisan change in New York politics, including ethics and budget reform and job creation.

Assembly Codes Committee Chair Joe Lentol, the highest - ranking Assembly Democrat at the public interview, could not say whether Underwood would ultimately be chosen to fill the job.

Before she was elected as chair of the public accounts committee in 2010, Hodge held a variety of ministerial jobs under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Following the hearing, Republican Committee Chair Ed Rath III said the sheriff did «a wonderful job» answering questions about the device.

Writing in politics.co.uk, chair of the constables committee of the Police Federation Julie Nesbit said: «Mr Winsor is going to have a huge job winning the respect of police officers, who have just been told that they must work longer, pay more and get less in retirement - assuming that they're not sacked or made redundant under his proposals.»

The deal received a mostly positive response from Council Parks Committee Chair Mark Levine, who said in a statement, «I am thrilled that the City Council has restored funding for gardeners and maintenance workers — saving 150 vitally needed jobs, and protecting a critical resource for parks in low - and moderate - income neighborhoods.

DeFrancisco, a former chair of the state Senate's Finance Committee, is a natural for the governor's job because of his 24 years of experience in the state legislature, Dadey said.

Treasury select committee chair says lack of detail is frightening businesses, who may move jobs

I'm fortunate to serve in the capacity I do, and I'm just going to do the best job I can as the chair of the Senate education committee.»

Of course the cabinet minister's push for a slimmed - down session earned him a rebuke from Committee chair Hillary Benn, who said it was part of the Brexit secretary's job description to face scrutiny from MPs.

On Friday, Upper Manhattan Councilman Robert Jackson, the chair of the City Council Education Committee, sent a letter to New York State Education Department Commissioner David Steiner urging him not to certify Black for the job.

Sessions, who chairs the House campaign arm known as the National Republican Congressional Committee, told reporters on Wednesday he will compete for the job.

O'Mara, who chairs the Environmental Conservation Committee and is vice-chair of Transportation, said in a statement he receives a stipend for the Transportation job, but not the other.

«Our Council Member needs to be a strong leader who can fight passionately for residents to help create more jobs, a leader who will work tirelessly to improve the quality of life for his / her neighbors, a leader with a proven record of getting things done and with a vision for moving the district forward,» said Assemblyman and Bronx County Democratic Committee Chair Marcos A. Crespo.

He continues that if the chair of the Treasury Committee and members of the Committee were to be taken to complete a joint - parliamentary committee, they would be stretched, doing «two jobs» when there are other important issues that have yet to be cCommittee and members of the Committee were to be taken to complete a joint - parliamentary committee, they would be stretched, doing «two jobs» when there are other important issues that have yet to be cCommittee were to be taken to complete a joint - parliamentary committee, they would be stretched, doing «two jobs» when there are other important issues that have yet to be ccommittee, they would be stretched, doing «two jobs» when there are other important issues that have yet to be concluded.

«Vulnerable groups, who were not the intended targets of the reforms and are not able to respond by moving house or finding a job, are suffering,» committee chair Anne Begg said.

ALBANY — The New York State Comptroller's office has rejected tens of thousands of dollars in stipends for five state senators after an investigation revealed that the lawmakers had been assigned false titles as chairs of committees they did not lead and as a result had been paid for jobs they did not hold.

City Councilman David Greenfield, chair of the land use committee, is leaving the council to take the job as head of the Met Council.

«This is a mandate, not an option,» said Assemblyman Joe Lentol, who is chairing the joint Assembly and Senate committee that's interviewing candidates seeking the interim job.

Steve Bulger, a district director for U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, and Scott Kingsley, vice chair of the committee, are running for the top job with the Saratoga County Republican Ccommittee, are running for the top job with the Saratoga County Republican CommitteeCommittee.

Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine (Va.) said that Murphy «embraced President Obama's message of change and his plans to fix our economy and create jobs, and as a result he stormed from more than 20 points down to winning a majority of votes cast tonight.»

Labour MP Margaret Hodge, who chairs the Commons Public Accounts Committee, has called on the government to suspend its contracts with the jobs training agency, A4E.

Another aspect of her job she's excited about is the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Science that she chairs along with Elias Zerhouni, director of NIH, and Rita Colwell, the director of NSF.

Committee chair Lamar Smith (R - TX) «says he's simply doing his job, questioning research that seems to him silly, obvious, or of low priority to society.»

No chief academic officer ever got fired for choosing an intervention deemed ineffective by the What Works Clearinghouse, but plenty have lost their jobs after a dispute with a school board member or after a committee of department chairs complained.

It's not easy chairing the New York City Council's education committee, but Eva S. Moskowitz has left that job for one that may generate even more headaches: She's starting a charter school.

«School leadership is as demanding a profession as any business or public sector job, especially in an era of rising public expectations and greater accountability for results,» said Robert Schwartz, academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and chair of the Executive Leadership Program steering committee.

Woodson is a former member of the Tennessee General Assembly, first serving in the House, then moving on to the Senate, where she served as Chair of the Education Committee and later as Speaker Pro Tem, the number two job in that body.

McKissick said he met late last week with Sen. Bill Rabon, the eastern North Carolina Republican who chairs the committee, but GOP leaders remain reticent to make any commitments regarding a legislative fix to the funding controversy, despite stiff warnings from district chiefs that thousands of teachers» jobs are in jeopardy.

«If our nation does not adequately develop and sustain its skilled technical workforce, the consequences will be seen in lower productivity, fewer job opportunities, and a lower standard of living for Americans,» said Jeff Bingaman, the chair of the National Academies committee that wrote the report and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico, in a statement.

«This investment will save jobs and help prevent districts from shortening the school year, increasing class sizes, and closing libraries in the wake of horrific and damaging budget cuts,» said Rep. George Miller (D) of California, chair of the House committee that oversees education, in a statement today.

Using a special order to speak on the House floor about workforce development, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R - North Carolina), chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, on Tuesday said there is a disconnect between education and the 6.6 million unfilled jobs in the U.S. — which her GOP colleagues on the committee also emCommittee, on Tuesday said there is a disconnect between education and the 6.6 million unfilled jobs in the U.S. — which her GOP colleagues on the committee also emcommittee also emphasized.

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This is good for jobs, good for investment, and good for the environment,» said Congressman Henry Waxman of California, who chairs the committee.

Michigan Republican congressman Fred Upton, chair of the house energy committee, is already demanding that the project be fast - tracked, with a final approval decision by November, on the grounds that it would create jobs.

A partner of a mid-sized Philadelphia - based law firm, recently elected to chair his firm's newly constituted management committee, called me to talk about how he may learn about his newly acquired job of managing his firm.

«House Bill 463 directly affects how district judges do their jobs, especially in the areas of pretrial release and bond,» said Campbell County District Court Judge Karen A. Thomas, who also serves as president of the Kentucky District Judges Association, chair of the District Judges Education Committee and chief regional district judge for the Northern Region.

Though newspapers are in sad decline (last year I chaired the search committee for the new Dean of Berkeley's School of Journalism, and though each candidate for the job spoke to us of the impending doom of the printed newspaper,, no one had a way to prevent it), the New York Times still holds special cachet.

Key responsibilities and active management roles: These are highly variable in executive assistant jobs, so you will definitely need to be specific about your exact duties, to make the best impression on your reader: «My key delegated responsibilities are: Chairing the divisional audit committee, staff training, hiring and management, and IT systems management.»