Sentences with phrase «key committee chairs»

In the city, meanwhile, the bosses who made Corey Johnson the new City Council speaker are choosing the key committee chairs, quickly extracting the spoils of their support.

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From 2001 through 2015, he served as a director of IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX), a global industrial company with key growth platforms in Fluid Metering Technology and Health & Science Technology segments, where he chaired the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Audit Committee and served on the Compensation Committee.

When I wrote about Senate ag committee chair Sen. Blanche Lincoln's school lunch billl last week, I left out a key fact: the bill would force the USDA to regulate the stuff schools sell in vending machines.

According to Ross, there are some 200 people in Albany from Housing Here and Now, a pro-tenants group that is pushing for reform of rent regulations and believes Espada, who chairs the Housing Committee, has been blocking key legislation and is too pro-landlord.

Committee chairs are getting better at publicising their key messages.

However, the Labour chair of the European Scrutiny Committee last night raised concerns over whether the key policy issues in the treaty the government wants excluded, called «red lines», were being excluded as the prime minister claimed.

Councilmember Ydanis Rodríguez, who represents Inwood and Washington Heights, was assigned as Chair of the Transportation Committee, which plays a key role in the oversight of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), the Department of Transportation (DOT), New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) and the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC).

Assemblyman Bill Magee, Chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee, said, «The agricultural sector is a vital contributor to economic growth across the state and by welcoming new opportunities and markets, we help make this key industry even stronger.

«Ministers believe that new nuclear could play a key role in keep the lights on and meeting our climate change targets - but they don't want to own up to supporting it,» committee chair Tim Yeo said.

Committee chair Anne McIntosh added: «At a time of budgetary constraints councils must give flood protection work priority since many of them will need to increase the financial contribution they make to key local flood defence projects whilst also fulfilling their new duties to lead local flood work.»

Martin is chair of the Labor Committee, which handles wage issues and is key to reaching a final deal on the budget.

Among those at the Chequers summit will be key backbenchers such as Graham Brady, the chair of the influential 1922 committee of MPs and the former Attorney General, Dominic Grieve.

DeFrancisco has emerged as the leading contender, gathering support from more than a dozen key Republican county committee chairs, two GOP members of Congress, and state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan of Long Island.

City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, chair of the Council's Committee on Transportation, says residents are a key resource for planning transportation projects and must be treated as such.

During 1982, Livingstone made new appointments to the GLC governance, with John McDonnell appointed key chair of finance and Valerie Wise chair of the new Women's Committee, while Sir Ashley Bramall became GLC chairman and Tony McBrearty was appointed chair of housing.

He corralled the bloc of nine Long Islanders, but picked up key support from upstate senators, including Cathy Young of Olean, chair of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee.

But for many, the most poignant moment of the debate was a speech by Conservative MP Charles Walker, chair of Parliament's Procedure Committee and a key player in the drama.

«Delays in introducing key technology have led to some of the intended benefits of the programme being postponed or lost altogether,» committee chair Margaret Hodge said.

This morning, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence hold a healthcare discussion with key House committee chairs.

The key headline this morning clearly is, «Paid Stipend as Committee Chair but Does not Bother to Attend Committee Meetings.»

He's also held crucial positions in the Assembly majority, chairing key committees like housing, and heads the New York County Democratic Party Committee.

Common Council President James Noble (Steve Noble's uncle) noted that the budget passed by the council was the result of a month - long effort that involved detailed examination of the spending plan and compromise on some key issues by the Finance Committee, chaired by Mills.

The report also supports cross-party chairing, a key feature of the Parliamentary select committees, but has held back from following the Guidance in Wales, which requires opposition parties to chair at least one scrutiny committee in each council.

A slew of elected officials, including Public Advocate Letitia James and several key City Council committee chairs, including Daniel Dromm and Laurie Cumbo, also issued statements.

A spokeswoman for Committee Chair Assemblyman Jim Brennan says the proposed truck toll increases will be a key focus of the hearing, and thruway officials will be asked if there's any way the steep toll increase can be mitigated or avoided altogether.

Greenfield represents Brooklyn's 44th Council District which includes the neighborhoods of Midwood, Borough Park and Bensonhurst, and unlike those appointed to head other key panels such as Finance Committee chair Julissa Ferreras, he isn't a member of the labor - backed Progressive Caucus.

Chair of Commons intelligence committee and leading security figures warn that Brexit threatens to deprive UK police of access to key European databases

While on the Council, she was chair of the land use committee, and played a key role in moving forward the massive rezoning the city underwent during the Bloomberg administration.

From my point of view, the key element in motivating action and positive responses on a wide variety of postdoctoral matters at Berkeley was the leadership shown by President Steve Sample of University of Southern California (USC) in establishing and chairing the Association of American Universities (AAU) Committee on Postdoctoral Education.

Finally, the chairs of key committees in the newly configured Congress offer a hope for support of such measures.

To find out more about how the harassment came to light and what could be changed going forward to improve how these cases are handled, Clery spoke with «Joan Schmelz, chair of the American Astronomical Society's... Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy for 6 years until she finished her second term in August, [who] played a key role in identifying victims of Marcy's activities and letting them know they were not alone.»

«Beyond his years of service directly to the profession, he has kept the perspective of libraries and their users vital through key advisory roles in the development of the National Library of Education and the new ERIC database,» said award committee Chair Paula McMillen, social science reference librarian and associate professor at Oregon State University.

Advocates» top targets all reside on Capitol Hill: Most important are the chairs of the relevant committees, committee members, party leaders, and all other members (and, not incidentally, the key staff to all of the above).

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, Mr Hinds once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister and Ms Greening.

Program consolidation is a key component of simplification, and moving to «one grant, one loan» was included in House Republicans» HEA reauthorization bill and has also received support from Senator Lamar Alexander, who chairs the Senate committee responsible for HEA.

«I hope all in all it's going to be smooth sailing,» said Tom Wolanin, an aide to Representative William D. Ford, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the House Education and Labor Committee, and a key architect of the House bill.

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, he once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister, and his immediate predecessor, Justine Greening.

She serves as a key adviser in the ad hoc tenure process, chairs the Provost's Review Committee on Faculty Appointments, and oversees the administration of funds designated to facilitate the appointment of outstanding scholars who increase the faculty's diversity.

Meg Hillier, the MP who chairs the committee, said that «the rise in teacher vacancies in secondary schools nationally is a key risk for pupils».

Ms. Lutz is currently a board member of the Ella Flagg Young Chicago Area Association for Women Administrators; Corresponding Secretary for Kappa Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International for key women educators; and member of the Lambda State IL Delta Kappa Gamma Legislation Committee; member of Phi Delta Kappa — Concordia University chapter; past membership chair and recipient of the Community Service Award in 2010 from the Council of Educators in Polonia.

Hopefully they will do better than they did two years ago when Todd Rokita, who chairs a key subcommittee of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, engaged in scaremongering against undocumented immigrant children coming from Central America.

The CTA and some key Democrats, including Patrick O'Donnell, D - Long Beach, who chairs the Assembly Education Committee, also argued that districts could make four or five years standard for probation to save money through lower salaries for probationary teachers.

This also reunites Boswell with her former boss Sen. Florence Shapiro, a key architect of the current school accountability system and chair of the Senate Education Committee for a decade before she retired in 2013.

«There are three key points to the development of the Strategic Plan,» said Abby Javurek, Chair of the Smarter Balanced Executive Committee and Director of Accountability Systems for the South Dakota Department of Education.

Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, chairs the Senate Education Committee, making him a key lawmaker to sway in order to change the state's course with Common Core.

As part of this task force, Allison served as the Chair of the Personalized Professional Learning Committee and worked with leaders from across the state to ensure teacher professional learning includes the following key elements:

In the Assembly, Mayes has been appointed to a number of key legislative committees, including the Human Services Committee (where he serves as Vice Chair) as well as the Governmental Organization and Insurance committees.

The department's initial release of regulations addressing the issue of supplanting federal funds drew a sharp rebuke from key lawmakers including Sen. Lemar Alexander, R - Tenn., chair of the Senate's education committee and a primary architect of ESSA.

The boss of the country's largest multi-academy trust has admitted it will struggle to run key committees after the chair stood down and six trustees quit.

In addition to his participation on many committees and task forces, he has chaired the audit committee and played a key role in helping SEMA to evaluate acquisition targets.