Sentences with phrase «leading author of the bill»

Sen. Michael Watson, R - Pascagoula, a leading author of the bill, said the state should not turn away from new ideas while wallowing in poor national education rankings.

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The primary authors of the bill were the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee, led by chairman Kevin Brady (R - Texas).

As the State Senate today passed «Kirby & Quigley's Law» by a 59 - 2 vote, Senator Jim Tedisco (R,C,I,REF - Glenville), the author and lead sponsor of the bill, has announced a new online petition drive to harness the power of the people to urge the Assembly to bring the public safety measure to the Floor of the New York State Assembly for a debate and up or down vote.

Marc also authored a bill requiring a study to lead to greater enforcement of the James Byrd Jr. hate crime bill.

David Johnson, a postdoctoral research associate with Rice's Religion and Public Life Program and the lead author of «Conservative Protestantism and Anti-Evolution Curricular Challenges Across States,» studied the relationship between religious characteristics of states and anti-evolution bills passing through state education committees across the country.

«By taking the brain signals generated when Bill attempts to move, and using them to control the stimulation of his arm and hand, he was able to perform personal functions that were important to him,» said Bolu Ajiboye, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and lead study author.

Based on billing records, poisoning affected approximately 3 percent of all Illinoisans in 2010, said Alison Krajewski, a graduate student in the UIC School of Public Health and lead author study.

Schaefer and John W. Fitzpatrick of Cornell University, lead author of the ivory - billed woodpecker report, agree that «extinction» should be applied more carefully.

«We used shape analysis and CT [computer tomography] scanning to compare the shape and structure of the New Caledonian crow's bill with some of its crow relatives and a woodpecker species with a similar foraging niche,» said lead author Hunt.

«Unless you're a Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, you're one illness away from financial ruin in this country,» says lead author Steffie Woolhandler, MD, of the Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge, Mass. «If an illness is long enough and expensive enough, private insurance offers very little protection against medical bankruptcy, and that's the major finding in our study.»

«Happy people drag their spouses out of bed to go exercise, and they encourage them to eat healthier,» says Bill Chopik an associate psychology professor at MSU, and lead author of the study.

Leading academics from the University of Winchester have also authored chapters — Professor David Birks, Dean of the Faculty of Business, Law and Sport with Stella McKnight, Director of Employer Partnerships at Winchester Business School; and Professor Bill Lucas, Director of the Centre for Real - World Learning.

«I think legislators who are thinking we don't need to drastically change things in Milwaukee and we're still going to get «Race to the Top» dollars are greatly mistaken,» said Colón, who will be the lead Assembly author of the MPS governance change bill.

Note: We would like to express our appreciation and admiration of NCSECS board member Bill Bethke, lead author of the brief and co-author Lisa Scruggs from the law firm of Duane Morris.

The lead author of an Assembly school accountability bill abruptly called off a committee vote scheduled for Thursday, saying he would like more time to negotiate with senators drafting their own accountability measures.

This loophole has led Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell (D - Long Beach) to author Assembly Bill 699 which would prohibit school districts from collecting a student's immigration status in order to prevent immigration agents from looking at student files that could in some way lead them to the immigration status of students or their parents.

Lennie Grimaldi, Bridgeport's leading political pundit, and author of the blog, Only in Bridgeport, broke the news today that Mayor Mike Bloomberg gave $ 20,000 to Residents For A Better Bridgeport, the political action committee behind the campaign to support Mayor Bill Finch's power grab to eliminate a democratically elected school board and replace it with one appointed by him.

Dallas, Texas Kelby Woodard is a former Minnesota State Legislator where he was chief author of the Opportunity Scholarships Bill and his party's Lead on education finance and reform.

Though I think there's a bit of a difference between what one might reasonably expect from a corporation, on the one hand, and what one might expect from an organization calling itself the «Authors Guild,» which bills itself as «the nation's leading advocate for writer's interests in effective copyright protection, fair contracts, and free expression.»

As the Chief Operating Officer of Author Solutions, Bill leads the Global Fulfillment Department — production, design, customer service, author marketing services, digital content management, and distribution — and oversees Information Technology, the Program Management Office, and the Legal DeparAuthor Solutions, Bill leads the Global Fulfillment Department — production, design, customer service, author marketing services, digital content management, and distribution — and oversees Information Technology, the Program Management Office, and the Legal Deparauthor marketing services, digital content management, and distribution — and oversees Information Technology, the Program Management Office, and the Legal Department.

First of all, the app that allows authors to create their own interactive books for the Apple platform, aptly named iBooks Author, was initially billed as a tool for creating interactive academic textbooks, leading a lot of non-academic authors to dismiss it.

President Bill Clinton leads a group of distinguished commentators, including Tony Kushner, award - winning playwright and author of the screenplay for the Academy Award - winning Lincoln; Harold Holzer, one of the nation's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln; Edna Greene Medford, Chair of the History department at Howard University; the prolific novelist Jerome Charyn, author of I am Abraham; and historian Earl Lewis, President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Bill Hare is CEO of Climate Analytics and lead author of the World Bank's Turning Down the Heat report.

In addition to this effort, I authored the legislation creating the District's first Climate Change and Resiliency Commission; I led the fight to have the District's retirement and pension funds divest from carbon and fossil fuel investment holdings; I wrote several bills to expand opportunities for solar installation; and I led the effort to name 2018 as the Year of the Anacostia River to celebrate and bring attention to the river on the eastern half of our city.

With the participation of Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations and leading USA environmentalist, author and educator, Bill McKibben, this documentary provides critical information to develop an enduring, local food network in a time of climate change.

co-authored the portion of the Waxman - Markey bill that aims to help energy - intensive industries transition under carbon regulations, is another moderate leading negotiations with the bill's authors.

Leading climate scientists such as Michael Oppenheimer and Robert Watson, environmentalists from Exxpose Exxon, Greenpeace and other organizations join with a former Exxon executive, US government whistle - blower Rick Piltz, and leading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest company out of bLeading climate scientists such as Michael Oppenheimer and Robert Watson, environmentalists from Exxpose Exxon, Greenpeace and other organizations join with a former Exxon executive, US government whistle - blower Rick Piltz, and leading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest company out of bleading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest company out of balance.

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«Jim is a leading thinker in our field, I would go out of my way to hear what he is thinking about couples and family therapy,» Bill Doherty, Ph.D., L.M.F.T., author, Soul Searching

New Ways for Families was released in 2009 as a project of the High Conflict Institute, led by author and speaker, Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. who created the program.