Sentences with phrase «legislative committee investigating»

Trenton, New Jersey (CNN)- A former campaign staffer for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie testified on Tuesday before a special legislative committee investigating the George Washington Bridge scandal.

New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman has asked a legislative committee investigating the George Washington Bridge lane closures to hold off on calling nine important witnesses.

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On January 30, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu told the legislative body that the committee would «investigate the viability of bitcoin as a form of investment» and «come up with recommendations on how to control its uses and trade.»

On Thursday, the head of that committee, Long Island GOP Sen. Elaine Phillips, said one possible panel that could investigate is the Legislative Ethics Commission, a joint Senate / Assembly office.

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, after a two - hour executive session with his colleagues on Friday explained that the upper legislative chamber deliberated extensively on the report of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding the issue behind closed doors.

Dogara, however, referred the matter to the House Committee on Health to investigate and report back within two weeks for further legislative action.

Rising from a meeting of its national working committee on Thursday in Abuja, the party urged the national assembly to «thoroughly investigate the shameful act, including the distortion and banding of figures to accommodate their personal interest and ensure that appropriate sanctions is meted to whoever has a hand in the dubious action that has brought embarrassment to the legislative body».

Also at 11 a.m., the Assembly Committee on Corrections holds oversight hearing investigating the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, Roosevelt Hearing Room C, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, Albany.

A government reform group is calling for a state ethics panel report to be made public, one day after the panel investigating charges against Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D - Brooklyn) sent a report to the legislative ethics committee.

Cuomo and his associates are engaged in a war of words that began with legislative resistance to his Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, and culminated yesterday when Democratic State Committee executive director Rodney Capel called on a Republican - allied Democratic senator to «register Republican.»

Dazang added that the commission had set up a four - man committee to investigate the roles of its personnel in the December 10, 2016 legislative rerun elections in Rivers State.

Also Thursday, former county legislative candidate Dean Hart, a Democrat who a runs good government advocacy group, asked the enforcement office of the state Elections Board to investigate the credit - card charge, demand reimbursement and reprimand the committee.

Wednesday, a newly formed Suffolk legislative committee met to discuss investigating the decision by the Ethics Commission - whose members at the time were appointed or recommended by Levy - not to require Levy to file the county's disclosure forms since 2006.

In January, a request by Mendoza was approved by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee to audit LA Unified's «teacher jail» system, a controversial practice opposed by UTLA that the district has used when investigating teachers under suspicion of wrongdoing.

Even Bruce's fellow Republicans declined to defend him and joined in forming a special legislative committee to investigate the incident.

«Since the time when the Review Panel made the decision to strike an Inquiry Committee to investigate allegations against Douglas ACJ, significant academic, legislative, and social changes have taken place that support the growing recognition that women whose intimate images are distributed without their consent are victims of a gendered form of abuse and worthy of protection while the perpetrators are morally culpable and deserving of criminal punishment.