Sentences with phrase «local government committee calls»

Holyrood's local government committee calls for widespread changes to the government's Planning Bill.

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May sits on the House pension committee and called for hearings to delve into the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, which manages taxpayer - backed pensions for thousands of local government employees.

A motion was tabled at the 1917 Congress held in Swansea by the Joint Parliamentary Committee and 104 retail societies, calling for direct representation at national and local government levels.

The call for a cap seemed to have a different rationale when it came from upstate lawmakers like Republican Senator Kathleen Marchione, chair of the Local Government Committee.

Peter Black AM this morning tabled an amendment to the Local Government (Wales) Bill calling for the Single Transferable Vote system to be introduced; however this amendment was voted down in Committee.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State, has called on the state governor, Ayodele Fayose, to stop trying to avoid the scrutiny of the Senate Committee on Local Governments in the disbursement of the bailout cash which the Federal Government approved for the state.

In his remark, the committee chairman, Mr. Bashiru Sheriff, called for unity among the members, adding that accreditation would take place first, after which three delegates would be elected from each local government area.

Tocqueville feared that if ever Americans neglected their participation in associations or local government entities like school committees, the tendency would be toward a loss of liberty and a surrender to what Tocqueville called a «mild despotism.»

Here's a bit of history: before the 1970s, it was commonplace to pay to use the bathroom in the U.S. until a grassroots organization called the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America (CEPTIA) convinced local governments across the nation to ban them.