Sentences with phrase «member legislative body»

When new City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, the first openly gay and openly HIV - positive person to hold the powerful position, unveiled his leadership team and Council committee assignments, he appointed two anti-LGBT Council members to chair committees, and named one to senior leadership in the 51 - member legislative body.

Leading member of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, Sydney Casely - Hayford has apologized to Parliament for some comments he made against the house which has angered some in the 275 - member legislative body.

The eight City Council members, all Democrats, who are competing to lead the 51 - member legislative body as speaker for the next four years must convince numerous constituencies of their viability, including some combination of county party leaders, labor unions, the mayor, and other influential politicos.

Van Bramer, who chairs the Council's cultural affairs committee, where the debate over library funding has largely been heard, reminded of the Council's budget priorities as final negotiations take place between the 51 - member legislative body and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio.

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4 a: a body of persons const!tuting a special class in a society: estate 3 b plural: the members or representatives of the governing classes assembled in a legislative body c obsolete: a person of high rank (as a noble)

To safeguard and advance the interests of its members by presenting the profession's viewpoints, concerns, and other important information to the media and to appropriate legislative, administrative, regulatory, and private sector bodies, and by developing a working relationship with appropriate governmental and private sector not - for - profit and for - profit entities.

The Federal National Council (al - Majlis al - Watani al - Ittihadi) is the UAE's legislative body and consists of 40 members.

According to this article there seem to be quite a difference between religion of Congress members and that of general population: The religious makeup of the legislative body is overwhelmingly and...

The lines were proposed by the state Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment, a body comprised of elected officials and members of the public selected by elected officials.

Zero progress when it comes to stopping the waste of tax dollars and the environment by taking all the bills off the members desks and bringing this legislative body into the 21st century as Proposition 2 requires,» said Tedisco.

The Lords has more than 700 members, excluding bishops, making it the world's second largest legislative body after China's People's Congress.

Clearly there are legislative bodies in the world with more than 15 or 35 members.

Note that in Europe, despite some very large legislative bodies (about 600 members in France, Germany, or Italy), it's not unusual to hear complaints about the number of laws (too many of them, not enough quality and too much complexity) rather than on any inability to pass new ones.

Similarly, complaining about the shortcomings of Congress is a hard argument to make for a member of a legislative body once called the most dysfunctional in the nation.

She served as secretary of the state Democratic party and was a member of the Newtown legislative council, the town's governing body.

In a separate statement, issued jointly by the City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, the Council's Black, Latino and Asian and the Council «s Progressive Caucuses, members of the city's legislative body linked Garner's death to national events.

Instead of being able to make singular decisions, they find themselves members of a slow - moving legislative body where political lines are dug deep.

Meanwhile, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced over the weekend that he'll send the members of his legislative bodies home after the official end of the session next week.

Race has played a significant role in the contest as many council members, and some groups outside the body, expressed an interest in having a person of color atop the legislative body given the city's diverse population.

The legislative body begins a new year with some new members, and their computer access still in the hands of the courts.

The members of our esteemed legislative bodies have for years used their time away from home as nothing more than an excuse to act like they live in college frat houses.

State Sen. Thomas K. Duane, the first openly gay and openly HIV - positive member of the legislative body, announced today he will not be running for re-election this year, opening up his seat in the important 29th State Senatorial District that runs from the Upper West Side to Greenwich Village.

She added that hers would be «a leadership style that allows all voices to be at the table, helping to shape the direction we take as a legislative body; a leadership style that puts the will of the members and the needs of their constituents before the ambitions of a Speaker.»

Eliminate the stratified oversight bodies and establish a single, independent ethics commission with robust enforcement powers to investigate and prosecute violations that members of either the executive and legislative branches commit.»

Appeal to the appropriate legislative body to provide for the recall of School Board members through electoral means.

While that may change in 2006 and for a considerable stretch in the future, Ohio is one of a handful of states in the Union with no statewide elected Democrats, without a majority of Democratic Congressional members and without control of either State Legislative body (and for a full decade).

Elections results signal that the January City Council roster will likely include 12 female members, a drop from the current 13, in the 51 - seat legislative body.

«I know that my fellow members will work with me in the City Council to create more inclusive legislative body where every member's voice is heard and validated,» she said in the release.

Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito introduced a plan last week designed to overhaul the legislative body's rules, which was generally met with approval from the 51 members.

It would have a legislative body of 33 members and a single elected executive.

«If you make a recommendation today,» Reiter said, «then we've lost any chance of still trying to reach some kind of agreement and giving the Legislature the chance to come back before the end of the year and do what I believe would be the right thing for them to do, which is to recognize the needs of their members, of their respective house members, to recognize the need to do away with outside salaries, or at least cap them substantially as other legislative bodies have done, for exactly the same reasons.»

He does not anticipate that the makeup of the new members itself will change the legislative direction of the body.

«Our rules reform package will strengthen the Council by making ours the most inclusive, equitable legislative body it can be,» said Council Member Helen Rosenthal.

As a result of the GOP controlling the Senate, Chautauqua County's representative — Republican Sen. Cathy Young of Olean — became a high ranking member of the legislative body and served as the Senate's Finance Committee Chair.

She also vowed to make her speakership one that «allows all voices to be at the table, helping to shape the direction we take as a legislative body; a leadership style that puts the will of the members and the needs of their constituents before the ambitions of a speaker.»

The General Assembly is ALLEA's highest legislative body, where all Member Academies decide on the federation's policy, governance bodies and budget.

Representing the Endocrine Society, our members strive to influence public policy related to research and clinical endocrinology issues by testifying before the United States Congress, Federal agencies, and other legislative and deliberative bodies.

The position is also responsible for managing environment, health and safety outreach programs, developing and updating literature and coordinating research projects as well as carrying out these projects in cooperation with the Center for Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) members, American Chemistry Council (ACC) staff and member groups, key downstream customer organizations and their members, regulatory and legislative bodies, and the polyurethane customer community to help bring awareness to users of MDI, TDI and polyols used in manufacturing polyurethane.

He or she is a member of the governing body of the academy and must ensure that the academy acts within its powers and that its policies reflect legislative requirements, national policies and local requirements.

The Independent Regulatory Review Board is currently considering the new requirements on commercial kennels proposed by the Canine Health Board — a nine - member body made up of veterinarians appointed by the four legislative caucuses, the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association (PVMA) and University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School.

Government: The City of Oceanside's five - member City Council is the legislative body of the City, serves as its corporate board of directors, and is responsible for establishing City policy.

I am in frequent contact with provincial regulators, including the Financial Institutions Regulation Branch (FIRB), an arm of the provincial government that oversees the legislative and regulatory framework of the credit union industry, and Deposit Guarantee Corporation of Manitoba (DGCM), a statutory body established under the Act to oversee credit union operations and performance, and guarantee member deposits.

«The provisions of this Charter which contain principles may be implemented by legislative and executive acts taken by institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union, and by acts of Member States when they are implementing Union law, in the exercise of their respective powers.

in case a Member State or the European Parliament may lodge formal objections regarding compliance of the HTS with the requirements which it aims to cover (see Article 11 of Regulation n ° 1025/2012), such an objection can not be considered — per se — as the expression of a «controlled legislative delegation in favour of a private standardisation body», as suggested by the AG (see para. 55 of the Opinion).

The Cyprus Companies Law, Cap.113 provides that a body corporate may not — subject to certain legislative exceptions — be a member of a company which is its holding company and that any transfer or issue of such thereto shall be void.

Only a handful of states (9) give the legislature or legislative leaders the power to name members to the judicial disciplinary commission; a tenth (Oklahoma) lets the legislature pick 2 out of 3 members of a body that conducts preliminary investigations only (Council on Judicial Complaints).

WELA works to promote and increase public awareness of the rights of individual employees; enhance the quality of legal representation of employees; advocate for employee rights before courts and legislative bodies; and assist and support members in their practice of plaintiffs» employment law.

Rix LJ cited with approval a passage in De Smith's Judicial Review (6th edition, 2007, at paras 10 - 065ff) and headed: Policy and Bias, which noted that decision - makers are entitled «to exhibit certain kinds of bias in the exercise of their judgment or discretion on matters of public policy» and while ordinary members of legislative bodies are «entitled, and sometimes expected, to show political bias» they of course ought not to show personal bias or participate in decisions on a matter in which they have a private pecuniary or proprietary interest.

76 - 1... Propriety Of An Attorney Who Is A Member Of A Legislative Body Or Members Of His Firm Practicing Or Representing Clients Before That Legislative Body.

NAIC is not a federal or state legislative body, nor does it regulate insurance law, even though its members are the insurance commissioners (i.e., the chief insurance regulators) of each state in the U.S.