Sentences with phrase «members of chambers on»

Members of Essex Court welcomed a group of undergraduates this morning from a range of universities and undergraduate subjects, for a day of workshop sessions on advocacy skills, as well as talks from members of Chambers on applying for pupillage, the pupillage year and the tenancy decision, life as a junior tenant in Chambers and the nature of work at the Commercial Bar.

They have previously worked with a number of members of chambers on major litigation and it is clear that they are outstanding barristers who will add to our existing strength in chancery / commercial work.»

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That would require Senate Republicans to change the bill substantially to get it through the chamber — or find a way to get each member of their conference plus eight Democrats on board.

«Today I am announcing that in the coming weeks I will be resigning as a member of the United States Senate,» he said during a speech on the chamber floor.

To meet this demand, Wells Fargo is supporting a Chamber Training Institute that trains leaders of diverse - segment chambers of commerce on key business and leadership topics for their members, such as how to access business credit and craft strong business plans.

Republican House and Senate leaders said they had gathered more than the constitutionally required signatures of three - fourths of the members of each chamber to summon themselves into a special session that will start at 6:30 p.m. on May 18 — just 30 minutes after the end of work in their regular session.

Until the damage of the government buildings by a Nazi bomb, members of the British House of Commons were proud to point to the dents on the door of their chamber made by the ring on the finger of the king's messenger sent to summon them to hear the speech from the throne; he might not enter, for this was the domain of the common Englishman; he could only stand at the door and humbly invite.

Unwanted players like Carl Jenkinson, Mathieu Debuchy, Kieran Gibbs, Calum Chambers, Joel Campbell and other ostracized members of the squad remain on the pay roll.

Look for fantastic deals on all manner of treats, and you won't want to miss chamber ensemble performances at 1 and 2 p.m. by members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

On a completely unrelated note, there are supportive online communities and then there are echo chambers of lunacy, where members appear unable to spot actual neglect and child abuse, but get all het up about safe, accepted and necessary standard medical care.

In a similar vein, Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, Senator Dino Melaye, who is also a member of the committee told newsmen in Abuja that the upper chamber was set to resume the probe of the EFCC boss.

The Democrats went on to lose control of the chamber to the Republicans, and now they're in the crosshairs yet again after their former Finance Committee chairman, Sen. Carl Kruger, has been hit with federal corruption charges in a complaint that makes it clear he tried hard to influence key members of the conference — including «Senate Leader No. 1» — whoever that might be.

Democratic leadership placed the new assemblyman on the Republican side of the chamber, but the GOP moved a desk to a space by itself with no one on his right or left, so it didn't appear he was a member of its conference either.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Friday announced the formation of a 12 - member committee to review thee chamber's rules and operations in order to promote both transparency and broader public participation.

Their open seats are predicated on the plan to have Democrats unify in the Senate chamber amid a push to have the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference form a coalition with the 23 - member mainline conference of Democrats.

The idea of issuing subpoenas was raised publicly by Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat and the ranking minority member on the chamber's Environmental Conservation Committee, earlier this month.

Drawing on a range of internal sources, the paper claimed that the Russian Presidential Administration was increasingly using members of the Federation Council — the upper chamber of the Federal Assembly, whose members are colloquially referred to as «senators» — to introduce bills into the federal legislature.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday won a pair of open seats in the state Senate giving them 32 enrolled members in the 63 - seat chamber, but for now are denied a working majority.

Democrats need to win both races in order to gain a numerical majority in the chamber and move toward a coalition majority with the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, based on agreement hammered out at the end of last year.

He was followed by Ron Kim, who missed more than half of the chamber's votes but sided with the speaker 99.8 percent of the time he was present, and first - year member Pamela Hunter, who voted with Heastie on 99.6 percent of bills.

De Blasio had three nominees pending with the Senate to serve on the state - run authority, which manages transit — buses, subways, trains, bridges and tunnels — in New York City and surrounding areas including, Long Island: David Jones, a leader with the nonprofit Community Service Society who has advocated reduced transit fares for low - income New Yorkers; Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the chamber's Transportation Committee; and Veronica Vanterpool, director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and a member of the MTA's «reinvention» commission.

The focus from liberal advocates has been on the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, which remains a key bloc of votes in the Senate chamber and has in the past worked in a majority coalition with Senate Republicans.

«Speaking in the chamber is only one of the ways members hold the government to account and this research ignores members» contributions including amending legislation, asking the government written questions and serving on select committees — more than 320 members served on committees in the last session of parliament — as well as parliamentary work away from the chamber.

It's also unclear how Cuomo will weigh in on post-election negotiations between the chamber's Independent Democratic Conference and members of both parties.

A significant stage will come on Monday when a joint parliamentary committee will recommend that a second chamber should have 80 % of its members elected.

The House voted Thursday to censure Rep. Charlie Rangel (D - N.Y.) for his repeated violations of the chamber's rules, marking the first time in nearly 30 years that a Member has been censured on the floor.

The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

ALBANY — As the state Assembly finished action on the 2017 - 2018 budget Saturday evening, dozens of members — cooped up in Albany for at least 13 days — rushed out of the chamber before the final vote tally was announced.

At 11 a.m., during a joint hearing, members of the NYC Council's Committee on Education and Committee on Health receive testimony about a legislative proposal intended to improve detection of concussions during scholastic football games and practices, and a legislative proposal that would establish a Youth Sports Health and Safety Task Force; Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

Prof. Vann will join the other Academic Board members: John Avery Jones Retired Philip Baker Grays Inn Chambers Malcolm Gammie Chambers of Anthony Grabiner QC Kees van Raad International Tax Center Leiden Jefferson VanderWolk US Senate Committee on Finance

After the viral constituency briefing and empowerment done by a member of the of representative Honourable Ahmed Babawo The senator 9f the upper chambers made his opinion know on Twitter below is the tweet as captured by our blog.

Members of the lawmaking chamber have threatened to drag the academician before their disciplinary Committee to answer questions about his unprovoked attacks on them.

CITY HALL — Members of the public were ordered out of the Council Chambers during a public safety budget hearing on Thursday after protesters repeatedly interrupted Police Commissioner William Bratton's testimony.

ALBANY — Sen. Neil Breslin has been tapped as deputy leader of the 26 - member Democratic Conference, a post that requires him to coordinate the legislative flow on the chamber floor and serve as the second - in - command to Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn.

The most immediate answer, of course, is not much: Despite the I.D.C.'s eight senators joining with Ms. Stewart - Cousins's 21 members, the Democrats are still short of a majority in the 63 - seat chamber, something that Republicans who control the chamber were quick to note, and mock, on Wednesday.

Timing is everything in politics: The day before a special election is expected to result in the addition of a 32nd Democrat to the state Senate, the eight members of the Independent Democratic Conference have released a video calling on all of the chamber's Democrats to declare their support for a set of progressive agenda items.

Members of Unite Here Local 11 in the Los Angeles City Council chambers on Tuesday before the Council voted to increase the city's minimum wage from $ 9.

The other difference would be that parties could put forward members of the second chamber to stand on Committees.

In fact, 76 Assembly members, constituting a majority of the chamber, have signed on as co-sponsors.

Representatives of the DOE as well as CEC members discussed the education council program at a media roundtable, held on Mon., Feb. 9th at the Tweed Courthouse, the site of DOE's headquarters on Chambers Street in Manhattan.

But when the session formally begins on Jan. 3, Democrats will fall two seats short of the 32 members they would need to control the chamber.

When candidates running on the Democratic line won a majority of the chamber's seats in 2012, the then - five - member Independent Democratic Conference formed a governing coalition with the GOP; the IDC will almost certainly have six members in January due to Marisol Alcantara's primary victory.

Asked about Flanagan's position as a potential leader, in the event of a change, Senate Republican spokesman Scott Reif emailed Capital an exquisitely nondescript statement on the senator's general competence: «John Flanagan is an outstanding member of this chamber and an asset to the entire Senate Republican Conference.

ALBANY — While a federal investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration appears to be partially focused on former aide Joe Percoco's consulting work for two companies that benefited from state economic development programs, it appears the practice of holding side jobs isn't common among members of the executive chamber.

Paraphrasing Senator Shehu Sani, the labour leader said it was time the legislature used «insecticide» on its chambers rather using «deodorants» on its members accused of abuse of office.

Second Amendment rallies gather steam across America; approximately 300 NRA members and other gun rights believers show up at Rockland County Legislative Building BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Hundreds of firearms owners and second amendment supporters gathered outside the Rockland County Legislative Chambers in New City on Saturday, joining tens of thousands more around the country in -LSB-...]

Addressing House of Representatives correspondents shortly after leaving the chambers, the PDP caucus in solidarity with members of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA and Labour Party, LP said they were heading back to court to seek reinterpretation of the Supreme Court judgment on member's defection especially when there is no division in his or her political party.

Friends and family members cheered on as their elected officials took the oath of office in the packed Common Council Chambers.

Many office lights stayed on throughout the Capitol building, and a few members came in and out of the Assembly chambers to pick up their copies.

Saraki, however, said members of the upper chamber had resolved to start consideration of the 2016 Appropriation Bill on January 19, 2016 with only the original document submitted to the National Assembly by Buhari.