Sentences with phrase «members of the commissions doing»

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Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

Without action, poor scores don't bode well, Terry Seaton, a member of the National CPA Financial Literacy Commission, told CNBC.

«We don't need mandates,» said Lauren «Bubba» McDonald, a member of the Georgia Public Service Commission, who is widely credited with helping jumpstart the state's solar industry.

He addressed the Sanford City Commission asking them to respond to the black community and was the only white member of the clergy to do so.

What do pictures of people like Elaine Chao and the new members of the Bioethics Commission add?

For months they railed against the so - called proposals «to license journalists,» even though Recommendation Number 50 of the MacBride Report specifically states that «the commission does not propose special privileges to protect journalists in the performance of their duties, although journalism is a dangerous profession,» and neither the UNESCO Secretariat nor any member state had formally advocated the licensing of journalists.

To this end we set up a ten - member «Commission of Strategy,» which did a notable piece of work in elaborating a complete plan for revising the church's structure and forms of expression in the light of the changes in society.

They congratulated the retired Supreme Court Judge on the honor granted him «by the President of the Republic of Ghana H.E. Akuffo Addo to chair the commission of enquiry on the creation of new regions» but prayed he and the other members of the don't become icons of «destruction but a role model to the present generation and generations yet unborn».

So when Governor Cuomo's appointed members of the commission began openly suggesting in the media this past summer that they are not likely to vote for a pay raise, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan probably didn't take it all that seriously.

A Daily News review of the 25 Moreland Act Commission members found that five of them didn't follow state election law when filing their own campaign finance disclosure forms.

However in a subsequent interview with Citi News, members of the group insisted they will picket at Parliament House and Electoral Commission despite the police order barring them from doing so.

I am not sure whether the president of the Commission could legally speaking refuse an ambassador without involving the Council but I don't see him doing that without prior agreement from the member states.

The two on June 29, warned judges of Ghana's highest court to be wary of their conduct in the case involving the Electoral Commission and Mr Abu Ramadan if they did not want to suffer the fate of the three members of the bench who were shot to death and burnt on June 30, 1982 in the era of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC).

(b) By way of derogation from point (a), where the Council does not act on a proposal from the Commission or from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the qualified majority shall be defined as at least 72 % of the members of the Council representing the participating Member States, comprising at least 65 % of the population of these States.

The governor says he did speak to several members of the Moreland commission, and they agreed to release personal statements that he said corrected «inaccuracies» that were in the initial New York Times report on the controversy.

A leading member of pressure group, OccupyGhana, Sydney Casely - Hayford has accused the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) of doing «a poor job» in investigating the $ 100,000 Ford gift expedition case.

ICYMI: One of the 25 Moreland Commission members, Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, said during a CapTon interview last night that the corruption - busting body is unlikely to train its sites on the executive branch, despite multiple calls (largely from legislators) to do so.

Skelos said he doesn't believe Gov. Andrew Cuomo's bill creates a truly nonpartisan redistricting process, noting the governor — who is currently a Democrat — gets to appoint four individuals to the nominations committee that will eventually select the commission members, while each of the legislative leaders get one appointment each.

In the end, Skelos pretty much rejected the entire idea of independent and nonpartisan redistricting on its face, saying: «Basically your» e saying that (commission members) would just be a computer, and I don't believe that exists in people.»

Ako Gunn and Alistair on June 29, warned judges of Ghana's highest court to be wary of their conduct in the case involving the Electoral Commission and Mr Abu Ramadan if they did not want to suffer the fate of the three members of the bench who were shot to death and burnt on June 30, 1982 in the era of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC).

Rice had been a member of Cuomo's Moreland Commission on Sandy, and that experience had initially left her reluctant to get involved with the public - corruption commission; she didn't want to be part of another panel whose conclusions, she believed, were prCommission on Sandy, and that experience had initially left her reluctant to get involved with the public - corruption commission; she didn't want to be part of another panel whose conclusions, she believed, were prcommission; she didn't want to be part of another panel whose conclusions, she believed, were preordained.

Cuomo has defended himself, saying that his office merely offered advice and did not force the commission's leaders to do anything, an account many of the commission's members have backed.

But Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo, though nemeses, are both Democrats — and today Mr. de Blasio said he didn't think the party affiliations of the commission's members were «pertinent.»

Without a written policy, Ms. Lever said it was inadvertent last week that the administration said the order only applies to those «who do not take a salary»; virtually all members of all state board and commissions are unpaid.

Skelos allegedly threatened to punish members of the real estate industry if they failed to comply with his demands and eventually a representative of Glenwood allegedly gave Skelos» son a $ 20,000 commission for doing no work.

MoveOn Political Action commissioned Public Policy Polling to do surveys of registered voters in 24 House congressional districts currently held by Republicans, and they say the surveys show a generic Democrat would beat the incumbent Republican member if elections were held today.

Former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman announced the members of a commission he'll lead to study Rikers Island today — a group that does not include correction unions or management and that he vowed would take an independent and «no holds barred» look at the city's jails.

Mr. Aggrey - Fynn indicated that «Failure to hear from by 23rd February, 2018 on my request will leave me with no option than to explore other options of compelling you to do so to enable me perform my constitutional mandate as a member of the commission.»

However, the 14 members of the New York State Canal Mitigation Task Force never convened, not even for a single session, prompting outrage from Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, who told WAMC: «This was a total dereliction of duty because not one meeting, not one report, and they could have done some important work over the years... we can't afford to have «ghost ship» commissions with commissioners who aren't meeting who are getting paid on the taxpayers» dime.»

«Clearly his team has been doing research because I heard a lot of things that mirrored the commission's work,» said Glenn E. Martin, a commission member whose advocacy group, JustLeadershipUSA, has protested at Mr. de Blasio's events.

Following the New York Times» giant front - page exposé about interference from the governor's staff any time the commission got too close to Cuomo or his political allies, a few members of the panel have come forward to say — contra their own quotes in the Times» detailed reporting — that actually, Cuomo's office didn't butt in at all.

Speaking Sunday at a press conference detailing the report, the head of the 27 - member commission, former New York Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman, excoriated Rikers Island as a «penal colony» physically and psychologically remote from the city at large that does far more harm than good to anyone who ends up there.

A former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Adentan Constituency, and now a Presidential staffer, Kojo Adu - Asare, has suggested that the Electoral Commission does not need any re-branding since the beauty of its chairperson; Charlotte Osei can take care of such issues.

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, a member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's commission to investigate public corruption, says the commission does not intend to investigate Cuomo or Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Cuomo has proposed a pay raise commission that would consider granting members of the Legislature and the executive branch raises, but only if the raises were tied to reforms that include caps on legislator outside income and higher salaries for lawmakers who don't have other jobs and lower ones for those who do.

The Boundary Commission for England has now confirmed its methodology for the review and, surprisingly, there were no specific objections to grouping northern Lincolnshire with Yorkshire for the purposes of parliamentary constituencies (though one member of the public did lobby for the historic counties to be used as the basis of the review).

City Innovation Director Andrew Maxwell, a member of the commission and a candidate for mayor, doesn't think a new municipal government will help Syracuse become a more equal, economically or socially successful city.

A former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Adentan Constituency, and now a Presidential staffer, Kojo Adu - Asare, in April 2016, suggested that, the Electoral Commission does not need any re-branding since the beauty of its chairperson; Charlotte Osei can take care of such issues.

The commission would be politically neutral, as all members of the Commission would be appointed by the judiciary, and would exist to investigate criminal activity, fraud, waste, abuse and wrongdoing by all state employees and those doing business with commission would be politically neutral, as all members of the Commission would be appointed by the judiciary, and would exist to investigate criminal activity, fraud, waste, abuse and wrongdoing by all state employees and those doing business with Commission would be appointed by the judiciary, and would exist to investigate criminal activity, fraud, waste, abuse and wrongdoing by all state employees and those doing business with the state.

Pressed on whether contacting members of the commission could be witness tampering, Cuomo said, «Let him do his work, and we'll have a public dialogue thereafter.»

Members of the commission said they wanted to produce an analysis which would «do for the car economy what our 1976 report did for nuclear power».

«Once we announced we were doing it, people seemed eager to talk to us,» says Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science in Cambridge, and one of two scientists on the seven - member commission.

Members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) agreed on one thing at Tuesday's meeting: the Internet does not need to be fixed.

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Of course we will be inviting all the existing members to join the new niche, and you will get your commission if they do come and join via a special RefID system.

For those who don't know, Ghost in the Shell will see Johansson as a female member of a covert ops unit of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission that specializes in fighting technology - related crime.

Commission members said they had difficulty finding useful information on what federal agencies are doing to promote the well - being of Hispanics — the main focus of the panel — and thus could offer few recommendations after a year of work.

«One of the benefits of waiting so long, we don't have to reinvent the wheel,» said Chris Martin, a Washington Charter School Commission member and executive director of Prodigy Northwest, which supports gifted education programs.

«It makes a lot of sense to check along the way to see where your kids are doing well and getting hung up,» said Robert J. Mislevy, a member of the commission and the chairman in measurement and statistics at the Princeton, N.J. - based ETS, which has helped design the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the SAT, Advanced Placement tests, and other well - known exams.