Sentences with phrase «most powerful committee»

The Senate Appropriations Committee is one of the most powerful committees in the United States Senate.

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And Citigroup just handed a 37 - year - old rising star a seat on the firm's most powerful management committee.

Citigroup has tapped Sara Wechter to be the head of human resources for its 209,000 employees — a title that hands an up - and - coming executive a seat on the firm's most powerful management committee.

Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

You chaired the most powerful standing committee, you were able to build a cabal support base where you are Captain, you remained as powerful as a Senate President of even a President.

Bill Morris, former General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union (now part of Unite), once said that the most powerful position he had ever held was not at the TGWU, nor at the TUC, Bank of England, or BBC, but as chair of Labour's conference arrangements committee.

One of the two most coveted committee chairmanships went to Ferreras, who was named to head the powerful Finance Committee, which puts her in a prominent seat when it comes to negotiating the city'committee chairmanships went to Ferreras, who was named to head the powerful Finance Committee, which puts her in a prominent seat when it comes to negotiating the city'Committee, which puts her in a prominent seat when it comes to negotiating the city's budget.

Sen. Cathy Young (R - Olean) is the chair of the Senate's finance committee, making her one of the most powerful Republicans in Albany.

Today, she is chairwoman of the Senate Finance Committee, making her one of the most powerful women in Albany.

Brady is the most powerful politician on the list, as his role as chair of the 1922 Committee makes him the keeper of any letters of no confidence in the prime minister from Conservative MPs.

Among the most prominent, the powerful land use committee is expected to be run by Councilman Rafael Salamanca Jr. of the Bronx and the finance committee is expected to be lead by Councilman Daniel Dromm of Queens, according to a person familiar with the discussions who was not authorized to announce them before Thursday.

The Politburo Standing Committee is the highest and the most powerful body of the Communist Party of China.

About 25 Wall Street executives, many of them hedge fund managers, sat down for a private meeting Thursday afternoon with two of the most powerful Republican lawmakers in Congress: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and John Cornyn, the senior senator from Texas who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, one of the primary fundraising arms of the Republican Party.

According to a 2013 report by the Center for Investigative Reporting, California State Assembly Speaker John Perez «gave lawmakers who raised the most money the best assignments in the new Legislature — posts on the speaker's leadership team and seats on the powerful «juice committees.»»

Now in one of state government's most powerful positions, the 47 - year - old Heastie will work alongside Governor Andrew Cuomo and State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — the proverbial «three men in a room» — to lead budget negotiations, set committee assignments and direct the flow of legislation.

Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Texas congressman who is known as a staunch constitutional conservative and currently holds one of the most powerful seats in Congress as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, won't seek re-election next year.

The breadth of the committee's membership also contrasts with the previous regime, where most of the responsibility for industrial strategy lay in the lands of the treasury and its all - powerful chancellor.

It was a committee which led democratic scrutiny of the most powerful people in Parliament you've never heard of — Roy Stone, private secretary to the Chief Whip, and Mike Winter, Head of the Leader of the House's office.

The Campaign Finance Board has been looking into possible violations by Mayor de Blasio's 2013 campaign committee for coordinating operations with powerful Local 1199 SEIU — his most important supporter.

Rep. Joseph Crowley is the fourth most powerful Democrat in Congress — and head of the Queens County Democratic Committee.

And the business leaders, organizing as the Committee to Save New York, have found a surprising ally: one of the most powerful union officials in the state.

However, Sini reversed field in late February, appearing before the Conservative Party's executive committee as one of 11 contenders from all parties looking for the minor party's backing for Suffolk's most powerful law enforcement job.

For much of that time, he was one of the most powerful men in the House as the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- The House Ethics Committee voted unanimously Thursday to expand its investigation of Rep. Charlie Rangel, one of the most powerful members of Congress.

The allegations against one of Las Vegas's most powerful figures reverberated in the political world over the weekend, as Mr. Wynn stepped down from his post as Republican National Committee finance chairman.

Democratic Party central committees in the counties of Del Norte, Kern, Los Angeles, Marin, Mendocino, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, and Yolo accepted the max - out contribution from one of the state's most powerful public employee unions.

Queens City Councilman Leroy Comrie, who introduced the two most controversial bills and chairs the council's powerful Land Use Committee, which is holding the hearing, did not immediately comment on the legislation.

While developers often attempt to wine and dine the chair of the City Council's Land Use Committee, they can expect the man who now holds that powerful position to decline most social invitations.

With Rangel creeping into his 80s and facing a censure during what should have been his most powerful term in office as chair of the Ways and Means Committee, the city's black power base began shifting to Brooklyn.

Wieman told the committee that «powerful, vested interests» on college campuses discourage the adoption of new ways to teach science and train future science teachers, saying that most universities place a higher priority on research productivity than on student learning.

One of your most powerful tools for accomplishing these things is your research plan, in which you should, as I wrote,» [p] rovide the committee a compelling, reassuring, believable image of what their life will be like when you are working down the hall.»

The most powerful recommendations, for example, come from «those whom people on the committee know personally and respect,» Helmreich states.

With the House in Republican hands, some of the climate issue's most vocal advocates have been dislodged from their powerful perches, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman.

It was 2010, the federal Race to the Top competition was well under way, and Terrance Carroll, a Democrat who was then the speaker of the House of Representatives, had the task of getting a bill that the state's largest and most powerful teachers» union refused to support through several key committee votes.

In a little less than two months, the Minnesota Republican will pick up the gavel of the House Education and Labor Committee, one of the most powerful policy panels in Congress.

«It doesn't seem like there's any movement planned,» says Sen. Floyd McKissick, a Durham Democrat who sits on the state Senate's Rules and Operations Committee, a panel that includes some of the chamber's most powerful lawmakers and sets the agenda for future committCommittee, a panel that includes some of the chamber's most powerful lawmakers and sets the agenda for future committeecommittee talks.

Most notably, Senator James Inhofe will most likely again be chairing the powerful Environment and Public Works CommitMost notably, Senator James Inhofe will most likely again be chairing the powerful Environment and Public Works Commitmost likely again be chairing the powerful Environment and Public Works Committee.

Today, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations voted in favor of making Rex Tillerson, former CEO of ExxonMobil, the most powerful diplomat in the U.S. Global Witness raised serious concerns that this appointment would pose a grave threat to both US and global security.

Eight firms had nary a woman on their most powerful governing committee.

In a Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing that often veered off route, two of the nation's most powerful intelligence figures made their case for extending a controversial portion of the Forei

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