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In the news conference, Cuomo reiterated that it's tough to attract new agency commissioners and retain current ones because the salaries aren't competitive.

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Doug New is a partner at Fasken Martineau but earlier in his career served as a special adviser to the deputy commissioner of the Foreign Investment Review Agency.

An agency spokeswoman says Honorable could stay on until a new commissioner arrives or until Congress adjourns next year.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wasn't resting on its laurels in 2017: The agency under new commissioner Scott Gottlieb approved 46 new medicines — i.e., completely new therapies, not just additional indications on already - approved drugs — the highest number of approvals in more than two decades.

Some background: Those rules were approved this past October under previous FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, who stepped down once President Trump took office, giving new chairman Ajit Pai and GOP commissioner Michael O'Rielly a 2 - 1 majority at the agency.

Lucie Tedesco, commissioner of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, said she is concerned by the allegations and issued a statement reminding the lenders of their obligations to obtain prior consent before increasing credit limits and providing clients with new products.

The new administration is taking shape and may potentially include an FDA commissioner who has argued the agency should consider safety when evaluating new drugs and devices and efficacy only after the drug has been legalized.

The New York Times reported «charges of mismanagement and verbal abuse of subordinates» and that all four of his fellow commissioners, two from each party, complained about Jaczko to the White House and told a congressional committee that (the Times reported) he «unprofessionally berated the agency's professional staff and reduced female employees to tears with his comments.»

A Port Authority commissioner from New Jersey who chaired the board's ethics committee has resigned over misconduct that the agency called «profoundly disturbing,» though it did not reveal what Caren Turner is accused of having done.

John Bacheller, a retired deputy commissioner at Empire State Development, the state economic development agency, said state officials launched the Empire Zones program out of an earnest, if misguided, effort to revive the long - suffering Rust Belt economy of Upstate New York.

As the commissioner of the New York State Health Department, Dr. Nirav Shah oversees an agency with a $ 50 billion budget.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a new proposal Monday aimed at evaluating pay for statewide elected officials, agency commissioners and members of...

The new commissioner of the city's child welfare agency expressed «significant concerns» about a NYC Council legislation package aimed at tightening scrutiny over his embattled department — saying it could «inhibit our efforts toward reform.»

Former Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle began her new job today as a commissioner at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, where she took part in her first meeting of the regulatory agency.

Like the original bill, the new proposal would require commissioners to disclose financial information and uphold a fiduciary duty to the sprawling bi-state transportation agency.

There's word that the commissioner of the state's environmental agency is leaving, just two days after Joe Martens issued the final environmental impact statement banning hydrofracking in New York.

The commissioner of New York City's Correction Department, Joseph Ponte, removed his agency's head of internal affairs on Monday and placed him on modified duty, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

New York's health commissioner is still declining to speculate when his agency will finish a review of the health effects of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, meaning the state appears no closer to allowing the controversial drilling process.

Cuomo confirmed that talks in recent days have seen the inclusion of a provision creating a commission to look at — and recommend — new salary levels for lawmakers as well as agency commissioners and other top administration officials.

Governor Cuomo convened a cabinet meeting of State agency commissioners in Liverpool, Onondaga County on September 30, to demonstrate the State's commitment to the people of Central New York.

Last month, Cuomo asked some of his New York commissioners to boycott the Port Authority's public board meeting in protest of the ongoing dispute with New Jersey over what to fund in the agency's 10 - year capital plan.

Stacey Cumberbatch, the former commissioner of the agency dealing with Singh, told the New York Times, through her lawyer, that she was under tremendous pressure to give the mayor's donor a «sweetheart deal.»

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is appointing Lorelei Salas commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs, replacing Julie Menin, who left the agency to lead the mayor's office of media and entertainment in February.

The union says the commission's chair Trevor Phillips and its 13 other commissioners are going further than the Tory - led government's imposed cuts, proposing a new structure in advance of ministers publishing their plans for the EHRC, and appear to want to strip the agency of almost all of its public service functions.

With the agency in flux after the departure of its founding commissioner, two dozen senior employees have left the Department of Financial Services over the last seven months, a POLITICO New York analysis of payroll records found.

David Hansell, who currently works for the consulting firm KPMG, has been named as the new commissioner for the NYC Administration for Children's Services — an agency that has been under heavy scrutiny in recent months.

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Buerkle began a new job in July after she was appointed as a Republican commissioner on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, an independent federal agency.

Voter information in New York is not held by the secretary of state, but rather by the elections agency, whose two Republican and two Democratic commissioners OK'd the information transfer.

Gina McCarthy, the administrator for the EPA, fired back at New York's commissioners of health and environmental conservation, who this week accused the federal agency of giving «conflicting guidance» about a toxic chemical that polluted water supplies in eastern Rensselaer County.

Finally, while there had been some talk of merging Long Island's Happauge office with New York City's, D.O.T. commissioner Joan McDonald has sent a letter to Skelos promising not to close any of the agency's 11 regional offices this year, according to the Senate source.

The new Administration for Children's Services commissioner, David Hansell, stepped in and improved the troubled agency by reducing caseloads and increased oversight of cases.

That view was reinforced by two developments last week: Cuomo's aides proposed a new energy plan for the state's future that, unlike previous plans, made no mention of fracking in the Southern Tier, and Cuomo himself named former New York City Councilman James Gennaro, a fierce fracking opponent, as a deputy commissioner at Martens» environmental agennew energy plan for the state's future that, unlike previous plans, made no mention of fracking in the Southern Tier, and Cuomo himself named former New York City Councilman James Gennaro, a fierce fracking opponent, as a deputy commissioner at Martens» environmental agenNew York City Councilman James Gennaro, a fierce fracking opponent, as a deputy commissioner at Martens» environmental agency.

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state Assemblyman Sam Roberts was confirmed Wednesday evening as commissioner of the state agency that oversees all welfare and disability cases, the Senate majority office announced.

From 2011 to 2014, Walsh served as the deputy commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, an agency where Howe and Percoco allegedly helped facilitate an unusual deal for a client, Competitive Power Ventures, which reaped millions of dollars of state energy credits to build a power plant in New Jersey.

A letter detailing the agency's decision from Brandye Hendrickson, acting administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, was emailed Thursday to Paul A. Karas, acting commissioner of the state Department of Transportation, and Matthew J. Driscoll, acting executive director of the New York State Thruway Authority.

For all the politicos who are hoping to land a job in economic development or commissioner of an agency, mark my words: She is not a shoe - in for Mayor and once the great residents of New York start seeing her for who she really is, expect her poll numbers to go down even lower.

Syracuse - area Assemblyman Sam Roberts may soon be giving up his seat to be commissioner of the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, the state agency that handles welfare and disability cases.

The state senator on Monday is sending a letter to the New York State Department of Homes and Community Renewal's commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas urging her to inform tenants if the agency suspects their apartments were illegally removed from rent stabilization under the J - 51 tax abatement program.

James S. Rubin, the commissioner of the state housing agency, New York State Homes and Community Renewal, disputes the city's argument that the governor has added substantially to the program's cost, though he compared it with the 2015 version of the legislation, not the city's proposal.

Under the proposal, a copy of which was obtained by Politico, the governor would have the power to remove and appoint New York commissioners on the bi-state agency's board.

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Reform, in its new report Academy chains unlocked, has called for the national and regional schools commissioners and parts of the Education Funding Agency (EFA), which deal with financial accountability, to form a new body that could then merge with the schools wing of Ofsted — should all schools become academies.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) closed the loop on a controversial new initiative by releasing final commissioner rules on Districts of Innovation this week.

When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy appointed Stefan Pryor as commissioner in 2011, he was lauded as a «turnaround leader» whose experience as co-founder and board president of New Haven's Amistad Academy would «help him turn the Department of Education into an agency that helps prepare our state's children for whichever path they may choose.»

In 2013, Arts Commission staff and Commissioners set out to articulate a new vision for the agency for the next five years.

to negotiate a new agreement to protect oceans, approve an annual state of the planet report, set up a major world agency for the environment, and appoint a global «ombudsperson», or high commissioner, for future generations.

Although most states have adopted model disclosure regulations promoted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, no state or federal agency requires them to mention such basics as investment - management fees, rate of return, and (with the exception of New York) sales commissions.