Sentences with phrase «of assembly member came»

Even in Rivers state, the governor's wife imposed her pet project on d legislature as their constituency project, no house of Assembly member came out to cry that Mrs Amaechi was doing X and Y.

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Carlson is not alone: Susan Fowler, the former Uber engineer who came out publicly against her employer alleging sexual harassment, is also working with members of the California State Assembly to pass legislation to eliminate forced arbitration, which prevented Fowler from coming forward about sexual harassment at Uber until after she quit.

Member states» delegations are now pressured to come to an agreement on the new Gender Architecture during the 63rd session of the General Assembly (the current session, ending at the end of August).

The Millennium Dome is the first venue to come under scrutiny, and local campaign groups, the police, religious groups and members of the Greater London Assembly will have a chance to have their say.

Though the race only recently got underway, it's already taken a negative turn, which Brindisi and Tenney, who also used to be a member of the Assembly, trading barbs on everything from Brindisi's father's legal representation of mobsters to a town hall the congressman is scheduled to hold this coming Tuesday.

But Silver, along with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other members of the Assembly said Lopez's resignation should come now, and not in a month.

«I think he understands that we're all going to be partners in government, and, just like he's doing today, coming, explaining — hopefully a free - for - all dialogue — with the members of the Assembly Democratic conference in order to move and forge a consensus on an agenda for this year.»

Members of the state Assembly are planning two big hearings in coming weeks that focus on critical components of the state's educational system.

In recent days, Heastie's use of his campaign funds, his donations and steering of member items to contributors have come under the magnifying glass as Assembly Democrats coalesce around his election as speaker.

On when the issue of Senator Melaye came up for discussion with Buhari, Dogara said: «On the issue of Senator Dino, of course anything that happens to one of our members or any member of the National Assembly is of concern to us.

Currently, the Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader hold enormous power to abuse the system and stop bills from coming to the floor even if they are mathematically sponsored by a simple majority of members from each house of the legislature (76 out of 150 in the Assembly and 32 out of 63 in the Senate).

During the budget hearing, which was attended by state senators and Assembly members, Lhota came under fire for the MTA's myriad failings — derailments, poor Access - a-Ride service, even the condition of bathrooms on the Long Island Rail Road, according to the New York Times.

Mr. Weprin's potential candidacy comes after a head - spinning couple of hours yesterday when Assembly member Rory Lancman announced that he would not seek a seat in Congress currently held by fellow Democrat Gary Ackerman.

This year's budget hearings begin on Monday, with local government officials coming to Albany to testify before members of the Senate and Assembly.

Mr Siah expressed his disappointment for the failure of the Assembly Members to confirm the DCE nominees, «because Jomoro and Ellembelle are the Districts that I come from»

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The governor has earlier disclosed that the ceremony is coming after the Lagos State House of Assembly carried out due diligence and subsequent confirmation of the Chairman and members of the Commission.

But all 133 Democratic members of the Senate and Assembly have remained conspicuously silent when it comes to the leader of their party.

He said the programme had come to stay and urged the Assembly members to inform farmers in their various electoral areas about the ongoing registration exercise by extension officers of the Department.

«You have probably 50 or 60 new members in the past few years who come to the Assembly with different opinions, different views, that will come to the fore when we consider issues like M.M.A.,» said Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, a Democrat from Queens who is a co-sponsor of the bill.

The ruling comes after the conviction of Assembly Member William Boyland Jr. and Assembly Member Eric Stevenson this year on bribery charges.

Nicole Malliotakis, a member of the New York State Assembly who represents Oakwood Beach and Ocean Beach, which are participating in the buyout program, said many of her constituents are actively seeking buyouts in part because they don't know how and when other types of help will come.

Two Democratic state senators and several members of the state Assembly were present, including Keith Wright of Harlem, sponsor of a bill containing the prevailing wage provision that is expected to pass the chamber in coming days.

Empire State Development did not provide guidance on how to read the report, so anyone not privy to state definitions of certain terms may have come to the same conclusion as the assembly member.

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.

The threat, from more than a dozen members of the Legislature's Black, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caucus, comes as the Assembly's Democrats have decided to boost the state's Tuition Assistance Program by $ 25 million to provide Dream Act» funding, sources said.

«These fines are not only a serious waste of money by TfL but they also show that too many TfL staff believe in the mantra of do as I say, not as I do when it comes to traffic enforcement,» Liberal Democrat London assembly member Caroline Pidgeon said today.

Members of the state Senate and Assembly are returning to Albany this week in a new year that also comes with new political terrain.

The details come as the Conservatives in Wales published their Assembly members» expenses a week before the Assembly Commission releases those of all members.

The letter comes after 141 members of the state Assembly sent letters to GE as well as Cuomo backing a broader dredging effort along the river.

One of the Senators of the APC, Senator Shehu Sani of Kaduna State succinctly put the matter when he said that this administration uses deodorant to fight corruption when it comes to some APC members and President Buhari's kitchen Cabinet and insecticides when it involves members of the opposition and those in the National Assembly.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

With the elections of Senator Eric Adams to Brooklyn borough president and Assembly members Vanessa Gibson, Inez Barron, Alan Maisel and Rafael Espinal to the New York City Council, there will be at least five vacant seats without representation come January in the city alone.

It was Tory - held between 1979 and 1987, but is technically now classed a Labour / Plaid marginal, with the Conservatives having come fourth with 11 % of the vote in 2005 - although the third - placed Independent, Peter Rogers, had previously been a Conservative Assembly Member.

Skelos first came to Albany in 1981 as a member of the Assembly.

Senate leader John Sampson and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver have agreed on the plan, but Sampson may not have the votes; Governor Paterson may use his line - item veto to strip it of member items (earmarks), millions in restored school aid, and any spending he doesn't think we can afford; and it may be anywhere from $ 200 million to $ 1.5 billion short of closing the budget gap, depending on whether Congress comes through with $ 1 billion in Medicaid funds.

The allegations come on the heels of an earlier round of sexual harassment allegations last year, which led to the Assembly's ethics committee to recommend that Kellner be removed from leadership positions and be barred from hiring new staff members or working with interns.

Nine Senators and Assembly members from the local delegation, both Democrat and Republican, have come out in support of the measure.

Silver presides over the heavy Democrat majority in the Assembly and has come under criticism in recent months by members of both his own party and the Republicans for what Katz called his actions «in covering the sexual improprieties of Assemblyman Vito Lopez with taxpayer dollars by means of the «Miscellaneous Contractual Services» account.»

AG Andrew Cuomo today came out in strong support of Gov. David Paterson's tough talk about the two - way legislative budget deal, endorsing the governor's threat to use his line item veto power to nix additional spending by the Senate and Assembly as well as member items.

So, with this I think the next wiser step left for Osoba is to lead his people out of (Egypt) APC to promised land.Moreso, with what his on grand now in ogun state toward 2015 election, am sorry for Amosu, especially when all who is who in ogun politics are ready to work with Osoba and there is strong alliance discussion going on in opposition party, but people even in Amosun cabinet were leaving APC day by day, I foresee what happened in Ekiti and kwara between Olushola SARAKI and then governor Lawal again in ogun come 2015, The victory of Aregbesola for APC in osun is so diffrent with this: some few month to election in osun many politician especially former governors were started joining APC to support Aregbesola while reverse is the case in ogun here, many even in cabinet are leaving the government to oppose Amosun, just imagine ew months to election now all former governors were agaist Amosun, all senators, Reps, and many assembly members were leaving APC agaist him and this is just the begining.Though,» ETI O WUN A WI TI OLUWA LASE» yet All EYI O WUN TI A NWI NI 2001, ILE OSOBA NI OLUWA TI FI ADE SI NI 2011.

In the wake of the arrest of Speaker Sheldon Silver, Democratic Assembly members held a press conference where they came out strongly in defense of their longtime leader.

«This has become manifest in the plot to rope members of «nPDP», especially those in the National Assembly, into gun - running and murder charges just because they came out to voice their opposition to the APC government's constitutional violations and executive brigandage in the running of our nation's affairs.»

We must move past the days when members of the Assembly could say they support a bill which never comes to the floor for a vote.

Assembly members would then have to come to him to request anything above and beyond their allotments of a few hundred thousand dollars.

The announcement comes after the city was sued by two Republican Assembly members to retain data, which Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to destroy rather than turn over to the federal government in the wake of Donald Trump's election.

The 20 - year speaker has the power to decide unilaterally what initiatives make it into the Assembly's budget, what pieces of legislation come up for a floor vote, what resources each member receives for his office and even how much money representatives get from the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee for their re-election bids.

Expanding on the issue of development and 421 - a, Assembly Member Walter Mosley tells LaborPress» «Blue Collar Buzz» that whatever comes next must include prevailing wages and benefits for working men and women.

He just came out of a private caucus of Assembly Democrats and said members overwhelmingly support Silver and will keep him in charge.

As well as going into some detail on matters from constitutional arrangements to confidence in the Labour Assembly Members seeking to step into Rhodri Morgan's shoes, the headline announcement to come out of this wealth of data was burgeoning support for the Welsh Conservatives and the utter collapse in that for Labour in Wales.