Sentences with phrase «of rules committee»

Various GOP leaders have defended the process, but Representative Jim McGovern, a Democratic member of the Rules Committee, disputed their description of regular order.

In 1996 he was appointed a Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice where he serves as Chair of the Rules Committee.

As my boss Diana Lowe pointed out to me, making the deliberations of a rules committee available via the internet may affect or limit the range of presentations made by counsel in court, whereas rules are formulated to stand on their own, and counsel needs to try them in all ways to see if they are sound.

Jennifer is active in several professional societies, including the Federal Circuit Bar Association, in which she was the former co-chair of the Rules Committee and the current co-chair of the Patent Litigation Committee.

In addition to serving as ranking member of the Rules Committee, he will remain senior and active member of the Banking Committee.»

Garodnick was also handed the chairmanship of the Economic Development committee, while Lander stayed at the head of the Rules committee, which is charged with the officially proposing the committee assignments.

He has regularly testified at City Council hearings in support of more Council transparency, and praised Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Council member Brad Lander, chair of the Rules Committee, and Council member Kallos for their leadership on the issue and including tech developers in the deliberative process.

As Senate Minority Leader, Senator Smith is an ex officio member of all Senate standing committees and the ranking Minority member of the Rules Committee.

Rather than fight heavyweight Queens Boss Joe Crowley and Brooklyn's Vito Lopez for the top Finance and Land Use chairmanships, he glommed leadership roles on several heavy - duty committees and beefed up Joel Rivera's majority leadership post while getting him co-chairmanship of the Rules Committee.

[31] Today, the minority leader no longer serves on these committees; however, he or she appoints the minority members of the Rules Committee and influences the assignment of partisan colleagues to the Ways and Means Committee.

His opponent Markey has represented the 30th Assembly District for nine terms, since she was first elected in 1998, and is a member of the Rules Committee and the Ways and Means Committee, according to her online biography.

That was on display this afternoon when the Dump Trump forces made a last - ditch attempt to get a minority report out of the Rules Committee and onto the floor for a vote — an effort to let delegates vote their conscience and be released from any pledged support for any particular candidate.

A hearing has to be held within two weeks of the petition unless the majority of Rules Committee members vote not to do so.

She was one of only 288 women elected to the House and the first woman ever to become chair of the rules committee.

The proposal is set to be discussed at Wednesday's meeting of the Rules Committee.

Democratic Leader, Nancy Pelsoi and head of the rules committee James McGovern joined Slaughter's family in planting the tree this afternoon pic.twitter.com/AcB 7rzBaFt

When the Senate's own website was launched, almost a year and a half after Kennedy's in October 1995, Senator John Warner of Virginia, then chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, thanked the many staff of the Rules Committee and Sergeant at Arms and Secretary's offices involved in the effort.

The minority will deliver to the GOP a petition signed by one - third of the Rules Committee members seeking a hearing on these bills.

I don't think anybody at the 1941 meeting of the Rules Committee visualized platooning as it was later developed.»

The fact is that as chairman of the Rules Committee in 1953 I had two concerns.

Crisler is a life member of the Rules Committee.

There are guidelines set down by the Proctors» and Assessor's Memorandum (from Appendix E: Regulations of the Rules Committee)-- which can be seen by clicking here.

Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser, who will become chair of the rules committee in the fall, voted in favor of widening the lane.

Sen. Roy Blunt (R - MO) is expected to take over for Shelby as chair of the Rules Committee, and the bill's proponents hope he will express more of an interest in it, a Democratic aide told me.

As a member of the Rules Committee, I review how the Senate conducts business.

In this role, he coordinated the work of the rules committees, which are composed of federal judges, lawyers, and academics and are charged by Congress with the responsibility of developing the rules and policies used in all federal courts.

Not exact matches

But he could use his mastery of the chamber's byways, honed during his chairmanship of the Senate Rules Committee and years of running floor operations as his party's whip, to work the margins.

The ruling Communist Party had planned a transition to a new generation of leaders this November, when seven of the nine members of the Politburo standing committee will be replaced, including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.

Investors should be aware that SOCL uses a committee - based approach to select its portfolio companies, as opposed to the rules - based methodologies that dominate most of the ETF industry.»

A Republican National Convention delegate screams as the Chair announces that the convention will not hold a roll - call vote on the Republican National Convention Rules Committee's report and rules changes and rejects the efforts of anti-Trump forces to hold such a Rules Committee's report and rules changes and rejects the efforts of anti-Trump forces to hold such a rules changes and rejects the efforts of anti-Trump forces to hold such a vote.

In the years since, the committee followed the spirit of the Obama administration's recommendation and began to take on and rule cases of sexual misconduct much more systematically.

The lack of any apparent pattern to the decisions seems to reveal that the people who sit on the committee that issues sexual - misconduct rulings don't seem to know how and when to hand down punishment.

Last month, a committee of House lawmakers advanced a bill that would help companies like GM and Google seek more exemptions to federal safety rules, perhaps allowing them the ability to test as many as 100,000 experimental self - driving cars in the United States.

One of the documents referred to the project as a «semi-autonomous» area governed «by independent laws and a regulatory framework developed and managed by a private committee,» a sign that it could ease strict rules applied elsewhere in Saudi Arabia.

, a vice-chairman on the House Financial Services Committee, has sent a blistering letter to Federal Reserve Chair Yellen telling her in no uncertain terms to stop cooperating with other central banks and insurance supervisors over global rules of conduct, at least until the new administration has given her a clear political line to follow.

«And don't forget our rules of the road for meetings and committees.

If a clothing brand disagrees with a ruling of the accord's steering committee, it can appeal for a final and binding arbitration process — but any resulting award is legally enforceable.

«For too long, Wall Street banks and the financial industry wrote their own rules while no one was looking out for small businesses and consumers,» said David Borris, an executive committee member of the Main Street Alliance, a national advocacy organization, in a statement.

Wertheimer of Democracy 21 said there are no rules governing how the committee uses any surplus funds.

«The rules governing the suspension of security clearances were established to protect our national security by temporarily halting the flow of classified information until allegations are fully investigated and resolved,» committee ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings wrote.

Calling the new CFPB rule «anti-consumer,» the Republican chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Representative Jeb Hensarling said Congress should reject it under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which gives lawmakers power to kill newly minted regulations.

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Damian Collins, the chair of the British parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said he would not rule out asking more technology firms to give evidence on their data collection practices, but there are no plans currently.

Late Monday, House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R - Texas) pushed through a measure blocking section 528 of the bill, H.R. 4909 — which requires women to register for the draft — from being included in the version that will be sent to the House floor.

Georgia Congressman Tom Price has been cleared as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after an ugly confirmation battle which included Senate Democrats boycotting his vote by a key panel (a tactic that was rendered useless as the majority Republicans changed committee rules to push his nomination forward).

News organizations are barred from making GIFs and Vine - like videos of the Olympics this year, according to the rules of the International Olympic Committee.

The CMHC boss had just given testimony at the House of Commons Finance Committee that effectively called out critics of tighter mortgage - lending rules as self - interested.

Also in the list of goals is implementing a standard that's similar to something known as the Rooney Rule, named after Dan Rooney, the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers and chairman of the National Football League's diversity committee.

The president is the only one who can stop a sale, if the committee or any one member «recommends suspension or prohibition of the transaction,» according to guidelines issued by the Treasury Department in December 2008 after the department adopted its final rule a month earlier.

The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Alphabet is comprised entirely of independent directors who meet the independence requirements of the Listing Rules of the NASDAQ Stock Market and the SEC.