Sentences with phrase «of powerful committee»

Brooklyn official at helm of powerful committee tries to stick to the middle ground in dealing with developers, community

In the scathing 68 - page report, Mr. Lopez — who was stripped of his powerful committee chairmanship and his position atop the Brooklyn Democratic Party after sexual harassment allegations first surfaced last year — engaged in such acts as hanging mistletoe in his district office and forcibly kissing a staffer, shoving his hand «all the way up» the inner thigh of another staffer and more.

NYC's Democratic Party leaders, less than a week after helping ensure Johnson's election as speaker, are wielding sway over the appointment of powerful committee chairs.

Of course, the Senate hasn't actually passed its version yet; so far, only a couple of powerful committee chairmen (and maybe a couple of ranking Republicans) have had their hand in this.

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What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

Another Tea Party freshman, Graves sits on the powerful House Committee on Appropriations, and is another member of the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus.

During his 10 years in the House, he served on the powerful Appropriations Committee, and as a member of the Liberty Caucus and the Republican Study Committee.

Crowley sits on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means, the second largest target of lobbying money from Pfizer in 2014.

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.

Zuckerberg is expected to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, just one of the several powerful committees calling for him, on April 11.

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.

But as much as half of the central bank's powerful policy - setting committee could also leave next year — making it the biggest transition at the Fed since before the recession.

Stages in the legislative process that make a bill law in the Canadian Parliament; ministers (not including the Prime Minister) on cabinet's powerful Priorities and Planning committee; former political figures (not including sovereigns or social activists) memorialized in bronze around Parliament Hill — twelve is the number in each of these interesting categories.

Half of the Fed's powerful rate - setting committee could leave as the withdrawal of its stimulus program looms.

A powerful activist investor group called for Mark Zuckerberg to step down in a statement today, citing new admissions of irresponsibility in the CEO's planned testimony to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

If forced to make prognostications, the two of us would predict a Party Congress that does not break any major taboos (e.g. scrapping tacit age or term limits for Politburo Standing Committee members), but one that also portrays Xi as powerful and thoroughly in command of the Party (e.g. following previous leaders in having his wisdom included in the Party's constitution).

• The central element in the Church plan is a powerful, well - informed Senate oversight committee with rotating membership, budgetary authority, legislative powers, and the right to receive advance notice of all «significant» covert operations.

Seriously though, there is a sense within your committee, and among other frontline advocates and activists, that food sovereignty in Australia and AFSA in particular is on the verge of a genuinely powerful mass movement - a shift in the way people relate to food, agriculture and the environment.

Plans to run these blunt ads infuriated the politically powerful infant formula industry, which hired a former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a former top regulatory official to lobby the Health and Human Services Department.

The Regional Secretary led a powerful team to liaise with the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) in the organization of the gala and also to grace the occasion.

Unless and until Labour achieves some sort of coherence, it is a peculiarity of this parliament that opposition to a government with a truly precarious majority, arises in the oddest places: powerful individual performers, such as Keir Starmer and Angela Eagle, or dynamic parliamentary committees, such as the Women's Committee, chaired by Maria Miller.

In the United Kingdom, thanks to the powerful influence of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, we tend to see public ethics primarily in positive terms: as standards to be upheld not as criminal corruption to be prevented.

New NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson doled out plum committee posts, awarding powerful posts to allies of the county Democratic parties that helped him get the top job.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Friday announced Shawn MacKinnon, a 20 - year Senate veteran, has been appointed the secretary of the powerful Finance Committee.

Ministers and judges will never succeed in taming the «immensely powerful» internet, the chair of the Commons» culture, media and sport committee has told Politics.co.uk.

Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, 80, chair of the powerful Appropriations Committee, will resign April 1 for health reasons.

But the first snub occurred early, when Smith broke a promise to appoint then - senator Bill Stachowski to chair the powerful finance committee, instead giving the post to Carl Kruger of Brooklyn.

Percy described the move as a» pretty transparent» maneuver to insure his defeat so that Republican conservatives could install Senator Jesse Helms, an arch-conservative Republican of North Carolina, as chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee — a post held by Percy in the Republican - controlled Senate since 1981 when he succeeded Idaho's Frank Church.

Also on the republican list of demands: abolition of the Privy Council; full proportional representation in elections for the House of Commons; decentralisation of power to local and community authorities; a voting age of 16; fixed - term parliaments; state funding of political parties; a ban on outside earnings for MPs; more powerful Commons select committees, with powers to confirm or block ministerial appointments; elected police chiefs and elected mayors in all the major cities.

DeFrancisco, who expects to retain his powerful seat as chair of the Senate Finance Committee, expects the IDC and GOP to have a real incentive to make this work.

The Localism Bill, currently negotiating its committee stage in the Lords, is a powerful expression of the Conservative instinct to devolve decision making away from Whitehall and give power to ordinary people over their homes, neighbourhoods and lives.

It recommends that the chairs of powerful Holyrood committees such as finance should come from opposition parties to give stronger checks and balances.

Greenfield, who chairs the powerful Committee on Land Use, will become executive director at a major city nonprofit — the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty — which has been trying to recover since a 2014 scandal involving a former top executive married to ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's onetime chief of staff.

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.

Mr. Recchia — who served as chairman of the City Council's powerful finance committee — was term - limited out of office last year and decided to challenge Mr. Grimm after failing to secure support in his party to run for City Comptroller or for borough president of his native Brooklyn.

Jeffrey R. Gural, the chairman of Newmark Knight Frank and the owner of two upstate racinos that are members of the New York Gaming Association, said he had contributed about $ 200,000 last year to the committee, chiefly because he supported Mr. Cuomo's agenda and shared the governor's view that public employees unions had grown too powerful in Albany.

There hasn't been a contest for speaker since 1994 when Silver, then the 49 - year - old head of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, succeeded Saul Weprin after he suffered a severe troke and died.

Susan Bysiewicz, who is seeking to become Connecticut's first female Democratic governor in four decades, will collect the endorsement of EMILY's List, a powerful national political action committee that backs Democratic women.

Rangel, who stepped down from his powerful post atop the House Ways and Means Committee amid questions of ethical lapses, arrived late to the event and left immediately after.

Among the beneficiaries may be Brooklyn Councilman David Greenfield, who is said to be in line to be the next chairman of the City Council's powerful Land Use committee, according to multiple sources close to the negotiations for Council speaker.

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.

Over the decades, and with the benefit of a Democrat majority that only collapsed in 2010, Mr. Rangel rose to be chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, showering federal funds on Harlem.

And John Nygren, a chairman of the Legislature's powerful budget committee, said in a telephone interview he supported Renard because he thought he was best positioned to win the primary but he said will now support Jacque because the voters picked him.

POLITICO, citing multiple sources, reported Monday that Speaker Paul Ryan and his leadership team discussed replacing New Jersey Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, after he voted against the GOP bill.

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.

This powerful backbench committee meets weekly with the Prime Minister to communicate the mood of backbench Labour MP's to the Party leadership.

«That's right, Englebright, the chairman of the Assembly's powerful Government Operations Committee has done nothing.

Here's the text of McKee's ad, which marks the first time I've heard the Gov Ops Committee referred to as «powerful»:

This action is related to an ethics case unrelated to the one that led him to step aside as chair of the powerful Ways and Means Committee last March.

During a three - hour grilling at the culture select committee, disrupted by a protester throwing a plate of shaving foam, the once all - powerful News Corp chairman and chief executive told MPs: «I am not responsible.»