Sentences with phrase «of the watchdog group»

«We've made a lot of progress in the last 10 years on transparency, but there's still some real problem areas,» said Bob Williams, the president of watchdog group State Budget Solutions.

Pruitt has had a «consistent disregard for transparency from the time he was attorney general to his time as EPA administrator,» the leader of a watchdog group said.

Jennifer Bevan - Dangel, the executive director of watchdog group Common Cause Maryland, said the city's position «raises significant red flags.»

Beginning with the administration of Supt. Forrest Claypool from 1993 to 1998, the district followed the advice of watchdog groups by cutting fat from the central office and putting more emphasis on local programs and upkeep.

Cindy Mitchell, president emeritus of the watchdog group Friends of the Parks, credits the Park District with an impressive turnaround.

«I strongly suspect that there has to be a complete level of rage from the transit - riding public in order to make this happen,» John Kaehny of watchdog group Reinvent Albany told Miller.

The balloon has finally burst after months of watchdog groups and journalists pointing to what appeared to be — and were — rigged state construction contracts in Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany.

The FBI has turned over 7,000 new documents from Anthony Weiner's private laptop to the State Department as part of a watchdog group's lawsuit related to last year's Hillary Clinton email case.

Susan Lerner, executive director of the watchdog group Common Cause, called the matching program «half - baked.»

He could beat the Republicans over the head with the LLC loophole because the Democratic - controlled Assembly and Senate Democrats support closing the loophole, as do all of the watchdog groups and independent experts and editorial boards,» said Kaehny.

«The whole scheme of collecting big campaign contributions from people with business before the city is very unseemly,» said Dick Dadey, director of the watchdog group Citizens Union.

«You've got to be kidding me,» Dick Dadey, director of watchdog group Citizens Union, told the New York Daily News.

Dick Dadey, head of the watchdog group Citizens Union, said that while it wasn't against the law for de Blasio to assist his bundlers and other supporters — unless he engaged in an illegal quid pro quo — «they shouldn't have any more access to him than the average New Yorker.»

E.J. McMahon of the watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy wrote that the new budget includes nearly $ 500 million in «the biggest, murkiest, pork - barrel slush fund in Albany — and perhaps any state capital — has ever seen.»

The governor also named recently retired President of the state's AFL - CIO Denis Hughes, as well as the head of the watchdog group Citizens Budget Commission, the Mayors of Syracuse and Buffalo, and a construction union leader to the panel.

They need independent oversight from the attorney general and comptroller and more transparency,» said John Kaehny, executive director of the watchdog group Reinvent Albany.

Just Monday, Dick Dadey, the Executive Director of the watchdog group Citizens Union complained to WNYC: «We're hearing nothing from him and legislative leaders.»

Dick Dadey, director of the watchdog group Citizens Union, said nonprofits run by elected officials are ripe for abuses.

As Doug Kellogg of the watchdog group Reclaim New York told The Post: «It's strong - arming government workers. . .

«It's about whoever gets to be mayor, the industry has to have access,» Susan Lerner, of the watchdog group Common Cause, told the Daily News.

Susan Lerner, executive director of the watchdog group Common Cause New York, called the nonprofit, which predates the de Blasio administration but was not previously run by the mayor's wife, a «backdoor way to curry favor.»

DoE now admits that,» says Tom Carpenter, executive director of the watchdog group Hanford Challenge.

Sealed «black cells» stall Hanford tank waste cleanup Scott Learn, The Oregonian, March 17, 2013 «One of the huge design failures is black cells,» said Tom Carpenter, executive director of the watchdog group Hanford Challenge.

«There needs to be a further de-linking of test scores from educational high - stakes decisions about students, teachers and schools,» says Robert Schaeffer, the public education director of the watchdog group Fair Test.

According to Gabe Elsner, executive director of watchdog group the Energy & Policy Institute, ALEC supplies «model» legislation to politicians at the state level who then push efforts to enact the laws as written by the group's utility and fossil fuel industry representatives.

But when it comes to climate science, there is no middle ground, said Rick Piltz, director of the watchdog group Climate Science Watch.

A representative of the American Association of Law Libraries sits on the steering committee of the watchdog group that fights to push back government secrecy.

Not exact matches

The liberal - funded watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington complained to the GSA that it should terminate its deal or take legal action because the president had violated the conditions of the lease.

Perth - based Automotive Holdings Group will incur a $ 35 million write - down hit from the closure of some of its underperforming businesses, in response to the weak market for car retailers combined with recent regulatory changes by the corporate watchdog.

The consumer watchdog has decided not to approve GPC Asia Pacific's proposed $ 43 million acquisition of Automotive Holdings Group's Covs Parts business on the grounds that it would substantially lessen competition.

Others, such as consumer watchdog Public Citizen and the preventive medicine advocacy group Trust for America's Health (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important public health initiatives.

Online lenders have not been feeling a lot of love lately, at least not from regulators and other consumer watchdog groups who are wary of the industry.

The competition watchdog has raised concerns regarding Automotive Holdings Group's $ 43 million sale of its Covs Parts business to GPC Asia Pacific, which already operates the Repco chain.

The ever - increasing omniscience of internet giants like Facebook and Google has put many watchdog groups and civil rights lobbyists on red - alert.

Grain handling cooperative CBH Group has opened itself up to increased competition in the provision of grain transport services, following a review by the competition watchdog.

The FTC is probing a complaint brought by the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, which looked at some 1,000 products on Amazon's website in June and found that Amazon (amzn) put reference prices, or list prices, on about 46 % of them.

Australia's competition watchdog believes the planned global merger of oilfield services companies Halliburton and Baker Hughes could give the combined group, and current market leader Schlumberger, too much power.

According to Washington watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Mnuchin has frequently opted for using military aircraft for his travel instead of taking commercial planes, which would come at a much lower cost to the taxpayer.

Greg LeRoy, the executive director of corporate watchdog group Good Jobs First, isn't sure how much Georgia's bill will influence Amazon's decision — if it hasn't already been made.

Industry groups have welcomed the federal government's appointment of the former commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Australian Building and Construction Commission to lead the soon to be revived building industry watchdog.

The Alberta Investors Protection Group — an organization that works to help victims of investment scams, fraud, and misconduct — said it would support a national securities watchdog, but only if it has teeth.

Its report about Facebook covering the period from 2015 to 2017 — a time during which Cambridge Analytica may have tapped Facebook data to create «psychographic» profiles of voters — found that Facebook's privacy controls «were operating with sufficient effectiveness,» according to copies of its reviews obtained through open - records requests by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a watchdog group.

That payment is the subject of criticism from the watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice alleging it violated campaign finance rules.

Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer group, has called on the Department of Motor Vehicles to make its application process for granting permits to autonomous car companies available to the public.

Watchdog groups had previously filed complaints about the payment with the Federal Election Commission, the Office of Government Ethics and the Justice Department.

«That is an explicit acknowledgment that this payment was about the election and was about hiding information from voters immediately before the presidential election,» said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a legal claim over the payment.

In November of last year, the nonprofit watchdog group, Public Citizen, issued a detailed report which found that 44 Trump administration officials have close ties to the Koch brothers.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an international watchdog group, has confirmed that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned using a military - grade nerve agent called Novichok.

January 22, 2018: The campaign finance and anti-corruption watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice asking them to «determine whether the payment was made by the Trump Organization or some other corporation or individual, which would additionally make it an illegal in - kind contribution to the campaign.»

«The takeaway from it is that even though the technology is getting better and pipeline companies are spending a lot more money on inspecting pipelines, there's been an uptick in failures over the last decade,» said Carl Weimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, a Bellingham, Washington - based watchdog group.