Sentences with phrase «official conference committee»

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The hundreds of pages of transcripts from eight meetings and six emergency conference calls held by the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee, show Fed officials struggling from the start of 2008 to assess the economic damage of a steep drop in housing prices and then worrying about the implications of their actions to halt the crisis.

Thomas Wieser (New York: United States Conference for the World Council of Churches, 1966); World Council of Churches, Concept, newsletter published by the Department on Studies in Evangelism, WCC; World Council of Churches, The New Delhi Report: The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches, 1961 (London: SCM Press, 1962), 189 - 91; World Council of Churches, New Delhi to Uppsala: Report of the Central Committee to the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches (Geneva: WCC, 1968), 66 - 70; World Council of Churches, The Uppsala Report: Official Report of the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Uppsala, July 4 - 20, 1968 (Geneva: WCC, 1968), 33f.

Their fling, if one can call it that, started after a U.S. Olympic Committee official tried to get the required postgame press conference translations into French (the other official language of the Olympics) dispensed with.

The Assembly and Senate are expected to pass their own one - house budget bills — the official start to the conference committee process — next Monday.

Senate Democrats have called for an investigation into the arrangement in which seven state lawmakers, including three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, have received stipends and were listed as committee chairs on official payroll records sent to the comptroller's office.

Senate Majority Conference Leader John Sampson (D - Brooklyn) announced the committee Tuesday following five days of calls for his resignation from various elected officials at the -LSB-...]

The Minority in Parliament led by former Power Minister, Dr Kwabena Donkor, responded with a press conference, alleging that officials of Ameri sponsored the Addison committee's trip to Dubai to investigate Ameri.

The amended bill, which would mandate that the government outline alternative uses for the island, is expected to pass a House committee Thursday, Zeldin said at a news conference in Riverhead with local elected officials and environmentalists.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, will be joined by transit advocates from the Bus Turnaround Coalition and other elected officials for a press conference and rally to demand better bus service in the five boroughs.

On Wednesday, October 8th Bronx elected officials, political activists and most importantly community activists lauded Comptroller Tom DiNapoli at a press conference held at the offices of The Bronx Democratic County Committee.

«We have a regulation... where every EU country has the right to notify one official language,» Danuta Hübner, the Polish MEP who heads the European parliament's constitutional affairs committee, told a Brexit press conference yesterday.

«The fact is tha t the ink is not even dry on this bill, and everyone in town is still getting fundraising requests from members of the conference committee and all sorts of other people who were beating up on Wall Street,» an official at a large bank said, citing Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D - N.Y.) and Paul Kanjorski (D - Pa.)

Borough President Katz and Assembly Member Markey are hosting the press conference in their capacities as co-chairs of the World's Fair Anniversary Committee, an umbrella group that includes elected officials, the City's Parks Department, the Queens Tourism Council and the participating cultural organizations that will be hosting World's Fair Anniversary events.

Borough President Katz and Assembly Member Markey hosted the press conference in their capacities as co-chairs of the World's Fair Anniversary Committee, an umbrella group that includes elected officials, the City's Parks Department, NYC & Company, the Queens Tourism Council and the participating cultural organizations that have worked for the past six months to organize and coordinate a fun, exciting and hopefully memorable series of events to celebrate the anniversaries.

Of the elected officials in attendance at the press conference, only Rodriguez, chairman of the Council's transportation committee, and Bronx Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz have committed to riding the full 24 hours, their offices told DNAinfo.

Sen. Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria), who heads the Senate Democratic Conference's campaign committee, and U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D - Flushing) were among the elected officials who came out to endorse Stavisky last week.

Sometimes, an official hiring committee with members from various departments will be present in the conference room.

On 14 March, the investigative committee chair and other RIKEN officials announced the interim results at a standing - room - only press conference in Tokyo.

Lobbyists, Administration officials, and Congressional aides said they expect the most contentious issue in the conference committee to be how strong the measure's provisions requiring states and districts to set educational standards should be, especially any mandate on «opportunity to learn» standards.

• The bill passed by the House education committee • One of the two options offered by Senator Alexander • Senator Murray's ESEA floor speech • The president's radio address and Secretary Duncan's speech • CCSSO • The George W. Bush Institute • The diverse groups organized by Ed Trust, the Business Roundtable, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights • The Foundation for Excellence in Education • The official policies of both NCLB and the Obama administration's ESEA - waiver initiative

The Villach conference's activist scientists worked for several years persuading key U.S. officials to back the IPCC concept, but once the Panel was created in 1988, it was clear that by its «First Assessment,» scheduled for 1990, the IPCC would require an outside «coordinating committee.»

The conference will take up such issues as the nature of domestic and international crimes committed; which high - level Bush officials, including Federal judges and Members of Congress, are chargeable with war crimes; which foreign and domestic tribunals can be used to prosecute them; and the setting up of an umbrella coordinating committee with representatives of legal groups concerned about the war crimes such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, ACLU, among others.