Sentences with phrase «out of committee for»

A House bill to revamp the Higher Education Act has moved out of committee for debate, while the Senate is still discussing reform ideas in committee.
I suggest that if they are politically smart the members of the MultiServices Committee should vote to move the resolution out of committee for a vote by the full legislature.
On Nov. 14, legislative Democrats tried to pull AB 185 out of committee for a floor vote.
A similar piece of legislation was introduced by Councilman Danny Dromm last year, but the bill never made it out of committee for a vote.
Sessions, the House Rules Committee chairman from Texas» 32nd District, has for years blocked bipartisan legislation in the House to protect state - sanctioned medical marijuana vendors from federal crackdown, not letting it out of committee for a floor vote.
The measure has no Assembly sponsor, and a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said there are no plans to move it out of committee for a floor vote.

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McConnell stayed on the attack, sending out word that the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the conference's campaign arm, was effectively blacklisting an outside consulting firm that had done work for the SCF — a move designed to send a shock wave of fear through the party's vendor class.
A recent survey by theBoardlist, a group that seeks out women qualified for board seats and helps connect them to search committees, asked why the representation of women on boards was so low.
Army Col. John Hope was the director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.
«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 statemeFor 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 statemefor small businesses and consumers,» said David Borris, an executive committee member of the Main Street Alliance, a national advocacy organization, in a statement.
Although Hensarling, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee did not respond to a request for comment, he has said the battle over the bank is one of philosophy, which for conservatives dictates that the government should stay out of free enterprise.
In announcing the proposed legislation, the committee said the change «corrects an illogical and unworkable capital requirement» that would have pushed non-bank dealers out of the derivatives market, making it less competitive for banks.
The House on Tuesday voted to pass the version of the tax bill that came out of the bicameral conference committee, appearing to pave the way for the Senate to pass it later in the night.
In an analysis penned by Andrew Warford, who is chairman of Maverick's stock committee, the fund set out its thesis for why the smartphone market has hit a «tipping point.»
It said Russia was responsible for carrying out cyberattacks against the US, disseminating hacked emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee, and launching a social media disinformation campaign — findings that mostly echo parts of the US intelligence community's assessment of Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
U.S. senators Susan Collins (R - ME) and Claire McCaskill (D - MO)-- the committee's chairwoman and ranking member — have reached out to Pfizer ($ PFE), Mylan ($ MYL), Amphastar ($ AMPH), Adapt Pharma and Kaleo, asking them to account for their pricing moves on the med, the cost of which has been heading north alongside opioid abuse and overdose rates.
With several members of the ECB Committee arguing for this action in the last few months, the real surprise came from Draghi refusing to rule out a rate cut into negative territory (interest rates are currently at 0.05 %) in an attempt to further weaken the euro.
Derek Harvey, forced out of the White House this summer, is set to work for one of the committees central to the congressional Russia investigations.
A crucial Senate health committee has scheduled hearings for September to review a bipartisan framework that would guarantee insurers payments (called «cost - sharing subsidies») that help reduce low - income Americans» out - of - pocket medical expenditures, carry on the universal coverage mandate, and incorporate GOP proposals to make more bare - bones plans available as well as repeal certain ACA taxes.
Other issues raised by the committee included why Facebook does not provide an overall control or opt - out for political advertising; why it does not offer a separate feed for ads but chooses to embed them into the Newsfeed; how and why it gathers data on non-users; the addictiveness engineered into its product; what it does about fake accounts; why it hasn't recruited more humans to help with the «challenges» of managing content on a platform that's scaled so large; and aspects of its approach to GDPR compliance.
While many of its spending cuts are more aggressive than the political climate is likely to allow, the RSC deserves great credit for putting out a budget in a year where no official budget has yet been put forward by the House or Senate Budget Committees.
Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i) options and stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.
His stock response to the committee's concerns about divisive political ads was that Facebook believes «radical transparency» is the fix — also dropping one tidbit of extra news on that front in his written testimony by saying Facebook will roll out an authentication process for political advertisers in the UK in time for the local elections in May 2019.
«The collaboration we saw was some billing and administrative contacts between the two of them, so you'd see similar people show up in each of the accounts,» said Schroepfer, when asked for more detail about what it had found, before declining to say anything else in a public setting on account of ongoing investigations — despite the committee pointing out other witnesses it has heard from have not held back on that front.
The same committee member, Paul Farrelly, who earlier pressed Kogan about why he hadn't bothered to find out which political candidates stood to be the beneficiary of his data harvesting and processing activities for Cambridge Analytica, put it to Schroepfer that Facebook's own actions in how it manages its business activities — and specifically because it embeds its own staff with political campaigns to help them use its tools — amounts to the company being «Dr Kogan writ large».
And they'd taken care of themselves but the fact is that the individual Congressmen knew not only that they weren't promised any cash on the table for themselves to sell out their voters to Wall Street but they thought that even if the Democratic National Committee or the Republication Congressional Committee contributed money to their campaigns, no amount of television or media advertising could persuade the voters that they were not crooks.
The committee convened to draw up the rules for the race will meet Friday at Toronto's Albany Club to hammer out the date of the vote, the nomination deadline, spending limits, the entrance fee and the appeals process.
According to LeapRate, in its response to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee inquiry into digital currencies, CryptoUK has set out new plans for the HM Treasury to make cryptocurrency investment a regulated activity under the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
John Ullyot, the VA's assistant secretary for public affairs, asked a senior aide at the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out, said both individuals, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation.
Overall, Chairman Camp deserves a lot of credit for producing a full tax reform proposal; the first such proposal to come out of a Congressional committee in recent years.
Most visible, in the DOL rule battle, the ongoing activity of the Financial Planning Coalition (CFP Board, FPA, and NAPFA) and the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard stand out.
El Salvador — were deferred to the Central Committee for action after time for discussion of public issues ran out.
Yakman2 If your daughter got up infront of a committee of any kind and said with a straight face that she pays $ 1000.00 + for contraceptives, she would deserve the same thing and instead of violence toward Rush, or anyone else for that matter, you should be embarrassed that the product of your raising turned out with such a lack of intelegence.
And of course the «big» committee is the Committee for Canonical Regional Planning, whose job it is to figure out the nuts and bolts of how we get from where we are to where we ougcommittee is the Committee for Canonical Regional Planning, whose job it is to figure out the nuts and bolts of how we get from where we are to where we ougCommittee for Canonical Regional Planning, whose job it is to figure out the nuts and bolts of how we get from where we are to where we ought to be.
Reading out his grandfather's bravery certificate, Fr Tom said: «It was resolved unanimously that the thanks of the (Liverpool Shipwreck and Rescue) committee be presented to Felix Doyle... for courageously rescuing a woman from drowning in the canal near Lightbody Street on the 21st of April 1914.»
With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.
Two years later, I was in town for what turned out to be the last meeting of the Jerusalem Committee, an international advisory panel to Mayor Teddy Kollek.
Having set out to assert distinctions within the unity of God in order to account for their beliefs about Jesus and the Holy Spirit, theologians then found it necessary to emphasize that they were still thinking in strictly monotheistic terms, not in the tritheistic fashion which has often characterized popular devotion with its half - concealed idea of what the late Bishop Pike used to call a «committee God».
The Methodist committee says it has not ruled out developing a «rite of reconciliation» specifically intended for use in cases of abortion.
Committee meetings may be, as James Ashbrook points out, «oases of fellowship in deserts of loneliness» for some people.
With UCF finishing 13 - 0 and yet locked out of a nationally unpopular title game, the committee's pattern of open disdain for mid-majors is drawing more attention than ever before.
After weighing the credentials of the dozens of U.S. skiers anxious to try out for the Olympics, the Nordic committee narrowed its list down to 25 last June.
The Masked Rider Committee prohibited victory runs for a couple of years out of concern for the safety of both rider and horse.
In 2015's first rankings, the committee ranked eight undefeated teams behind one - loss Alabama and Notre Dame teams, so there's plenty of precedent for going out of loss order.
A veteran of six Olympics, Feuer's entree into the Games came in 1984 when he dropped out of UCLA for a quarter to compile athlete bios for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee.
Traffic on the Ohio Turnpike is a coffle of tractor - trailers as Golden Flashes coach Gary Waters argues that the RPI, that mystical set of numbers the NCAA tournament committee consults when it hands out at - large bids, should R.I.P. Every mid-major coach is sympathetic to Waters's argument, because big - time schools insist on playing nonconference games in their own arenas, with officials of their choosing, and the RPI doesn't penalize them for refusing to go on the road.
Smiling Seattlites share joke while waiting on lawn of yacht club for race - committee official launch to take them out to their boats.
Presumably, that same committee of one has some influence over the pairings for the first round and Woods will be out with his Jupiter neighbor and protege, Justin Thomas.
A security committee's nightmare, the NFL proved it could out - hustle a street built by hustlers, and thousands of the world's most jaded working class flocked to Times Square for what amounted to little more than a bunch of backwoods country carnival attractions slathered in advertising.
When 11 - 1 Baylor was shut out of the inaugural bracket, athletic directors nationwide agreed the committee rewarded schools for aggressive out - of - conference schedules.
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