Sentences with phrase «out of committees last»

Bills to ensure school districts do not lose money have been introduced in the state Senate and Assembly, but they did not get out of committees last year.

The House's timing is key because Senate Education Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA) says that further progress on a comprehensive bipartisan reauthorization bill that passed out of his committee last month and is awaiting full Senate action is unlikely if the House doesn't produce its own bipartisan rewrite of the federal education law.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to the transaction, if substantially all of the assets of the Company are acquired by another corporation or in case of a reorganization of the Company involving the acquisition of the Company by another entity, (i) stock options and stock appreciation rights become exercisable immediately prior to the transaction; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and 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.

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.

The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, S. 2115, was passed out of the Senate Banking Committee last year after the panel reached a bipartisan agreement on the legislation.

It is considered a bit of a faux pas to point this out, but what we are talking about in part is a Democratic president, a largely Democratic professional administrative class in Washington, and an IRS whose workers belong to a union whose political action committee gave roughly 95 % of its political contributions last year to Democrats.

Last week, representatives from Compassion International went before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and talked to them about their obstacles with serving children in India, mainly that the Indian government's regulations would result in the organization being driven out of the country because of a lack of access to funds.

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.

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Over the last few months there was a feeling in league circles that Fisher would try to push Snead out and encourage the Rams to bring in a strong voice, like Bill Polian (Fisher's old friend from the competition committee), to realign the football side of the organization.

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 injuries started popping up when the C405 aluminum alloy came out as the bat standard in 1996 — brain damage, broken jaws, teeth knocked out,» says Bill Thurston, rules editor of the NCAA baseball rules committee for the last 15 years.

April 29 — Liverpool could pay up to # 8 million for Danny Ings, the out - of - contract striker they gained from Burnley last season, ruled a Professional Football Compensation Committee (PFCC) tribunal.

Fight Back PAC, the political action committee formed with the sole purpose of ousting senators who voted «no» on gay marriage last December and replacing them with «yes» voters, sent out an early - morning e-mail with the subject line: «8 Months + $ 800,000 = 3 New Votes for Marriage Equality!»

Fight Back NY, the political action committee formed solely to oust incumbent senators who voted «no» on gay marriage last Decemeber, sent out an appeal this morning seeking contributions to fund the hiring of «expert political researchers» to dig up dirt on Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr..

The last hour has seen the political and constitutional reform committee issue a report complaining that the government's ignoring its recommendations about going to war; Labour have put out a line on the strikes, saying they're «usually a sign of failure»; and the Institute for Government is telling us that Whitehall is leading the way in headcount reductions, with an overall reduction of 8.4 % since the comprehensive spending review in October last year.

«Yes, there are problems associated with the horrible news coming out of the Uber company over the last several months and does demonstrate a need for that company to face up to its responsibilities as a corporate citizen and something they have clearly failed to do,» said Cahill, the chairman of the Assembly Insurance Committee.

Seeking to put to rest rumors that his support of Doug Hoffman might be wavering, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long sent a memo today to NY - 23 county leaders and committee members seeking to tie Hoffman's GOP primary opponent, Matt Doheny, to the woman he forced out of last year's special election, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava.

A recent home affairs committee report showed that the granting of asylum often turned out to be poisoned chalice for those fleeing persecution, with the approval decision activating a period of financial uncertainty which lasted up to four months.

«Last time it didn't make it out of committee, but it got a better reception this time,» Gianaris told The Alt.

In the race for the 21st, four out of the five Democrats and Ms. Stefanik have received donations flagged by the political finance website OpenSecrets.org as coming from political action committees or other candidate committees, as of the last filing date on March 31.

The two men, who broke ranks with the Murdochs following their committee appearance last month, recently put out a statement calling much of James Murdoch's testimony into question.

Following the inability of the Huudu Yahaya - led conflict resolution committee of the National Democratic Congress to effectively deal with grievances arising out of last year's parliamentary primaries, the governing party risk losing some parliamentary seats it won or lost to independent candidates in the 2012 elections, investigations by The aL - hAJJ have uncovered.

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.

She later reached out to say she was speaking on behalf of the Senate Independence Campaign Committee, which is the fundraising arm for senators who until last week were part of the IDC.

The National Republican Congressional Committee sent a staffer out to the Golden State last week to search for and meet with potential candidates and convince them to run in competitive districts in San Diego, Palm Springs and Sacramento, according to a source with knowledge of the visit.

Former county legislature chairman Dan Alfonso liked to say that the work of the legislature is done in committee, so in that sense, the committee assignments handed out by newly - minted legislature Chairman Ken Ronk last week bear scrutiny.

Following last night's meeting, legislature chairman Jay Gould (R - Ashville) said the 19 lawmakers will have their work cut out for them because of all the committee work that will need to be shared amongst 19 lawmakers.

After rejecting a similar measure last year, the Legislature decided to hold some of its committee meetings — two out of 16 — at the County Center.

Fresh on the heels of a similar state law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo three weeks ago, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D - N.Y.) announced last week that legislation he introduced to ban the sale of bath salts has been passed out of a key Senate committee.

Whenever the Chairperson of the County Committee by reason of the Rules of the Democratic Party of the State of New York is a member of a District Committee of a political subdivision lying partly within and partly without New York County which is required to make a Party nomination for public office, he or she shall convene a meeting of the District Committee for the part of such political subdivision within New York County, to be held no later than five days before the last day provided by law for filing a certificate of such Party nomination; he or she shall consult with such District Committee and in carrying out his or her duties as a member of the District Committee for such political subdivision, he or she shall, to the extent feasible, be guided by the advice of a majority of those present and voting at the meeting of the District Committee for the part of such political subdivision within New York County.

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.

Unsuccessful US Senate contender David Malpass sent an e-mail out late last night touting the «constructive role» his new political action committee, GrowPac, played in at least three of the House races in which GOP contenders were victorious: NY - 19 (Nan Hayworth), NY - 20 (Chris Gibson), and NY - 24 (Richard Hanna).

It's a move that comes after the Conservative Party's executive committee formally voted to oppose the formation of the new ballot line, which was formed out of the Stop Common Core ballot line created last year.

Larkin cast the deciding vote last month that allowed the Compassionate Care Act to move out of the Health Committee.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has created a new political action committee, signaling he may be gearing up to run for president in 2020 after bowing out of the race entirely last time around.

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, for her part, pointed out that State Senator Toby Stavisky, a Queens Democrat and high - ranking member of the Higher Education Committee, had introduced a bill last year to provide free tuition for New York State residents to SUNY, CUNY and community colleges — a sign, she said, of the importance of having a unified Democratic Albany.

While Cuomo came out in vocal support last year and attempted to insert money into the state budget for a preparatory committee, the issue was not included in his 2017 State of the State policy book nor his executive budget proposal.

Five out of six of the Yes campaign's steering committee have worked for or explicitly supported the Liberal Democrats in the last 12 months, and at least half of their so - called «grassroots co-ordinators» are former Lib Dem candidates, councillors and activists.

Last year, the big issue turned out to be medical marijuana, which Gottfried, the head of the Assembly health committee since 1987, had been pushing for for decades.

Assemblyman Vito Lopez's office just sent out the following statement from the embattled Brooklyn lawmaker, who was censured and stripped of his staff and seniority last week after a bipartisan ethics committee determined he had sexually harassed two female staffers:

Last month, Stec's legislation to strip pension and retirement benefits from officials convicted of a crime failed to make it out of committee.

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.

According to the statement, the names of the three were left out when the Council announced its unanimous decision last week to remove from office 20 out of the 21 Circuit Court Judges and District Magistrates investigated by the Disciplinary Committee for their involvement in allegations of bribery by Tigereyepi.

Labour MP Sir Stuart Bell, a member of the Commons Members Estimate Committee which carried out its own review of MPs» expenses last year, said MPs would debate the proposals and «have the opportunity if they so wish to amend them».

Two bills — one supporting the tribes» plan for East Windsor and a competing bill that also would open up the process to more potential operators — both passed out of the public safety and security committee last month, neither with a strong mandate.

Miller did not formally endorse Crowley after she announced her run last month, but his father was named on a committee picked by Crowley to fill her spot should she suddenly have to drop out of the race.

Maybe it was just out of respect to Democratic Committee chairman Lanny Walter, who lost to Lamb decisively in the justice race last time around, 71 percent to 29 percent.