Sentences with phrase «percent said their committee»

Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and other business interests to promote his agenda of education cuts and tax breaks.»

Forty - two percent said their committee had only one woman.

Not exact matches

«Given the economic outlook, and recognizing the time it takes for policy actions to affect future economic conditions, the committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 0.25 to 0.50 percent,» the FOMC's post-meeting statement said.

The central bank kept its inflation forecast for this year at 2.7 percent but said that some of its monetary policy committee members «moved a little closer» to their limits for tolerating an overshoot in the bank's inflation target.

In a statement following the end of a two - day policy meeting, the Fed also said that «on a 12 - month basis is expected to run near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term.»

When Lewis testified before the House of Representatives» Committee on Small Business last summer, he said that only 37 percent of calls the IRS received from taxpayers in the 2015 tax season were answered.

Investing in women is smart business, says Kathryn Swintek, general partner and member of the Investment Committee of Golden Seeds Fund 2, part of New York - based angel network Golden Seeds, which comprises more than 275 investors, 80 percent of whom are women.

Its rate - setting committee said inflation had «moved close» to its target and that «on a 12 - month basis is expected to run near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium tercommittee said inflation had «moved close» to its target and that «on a 12 - month basis is expected to run near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium terCommittee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term.»

«Any rules changes need 75 percent support from the committee,» Spiker said.

The Fed statement said: «The Committee anticipates that it will be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate when it has seen some further improvement in the labor market and is reasonably confident that inflation will move back to its 2 percent objective over the medium term.»

While the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says 80 percent of Americans will see a reduction in their taxes this year, only 44 percent will see a reduction of $ 500 or more, according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.

In a related statement, Fed officials said: «Given the economic outlook, and recognizing the time it takes for policy actions to affect future economic outcomes, the Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 1/4 to 1/2 percent.»

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 percent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

About 90 percent of all trading is now done by high - speed algorithmic computer trading, Gary Gensler, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said today to the joint committee of CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission regulators who are looking into the flash crash.

In its statement, the Fed expressed confidence that a recent rise in inflation to near the U.S. central bank's target would be sustained, leaving it on track to raise borrowing costs in June, while it also said inflation «on a 12 - month basis is expected to run near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term.»

«In determining whether it will be appropriate to raise the target range at its next meeting, the committee will assess progress - both realized and expected - toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2 percent inflation,» the Fed said in a statement after its latest two - day policy meeting.

The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee said on Dec. 13 it would raise its target range for the federal funds interest rate by a quarter point, to between 1.25 percent and 1.5 percent.

But the FOMC said that «inflation on a 12 - month basis is expected to run near the committee's symmetric two percent objective over the medium term.»

But Local 46 officials said real progress toward a settlement didn't occur until more than 90 percent of union members voted June 26 to authorize the negotiating committee to set a strike date.

But because genetic differences can affect how well some people's bodies utilize calcium, Abrams said the committee went a step further and established 1,300 milligrams as a «recommended dietary allowance» that would cover 97 percent of all children in the group.

At their appearance before the committee, Rupert Murdoch said it had been «the most humble day of my life» and argued that since he ran a global business of 53,000 employees and that the News of the World was «just 1 percent» of this, he was not ultimately responsible for what went on at the tabloid; he added that he had not considered resigning.

Women receive less than 5 percent of conventional small business loans, even though women - owned businesses make up nearly 40 percent of all businesses in the country, Gillibrand said, citing figures from the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

«I am confident that the 10 percent reduction can be achieved without requiring new closures of state parks or historic site by reevaluating our operations to identify additional efficiencies, eliminating redundancies, and examining how savings from actions taken in the current fiscal year will help in in the next fiscal year,» said Andy Beers, acting commissioner of the Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation, before a joint legislative budget committee this morning.

«In a three - way race, 50 percent is very good for Mayor Sheehan,» said Jack Flynn, 8th Ward Common Councilmember and Chairman of the Albany County Democratic Committee.

By 4 p.m. Friday, Molinaro had secured the backing of Republican state committee members from counties that will represent about 40 percent of the weighted vote at the GOP nominating convention in May, his campaign said.

«Donations to [Cuomo's] campaign committee and to the housekeeping account of the New York State Democrats — which spent millions of dollars running television advertisements featuring the governor selling New Yorkers on his agenda — accounted for 40 percent of the total money raised from this list of mega-donors,» NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney said.

Responding the ad, National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Ken Spain said, «The very same site that Owens uses to back up his claim in his ad shows that he votes with his party 93 percent of the time.»

«I don't think it's right that 30 percent of our population [consists of] people of color yet our ticket doesn't reflect that,» said Zimmerman, a union organizer who lives in Newtown and recently opened an exploratory committee for a possible run for statewide office.

The committee said, according to the polling, 48 percent of voters favor a generic Republican candidate while 40 percent would plan to vote for a Democrat.

Nixon won 91 percent of the weighted vote, party leaders said; 187 of the 229 members of the state committee were represented either in person or by proxy.

Ulster County GOP Chairman Roger Rascoe said Faso, who garnered 62 percent of the committee's vote Wednesday, «distinguished himself» from the other candidates.

Both the NBA and MLB have suggested a 1 percent fee on all legal wagers on their games, said Assembly Racing and Wagering Committee Chairman Gary Pretlow (D - Westchester), who called the ask «a little high.»

The Committee said 63.8 percent of voters approved the new constitution following two polls this month, which took place amid accusations of fraud.

About 36 percent of workers in the county lack paid sick time, and the committee says low - income and part - time workers are especially unlikely to be covered.

Samaroo, an Indian American, also said a special election — where nominees on established political party lines are chosen by the organizations» executive committees — would disenfranchise the district's minorities, which his suit claimed comprise 61 percent of the Assembly district.

More than 10 percent of committee members are city hall employees, and many other members are closely aligned with the mayor, Hogan said.

«The committee members were told it wasn't 100 percent that Vito was running but that he was leaning toward it,» the source said.

The vice chair of the community board's housing committee Xavier Santiago abstained from voting, saying he has asked the developer to set aside 50 percent of the units for affordable housing.

Molinaro's campaign said the changes mean the Dutchess County executive has locked up 74.25 percent of the weighted vote from Republican State Committee members who will nominate a candidate for governor at the end of May.

Steve Losquadro, the convention parliamentarian, said LaValle had the support of more than 40 proxy votes from Smithtown, or about 30 percent of Smithtown's committee vote.

Kolb, R - Canandaigua, said in a Twitter message on Friday that he had managed to pick up commitments from GOP committee members who represent 48 percent of the weighted vote statewide.

For the Common Council races in the 15 city wards, the petitions must contain the names of at least 5 percent of enrolled Democrats, but getting that number, which varies from ward to ward, wasn't an easy lift, Albany County Democratic Committee Chairman Dan McCoy said.

Morse, who has taken 40 percent of his campaign contributions from the breakaway senate group the Independent Democratic Committee and told the Times Union earlier this month he did not recall some of his downstate donors, said he won't take contributions from those who lobby committees he oversees.

«Since early peanut introduction is a relatively new idea, we were not surprised to find that more than half (53 percent) of those surveyed said following the guidelines was of no or limited importance,» said allergist Matthew Greenhawt, MD, MBA, MSc, chair of the ACAAI Food Allergy Committee and lead author.

Mark Kovacs, chairman of the Windham Local Energy Committee, which is the entity that solicits bids and makes the suggestion to the Board of Selectmen — which ultimately approves power contracts — said the town went looking for at least 50 percent renewable energy and ultimately decided to pay a small premium for 100 percent renewable power.

«The Local Energy Committee pitched to them [the Board of Selectmen] that the additional cost is overcome by the benefits to society in general by going the green 100 percent route,» Kovacs said.

«The study reports asthma related emergency room visits are estimated to be 55 percent lower in people with asthma who use dose counting inhalers than in those who use inhalers without dose counters,» said allergist Allen Meadows, MD, ACAAI fellow and chair of the Public Education Committee.

Speaking at the start of an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing where he is the second highest - ranking member, the Montana Democrat said he wanted to weaken the bill's 2020 target for greenhouse gas emissions — now 20 percent below 2005 levels.

While the first part of the 2003 - 2013 decade was truly exceptional for Latin America in economic terms — GDP growth reached a rate of 5.4 percent a year between 2003 and 2007 — 2015 has been a year of weakening performance, said Ocampo, chair of the United Nations Economic and Social Council's Committee for Development Policy.

But in most cases, abundance estimates have uncertainties of at least 20 percent, says mathematician Doug Butterworth of the University of Cape Town in South Africa and a member of the IWC scientific committee.