Sentences with phrase «president of watchdog»
«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.
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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.
WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters)- Two U.S. Democratic politicians asked a government watchdog on Monday to scrutinize implementation of President Donald Trump's tax law, warning that the administration could use new tax guidelines to create the appearance of a large middle - class tax cut ahead of the 2018 mid-term elections.
As part of financial reform, President Obama tasked one consumer watchdog with «looking out for regular people in the financial system.»
John Scherr, founder and president of earnings watchdog site WhisperNumber.com, said Friday after the JPMorgan results were posted that he expects a mixed performance from banks for the Q4 earnings season.
«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.
There are currently two interim leaders of the agency: current head of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, who was selected by President Trump to oversee the consumer watchdog until a permanent replacement could be found, and Leandra English, former CFPB chief of staff turned deputy director, whom Cordray had appointed.
Facebook Inc. is drawing scrutiny from the main U.S. privacy watchdog and half a dozen congressional committees over how the personal data of 50 million users was obtained by a data analytics firm that helped elect President Donald Trump.
At the Vatican, Sisters Pat Farrell and Janet Mock, president and executive director respectively of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, sat down with Cardinal William Levada, head of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the church's doctrinal watchdog group, and Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle, who is charged with bringing the nuns back in line with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican.
BP Australia president Andy Holmes has declared the oil major is «far from done» on its $ 1.8 billion deal to buy Woolworths» chain of petrol stations, vigorously disputing the competition watchdog's assertions it would drive up prices.
Speaking at a public meeting in which the Park District's $ 385 million budget was unveiled, Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation, said the tax watchdog group supported the district's restraint in not raising property taxes and increasing employee contributions to health care costs, but was troubled by the «pension holiday.»
«It would be hard to imagine a chemical that is more widespread in our environment,» said Kenneth Cook, the president and founder of the watchdog organization Environmental Working Group.
Cindy Mitchell, president emeritus of the watchdog group Friends of the Parks, credits the Park District with an impressive turnaround.
The Albany - based think tank and fiscal watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy launched in 2005 as a project of the Manhattan Institute is being «re-launched» as an independent organization, the organization's president E.J. McMahon announced.
The president - elect rebuked Republicans for prioritizing the «weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog» over other issues.
A spending bill that funds watchdog agencies overseeing Wall Street will offer lawmakers one of their last opportunities to undercut President Barack Obama's signature financial overhaul before the November elections.
«All of this makes clear that the Supreme Court was wrong in Citizens United when it unleashed big money in our elections with the promise it would be independent of candidates and office holders,» said Paul Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation at the nonprofit watchdog group Common Cause.
President Trump scored a victory when a federal judge refused to block the president's choice to temporarily run the nation's top consumer financial watchdog and, for the moment, ended a two - way battle for leadership of thPresident Trump scored a victory when a federal judge refused to block the president's choice to temporarily run the nation's top consumer financial watchdog and, for the moment, ended a two - way battle for leadership of thpresident's choice to temporarily run the nation's top consumer financial watchdog and, for the moment, ended a two - way battle for leadership of the agency.
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.
«Billion - dollar personnel costs in both counties should not only push officials to make some tough decisions here, but get citizens to demand action and realize this problem is one of the big reasons Long Island is so unaffordable,» said Doug Kellogg, communications director for Reclaim New York, a Manhattan - based government watchdog group chaired by Rebekah Mercer, a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump.
Carol Kellermann, the president of nonpartisan fiscal watchdog Citizens Budget Commission, was equally outraged, telling The Observer, «Funds paid in settlement of litigation with the state, unless intended to compensate for specific losses, should be used as determined through the normal budget and appropriation process.
«It's clear the Council is trying to assert itself in budgeting,» said Maria Doulis, vice president of Citizens Budget Commission, an independent fiscal watchdog.
Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., government watchdog group, said the Army is trying to stir up local communities with scare tactics.
Carol Kellerman, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a municipal finance watchdog, said the group agreed to support Tax Equity Now when Jordan Barowitz, director of external affairs at the Durst Organization, came to her and told her about the lawsuit.
In a statement signed by Messrs Michael Iloegbunam and Nnamdi Ozoh, National President and National Secretary respectively of the association, the body stated that as a watchdog organisation, it would not hesitate to expose any candidate, political party or group that fails to play according to the rule during and after the election.
If there's one thing that Cuomo is good at, it's throwing money at tech companies,» said E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscal watchdog group.
«It's the first quarter, so it's hard to see to the end of the fiscal year,» said Maria Doulis, vice president at Citizens Budget Commission, an independent watchdog.
A few environmental watchdog groups voiced concern that artificial life might somehow escape the laboratory and become an invasive species or pose dangers as yet unforeseen, and President Obama asked the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to explore the implications of Venter's work.
Among the bureau's career staff, the shift was regarded as a new attack on one of the bureau's core statutory functions, and another attempt by Mr. Mulvaney and his team to dismantle a consumer watchdog reviled by President Trump.
«We've been the USDA's watchdog for 20 years,» Deborah Howard, president of Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS), told The Dodo.
Facebook Inc. is under investigation by a U.S. privacy watchdog over the use of personal data of 50 million users by a data analytics firm to help elect President Trump.
Facebook Inc. is drawing scrutiny from the main U.S. privacy watchdog and half a dozen congressional committees over how the personal data of 50 million users was obtained by a data analytics firm that helped elect President Donald Trump.
tech.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader shares a report: Facebook is under investigation by a U.S. privacy watchdog over the use of personal data of 50 million users by a data analytics firm to help elect President Donald Trump.
Facebook is under investigation by a U.S. privacy watchdog over the use of personal data of 50 million users by a data analytics firm to help elect President Donald Trump.
Simon, president of Eat Drink Politics, a corporate watchdog consulting firm in the US, has released an Australian edition of «And Now A Word From Our Sponsors» detailing close links between the food industry and DAA.