Sentences with phrase «public joint conference»

The process has been typical in the way that virtually all decisions are being hammered out behind closed doors, with only an occasional public glimpse obtained during sham public joint conference «meetings.»

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He adapted this article from a speech given at the 20th Religious Liberty Conference of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., in October.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein on Thursday called for an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics into the allegation of sexual misconduct made against him by a former legislative aide.

Among the question topics were what more Governor Cuomo should have done before disbanding the Moreland Commission on public corruption, how Astorino feels about NJ Governor, and chair of the Republican Governors Association, Chris Christie «writing you off», whether they believe Christie and Cuomo have an «arrangement» concerning Christie's lack of support for Astorino, what «assurances» of support Christie gave to Astorino when they met, how this joint press conference came to be, how many debates they hope to have and Astorino's take on Christie campaigning in New Hampshire but not New York.

Last week, state Sen. Jeff Klein (D - Bronx), leader of the Independent Democratic Conference that shares power with Republicans in the State Senate, confirmed that the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics is investigating a sexual harassment claim against him.

I now believe that chambers must democratize, hold more public hearings on major legislation and use joint conference committees to hammer out agreed upon legislation, instead of relying upon closed door meetings between their leaders and the governor.

«We should have the revenue forecast completed by tomorrow which will lead to joint Senate - Assembly public conference committee meetings in mid-March.

At 1 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Public Protection», Hearing Room A, LOB, Albany.

All three main political parties held a joint press conference yesterday in which they urged the public to go and vote for the Lisbon treaty, but as the vote begins experts are still unable to predict the vote.

At 10 a.m., Councilman Robert Cornegy, the first elected official in the city to have a public lactation station in his office, jobs Brooklyn BP Eric Adams and Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo holds a joint press conference to announce the voting on Intro 1063 - A prior to the Council's 1:30 p.m. stated meeting, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«When an entity goes beyond its legal purview — possibly for, you know, the wrong motivations — there's a point at which you say enough is enough,» Mr. de Blasio said about an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, or JCOPE, at a City Hall press conference today.

On Monday, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council at news conference at the Iwe Irohin House of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), declared that the workers were set for industrial action by Thursday.

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But the public consortium and Celera are expecting to hold a joint conference next year to share information on their different methods of sequencing the genome.

At 12:30 p.m. today, at a joint press conference with the public genome effort, Celera Genomics will describe the first assembly of the human genetic code from the whole genome shotgun method.

«I think it is fair to give the public more accurate information, and it's not fair to equate these two storms of the same category because the kinetic energy is doubling,» I - I Lin, a professor in National Taiwan University's Department of Atmospheric Sciences, told attendees at a joint conference of the Japan Geoscience Union and the American Geophysical Union (JpGU - AGU 2017) in Chiba, outside Tokyo, in May.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq held a joint press conference on March 5 to announce the introduction of a bill that would create the new offence of «trafficking in contraband tobacco».

The Joint Conference is convened by the School of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge, in order to make a constructive and significant contribution to debate about judicial review.

This week the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) and the Northern Territory Chronic Diseases Network (CDN) held the joint PHAA 44th Annual Conference and the 20th Chronic Diseases... Read more