Sentences with phrase «public testimony from»

In order to make a decision, the pay commission does not require any public testimony from lawmakers.

The pay commission does not require any public testimony from lawmakers to make a decision.

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Friday requested public testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder and CEO, adding to the list of congressional panels looking to haul in the company's top executives.

Not exact matches

Testimony this week ranged from journalism ethics and website analytics to Hogan's public statements about his sex life, including the his penis size.

CHARLESTON, W. Va., Nov 28 (Reuters)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hear testimony from coal miners, lobbyists, environmentalists and others on Tuesday at a public meeting in West Virginia on the EPA's proposal to dismantle an Obama - era plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants.

The idea was to establish a record that will allow for better questions from senators when Cohen is summoned back for public testimony, the official said.

Mark Zuckerberg answered questions about Facebook's data collection and privacy policies this week from almost 100 different politicians in nearly 10 hours of public testimony.

With the journal First Things, the testimonies came in from every quarter: People read the back of the magazine first» beginning with Richard's «Public Square.»

These organizations should be cut off from defining public policy and the courts should be restricted in allowing their testimony, bias and words to define the courts decision.

Despite innumerable private testimonies of help and solidarity given — often at great risk — to persecuted Jews, despite innumerable touching signs of friendship and fidelity that dismissed Jewish professors received from their students, no public protest has been made by any educational body; and some new corporative institutions, among the liberal professions, are willingly admitting a kind of numerus clausus.

The Republican presidential candidate's 2007 church switch also may mirror something much more personal: The culmination of Perry's journey from a mainline Protestant upbringing to an evangelical - flavored faith built on close relationships with Baptist preachers and giving public testimony about God.

It heard testimony from 31 persons, including researchers, producers, directors, writers, actors, corporate executives, legislators, and leaders of national educational and public interest organizations.

If this Ethiopian Eunuch was all alone and far away from home, then nobody would have seen or known what he did on this deserted road in Israel, and therefore, his baptism could not have been a public testimony to anyone.

Public hearings involved testimony from environmental engineers on air quality and benzene emissions that were a cause for concern by neighboring residents and the park district.

Additional testimony also in support came from the American Civil Liberties Union - New Hampshire, Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin King, The New Hampshire Citizens Alliance, the New Hampshire Breastfeeding Rights Coalition, the New Hampshire Departments of Labor and Public Health, the NHBTF, the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center and New Hampshire Voices for Health.

Howe, in his first public testimony since pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate in 2016, is expected to lay out what he says was a series of payoffs to line Percoco's pockets from Howe clients who were already contributors to Cuomo and wanted favors from the administration.

The second public hearing held by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's commission to probe public corruption featured testimony from long time government reform groups.

Following a month of abundant citywide community activism and outreach, City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has submitted to City Hall more than 10,600 parent petition signatures, dozens of video and audio testimonies and nearly 20 resolutions from Community Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day care cuts.

He says testimonies he expects to be made public in the coming days were from «whistleblowers» who were «peripheral, making invented claims about things they didn't see».

«As a statutory matter, these issues are governed entirely by state law,» Best said in his testimony against the so - called Community Safety Act, which he said included bulky provisions that would threaten public safety by preventing cops from doing their jobs.

Testimony of experts and public officials would be made public, while the names of civilian witnesses could be redacted from the record.

The NYCLU — along with Public Advocate Letitia James, the Legal Aid Society, the NAACP and the New York Post — filed the appeal in the appellate division of New York Supreme Court to overturn a judge's decision not to release testimony from the grand jury.

Prosecutors on Thursday afternoon wrapped up 10 weeks of testimony and arguments in Central Islip, where they sought to make the case that the one - time elected officials accepted an illegal stream of benefits from restaurateur Harendra Singh and, in exchange, abused their public positions to get him two county contracts and more than $ 20 million in town - guaranteed loans.

BY ANDY HUMM Out gay City Councilmember Daniel Dromm of Queens, on October 30, presided over a hearing of the Committee on Education he chairs that heard more than six hours of testimony on bullying in the city public schools, with representatives from the Department of Education (DOE) on the defensive and students and advocates -LSB-...]

Protests at the Council testimony of NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton today grew so intense that police and building security ejected more than a dozen members of the public from the chambers.

When I found they tried to hide from me for ever, I have the braveness and candidness to post my testimony and evidence on the web, into the light for public scrutiny; By contrast, ZZZ / YYY / VVV continue to hide their real identities and materials they made up (e.g. Gabriele Scheler's recanted testimony) to mess up this case in the darkness, which leaves room for ZZZ / YYY / VVV to crook justice on their hands; I believe ZZZ / YYY / VVV had colluded with Scheler and Thrun to terrorize / extort authorities, as well, which should be another set of crimes from them against human society;

Instead, Ryan filed an ethics complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics pointing to testimony in a Yonkers corruption trial from disbarred attorney Anthony Mangone that alleged Libous had arranged for his son to receive a job at a law firm paid for by $ 50,000 from a lobbying organization.

«The powerful testimonies from members of the group have captured the public's admiration for their guts and determination.

The legislature's marathon budget hearings continued Wednesday and on the docket was public protection, which included testimony from several people including the new state police superintendent, corrections officials, and also the judiciary, which has been at odds with Governor Cuomo since his budget was introduced.

LaValle's report, which he compiled after hearing expert testimony during a public meeting in May and reviewing best practices from New York colleges, goes farther than Cuomo's policy, though, addressing the adjudication of assault charges and related disciplinary actions.

During his testimony last week, De Blasio also complained that Cuomo's budget plan shifts $ 198.3 million from the city Department of Education to charter schools Cuomo noted that students who attend charters are public school students, too.

The Town Board adjourned a public hearing on July 11 after testimony from the applicant's engineer, Garry Robinson; town engineer Tom Suosso of Cedarwood Engineering, and neighbors of the application, including written comments.

During nearly two hours of testimony in Oswego City Hall Tuesday, community leaders and Nine Mile Point Nuclear Plant employees begged staff from New York's Public Service Commission to support the proposed «clean energy standard» under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal to generate half of the state's energy from renewable sources, like wind and solar, by 2030.

After a grand jury in December refused to indict Pantaleo, a groundswell of requests grew from the public and city officials seeking access to the secret testimony and exhibits shown to the jury by the Staten Island District Attorney's Office.

After holding the first public hearing dedicated solely to this issue and hearing testimony from every side of the justice system I knew this was something that needed to happen immediately.

«We'll be taking the Borough President's recommendations under consideration along with all of the public comments and testimony gathered from the community throughout this process,» the spokesman said in an email.

They did pack public hearings, lining up testimony from current fast food workers who described in tearful detail the impossibility of supporting a family while working in the industry.

After the public hearing, the Town Board unanimously voted to table a decision on the code change until board members review testimony from the hearing and address residents» statements.

The purpose will be to solicit testimony from experts and the general public about the best ways to fix -LSB-...]

Today's proceedings will being at 1 p.m. with testimony from Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash, and then Paladino's team is expected to call its witnesses.

State lawmakers listened to several hours of testimony Tuesday from contractors, labor representatives and industry groups about a bill that would ban mandatory project - labor agreements on public projects.

A public hearing followed in February, with testimony from a wide range of good - government groups and New Yorkers, along with a survey of Council Members in March.

Wednesday's hearing is the commission's chance to take testimony from the public.

We believe that the testimony from the second round of public hearings on the legislature's own drawn lines for 2012 provide you with important guidance in negotiating better districts where needed and appropriate.

After hearing testimony for almost three hours from dozens of public officials and local residents, John P. McLaurin III, the Army's deputy director of force management, said he realizes Fort Drum enjoys «overwhelming» support from the community.

A spokesman, Scott Reif, said the groups that advocated public financing «say they support free speech, yet they attempted to disrupt a hearing and prevent members of the Elections Committee from taking testimony.»

The Brooklyn - based state appellate panel on Wednesday denied an appeal from Public Advocate Letitia James and several other groups seeking to overturn Justice William Garnett's decision to keep the testimony and minutes from the grand jury proceedings sealed.

At the same time Obama was speaking in Atlanta, the U.S. Senate held an Ebola hearing that featured testimony from leading public health officials and perhaps the world's most famous Ebola survivor, Kent Brantly, who became ill with the disease while treating patients in Liberia in July.

Obama will be visiting the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to discuss the U.S. response, At about the same time, a U.S. Senate hearing on Ebola will also take place with testimony from key public officials and Ebola survivor Ken Brantly.

In a series of separate public hearings this fall, members of Congress and New Mexico state legislators heard testimonies from the full range of people who have something to say about uranium mining — community members aggrieved by six decades of mining impacts, industry officials trumpeting new jobs from renewed uranium activity, and government regulators trying to figure out how to address both the past uranium legacy and future uranium developments.