Sentences with phrase «receiving stipend»

She got the fellowship, and as part of it, Gelhaus has been receiving a stipend as well as a small amount of money for travel, research supplies, and health insurance.

A faction of breakaway Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference has been in the news lately for receiving stipend payments for chairing committees that the Senators in fact did not chair.

«Prior to receiving the stipend, I was not asked, told or briefed by anyone that I would be receiving a stipend for my role on the Crime and Corrections committee,» she wrote in a Facebook post first reported on Thursday by The Citizen.

Disclosure: As part of of the blog tour with Scholastic all participants and receiving a stipend and a copy of the dictionary.

You'll work on projects for nonprofits and businesses and then receive a stipend in return, for between $ 250 and $ 1,000 a month.

She receives a stipend of $ 397 every two weeks, plus food stamps, for her work on public health issues in Oregon.

After Pendleton took over leadership of Embrace, he realized that leaders of all but two student groups received stipends from Moody — all except Embrace andthe Jewish student group, Kesher.

Originally, it read that only one student group had not received a stipend.

The Spectator received a stipend from a North Carolina heiress to fund research on the Thomas - Hill story, and Brock got the assignment.

I received a stipend to facilitate my purchase for my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation.»

As part of the Foodbuzz Tastemaker Program, I received a stipend and coupons for free Häagen - Dazs ® ice cream

Students receive a stipend higher than Australian Postgraduate Award stipends, plus support for project costs.

No compensation was received for this post, however, I do receive a stipend to attend a blogging conference of my choice.

I received a stipend to facilitate...

I received a stipend to facilitate my purchase for my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation.

Seven lawmakers who hold vice chair posts in the chamber have received stipends otherwise designated for committee chairs.

Seeking to bolster their argument, the Republicans released letters dating back to 2013 signed by then - Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos that listed various lawmakers in leadership posts and chair titles in order to receive stipends.

The comment was in response to a New York Post story on some vice chairs — who receive stipends normally reserved for committee chairman — not attending committee meetings.

'' When I agreed to be deputy vice chair, I didn't ask for extra money and I didn't know at that time I would receive a stipend,» she said.

Seven lawmakers in the Senate receive stipends under the arrangement in which they are reported to the comptroller's office for holding the post of chair of a committee when they do not actually hold that post.

The IDC - mainline Democrat feud took a new turn last week when it was revealed three IDC members had received stipends normally reserved for committee chairs.

The use of falsely classifying lawmakers as committee chairs came under scrutiny on Friday as The New York Times reported members of the Independent Democratic Conference — Sens. David Valesky, Jose Peralta and Diane Savino — have received stipends, or «lulus» in Albany parlance, despite holding the post of vice chair.

Senate Democrats have called for an investigation into the arrangement in which seven state lawmakers, including three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, have received stipends and were listed as committee chairs on official payroll records sent to the comptroller's office.

So, for instance, Sen. David Valesky is not being listed officially as the Senate Health Committee chair, but is being scheduled to receive the stipend for that job.

During the same time, Sen. David Valesky, a Democrat and member of the Independent Democratic Conference, received a stipend as the designated chairman of the Senate Health Committee.

In a subsequent statement, Gallivan leaned heavily on the assurance from a top Senate lawyer the reporting of a misleading title in order to receive the stipend was legal.

Lawmakers in the state Senate on Monday defended receiving stipends for committee chairmanships they don't actually hold, with some suggesting the story is being driven by a «political witch hunt» that wants to undermine a Republican - led chamber.

Almost every one of the state's 63 senators receives a stipend, ranging from the extra $ 41,500 given to the chamber's leader, John J. Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, to the $ 9,000 bonuses given to ranking minority members of committees overseeing things like insurance, labor and — yes — ethics.

Tedisco, Hawley and Lalor propose G.I.V.E. Back NY enrollees receive a stipend of $ 11,500 for the semester - long program.

Other senators who have receive the stipends won't return them.

By being listed as chair of a committee, the senator receives a stipend.

Helming, R - Canandaigua, knew she would receive a stipend, but thought it would be for serving as chair of the Legislative Commission on Rural Resources.

Helming, R - Canandaigua, has been identified as one of seven senators who have received stipends this year for committee chair assignments they do not hold.

Senators holding leadership posts or committee chair assignments receive stipends.

He doesn't receive the stipend for the chair because he gets a larger payment — $ 22,000 — as majority whip.

In addition to Senate Republicans that have benefited from the practice, three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, which has a power - sharing arrangement with the GOP, receive stipends despite not serving as committee chairs or having leadership posts.

That's when Helming learned she had actually received the stipend allocated for the Crime Victims, Crime and Correction committee chair.

Gianaris sought to make a motion to have the practice of vice chairs receiving stipends end — prompting Phillips to say the issue hadn't been raised before the meeting.

Senate Republicans have also received stipends for titles they didn't hold.

Members of the State Senate majority have been receiving stipends for committee chairmanships they don't actually hold.

Committee chairs receive stipends.

He added that while the law did not mention that vice chairmen receive stipends, «it doesn't necessarily mention that it doesn't.»

Under state law, chairmen of Senate committees explicitly receive stipends; vice chairmen do not.

A legal opinion from Senate GOP counsel David Lewis released Saturday night said the committee chairman title in the paperwork submitted with the controller's office was used as a type of accounting code rather than to identify the title of specific senators receiving the stipends.

On Monday, the New York Post reported that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D — Manhattan) announced support for state lawmakers raising their salaries, which are now set at a base of $ 79,500 - a-year, with many receiving stipends for chairing or serving on committees, which takes them up to an average between $ 90,00 to $ 100,000 per year.

She receives the stipend for serving as Minority Leader — also — she does not go around handing out «raises» for (1) upstate Senators who turned their back on an upstate candidate for the Republican leadership position, or (2) Democratic Senators who align with the Republican conference.

Albany Law School Professor Michael Hutter in a radio interview on Friday was skeptical as to whether any laws were broken in the arrangement in which senators receive stipend payments reserved for jobs they don't actually hold.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is not champing at the bit to investigate the controversy surrounding some lawmakers receiving stipends for jobs they don't actually hold.

O'Mara, who chairs the Environmental Conservation Committee and is vice-chair of Transportation, said in a statement he receives a stipend for the Transportation job, but not the other.

Last week, it was first revealed that a handful of Senate Republicans and members of their coalition, the breakaway Democrats known as the IDC, were receiving stipends for jobs they do not hold.