Sentences with phrase «said committee chairs»

«It's legal, but that's the whole problem,» said Martland, who said committee chairs that control the movement of legislation should not take contributions from the interest groups they oversee.

«In producing this report, the Commission for Rural Communities has shone a light on one of the most important issues facing England's rural areas — the future of its young people,» said committee chair Dr Stuart Burgess.

The complaint didn't fall on deaf ears: «The committee and the nominees should have the respect that they deserve, rather than having it jammed at the end of session,» said Committee Chair Ken LaValle, R - Long Island.

«Our report stresses the importance of thinking of Spirit Lake and the Toutle River as a system,» said committee chair Gregory Baecher, Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The hope is that such advisers will help keep the government «more honest» by pushing politicians to consider hard scientific evidence before passing new policies, says committee chair Phil Willis.

It is important that anyone assessing the quality of work by an individual researcher or research institution considers the value of the published articles themselves, rather than relying on impact factor,» said committee chair Andrew Miller.

What happened reflects «a rush» to move genomics - based tests into the clinic and commercialize them, says committee chair Gilbert Omenn, a computational biologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

«The mission of the investigating committee is to determine whether or not there has been misconduct; whether STAP cells exist is something for the scientific community to determine,» said committee chair Shunsuke Ishii, a RIKEN molecular geneticist, at the press conference, which lasted a marathon 4 hours.

«These new studies support previous findings that reducing sodium from very high intake levels to moderate levels improves health,» said committee chair Brian Strom, George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

«We're pleased to have such a highly qualified and experienced nominee, whom I fully support,» said committee chair Senator Jeff Bingaman (D - NM), in kicking off the 45 - minute hearing.

«Historically, assessments of science literacy have focused on individuals, but we see now that communities can engage in science and produce scientific knowledge in a way that transcends any individual's ability,» said committee chair Catherine Snow, Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

«We hope we will persuade the U.K. government that these interventions are valuable as part of an armory to persuade people to change behavior,» says committee chair Julia Neuberger.

«Right now we don't know what many of these thresholds are,» said committee Chair James White of the University of Colorado, Boulder, in a statement.

Says Committee Chair Kent Jones, «It's made with an extraordinarily unusual level of craft...

«The winding down of the current program and the governor's call for change presents an opportunity to rethink the administrative and programmatic structure of the state's facilities program, and to better align the program design with the state's policy objectives,» said committee chair Sen. Carol Liu, D - La Canada Flintridge, the bond bill's author.

Committee members conferred with representatives from the New Schools for New Orleans nonprofit that supports charter schools, and decided at its most recent meeting to engage a firm called K12 Search Group to help recruit the next CEO, said committee chair Stephen Boyard Jr..

«Schlitz adds a new dimension to books for young readers - performance,» said Committee Chair Nina Lindsay.

«Society looks to lawyers and lawyers rely on bar associations and the legal community to provide guidance on ever - changing policies and laws,» said committee Chair Deborah Martin Owens of New York City (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan).

«It was time for the association to take a stand for tolerance,» says committee chair Linda Page, GRI, SFR, a practitioner in Rhinebeck, N.Y.

Not exact matches

Hatch, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, said that whoever advised Trump on this policy «ought to be reprimanded.»

Even Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa)-- the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee who up to even this year opposed reforming sentencing laws — has said he is open to the new proposals.

In a letter, committee chair Damian Collins said Facebook officials had previously misled the lawmakers about risks in the site's data - sharing practices, and said it was «now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process.»

«Many comments reflected the negative impact of the Asian holiday period, concerns about tariffs and difficulties in moving containers from ports to using locations,» Timothy Fiore, Chair of the ISM Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, said in the press release for the survey.

«It depends what district you're coming from, I guess,» said Rep. Mark Walker, who chairs the influential Republican Study Committee.

(WASHINGTON)-- Billionaire Steve Wynn has stepped down as Republican National Committee finance chair, the RNC's chairwoman said, a day after reports that the casino magnate had engaged in multiple instances of sexual harassment.

Army Col. John Hope was the director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

Ritchie Torres, who chairs a city council committee on public housing, said at the press conference that there was a direct link between the falsification of permits and the decline in affordable housing in New York.

«If local communities want to be economically competitive, they need to have workers with a strong STEM foundation,» said Randy Schilling, chair of the organization's Education Committee.

Damian Collins, the chair of the British parliamentary committee investigating the data breach, said that the ICO and Electoral Commission must have unfettered access to Cambridge Analytica.

Two Republican senators say their party should consider returning donations from Republican National Committee finance chair and casino mogul Steve Wynn in light of sexual misconduct allegations against him.

One thing I can say, however, is that I have had the good fortune of interviewing and seeing how one or two excellent board or committee chairs, or directors on a board, can completely reform and turn around risk management of an entire large, complex organization by pressing management and holding them accountable.

Damian Collins, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, said U.K. lawmakers «may well» approach other tech firms in their inquiry.

Although Hensarling, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee did not respond to a request for comment, he has said the battle over the bank is one of philosophy, which for conservatives dictates that the government should stay out of free enterprise.

Murkowski, chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, said the tariffs could impact plans to build out infrastructure that her state long has anticipated.

According to Bloomberg, Ways and Means Committee chair Tom Brady said he may rewrite it this weekend, ahead of a committee vote oCommittee chair Tom Brady said he may rewrite it this weekend, ahead of a committee vote ocommittee vote on Monday.

«Changing careers and a changing world bring new problems and the need for new knowledge,» said G. Richard Shell, a professor and expert in negotiations who served as chair of the MBA Review Committee that created the new design.

«It incentivizes them to seize property,» says David B. Smith, chair of the Forfeiture Committee for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Calling the new CFPB rule «anti-consumer,» the Republican chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Representative Jeb Hensarling said Congress should reject it under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which gives lawmakers power to kill newly minted regulations.

Damian Collins, the chair of the British parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said he would not rule out asking more technology firms to give evidence on their data collection practices, but there are no plans currently.

Omar said he could not give a timeframe for recovery, but a special economics committee he chairs was recommending «proactive measures to be taken from time to time to deal with the current situation.»

«The wireless industry has done everything it can to persuade federal regulators and state regulators not to require that backup power be put in place,» said Regina Costa, chair of the telecommunications committee of the National Association of State Utility Advocates, which speaks for consumer representatives.

Although the FCA said it would publish a detailed summary of the report in due course, Chair of the Treasury Select Committee Nicky Morgan said earlier this month there was an overwhelming case for publishing the full report, since it was now in the hands of a number of third parties.

Christian Levesque, chair of the Canadian «mirror committee» and head of the Canadian delegation here in Madrid, had the following to say about the project:

«The board accepts the result of today's non-binding vote and will take it under advisement for future CEO compensation,» Aylwin Lewis, chair of the board's compensation committee, said in a statement.

Horner said Alberta has tried to address some of Ottawa's complaints about the current system by pitching its own proposal — one that would create a new national enforcement agency as well as a national systemic risk committee made up of all 13 regulators and chaired by the federal minister.

«We need a continuing and increasing investment in public transportation,» says Angela Iannuzziello, chair of the Board's infrastructure committee and a private sector transportation planning consultant.

The Obama administration's refusal to either endorse or oppose legislation from Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, the Republican chair and top Democrat respectively of the Senate Intelligence Committee, stems in part from ongoing divisions among various federal agencies over encryption, the sources said.

Committee chair Collins asked whether he thought it was odd that Facebook now employs his former co-director at GSR, Joseph Chancellor — who works in its research division — despite Chancellor having worked for a company Facebook has said it regards as having violated its platform policies.

Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, said the tech industry «has a responsibility» to protect its users and said «the status quo no longer works.»

State Rep. Jenifer Loon, R - Eden Prairie, who chairs the House Education Finance Committee, say schools need a long - term solution to their perennial budget problems.