Sentences with phrase «subcommittees including»

He has also served on standing PSC subcommittees including Chinese Drywall (MDL 2047, Co-Chair of Public Relations Subcommittee); Yaz (MDL 2100, Discovery Subcommittee); and Depuy ASR (MDL 2197, Science Subcommittee).

Possible successors as chair of the subcommittee include Nita Lowey (D - NY), and Rosa DeLauro (D - CT), who follow Obey in seniority on the panel.

Finally, the subcommittee includes a representative of the Better Business Bureau, to learn from its Standards for Trust and other programs.

Not exact matches

Grosso told the subcommittee that the whole service branch — including active Air Force, guard, and reserve — has 1,555 fewer pilots than it needs.

A special subcommittee of Uber's board took the stage, including Ms. Huffington, Mr. Bonderman and J. William Gurley, with each addressing the crowd and highlighting different deficiencies discussed in the report, along with how the company would overcome the problems.

Understanding complex social problems (including resources and resistance to change) is best achieved by utilizing the group's total brain - power and experience in subcommittees with specific tasks.

There has been considerable discussion over how a petitioner might include proprietary information while keeping it confidential and the materials subcommittee recently submitted a recommendation on this topic.

Favre has served on various NOSB subcommittees, including livestock, handling, policy development, and materials and certification accreditation.

Meanwhile, the House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday released its fiscal year 2015 agriculture appropriations bill, which included language that would allow any school district which operated its meal program at a loss for at least six months this past school year to seek a waiver from compliance in the coming year with the new, healthier school food standards.

The commission's subcommittee on skateboarding includes four National Honor Society students, a high school band member and a cheerleader, said Commissioner Lori Anderson.

He is a member of the Missouri Bar Association, and two subcommittees of the American Bar Association, including a forum committee on the construction industry.

A subcommittee of the commission — which includes representatives from local churches, Northbrook Park District, the North Suburban YMCA and the Youth Services of Glenview / Northbrook — is working on a logo for the initiative and the design of the online resource.

House Speaker John Boehner assigned Collins to the House Energy and Commerce Committee that includes spots on three subcommittees: Health, Communications and Technology, and Oversight and Investigations.

The budget resolutions specify funding levels for the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and their 12 subcommittees, establishing various budget totals, allocations, entitlements, and may include reconciliation instructions to designated House or Senate committees.

Katko, R - Camillus, submitted his legislation only two days after he chaired a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing that examined recent security breaches at airports, including one that involved an insider scheme to smuggle guns on planes.

The new ads are the first sign of a reboot of the Democratic State Committee that includes the formation of several issue - based subcommittees: New Yorkers for Economic Growth, New Yorkers for Gun Safety, New Yorkers for Immigration Reform and New Yorkers for Education Reform.

He chairs the Council's cultural affairs committee, which includes the libraries subcommittee.

While the Senate's counterpart bill has not yet emerged from the subcommittee that funds NASA, Sen. Richard Shelby, R - Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, raised concerns about spending cuts included in the White House budget blueprint.

During the question period, Senator Chuck Grassley (R — IA), the cosponsor, with subcommittee colleague Senator Dick Durban (D — IL) of a bill to tighten the H - 1B program, asked Hira if he could «rebut the assertion that some, including your co-panelist Brad Smith, have made that the U.S. does not in fact have enough highly skilled workers.»

But the House energy and water subcommittee would boost spending on the fossil fuels program by 2 % to $ 645 million — not including the leftover $ 240 million.

Representative John Culberson (R - TX), who chairs the appropriations subcommittee that funds NSF, and his Republican colleagues want to make sure the bulk of the money is spent on «core sciences,» which, in their view, do not include the geological or the social and behavioral sciences.

Next we identified about a dozen congressional committees (including Appropriations and Budget) and two subcommittees that were likely to pay the largest roles on these issues.

For this, a task force — a subcommittee of the NIH director's advisory committee — will determine whether they were obtained within the principles of the guidelines, including informed consent and the absence of remuneration for embryos.

But the subcommittee did include members with potential conflicts of interest, he adds, such as links to DOE laboratories that would host new facilities proposed by the report.

FESAC set up a subcommittee that, at DOE's request, did not include any members from the major existing U.S. fusion labs.

But the dilemma even got the attention of the Senate subcommittee in charge of science appropriations, chaired by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D — MD), whose state includes both the STScI and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which operates the New Horizons mission.

The hearing, before the appropriations subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives that oversees the HHS budget, included several questions about the 18 % cut to NIH's $ 31.7 billion budget that President Donald Trump has proposed.

Convened by Senator Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa (left), who chairs the spending subcommittee that funds the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the hearing in the hoary Dirksen Senate Office Building included Francis Collins, the NIH director, and George Daley, a stem cell scientist at Boston Children's Hospital among others.

That may not be working out in some areas (like health care), but House appropriators made good progress on FY2018 appropriations bills, including defense (which cleared full committee) and Commerce - Justice - Science (approved at the subcommittee level).

Co-sponsors include Rep. Frank Wolf (R - VA), chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA.

Dr. Nicklas stated that the Nutrient Adequacy and Fatty Acid Subcommittees would consider whether the Dietary Guidelines should include two separate ranges or whether a single range could be recommended.

A subcommittee of STRAT created a pamphlet that includes tips to help teachers prevent bullying, the theme of this month's assembly.

Washington — The Senate education subcommittee plans to include reauthorization of the federal bilingual - education program in an omnibus bill that will be drafted this fall.

Internal networking, including informal meetings with subcommittees of the school board, is what keeps new ideas circulating and under discussion before any decision is taken.

Buncombe County created an ACEs subcommittee consisting of over 30 agencies, including health care providers, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, mental health providers, law enforcement, and numerous education groups.

Dr. Valencia has served on national, state, and local assessment committees to improve assessment systems and policies including the Common Core Standards Advisory Panel on Literacy, National Assessment of Educational Progress subcommittees, and IRA / NCTE standards and assessment committees.

«The negative consequences of the current overwhelming focus on preparation for standardized tests include narrowed curricula, developmentally inappropriate instructional practices, decreases in student engagement, stagnant achievement gaps and rising minority dropout rates,» said subcommittee member and Winchester second grade teacher David Krane.

This individual will responsible for strategy design, managing a team to implementation, growing needed capacity, fundraising for the advocacy work including developing a political action committee, and liaising with the Board of Directors subcommittee on Advocacy, other coalition leaders, and high - level grass - tops partners.

According to a staff report prepared for Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, who chairs a subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee (see pages 88 - 89 for impact on California), the full 8.2 percent cuts to California would include:

A subcommittee has suggested incorporating more measures of student achievement, including test scores, and more levels of teacher ratings when judging employees.

It is expected that the California Legislature will be considering whether to include new funding for ASES in the coming weeks, with initial Budget subcommittee votes starting this week.

A spending bill approved by a House Appropriations subcommittee this week includes $ 3.5 million to reimburse airports and related businesses that are affected by the temporary flight...

The subcommittee recommended six bills for adoption, including the «Virtual Public Schools Act.»

To spark conversation across the aisle, Representative Rosa DeLauro (CT), the top Democrat on the House subcommittee dealing with education funding, released a proposal (PDF) that restores pre-sequester funding to many programs, including Title I funding for disadvantaged students and special education funding.

(a) The governing council of each state charter school shall post on any Internet web site that the council operates the (1) schedule, (2) agenda, and (3) minutes of each meeting, including any meeting of subcommittees of the governing council.

Even after the subcommittee receives its allocation, funds will need to be distributed for programs beyond education — including the National institutes of Health, always a bipartisan priority for increases.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

Professor Curry has led debate in the science community about the process of reviewing climate change, including giving testimony before the US house subcommittee on environment this year, remarking on the many large uncertainties in forecasting future climate.

The charge to the subcommittee was approved by POPA and the APS Executive Board and is included in the supporting documents available online.

He is a member of several organizations including serving as chairman of the Texas Reliability Entity - Reliability Standards Committee, Generation Sector, and serving as co-chairman of the American Wind Energy Association's Workforce Development subcommittee.