Sentences with phrase «testify in favor of»

Though Entergy claims it was unaware of the situation, a public relations firm it hired had paid freelance actors to testify in favor of the project at public meetings.

Carbon Washington co-chair Mike Massa joined Gail Gatton from Audubon Washington and a representative from the League of Women Voters to testify in favor of the bill.

Dr Hansen has gone to England t testify in favor of eco-terrorists so I am certain he is unbiased..

People for the American Way, a national civil - liberties advocacy group founded by the television producer Norman Lear, began working to have the procedures changed last year after it was denied the opportunity to testify in favor of textbooks criticized by Mel and Norma Gabler of Education Research Analysts, a nonprofit organization...

Another group of ministers held an event at a local church to publicly express their support for me and went to Madison to testify in favor of the bill that would allow me to become superintendent.

A host of advocates and elected officials are expected to testify in favor of a rent freeze at the pubic hearing, which takes place Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Cooper Union's Great Hall in the East Village.

They represent Moms Demand Action and they coordinated over social media to testify in favor of a bill that would ban bump stocks.

In October 2016, de Blasio and Murphy appeared at the Port Authority's board meeting to testify in favor of raising airport workers wages in New Jersey to $ 15 an hour, in alignment with those in New York.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

Those assertions, made in pre-sentencing prosecution papers cited in a defense memo, said the amount of money the former party leader illegally took was more than $ 400,000, and that he obstructed justice by attempting to get three potential witnesses to falsely testify in favor of his defense.

They represent Moms Demand Action and they coordinated over social media to testify in favor of a bill that would ban bump stocks and place regulations on ghost guns.

Governor Tom Corbett, a Republican, sent an aide to testify in favor of the bill on the Governor's behalf.

«Amendments to the bill face an uphill battle, says John Coffee Jr., a professor at Columbia University Law School who testified in favor of bananas yesterday, «but they sometimes win.»

This key employee is none other than Vice President Matt Card, who has been testifying in favor of strong trade action on global imports.

Further, even the abortion doctors who had testified in favor of D&X abortion in fact had never used the technique, leading Justice Kennedy to label their testimony a «courtroom conversion.»

Reinvent Albany testified in favor of the legislation at a mayoral hearing on November 20th and previously at Council hearings held this past June and in December 2016.

Many of the same - sex marriage bill's opponents, while testifying against that measure, testified in favor of a separate bill under consideration at the hearing that was introduced by Del..

Reinvent Albany testified in favor of this bill in December 2016.

Council Member Oliver Koppell also testified in favor of adopting the MV - 1, but the difference between the two elected officials is that Oliver Koppell never accepted money from the maker of the MV - 1, while Micah Kellner did.

Smith testified in favor of H.B. 235 on March 9 in front of the Maryland House of Delegates Health and Government Operations Committee.

On July 19, Lowell Nelson, vice-chair of the Utah Republican Party, testified in favor of Instant Runoff Voting.

Representatives for the group testified in favor of Cuomo's education agenda before the State Joint Committee on Education earlier this month, and praised his «bold blueprint» for education reform after the State of the State address.

July 21, 2011: Scholarly Journal Publishes Article on How California Would be Changed if it Used Proportional Representation July 21, 2011: Utah Republican Party Vice-Chair Testifies in Favor of Instant Runoff Voting

Among other witnesses testifying in favor of raises were former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, New York State Bar Association President Vincent Doyle and New York City Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo.

July 21, 2011: Scholarly Journal Publishes Article on How California Would be Changed if it Used Proportional Representation July 21, 2011: Sacramento Bee Runs Op - Ed Advocating Proportional Voting Systems July 21, 2011: Utah Republican Party Vice-Chair Testifies in Favor of Instant Runoff Voting

Spencer Lam, a representative from the popular Chinatown bus carrier Fung Wah, also testified in favor of the measure, noting that the bus company is «hopeful and thankful» for the proposed legislation.

«It was a patently illegal action — they admitted there was going to be substantial overfishing,» said Charles Witek, a recreational fisherman from New York who testified in favor of the fisheries law at a House hearing in July.

Chamber president Barbara Lang says Rhee never thanked the chamber for testifying in favor of Mayor Fenty's takeover of the schools, legislation that will be pivotal to Rhee's success.

It says Liz Sanders, CTA bargainer, testified in favor of it, and Karen Asher on behalf of CTA, testified against it.

As also highlighted in both of these articles is that as one of the defendants» witnesses, the Superintendent of the Roswell Independent School District testified in favor of the state's model.

Despite being an out - of - state education reform operative, Guenther testified in favor of Malloy's education reform initiative when it was proposed in 2012.

Tom Ash, BASA director of governmental relations, said, «The committee's passing of HB 597 is particularly troubling in light of the many school leaders from across the state who testified in favor of «staying the course» with the Common Core State Standards.

As reported by MIRS News, Sen. Rick Jones, R - Grand Ledge, claimed that local school districts backed away from testifying in favor of SB 553, which he sponsored, after facing threats of financial retaliation from their ISD.

Moskowitz has testified in favor of charter schools during congressional hearings and is a regular attendee at Sun Valley, an annual private conference of the world's top CEOs and financiers.

At a time when Connecticut's towns and cities already face the potential for significant state aid reductions based on Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed budget, is it any wonder that the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities testified in favor of delaying a system that is proving costly and problematic elsewhere?»

Less than a year ago, Education Commissioner Dianna Wentzell testified in favor of a bill which provided flexibility for MBR (Minimum Budget Requirements).

«We received an overwhelming out pour of support from not only the many individuals who testified in favor of SB 3 on Tuesday, but the millions of Texans who have expressed their support for school choice — and this legislation — in the months leading up to this week's hearing.

In February, a Utah teacher named Cole Kelly testified in favor of a bill that would penalize school districts for not granting all teacher organizations — not just unions, but also other professional organizations — equal access to teachers.

McGovern was testifying in favor of Senate Bill 1155 and HB 1080, and against HB 3212.

In West Virginia, Mackinac's Vernuccio has similarly testified in favor of right to work, and the state SPN affiliate, The Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia, has backed the anti-worker measures.

At the ERT proceedings, he testified in favor of windfarm victims.

Washington, D.C. (January 26, 2018)-- Yesterday, at a hearing in the New Jersey Legislature, there was a broad group of community stakeholders who testified in favor of developing a community solar program.

(ALEC) model bills in state capitals by issuing reports and testifying in favor of the legislation; the bills often would roll back environmental protections or weaken renewable energy policies.

Dershowitz also testified in favor of applying the law, according to a news release.

Meanwhile, the Business Council of New York State also appeared at the hearing and testified in favor of increasing its own member's insurance costs.

Planned Parenthood Advocates in Missouri supports the bill and testified in favor of its passage.

Several proponents, including NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri and Advocates of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, testified in favor of the bill.

Not exact matches

Testifying to Parliament a few days later, a former Cambridge employee, Christopher Wylie, contended that the company helped swing the results in favor of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.

When Plan Colombia was under consideration by Congress, a vice president of Occidental Petroleum (in which Albert Gore's family owns stock), who is also a leader of the U.S - Colombia Business Partnership, testified in its favor.

Von Campenhausen believes that if the story were simply a legend «it would not have specified three women (who, by Jewish law, were not competent to testify) as the decisive witnesses ’25 and he is supported at this point by H. H. Rex who claimed that «This is in itself a point in favor of the authenticity of the tradition.