Sentences with phrase «who chair committees»

At issue is payments normally given to senators who chair committees that instead went to vice chairs.

By including teachers, leaders of organizations, and people who chair committees in an evaluation of the program structure of the congregation, the pastor can equip these persons for their ministry.

Rep. Devin Nunes, the California Republican who chairs the committee, told Comey that revelations about the investigation had placed a «big gray cloud» over people trying to lead the country.

Rep. Pat Tiberi, the Ohio Republican who chairs the committee, expressed his «deepest appreciation» for the work Yellen had done.

The four senators in the IDC who chaired committees were stripped of those leadership posts, just two days after their conference decided to dissolve and rejoin the Senate's mainline Democrats.

Prior to the meeting Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (D) Bronx, who Chairs the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, which includes oversight of the MTA, will hold a press conference outside City Hall to discuss issues related to MTA bus service, which he feels has gotten shortchanged in all the discussion this summer over problems on the rails.

«A few years ago, the five - year capital plan allocated an enormous amount of money, probably not enough, and that money needs to be spent appropriately and in a very timely fashion, and that doesn't always happen,» said Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who chairs the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, which has some oversight over the MTA.

Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow, who chairs the Committee on Racing and Wagering, says the approach state lawmakers take will depend on the outcome of the lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to block FanDuel and DraftKings from conducting what Schneiderman considers illegal gambling.

City Council Member Ben Kallos, who chairs the committee on governmental operations, said in a phone interview that «All of these [reforms] should've happened before Election Day and if there's an Albany special session it should be part of that agenda.

The bill has the backing of Brooklyn Councilman Antonio Reynoso, who chairs the Committee on Sanitation, but the body has yet to vote on it.

Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (D - Westchester), who chairs the committee on corporation, authorities and commissions, personally opposes the mosque, saying, «This is the site of mass murder.

Assemblywoman Sandra Galef, a Westchester County Democrat who chairs the Committee on Real Property Taxation, normally restricts the efforts to a three - year recovery.

Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, who chairs the Committee on Racing and Wagering, predicts New York will legalize and regulate daily fantasy sports, noting many residents already play it online.

The next step is, each council member who chairs a committee has to file a report by Tuesday, November 15th.

Upper Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the Committee on Transportation, today called on Trump to relocate his transition operation to a property outside the city.

«Preservation is a lot more cost - effective than construction,» said City Councilman Jumaane Williams, who chairs the committee on housing and buildings.

And this is what Frank Field, the Labour MP who chairs the committee, said in a statement issued on behalf of his colleagues.

«For decades the board has been subjected to criticisms that it favors developers over the community in the high level of variances granted,» said Councilman Ben Kallos, who chairs the committee.

After the October 28 City Council veterans committee hearing, Council Member Eric Ulrich, a Queens Republican who chairs the committee, told Gotham Gazette he was optimistic about the new department's execution, but hasn't yet seen a long - term plan for veterans from the de Blasio administration.

Rohatyn, who chairs the committee, also sits on Cuomo's council of economic advisers.

The bill, co-sponsored by Council Member Ben Kallos, who chairs the committee, would tweak the city's public campaign finance system by removing a cap on public funds disbursed to candidate campaigns by the Campaign Finance Board (CFB).

Assemblyman James Brennan, the Brooklynite who chairs the committee on corporations, authorities and commissions, has an idea.

From Aug. 1 through Oct. 23, when the Center filed requests under the state's open records law, Sen. Mary Lazich, R - New Berlin, who chairs a committee to which the legislation is assigned, received a little more than 200 contacts — emails, plus a few calls and letters — staking out positions on the bills.

«Given the confidential nature of this process, I have no comment,» said Assemblyman Chuck Lavine, a Long Island Democrat who chairs the committee.

Men currently hold 70 % of the seats in the Houses of Parliament, and Maria Miller, the Conservative MP who chairs the committee, said that proportion must not grow as boundaries are redrawn.

What this report is saying is that we can attribute an increased magnitude or frequency of some extreme weather events to climate change,» said David Titley, professor of practice in Penn State's Department of Meteorology and founding director of Penn State's Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, who chaired the committee that wrote the report.

«Vehicles must become dramatically more efficient, regardless of how they are powered,» said Douglas M. Chapin, an engineer who chaired the committee that wrote the report, in a statement.

While calling on the government for a five - year subsidy on British coal, the Labour MP Richard Caborn, who chairs the committee, says: «There would be little point enlarging British Coal's market in the medium term if it were to collapse after 1988.»

Zahi Hawass, an Egyptologist based in Cairo who chairs the committee that reviewed the research project, cautions against calling the cavity a «secret room,» as pyramid builders often left large gaps between stone blocks, a construction strategy that makes the pyramid's core look like Swiss cheese.

«A current stated interim goal of NASA's human spaceflight program is to visit an asteroid by 2025,» said Albert Carnesale, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who chaired the committee that authored the report.

«That statement is our answer to the question of whether there should be a ban» on any further research, said David Baltimore, a Nobel Prize - winning biologist who chaired the committee.

«The program will provide high - quality, intensive, subject - specific, and sustained support for fellows, both during their initial pre-service year in the field as well as during the critical first few years of teaching,» said Associate Professor Jon Star, who chaired the committee that designed the proposal.

«The Speakers Committee proudly nominated Roberto Rodriguez as a distinguished HGSE alum who has had a substantial impact on federal policy in education,» said Professor Paul Reville, who chairs the committee.

Michelle Rhee's public popularity has shifted upward within the District of Columbia, pollsters tell us, but the elites who chair the committee set up by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Science to assess Rhee's chancellorship are holding firm to their anti-Rhee convictions, no matter what the evidence.

«Dean Lagemann skillfully guided the School on many fronts, including establishing the foundation for a developing vision of our future in Allston,» says John Collins, librarian of HGSE's Gutman Library and member of the faculty, who chaired a committee on Allston planning during the 2003 — 04 academic year.

Meg Hillier, who chairs the committee, said academies needed to be held to account more effectively.

Meg Hillier, the MP who chairs the committee, said that «the rise in teacher vacancies in secondary schools nationally is a key risk for pupils».

N.C. Rep. Rob Bryan, the Republican from Mecklenburg County who chairs the committee and the leading proponent for achievement school districts in the legislature, said that the districts — pioneered, to mixed results in states like Louisiana, Michigan and Tennessee — could be phased into North Carolina as soon as the 2017 - 2018 academic year.

«The government needs to do more to encourage teachers to stay in the profession by raising the status of teachers, improving the opportunities for good quality training, and by doing all it can to help reduce teacher workload,» said Neil Carmichael, who chairs the committee.

The 5 - 2 vote on a resolution from Monica Ratliff, who chairs a committee that oversees the iPad initiative,...

McKissick said he met late last week with Sen. Bill Rabon, the eastern North Carolina Republican who chairs the committee, but GOP leaders remain reticent to make any commitments regarding a legislative fix to the funding controversy, despite stiff warnings from district chiefs that thousands of teachers» jobs are in jeopardy.

Neil Carmichael, who chairs the committee, said that while some trusts produced excellent results and made «a valuable contribution to our education system, a considerable number are failing to improve and are consistently at the bottom of league tables».

Ruiz, who chairs the committee, said the panel would not be voting on the bill on Monday, but only accepting testimony as to its strengths and weaknesses and suggestions for possible improvements.

After all, as I have noted, the Obama administration's waiver gambit does what Sen. Tom Harkin (who chairs the committee) and onetime reformer and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander (along with traditionalists such as the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) have wanted to do for a while: Eviscerate the Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions that have spurred a decade of reforms that have led to more kids escaping poverty and prison without having to explain themselves before the public.

If one individual can be designated the «father of the Texas Constitution,» it should be David Thomas, who chaired the committee, spoke for the group, and put the draft together.

This is good for jobs, good for investment, and good for the environment,» said Congressman Henry Waxman of California, who chairs the committee.

Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.

A spokesman for Sen. John Kerry, who chairs the committee, was not immediately available to comment on contingency plans.

I am also grateful to Madame Justice Marin who chaired the committee, helping devise the solutions both systems could support.

Cain, who chairs the committee, said it was unlikely the project would have gotten the committee's blessing without the arrangement.