Sentences with phrase «appropriations subcommittee»

The House appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies is scheduled to mark up the budget bill on Thursday afternoon.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan faced many questions from members of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on education, where concerns about spending were heightened by the prolonged negotiations over the debt ceiling.

JoAnne Poole, CRS ®, GRI, broker - owner of Poole Realty, went before the Senate housing appropriations subcommittee in late March to urge Congress to pass legislation that would let borrowers obtain FHA - backed mortgage financing with competitive terms like 100 percent financing, risk - based pricing, and 40 - year loans.

The General Assembly has effectively dismantled the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee (Ed Oversight) in recent years, and this year they've made unprecedented changes to the joint meetings of the House and Senate Education Appropriation subcommittees (Ed Appropriations).

Just last week, the House and Senate appropriations subcommittees with jurisdiction over education spending canceled planned «markup» hearings for their respective budget bills.

Harris made this declaration during one of two hearings that touched on school discipline reform — a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Trump Administration's proposed budget for education programs.

The House appropriations subcommittee for education will hold a hearing on the bill Thursday.

Washington — A Senate appropriations subcommittee last week approved a higher than expected $ 21.2 - billion Education Department budget for fiscal 1988.

The U.S. House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee on health and human services, labor, and education met to ask the directors of five agencies about ways to avoid duplicating research in a tight budget environment.

, who chairs the Senate Appropriations subcommittee responsible for funding the Defense Department and who does not believe that warming is human - induced, has long complained that too much of DOE's budget is frittered away on programs to boost energy efficiency or alternative fuels — which he says have little to do with the military's mission.

Even so, the move by the Senate Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations subcommittee would erase most of the cuts that President Donald Trump requested next year for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

First, the Senate energy and water appropriations subcommittee had $ 300 million more to play with than its House counterpart.

A House Appropriations subcommittee voted yesterday to approve spending legislation for fiscal 2012 that would, for the second year in a row, undercut the White House budget request for the country's next generation of weather and climate satellites.

Already behind schedule, the Senate's education spending bill suffered another setback when appropriations subcommittee Chairman Arlen Specter underwent emergency heart - bypass surgery June 1.

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.

This morning full of education bill debates follows a late evening yesterday at the Utah Capitol when appropriations subcommittee members delivered their budget recommendations to the Executive Appropriations Committee.

A House appropriations subcommittee late last month approved the bill, which keeps overall funding for DOE's Office of Science flat at $ 5.39 billion but imposes deep cuts on applied renewable energy programs.

A spokesman for Rep. Kay Granger (R - Texas), who leads the House Appropriations subcommittee over foreign aid that recommended an 18 percent cut to USAID's budget, did not return a request for comment yesterday.

The Administration had sought over five percent increases for both NSF and the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and a 5.2 percent discretionary spending increase might open the door to these (as Rep. John Culberson [R - TX], chair of the NSF appropriations subcommittee, suggested back in May).

Suresh, who became NSF director last October, was questioned by Representative Frank Wolf (R - VA), the once and current chair of the commerce, science, and justice appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

A House appropriations subcommittee advanced a $ 37.5 billion energy and water bill that would slash funding for renewable and efficiency programs and eliminate the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E).

Fattah relinquished his position on the Commerce, Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies appropriations subcommittee today and was replaced by Representative Mike Honda (D — CA), a former high school principal who has been a reliable vote for additional federal funding of research and education.

Science lobbyists are hailing the vote of confidence in basic research from Congress and applauding the efforts of Representative Frank Wolf (R - VA) and Senator Barbara Mikulski (D - MD), who chair the relevant appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively.

In response, this past June a Senate appropriations subcommittee proposed a budget bill that would end U.S. participation in the project next year.

Each committee is broken into 12 smaller Appropriations subcommittees, and each subcommittee writes an appropriations bill for the programs under its jurisdiction.

The lack of effort displayed by Ed Oversight has carried over into Ed Appropriations subcommittee.

Rep. John Edward Porter, R - Ill., and Sen. Arlen Specter, R - Pa., the chairmen of their respective chambers» appropriations subcommittees with jurisdiction over education, met late last week in an effort to settle differences over programs under their purview.

When pressed by representatives at a House appropriations subcommittee hearing on the budget, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos declined to say if, when or how the federal government would step in to make sure that private schools receiving public dollars would not discriminate against students.

However, yesterday both the Senate and House of Representatives appropriations subcommittees that oversee DOE released spending plans that would give the Office of Science just a 0.9 % increase, to $ 5.4 billion.

It repeats language added to the 2011 spending bill by Representative Frank Wolf (R - VA), chair of the House appropriations subcommittee for commerce, justice, and science, who accuses China of stealing U.S. technology and says that the United States has nothing to gain from science collaborations with the world's second largest economy.

Now to be clear, Secretary Duncan has been an advocate for tougher standards and high - quality assessments, as he explained to a House appropriations subcommittee last week.

In a report that accompanies an appropriations bill approved earlier this week, a Senate appropriations subcommittee responsible for NOAA proposes folding NURP into the agency's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER), and «purging or maintaining» NURP's current fleet of submersibles and underwater robots.

Bolden was first grilled by Representative Frank Wolf (R - VA), chair of the commerce, justice, and science appropriations subcommittee, over alleged lapses of security at NASA, which Wolf and many others believe has made the agency vulnerable to espionage by China.

DOE's science budget falls within the jurisdiction of the House energy and water appropriations subcommittee.

A House appropriations subcommittee voted along straight party lines to maintain funding for key K — 12 education programs at current levels while completely eliminating three of the Obama administration's signature reform initiatives.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made it clear, appearing before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday, that she sees no connection between school funding and school performance.

Richardson, the chief of US naval operations, told the House Appropriations subcommittee in March that Russia's increasing interest in undersea operations was «exactly why our investments [in European operations] are focused on the antisubmarine - warfare problem, both enhancing our undersea sensors and then... infrastructure for the antisubmarine aircraft, the P - 8.»

Compounding matters, the General Assembly has effectively dismantled the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee (Ed Oversight), while joint meetings of the House and Senate Education Appropriation subcommittees (Ed Appropriations) are becoming increasingly rare.

Earlier this year David Van Essen, president of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), strongly urged the US House and Senate appropriations subcommittees on labor, health and human services as well as on education to increase NIH funding by 6.7 percent per year for each of the next three fiscal years, stating that this is needed «to ensure that our best and brightest young people will enter the field and continue to make neuroscience research advances.»

Senator Tom Harkin (D — IA) called the hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education in the wake of the 23 August ruling by Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that hESC research violates a law barring federal funds for research that harms human embryos.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is expected to testify next Wednesday at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing about the then - released budget and may offer some insight into the proposals.

«A major component of this resurgent Russia has been in their maritime» activity, US Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, a career submariner, told the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense in March.

In this April 26, 2018 photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt removes his glasses as he testifies at a hearing of the House Appropriations subcommittee for the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, on Capitol Hil in Washington.

Note: Georgia Congressman Jack Kingston is the chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees school nutrition programs], and our message to Congress is, help us turn this school kitchen that just has a deep fryer and a warmer into a real kitchen.

In any case, nothing in what you said refutes the original study that I linked to, or my own experience working in the Texas Legislature, where it was a demonstrable FACT that taxes from urban areas subsidized more - conservative rural areas — a fact that we dealt with every day on an appropriations subcommittee my boss served on.