Sentences with phrase «at your confirmation hearings in»

At the confirmation hearing in January, Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota alerted Sessions to allegations of contact between Russia and Trump aides during the 2016 election.

The Attorney General did not disclose those communications at his confirmation hearing in January.

Wilbur Ross testifies at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Commerce Committee in January 2017.

The lawmakers noted Sini's testimony at his confirmation hearing in February 2016 that he would not seek the $ 194,000 - a-year job as top prosecutor.

[7] At his confirmation hearing in 2016, U.S. Department of Education Secretary John King said the «locus of decision making... is rightly shifting back to states and districts,» an idea that policymakers of all stripes have reiterated since.

At his confirmation hearing in 2009, Senator Lamar Alexander famously told Arne Duncan that «President - elect Obama has made several distinguished cabinet appointments, but in my view of it all, I think you are the best.»

This is the issue behind the revealing exchange between DeVos and Sen. Tim Kaine (D - VA) at her confirmation hearing in which she refused to say that all schools receiving federal aid should be held to the same accountability standards and IDEA requirements.

Education Secretary - designate Betsy DeVos testified at her confirmation hearing in Washington that private, charter and other schools should be options if public schools aren't performing.

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During Sessions» confirmation hearings in 1986, Thomas Figures, who was an Assistant United States Attorney for seven years and an African - American working for Sessions in Alabama at the time, alleged that Sessions referred to the NAACP as «un-American» and repeatedly referred to Figures as «boy.»

At his Senate confirmation hearing, he stated that that «science tells us that the climate is changing, and that human activity in some manner impacts that change.

Secretary Perry, for instance, who presided over the greatest expansion of wind capacity in the country during his 14 years as governor of Texas, acknowledged in his confirmation hearing that climate change is real, and that «man - made activity» is at least partly to blame.

Thomas E. Perez, the former Maryland labor secretary nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the top civil rights attorney in...

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Powell stressed his intention to carry on the cautious approach to interest rate hikes that his predecessor, Janet Yellen, pursued in four years as Fed chair.

At his Senate confirmation hearings, Mr. Quarles indicated he favored a lighter regulatory touch in financial services.

According to Ryken, Packer failed to hear the genuine Gospel in his upbringing in a Church of England parish: He «did not know what [saving faith] was,» Packer says of himself at age fourteen, on the eve of his confirmation.

«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

When DeVos used the expression at CPAC, she was referring to an exchange that took place with Senator Bernie Sanders during her confirmation hearing, in which Sanders asked if she supported his proposal for tuition - free public college education and she replied: «I think we also have to consider the fact that there's nothing in life that is truly free — somebody is going to pay for it.»

Last year, the Senate rushed through Cuomo's same - day appointment of Joe Lhota as MTA chairman, with a committee confirmation hearing taking place late at night via Skype while the nominee was in his home.

While predicting that work on the new Tappan Zee Bridge could start as early as this summer, incoming Thruway Authority executive director Tom Madison revealed at confirmation hearings yesterday that financing for the new bridge is still very much a work in progress.

He has weighed in at confirmation hearings for four of the nine justices now on the court.

Two Republican state senators said Tuesday that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's public safety commissioner, Dora Schriro, should have disclosed at her legislative confirmation hearing in March that the U.S. Justice Department was investigating the New York City Department of Corrections at the time she headed it.

On Nov. 16, Anita Hill sat down at The Washington Post offices with five current and former Democratic lawmakers: Nita Lowey of New York, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia, Pat Schroeder of Colorado and Louise Slaughter of New York - all allies of Hill during her historic appearance at the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991.

Tsunis in 2014 withdrew from consideration as Democratic President Barack Obama's Ambassador to Norway after fumbling questions at his U.S. Senate confirmation hearing.

Less than two weeks before the Bush administration left office, the EPA announced that it would delay its long - awaited decision on whether to set a drinking water standard for perchlorate until the National Academy of Sciences weighed in on the issue.That announcement effectively punted the decision to current EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, who promised to regulate perchlorate at her confirmation hearing.

Secretary of State Tillerson supported Paris in his previous job as CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp. and called for a «seat at the table» on climate negotiations during his Senate confirmation hearing.

The White House nominated all three researchers for the DOE jobs in November 2013, and all received glowing reviews at subsequent Senate confirmation hearings.

CROWDS at last week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, were among the first people to hear confirmation of rumours that the compact, push - button Nokia 3310 cellphone is back.

At this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the crowd was among the first group of people to hear confirmation of rumours that have been flying around for a while: the compact, push - button Nokia 3310 cellphone is back.

McShane discusses the article, and the topics likely to be raised at DeVos's confirmation hearing, in this week's episode of the EdNext podcast.

President - elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary told lawmakers at her confirmation hearing that guns might have a place in schools due to the threat from grizzly bears.

Sen. Rodríguez stated, «What we heard from the research is confirmation that Texas is not doing right by our English language learners... Texas needs to do better at investing in education.»

While this lack of expertise is not disqualifying in itself, her responses to questions at her Senate confirmation hearing about fundamental education functions such as the federal requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and accountability for public funds were unsettling to educators across the country.

In a recent interview with the AutoCar, Principal Designer Jun Goto said that Honda is looking into offering a convertible version, but the execution of suc a vehicle is still a long ways off, so do not expect to hear any official confirmation of a production model for at least two years after the coupe rolls out, if ever.

There has been no official confirmation for either of the launches, but we have been hearing Nook Color 2 rumors for a while now and with Kindle Fire already in fray, B&N will have to step up its game and at least announce a device pretty soon.

At your confirmation classes and in your online research, you are likely to hear complaints that dog shows have become political.

Holdren disavowed all these beliefs at his Senate confirmation hearings and in additional press releases, which said in part,

Two months ago, in an embarrassing display of politics at its worst, eight GOP members of the Senate Committee for Environment and Public Works purposely skipped McCarthy's hearing, further delaying a confirmation vote.

During his Senate confirmation hearing, Tillerson seemed to confirm that he originally voiced support for a carbon tax in 2009 in order to counter a cap - and - trade bill that was moving in Congress at the time.

He changed his tune a bit in his confirmation hearing and promised to protect scientists, which is good, but it's unclear what sparked his turnaround on climate at a suddenly opportune time.

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Covering a wide swath of the blogosphere, this edition of the weekly «blog carnival» includes topics like the potential for Europe to adopt class action litigation; enforcement of contracts in China from the China Law Blog; the impact on health care providers of the FTC's latest red flag rules to combatt identity theft, posted at HealthBlawg (and also important for lawyers to understand); and a roundup of posts on the Sotomayor confirmation hearings, including a link to Volokh blogger Ilya Somin who gave testimony on Sotomayor's position on property rights.

As the question of whether waterboarding (a form of controlled drowning) is, or should be, considered illegal torture takes center stage at the Mukasey confirmation hearings, the backstory on the Bush Administration's infamous torture memo has now emerged, including former Assistant AG Daniel Levin's role in drafting the memo.

Maybe if Srinivasan is nominated, #YesSri could play a role in getting the Senate to hold confirmation hearings, at least.

Still on other occasions when the presence of a lawyer for a simple appearance is required we arrange to have competent agent legal counsel present in court on our behalf at completely no cost to you (the latter might occur at a simple 2 minute long scheduled court appearance like a Trial Confirmation Hearing).

In 2009, he testified on property rights issues at the United States Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator - designate, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, at his confirmation hearing before the.In this Jan. 18, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator - designate, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, at his confirmation hearing before the.in Washington, at his confirmation hearing before the...

It's a bit strange then that we haven't at least heard confirmation of an Animal Crossing game even being in development for Switch.

The Committee on the Elimination of the all Forms of Racial Discrimination (the CERD Committee) considered the amendments to the NTA in March 1999 and again in March 2000 and heard the government's argument that the confirmation provisions merely reflect the position of native title at common law.

Carson commented in response to a question Thursday at a Senate confirmation hearing where some Democrats questioned his qualifications to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has responsibilities ranging from insuring low - down - payment mortgages to administering rental assistance for low - income home owners.