Sentences with phrase «committee heard concerns»

Over two days this week the Energy and Power Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee heard concerns from scientists, poultry producers, automakers, drivers, restaurant owners, tool makers, store owners, environmentalists and the oil and natural gas industry about problems with E15 and / or the current Renewable Fuel Standard.

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In an unusual mid-December display of bi-partisanship, the House Financial Services committee announced plans to hold hearings to address SEC settlement practices and «concerns about accountability and transparency,» according to Chairman Spencer Bachus.

«We have heard from many significant shareholders of the company about their concerns with these matters, and we share them,» said Pathak, speaking on behalf of the committee.

Speaking at a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, he said he does not see bitcoin and its competitors as a threat to financial stability, though he does have other concerns.

After current proposed legislation was rushed to floor in just five weeks, the Senate Judiciary committee decided to pause and let the concerns of all parties be heard.

«I think, given the extraordinary evidence we've heard so far today, it is absolutely astonishing that Mark Zuckerberg is not prepared to submit himself to questioning in front of a parliamentary or congressional hearing, given these are questions of fundamental importance and concern to his users, as well as to this inquiry,» Damian Collins, the member of parliament heading the UK committee, said earlier on Tuesday.

Lawmakers continue to be concerned about how content is managed by social media platforms and the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Thursday «to examine social media filtering and policing practices.»

We had been concerned that, if the plan committee members heard the recordkeeper's recommendations, that would make the recordkeeper an investment fiduciary.»

At a House Financial Services Committee hearing last week, Stumpf said he believed that the arbitration process was fair, but that the bank would pay for a mediator to assess any additional customer concerns.

Specifically, the Senate Committee recommended: (1) that the ACCC re-open its informal review of ADM's proposed acquisition of GrainCorp and obtain independent expert advice when conducting that review; (2) that the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) consider evidence from the committee's hearings, potential loss of taxpayer revenie, the potential for the takover to «distort the capital market to the detriment of Australian farmers and Australia's economy due to food security concerns» and the need to «protect the public interest and the interests of grain growers» when making its recommendation to the TCommittee recommended: (1) that the ACCC re-open its informal review of ADM's proposed acquisition of GrainCorp and obtain independent expert advice when conducting that review; (2) that the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) consider evidence from the committee's hearings, potential loss of taxpayer revenie, the potential for the takover to «distort the capital market to the detriment of Australian farmers and Australia's economy due to food security concerns» and the need to «protect the public interest and the interests of grain growers» when making its recommendation to the Tcommittee's hearings, potential loss of taxpayer revenie, the potential for the takover to «distort the capital market to the detriment of Australian farmers and Australia's economy due to food security concerns» and the need to «protect the public interest and the interests of grain growers» when making its recommendation to the Treasurer.

The California Assembly Agriculture Committee postponed a hearing on a bill concerning the whey value in Class 4b milk price formulas until May 1.

After hearing the concerns of the HISD Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Committee, our school food department informed us yesterday that it has already reduced the number of times juice is served to our children from five days a week to three, that it's switching over to a lower - sugar (but not artificially sweetened) juice, and that it's entirely eliminating Craisins (which contain six teaspoons of sugar per serving) from the breakfast menu.

Tedisco's push comes as the Democratic - led Assembly plans to hold water quality hearings in early September and as the House Oversight Committee is reviewing the state's handling of the contamination concerns in the rural village.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R - Texas) issued a statement Tuesday calling the report «extremely concerning» and announcing that he will hold a hearing Thursday to explore the issue.

Mr. Flanagan described the recommendations contained within the report as «a good first step in addressing the concerns heard by the committee, which overwhelmingly revolved around the issue of over-testing.»

The Committee on Ethics may hear any complaint concerning violation of these Rules and Regulations.

The Markets Committee who are meeting today must now hear the concerns of those who care deeply about the Market.»

In a letter to Senate leaders, the director of the Office of Government Ethics described the current status of several nominees, some of whom are billionaires and millionaires, in the ethics process and expressed concern about the lack of ethics reviews just days from committee hearings.

The Erie County Legislature's Finance and Management Committee marks the midpoint of the year by holding hearings with each of the departments and elected offices to discuss their budget expenditures thus far and to air any concerns for next year's budget.

Based on the concerns raised at Monday's public hearing before the state assembly's Standing Committee of Environmental Conservation, state officials will draft a «battle plan,» in the words of State Senator Kenneth LaValle (R - Port Jefferson), for how they can fight to preserve the area as open space and avoid damaging its unique, diverse ecology.

He told the committee on Tuesday: «Clearly there is a lot of concern about the preparation for the home affairs select committee hearing; concern about events during the hearing, and after the hearing.

Asked if Blumenthal is open to supporting Gorsuch, the senator said he will wait until after the Judiciary Committee holds hearings on Gorsuch's nomination to make a final decision but that he has «serious and deep concerns» about him.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- In effort to show fellow Democrats he hears their deep concerns about his health care plan, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus plans to make changes to his own proposal even before the committee starts voting Tuesday on hundreds of proposed amendments to the $ 774 billion dollar plan.

Queens Councilman Donovan Richards, chairman of the Public Safety Committee, told Chernyavsky the hearing was scheduled before the DOI report came out and that he was «concerned» by Chernyavosky's testimony.

Indeed, DOE inspector general Gregory Friedman told a March hearing of the House Science and Technology Committee that he is concerned about poor monitoring of past contracts by DOE staff.

At yesterday's hearing of the Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Representative Lacy Clay (D — MO), several witnesses expressed concerns that public - access policies could harm journals.

We hear him tell a congressional committee that he has no concerns about the collateral damage of attacks he ordered because he does not consider himself «a citizen of the world.»

The Committee slams the continued lack of measures to address «intolerance of childhood» and raises deep concerns that children's views are not being heard.

The agency's November 2007 guidelines outlining humanitarian concerns to be addressed during raids «are not being followed in a consistent fashion,» said Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey, a Democrat from California and the chairwoman of the workforce protections subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee, who presided over a hearing this morning about how raids by the agency known...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has heard evidence from a number of educational authorities about concerns regarding the value for money of the the government's teacher recruitment methods.

The state Assembly's education committee yesterday held a hearing on the new Common Core State Standards and the related testing — and heard repeated concerns expressed by representatives of school organizations, education advocates and others about the pace of the changes being pressed on schools by the state.

Washington — Members of Congress weighed the concerns of parents, researchers, and educators about the sensitive intersection of education data and student privacy at a House education committee hearing Tuesday.

Members of the state's Mastery Examination Committee heard parent, teacher, and superintendent groups» concerns about SBAC.

Education Committee Co-Chair Rep. Andy Fleischmann and Senate Co-Chair Gayle Slossberg heard teachers» and parents» concerns about SBAC testing and took action by advancing this legislation.

Cohen and Executive Director Mark Waxenberg expressed teachers» support for SB 380 An Act Concerning the Exclusion of Student Performance Results on the Mastery Examination from Teacher Evaluations to members of the legislature's Education Committee at a public hearing.

Perhaps in response to some of the concerns articulated by TCTA and others, the commissioner of education sent a letter to House Public Education Committee members in advance of the hearing regarding his position on the teacher evaluation guidelines submitted to USDE.

Making sure we hear and understand your needs and concerns is extremely important to us and is precisely why we rely on our policy committee, composed of representatives from throughout UAPCS membership, to thoroughly vet legislation that impacts charter schools.

Indiana school corporations are required to submit new teacher evaluation programs to the state Department of Education by next month, but some legislators expressed their concerns about the law at an education study committee hearing Tuesday.

This year a group of Republican legislators in the Connecticut General Assembly introduced H.B. No. 7017, an Act Concerning Student Data Privacy, but following a public hearing, the Education Committee passed an extremely weak version of what might be called an attempt at beginning to address the student privacy problem.

On March 7, 2016 one of the bills that the Connecticut General Assembly's Education Committee held a public hearing on was Senate Bill 380, AN ACT CONCERNING THE EXCLUSION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE RESULTS ON THE MASTERY EXAMINATION FROM TEACHER EVALUATIONS.

On March 7, 2016 the Connecticut General Assembly's Education Committee held a public hearing on Senate Bill 380, An Act Concerning the Exclusion of Student Performance Results on the Mastery Examination from Teacher Evaluations.

Warren, who is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee which will hold a hearing on the nomination this week, also voiced concerns over DeVos» «deep record of activism, bankrolling and lobbying for policies that would privatize public education.»

According to Dr. Patricia Hill, former President of SCAV and current Legislative Committee Chair, «Often, veterinarians hearing these concerns filed complaints with the South Carolina Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners; however, this board had no jurisdiction of complaints against shelters.

-- We used social media to generate phone calls of support from concerned citizens, and invite organizations and individuals to support the bill in person at the committee hearing.

Following the hearing, the Committee will provide direction to staff or LSEs concerning revisions to demand forecasts.

«Here's what I hear you saying,» Keith responds, presenting his plan as a response to the committee members» concerns, so they will feel it is their plan and he will thereby gain their strong support.

Lastly, the Court examined the hearing before the Appeal Committee and found that, even if there had been legitimate concerns raised about the hearing before the Dean, the appeal to the Appeal Committee provided the applicant with a fresh hearing at which there was oral testimony, an opportunity for cross-examination, full documentary disclosure and the opportunity to be represented by counsel.

For example, we have drafted proposed environmental legislation, prepared and provided testimony before legislative committees and related governmental hearings, and presented client concerns to legislators.

Similarly, under a statute which allowed for bylaws concerning «all or part of the costs of the disciplinary proceeding,» and although regulations provided for a licensee to pay «all or part of the costs of the disciplinary hearing, including (i) per day fees for members of the Discipline Committee, (ii) counsel fees, (iii) reporter fees, (iv) facility charges, and other charges associated with the hearing», a court found such award to be subject to the same reasonableness standard of review as is the rest of the substantive disciplinary decision.

Recently advised ACAS concerning the jurisdiction of the Central Arbitration Committee to hear a complaint brought against it by the PCS trade union.