Sentences with phrase «house held a hearing»

«I don't know about you but I was outraged yesterday when the House held a hearing on birth control, without including a single woman on the opening panel,» she wrote.

The sexual harassment spotlight reached Capitol Hill today as the House held a hearing to discuss how it handles misconduct, and Democratic California Rep. Jackie Speier discussed just how prevalent cases are in Congress.

In other legislative news, the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House held a hearing today regarding abusive patent demand letters.

HOUSING PRODUCTION HEARING Proponents of efforts to increase housing production in Massachusetts crowded the hearing room at the State House on June 20th when the Joint Committee on Housing held a hearing on bills relative to production.

Not exact matches

The House Financial Services Committee plans to hold hearings about the data breach, which exposed 143 million customers to identity theft.

Republicans have called on the House Financial Services Committee to hold a hearing, while Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, chairman of the domestic policy subcommittee of House Oversight Committee, is planning his own probe.

The House committee Chairman Greg Walden told reporters he would discuss with his committee holding similar hearings with other technology chief executives.

Separately, a House Financial Services subcommittee is set to hold a hearing on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings Wednesday.

This after the House Oversight Committee held a hearing with Mylan CEO Heather Bresch that left it with more questions than answers.

The House of Commons ethics committee held hearings this week to take a closer look at the breach that involves Facebook and, allegedly, the political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica.

The House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on tax reform on Thursday.

Independent Street recaps hearings held this week by the House's Small Business Committee.

Another Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs will also hold a bitcoin hearing on Tuesday 19 November.

On November 8, the US House of Representatives held a hearing on the effectiveness of a 1999 law known as the Kingpin Act, which is used to sanction individuals suspected of involvement in the drug trade.

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.

The lawmakers, who control the tax - writing House Ways and Means Committee, said they would hold hearings on the measures, which are sure to be heavily attended by Washington lobbyists.

The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing on pending nominations.

The same day as the Equifax announcement, House Republicans held a hearing on a bill to massively curtail damages from private litigation under the FCRA.

For example, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has held a series of «disruptor» hearings to understand new technologies including the internet of things (1/18/18 and 6/13/17), fintech, and digital currency and blockchain technology.

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.»

In this morning's hearing with the House Energy and Commerce Committee, New Mexico Representative Ben Lujan cornered Mark Zuckerberg with a question about so - called «shadow profiles» — the term often used to refer to the data that Facebook collects on non-users and other hidden data that Facebook holds but does not offer openly on the site for users to see.

On June 8, 2017, the Terrorism and Illicit Finance Subcommittee within the US House of Representatives» Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing entitled «Virtual Currency: Financial Innovation and National Security Implications.»

(Take that, House of Commons Finance Committee, which is holding hearings on the issue next week.)

U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said «technology holds the best promise here» during April 27 hearing.

He will testify first at a hearing held jointly by the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on April 10 and then before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11.

The House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee held its second hearing on the contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan.

Flint, Michigan Water Contamination The House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee held its second hearing on the contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan.

In February, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held hearings on digital currencies and discussed the Securities and Exchange Commission's role in regulating initial coin offerings.

Earlier on Friday, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee announced it would launch an investigation into the bank and hold a hearing in later September.

July 26, 2011 (Washington, DC)-- On July 26, 2011, The ESOP Association submitted a statement for the record to the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions which held a hearing examining the impact of the Department of Labor's proposed rule on the definition of a fiduciary on the retirement community.

The House and Senate intelligence committees each held a hearing on the issue Nov. 1.

House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) held the second hearing in a series of hearings called «Make It In America: What's Next?»

Here in China where I live and work as a teacher, there is a state church that is monitored heavily by the government and there are the House churches that are now beginning to be heard and are holding there services out in public, but the members are being arrested and thrown in jail and yet they continue to hold there services.

When the young man heard it, he ran forth and caught hold on a great statue of marble which was set in the court of the house, and broke it in pieces with his feet.

Today is one of those moments, because Representative Peter King (R - NY) held a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Muslim «radicalization» in U.S. prisons.

Have you heard about the gluten - free gingerbread house contest being held by Kim at Cook It Allergy Free?

Yesterday, House legislators began holding a full committee hearing on the Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act of 2010 (H.R. 5504), which is the House version of the Child Nutrition Bill.

THE CUPCAKES ARE SAFE: The Department of Agriculture does not intend its proposed rules on the marketing or sale of junk foods in schools to prohibit class treats, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said during a hearing held by the House appropriations agriculture subcommittee Friday.

The House Education and Workforce Committee continues to hold hearings on the CNR, and there have been two more hearings since the one I recapped for you in April:

This week, the House Agriculture Committee is holding a hearing on the controversy surrounding the current update to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

On March 18, [2015] the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa and the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere held a joint hearing about Iran and Hezbollah's involvement in Central and South America.

But the Senate's one - house budget plan excluded a mayoral control re-authorization and instead decided to hold hearings on the issue.

Unfortunately however, the two houses could not come to terms about holding joint oversight hearings, which would have demonstrated a united and bipartisan front.

The House Judiciary Committee holds hearings and, if necessary, prepares articles of impeachment.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), 49th State Senate District candidate, today is calling on the New York State Senate to join the state Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives and hold public hearings on the safety of our state's water supply.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is the latest lawmaker to criticize the House for holding a hearing on President Barack Obama's controversial contraception coverage rule without including any women on the opening panel.

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.

The New York City Council Committee on Public Housing holds an oversight hearing examining elevator safety in NYCHA housing following the death of Olegario Pabon at Boston Road Plaza, Council Chambers, City Hall, ManHousing holds an oversight hearing examining elevator safety in NYCHA housing following the death of Olegario Pabon at Boston Road Plaza, Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhousing following the death of Olegario Pabon at Boston Road Plaza, Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

But now, McLaughlin, a state assemblyman from Rensselaer County, is stepping up his efforts to shame his fellow Republicans in the upper house into holding hearings on water quality issues in Hoosick Falls.

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.