Sentences with phrase «house subcommittee hearing»

Despite the overall measured tone among lawmakers at Wednesday's House subcommittee hearing on initial coin offerings, a few members of the panel made...

House subcommittee hearing features testimony from people who have received funding from fossil fuel interests and primarily advocate for the continued use of fossil fuels over renewable energy.

With a likely gap in critical weather satellite coverage beginning in 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has not developed sufficient contingency measures to ensure that weather forecasts remain as reliable as they are today, according to three new federally commissioned reports and lawmakers at a House subcommittee hearing.

There's a House subcommittee hearing today on that very question: «Energy Development On The Outer Continental Shelf And The Future Of Our Oceans.»

DeVos demurred on that question during a House subcommittee hearing.

But due to remaining ambiguities in the Bush budget plan, advocates for child - nutrition programs said at two House subcommittee hearings last week that they would continue to monitor the fate of Section 4 of the National School Lunch Act.

Not exact matches

At a congressional hearing on Tuesday, David Freidman, acting administrator of NHTSA, told a House subcommittee that his agency was «engaged and concerned» about the injury crash complaints it received and tried to figure out why the airbags did not deploy.

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.

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

David Cicilline from the House of Representatives antitrust subcommittee has called for a hearing.

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.

After the event with Bush, Fu headed to the Rayburn House Office Building to appear in front of a subcommittee hearing on human rights to discuss the Chen case.

A hearing last December by House Energy and Commerce subcommittee also drove home the point that the overwhelming scientific consensus is that GMO food is as safe as any other food and that a mandatory GMO warning label could be inherently misleading.

In July 1964 a House Armed Services subcommittee heard witnesses regarding the practice of industrial firms, working on cost - plus contracts, to charge off recreation and entertainment expenses to the Government.

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.

Sessions was originally supposed to testify in front of the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees this week, but said in a statement that he will send a deputy to that hearing instead.

Katko said he had to battle with the Obama administration to produce witnesses at the House transportation security subcommittee hearing he chaired Tuesday.

Rep. Kathleen Rice, the ranking Democratic member of a House subcommittee on transportation security chaired by Republican Rep. John Katko, is urging the congressman to hold a hearing on emergency response plans at U.S. airports.

Katko, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, chaired a subcommittee hearing Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, that examined the insider threat to security posed by airport employees who have clearance and access to planes.

Katko, R - Camillus, submitted his legislation only two days after he chaired a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing that examined recent security breaches at airports, including one that involved an insider scheme to smuggle guns on planes.

A New York Democrat is urging U.S. Rep. John Katko, as chairman of a House subcommittee on transportation security, to hold a hearing on emergency response plans at U.S. airports.

«I'll be glad to see what happens Thursday» when the House Ethics subcommittee responsible for conducting formal hearings has its first organizational meeting, he said.

«We're about to see a rapid increase in different parts of the industry, whether it's space tourism or commercial involvement to allow NASA to get lower - cost transportation to low - Earth orbit,» Nield told the House space subcommittee at a hearing in May.

«If the solar storm of 1921, which has been termed a one - in -100-year event, were to occur today, well over 300 extra-high-voltage transformers could be damaged or destroyed, thereby interrupting power to 130 million people for a period of years,» Joseph McClelland, director of the Office of Electric Reliability at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said at a May 31 House Energy subcommittee hearing on the issue.

On the Senate side, Tom Harkin (D — IA) announced earlier this week that he will hold a hearing 16 September on stem cell legislation as chair of the House appropriations subcommittee that approves NIH's budget.

The hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigations subcommittee came in response to a June incident in which CDC scientists in Atlanta moved anthrax samples they mistakenly thought were inactivated from high - containment labs to less secure ones, potentially exposing dozens of workers.

«CCS technology is feasible; it is available,» she said at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing Wednesday.

FDA has not yet released a draft guidance on the matter, but at a hearing yesterday, members of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee's health subcommittee raised questions about the agency's authority to regulate these tests, its motivation for doing so, and the potential impact of such regulations on the diagnostic industry.

The hearing, before the appropriations subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives that oversees the HHS budget, included several questions about the 18 % cut to NIH's $ 31.7 billion budget that President Donald Trump has proposed.

House subcommittee chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (center) will preside over today's hearing to discuss updating a 1986 privacy law

Its costs, estimated to be around $ 1 - 2 billion, were hoped to be mostly covered by private donations, while commercial space companies like SpaceX were mentioned as possible providers for the needed hardware.Yet, during a hearing of the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee in November, Tito stressed that Inspiration Mars should essentially be a NASA mission, calling for Congress to provide most of the funding.

Two subcommittees of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee (Space and Environment) will hold a joint hearing on April 26, 2018 at 10:00 am in 2318 Rayburn House Office Building on «Surveying the Space Weather Landscape.»

From NPOESS to JPSS: An Update on the Nation's Restructured Polar Weather Satellite Program is a SpacePolicyOnline.com summary of the September 23, 2011 hearing convened by two subcommittees of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.

Two subcommittees of the House Science and Technology Committee held a hearing on December 3, 2009 to look at issues arising from NASA's most recent audit by its outside independent auditor, Ernst & Young.

On October 12, 2011, the subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology held a hearing to discuss the impact on operations of the International Space Station (ISS) of the failure of Russia's Soyuz rocket on August 24, 2011 when it was attempting to send a Progress cargo spacecraft to the ISS.

In a joint hearing held, on the day the Wirth bill was introduced, by the House Subcommittees on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance, and Elementary, Secondary, and...

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

In testimony before a joint hearing of two education subcommittees of the U.S. House of Representatives, newly - appointed ets President Gregory R. Anrig said the nonprofit testing organization will:

«It allows us to spotlight the integrated approach that blends strong academics with expanded vocational and technical education,» said Rep. Frank Riggs, R - Calif., the chairman of the House subcommittee that held a hearing last week at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science...

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 panel does not plan to hold further hearings on bilingual education, according to a subcommittee aide, but will «almost certainly» address it in the Senate counterpart of HR 5, the omnibus education bill passed by the House in April.

Sharon P. Robinson, the president of the Washington - based American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, said at a House education subcommittee hearing that teacher education has changed dramatically over the past several years as a result of reforms launched by the states, universities, and the federal government.

Certainly you can expect the likes of Manhattan Institute wonk Max Eden (who, for some reason, was testifying at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on school safety convened a month after the Parkland Massacre) to make big hay of the Maryland Republican's complaints.

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

The House education subcommittee held a hearing to examine ways to improve career and technical education (CTE).

The House education subcommittee is holding a hearing today on the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act — which expired in 2012 — and the Senate education committee has called for stakeholder input on current career and technical education issues.

ASCD shared (PDF) the publication with Rep. Todd Rokita (R - IN), chairman of the House's K — 12 education subcommittee, as well as with other subcommittee members in advance of their recent hearing on measuring teacher performance.

NSBA letter «Helping Students Succeed Through the Power of School Choice» asks the U.S. House of Representative subcommittee hearing to review the options provided by public school districts such as local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to military academies and those schools offering STEM.

She also must testify before a hostile U.S. House subcommittee April 1, which we know from GM's financial bailout hearings, holds little affection for the auto industry.

A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee plans to hold a hearing over the Takata airbag recall that recently was expanded to cover 34 million vehicles.