Sentences with phrase «house subcommittee members»

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The chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development subcommittee of the broader Senate appropriations committee want GAO to «examine the impact self - driving trucks will have on the two million Americans who currently work as truck drivers and the communities where they live,» according to a press release issued last week.

House Agriculture Committee leaders welcomed new members and announced subcommittee assignments in early February.

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.

Former New York Congressman Bill Owens was a member of the Appropriations Committee and subcommittees on Defense and Homeland Security during his six years in the House.

The Southeast Queens congressman, who has both served as a prosecutor and been the subject of ethics probes, complained that the FBI head sent the letter only to Republican committee and subcommittee heads, and not to members of the House Democratic minority.

And the reason I say that is because I've been in many meetings with Republicans, as a Republican member of Congress, when they discuss certain pieces of legislation, but when they discuss how we can totally disrupt the Democratic majority from the subcommittee right on to the House floor.

Congress's attitude has undergone «a great change» in recent years, leading to a drop in «real commitment to scientific research,» said Representative Daniel Lipinski (D - IL), the ranking member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's research and technology subcommittee and one of a dozen trained engineers in Congress.

But it was BioShield's third provision that provoked widespread concern among members of two subcommittees, one from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the other from the Committee on Homeland Security, which convened jointly today for their first discussion of the legislation.

In particular, I was a Department of Commerce Science and Technology Fellow, serving as a member of the subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and as a special director in the Office of Cultural Resources of the National Park Service.

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.

Culberson is a member of the House Appropriations Commerce - Justice - Science subcommittee that funds NASA, of which Wolf is the chair.

Most members of the House and Senate left Washington last night for the July 4 holiday, but based on the video, six Republican House members stayed in town for the event today: Rep. John Culberson (R - TX), chairman of the Commerce - Justice - Science (CJS) subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, which funds NASA; Rep. Lamar Smith (R - TX), chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology (SS&T) Committee, which authorizes NASA activities and sets policy; Rep. Brian Babin (R - TX), chairman of the House SS&T Space Subcommittee; Rep. Steve Palazzo (R - MS), member of the House CJS subcommittee; and two other members of House SS&T — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA) and Rep. Bill Posey (R - FL).

«President Trump is committed to reducing the federal footprint in education, and that is reflected in this budget,» Secretary of Education DeVos told members of a key House subcommittee.

Washington — Members of a House subcommittee on education were advised last week to reject a measure that would deny federal financial aid to schools and colleges that prohibit student and faculty religious groups from meeting on school grounds.

Committee for Children joins with other organizations to encourage members of Congress to sign on to a letter to Chairman Cole and Ranking Member DeLauro, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, asking the subcommittee to fully fund Title IV, Part A (the Student Support and Academic Enrichment [SSAE] program) of the Every Student Succeeds Act at its authorized level of $ 1.6 billion.

Fielding questions from members of a House Appropriations subcommittee, she said that states should decide how to address chronic absenteeism, mental health issues and suicide risks among students and that states should also decide whether children taking vouchers are protected by federal special - education law.

Members of the House of Representatives are expected to prepare their proposal in subcommittees, members of the full Appropriations Committee may then go over it next week, and the full chamber may vote on it also next week, Rep. Nelson Dollar (R - Wake) told WRAMembers of the House of Representatives are expected to prepare their proposal in subcommittees, members of the full Appropriations Committee may then go over it next week, and the full chamber may vote on it also next week, Rep. Nelson Dollar (R - Wake) told WRAmembers of the full Appropriations Committee may then go over it next week, and the full chamber may vote on it also next week, Rep. Nelson Dollar (R - Wake) told WRAL - TV.

But the cost was a concern for several members of the House subcommittee.

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.

JC comments: The hearing was very long; not so much because of questioning of the witnesses, but there was much pontification by the committee members (much more of this than on the House Subcommittees, it seems).

Last week, during a meeting of the House Financial Services Committee, subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investment, Members of the Committee peppered cryptocurrency / initial coin offering experts with questions regarding the emerging method of online capital formation.

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

, chair of the committee's tax policy subcommittee, Also at the forum were staff aides from the House Financial Services and Senate Banking committees, whose members are working on proposals for reforming or replacing the secondary mortgage market companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and for revamping the FHA.

He is a member of HUD's Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee where he has served as Chairman of the Technical Systems subcommittee and provides the industry with excellent representation in this important component of the regulatory system.

Last spring, NAR sent a letter to both the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture urging members to approve a legislative fix allowing RHS to approve Direct Endorsed lenders, similar to the process used by FHA and VA..