Sentences with phrase «representatives subcommittee»

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.

A draft spending bill released today by a House of Representatives subcommittee would give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a flat budget of $ 30.6 billion in 2013.

In recent testimony before a House of Representatives subcommittee, Lisa Gordon - Hagerty, the new NNSA administrator, said that method would cost billions less than completing the MOX plant.

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.

Two U.S. House of Representatives subcommittees will hold a hearing next week on applications for blockchain technology.

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U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell, the senior Democrat on the Ways and Means trade subcommittee, said he was skeptical about the merits of imposing tariffs.

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

On September 7th Jason Crusan, NASA's Director of Advanced Exploration Systems confirmed in testimony before the House of Representatives space subcommittee that NASA is preparing to formally solicit commercial transportation of payloads to the Moon's surface.

Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican representative, currently serving the Research and Technology subcommittee, strongly supported the use of cryptocurrency to empower those people living in Authoritarian governments.

While on the other hand, Carolyn Maloney, the Democratic representative, serving with the Oversight subcommittee, emphasized on robust oversight on digital currencies by the SEC noting that» nothing is backing these virtual currencies.»

Senator Edward Kennedy is chairman of the subcommittee that creates legislative reform; Representative Bruce Morrison is his counterpart in the House.

A few years ago, Representative Dan Burton (R., Ind.) opened a congressional subcommittee hearing on human trafficking by stating, «It is hard to believe in the 21st century that we are even talking about this.»

The BA Draught Beer Quality subcommittee enjoys active support and participation by representatives of brewers small and large, as well as many other industry partners.

A subcommittee of the commission — which includes representatives from local churches, Northbrook Park District, the North Suburban YMCA and the Youth Services of Glenview / Northbrook — is working on a logo for the initiative and the design of the online resource.

Representative Paul Tonko, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy's subcommittee on the Environment, pressed Mr. Pruitt on his claims that he was unaware that the E.P.A. had used an obscure legal provision to grant hefty raises to political appointees, bypassing approval by the White House.

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.

NASA has not yet decided on a mission concept, but the general idea of heading to Europa has the backing of Representative John Culberson, the Texas Republican who in January will take the helm of the House subcommittee that oversees NASA's funding.

Representative Joe Barton (R - TX), chair of the House Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, wrote to Donna Shalala, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on 6 March saying that he is looking into how Hughes «violated a ban on federal funding of human embryo research.»

Representative John Culberson (R - TX), who chairs the appropriations subcommittee that funds NSF, and his Republican colleagues want to make sure the bulk of the money is spent on «core sciences,» which, in their view, do not include the geological or the social and behavioral sciences.

«The bill rejects the budget request's proposal to reduce investment in the energy we use today,» Representative Mike Simpson (R — ID), chair of the House energy and water subcommittee, said at the subcommittee's markup.

And the first to ask Varmus for his views was Representative John Porter (R - IL), chair of the subcommittee that drafts NIH's appropriation.

► In U.S. funding news, «both the Senate and House of Representatives appropriations subcommittees that oversee [the Department of Energy (DOE)-RSB- released spending plans that would give the Office of Science just a 0.9 % increase, to $ 5.4 billion,» Adrian Cho reported Thursday.

On the same day that Moniz addressed the Forum, journalist Adrian Cho reported for Science that appropriations subcommittees for both the Senate and the House of Representatives had on 13 April «released spending plans that would give the [DOE] Office of Science just a 0.9 % increase.»

The House of Representatives and Senate subcommittees that hold the purse strings for DOE and the Army Corps of Engineers received an additional $ 4 billion from the recent agreement to raise the budget caps, notes Michael Lubell, a physicist at City College of New York and a former lobbyist for the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C..

«Fusion appears to come out the loser here,» and that is a «concern,» Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R - NJ), the chair of the energy subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, told William Brinkman, the director of DOE's Office of Science.

But Representative John Culberson (R — TX), chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that oversees NSF's budget, has said he would move to give it additional funding if Congress raised the caps.

Representative Tom Cole (R — OK) will chair the appropriations subcommittee that funds NIH, replacing retiring Representative Jack Kingston (R — GA).

Representative John Culberson (R — TX) will succeed retiring Representative Frank Wolf (R — VA) as chair of the subcommittee that funds the «National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.»

But he did not say when the subcommittee planned to mark up the bill, and he handed off the gavel to Representative David Schweikert (R - AZ) and left before the hearing ended.

Like its House of Representatives counterpart 2 weeks ago, a Senate subcommittee today matched President Barack Obama's request for a $ 1 billion increase in 2011 for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

«It's a big black eye if scientists are making false and fraudulent representations,» Republican senator Arlen Specter, of Pennsylvania, told representatives of ACT during a Senate subcommittee hearing.

But Representative Andy Harris (R — MD), who sits on the House subcommittee that oversees NIH, hailed the provision.

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.

Suresh, who became NSF director last October, was questioned by Representative Frank Wolf (R - VA), the once and current chair of the commerce, science, and justice appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

As the appropriations bill heads for a possible House vote this week, Representative Ernest J. Istook Jr. (R - OK), who wrote the language, and House Labor / HHS subcommittee chair Ralph Regula (R - OH) are preparing to issue a statement on the House floor that would modify the directive.

- David Last month, a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives quietly voted to gut funding for the U.S.

In June, the chair of the House appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee, Representative Denny Rehberg (R - MT), said that his subcommittee could not act on the changes until it received an official budget request directly from the White House.

For biomedical researchers, the big news is the selection today of Representative Tom Cole (R — OK) to chair the appropriations subcommittee that funds the National Institutes of Health.

Representative Lamar Smith explains the process of naming the science committee's subcommittee chairs.

A House subcommittee is set to examine the program Tuesday, with representatives from the DHS and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control set to discuss the system's future.

Usually deeply divided along party lines, the subcommittee came together to lavish praise on ITER, with representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), chair of the full committee, and Representative Eric Swalwell (D — CA), the ranking member on the subcommittee, agreeing that ITER was, in Swalwell's words, «absolutely essential to proving that magnetically confined fusion can be a viable clean energy representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), chair of the full committee, and Representative Eric Swalwell (D — CA), the ranking member on the subcommittee, agreeing that ITER was, in Swalwell's words, «absolutely essential to proving that magnetically confined fusion can be a viable clean energy Representative Eric Swalwell (D — CA), the ranking member on the subcommittee, agreeing that ITER was, in Swalwell's words, «absolutely essential to proving that magnetically confined fusion can be a viable clean energy source.»

Fattah relinquished his position on the Commerce, Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies appropriations subcommittee today and was replaced by Representative Mike Honda (D — CA), a former high school principal who has been a reliable vote for additional federal funding of research and education.

Last week, in his first budget defense as NIH director before a House of Representatives Appropriations subcommittee, Francis Collins was asked about the poststimulus problem.

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.

In letters sent on 18 June, Representative Joe Barton (R - TX), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and investigations subcommittee chair James Greenwood (R - PA) asked the Commerce, Energy, and Health and Human Services departments and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others, to describe their policies on outside activities by employees and report the amounts paid since 1999.

Science lobbyists are hailing the vote of confidence in basic research from Congress and applauding the efforts of Representative Frank Wolf (R - VA) and Senator Barbara Mikulski (D - MD), who chair the relevant appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively.

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.

«This is a big worry... this is a big - class worry,» said Representative Marcy Kaptur (D — OH), the senior Democrat on the House spending subcommittee that oversees DOE, echoing concerns raised by some Republicans.

According to a G.A.O. report, which was done at the request of Representative William H. Natcher of Kentucky, chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education, two - thirds of rural districts that receive federal drug - free school grants say the money covers more than half of their total drug - education program.

In 1973 Jennings was promoted to associate counsel of the subcommittee by Representative Carl Perkins (D - Ky.)