Sentences with phrase «senate hearing the day»

Asked at a Senate hearing days before the vote if she thought a British decision to leave the EU would push the U.S. into recession, Yellen said, «I don't think that's the most likely case, but we just don't really know what will happen, and we'll have to watch very carefully.»

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Yates» testimony came days after Comey reiterated during an open Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that the FBI was still «conducting an investigation to understand whether there was any coordination between the Russian efforts and anybody associated with the Trump campaign.»

«The Republican Senate refuses to hold hearings on [Supreme Court nominee] Judge Garland, refuses to fund the President's request for Zika aid and takes the most days off of any Senate since 1956, but thinks Facebook hearings are a matter of urgent national interest,» Jentleson said.

Ashton Kutcher gave an emotional speech on modern slavery to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing that took place ahead of Shine a Light on Slavery Day.

«Mark - Up of H.R. 3996, The Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007 and H.R. 3997, The Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Act of 2007,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, United States House of Representatives, November 1, 2007; «Baucus, Grassley Tackle Alternative Minimum Tax Relief on First Day of 110th Congress,» Press Release, January 4, 2007; «Easing the Family Tax Burden,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, March 8, 2001; «Revenue Proposals and Tax Cuts in the President's Budget,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, February 28, 2001; «President's Tax Relief Proposals: Individual Income Tax Rates,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, February 13, 2001; Jerry Tempalski, «The Impact of the 2001 Tax Bill on the Individual AMT,» National Tax Association Proceedings: 94th Annual Conference on Taxation, November 10, 2001.

Per CBS News, Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before the Senate on April 10th, one day before his hearing in the House.

During the second day of the Senate's hearing on alleged extrajudicial killings Tuesday, PNP Chief Ronald Dela Rosa reported «a very significant decrease» in rape incidents.

Trump tweeted his praise for Gina Haspel, his pick to lead the CIA, following her nearly three - hour Senate confirmation hearing earlier that day, saying she did a «spectacular job.»

Last year, the Senate rushed through Cuomo's same - day appointment of Joe Lhota as MTA chairman, with a committee confirmation hearing taking place late at night via Skype while the nominee was in his home.

In my capacity as chairman of the Senate Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business committee, I hear every day how challenging New York state's business climate can be.

The only thing clear from the day's appearances by top state officials at a joint Assembly and Senate fiscal hearing was that Cuomo's tuition plan is in store for some changes once budget negotiations begin in earnest in coming weeks.

But one source cautioned Chairman Ralph Lorigo had been under considerable pressure throughout the day from all sides — the Senate Republicans, labor unions, the state Conservative Party and others — so until I hear the news from Lorigo himself or someone close to him, I'm reluctant to say this is a done deal.

Joint legislative hearings are over, the governor's 30 - day amendments are out, and the Senate and Assembly have both put out their revenue projections.

Protesters in the ornate Senate hearing room, who disrupted the proceedings more than a dozen times during the day, erupted in chants of «Sessions is a racist!»

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous confirmed much of what we've been hearing all day: a budget deal between both houses of the Legislature will be finalized in a matter of hours.

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.

Just one day after Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared at City Hall with a bevy of business leaders to push for extending mayoral control of New York City schools, the state Senate education committee held its second hearing on the issue right across the street.

As part of Earth Day activities at the Capitol, Democrats who are in the minority party in the Senate, held a hearing.

Doug Volland was among those who took the day off from work to testify at the six - hour Labor Committee hearing on Senate Bill 216.

The appointment was made on October 17, and the Senate had 30 days to hold hearings.

Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos (R - LI) used the opportunity to press repeatedly for the hearings, which the Democratic leaders were required by law to hold within days of passing nonbinding budget resolutions in March.

Graham made his remarks during the second day of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination.

In interviews in recent days, eight members of the jury that heard the case against the former state Senate majority leader said they learned a lot about New York's political and governmental structure.

«In the first of three scheduled hearings, the Senate's health committee [that day] approved an initial set of bipartisan proposals aimed at speeding the discovery and development of new medical treatments.

Scientists began organizing only 3 days after President Donald Trump took office, as alarm — sparked by a campaign that in many ways appeared to dismiss the contributions of scientific research — ignited over Senate hearings on controversial cabinet picks and mandates curtailing public communication from scientific agencies.

And he could have gotten the bigger picture by attending a hearing by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held the day after his 10 May press conference.

The continuing resolution has passed the House of Representatives, and Senator Tom Harkin (D — IA), who chaired the joint committee hearing, said he expects the Senate to pass it «in the next day or two.»

The announcement by NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and FAA Acting Administrator Michael Huerta comes two days before an important Senate hearing on commercial spaceflight risks and opportunities.

«We need to encourage people to think about state government as an avenue,» Johnston says, noting this doesn't necessarily always mean running for office but could include working for the governor or even keeping a day job and reaching out to policy groups, or attending senate hearings.

Earlier this year, the House and Senate held three days of joint hearings to address public criticism of the Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century, an expansive education - reform act enacted in 1991 that has received national attention.

That matter was the first order of business in the new Congress for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, which devoted three days of hearings to it last week.

Houston schools Superintendent Rod Paige, President - elect Bush's pick for education secretary, is on track to be confirmed by the Senate on Inauguration Day, a leading Senate Democrat said last week at the conclusion of a cordial hearing on the choice.

(Calif.) Middle and high schools will be prohibited from starting the regular school day before 8:30 a.m. under a bill at the center of a heated debate Wednesday during a Senate Education Committee hearing.

The Senate budget subcommittee overseeing school finance held its first hearing on the revised May budget and while much of its day was focused on child care, the settle - up proposal was not introduced and no action was taken.

The Senate, however, decided to scrap hearing any House bills yesterday, a tactic frequently employed by lawmakers during the waning days of session as leaders jockey for leverage in negotiations over the state budget and other major issues.

It passed with vast support in the House, but then encountered a block in the Senate when for the last 4 months of the session, the Senate only had 2 hearing days scheduled.

It was a U.S. senator who cause the thermostat to be turned up, and the windows in the Senate hearing room opened on a hot summer day in 1988.

On the day that the Supreme Court begins to hear argument in the federal government's reference concerning reform of the Senate (In the Matter of a Reference by the Governor in Council concerning reform of the Senate, as set out in Order P.C. 2013 - 70, dated February 1, 2013), it is appropriate, perhaps, to point out that the judgment by Québec's Court of Appeal in a reference begun by the provincial government is in fact available in English.

(a) Every such reorganization plan shall be referred to an appropriate committee, to be determined by the Clerks of the Senate and the House of Representatives, with the approval of the President and Speaker, which committee shall not later than thirty days after the date of the Governor's presentation of said plan hold a public hearing thereon and shall not later than ten days after such hearing report that it approves or disapproves such plan and such reorganization plan shall have the force of law upon expiration of the sixty calendar days next following its presentation by the governor to the general court, unless disapproved by a majority vote of the members of either of the two branches of the general court present and voting, the general court not having been prorogued within such sixty days.

It might be a snow day in Washington, but the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on election system security continued as planned.

Per CBS News, Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before the Senate on April 10th, one day before his hearing in the House.

Facebook's move against AggregateIQ also comes just a few days before Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify at hearings on Capitol Hill, where legislators in the Senate and House of Representatives will question him on the widening scandal.

Earlier this week, Zuckerberg agreed to appear before a joint hearing of the Senate judiciary and commerce committees next Tuesday and a further hearing of the House energy and commerce committee the following day.

On June 21, 2017, nearly eight months after election day, in an open hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, NPPD's Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications Jeanette Manfra confirmed for the first time that «election - related systems in 21 states were targeted» by Russian cyber actors during the 2016 election cycle.

Earlier in the day, at a packed hearing by the Senate Commission on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Human Rights, Williams urged the senators and parliamentarians present to consider what could be done domestically to support the campaign's call for a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons.

Greetings from Day 53 of the 60 - day legislative session in Tallahassee, where the gun access / school safety bills in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting were supposed to be heard, at the very least on the Senate floor, if not the HouDay 53 of the 60 - day legislative session in Tallahassee, where the gun access / school safety bills in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting were supposed to be heard, at the very least on the Senate floor, if not the Houday legislative session in Tallahassee, where the gun access / school safety bills in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting were supposed to be heard, at the very least on the Senate floor, if not the House.

In only a few days time, both the Securities and Exchange Commission and CFTC will appear in a Senate hearing titled Virtual Currencies: The Oversight Role of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 6 February 2018.

Zuckerberg is set to testify April 10 before a joint hearing of the Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees, and a day later before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.