Sentences with phrase «senate hearing this week»

Don't be fooled by Chrysler President Jim Press» numbers provided at the Senate hearing this week as to what its dealer network costs the manufacturer.

«Consistent with what [SEC chair] Jay Clayton said at the Senate hearing this week, I'm happy to learn that the SEC is investigating Tezos, as many clients are going to eventually learn that their investments are worthless,» he told CoinDesk.

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DELAYS in the rollout of the National Broadband Network may have been the focus of heated discussion in a Senate estimates hearing last week, but Geraldton - based Market Creations has seized the opport

His Senate confirmation hearing begins next week.

Comey strongly defended his decisions during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week.

The issue of bank ownership of commodities was the subject of hearings last week in the Senate.

«I believe every ICO I've seen is a security,» Clayton said during last week's Senate hearing, noting that no ICO has yet registered with the SEC.

Mark Zuckerberg testified at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees Tuesday, in the first of two congressional hearings this week for the Facebook founder and CEO.

In the interview with Capital Download, Warner also discussed two crucial Senate Intelligence Committee hearings this week, including testimony Thursday by ousted FBI director James Comey.

After current proposed legislation was rushed to floor in just five weeks, the Senate Judiciary committee decided to pause and let the concerns of all parties be heard.

«We've heard a lot today about how smaller banks are being smothered by unnecessary regulation, supposedly because of Dodd - Frank rules, like the new mortgage rules that went into effect in the first quarter of 2014,» she said during the second Senate Banking Committee hearing this week on regulatory relief for small banks and credit unions.

Earlier this week one bitcoin's value reached $ 900, tripling in the past month, and a US Senate committee hearing deemed it a legitimate financial service.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — who has (reluctantly) become the face of the company's response to the Cambridge Analytica data - sharing scandal — will testify not just in front of the House Energy and Commerce Commitee next week as previously reported, but a joint hearing of the Senate as well.

Powell, in a Senate Banking Committee hearing last week, said he doesn't think the bill would weaken supervision for foreign banks when asked about the matter by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D - OH).

Turns out, Zuckerberg will have a busier week in D.C. than expected, with the Senate Judiciary and Senate Commerce Committees announcing a joint hearing with the Facebook boss.

Following last week's US Senate hearings on virtual currency, Bitcoin has hit all time highs exceeding even the most optimistic estimates for price versus fiat currencies.

Senator John Thune of South Dakota, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said a decision on public hearings would be made after the Facebook briefings this week.

Worst case scenario, the Senate announces sweeping legislation of virtual currencies, and in the weeks after the hearing new legislation appears: thousands of pages on virtual currencies.

«The week that Wisconsin voters threw out Russ Feingold, the only step - grandson Fighting Bob La Follette had left in the U.S. Senate, I went to hear an Upper Midwesterner of similar pedigree, Bob Dylan of Hibbing, Minnesota.»

An ACCC official said in a Senate hearing last week that the watchdog was preparing to act on the complaints and would make an announcement within weeks.

During last week's Senate Agriculture Committee hearing, Cindy Jones of Olathe Public Schools, KS testified that her district's meal program (among the 95 % of certified schools) is running a deficit and experiencing declining participation under the rules.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan wasn't impressed by de Blasio's appearance at the mayoral control hearing at the state Capitol this week.

Amid an ongoing investigating into his fundraising activities, Mayor Bill de Blasio will face his staunchest institutional critics next week in person as Senate Republicans hold a hearing on the future of mayoral control of New York City schools.

After failing in their effort two weeks ago to force the Senate Republicans to hold a public hearing on a package of ethics reform bills, the Senate Democrats are taking matters into their own hands.

Republicans in the state Senate are being urged to hold a hearing on the Child Victims Act, which passed the Democratic - controlled Assembly earlier this week.

Last week, the Senate flew solo at a hearing in Hoosick Falls — the epicenter of the PFOA water crisis — but today's hearing, and a second one next week on Long Island, will include both houses.

At 9 a.m., the state Senate Committees on Investigations and Government Operations, on Energy and Telecommunications, and on Aging hold a joint public hearing on the power outages in the Hudson Valley over the past two weeks, Legislative Office Building, Van Buren Hearing Room A, second floor, hearing on the power outages in the Hudson Valley over the past two weeks, Legislative Office Building, Van Buren Hearing Room A, second floor, Hearing Room A, second floor, Albany.

According to Ballot Access News, the Kansas Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case this week on whether or not the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate can withdraw his name from the November ballot.

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.

We've had an amazing few weeks of momentum on DADT repeal following the mention of DADT in the State of the Union, the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing during which both the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs both stated their support for repeal, and the unexpected support we've received from former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell and former Defense Secretary and Vice President Dick Cheney.

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.

The legislation has reached the ways and means committee in the Assembly and the finance committee in the Senate, with hearings in both houses scheduled for next week.

His frustration boiled over last week, when Flanagan reiterated to reporters he would not hold hearings on water issues in the aftermath of a PFOA contamination in the village in order to assess the response by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration (Conservative critics of the Senate GOP have been deeply critical of the conference's relationship with Cuomo, especially in the wake of the passage of the SAFE Act).

Parker is under fire for yelling at Sen. John DeFrancisco during a Senate Finance Committee hearing last week, accusing the Syracuse Republican of racism.

Last week, the New York State Senate criminalized revenge porn, Syracuse University gave updates on summer construction and former Whitman dean Kenneth Kavajecz's court hearing was adjourned for the sixth time.

The Senate this week held a hearing on the issue, with talks centering in part on how to fund family courts to take on the new cases.

ALBANY — Chautauqua County's representative in the New York State Senate will be the one responsible for presiding over the state Senate budget hearings that will be taking place in Albany over the next few weeks.

Parker is under fire for yelling at a GOP colleague during a Senate committee hearing last week, and calling Republican senators «white supremacists.»

Pilgrim - Hunter, who is poised to land her first union endorsement — perhaps as early as this week — from RWDSU, said she hasn't yet heard from either Espada himself or his Senate Democratic colleagues.

The North Carolina ballot access reform bill, HB 32, which has already passed the House, is set for a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee in the next week, which means it will then receive a vote on the Senate floor if it passes Committee.

CSEA submitted testimony to the NYS Senate and Assembly Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities committees, which began hearings on the plan this week.

Senate Republicans are scheduled to hold hearings on police safety and criminal justice issues across the state the week after Cuomo's address.

The Newburgh forum comes a few weeks after state Senate and Assembly hearings on the fallout from PFOA - contaminated water in Hoosick Falls, where officials and residents expressed anger and frustration.

Former Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was convicted of corruption charges alongside his son just weeks after Silver heard the jury's verdict, will be sentenced next week.

«It's interesting to hear Speaker Silver's comments on this matter, but truthfully, I wasn't aware he was elected to the Senate last week,» Savino said.

The hearings also come as Senate Republicans, the IDC's governing partners, last week announced plans to hold a hearing on fraud and abuse in the New York City public financing system.

More than half of those who responded to a new Quinnipiac poll released this week said U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath during his Senate confirmation hearings when he said he «did not have communications with the Russians» and should resign because of it.

As U.S. Senate Republicans embark on a flurry of confirmation hearings this week, several of Trump's appointees have yet to complete the background checks and ethics clearances customarily required before the Senate begins to consider cabinet - level nominees.

As nine of his cabinet picks head to Capitol Hill this week to kickoff a series of Senate confirmation hearings, Trump says he thinks the nominees are «going to do very well» in the grueling question - and - answer sessions.

In testimony during the Senate's confirmation hearings last week, the local congressman for the 16th District, Jose Serrano, praised the nomination of native Bronxite Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.