Sentences with phrase «united states senate»

In a press conference today, they called upon the United States Senate to reject this amendment or any proposal like it.

I am in my last year at Dartmouth College and have had work experience most recently in the United States Senate, House of Representatives, and the British Parliament.

Paid Intern, United States Senate, Judiciary Committee (Sep. 2010 - Dec.

Senate HELP Committee The United States Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee has been conducting an investigation of for - profit education.

That bit of information was revealed today in a letter that Apple sent to the United States Senate, following a query from Senator John Thune (R - SD).

In my lifetime, Mississippi's two United States Senate seats have been held by five men — John Stennis, James Eastland, Thad Cochran, Trent Lott and Roger Wicker.

Cheaper Car Insurance Act of 2010 The Cheaper Car Insurance Act of 2010 was introduced to the United States Senate on February 5.

On March 31, 2018, Mike Pompeo was confirmed by the United States Senate by a vote of 57 - 42 as the 70th U.S. Secretary of State.

I hope the United States Senate considers her and confirms her quickly.»

He was elected to the United States Senate in 1852 and again in 1857.

But earlier this month, the United States Senate just passed (apparently by voice) a reworked version of the «Trickett Wendler Right to Try Act» (S. 4788) that we discussed in our prior post.

In 2009, he testified on property rights issues at the United States Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Additionally, Supreme Court justices, court of appeals judges and district court judges are nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate, as stated in the United States Constitution Article II Section 2.

Yesterday, the United States Senate introduced their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Today the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate held a hearing on the Leahy - Lee patent reform proposal, «Protecting Small Businesses and Promoting Innovation by Limiting Patent Troll Abuse».

Previous Legal Experience Judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina, 1968 - 70 — one of the youngest persons ever appointed a NC Superior Court Judge Legal Counsel to Dan K. Moore, Governor of North Carolina, 1965 - 68 Bailey & Ragsdale, partner with Judge James H. Pou Bailey, 1962 - 65 United States Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights under United States Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr., Assistant to the Chief Counsel and Staff Director, 1961 - 62

Last month, the United States Senate confirmed attorney John Ring by a 50 - 48 vote to fill the National Labor Relations Board's («Board») last vacancy.Ring fills the seat vacated by Chairman Philip A. Miscimarra (R) when his term expired in December 2017.

-- Professor Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School, discussing the possibility that his colleague, Professor Elizabeth Warren, might run to represent Massachusetts in the United States Senate.

In the first ever case of its kind, Dino represented a former Iraqi interpreter in his successful effort to obtain special residency status in the United States and before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee where the client was invited to testify about the «Plight of Iraqi Refugees.»

To get a sense of what good information design can do, some examples of data visualization that I like right now include David McCandless and Stefanie Posavec's «Left vs. Right,» Mike Wirth's «How Our Laws Are Made,» a winning project in this year's Design for America contest, Mark Luckie's «Your Guide to the United States Senate Floor Procedures,» and Fastcase's data visualization work with case law search results.

The nation also deserves a dignified process of confirmation in the United States Senate, characterized by fair treatment, a fair hearing and a fair vote.

«As well, I will continue to consult, as will my advisers, with members of the United States Senate.

But if it is true, that conclusion can not be based on this article that is published in Health Affairs that got so much press last week and so much interest in the United States Senate.

In 2012 and 2014, experts testified before the United States Senate Judicial Committee, with Senator Dirk Durbin leading a push for national law reform on these issues.

On July 12, 2016, the United States Senate confirmed Carla Hayden, CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland, as the 14th Librarian of Congress.

She also added that the United States Senate has only 22 women representatives out of 100, which itself is a historic number.

Defended federal judicial nominee in publicized trial which was held during the course of ongoing United States Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings.

Judge Alito indeed has lots of buddies, Democratic buddies, in the United States Senate, thanks to his previous confirmation - related tours of Capitol Hill.

«It may be a small step for mankind, but it's a giant step for the United States Senate.

And this whole thing about Senator Inhofe in the Science Committee in the, in the United States Senate, saying that Al Gore's movie is ridiculous, that is also very irresponsible.

[2] James E Hansen, «The Greenhouse Effect: Impacts on Current Global Temperature and Regional Heat Waves» presented to United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, June 23, 1988

After a couple of days spent digging in their heels on the legal form of a potential deal, and then making headlines again yesterday with the release of the AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) draft text, Tuvalu open this morning's plenary meeting of the resumed COP with an impassioned plea, which many observers immediately called the signature moment of the talks thus far.In an earnest, emotional address, lead negotiator Ian Fry called out the United States Senate and President Obama directly.

A United States government document printed at the request of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in November 1978.

Most Liberal 9:15 p.m.Senator John McCain suggested that Senator Barack Obama had the «most liberal big spending record in the United States Senate.»

Whereas although the Convention, approved by the United States Senate, called on all signatory parties to adopt policies and programs aimed at limiting their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in July 1996 the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs called for the first time for «legally binding» emission limitation targets and timetables for Annex I Parties, a position reiterated by the Secretary of State in testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate on January 8, 1997;

Inhofe's committee minority report: «Consensus» Exposed: The CRU Controversy (United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Minority Staff, February 2010)

Most of would choose rational, science - based limits on climate pollution, but we can't have them; instead, the chair of the relevant committee in the United States Senate is chaired by a guy who actually brings snowballs to the Senate floor in defense of climate denial.

Here is a United States government document from the National Archives that was printed at the request of the United States Senate In November of 1978 that outlines some of these programs.

She was certainly so, when I had the honor of appearing with her before the United States Senate.

By this evening, a total of 19 Democrats, led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, will have taken to the floor of the United States Senate to attack the free speech rights of individual and organizations that disagree with the government dogma on the causes and consequences of global warming.

He has testified about this to the United States Senate.

«LESSONS FROM KYOTO: PARIS AGREEMENT WILL FAIL NATIONAL ECONOMIES AND THE CLIMATE» (PDF), United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

And each time it's come for a vote in the United States Senate, they have lost.

«UNITED STATES SENATE REPORT: From Preventing Pollution of Navigable and Interstate Waters to Regulating Farm Fields, Puddles and Dry Land: A Senate Report on the Expansion of Jurisdiction Claimed by the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Water Act» (PDF), United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, September 20, 2016.

He has delivered invited testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and his research and writing has been featured in major media outlets including NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Time Magazine.

HEARING ON The Environmental and Economic Impacts of Ocean Acidification before the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate April 22, 2010

Last week, he actually stood on the floor of the United States Senate, and talking about global warming, he — and I can't believe I'm typing this — pulled a snowball out of a plastic bag and said,

President George W. Bush appointed him to the President's Commission on White House Fellows in 2001 and nominated him to the Tennessee Valley Authority Board, a position to which he was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate, in March 2006.

The current head of NOAA is Dr. Jane Lubchenco, nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the United States Senate on March 19, 2009 and is the first woman to serve as NOAA administrator.

Harry Reid can't even get a consensus in the United States Senate to pass his half - assed global warming bill?