Sentences with phrase «appropriations subpanel»

All three can likely count on Congress to back them up: Oregon's junior U.S. Senator, Jeff Meckley, holds a seat on the Senate's appropriations subpanel overseeing the Department of Education's budget, while Kansas's senators, Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, are already taking on the administration over its support for Common Core implementation.

The aide is referring to an exchange between Smith and Representative Frank Wolf (R — VA), the chairman of the House appropriations subpanel that oversees NSF.

The other members of the waste quartet are senators Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) and Lamar Alexander (R - TN), who lead the Senate appropriations subpanel that oversees waste issues, and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R - AK), the senior Republican on the energy committee.

The rancor marking the science panel debate came in marked contrast to another, largely bipartisan, hearing held the next day by an appropriations subpanel examining the NSF budget.