Sentences with phrase «as committee hearings»

The latter is partly due to the appearance of high - profile witnesses as committee hearings.

This is, effectively, the 15th time this idea has been introduced in New Jersey and there's no indication the proposal has gotten even as far as a committee hearing.

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Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who serves as the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee and led Tuesday's hearing, chuckled at the idea America's legislators are out of the loop.

«He was asked during the hearing about communications between Russia and the Trump campaign — not about meetings he took as a senator and a member of the Armed Services Committee,» she said in a statement.

Michael «Mike» Pearson, chairman and chief executive officer of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., left, speaks as Howard Schiller, former interim chief executive officer and former chief financial officer of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, center, and William «Bill» Ackman, founder and chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, listen during a Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on Valeant Pharmaceuticals in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, April 27, 2016.

United CEO Oscar Munoz testifies before a House committee hearing on steps the airliner will take to prevent another dragging incident as what happened with Dr. David Dao.

The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, which comes eight months into Sessions» tenure as Attorney General, was sprawling in scope.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is usually so unflappable, his voice so unmodulated, his black brogues so unscuffed, that it almost came as a relief to hear him sounding more than just exasperated, maybe even a little hot under his well - ironed collar, answering reporters questions after an appearance today before the House finance committee.

And it was very clear during Yellen's Senate Banking committee hearing that Wall Street reforms loom large in the minds of both Democratic and Republican lawmakers — as large, and possibly larger, than QE,

Speaking at a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, he said he does not see bitcoin and its competitors as a threat to financial stability, though he does have other concerns.

Snowden also took advantage of the NSA's culture of personal trust as described by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper during a hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee.

A crucial Senate health committee has scheduled hearings for September to review a bipartisan framework that would guarantee insurers payments (called «cost - sharing subsidies») that help reduce low - income Americans» out - of - pocket medical expenditures, carry on the universal coverage mandate, and incorporate GOP proposals to make more bare - bones plans available as well as repeal certain ACA taxes.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing 44 senators as part of a rare joint committee hearing to address how his company handles user privacy and other issues.

Zuckerberg is facing 44 senators as part of a rare joint committee hearing to address how his company handles user privacy and other issues.

The influential public accounts committee concluded that Google's Irish employees simply processed the bills, after hearing evidence from a former employee turned whistleblower who lifted the lid on what he described as Google's «immoral» tax schemes.

And immediately following the hearing the committee issued a press release repeating their call for Zuckerberg to testify, noting that Schroepfer had failed to provide adequate answers to as many of 40 of its questions.

I expect this decision and other recent developments will be discussed at our Committee's upcoming hearing, as we dig into what a whole - government approach to this new and unique technology may look like.»

Overall both the hearings by the Homeland Security Committee and this hearing have been taken as being positive for Bitcoin.

«I think, given the extraordinary evidence we've heard so far today, it is absolutely astonishing that Mark Zuckerberg is not prepared to submit himself to questioning in front of a parliamentary or congressional hearing, given these are questions of fundamental importance and concern to his users, as well as to this inquiry,» Damian Collins, the member of parliament heading the UK committee, said earlier on Tuesday.

That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy,» Zuckerberg said in opening remarks before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees.

Mark Zuckerberg apologized and defended his company on Tuesday as he appeared before a joint U.S. Senate committee hearing.

At Facebook founder and CEO's Mark Zuckerberg's hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, lawmakers were blunt about what they see as the company's flaws — its inadequate self - policing, lack of transparency, and reluctance to give users more control over their own data.

This hearing served as a check - in with Mr. Sloan for committee members to ask what Wells Fargo had done to change its corporate culture, rectify outstanding issues for customers, and comply with federal regulations.

«The fact that the company took approximately a year to notify impacted users raises red flags within this Committee as to what systemic issues prevented such time - sensitive information from being made available to those left vulnerable,» said Republican Sen. Jerry Moran, who convened the hearing.

At a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee — which sought to explore «bug bounty» programs that reward hackers for finding holes — Democrats and Republicans alike needled the ride - hailing company for withholding information even as it faced a federal investigation for its privacy and security practices.

Senator Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) will convene a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday during which MillerCoors and experts critical of banks» involvement in physical commodities activities and infrastructure assets such as storage facilities and pipelines are likely to heavily criticize banks like Goldman and JPMorgan, which both own large warehouses that store aluminum and trade derivatives contracts reflecting commodity prices.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg enters the hearing room on Capital Hill as he arrives to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11, 2018.

In addition to the briefings, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he wants to hear testimony from Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, as well as Twitter Inc..

Last month, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee invited Hardaway and Richardson to speak at a hearing on «Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms» as poster children for Facebook's bias against conservatives.

Large publishers used as the standard for reasonable care One question that I've faced in legislative committee hearings on publisher liability bills is «why can't they make an algorithm for that?»

But Facebook delivered them to Congress as part of an ongoing inquiry into the effect of Russia's meddling, and the House's Intelligence Committee has posted a handful ahead of its hearing tomorrow.

As the Senate adjourns for Thanksgiving, I wanted to update you on what I am doing regarding the proposed changes to Small Business Tax and the hearings that the Senate National Finance Committee have started.

A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examined law enforcement agencies» failure to heed multiple warnings about the Parkland school shooter who killed 17 people, as well as the long record of failed gun control measures in Congress.

Multiple Binary - backed founders tell Recode they have heard next to nothing from the limited partnership advisory committee, the Binary LPs who were supposed to manage the investments, as they tried to find a way to save the companies.

As he spoke, the room leaned in, intently listening to the international drama unfolding in the committee hearing room.

Despite strong criticism from Muslim Americans and accusations of a McCarthyist revival, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, R - New York, defended the controversial hearing as neither «radical or un-American.»

Senator Kerry himself led Astrue into the Senate hearing room and introduced him to the Finance Committee as one of Massachusetts» favorite sons, a man whose appointment no one would ever dream of opposing.

Bradley R. Smith of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) has sought to gain legitimacy for deniers in precisely this way, presenting «Holocaust revisionists» as an unjustly persecuted group of dissenters who simply want to get a fair hearing.

In thirty years as a professor, of graduate seminars, academic conferences, committee meetings, lunches and dinners, and conversations short and long, I have heard God mentioned rarely, and when he is mentioned he is never talked of in a way that assumes his reality.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

AFSA's national committee members were saddened to hear of the rejection of The Uluru Statement from the Heart, and as such, have released the following response.

Our voice was also heard at the UN's Committee on world Food Security in Rome as Australasian delegate.

«This advisory committee represents the entire produce industry, and we look forward to hearing their updates as we work with this vital sector to achieve common goals» said Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator Anne Alonzo, whose agency oversees the FVIAC.

A joint committee of 14 owners showed up later that day as Landis was hearing an income - tax bribery case.

Fifa has announced Claudio Sulser, head of the ethics committee, will not take charge of the hearing as he shares Swiss nationality with Bin Hammam's presidential rival Blatter.

Even if those offers were made sincerely by LAUSD (and I know you think they weren't), I'm not so naive as to think hearing Jamie talk about a committee meeting that took place off camera would make for scintillating television!

As a fellow member of the Parent Advisory Committee in Houston, I'd love to hear any large - scale victories in sizable urban school districts.

He also serves as the chair for the ad hoc committee on universal coverage for hearing aids.

He is a brilliant attorney and is extremely fair minded, as evident in his dealings with the members of the Committee and the parties who appeared at hearings.

In a statement personally signed by the presiding judge, Justice A. M. Liman, the court granted a restraining order on any member of the National Working Committee of the PDP who was removed from office by the Party's National Convention in Port Harcourt from receiving nominations and or submitting names to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as officers or candidates of the PDP in whatever capacity pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice brought by the Party.