Sentences with phrase «committee hearing takes»

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«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.

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 House of Commons ethics committee held hearings this week to take a closer look at the breach that involves Facebook and, allegedly, the political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica.

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.

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.

Committee members displayed visible outrage during the session, accusing Facebook of concealing the truth or at very least concealing evidence from it at a prior hearing that took place in Washington in February — when the company sent its UK head of policy, Simon Milner, and its head of global policy management, Monika Bickert, to field questions.

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

Following his involvement with the NCMEC task force, Brito took part in congressional hearings that were the result of a 2013 bitcoin investigation by the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

(Take that, House of Commons Finance Committee, which is holding hearings on the issue next week.)

«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.

Yesterday, Zuckerberg testified for more than five hours in a joint hearing of two Senate committees, and took questions from more than 40 senators.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes his seat after a break to continue to testify before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election.

Religious leaders, community members and activists took to the streets Sunday in New York to protest upcoming congressional hearings, convened by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, on «the radicalization of American Muslims.»

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!

In a letter to Mr Zuckerberg, Mr Collins accused Facebook of giving answers «misleading to the Committee» at a previous hearing which asked whether information had been taken without users» consent.

Lawrence Seaway Flood Relief and Recovery Grant Program is a giant step in helping people rebuild, it is critical that we hear from stakeholders and regulatory bodies to understand what happened, why it happened and what steps we need to take to make sure it never happens again,» said Senate Environmental Conservation Committee Chairman Tom O'Mara.

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.

Mr Javid made the bombshell admission at a hearing of the Home Affairs Select Committee - his first since taking over the job from Amber Rudd, who was forced to quit after misleading MPs about deportation targets.

«They say they support free speech, yet they attempted to disrupt a hearing and prevent members of the Elections Committee from taking testimony on the City's taxpayer - funded election system.

Van Bramer, who chairs the Council's cultural affairs committee, where the debate over library funding has largely been heard, reminded of the Council's budget priorities as final negotiations take place between the 51 - member legislative body and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> A measure that would make it illegal for people under the age of 18 to possess tobacco products in Ulster County took a step forward this week when two key legislative committees approved a resolution setting a public hearing on the proposal.

«The law requires proportionate voting, so that indeed the will of the 317 (party committee members) is heard and unfortunately (the earlier) vote when it was taken was not done on a weighted vote,» Collins said.

Mr. Flanagan (R - East Northport), who chairs the senate's Standing Committee on Education, said the first hearing will take place on Long Island in September.

The hearing at Good Shepherd School at 620 Isham St., hosted by the Northern Manhattan Is Not 4 Sale Coalition and attended by Councilmen Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Levine, took place the evening before two Council committees approved the plan.

Melissa Mark - Viverito takes questions as she leaves a Committee on Rules, Privileges and Elections meeting where she heard testimony from the Quadrennial Advisory Commission regarding a proposed raise for elected council members.

Leadership announced committee hearings on public protection, mental hygiene, higher education, general government, environment and housing, transportation, economic development, human services / labor, and education all to take place throughout the day on Wednesday.

Protesters barred from the Senate Elections Committee hearing this morning taking a critical look at public financing of political campaigns sought to make themsevles heard as much as possible.

«We have consistently requested an early date for this evidence, so that parliament could be better informed of the government's approach to the discussions taking place and so that ministers could hear the views of the committee.»

«I can advance things as chair of the committee, but I also think it's important to recognize that we might have things we want to advance as a [Republican] conference, and those are discussions that need to take place,» he told Capital Wednesday after the hearing in Albany.

Typically, the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee would hold a hearing and vote on the bill before either the Assembly or Senate would take it up.

It was during a committee hearing on this issue that Norman asked questions that appeared to suggest a British winner of the London Marathon was «potentially» implicated.There was a subsequent furore as Paula Radcliffe insisted she had never cheated, but Norman defended his questioning and hit out at journalists for taking his comments out of context.

«Public assistance is not that much money to take care of the family,» said Lee, a member of the advocacy group VOCAL - NY, prior to a City Council committee hearing on the issue Monday.

Cuts to the Park Opportunity Program will be discussed at a City Council Parks & Recreation Committee budget hearing to take place right after the press conference.

«The Council's taking on a whole lot of new... responsibilities to a certain extent in terms of oversight and investigations and other areas of the budget, I think which is going to make the Council a more equal partner with the mayor,» said Council Member Daniel Dromm, chair of the finance committee, after Thursday's hearing.

Some of the hearings, which will be headed by Senate Labor Committee Chairman Jack Martins (R - Nassau County), could take place before the new legislative session kicks off in January.

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.

I was covering a State Assembly committee hearing that was taking place in a seventh floor conference room of the nine - story Legislative Office Building, and gazed out the windows, over the Plaza, to the south.

During the initial three hours - plus of the hearing, Council members took turns questioning Fuleihan, seeking answers mostly about issues germane to committees they either chair or serve on.

The June 12 hearing was announced just hours after The Post reported that the council's Education Committee was dragging its feet in taking up «Avonte's Law» — despite support from 46 of the 51 council members and all major parent groups.

That is exactly the same approach being taken in parallel by Labour's backbench defence committee, chaired by John Woodcock, which has heard from figures ranging from the head of CND to former nuclear submarine commanders.

«If a new district were to open up, I would take a good, serious look at it,» he said, adding that the roundtable's plan received significant support during a series of public hearings before the state's redistricting committee.

Describing a committee hearing at which he took a drubbing from otherwise progressive colleagues outraged he was standing in the way of congregations reclaiming their place in the schools, out gay Councilman Daniel Dromm told me the resolution is a shoe - in.

You've heard the county executive say we need to build our fund balance and stick with our deficit reduction committee plan, so I had a big issue with taking that money out of fund balance.»

A spokesman, Scott Reif, said the groups that advocated public financing «say they support free speech, yet they attempted to disrupt a hearing and prevent members of the Elections Committee from taking testimony.»

Immerse yourself in legislative activity, brief members of Congress, plan and take part in committee hearings and more.

Having heard horror stories from others, I took note of a few things when dealing with my advisor and committee after receiving the offer.

«If it is determined that NEON Inc. is not capable of completing construction, NSF will take the necessary actions to pursue alternative management options,» said James Olds, assistant director of NSF's Directorate for Biological Sciences, at a hearing for two subpanels of the U.S. House of Representatives's science committee.

«Unless Congress takes swift action, the U.S. will float off the helium cliff,» said Representative Doc Hastings (R - WA), chair of the House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee and co-sponsor of the bipartisan Responsible Helium Administration and Stewardship Act, during a committee hearing on the bill yCommittee and co-sponsor of the bipartisan Responsible Helium Administration and Stewardship Act, during a committee hearing on the bill ycommittee hearing on the bill yesterday.

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform called the hearing to evaluate steps taken by the Obama administration to curtail wasteful expenditure on travel.