Sentences with phrase «committee staff»

The ranking member typically oversees minority committee staff and may coordinate involvement of the minority party committee members in committee activities.

The funds can not, for instance, be used to boost the pay of host committee staff.

While the House panel was churning out competing memos over whether the F.B.I. abused the FISA process, the Senate committee staff members were working together on a joint interim report on how to protect election security in November's midterms.

[UPDATED 6/23, 9:30 a.m.] Twenty years ago today, James E. Hansen testified before the Senate Energy Committee — in a room kept intentionally warm by committee staff — that the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and forests was already perceptibly influencing Earth's climate.

The footnote identified former Senate intelligence committee staff investigator Daniel J. Jones, head of the Penn Quarter Group (PQG), as leading the new anti-Trump campaign.

(Nov. 2015) Joint committee staff at West Virginia legislature, Jan 2012 - 15.

In section 2, we see that with the concurrence of the ranking minority member, or the entire Committee by motion, (the Chairman) may «also permit committee staff of the majority and minority to question a witness for a specified...».

On Thursday, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R - S.D., sent a letter to Musk asking Tesla to brief committee staff by no later than July 29 on details of the incident.

«After committee staff received a briefing yesterday from Facebook officials, we felt that many questions were left unanswered.»

Cohen had been scheduled to appear privately before the Senate Intelligence Committee last month, a meeting that was cut short after committee staff discovered that Cohen had released his prepared statement to reporters before his appearance.

Senate Agriculture Committee staff are seeking a bipartisan, middle ground on reauthorization and aiming to mark up a bill mid-September.

The chairman with the concurrence of the ranking minority member, or the Committee by motion, may also permit committee staff of the majority and minority to question a witness for a specified, total period that is equal for each side and not longer than thirty minutes for each side.

Sensenbrenner also released a Republican committee staff report — EPA's Endangerment Finding Relies Heavily on Flawed IPCC Report (pdf)-- to document the lack of scientific basis for the IPCC conclusions and the political nature of the EPA finding.

On Tuesday, Caputo sat down with Senate Intelligence Committee staff investigators as part of their ongoing investigation.

July 30, 2013 • A new House Ways and Means Committee staff analysis of groups applying for tax exempt status found conservative applicants faced, «more questions, more denials, more delays,» says committee Chairman Dave Camp, R - Mich.

He added that this week, Oversight Committee staff received a briefing from White House officials, during which they continued to refuse to identify any White House officials who used private email for government business.

And there will soon be more, if the Delta Resources Committee staff has anything to do with it.

OTA lobbied the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee staff and several Senate offices to include language in the Produce Safety Rule prohibiting any new regulations from contradicting or duplicating the requirements of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program (NOP).

The platform is drafted in a platform committee staffed in accordance with the internal rules of the party, and then is presented to the entire ranks of convention delegates for review and approval.

Those «allocated» expenditures from the federal account included paying the salaries of Democratic State Central Committee staff members, one of whom, Jon Blair, later became Malloy's 2014 campaign manager, Urso said.

And in response to criticisms of a lack of witness diversity, select committees staff and chairs have recently been more proactive about soliciting evidence from people who might not normally volunteer as witnesses.

Hartford - Brainard Airport should be maintained in its current form, not redeveloped, and should get enhancements to boost it as an economic force for the state and the capital city, according to a report issued Wednesday by a General Assembly committee staff.

And many of the Democratic committee staff have long resumes on the Hill, suggesting they were readying themselves for partisan warfare.

It's quite another when a remuneration committee staffed by the people at the top of the company are ever increasingly paying themselves huge sums of money that is not commensurate to their contribution to the company or to society.

o If Chair becomes dissatisfied, he / she has right to have the senior committee staff changed, through a request to the Speaker.

The easy targets — committee staff who served Democrats when they ran Congress — went first.

In the midst of a protracted fight with NSF officials over giving committee staff access to confidential supporting materials on a handful of specific grants that shows no signs of easing, Smith last fall inserted a watered - down version of those provisions into a draft of his reauthorization bill.

Using grants from state agencies, the city created a Sea Level Rise Committee staffed with mostly residents.

She was shocked that Jackson had even seen the testimony, because committee staff had assured her that it was embargoed until the hearing.

Questions and feedback can also be sent to the review committee staff at the Colorado Standards Review Home webpage.

Johnson, a former senior member of the Senate Banking Committee staff, is currently a Director on PwC's public policy team.

Least accurate attempted insinuation about RealClimate by a congressional staffer: «There's so much money»: Marc Morano (Senate EPW outgoing majority committee staff, 5:30 into the mp3 file)

Committee staff explained that the main goal was to honor Dr. Hansen by hosting a briefing for him on the 20th anniversary of the 1988 hearing, even though the sleepy, muggy days of late June had many lawmakers on the road.

«It's unusual for a chairman to write this kind of letter, but we feel the situation's unusual,» said Science Committee staff director David Goldston, adding that the fight was about the need for independent scientific research, not climate change.

For more information, here's a link to the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee Staff Analysis.

The company is expected to meet with Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee staff, as well as staffers from the House and Senate Intelligence committees, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the Senate Commerce Committee and the House and Senate Judiciary committees, The Hill reports.

Increased funding for early childhood has been a priority in recent legislative sessions, as reported by the Legislative Finance Committee staff.

Policy staff — Analysts develop legislative and regulatory proposals in consultation with NAR leaders, members, public policy committees, and lobbyists, and maintain communication with congressional committee staff and agency officials.