Sentences with phrase «committee staffers»

Facebook executives spent Wednesday and Thursday on Capitol Hill briefing congressional committee staffers.

In a blog post summarizing its presentation for House and Senate intelligence committee staffers, Twitter said the discovery of the 22 accounts identified a further «179 related or linked accounts,» but did not specify the scope of «action» it took on «ones we found in violation of our rules.»

Donald Trump and his inner circle received advance notice during the 2016 presidential election of WikiLeaks» plans to dump thousands of hacked emails belonging to Democratic National Committee staffers and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, CNN, MSNBC, and CBS News reported around Dec. 8.

In the energy and environment sphere, those efforts will likely center around gutting climate and environmental protections, and much of it will be carried out by congressional committee staffers.

For our part, we recall walking out of a meeting with Republican Senate Education Committee staffers, convinced that there wasn't a chance.

Until that document is submitted, appropriations committee staffers can't include the reorganization in their draft bills for NIH's budget for the 2012 fiscal year that begins 1 October.

Two weeks ago, when science lobbyists were given a 2 - page description of the draft legislation, committee staffers repeated the message that the science board supported the changes.

The earmarks are vaguely titled and have no descriptions; staffers in the Department of Energy have to confer with Congressional Appropriations Committee staffers to figure out who gets what.

Republican National Committee staffers have been told they must preserve all documents from last year's presidential campaign — a step described as precautionary as investigations continue into Russian involvement in...

The budget line, which simply reads «Charter,» funds 20 committee staffers with $ 1.7 million.

In the previous four - year session, the Council inherited a $ 51.5 million budget in 2014, with $ 38.6 million for Personal Services (PS), a budget line that covers salaries for Council members, aides, and committee staffers.

Senators, meanwhile, don't have such limits — though committee staffers can't be paid more than $ 171,315.

The «Nunes memo,» a controversial document written by Republican House Intelligence Committee staffers and likely to be released soon, reportedly criticizes Rosenstein.

Republican National Committee staffers have reportedly gone door - knocking on his behalf, while the Koch brothers have spent «hundreds of thousands on a mail and field deployment campaign.»

The family of slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich filed a lawsuit against Fox News, one of the network's reporters, and a wealthy Texas businessman over their roles in the publication of a baseless conspiracy theory about Rich's 2016 death.

A Democratic National Committee staffer, who is familiar with the process and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the language in the platform approved on Sunday not only backs marriage equality, but also rejects DOMA and has positive language with regard to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

The family of slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich has raised almost $ 11,000 to boost awareness of the unsolved case.

Also being called in to testify is a key Racing and Wagering committee staffer, sources said.

Republicans are headed for a competitive primary on Aug. 9 between former Foreign Relations Committee staffer and Scott Walker foreign policy aide Mike Gallagher and state Sen. Frank Lasee.

«In the last several years there have been significant concerns about the program's management — from the number of CTSA hubs to the strategic vision of the program,» said an Appropriations Committee staffer.

The material reviewed by the Wegman panel was supplied by Barton committee staffer Peter Spencer, and the Wegman report studiously avoided substantive discussion of the only three peer - reviewed commentaries on McIntyre and McKitrick extant in the scientific literature.

The problem with trying to answer big questions is also that you sometimes don't answer anything — the House Science Committee staffer made it very clear that their objective was to at least get some answers on finite questions rather than simply adding to grand issues.

A committee staffer involved with the investigation said lawmakers have received claims with varying degrees of credibility about cyberattacks internationally that may have been enabled by Huawei technology.

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The House and Senate Small Business Committees should assign staffers to benchmark what has been done to reduce the regulatory burden in other countries, with the goal of copying the best initiatives enacted elsewhere.

Facebook officials briefed staffers on various congressional committees on Thursday, but Business Insider has reported that many of the committees were unsatisfied with the answers they did receive, increasing the likelihood of marathon hearings for Zuckerberg soon.

The Republican majority in the oversight committee plan to invite Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli to testify, and the Democratic minority plans to invite Pearson, a Democratic staffer told Business Insider via email.

In September, after a lengthy investigation by staffers at the Senate Judiciary Committee, chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) blasted the service for using forfeiture funds to pay for perks and luxury items such as «high - end granite countertops and expensive custom artwork,» much of it installed, appropriately enough, at a new Asset Forfeiture Academy in Houston.

«There's a lot of frustration around town from those trade associations and different financial services lobbyists that he has been so beholden to his philosophy,» said Mills, who was a staffer for the Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2009.

CSA is helmed by Alex Urrea, a former Republican staffer on the House Financial Services committee.

A former congressional staffer, Delrahim came to count on early, broad support among Republicans and Democrats in Congress, who advanced his nomination out of committee nearly unanimously.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R - VA), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R - SC), chair of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to Wray asking the bureau to brief their committees on why the FBI didn't act on the tip, and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - IA), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also asked the agency to brief his staffers.

U. S. Federal Reserve staffers watch from the back of the room as Fed Chair Janet Yellen holds a news conference following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington September 17, 2015.

The House Intelligence Committee report released on Friday contained a new bombshell: after the 2016 election, wealthy donors paid a former Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) staffer $ 50 million to continue «exposing» Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The Democratic National Committee, meanwhile, built a stable of faith outreach staffers and consultants with specific portfolios, like Catholic and Jewish outreach.

Daughtry, 48, is a former senior staffer for the Democratic National Committee who ran the party's 2008 convention in Denver.

This will be the speaker's first public appearance since he abruptly announced Lopez had been censured and stripped of his seniority after the bipartisan legislative ethics committee found the Brooklyn Democrat had made unwanted verbal and physical advances toward several young female staffers.

Former Donald Trump campaign political adviser Roger Stone, criticized members of the House Intelligence Committee for their treatment of Michael Caputo, another former campaign staffer and Western New York native, during his open remarks to the committee TuesdayCommittee for their treatment of Michael Caputo, another former campaign staffer and Western New York native, during his open remarks to the committee Tuesdaycommittee Tuesday morning.

NYC Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez just released a lenthy statement regarding an Ethics Committee probe into allegations that he inappropriately touched a staffer, calling on the body to broaden its scope to include an inquiry into how news of its investigation was leaked to the press.

The NYT reported that Silver had used an undisclosed amount of taxpayer cash to settle a claim made against Lopez before these two staffers» complaints were referred to the ethics committee.

After coming on board in January, Rospars negotiated with the other staffers of the exploratory committee over the scope of the division's activities.

Calls are mounting for Assemblyman / Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Vito Lopez to resign following his censure last week by Speaker Sheldon Silver after a bipartisan ethics committee determined he had sexually harassed two young female staffers.

The meeting was meant to decide if the former Trump campaign staffer should testify before the whole committee at a later date about Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

East Aurora political consultant Michael Caputo will be interviewed by staffers from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday in his second appearance before congressional panels probing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

A New York City Council staffer accused Bronx Councilman Andy King of making unwelcome advances on her, including a request that she wear a «beautiful gown» to a fundraising event, an ethics committee revealed as they continue to investigate the complaint filed in December.

Bronx Councilman Andy King subjected a female Council staffer to «unwelcome attention,» including gripping her hand to force her to smile and asking to see her in a «beautiful gown,» according to details of a complaint released by the Ethics Committee.

of sexual harassment by a female staffer in 2009 and a male staffer in 2011, and the Assembly Ethics Committee concluded in 2013 that the complaints were valid.

The Assembly Ethics Committee in 2008 cleared him of harassment allegations by a former staffer.

The senator has called for an investigation into Russia's meddling into the 2016 presidential election that included hacking the Democratic National Committee and the emails of some Hillary Clinton campaign staffers.

The Manhattan assemblyman was accused of sexual harassment by a female staffer in 2009 and a male staffer in 2011, and the Assembly Ethics Committee concluded in 2013 that the complaints were valid.

Joseph Lentol (D - Brooklyn), the chairman of the Codes Committee, told The Post that staffers are trying to come up with a compromise so the bill can get past cCommittee, told The Post that staffers are trying to come up with a compromise so the bill can get past committeecommittee.