Sentences with phrase «congressional hearing this week»

«We think there's a practical time limit, not a contractual one, not a legislated one, but a practical time limit on the negotiations due to the political calendar,» Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told a congressional hearing this week.

Mark Zuckerberg testified at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees Tuesday, in the first of two congressional hearings this week for the Facebook founder and CEO.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly undergoing intense preparation for his back - to - back congressional hearings this week, with teams of advisers coaching him on how to appear contrite and deferential.

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«I'm not as optimistic as I'd like to be,» Sonny Perdue told a U.S. congressional hearing last week, when pressed about dairy.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's appearances this week at congressional hearings delving into the Cambridge Analytica data scandal mark a crucial moment for the company, its users, and the broader public — and it's important that members of Congress use it wisely.

Next week, Zuckerberg is scheduled to appear at a likely testy Congressional hearing that will cover Facebook's privacy problems.

The two aides to the embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief left their posts this week, following two congressional hearings last week where Pruitt was questioned over his ethics scandals and deregulatory agenda.

This misjudgment (perhaps initially due to management downplaying the incidents) could explain why the board got engaged so late in the process, and why they did not impose penalties on executives until after the first scathing Congressional hearing and weeks of public outcry.

For years, conservatives have said Facebook operates with a deep anti-conservative bias and Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill did not waste the opportunity this week to grill CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the subject during congressional hearings intended to focus on the company's sharing of user data.

Also this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who in April was peppered with questions about privacy during two Congressional hearings, announced new, upcoming Facebook features to address users» concerns.

This week, the company faced a congressional hearing over the summer's data breach, and Uber is also still facing government inquiries into its use of its «greyball» software and a myriad of other lawsuits.

Shane Brett, co-founder and CEO of GECKO Governance, a regulatory solution for bank and fund financial compliance, believes that at last week's Congressional hearing, representatives of the SEC provided a clear indication that ICOs are considered a security but also appeared to confirm that tokens such as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are not likely to be treated as such.

Every day this week, American Muslim activists are working overtime to prepare for congressional hearings on «the radicalization of American Muslims» that open Thursday.

Erasmus notes the appearance at a congressional subcommittee hearing last week by the Hudson Institute's Nina Shea, who spoke about the suffering of Mideast Christians and America's responsibility to them.

In hearings scheduled to begin this week, a congressional committee attempts to discover how far the stain of steroids has spread over baseball

IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch delivered an effective filibuster at a congressional hearing in Washington last week.

A federal judge will hear an expedited appeal next week filed by State Senator Jack Martins to move the election to replace Representative Steve Israel in Long Island's 3rd Congressional District to December.

Days after announcing she is reconsidering a run for Congress in 2018, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner announced a forum next week to hear from local residents about congressional Republicans» tax plan.

James Comey, fired last month as FBI director amid a federal investigation into connections between Russia and the Trump campaign, is set to testify next Thursday at a highly anticipated congressional hearing that could shed light on his private conversations with the president in the weeks before his dismissal.

Rep. Paul Tonko (D - Amsterdam) grilled EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt (pictured) in a congressional hearing last week.

Voters in the 24th Congressional District will have plenty of opportunities this week to hear from the candidates seeking to represent them in...

If you're listening to the radio this week, you may hear the voice of Republican congressional candidate John Katko.

Fellows work 40 hours per week on a range of staff assignments: legislative analysis, responding to constituent mail, drafting talking points and speeches for members, and coordinating logistics and public testimony for congressional hearings.

General Robert Drolet defended Bush's statement at last week's congressional hearing, saying that «intercepted» meant only that «a Patriot and a Scud passed each other in the sky».

A handful of committees on both sides of Capitol Hill are expected to hold hearings on the Paris agreement and the domestic policies that support it during the congressional session that begins this week in the House and next week in the Senate.

In Congressional hearings over the past few weeks, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has warned lawmakers that the space agency would have to scale back its plans for exploration and science if Congress funded NASA at a level considerably lower than the Administration's request of $ 19 billion for 2011.

A House congressional panel this week announced plans to examine the smallpox and anthrax issues at a hearing next week where Frieden will be testifying.

In advance of a congressional hearing next week on the status of the commercial crew program, NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) has released new dates for when Boeing and SpaceX will conduct flight tests of their CST - 100 Starliner and Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Congressional hearings on the budget begin this week, and deliberations in the House and Senate are expected to last into the summer.

Washington — The Reagan Administration, as part of the President's school - discipline initiative, is considering the feasibility of changing a civil - rights law that has been blamed for making school officials unwilling to discipline students, a Justice Department official said at one of two Congressional hearings on school discipline last week.

If a Senate committee hearing last week was any indication, the congressional authors of the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001 will be keeping close tabs on the Department of Education's efforts to translate the law into practice.

With Alexander's nearly 400 - page draft bill, «Every Child Ready for College or Career Act of 2015,» under scrutiny, and in advance of congressional hearings next week, NSBA calls for a comprehensive, strategic reauthorization of ESEA that provides school districts with the flexibility and funding essential to support local community public schools and our nation's public schoolchildren.

Moran said the criticism received over the last two weeks was a factor in the decision for Mulally to drive to the congressional hearings.

In fact, earlier this week, Jerome Powell began Congressional confirmation hearings as part of the process to replace the current Fed chair, Janet Yellen.

The EPA has been put through hell this week — first, there were the Congressional hearings in which the new chairman of the House Energy Committee, along with others, railed against the expanded Clean Air

This week Dr. Schlesinger distributed a commentary on the uncertain fate of the American auto industry, reacting to news coverage of Congressional hearings at which leaders of the Big Three sought help from taxpayers.

The 2000 ExxonMobil version was just entered into the Congressional Record last week by Senator Tim Kaine during the Tillerson confirmation hearings.

Pressed by a House Republican at a Congressional hearing last week to offer a timeline for the red team, Pruitt said work on the initiative is «ongoing» but that details could be unveiled as early as next month.

The EPA has been put through hell this week — first, there were the Congressional hearings in which the new chairman of the House Energy Committee, along with others, railed against the expanded Clean Air Act rules that would hold the nation's biggest polluters to stricter standards.

Three major developments this week, capped by a congressional hearing yesterday, throw into question the fairness of the process and the neutrality of at least one group of supposed neutrals.

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Social media giant's CEO will testify in a second congressional hearing next week in Washington

WASHINGTON — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed he will testify in a second congressional hearing next week, this time in the Senate.

The company tries to show it can prevent future abuses as Congressional hearings loom next week.

Zuckerberg will be testifying about the controversy and Facebook's data practices at a series of congressional hearings next week, the leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees confirmed Wednesday.

The FTC is investigating the Cambridge Analytica incident, and Mr. Zuckerberg is set to testify at two congressional hearings next week.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify at two congressional hearings next week, but he and the company are doing plenty of talking in advance, in an effort to contain the damage from the company's latest privacy scandal — including calls for him to step down as chairman of the company he founded.

Next week, Zuckerberg is scheduled to appear at a likely testy Congressional hearing that will cover Facebook's privacy problems.

Zuckerberg is due to testify about the matter next week during two U.S. congressional hearings, and the data breach has drawn criticism from lawmakers and regulators around the world.

When the US House of Representatives got its turn for a Congressional hearing on cryptocurrencies this week, the industry insider returned the pressure applied by regulators during last month's Senate hearing and in recent weeks.