Sentences with phrase «congressional staffers»

Through our bar association of attorneys who represent vaccine claimants, we have retained lobbyists and had meetings with congressional staffers and court personnel to discuss these needed changes.

Boyajian, a former congressional staffer for U.S. Rep. Mike McMahon (D - Staten Island), lives in Cambridge, Washington County.

A bipartisan panel of congressional staffers who expressed a collective desire to advance ESEA reauthorization — even in the face of deep disagreement over accountability particulars — and who affirmed that members of Congress value insight from individual educators on improving policy so it's more effective at the school and classroom levels

Schumer is right to caution th at middle class tax breaks ma y be in jeopardy, said Clint Stretch, a former congressional staffer on budget issues a nd former top tax lobbyist.

Also, with the upcoming midterm election, I hope to use my experience as a former Congressional Staffer in Washington DC to bring bitcoin, and BitPay, into as many political campaigns as possible.

She and other experts recently briefed Congressional staffers on the need to fill in this regulatory gap.

Although the amount of the settlement was never made public, the funds were provided by the Congressional Office of Compliance, an agency set up in 1995 to resolve labor and other disputes, including sexual - harassment complaints, brought by congressional staffers against lawmakers.

Hear directly from congressional staffers who will discuss the House and Senate's priorities and plans for rewriting ESEA, including prospects for further action in the coming year.

In a related issue last week, Poloncarz pushed back against a report from Republican congressional staffers with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that outlined how the federal Medicaid program contributed to the nationwide opioid crisis.

«I think the leadership's goal is to find that spot where they can say we did something while having actually done as little as possible,» a Democratic congressional staffer said of Republicans» strategy.

Hopefully we can generate interest from the legal and mental health professionals attending the AFCC convention, from APA representatives, and from congressional staffers.

«Fraudulent activity of your employees was not limited to Wells Fargo's consumer banking operations,» he wrote in the letter, which was reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday, explaining that the revelations came during congressional staffer discussions with the bank.

Four out of 10 female congressional staffers believe that sexual harassment is a problem on Capitol Hill, according to a 2016 CQ Roll Call survey.

Also running in the Democratic primary are attorney Ali Najmi, civic leader Bob Friedrich, former congressional staffer Celia Dosamantes and Satnam Singh Parhar

At each event, we will highlight the Friday evening soiree of the Erasing Family fundraiser, inviting congressional staffers, APA representatives, and AFCC convention participants (attorneys and mental health professionals) to come to the Friday evening Erasing Family event.

But congressional staffers told Business Insider that Gaetz, a freshman congressman, likely lacks the political oomph to push through such a drastic change to the federal bureaucracy.

At the time of the following conversation, Ho was scheduled to brief congressional staffers about a recent Department of Education report on so - called «growth models,» an increasingly popular approach to school accountability that tracks students over time.

Discussions between congressional staffers and Wells Fargo «have indicated that the fraudulent activity of your employees was not limited to Wells Fargo's consumer banking operations,» Vitter wrote.

(In my first parish in Washington, D.C., it was not unusual at Mass to see congressional staffers, Central American immigrants, and urban homeless share the same pew.)

Congressional staffers continually tell us that although they are swamped, you shouldn't assume that they don't want to dig as deeply and as broadly as they need to on an issue.

Three seconds: a headline that grabs congressional staffers» attention.

Capitol Steps At this Web site, current and former Congressional staffers use songs to provide a humorous look at political events and personalities.

«Inaction is unacceptable when a survey shows that four out of 10 women congressional staffers believe that sexual harassment is a problem on Capitol Hill and one out of six women in the same survey responded that they have been the survivors of sexual harassment,» reads the letter, addressed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

The meeting later became a sit - in protest after congressional staffers in Pelosi's office wouldn't agree to the activists» demand of bringing ENDA to a House floor vote before month's end.

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to Trump and one of the most visible figures in the administration, is expanding her operation inside the White House by hiring a veteran congressional staffer — Renee Hudson — as her chief of staff.

The panel will instead look into what other Congressional staffers knew about Massa's conduct, when they knew it, and what they did with the information.

Having said that, there is nothing in the rule book that says a tech savvy congressional staffer can fully write the question a Senator is going to ask.

Reports on the latest questions about a possible special session, the results of this year's Regional Economic Development Council awards, State Education Commissioner John King leaving for DC, and congressional staffers showing support for Eric Garner's and Michael Brown's family.

Zimmerman, who was Giffords's director of community outreach, is the first congressional staffer murdered in the line of duty, according to officials.

But key congressional staffers speaking at the RSA Conference here predicted at least three bills are likely to get to the president's desk this year.

On Medium, Matt Stoller, the iconoclastic netroots activist and Rep. Alan Grayson congressional staffer, who volunteered on the Teachout - Wu campaign, offers «5 Reasons for the Zephyr Teachout Phenomenon, and 5 Reasons Andrew Cuomo is Still Governor.»

* Texas 17th: Iraq war veteran Van Taylor squeaked by former congressional staffer Tucker Anderson in a Republican primary fight that featured significant involvement by the state and national party.

Connellan later became Katko's second - ranking congressional staffer.

The district also saw a competitive Republican primary where Senate aide John Quaglione beat former Congressional staffer Liam McCabe and supermarket manager Bob Capano, which could pave the way for a heated contest in November.

During the two - week workshop, students will meet and interact with the people who fund, regulate, shape, critique, publicize and study science, including congressional staffers, funding agency officers, lobbyists, regulators, journalists, academics, museum curators and others.

► What were congressional staffers doing sniffing around the headquarters of the National Science Foundation (NSF) this past summer, reading confidential information about funded grant proposals?

The proposed new U / E system was never tested in the field, notes Terri Ann Lowenthal, a census consultant and former congressional staffer based in Stamford, Connecticut, and that no such test appears in the revised schedule of remaining tests.

But how does a lifelong partisan congressional staffer change his spots and become a disinterested professional researcher who follows the evidence wherever it leads?

We worked with Congressional staffers fairly intensively, having hundreds of discussions.

Dr. Chester Goad is a university administrator, a former K12 principal and teacher, and former US Congressional staffer.

He and others representing a broad cross section of political leanings, spoke to about three - dozen congressional staffers and a few reporters.

DOT has also briefed several Congressional staffers on the interagency process and potential next steps, and received a letter from Representative DeFazio supporting the U.S. legacy passenger carriers» position.

Featuring actors and former congressional staffers Daniel Abse and Gary Lee Mahmoud.

Invasive species expert briefs congressional staffers on the benefits and risks of biofuel crops

In short, this bill is a big fat valentine to Big Oil; which is why one clever congressional staffer snapped a photo of the little piece of satiric artwork above.

Former Congressional Staffer Files Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Under Statute that Applies Federal Anti-Discrimination Law to Members of Congress

My guess is that Facebook is likely also thinking that the Mueller investigation is a tighter ship and less likely to leak details of the ads whereas Congressional staffers could leak like sieves.