Sentences with phrase «congressional subcommittee»
A "congressional subcommittee" is a smaller group of lawmakers within the U.S. Congress that is formed to focus on a specific issue or topic. They work on gathering information, discussing policies, and making recommendations before presenting them to the larger Congress. Full definition
In his work at Samaritan's Purse, Isaacs has testified before congressional subcommittees regarding international development, including reporting on the Ebola outbreak in Liberia in 2014.
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A hearing at US congressional subcommittee yesterday saw discussion of the role cryptocurrencies play in cybercrime.
-- CONGRESSIONAL ACTION: Two congressional subcommittees promised to call GM CEO Mary Barra back to Washington for further hearings after GM released its report.
Congressional subcommittee members looked skeptical when witnesses at hearings tried to explain how there could be a market for something as worthless as emissions.
McCain said he believes that the donation was retribution for a 2014 congressional subcommittee report that found Mercer's hedge fund evaded taxes, which the firm has denied.
The very next day, a headline on the front page of the Calgary Herald newspaper dutifully described Jaccard — who had appeared before a US congressional subcommittee — as a «Nobel winner.»
-- CONGRESSIONAL ACTION: Two congressional subcommittees have promised to call GM CEO Mary Barra back to Washington for further hearings after the Valukas report is released.
The fierceness with which Judge Orenstein came down on Apple's side should strengthen the company's hand on a day when its general counsel is scheduled to testify about the San Bernardino standoff before a congressional subcommittee.
The group's vice president for international economic affairs, Linda Menghetti Dempsey, told a congressional subcommittee in April that such an effort would be «at once both a radical idea and, in our estimation, the most pragmatic and effective way forward» on trade with China.
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.
Making sure airports are as secure as possible was the focus of a congressional subcommittee hearing held at the federal building in Syracuse Monday.
Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) chairs a Congressional subcommittee hearing on airport security in Syracuse Monday
But they also said that as he increased his fundraising, an unusually large share of the money he raised came from the health care industry — which has a stake in Collins» work on a congressional subcommittee that legislates on health care issues.
The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, enacted in 1938, doesn't require FDA approval before a beauty product is sold to the public or give the agency authority to recall a harmful product, according to Michael Landa, director of the FDA's Food Safety and Applied Nutrition branch, who testified at a congressional subcommittee earlier this year.
In contrast, the congressional subcommittee's reaction to unsafe conditions in federal labs, and its use of federal power to bring change, was unambiguous.
Alarmed, a congressional subcommittee called for a suspension of the program in February.
Democrats in Congress and supporters of public broadcasting say that pure politics, rather than budget considerations, led a congressional subcommittee to approve deep budget cuts to public television and radio this month.
Washington — A Congressional subcommittee probably will conclude that the National Institute of Education acted improperly when it awarded Harvard University a $ 7.6 - million contract to create a center for the study of educational technology, a source familiar with the panel's investigation says.
On September 4, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley testified before a congressional subcommittee on the Voluntary National Tests proposed by the President for 4th - grade reading and 8th - grade mathematics.
Washington — A Congressional subcommittee, which has concluded that the National Institute of Education committed «several apparent violations» of federal regulations in handling recent bidding for a major grant, has asked for a major probe of the nie's management of past bidding.
Washington — Education Department officials told a Congressional subcommittee last week that students without high - school certificates or diplomas would be ineligible for federal aid under the department's 1986 budget proposal.
Last week, a Congressional subcommittee passed another extension.
Speculation about the «tens of thousands» of dogs sold over the Internet was raised as far back as 2005, during testimony before a Congressional subcommittee on federal legislation to amend the Animal Welfare Act.
This study was initiated as a result of Caldeira's testimony before a Congressional subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans in April of 2007.
11/14/17 — A congressional subcommittee recently held hearings on the potential of geoengineering to keep climate change in check.
«Because this is a court of law and not a congressional subcommittee or technology blog, the issues are narrow, technical, and purely legal,» he wrote.
In an another excerpt of the letter Apple sent to a congressional subcommittee about its iPhone throttling debacle, the company says that with new hardware, the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X now have «a more advanced performance management system» than older iPhones.
Oversight boards and congressional subcommittees can occasionally be effective, but nothing keeps the government in check like investigative reporting.