Sentences with phrase «congressional testimony to»

Climate scientist Michael Mann also made this point during his recent Congressional testimony to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

The...» warnings» from James Hansen's 1988 Congressional testimony to the recent Paris accords and the lack of impact they have had on carbon emissions.

Guzman's lawyers cited the a decision by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Human Rights Watch, and congressional testimony to underscore the dangers of solitary confinement and bolster their argument to release him from it.

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The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Friday requested public testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder and CEO, adding to the list of congressional panels looking to haul in the company's top executives.

It's worth a read if you want to understand why Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony is the first, not the last, you'll be seeing of tech titans on Capitol Hill — and why Jeff Bezos may put his second headquarters nearby.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg assured lawmakers during his congressional testimony that the «unsafe to the community» label was a technical error.

Congressional testimony and investigations by the company and regulators revealed that GM engineers knew of the faulty switch for at least a decade, but a series of errors led to affected vehicles being recalled only in 2014.

That's straight out of Mark Zuckerberg's testimony for his Congressional hearings, and it reflects Facebook's head - on approach to dealing with a recent deluge of backlash aimed at the company.

Investors are looking ahead to Congressional testimony from Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen.

As my Inc.com colleague Carmine Gallo recently pointed out in reference to Mark Zuckerberg's high - stakes congressional testimony, the way to succeed under pressure is to prepare under pressure.

Indeed, it will take another five to 10 years for AI to be ready to police hate speech and be able to reliably distinguish it from legitimate political expression, Zuckerberg told senators during his testimony at a congressional hearing Tuesday.

CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to the joint Congressional committee.

He said in congressional testimony about the JOBS Act in April that it may be too soon introduce a bill to fix crowdfunding provisions, as no one yet knows what the marketplace looks like, or what precisely needs to be fixed.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- With fired FBI Director James Comey's highly anticipated congressional testimony just a day away, the White House and its allies are scrambling for ways to offset potential damage.

In his prepared congressional testimony, Zuckerberg said content from one Russian agency that tries to spread misinformation reached about 126 million people on Facebook during a two - year period around the 2016 election.

NEW YORK, April 16 - A lawyer for victims of terrorist attacks in Israel on Monday urged a federal appeals court to revive their lawsuit against Facebook Inc, saying Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony undermined the social media company's argument that it bore no responsibility for content on its platforms.

As for production, the company was responsible for only about 11 percent of U.S. uranium production in 2014, according to 2015 congressional testimony by a Department of Energy contractor.

So Fed watchers don't think Yellen will rock the boat in two appearances this week: a speech on Wednesday afternoon and in testimony to a Congressional panel on the following morning.

Zuckerberg apologised for the data breach on Monday in a written testimony to US Congress, and will likely repeat that on Tuesday and Wednesday as he faces congressional committees looking into Facebook's management and protection of user data.

The scene comes to mind in the aftermath of Mark Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony, which chewed up two days on Capitol Hill this week and triggered an outpouring of social media mockery aimed at the «elderly» senators (that was Day 1) asking «grandpa» questions of the Facebook CEO.

SAN FRANCISCO — Two pages of notes sitting in a binder in front of Mark Zuckerberg during his congressional testimony this week hinted at a message the Facebook chief executive rarely got a chance to deliver: We're not the only ones.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, during congressional testimony this month, said his company would apply the European standards to U.S. users.

There were times, in Congressional testimony, when she disagreed with her fellow regulators even though they were sitting right next to her.

And Schroepfer's testimony has also falled to fuel a cottage industry in gif - creation and meme - making the way that Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony did.

It was one of the first times over Zuckerberg's two - day congressional testimony that he struggled to provide a full, polished answer when challenged about the changes Facebook was willing to make:

Jamie Dimon returned to Capitol Hill yesterday for round two of his congressional testimony concerning JPMorgan's springtime trading fiasco.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen appeared to reinforce this stance last week in Congressional testimony that we view as consistent with past communications.

Page, who testified last week before the House Oversight Committee as a part of its ongoing probe into Russian election meddling in 2016, told congressional investigators in testimony revealed Monday that he had asked the former Trump campaign chief and Hope Hicks, now the White House communications director, about his trip to Moscow in 2016 in which he met with Russian officials and discussed the presidential campaign.»

Bowden's remarks to the Private Fund Compliance Forum in New York follow similar testimony to a Congressional committee by SEC Chairman Mary Jo White last week.

Meeting regularly with congressional staff on USDA and FDA policy, delivering testimony and remarks on the benefits of plant - based and clean meat, and collaborating with other GFI staff to showcase their expertise via Hill visits and congressional briefings.

Negative rates seem to be the new favorite trick of central banks, from Sweden to Switzerland to Japan, and during her Congressional testimony last Thursday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen commented that negative rates in the U.S. «aren't off the table.»

Comey has publicly testified to many of the details within the memos, including in his congressional testimony last June and now on his book tour promoting his new memoir, A Higher Loyalty.

In congressional testimony this week, Chair Janet Yellen said that it would be risky to wait too long to raise interest rates and that the committee would consider hiking rates in coming meetings.

And so, it was perhaps not the best time for reports to emerge that Petraeus had blamed Israeli intransigence toward the Palestinians for endangering the lives of American servicemen in the Middle East — at a reported Pentagon briefing early in March and again in congressional testimony on March 16.

Compassion International is «weeks away from permanently withdrawing» from India, according to its testimony this week to a Congressional committee.

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You'll usually have a short intro and a clearly - identified list of links of the documents, which might include press releases, video clips, congressional testimony, letters to Congress from supportive corporate CEOs or grassroots citizens groups, reports, factsheets, etc..

The White House and its allies are scrambling for ways to offset potential damage from fired FBI Director James Comey's highly anticipated congressional testimony, an appearance that could expose new details about his discussions with Trump about the federal investigation into Russia's election meddling.

For example, there was a story stating that James Comey would claim not to have told Donald Trump that Trump wasn't a target of the investigation in his congressional testimony.

With just more than 24 hours to go before James Comey's highly anticipated congressional testimony, President Donald Trump found someone willing to serve as the new director of the FBI: a former Justice Department official named Christopher Wray.

You'll usually have a short intro and a clearly - identified list of links of the documents (which might include press releases, video clips, congressional testimony, letters to Congress from supportive corporate CEOs or grassroots citizens groups, reports, factsheets, etc).

«I guess it's typical of the culture in Washington for politicians to believe that they can solve an ongoing crisis with statements and testimonies in Congressional committee rooms.

As Appendix A to this testimony, I have included two excerpts from the wrap - up report, Congressional Action on R&D in the FY 1996 Budget.

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.

«White House officials and political appointees in the agencies censored congressional testimony on the causes and impacts of global warming, controlled media access to government climate scientists, and edited federal scientific reports to inject unwarranted uncertainty into discussions of climate change.»

Before the year is complete, my duties will include writing speeches, congressional testimony, and press releases and making visits to several universities.

«Students emerging from the oft - criticized K - 12 system appear to be studying science and math subjects more and performing better in them, over time,» said Teitelbaum in Congressional testimony in November 2007.

Speaking to reporters at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on 15 September, Isaacs echoed a theme enunciated in congressional testimony and elsewhere by Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who has presented a detailed proposal for eight mission - oriented research centers that he calls «innovation hubs.»

His 1980s testimony before congressional committees on climate change helped to raise broad awareness of the dangers of global climate change.

In his 2001 testimony to the congressional committee on energy, Peterson estimated that 10 % of the electricity generated in the United States is lost annually due to the resistance in copper and aluminum power - transmission cables.