Sentences with phrase «from subcommittees»

The company also came under the scrutiny of Congress once more and that pressure, which came from subcommittees in both the House and Senate and from both political parties, appears to have paid off.

To this could be added the recent congressional hearings in which militia leaders received a surprisingly respectful hearing from a subcommittee chaired by Senator Arlen Specter -LRB-!

And the reason I say that is because I've been in many meetings with Republicans, as a Republican member of Congress, when they discuss certain pieces of legislation, but when they discuss how we can totally disrupt the Democratic majority from the subcommittee right on to the House floor.

While the Senate's counterpart bill has not yet emerged from the subcommittee that funds NASA, Sen. Richard Shelby, R - Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, raised concerns about spending cuts included in the White House budget blueprint.

But Duncan also found himself on the receiving end of bipartisan criticism about education funding from subcommittee Chairman Denny Rehberg (R - MT) and ranking Democrat Rosa DeLauro (CT).

Like Matthews - Mint Hill, Gateway Charter Academy also had good marks on its application rubric from subcommittee members.

The two bills, plus Delegate Surovell's solar gardens bill, HB 1158, were tabled with little debate, though with dissenting votes from the subcommittee's three Democrats.»

Not exact matches

David Cicilline from the House of Representatives antitrust subcommittee has called for a hearing.

He served in the Canadian Senate as a Conservative from Ontario and was vice-chair of the subcommittee on urban poverty.

Rep. Robin Kelly, a Democrat from Illinois and a ranking member of Congress» IT oversight subcommittee, says she's pleased Facebook is taking steps to improve disclosure on candidate ads but says the company is missing a «major vulnerability» on social issue ads.

In 1987, according to the Kerry subcommittee, there were 1,400 deaths from cocaine; in 1988, that figure had increased to 3,308.

From someone on the Science and Space subcommittee who claims to be Catholic.

He clearly legitimized the < 10,000 year answer — from someone on the Senate Science and Space subcommittee.

The Technical Committee and its associated subcommittees are made up of volunteers from membership breweries from across the country.

See industry updates, the latest resources and news from the Brewers Association and its subcommittees on things like sustainability, draught quality, raw materials and more.

Strong supporting evidence that major league baseball should spread over the country in the 1960s came from Washington, where a Senate subcommittee heard testimony on two bills — S. 616 by Senator Keating and S. 886 by Senator Kefauver — both designed to prevent monopoly and preserve opportunity in professional sport.

Meanwhile, the House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday released its fiscal year 2015 agriculture appropriations bill, which included language that would allow any school district which operated its meal program at a loss for at least six months this past school year to seek a waiver from compliance in the coming year with the new, healthier school food standards.

The subcommittee's chairman, GOP Rep. Robert Aderholt of Alabama, told Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that he is receiving complaints from schools and from the School Nutrition Association, which represents school food - service directors, that some schools are facing both a financial and logistical burden in implementing the new school - meals programs and are requesting a delay.

A subcommittee of the commission — which includes representatives from local churches, Northbrook Park District, the North Suburban YMCA and the Youth Services of Glenview / Northbrook — is working on a logo for the initiative and the design of the online resource.

In any case, nothing in what you said refutes the original study that I linked to, or my own experience working in the Texas Legislature, where it was a demonstrable FACT that taxes from urban areas subsidized more - conservative rural areas — a fact that we dealt with every day on an appropriations subcommittee my boss served on.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand greets panel members from the military and the Defense Department testifying on Capitol Hill on March 13 before the subcommittee's hearing on sexual assault in the military.

Technical aspects and proximity to the Long Island Power Authority's substation on Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton make Beach Lane in Wainscott an excellent potential landing site for the transmission cable that would run from the proposed offshore South Fork Wind Farm, officials of Deepwater Wind told members of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee's environmental subcommittee on Monday morning at Town Hall.

When pressed by the moderator on what he has to show from his time on that subcommittee, Weiner says that «every member of the Democratic caucus... didn't get much done» during that time.

«I think you're going to see more children, not fewer children, exposed to lead,» said Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat [from Rhode Island] who has sought more funding for lead - abatement programs on the Senate subcommittee that funds HUD.

The Onondaga County Legislature is already studying consolidating services in a subcommittee with elected officials from the city of Syracuse and towns and villages.

(b) No officer of the County Committee, District Committee or Divisional Committee or of any of their subcommittees, no member of the Executive Committee and no employee of the County Committee shall use or attempt any party position as a means of undue or improper influence to secure from any state or local agency (as those terms are defined in Public Officers Law 73) for that officer, member of the Executive Committee or employee or others with whom the person has a family, employment, business or financial relationship any benefits, privileges or exemptions not generally available to members of the public.

Voicing «a preponderance of support» from Community Board 3's landmarks subcommittee, Carolyn Ratcliffe advocated for the preservation of New York buildings that embody «the nation's history as well.»

Warsi's remarks, which reinforce criticisms made before the weekend by the former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who chaired the cabinet subcommittee on immigration from 2010 to 2015, undermine Rudd's insistence in her statement to the Commons last week on blaming officials for thinking about policy rather than people.

By James Briggs The city of Madison plans to create a subcommittee to prevent development proposals from getting bogged down in too many committee meetings.

«My subcommittee hearing earlier this week stemmed from security breaches in which loaded firearms were brought onto commercial airplanes by employees with airport access privileges,» he said.

The Consensus group is currently reviewing draft reports from seven subcommittees, Murphy said.

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.

But it was BioShield's third provision that provoked widespread concern among members of two subcommittees, one from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the other from the Committee on Homeland Security, which convened jointly today for their first discussion of the legislation.

In beginning the hearing, subcommittee chair Senator Chuck Schumer (D — NY) advocated «virtually stapling a green card to [the] diploma» of anyone earning an American science or technical degree so that «the best and brightest students from around the world» can stay here and «start companies.»

In a three - page letter, Barton demanded that «all documents from NIH and HHS» relating to the Hughes case be delivered to the subcommittee offices by 17 March.

But that didn't stop Culberson from saying he would bolster several programs within the subcommittee's purview — not just NSF's research account, but also the aeronautics program at NASA, the Legal Services Corporation, and the Sea Grant program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The subcommittee heard from two reform supporters, Hyman from Netflix and privacy law attorney Christopher Wolf.

The House of Representatives and Senate subcommittees that hold the purse strings for DOE and the Army Corps of Engineers received an additional $ 4 billion from the recent agreement to raise the budget caps, notes Michael Lubell, a physicist at City College of New York and a former lobbyist for the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C..

Drawing from the concerns highlighted in this report, the Institutes formed seven subcommittees — stipends and benefits; adequacy of training; mentoring; duration of training and career path setting; career advice and job placement; satisfaction with choice of Gladstone for postdoctoral studies; and a catch - all of additional issues — to address specific issues.

Again, the subcommittees were composed of one principal investigator and six to seven postdocs, with additional support from the administrative office.

And Greenwald points out that by barring staff from the major fusion labs from the report subcommittee, «it lacked a whole class of expertise.»

FESAC set up a subcommittee that, at DOE's request, did not include any members from the major existing U.S. fusion labs.

In June, the chair of the House appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee, Representative Denny Rehberg (R - MT), said that his subcommittee could not act on the changes until it received an official budget request directly from the White House.

The hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigations subcommittee came in response to a June incident in which CDC scientists in Atlanta moved anthrax samples they mistakenly thought were inactivated from high - containment labs to less secure ones, potentially exposing dozens of workers.

At the markup, subcommittee members again rejected an amendment to reduce the authorization from five to three years, which Republicans said would allow for better congressional oversight of NIST's programs.

A House subcommittee is set to examine the program Tuesday, with representatives from the DHS and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control set to discuss the system's future.

Paula Stephan, an economist at Georgia State University in Atlanta and a member of the current report's modeling subcommittee (Stephan was also a member of that 1998 NRC committee), writes to Science Careers in an e-mail that it's «disappointing to see that NIH did not figure out a way to shift more funds into training grants and fellowships and away from research assistantship stipends» or «implement any requirement for limiting the amount of salary that can be written off of grants — something that could dampen the demand for graduate students.»

As a result, the NIH grant success rate (the portion of reviewed grants that received funding) may drop from an already record - low 18 % in 2012 to 16 %, according to Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA), chair of the Senate spending subcommittee that discussed NIH's 2014 budget request last week.

A request from an individual Member of Congress not acting on behalf of a committee or subcommittee does not qualify as an exemption from lobbying.

As the subcommittee followed through on that threat, even a senator from a state directly involved in the U.S. ITER project spoke in favor of ending it.