Sentences with phrase «heard by the committee»

They further indicated that, they will advise their client to resort to other constitutional and legal options available if he is refused the opportunity to be heard by the committee.

Mr. Flanagan described the recommendations contained within the report as «a good first step in addressing the concerns heard by the committee, which overwhelmingly revolved around the issue of over-testing.»

The event, titled «When Wal - Mart Comes to Town: The Effect on Small Businesses and Communities: A Historical and Prospective View,» is a joint hearing by the Committee on Small Business and committees on community and economic development.

But it also allows those affected to petition parliament for and against the proposals and have their case heard by a committee of MPs.

As such, they were «entirely congruent» with the complaint of institutional bias the Registrant sought to have heard by the Committee, which was essentially a complaint of systemic discrimination because of racial origin.

Not exact matches

Facebook gave the ads to the Senate Intelligence Committee, which were viewed by about 10 million U.S. users, and will testify at a public hearing on Nov. 1.

Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, implored Wray during a hearing on Thursday to «repair the damage done by» former FBI Director James Comey.

Fred Upton, a Republican congressman from Michigan and chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, put his finger on the larger issue facing governments worldwide at a recent hearing: «Was Solyndra just one bad bet by an administration rushing to claim credit for the first loan guarantee, or is it the tip of the iceberg?»

The second hearing will be livestreamed by news sites including Fortune and by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Independent Street recaps hearings held this week by the House's Small Business Committee.

A congressional committee has demanded that Shkreli appear at a hearing about his decision to raise the price of a lifesaving medicine by more than 5,000 percent.

The lawmakers, who control the tax - writing House Ways and Means Committee, said they would hold hearings on the measures, which are sure to be heavily attended by Washington lobbyists.

Snowden also took advantage of the NSA's culture of personal trust as described by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper during a hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Following the May 28 hearings (held following a motion by the NDP), the parliamentary committee has not filed a report with the federal government and the government has not tabled any official response.

In the interview with Capital Download, Warner also discussed two crucial Senate Intelligence Committee hearings this week, including testimony Thursday by ousted FBI director James Comey.

«We've heard a lot today about how smaller banks are being smothered by unnecessary regulation, supposedly because of Dodd - Frank rules, like the new mortgage rules that went into effect in the first quarter of 2014,» she said during the second Senate Banking Committee hearing this week on regulatory relief for small banks and credit unions.

Powell, in a Senate Banking Committee hearing last week, said he doesn't think the bill would weaken supervision for foreign banks when asked about the matter by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D - OH).

Mr. Thune, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, called Facebook and its role in society «extraordinary» and began the hearing by explaining why Facebook is being singled out and why Mr. Zuckerberg was asked to appear alone.

Overall both the hearings by the Homeland Security Committee and this hearing have been taken as being positive for Bitcoin.

Lawmakers continue to be concerned about how content is managed by social media platforms and the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Thursday «to examine social media filtering and policing practices.»

Today the committee heard from a former CA director, Brittany Kaiser, who suggested CA had in fact been able to obtain information on far more than 87M Facebook users — by the use of a series of additional quiz apps designed to be deployed on Facebook's platform.

A UK parliamentary committee has published a cache of documents provided to it by an ex CA employee, Chris Wylie, who gave public testimony in front of the committee at an oral hearing earlier this week.

Following his involvement with the NCMEC task force, Brito took part in congressional hearings that were the result of a 2013 bitcoin investigation by the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

«It's ironic that the Committee report should come out in the midst of today's court hearings into the Site C dam, a megaproject approved by the federal and province governments over the objections of First Nations and despite a highly critical environmental assessment.»

To be clear, Warner's public call for Zuckerberg to speak, delivered earlier this morning by way of a Tweet, was not the first time that the Intel Committee has requested Zuckerberg to testify: it had also invited him to the original hearing in November of last year, where lawyers were sent instead.

He will testify first at a hearing held jointly by the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on April 10 and then before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11.

During the House committee hearing on Wednesday, Zuckerberg claimed not to know what «shadow profiles» are, even though this term has been used for years to describe Facebook's collection of data about people who don't use its services by harvesting the inboxes and smartphone contacts of active Facebook users.

This particular issue was the subject of extensive debate during committee hearings with the ESAC position previously rejected by the government and opposition MPs.

That bill (HB 157), a largely symbolic resolution, is sponsored by Spano, who chairs the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee, the first committee assigned to hear the assault weapons ban.

During a parliamentary committee hearing Thursday, Morneau was repeatedly pressed by Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre to disclose how much the carbon tax would cost Canadian families.

Life - sized cutouts depicting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wearing «Fix Fakebook» T - shirts are displayed by advocacy group, Avaaz, on the South East Lawn of the Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 10, 2018, ahead of Zuckerberg's appearance before a Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees joint hearing.

They were brought into sharp contrast by the two «world evangelism» conferences sponsored just a few weeks apart in 1980: the meeting of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism in Melbourne in May, with the theme, «Your Kingdom Come,» and the Consultation on World Evangelization, sponsored by the Lausanne Committee, in Pattaya, Thailand, in June, with the theme «How Shall They Hear?»

I recalled witnessing this exchange back when thinking about the upcoming hearings organized by Rep. Peter King, R - N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee on whether American Muslims pose a threat to the United States.

These hearings on «the radicalization of the American Muslim community and homegrown terrorism» are being overseen by Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York and the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

A tearful Randy Weaver was given a more than sympathetic hearing by the same committee, which in turn castigated the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI for their actions at Ruby Ridge.

Those were some of the findings of a survey conducted by the Youth Sexual Health Project, funded by the D.C. Council Committee on Health, whose chairman, council member David A. Catania (I - At Large), had a hearing on the issue Wednesday.

That appeal will be heard this fall by the Judicial Committee of the General Council of the United Church (which sounds more grandiose than it is).

Napolitano's warning came at the first in a series of hearings convened by the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King, R - New York, who is determined to investigate what he terms the radicalization of Muslim - American communities, a problem he says is compounded by their lack of cooperation with law enforcement.

On July 22, 1953, Oxnam appeared in a crowded congressional hearing room to demand that the Velde committee clean up its files and stop attacking Protestant clergy on flimsy charges, some of which the Century suspected were trumped up by the ultraconservative American Council of Churches.

Religious leaders, community members and activists took to the streets Sunday in New York to protest upcoming congressional hearings, convened by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, on «the radicalization of American Muslims.»

The committee heard testimony from Dr. Patricia Greenfield of UCLA that heavy viewing of music video may significantly increase violence in our society because it closely links erotic relationships with violence performed not by villains but by teenage idols.

Organic Pirorities in House Farm Bill - Side by Side Chart Industry Letter re: NOSB 2018 Farm Bill At - a-Glance Senate Ag Committee Hearing July 2017

This supplementary submission has been prepared in response to key issues raised by community members (both in public submissions received by the Committee and at the Committee's public hearings) that relate to Commonwealth environmental water.

Even if those offers were made sincerely by LAUSD (and I know you think they weren't), I'm not so naive as to think hearing Jamie talk about a committee meeting that took place off camera would make for scintillating television!

Baby Milk Action worked with Richard Howitt MEP, who appears in the first Mark Thomas film, on the first public hearing into corporate malpractice held by the European Parliament's Development Committee.

A publication by DAILY GUIDE on April 8 suggested that Chinese, believed to be a devotee of Dr. Mustapha Ahmed, former MP of the constituency, allegedly fired gunshots during the committee's hearing.

The court also mandated INEC to recognise the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP headed by Sen. Ahmed Markarfi, former Governor of Kaduna State in all matters pertaining the conduct of Primary Elections for Political Offices and the submission of the PDP List of Candidates for any elections to be conducted by INEC pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.

In a statement personally signed by the presiding judge, Justice A. M. Liman, the court granted a restraining order on any member of the National Working Committee of the PDP who was removed from office by the Party's National Convention in Port Harcourt from receiving nominations and or submitting names to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as officers or candidates of the PDP in whatever capacity pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice brought by the Party.

Democratic email fundraising may not quite have reached the level of a Global Catastrophe yesterday, but it sure as hell got talked about: I heard an earful at a NARAL fundraiser last night, and various back - channel email lists and Facebook groups buzzed with people sick and tired of repetitive fundraising messages sent by campaigns, PACs and the party committees.

Johnson also reminds me that while he headed the committee, there were several «contentious» hearings, including one on the collection (or lack thereof) of taxes on cigaretts sold on Indian lands, and another on alleged abuses by the Medicaid inspector general to name two.