Sentences with phrase «held hearings this week»

The House of Commons ethics committee held hearings this week to take a closer look at the breach that involves Facebook and, allegedly, the political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica.
The U.S. congressman set to hold hearings this week on «radicalization in the American Muslim community» wants Americans to find out how much al Qaeda is trying to influence U.S. Muslims, he told CNN Wednesday.
By late last week, the state high court indicated it would hold a hearing this week on the Newark board's...
The House Committee on Transportation's Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing this week on «U.S. Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Integration, Oversight and Competitiveness.»

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The telecom regulator is holding a week of hearings in Gatineau, Que., as it aims to set national standards for the content and clarity of cellphone contracts.
Harriott is being held at the Mecklenburg County Jail and will remain the facility until a hearing next week, the Dallas Morning News reported.
Expect to hear more about Apple Watch next week when Apple announces its earnings and holds its call.
Independent Street recaps hearings held this week by the House's Small Business Committee.
THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will next week hold public hearings in Perth and Albany as part of its national inquiry to determine whether there is a need for retail price control arrangements to continue to apply to Telstra after Ju
The auction will be held on Aug. 16 (about five weeks from now), and the hearing confirming the winning bid will be held on Aug. 18.
(Take that, House of Commons Finance Committee, which is holding hearings on the issue next week.)
In the months leading up to this week's Supreme Court hearings, religious leaders from across the country have held prayer vigils and rallies for their respective causes.
For ten weeks they held forth in New York City while 500 ushers tried to handle long lines of people who came to hear.
I heard Senator Mark Begich of Alaska on NPR one evening this week saying, «The Republicans are being held hostage by a small group in their party for political advantage and the American people hate it.»
They are maybe five years old, these three moppets, and I hear Their bus groaning a ways behind me, but they are totally into sculpting Little hills and ridges of leaves, and I can hear them giggling, and in one Minute the bus will hold out its arms and absorb them, and the parade is Starting to move in front of me, but for another perfect instant I can hear And see them skiffling and giggling, and smell the sharp savory death of The brilliant leaves, and see the shoulder of the mom or aunt or neighbor In the lee of the apartment building, where she is just lighting a cigarette, And we get these moments all day long, don't we, we get them all month And week and year all our lives, such a flood and flow of them, too many To count, too many to endure, they are too generous and savory and holy, We could not bear to see and savor and sing them all; we would go blind.
And then when she hears that there are no signs of her giving birth anytime soon (despite other bloggers that are due the SAME week as her or later, are sitting in their Instagram pics holding brand new babies), carries the crying through her entire car ride back to work.
In turn, it came as no surprise to hear the former England boss rule out an exit last week, with Football.London noting that Spurs held an interest in the winger.
Once again this week it was that always happy and joyous occasion when Arsenal hold the AGM and a select few Gooners who are also shareholders in the club get to hear from the likes of Arsene Wenger and Ivan Gazidis about how the club is doing.
Upon hearing that news, Inter sprung straight back into action and held another maxi summit in a Milanese restaurant last week.
As I reported here earlier, the Food and Drug Administration held a two - day hearing this week to address concerns that artificial food dyes can cause hyperactivity in some children.
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This week, the House Agriculture Committee is holding a hearing on the controversy surrounding the current update to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Amid an ongoing investigating into his fundraising activities, Mayor Bill de Blasio will face his staunchest institutional critics next week in person as Senate Republicans hold a hearing on the future of mayoral control of New York City schools.
After failing in their effort two weeks ago to force the Senate Republicans to hold a public hearing on a package of ethics reform bills, the Senate Democrats are taking matters into their own hands.
Dinowitz, who chairs the Bronx Democratic County Committee (not to be confused with the county leader title, which is held by Assemblyman Carl Heastie), said he had «heard a rumor several weeks ago» that someone at state party HQ might try something along these lines, but he wasn't kept in the loop.
Republicans in the state Senate are being urged to hold a hearing on the Child Victims Act, which passed the Democratic - controlled Assembly earlier this week.
Instead, the Assembly will hold two hearings on its own, beginning the second week of September — one in Albany, the second on Long Island.
According to the ’09 change, a hearing must be held within two weeks unless the majority of Rules members (read: Republicans) vote not to do so.
At 9 a.m., the state Senate Committees on Investigations and Government Operations, on Energy and Telecommunications, and on Aging hold a joint public hearing on the power outages in the Hudson Valley over the past two weeks, Legislative Office Building, Van Buren Hearing Room A, second floor, hearing on the power outages in the Hudson Valley over the past two weeks, Legislative Office Building, Van Buren Hearing Room A, second floor, Hearing Room A, second floor, Albany.
Last week, the New York State Assembly Higher Education committee held a public hearing to review the performance of the new Excelsior Scholarship program.
State officials are holding a public hearing this week to discuss plans for replacing 115 - year - old bridges linking the mainland to islands near the brink of Niagara Falls.
Last week, the mayor held a town hall meeting to hear from students about gun violence in schools.
Last week, NYC Council's Committee on Technology held a hearing on the NYC Open Data Law's implementation, as well as on a package of seven bills to amend the law.
McLaughlin took to Twitter this week to rail against Flanagan's decision to not hold hearings on the issue.
His frustration boiled over last week, when Flanagan reiterated to reporters he would not hold hearings on water issues in the aftermath of a PFOA contamination in the village in order to assess the response by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration (Conservative critics of the Senate GOP have been deeply critical of the conference's relationship with Cuomo, especially in the wake of the passage of the SAFE Act).
The Town Board will now review the supervisor's budget plan in the coming weeks and hold a public hearing on the proposal later this fall.
The following week, a hearing will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 19 in Common Council chambers at Buffalo City Hall, 65 Niagara Square.
The Senate this week held a hearing on the issue, with talks centering in part on how to fund family courts to take on the new cases.
Budget hearings continue in Albany this week, and the Legislature will also hold session days to introduce and pass legislation on Monday and Tuesday, before taking its usual mid-February break.
She gave the sides an ultimatum: If they don't reach a resolution within two weeks, the Council will hold hearings, requesting both sides face the public to explain why they have blacked out the games.
You've got to feel just a bit sorry for the members of County Legislator Ed Romaine's tick task force, which held its first local public hearing in Peconic last week.
Assembly Democrats also held a lengthy hearing on fracking, in the first week of the legislative session, where opponents as well as supporters gave testimony.
BY MICHAEL CAHILL No public comments on budget at this week's NRCSD Meeting The North Rockland Central School district met on Tuesday evening at North Rockland High School to honor several students who had won essay contests, and hold a public hearing on the 2012 — 2013 budget.
The legislature will hold hearings over the next several weeks.
RSOs were required to submit budget proposals earlier this month, and the Finance Board spent the past week voting on the proposals after holding hearings with each RSO on Oct. 17 and 18.
Senate Republicans are scheduled to hold hearings on police safety and criminal justice issues across the state the week after Cuomo's address.
Also this week, as it becomes clearer that Labour voters could hold the key to the referendum's final result we hear from two of the party's MPs on opposite sides of the divide.
Among the news from public hearings held at the Palisades Center Mall and the Westchester Marriott Hotel in Tarrytown last week, state officials released information that twelve properties in the Village of South Nyack will be affected by the necessary widening of the New York State Thruway Authority's right - of - way there.
In court papers filed immediately after the hearing, the defense cited a news conference held to announce Silver's arrest, a speech on public corruption Bharara delivered at New York Law School the following day, and an extensive interview he gave to the MSNBC cable network two weeks later.
State lawmakers have held three hearings on water issues over the last several weeks, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo this month signed legislation that would require all schools to test for lead in school drinking water.
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