Sentences with phrase «in the confirmation hearing»

«If the BOJ were to ease policy, it would therefore be most natural for it to increase government debt purchases and target longer - dated bonds,» Kuroda said in a confirmation hearing in the lower house of parliament.

Kuroda has been beating that drum for years and his comments in confirmation hearings in the past two weeks suggest he plans to pump cash into the economy much more aggressively than outgoing Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, who was reluctant to be too bold for fear of sowing the seeds of future problems, such as an economic bubble.

Secretary Perry, for instance, who presided over the greatest expansion of wind capacity in the country during his 14 years as governor of Texas, acknowledged in his confirmation hearing that climate change is real, and that «man - made activity» is at least partly to blame.

In his confirmation hearings, Sessions acknowledged that disrupting states marijuana markets by enforcing federal marijuana laws could create a strain on federal resources.

In his confirmation hearing for secretary of state, CIA Director Mike Pompeo said that he has been interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but did not provide additional details.

«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

Senate approval of Andy Puzder to lead the Department of Labor will hinge in large part on his testimony in a confirmation hearing tomorrow, as an unusually large number of GOP senators are reserving judgment on the nomination until they hear his explanation of several sensitive matters.

Gillibrand, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, will participate in the confirmation hearing for Trump's secretary of defense nominee, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis.

Yet in his confirmation hearing, Duncan left little doubt that the administration wants to make systemic changes.

In his confirmation hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the then designee for Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, testified: «Quality education... is the civil rights issue of our generation.

DeVos hearing: In her confirmation hearing to become U.S. education secretary, Betsy DeVos says she will be «a strong advocate for great public schools,» but «if a school is troubled, or unsafe, or not a good fit for a child — perhaps they have a special need that is going unmet — we should support a parent's right to enroll their child in a high - quality alternative.»

In confirmation hearings, senators should to try to find out exactly how DeVos will broaden her vision of school choice to include middle - income families and ask for evidence to support her claim that she opposes Common Core - aligned standards and tests.

The court will review your repayment plan and approve or deny the plan in the confirmation hearing.

In his confirmation hearing and in his first meeting with the leaders of the America he made clear that livability was on his agenda.

In her confirmation hearings last year, she said, «I believe that climate change is not a hoax,» which is about as good as can be expected from anyone tied to the Trump administration these days.

Pruitt, who has close ties to the fossil fuel industry, was criticized for his lack of concern on the topic of climate change in his confirmation hearings before joining President Donald Trump's administration.

He changed his tune a bit in his confirmation hearing and promised to protect scientists, which is good, but it's unclear what sparked his turnaround on climate at a suddenly opportune time.

Randy Barnett recommends the Legal Affairs Debate Club on how the U.S. Senate should question Supreme Court nominees in confirmation hearings.

Senator Schumer will of course not be the only big ego in the confirmation hearings, but my guess is that he will be by far the most obnoxious.

Today Karen Pearl, interim president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, gave the following testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court chief justice nominee John Roberts.

Not exact matches

During Sessions» confirmation hearings in 1986, Thomas Figures, who was an Assistant United States Attorney for seven years and an African - American working for Sessions in Alabama at the time, alleged that Sessions referred to the NAACP as «un-American» and repeatedly referred to Figures as «boy.»

At the confirmation hearing in January, Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota alerted Sessions to allegations of contact between Russia and Trump aides during the 2016 election.

Powell in statements throughout the year, culminating with his recent Senate confirmation hearing, has been clear he sees little risk of inflation that would prompt the Fed to raise rates faster than expected, and takes weak wage growth as a sign that sidelined workers remain to be drawn into jobs.

Sessions has been a target of Trump's ire since he recused himself last March from the FBI's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election, following reports that he was not forthcoming during his Senate confirmation hearing about his contacts with Russian officials during the campaign.

Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R - SC) testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during his confirmation hearing to be the next director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill January 24, 2017 in Washington, DC.

At his Senate confirmation hearing, he stated that that «science tells us that the climate is changing, and that human activity in some manner impacts that change.

During his confirmation hearing in 2006, Justice Alito and his political allies tried to downplay this part of his life's story.

In making that announcement, Grassley then announced that two circuit court nominees who were blocked by a single senator in their states will now receive confirmation hearingIn making that announcement, Grassley then announced that two circuit court nominees who were blocked by a single senator in their states will now receive confirmation hearingin their states will now receive confirmation hearings.

During his confirmation hearings last week, Tillerson took a hardline on China over its trade practices, expansionist moves in the South China Sea, and unwillingness to punish North Korea for its nuclear and missile programs even as he prevaricated on Russia.

Most of us have heard the term, and most smart businesses have added checks and balances to their processes to try to overcome confirmation bias — for example, by making sure that their business is structured to allow the open flow of information between executives and those close to whatever problem is being addressed, or by including designated naysayers in the conversation around a decision.

The Attorney General did not disclose those communications at his confirmation hearing in January.

Thomas E. Perez, the former Maryland labor secretary nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the top civil rights attorney in...

In his November confirmation hearing, he said he supported «tailoring» regulations to fit the institution.

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Powell stressed his intention to carry on the cautious approach to interest rate hikes that his predecessor, Janet Yellen, pursued in four years as Fed chair.

Thomas Homan was nominated to the top post by Mr. Trump in November, but the Homeland Security Department hadn't submitted his required paperwork to the Senate, and he never had a confirmation hearing.

Wilbur Ross testifies at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Commerce Committee in January 2017.

In addition to an impressive resume, Ms. Lynch handled her confirmation hearings superbly, her answers being both thoughtful and well reasoned.

This reference is to Janet Yellen's testimony in her Senate confirmation hearing as the chairman - to - be cited the benefits of the Fed's policy of über low rates for the average household.

At his Senate confirmation hearings, Mr. Quarles indicated he favored a lighter regulatory touch in financial services.

While he expressed opposition to the fiduciary rule during his confirmation hearing, he quickly demonstrated that he will be guided by the law in directing the DOL to defend the rule in a Fifth Circuit brief filed in July.

All this takes me back to questions I raised in a prior post about the impending confirmation hearings of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court: Does religion matter?

According to Ryken, Packer failed to hear the genuine Gospel in his upbringing in a Church of England parish: He «did not know what [saving faith] was,» Packer says of himself at age fourteen, on the eve of his confirmation.

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is in his second day of confirmation hearings and one of today's questions was about landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.

Massachusetts» entirely Democratic Senate delegation of Ted Kennedy and John Kerry went along with the assessment to the point of preventing his confirmation — only to hear a howl, when the senators got back home, from the hospitals and medical firms around Boston, whose leaders thought Astrue was as good as they were likely to get from the Republican administration in Washington.

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Unless Chile manage to go all the way to the final, we should be hearing some official confirmation soon, with sources in South America suggesting this move is all but done.

So in the latest thrilling bit of Arsenal transfer news, if you are the sort of person who believes in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy or Theo Walcott when he talks about fighting spirit, we hear in a Sky Sports report from Arsene Wenger the confirmation that the highly sought after Monaco star Kylian Mbappe is one of our transfer targets.

I had already heard it when he was in Madrid and now we have confirmation in London.»

So instead of worrying about DeVos, we really should be focusing on: (1) Congressional Republicans, who've already shown great enthusiasm for weakening the nutrition standards for school meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition programs.