Sentences with phrase «member of a house»

Sen. Vitter, a slavish advocate of oil industry and other corporate interests, broke the law prior to 2004 by patronizing prostitutes while a member of the House.

Eight months earlier, when a Conservative member of the House of Commons finance committee asked him to comment on the merits of a balanced budget, Poloz demurred.

C - SPAN picked up those streams and began re-distributing them, as did a number of other broadcasters (at least one member of the House also used Facebook Live to show what was happening inside the chamber).

In the dorm room: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg headed into his second round of questioning Wednesday, but this time with the members of the House.

Among other things, Democratic members of the House have proven that — much like Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — they don't really need the traditional media to get their message out when they have Twitter and its live - streaming service at their disposal.

In it Waxman, who is ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Finance, writes:

«So I think we'll have minimal impact as a far as specific members of the House.»

The New York Times reports that the witnesses told members of the House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular, and Alaska Native Affairs that Congress should appoint a federal control board — that is, take over management of the island.

As the 112th Congress approaches its end, we can look to the DW - NOMINATE score to see who were the most conservative members of the House of Representatives mathematically.

An April 12th letter from Republican members of the House of Representatives, sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of Pompeo's nomination, approvingly cited Pompeo's «five years serving in the United States Army, including in the Gulf War.»

Like many conservative members of the House, the second - term congressman believes the Obama administration covered up, to some extent, its role in the 2012 attack.

As a financial regulator during the time, I worked with members of the House and Senate on some of the Dodd - Frank provisions and helped craft (and vote for) over 60 regulations.

Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., greets Toss Valentine, right, of Concord, N.C., after a news conference with GOP leadership and members of the House Ways and Means Committee in Longworth Building to unveil the Republicans» tax reform plan on November 2, 2017.

Administration officials intend to hash out additional details with members of the House and Senate in the coming weeks for what would be the first massive rewrite of the U.S. tax code since 1986.

President Donald Trump warned the Republican members of the House that he will leave Obamacare unchanged if they do not approve the current health - care proposal.

Following Trump's tweets, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, recommended the FISA bill be temporarily withdrawn.

Cummings is a ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

First, I want to emphasize for members of the House, and Canadians watching at home, that the Financial System Review Act is a mandatory and routine legislation.

Under the current system of lax or non-existent restrictions on political spending, billionaire givers are at least as influential as any individual member of the House or Senate, probably a bigger deal than the chairmen of the two major political parties.

In August 2007, 22 members of the House of Representatives asked George Bush to back away from the SPP because of their concerns that it may undermine U.S. sovereignty and their strong objections about important discussions continuing «out of public view and without congressional oversight or approval» or the «proper transparency and accountability.»

He will take questions from members of both houses of Congress as well and spent Monday on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers.

One - by - one, members of the House of Commons» Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics questioned Massingham and Silvester's credibility and ethics.

«Efforts to set privacy standards have been ignored or even repealed,» said Rep. Frank Pallone (D - NJ), ranking member of the House committee Zuckerberg will testify before on Wednesday.

Rep. Peter Roskam, R - Ill., a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, vowed at a late April briefing on Capitol Hill sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce to fight DOL's rule, arguing that the rule will have long - term consequences that will devastate retirement savers.

Despite the inevitable veto of such legislation — the Senate has also introduced a similar resolution — Roe, along with Rep. Peter Roskam, R - Ill., a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, vowed at the Hill briefing to continue to fight DOL's rule, arguing that the rule will have long - term consequences that will devastate retirement savers.

This letter in support of H.R. 210, the «Native American Energy Act,» was sent to member of the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Settlement payments are approved by the chair and ranking member of the House Administration Committee, but they are under no obligation to tell anyone else about those payments, and more importantly, which office was responsible for them.

Former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie arrives at the U.S. Capitol for a meeting with Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee April 25, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee, Getty Images)

«I'm comfortable that on that trip, he reached out to members of the insurgency in Dagestan,» Mr. Keating, a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes.

The Democrats, led by the ranking member of the House Intel Committee Adam Schiff (D - CA), drafted their own memo debunking the Nunes document and some of its most explosive claims.

As the Washington Post's Elise Viebeck and Shane Harris noted, four Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee on Sunday dissented from Trump's view that corruption has poisoned the Russia investigation in different televised interviews.

«Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes,» the committee's Democrats said in a statement.

Watt, a former congressman from North Carolina and long - time member of the House Financial Services Committee, threw cold water on the idea that Fannie and Freddie would begin using alternative credit scoring models at any point in the next two years.

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AFR sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives urging them to vote in opposition to H.R. 4263, the «Regulation A + Improvement Act».

«We believe that public officials must be held to a higher standard, and whether intentional or not, misusing taxpayer dollars is unacceptable,» wrote Sens. Johnny Isakson, R - Ga., and Jon Tester, D - Mont., chairman and ranking member of the Senate committee, and Reps. Phil Roe, R - Tenn., and Tim Walz, D - Minn., chairman and ranking member of the House committee.

As a former member of the House Finance Committee, we are sure you would find this conclusion somewhat surprising, given earlier conclusions of the Finance Committee on the usefulness o Estimates information.

Minutes before the floor vote, Congressman Maxine Waters, the Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee spoke.

«Hopefully, Harvey will be an opportunity to bring the country and Congress together and realize that there are some very serious priorities we have to deal with,» said Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Baltimore County, a member of the House Appropriations Committee.

Many of the 55 members of the House panel spent more time making mini speeches Wednesday than giving Zuckerberg a chance to answer their questions.

Members of the House of Commons received the most attention from Kinder Morgan lobbyists.

«The Internet is growing in importance around the world in people's lives; I think it's inevitable that there will be some regulation,» the 33 - year - old billionaire told members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D - Calif., ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a statement that Facebook «must explain the long delay» and «how they will ensure the protection of users from malicious access to their personal information.»

Very interesting from my Opinion colleague Albert Hunt on some of the experienced Washington hands from the Obama and Bill Clinton administrations seeking to return as members of the House.

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Member of the House of Commons (1984 - 2005).

The list included Netanyahu; Wolfowitz; Holocaust writer Elie Wiesel; New York Governor George Patald; former New York Mayor Rudolf Guliani; U.S. Senators Arlen Specter (H., Pa.) and Barbara Mikulski (D., Md.), and leading members of the House such as Armey (R., Tex.) and Richard Gephardt (D., Mo.).

Israel's leading voice for «transfer,» Tourism Minister Benny Elon, recently met with several members of the House and Senate, including Armey and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) to advocate transferring Palestinians to Jordan.

The 112th U.S. Congress remains solidly Protestant, accounting for 56.8 % of the members of the House and the Senate, according to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.