Sentences with phrase «of a congressional committee»

None of the proposals has made it out of congressional committees.

Speaking in Washington Tuesday, Education Commissioner Dianna Wentzell told the Democratic members of a Congressional committee of the strides Connecticut has made on school safety since the Sandy Hook tragedy and about the hope she has that students will...

«SOFT SCIENCE» came under fire in the US last week from the powerful chairman of the Congressional committee on science.

As to Communism the finding of the Congressional Committee of 1931 that 70 per cent of the U.S. Communist Party was alien with Jews predominating has been effectively rebutted.

That committee is one of a number of congressional committees investigating Russian attempts to disrupt the 2016 election and whether there was any collusion with Mr. Trump's associates.

With the big questions about the Heartland incident still unresolved, I don't imagine, for example, that you'll see Gleick in front of a congressional committee on climate any time soon.

In general, groups and individuals acting on behalf of AAAS will comment on specific legislative and budgetary issues only upon the request of some congressional committee, subcommittee, or other congressional bodies.

There are personal and professional betrayals against opponent and ally alike, and that doesn't even get into the betrayal of the public trust when the head of a Congressional committee (played by John Lithgow) comes into play — because of what amounts to extortion.

Testimony by its top managers in front of congressional committee shredded its corporate character and the company faced legal challenges on multiple fronts.

Yesterday, Shukla and GMU got notice that they have piqued the interest of a congressional committee, and via a written notice are required to preserve documents for an impending Congressional investigation and to provide proof that all employees of IGES / COLA have been notified that they are aware they can't destroy documents.

Of particular interest to researchers attempting to do legislative research, govinfo includes a large amount of congressional committee materials and statutory information, including:

In 1880, this Court nullified the action of the House of Representatives in sentencing a witness to jail for failing to answer questions of a congressional committee.

Finally, members of congressional committees with jurisdiction over foreign affairs and related matters were more likely to participate in CODELs than other legislators.

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica will be hauled in front of Congressional committees for testimony.

This advocacy tool is an overview of the Congressional committees and subcommittees addressing infant and toddler issues, including the members and leaders of those committees.

Overall, Chairman Camp deserves a lot of credit for producing a full tax reform proposal; the first such proposal to come out of a Congressional committee in recent years.

More is likely to emerge about Facebook's data policies next week, when Mark Zuckerberg gives testimony to a number of congressional committees.

AG Eric Schneiderman has shot down a request from Republican members of a congressional committee that he turn over a number of records related to an investigation into climate change and what ExxonMobil may have known about its effects on the environment.

Schneider: The first time I was asked that question in a public place was sometime in the 1970s in front of a congressional committee.

What it the point of electing congressmen if even the work (or lack therefor) of congressional committees is to be pinned on the President?

The chairman of the congressional committee that has been monitoring NEON warned NSF officials today that it will hold their feet to the fire.

He's defending it in front of a Congressional committee, and his opponent is the head of the CIA (Alec Baldwin), snarky type who wants the IMF absorbed into his own department.

WASHINGTON — Several members of the Congressional committees that oversee social - service spending last week criticized education lobbyists here for using what one member termed «pressure tactics» to protect education funding increases.