Sentences with phrase «of holding the hearings»

It's unclear at this point if the Assembly will consider holding hearings on the MTA, or if the prospect of holding hearings is even on the agenda tomorrow.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is in charge of holding hearings prior to the confirmation of Supreme Court nominees.

The TU thinks GOP Rep. Pete King is «on the verge of making a national spectacle of himself» and suggests he drop the idea of holding hearing on the radicalization Muslim culture in America.

(16) The Judicial Council may establish a panel for the purpose of holding a hearing under section 51.6 and considering the question of compensation under section 51.7, and the panel has all the powers of the Judicial Council for that purpose.

Not exact matches

Sometimes I hear from business owners who say it's difficult getting hold of their CPA, particularly during tax season.

By brainstorming how the company could help people like being put on hold - a seemingly impossible feat - it came up with the idea of asking some of the best bands to create unplugged versions of their songs that could only be heard while on hold.

(Italian eyewear maker Luxxotica, which owns retailers Lenscrafters, Pearle Vision and Eyemed, as well as almost every glasses brand you've ever heard of, holds a near monopoly over the industry.)

Republicans have called on the House Financial Services Committee to hold a hearing, while Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, chairman of the domestic policy subcommittee of House Oversight Committee, is planning his own probe.

The hearing is called «Holding Wall Street Accountable Investigating Wells Fargo Opening of Fake Accounts.»

The Ontario Securities Commission, for example, has collected 3.1 % of the fines levied after contested hearings held between 2005 and June 2012 (the OSC seeks retribution through stocks and property, but has not yet garnisheed wages).

Calgary based Enbridge, the company behind Northern Gateway, has emphasized its commitment to safety and the environment, saying the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel, which held two years of hearings on the project, had made many of the company's voluntary commitments a mandatory part of the conditions for approval.

The more than 85,000 attendees are getting ready to hear keynotes from two Americans who hold impressive sway over the future of the mobile industry: Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg and U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler.

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.

Yes, you have heard variations of those words many times while on hold.

Of course, parents aren't holding their tongues solely because they think hearing a bad word will turn their kid into a criminal.

Dao pressed charges against the airline, and Congress held a series of hearings investigating the state of airline travel.

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.

WASHINGTON - Senate Banking Committee holds hearing on nomination of Jerome Powell to be chairman of the Federal Reserve - 1500 GMT.

«The Republican Senate refuses to hold hearings on [Supreme Court nominee] Judge Garland, refuses to fund the President's request for Zika aid and takes the most days off of any Senate since 1956, but thinks Facebook hearings are a matter of urgent national interest,» Jentleson said.

These offer seals of approval on bonds and hold public hearings to discuss potential sales.

Worse, Facebook has likely worsened or maybe even created the «filter bubble» effect in which a growing number of us mostly or only hear news that reinforces the beliefs we already hold.

On November 8, the US House of Representatives held a hearing on the effectiveness of a 1999 law known as the Kingpin Act, which is used to sanction individuals suspected of involvement in the drug trade.

The Senate held hearings Wednesday about the potential economic benefit of having unmanned aircraft in U.S. airspace, and the Federal Aviation Administration has chosen six test sites for domestic drones.

In an unusual mid-December display of bi-partisanship, the House Financial Services committee announced plans to hold hearings to address SEC settlement practices and «concerns about accountability and transparency,» according to Chairman Spencer Bachus.

Even so, the two companies had always hashed out their advertising complaints in hearings held before «judges» at the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus.

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could derail the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly referred to as Obamacare, and potentially increase the cost of insurance for millions across the U.S.. It's a big deal, and it has insurance companies, medical providers and everyday workers holding their breath.

And so I believe we need to hold a public hearing with Flynn to get to the bottom of this,» Cummings said.

President Barack Obama nominated Garland to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court last year after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but McConnell declined even to hold a hearing.

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 Senate Banking Committee held a hearing on the nominations of Mary Jo White to become chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Along with quite a number of other colleagues, I sat on that internal committee and we held hearings across the country.

However, state lawmakers held 2016 hearings to debate a proposed law that would define certain daily fantasy contests as games of skill and remove them from the state's overall ban on cash - based fantasy games over the internet.

A public hearing on the proposals will be held on August 10, 2016, at 9:30 A.M., CDT at the offices of the Department, 1526 -LSB-...]

«What's been frustrating for us in this enquiry is a pattern of behavior from the company — an unwillingness to engage, and a desire to hold onto information and not disclose it,» said Collins, returning to the theme at another stage of the hearing — and also accusing Facebook of not providing it with «straight answers» in Washington.

Last month, the DOL held 4 days of hearings regarding its proposed fiduciary rule.

In these moments of heartache and darkness, we hold on to God's word in Scripture: «I have heard your prayer and seen your tears, I will heal you.»

In a hearing held in response to revelations of data harvesting by Cambridge Analytica, Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, faced questions from senators on a variety of issues, from privacy to the company's business model.

«The collaboration we saw was some billing and administrative contacts between the two of them, so you'd see similar people show up in each of the accounts,» said Schroepfer, when asked for more detail about what it had found, before declining to say anything else in a public setting on account of ongoing investigations — despite the committee pointing out other witnesses it has heard from have not held back on that front.

By press time, ETHNews had not heard back from Campbell on this matter, nor on the question of whether the requirement to report bitcoin holdings applies to every person submitting an SF86, or just to certain parties.

I heard this line of argument in 2011, 2012, 2013 — and it's still being made, with investing sages telling people to sell stock and hold more cash.

«Apple wasn't satisfied with shifting its profits to a low - tax offshore tax haven,» said Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that is holding the public hearing Tuesday into Apple's use of tax havens.

In Quebec, hearings on Energy East are on hold, as that pipeline's would - be builder chafes at the National Energy Board's new plan to weigh the impact of its upstream climate - change impact.

Of the five lawsuits filed against DOL, a Topeka, Kansas court will hold the first hearing on Aug. 24 in the case brought by insurer Market Synergy.

But by the time MPs actually get around to holding hearings several months from now, the price of crude may well have fallen to the point that this most recent bout of pain at the pumps will have been forgotten — or it may have soared so high that the only affordable way anybody will be getting to Parliament Hill is by bicycle.

For example, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has held a series of «disruptor» hearings to understand new technologies including the internet of things (1/18/18 and 6/13/17), fintech, and digital currency and blockchain technology.

«There are plenty of questions about the behavior of Cambridge Analytica and we expect to hold a future hearing on Cambridge and similar firms,» the Senator said.

An administrative law judge will hold a multi-day hearing in January about a state move to revoke the license of a Hollywood, Fla., nursing home where residents died after Hurricane Irma.

On June 8, 2017, the Terrorism and Illicit Finance Subcommittee within the US House of Representatives» Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing entitled «Virtual Currency: Financial Innovation and National Security Implications.»

September 15, 2011 (Washington, DC)-- On September 15, 2011, The ESOP Association submitted a statement for the record to the Senate Committee on Finance which held a hearing examining tax reform options and the promotion of retirement security.

(Take that, House of Commons Finance Committee, which is holding hearings on the issue next week.)