Sentences with phrase «out of a committee hearing»

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Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who serves as the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee and led Tuesday's hearing, chuckled at the idea America's legislators are out of the loop.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain kicked protesters out of his budget hearing Thursday, calling them «low - life scum.»

«We should not be moving bills out of the committee until we hear from the administration,» said New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone earlier this year.

A crucial Senate health committee has scheduled hearings for September to review a bipartisan framework that would guarantee insurers payments (called «cost - sharing subsidies») that help reduce low - income Americans» out - of - pocket medical expenditures, carry on the universal coverage mandate, and incorporate GOP proposals to make more bare - bones plans available as well as repeal certain ACA taxes.

«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.

Mr. Thune, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, called Facebook and its role in society «extraordinary» and began the hearing by explaining why Facebook is being singled out and why Mr. Zuckerberg was asked to appear alone.

«It's ironic that the Committee report should come out in the midst of today's court hearings into the Site C dam, a megaproject approved by the federal and province governments over the objections of First Nations and despite a highly critical environmental assessment.»

He just put out this statement: «Paul Tucker has made a request to attend a hearing with the Treasury select committee as soon as possible following the publication of settlement agreements by Barclays with the Financial Services Authority, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and The United States Department of Justice in relation to the attempted manipulation of LIBOR and EURIBOR.

Committee inquiry into homophobia in sport heard the experiences of two sportsmen who have come out as gay

Hours later, Crone and Myler released this statement: «Just by way of clarification relating to Tuesday's CMS select committee hearing, we would like to point out that James Murdoch's recollection of what he was told when agreeing to settle the Gordon Taylor litigation was mistaken.

At 9:30 a.m., criminal justice reform advocates and public defenders for #FairFares announce a series of speak - outs across NYC in support of Fair Fares, ahead of the final NYC Council Transportation Committee budget hearing, outside City Hall R subway stop, Manhattan.

Mr Crone and Mr Myler's statement reads: «Just by way of clarification relating to Tuesday's CMS [culture, media and sport] select committee hearing, we would like to point out that James Murdoch's recollection of what he was told when agreeing to settle the Gordon Taylor litigation was mistaken.

When he cross-examined her, Molo pointed out that Paulin's husband held investments in Merck and Con Edison while she advocated legislation requiring a certain vaccine made by Merck and held hearings as head of the chamber's energy committee.

Check out the transcripts of the April 2013 Public Housing Committee hearings if you are interested in the highly paranoid contemporary discourse around urban housing and displacement.

But Mr. Obiri Boahen is heard lamenting about how he was given a paltry GH cents 5,000 as a member of the resolution committee out of the GH cents 50 billion.

Justice minister Bridget Prentice wasn't having any of it, saying she had «heard a lot of nonsense» and pointing out the bill had spent 43 hours and 32 minutes in committee.

But after a larger group began chanting and several protesters refused to leave, Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson (D - Bronx), chair of the public safety committee, ordered the public out of the hearing.

At a hearing of the Standards and Privileges committee in January 2014, Loughton said that by issuing the PIN the police had «exacerbated the situation out of all control».

I now believe that chambers must democratize, hold more public hearings on major legislation and use joint conference committees to hammer out agreed upon legislation, instead of relying upon closed door meetings between their leaders and the governor.

At a Sept. 7 hearing before the State Senate's gaming committee, Featherstonhaugh argued that New York State should benefit from the more than $ 3 billion New Yorkers spend gambling out - of - state every year.

BY ANDY HUMM Out gay City Councilmember Daniel Dromm of Queens, on October 30, presided over a hearing of the Committee on Education he chairs that heard more than six hours of testimony on bullying in the city public schools, with representatives from the Department of Education (DOE) on the defensive and students and advocates -LSB-...]

Reforms have been ad hoc, as successive governments have granted select committees with additional powers that go well beyond the simple capacity to hold «non-binding» pre-appointments hearings set out in the 2007 Governance of Britain White Paper.

Next Steps On Tuesday, the two houses of the Legislature convened a joint hearing to kick off the formal conference committee process whereby representatives of each house meet to hash out the differences in their plans.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

(In New Jersey, committees actually have power to hold public hearings on critical pieces of legislation, something that is never done under the current leadership in New York State; bills are merely reported out of committee or laid aside.)

But lawmakers and others who spoke at the Senate's Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wagering hearing didn't jump out of their seats; instead, they're responding with caution.

At 10 a.m., the Senate Standing Committee on Cities will be holding a hearing to examine the issue of taxes and fees on carry - out merchandise bags, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

The move to pressure the IDC comes after the Senate Elections Committee held a hearing that was critical of public financing, but also knocked for shutting out some advocates of the proposal.

Sen. Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he had not ruled out holding hearings on President Obama's eventual nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court.

The bill has not moved out of the Senate State Government Committee, even though it was given a hearing on October 4.

MUNICIPAL DISTRICT — Dozens of Manhattanites turned out Wednesday to show their support for City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez before a closed hearing by the Standards and Ethics Committee into allegations that he aggressively «touched» a staffer.

It was during a committee hearing on this issue that Norman asked questions that appeared to suggest a British winner of the London Marathon was «potentially» implicated.There was a subsequent furore as Paula Radcliffe insisted she had never cheated, but Norman defended his questioning and hit out at journalists for taking his comments out of context.

NYCHA's inability to accurately and effectively keep out sex offenders must be investigated and addressed quickly, and I look forward to the hearing on this topic in order to get NYCHA's plan for removing them,» said Council Member Torres, Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Housing.

Sir Christopher's committee on standards in public life carried out a series of public hearings and has been studying hundreds of submissions from MPs and the public in the wake of the expenses scandal.

Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, chair of the cultural affairs committee, pointed out at last week's hearing that the City Council's cultural initiatives have increased over the last two years but the administration is not sharing that commitment.

I was covering a State Assembly committee hearing that was taking place in a seventh floor conference room of the nine - story Legislative Office Building, and gazed out the windows, over the Plaza, to the south.

«Seven out of every 10 African - American children are born out of wedlock, according to testimony given by a leading social policy researcher during a Joint Economic Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

The Board of Elections, a quasi-state agency funded by the city, is set to roll out a new website in the coming months which will provide New Yorkers with an «electronically assisted way» to fill out a voter registration form and an absentee ballot application, according to BOE Executive Director Michael Ryan, who testified at a budget hearing of the City Council's Committee on Governmental Operations on Monday.

Describing a committee hearing at which he took a drubbing from otherwise progressive colleagues outraged he was standing in the way of congregations reclaiming their place in the schools, out gay Councilman Daniel Dromm told me the resolution is a shoe - in.

Queens Councilman Donovan Richards, chairman of the Public Safety Committee, told Chernyavsky the hearing was scheduled before the DOI report came out and that he was «concerned» by Chernyavosky's testimony.

His fate now rests with the state Democratic Party's 92 - member executive committee, which will meet on Thursday to hear evidence of the challenge and decide whether to throw out the primary results - an unlikely prospect, Democrats say, without precedent in South Carolina politics.

You've heard the county executive say we need to build our fund balance and stick with our deficit reduction committee plan, so I had a big issue with taking that money out of fund balance.»

Buhari had in his letter, which was read during plenary by Senate President Bukola Saraki, accused the committee of failing to give the SGF a fair hearing, adding that the Senate report was signed by only three out of the nine committee members.

The need for prohibitory language, which does not mention NSF by name, was never brought up during any of the committee's 48 hearings on the legislation, nor was it proposed when the committee waded through 50 amendments before voting out the bill on 28 April.

To move H.Res.495 forward and out of committee, your representatives need to hear from you and your family to understand why PCOS is a critically important issue.

By refusing to allow the public to speak out on this important issue and then stacking the deck by only featuring paid pro-Common Core ambassadors turns the Education Committee's «informational hearing» into nothing short of a bad joke and makes it clear that the Democrats have joined Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor on their path of self - destruction.

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The bill passed out of the Assembly in January and is waiting to be heard by the Senate Education Committee.

TCTA testified at the hearing, pointing out that since the law requires that a local district innovation plan can not be adopted without the approval of the majority of the district - level decision - making committee, it was critical for the rules to make clear that the law requires the professional staff in a school district to nominate and elect professional staff representatives on the committee, with at least two - thirds of the elected representatives being classroom teachers.

Speaking of court cases (see below), the House education committee held a hearing about alternative certification yesterday in Washington, trying to figure out what to do about the quickly - expiring NCLB exemption for alternative route candidates in LAUSD and nationally.