Sentences with phrase «president said the committee»

Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, the President said the Committee will continue to investigate the matter and provide recommendations to help rid the sector of contaminated fuel.

Not exact matches

During Comey's testimony about his interactions with the president before the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this month, Comey said he had no issue with the president releasing possible recordings of their conversations, should they exist.

BEIJING (Reuters)- North Korea will take part in the next two Olympic Games in Japan and China, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said on Saturday after meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang.

The president, who has repeatedly said he wants to accomplish the difficult feat of winning Democratic votes, joked about the minority party's support to Sen. Ron Wyden, D - Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

«The challenge is that there were a lot of promises made that can't live comfortably with each other,» said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

«These fighters will have a positive impact on Taiwan's self - defense and would act as a necessary deterrent to China's aggressive military posture across the Asia - Pacific region,» Senators John Cornyn, the assistant majority leader, and James Inhofe, a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, said in a letter to President Donald Trump.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructure program.

Sen. Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, subsequently turned the floor over to the attorney general, who went on to say that he had consulted with senior Justice Department staff prior to his testimony about what he called a «longstanding policy» regarding communications with the president.

The top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee said every GOP senator is concerned about the direction President Donald Trump is taking on trade, from slapping tariffs on solar panels to his threats to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The president spoke hours after Senator Johnny Isakson, chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, said he and the panel's ranking Democrat, Jon Tester, decided to delay a hearing on Jackson's nomination that had been scheduled for Wednesday and sent a letter to Trump seeking more information.

David Miliband, International Rescue Committee president & CEO, says the Trump administration overreached in its «travel ban.»

Adding clear plastic shelf dividers at the edges of shelves can prevent thieves from sweeping a shelf while allowing customers to hand - select the items they need, says Bill Alford, president of International Lighthouse Group and member of the ASIS Loss Prevention committee.

The House is «continuing discussions with the president» in that area, the House Ways and Means Committee chairman said.

But House Armed Services Committee member John Garamendi also says the way President Trump carried it out had «no legality.»

Democrats have not said whether they will take any seats on the Republican - majority special committee, saying the new probe - following several other congressional investigations on Benghazi - is also aimed at damaging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chances if she runs for president in 2016.

«The (Fed policy - setting) committee needs to make policy choices that will lead to more great years like 2014,» Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota said in remarks prepared for delivery in Helena, Montana, citing the dramatic improvement in the U.S. labor market last year.

On Sunday, Sen. Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican and a member of the intelligence committee, said the president would be «better served by getting all this information out.»

«The White House is simply not permitted to pressure the FBI to make public statements about a pending investigation of the president and his advisers,» said Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, negotiated a $ 1.6 million payment to a former Playboy model who says a top Republican National Committee official named Elliott Broidy got her pregnant, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

«On a static basis, the [Joint Committee on Taxation] expects the rate reduction to lower the corporate tax bill by $ 1.3 trillion over the next 10 years,» said Ed Yardeni, president and chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research, in a note this week.

The resignation came just a day after she testified before the House Intelligence Committee, where she reportedly said that she told white lies for the president, but never lied about anything consequential related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The government is working through the multiple issues before making a final decision and has encouraged employers and labour groups to not walk away from the committee's work, said Stephen Laskowski, president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance.

MEXICO CITY, March 4 - Kevin Brady, chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, said on Sunday all fairly traded steel and aluminum, especially from Canada and Mexico, should be excluded from President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs.

«And when the president gets into the kind of controversy he does, and the U.N. committee responds the way it does, they begin to doubt whether we are living those values,» Wallace said, referring to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination's criticism of the United States government's failure to adequately condemn white supremacists and the events in Charlotcommittee responds the way it does, they begin to doubt whether we are living those values,» Wallace said, referring to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination's criticism of the United States government's failure to adequately condemn white supremacists and the events in CharlotCommittee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination's criticism of the United States government's failure to adequately condemn white supremacists and the events in Charlottesville.

Sara Horowitz and Glenn Hutchins, co-heads of the search committee for the next New York Fed president, said last week in a statement that they had narrowed the list of candidates to a «handful.»

State - run Xinhua news agency said on Sunday (Feb. 25) that the Central Committee of China's ruling Communist Party of China has proposed removing the phrase that the president and vice-president «shall serve no more than two consecutive terms» from the country's constitution.

President Trump said April 27 he was «very honored» by a report by House Intelligence Committee Republicans from a year - long probe into Russia's...

«The next crowd is Twitter, Facebook, Airbnb,» said venture capitalist Steve Westly, who served on President Barack Obama's national finance committee during the 2008 election.

«We presented to the Committee data that shows ESOP companies and their locally - controlled jobs are more profitable, more productive, and more sustainable,» said ESOP Association President, J. Michael Keeling.

Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee released a statement saying that he had spoken with President Trump's chief of staff John Kelly and made clear his support for «a comprehensive strategy that not only places an emphasis on deterrence but also empowers our allies and partners in the region, who must do far more to confront this threat.»

Donald C. Fry, president and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee, said in a statement: «The Greater Baltimore Committee and the entire business community are very disappointed that Baltimore was not selected for Amazon's list of 20 finalists for a new second headquarters.

Kansas City Fed president Thomas Hoenig, a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), dissented from the action, saying that the risks entailed in the purchases were greater than the potential benefits to the economy.

«When I first learned about the composition of this committee I was quite taken aback,» said Larry Brown, President of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE).

Mike Fratantoni, MBA's vice president of research and economics, said the index dropped to its lowest «in more than a dozen years... as interest rates increased going into today's Federal Open Market Committee meeting.»

David Silverman, chairman of the event committee and president of the American Atheists, said the rally is aimed at uniting atheist organizations and letting the religious know that there are nonbelievers among them.

Reuters quoted the president of U.S. Fencing — one of the dozens of sports federations — saying that the olympic committee told them that no athlete should go to Rio «if they don't feel comfortable going.

«Federal taxpayer subsidies are helping pay for over 1,000 health plans that cover abortion on demand, and [last week's] Supreme Court decision underscores that only Congress can put a stop to that,» said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).

Frank S. Page, president of the SBC's Nashville - based executive committee, said that the numbers were disappointing.

«The embryo is one of us,» said the committee's president.

«Wendy's is working with its U.S. and Canadian pork suppliers to eliminate the use of sow gestation stalls over time,» said Dennis Hecker, head of Wendy's animal welfare committee and senior vice president of quality assurance.

«It's disappointing that the Committee of Presidents of Medical Colleges have called for a discriminatory tax that evidence clearly shows will not improve public health whatsoever,» Mr. Parker said.

Republican Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont, the current chairman of the environment committee, said, «The President was obviously acting on very bad advice.

Dr. Lawrence Golding, co-chairman of the medical committee for the International Federation of Bodybuilders, says, «I was asked to do some research on the use of steroids among body builders by Ben Weider, president of the IFBB.

Regarding their appointments, U.S. Soccer president and FIFA executive committee member Sunil Gulati said that «the people that have been asked to step into these roles are very high quality.»

Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy, a member of the competition committee, said that if the league does not make the kickoff play safer, «we're going to do away with it.

IOC president Jacques Rogge acknowledged last week that his organization received the complaint and says it is in the hands of the ethics committee.

Lord Sebastian Coe, president of the IAAF, described the event as «one of the most successful of all time» and continued by saying: «I'd like to thank the organising committee, Birmingham City Council, the athletes and the fans — who fought through pretty extraordinary weather conditions to be here.»

After Real Madrid's controversial penalty that saw Juventus knocked out of the Champions League, Giovanni Malago, president of the Italian National Olympic Committee, says he will speak to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin about the introduction of VAR in Europe's biggest club competition.

Olympic Committee president Giovanni Malago said the 1 - 0 aggregate playoff defeat to Sweden meant Tavecchio should step down.

The president of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) AmajuPinnick says that Nigerian football has been liberated with his election into the executive committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF).