Sentences with phrase «questions of a congressional committee»

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.

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As Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch was testifying before three congressional committees on Tuesday and Wednesday, fielding questions from a succession of irate and mostly tech - illiterate legislators, his boss was preparing to break it to investors that curbing Russian information operations and other forms of abuse on his platform will be expensive.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was once again in the Congressional hot seat Wednesday — fielding hours of questions from the House of Representative's Committee on Energy and Commerce on the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal.

«I think, given the extraordinary evidence we've heard so far today, it is absolutely astonishing that Mark Zuckerberg is not prepared to submit himself to questioning in front of a parliamentary or congressional hearing, given these are questions of fundamental importance and concern to his users, as well as to this inquiry,» Damian Collins, the member of parliament heading the UK committee, said earlier on Tuesday.

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Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has also gotten in on the action, releasing a statement that noted Price's admission that Collins» involvement, which, according to the Democrats, raises questions about both of them.

The chief executive of the oil giant was brought before a US congressional committee over the Gulf spill and was accused of evading questions amid intense public outcry against BP in the US.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, sensing a potential upset in next Tuesday's special election to choose a successor to the late Rep. Paul Gillmor (R - Ohio), is airing a district - wide blitz of television ads questioning the Republican nominee's ethical credentials.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee hammered the lawmaker on Thursday, and questioned the effectiveness of the bipartisan group in crafting policy.

Not content with their efforts to knock a top - tier Democrat out of the Ohio 6th District race, the National Republican Congressional Committee is trying to capitalize on the ethics question currently surrounding Rep. Alan Mollohan (D - W.

Martins is one of 15 Republican House candidates that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Thursday targeted with a digital ad that runs through Tuesday that questions their «standards» because of their support Trump and his controversial remarks.

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is urging congressional Republicans and state GOP leaders to continue publicly questioning President Obama's economic and health care plans, while highlighting the party's ideology of fiscal discipline.

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

In addition, we've posed eight of the 14 questions to influential members of Congress, chosen because they lead their parties or congressional committees in charge of science and technology - related policy.

The Congressional Research Service (CRS), asked by a House committee for a legal analysis, replied that the secretary of education has broad authority to grant waivers, but hedged on the question of whether these waivers could be made conditional.

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.

As far as the «threat» from AGW and «mitigating actions» are concerned, I would pretty much agree with the assessment of our host here, who has gone on record before a US congressional committee last fall regarding these questions.

They say such researchers may have testified before congressional committees, written articles or spoken at conferences, emphasizing the role of natural forces in climate change, or questioning evidence and computer models that emphasize predominantly human causes.