Sentences with phrase «ranking member of»

The letter was signed by Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. Eliot Engel, ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Bennie Thompson, ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

But whether Sen. Arlen Specter, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, would defer to that judgment «is another question.»

He has also represented multiple Guantanamo detainees himself, including Abu Zubaydah — and he can correct me because I totally mangled that name — long believed to be a high ranking member of Al Qaeda, and whose name appears in the Senate report more than a thousand times.

«The purpose of the blue slip is to ensure consultation between the White House and home - state senators on judicial nominees from their states,» said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.

I'm a little under the weather (which is not as chronic as being under the climate), but I wanted to add something to what I said the other day about thug operator Raúl Grijalva, Democrat Representative from Arizona and Ranking Member of the House UnEnvironmental Activities Committee.

More recently, Senators Bingaman and Murkowski, the Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Energy Committee, released a white paper on a CES asking questions and seeking input.

Two days later, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D - AZ), ranking member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, sent a letter citing the Soon controversy to seven universities, including the University of Delaware where Legates works, citing «potential conflicts of interest and failure to disclose corporate funding sources in academic climate research.»

In response, Senator James Inhofe (R - OK), Ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee wrote a letter in February, 2010, to the National Science Foundation's Office of Inspector General (OIG) asking them to conduct their own, independent investigation of Professor Michael Mann.

Though she has not yet served two full terms in the House, Congresswoman Bonamici has already been elected the Ranking Member of the House Science and Technology's Subcommittee on the Environment, a position she has used to great effect to prioritize ocean and climate change issues.

If there is no member of that state's delegation of the same party as the President, then generally the highest ranking member of the state's government of the same party is consulted.

Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), a ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday about climate disruption leading to more extreme weather events, and it was a great speech.

Indeed, the only Democrat to show up was Rep. Nick Rahall (D - WV), the Ranking Member of the full Committee, who opposes the EPA's machinations more than Republicans, due to the fact that his State is the largest coal producer in Appalachia, and is, therefore, harmed most.

, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works commented on President Obama's State of the Union Address.

As Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Senator Leahy led funding efforts to preserve coastal, littoral, and reef resources in the world's richest marine habitats.

As The Post's Joby Warrick reported earlier this week, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D - Ariz.), the ranking member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, asked seven universities for detailed records on the funding sources for seven scientists, many of whom are unconvinced that humans are the driving force behind recent climate change.

The issue of whether Peter Gleick's actions should or should not be prosecuted based upon the notion that the crime itself was not meeting some certain threshold of «seriousness» should be considered in the context that that Gleick was a high ranking member of an organization that was a recipient of significant federal grant monies — not merely the administrator of a private blog out to exact revenge on his [perceived] ideological foes.

«History may look back and say this was the turning point on climate,» said U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D - Beverly Hills), ranking member of the House Energy Committee.

In a move that hearkened back to darker times, Oklahoma senator James Inhofe, the ranking member of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee, released a report in 2010 that named 17 prominent climate scientists, including Mann, who, he argued, may have engaged in «potentially criminal behavior.»

The roundtable was convened by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, the ranking member of the committee, and also included remarks from Christiana Figueres, former head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, David O'Sullivan, the EU Ambassador to the United States, and Jonathan Elkind, former assistant secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Energy Department.

, ranking member of the Committee on Natural Resources.

, Ranking Member of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, released a 123 page document containing McCarthy's responses to hundreds of questions on a wide range of issues.

H.R. 1831 currently has 33 bipartisan co-sponsors, including the ranking member of the Agriculture Committee and seven Republicans.

Senator James Inhofe, the Ranking Member of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee praised Climate Depot's 1000 plus dissenting scientist report.

Ocean Champions Endorses Senator Michael Bennet (D - CO) Washington, D.C. — March 18, 2016 — Ocean Champions, which works to build political power for the oceans by helping to elect pro-ocean candidates to the U.S. Congress, proudly endorses the Ranking Member of the Senate's Finance Subcommittee...

Some of his irritation with inaction bubbled over in mid-November when Inglis, ranking member of the House Science and Technology Committee's Energy and Environment Subcommittee, told colleagues during a five - minute tongue lashing that the Chinese «plan on eating our lunch in this next century.»

, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, released the following findings from the investigation by the Commerce Department's Inspector General on emails from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) related to the «climategate» scandal.

Jeffords, the ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee said, «We must strive to build upon the success of the Clean Air Act, not gut it.»

In Colorado, alarm and concern is quickly spreading with revelations that Glenn Vaad, appointed by Governor Hickenlooper as one of three Public Utilities Commissioners, is also a former high ranking member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

The office of Senator James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican and ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released a report online today listing hundreds of scientists and links to peer - reviewed studies that it says challenge whether humans are dangerously influencing climate.

As Senator James Inhofe (Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee has consistently said, technology promotion and sharing are the only real way to achieve meaningful reductions in the future, not a failed Kyoto 2 approach.

Puppies: Aggression ceases to be a problem when the pup becomes the lowest ranking member of the family.

Instead, their lives are more or less controlled by the high - ranking member of their pack — the ALPHA.

They determine who is the highest and lowest ranking member of their pack.

This CBO study — prepared at the request of the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee — compares the budgetary and fair - value costs of the federal student loan programs.

As a ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, Bennie Thompson (D) does not get to dwell on higher education affordability.

A similar letter has been sent to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

A similar letter has been sent to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

A similar letter has been sent to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

A similar letter has been sent to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

A similar letter has been sent to the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

A similar letter has been sent to the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

A similar letter has been sent to the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Representative Robert C. «Bobby» Scott, the ranking member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the United States House of Representatives, recently introduced the Rebuilding America's Schools Act of 2017 — ...

The party in the minority has a designated «Ranking Member» who is the highest ranking member of the Minority Party.

The hearing was sponsored by Representative Bobby Scott (D - VA), the ranking member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee.

Decisions about what students should be taught and when it should be taught are best when made without pressure from the U.S. Department of Education, write 10 Republican senators in a recent letter to the chairman and ranking member of the education appropriations subcommittee.

Senator Toni Boucher (R - Wilton), the ranking member of the Education Committee and State Senate Minority leader Len Fasano (R - North Haven) quickly released a strong statement yesterday about the Governor's decision to veto of HB 6977; AN ACT ESTABLISHING QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION.

While Democrat legislators are strangely silent on Governor Malloy's latest attack on teachers and the teaching profession, Republicans in the State Senate, led by State Senator Toni Boucher, the ranking member of the Education Committee is speaking out about Malloy's bizarre veto of a bill requiring that the Commissioner of Education have some classroom experience.

Before the Senate adjourned for its August state work period, healthcare reform hearings were announced for this September by Senators Orrin Hatch (R - UT) and Ron Wyden (D - OR), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee.

Democratic Congressman Bobby Scott, ranking member of the House Education and Workforce committee, said: «We know that these failed programs drain public schools of limited resources, only to deliver broken promises of academic success to parents and students.