Sentences with phrase «say the committee made»

Garretson did tell the New York Times that generally, organizations would indicate they wanted to help a candidate although he continued to say the committee made no deals.

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State Sen. Dave Lewis, a former Montana budget director who now leads the Finance Committee, said he would use his influence to make sure the windfall is used for one - time spending, such as on buildings and infrastructure.

«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.

McCain, who is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and served in the US Navy for 23 years, said Trump's statement was «unclear» and it served as «yet another example of why major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter.»

Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have said the discord surrounding the House committee has made the Senate investigation more important than ever.

Meanwhile, the unsecured creditors committee, which includes Mattel, LEGO Systems, and Simon Property Group, plans to investigate financial transactions made before the Chapter 11 filing, lawyer Kenneth Eckstein said on Tuesday.

«It conducted six successive rendezvous and dockings with spacecraft Shenzhou - 8, Shenzhou - 9, and Shenzhou - 10 and completed all assigned missions, making important contributions to China's manned space exploration activities,» said a memo that China submitted in May 2017 to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

He said while the government will likely always participate in regulation in some form, it would «behoove investors» to come together and form some type of independent oversight committee — before Congress makes a decision as to who should regulate spot currencies and how.

«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.

The SEC is forming a small - business committee to review rules that entrepreneurs say make it harder to raise money.

In announcing the proposed legislation, the committee said the change «corrects an illogical and unworkable capital requirement» that would have pushed non-bank dealers out of the derivatives market, making it less competitive for banks.

United Airlines said on Wednesday it planned to testify at an upcoming U.S. House Transportation Committee hearing on commercial airline consumer issues after a passenger was dragged off an April 9 flight in Chicago to make room for crew members.

According to the FBI's records and testimony the House Intelligence Committee obtained, though the FBI initially considered paying Steele for the Russia dossier, the transaction was later canceled and never made, the Democratic memo said.

«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.

Republican Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said he would allow the bill to come to a vote if Secretary of State Rex Tillerson did not make progress soon on improving relations with Russia on the Syrian civil war.

«Unfortunately, it does not seem to be a coincidence that Trae and I — the two people who have made recent complaints of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation — have been kept off the committee and are relegated to more junior status,» she said.

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.

«We won't really know the impact of the speech until the super committee makes a decision — and that's on December 23rd,» Litan says.

Speaking to the Senate Banking Committee, Mnuchin says he wants to make sure bitcoin and its peers are «not used by bad guys.»

«It is too early to make any sort of comment on his tenure, but we do suspect that Chairman Powell will be a little more willing to ruffle feathers on the Committee and use the power of his seniority to impose policy on other members,» said Michael Shaoul, chairman and CEO of Marketfield Asset Management, in a note.

Horner said Alberta has tried to address some of Ottawa's complaints about the current system by pitching its own proposal — one that would create a new national enforcement agency as well as a national systemic risk committee made up of all 13 regulators and chaired by the federal minister.

Waters said Democrats on the Financial Services Committee have been willing to make «minor modifications» to the law.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D - Los Angeles), the top Democrat on the Financial Services Committee, said Hensarling's goal is to make it easier for Wall Street and the banking industry to have their way.

The House Ways and Means Committee says a typical family of four making $ 73,000 a year would save $ 2,059 per year in taxes.

The Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said senior management at 1MDB withheld crucial information from the board and made transactions without its knowledge or approval.

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.»

«The fact that the company took approximately a year to notify impacted users raises red flags within this Committee as to what systemic issues prevented such time - sensitive information from being made available to those left vulnerable,» said Republican Sen. Jerry Moran, who convened the hearing.

He said the numbers he used were not made up but were given to him by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which received them from an «outside agency.»

Senate Finance Committee aides said they planned to make adjustments to the legislation because it probably does not comply with the rules for a special Senate procedure they hope to use to pass the bill with 50 votes, rather than the 60 votes typically needed to beat a filibuster.

Senator John Thune of South Dakota, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said a decision on public hearings would be made after the Facebook briefings this week.

Appearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Feb. 11 to present the Federal Reserve's semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress, Yellen said that Congress should make it a priority to pass -LSB-...]

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R - Texas, is developing what he calls «Tax Reform 2.0,» which would include making the individual cuts permanent along with some other changes he said he's working on with the White House.

The letter said Trump has directed the Justice Department staff to work with the committee if Democrats want to make changes to their memo to «mitigate the risks identified by the department.»

The Committee has said refugee children who make it to Europe are vulnerable to prostitution, human trafficking and the drugs industry.

In none of those conversations did the members of a committee say that they were looking for someone who would make them face issues and realities that they did not want to face.

The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.

That makes it the «single largest contributor of aid for children living in extreme poverty» in India, said committee chairman Ed Royce.

«The Cardinal made it clear to the RNC (and to the Democratic National Committee as well) that he was only there to offer a prayer, not to engage in any partisan politics,» the spokesman, Joseph Zwilling, said in an e-mail, «and that he would be willing to accept a similar invitation from the DNC if they were to invite him to pray at their Convention as well.»

«It is not a coincidence that after the remarks by Rep. Walsh were made that there was a homemade bomb directed at an Islamic school...» the committee said.

Before I have a pint with 50 Ft Underwear, I got ta say that if Rubio sits on a science committee and makes a stupid claim about the age of the earth, then I have to wonder what other kinds of numbers he's screwing up.

When asked in a committee meeting to make a decision which should be a corporate one, a minister can say, «I'm interested in what the group feels should be done about this.»

In a newspaper interview, Sister Pat Talone, the hospital's ethicist, defended the committee's recommendation to withdraw treatment by saying that the group «examines medical reality as well as social, spiritual, and ethical principles before making a recommendation.»

McTaggart says the company keeps detailed records of these committee meetings and uses them to guide its decision - making.

«The committee applauds the progress made to date, but a range of issues still need to be addressed, from ensuring farmers have access to all tools to improve productivity to building sustainable agricultural systems,» said Senator Daschle.

The industry supports the official recommendations made in the report by the Senate's Rural and Regional Affairs and recommendations made in the report by the Senate's Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee» said the CEO, Mr Geoff Parker.

«This important milestone was made possible by eminent scientists Dr Peter Brooks, Dr Shona Blair, Dr Nural Coketin and Dr Craig Davis joining our recently established Scientific Advisory Committee,» Callander said.

When it made Clemson the nation's top - ranked team, the College Football Playoff selection committee said it respected the Tigers» balance.

«What we try to do,» said championship committee chairman Walter Driver, «is set it up to make the course the most difficult test in championship golf.»

«This is a made - for - TV event,» says John Krimsky, U.S. Olympic Committee deputy secretary general and managing director for business affairs, «and there are a number of things we can do to enhance that.

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.