Sentences with phrase «subcommittee chairman»

That's why we brought our tin foil hats to yesterday's hearing, called together by the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Power subcommittee chairman Ed Whitfield (R - KY).

While subcommittee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R - CA) and his Republican colleagues believe a decentralized approach that empowers parents to spearhead school improvement is best, Democrats hold steadfast to the idea that the federal government must continue to play a role in ensuring equity for at - risk students, particularly those whose parents may not be well - equipped to take action on their own.

The $ 300 million charter school measure, sponsored by K — 12 education subcommittee chairman Duncan Hunter (R - CA)

But Duncan also found himself on the receiving end of bipartisan criticism about education funding from subcommittee Chairman Denny Rehberg (R - MT) and ranking Democrat Rosa DeLauro (CT).

At the beginning of the hearing, subcommittee chairman Rep. Steve Palazzo (R - MS) said he wanted to correct the record regarding the commercial cargo program.

As for that future, subcommittee chairman Bill Nelson (D - FL) and Michael Gold of Bigelow Aerospace were bullish on the future of microgravity research for the pharmaceutical industry in particular.

Bolden was grilled by subcommittee chairman Steve Palazzo (R - MS) and committee chairman Smith on why he was ignoring NAC's advice to (1) obtain an independent cost evaluation (ICE) of ARM prior to the Mission Concept Review (which just took place), and (2) modify it so that its primary objective is demonstration of high power solar electric propulsion rather than obtaining a sample of an asteroid, and to send the spacecraft to Mars and back rather than to an asteroid.

Space subcommittee chairman Rep. Brian Babin (R - Texas) praised yesterday's announcement by NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot that NASA will study the feasibility of putting a crew on the first SLS mission.

Edwards said on Tuesday that she was trying to talk to subcommittee chairman Steve Palazzo (R - MS), the lead sponsor of the bill, and full committee chairman Lamar Smith (R - TX) to see if they can reach common ground on the cuts to earth science prior to markup.

House subcommittee chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (center) will preside over today's hearing to discuss updating a 1986 privacy law

Fellow Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara is the state's autism subcommittee chairman, and he's backing the bill as part of his Autism Action New York package.

U.S. Rep. John Katko, R - Camillus, the subcommittee chairman, made the issue of insider threats at the nation's airports the subject of the panel's first hearing of the new Congress.

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly's Revenue subcommittee Chairman, Robert Kwame Dadzie, has emphasized the Assembly's resolve to ensure sanity in the billboard advertising space by ensuring all advertisers have paid for permits.

«Apple has sought the holy grail of tax avoidance: offshore corporations that it argues are not, for tax purposes, resident anywhere in any nation,» then - Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, who was the subcommittee chairman, said at the 2013 hearing.

«We now know the depth to which drug traffickers exploit our mail system to ship fentanyl and other synthetic drugs into the United States,» said subcommittee Chairman Rob Portman.

Not exact matches

Republicans have called on the House Financial Services Committee to hold a hearing, while Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, chairman of the domestic policy subcommittee of House Oversight Committee, is planning his own probe.

«It's not wrong to do business with Russians,» Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime and terror, told CNN last month.

The subcommittee's chairman, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, said in his opening statement that «when one party is attacked, all of us should feel attacked... when a foreign power interferes in our election, it doesn't matter who they targeted.

The chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development subcommittee of the broader Senate appropriations committee want GAO to «examine the impact self - driving trucks will have on the two million Americans who currently work as truck drivers and the communities where they live,» according to a press release issued last week.

Eseka is chairman of the Nigerian Capital Markets Committee's fixed - income subcommittee.

Senator Edward Kennedy is chairman of the subcommittee that creates legislative reform; Representative Bruce Morrison is his counterpart in the House.

Carey served as chairman of the Innovation Center's traceability subcommittee when the voluntary traceability standards were originally announced.

«There was nothing I could do about it, of course,» says Ted Farwell, chairman of the Nordic subcommittee.

The subcommittee's chairman, GOP Rep. Robert Aderholt of Alabama, told Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that he is receiving complaints from schools and from the School Nutrition Association, which represents school food - service directors, that some schools are facing both a financial and logistical burden in implementing the new school - meals programs and are requesting a delay.

Mr Mercer, former chairman of the Commons counter-terrorism subcommittee, said the attack on David Cameron's first conference as prime minister was being planned as the climax of a series of actions starting in late August.

Sen. Mark Kirk, R - Ill., the chairman of the Senate Banking national security subcommittee, said he sees congressional hearings as necessary for answering questions.

«As a congressman, Rick Lazio was chairman of the subcommittee that oversaw housing at the time Cuomo was HUD secretary.

Gentile was notoriously on Speaker Quinn's pay - no - mind list, and suffered the indignity of being denied chairmanship of a committee or even a subcommittee: instead he was made Chairman of the Select Committee on Libraries, of which he was the sole member.

Committee Chairman Roger Friedman explained how three subcommittees focused on Recreation and Waterfront Access, Economic Development and Tourism Infrastructure and Waterfront, Hamlet and Downtown Revitalization.

He also stepped down as chairman of the City Council subcommittee on Substance Abuse.

A special subcommittee is now looking over those ideas, first by identifying consolidations that could be easy to accomplish, according to chairman Kevin Holmquist.

Katko, R - Camillus, chairman of a House subcommittee on transportation security, has been concerned about terrorist efforts to compromise security at last - point - of - departure airports overseas with direct flights to the United States.

King, the chairman of a Homeland Security subcommittee, said he is working with the ranking Democrat, Rep. Kathleen Rice (D - Garden City) to draw up a witness list for the four - hour hearing.

A New York Democrat is urging U.S. Rep. John Katko, as chairman of a House subcommittee on transportation security, to hold a hearing on emergency response plans at U.S. airports.

- Buffalo millionaire Carl Paladino (better known as The Guy who Compared Health Care Reform to 9/11), in a letter to Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee, who said «every decent person should be disgusted» by Paladino's comparison.

While the Senate's counterpart bill has not yet emerged from the subcommittee that funds NASA, Sen. Richard Shelby, R - Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, raised concerns about spending cuts included in the White House budget blueprint.

But Representative John Culberson (R — TX), chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that oversees NSF's budget, has said he would move to give it additional funding if Congress raised the caps.

«It all depends whether I become chairman» of the appropriations subcommittee, which allocates funding and which he's in line to lead, he said seriously, emphasizing his many years of support for NIH.

, chairman of the Commerce - Justice - Science subcommittee.

The new chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that fund Nasa and the NSF, Republican John Culberson, has reportedly recently reiterated that the earth sciences don't meet his definition of «the pure sciences».

The new bill, H.R. 2093, is sponsored by Rep. John Culberson (R - TX), chairman of the House Appropriations Commerce - Justice - Science (CJS) subcommittee that funds NASA.

As the Senate has switched hands through the past decade, Specter and Harkin have alternated as chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate subcommittee in charge of the NIH budget.

Good morning Chairman Palazzo, and Chairman Bucshon, Ranking Members Edwards and Lipinski, and members of the Subcommittees.

If I'm successful in becoming chairman of the subcommittee that's going to be right when the Europa mission will need its maximum funding.

«This bipartisan and bicameral bill grew to maturity through many long and serious discussions about the future of our nation's space program,» Rep. Brian Babin (R - Texas), the chairman of the House space subcommittee, said during the discussion about the bill, according to Space News.

Most members of the House and Senate left Washington last night for the July 4 holiday, but based on the video, six Republican House members stayed in town for the event today: Rep. John Culberson (R - TX), chairman of the Commerce - Justice - Science (CJS) subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, which funds NASA; Rep. Lamar Smith (R - TX), chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology (SS&T) Committee, which authorizes NASA activities and sets policy; Rep. Brian Babin (R - TX), chairman of the House SS&T Space Subcommittee; Rep. Steve Palazzo (R - MS), member of the House CJS subcommittee; and two other members of House SS&T — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA) and Rep. Bill Posey (R - FL).

Senators Bill Nelson (D - FL), chairman of the subcommittee, John Boozman (R - AR), ranking member of the subcommittee, and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R - TX), ranking member of the full committee were present.

Co-sponsors include Rep. Frank Wolf (R - VA), chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA.

According to a G.A.O. report, which was done at the request of Representative William H. Natcher of Kentucky, chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education, two - thirds of rural districts that receive federal drug - free school grants say the money covers more than half of their total drug - education program.

A top Education Department official last week clashed with the chairman of a key House subcommittee over the chairman's proposal to overhaul the department's research branch, as a more modest reauthorization bill advanced in the Senate.