Sentences with phrase «subcommittee about»

In the fall, when Mr. Stretch testified before a Senate subcommittee about why Facebook had failed to stop Russian interference, his remarks were not warmly received.

In an another excerpt of the letter Apple sent to a congressional subcommittee about its iPhone throttling debacle, the company says that with new hardware, the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X now have «a more advanced performance management system» than older iPhones.

The head of Massey Energy Co. will testify this week before a Senate subcommittee about mine safety for the first time since an explosion killed 29 workers at his company's mine in West Virginia.

In the fall, when Mr. Stretch testified before a Senate subcommittee about why Facebook had failed to stop Russian interference, his remarks were not warmly received.

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At a congressional hearing on Tuesday, David Freidman, acting administrator of NHTSA, told a House subcommittee that his agency was «engaged and concerned» about the injury crash complaints it received and tried to figure out why the airbags did not deploy.

Yates, the former acting attorney general, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee earlier this year that she had had «two in - person meetings and one phone call» with McGahn in January about Flynn's contact with Kislyak.

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee earlier this year that she had warned the White House about Flynn's conversations with Kislyak so that the Trump administration «could take action» amid concerns that Flynn could be subject to blackmail by Russians.

U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell, the senior Democrat on the Ways and Means trade subcommittee, said he was skeptical about the merits of imposing tariffs.

In recent months, the CFTC created subcommittees on distributed ledger technology and virtual currencies, issued a pump - and - dump warning about virtual currency schemes, and provided guidance to its employees about cryptocurrency investments.

A few years ago, Representative Dan Burton (R., Ind.) opened a congressional subcommittee hearing on human trafficking by stating, «It is hard to believe in the 21st century that we are even talking about this.»

Erasmus notes the appearance at a congressional subcommittee hearing last week by the Hudson Institute's Nina Shea, who spoke about the suffering of Mideast Christians and America's responsibility to them.

In response to the increasing popularity of growlers as a «to go» container for fresh draught beer, the Brewers Association Draught Beer Quality subcommittee has announced the publication of a new resource, «Facts about Growlers».

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

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

-- With concerns about school security on voting days, some Republicans on the town council are considering forming a subcommittee to investigate alternate polling places.

Vermont's governor and state treasurer have different ideas about the subcommittee being formed to investigate fossil - fuel divestment for the state's $ 4 billion retirement fund.

Warsi's remarks, which reinforce criticisms made before the weekend by the former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who chaired the cabinet subcommittee on immigration from 2010 to 2015, undermine Rudd's insistence in her statement to the Commons last week on blaming officials for thinking about policy rather than people.

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.

The subcommittee comprises 11 people in total — Theresa May and many of her senior ministers — and is split over likely opinions about a final Brexit deal.

May delayed a final decision on the preferred customs option after a tense meeting of the Brexit subcommittee last week during which the home and defence secretaries, Sajid Javid and Gavin Williamson, also expressed concerns about the plan, along with Johnson, the environment secretary, Michael Gove, and the international trade secretary, Liam Fox.

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.

Next we identified about a dozen congressional committees (including Appropriations and Budget) and two subcommittees that were likely to pay the largest roles on these issues.

Chu appointed the Energy Advisory Board subcommittee on natural gas in May after President Obama tapped Chu to make short - term recommendations that can quickly address safety and environmental concerns about extracting shale gas.

«We're about to see a rapid increase in different parts of the industry, whether it's space tourism or commercial involvement to allow NASA to get lower - cost transportation to low - Earth orbit,» Nield told the House space subcommittee at a hearing in May.

Details about the bills are scarce, Cho noted, but «for the third year in a row the Senate panel moved to zero out spending on the United States's contribution to ITER,» «House appropriators would cut [DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy] spending by 12 % to $ 1.8 billion,» and «the House energy and water subcommittee would boost spending on the fossil fuels program by 2 % to $ 645 million.»

The incidents «have raised very serious questions about the CDC's ability to safeguard properly select agents in its own labs,» said subcommittee chair Tim Murphy (R — PA), asking whether CDC's description of them as a «wake - up call» is adequate.

New Jersey's largest utility company, PSE&G, said at the subcommittee hearing that during Sandy they staffed up their Twitter feeds and used them to send word about the daily locations of their giant tents and generators.

Last week, in his first budget defense as NIH director before a House of Representatives Appropriations subcommittee, Francis Collins was asked about the poststimulus problem.

FDA has not yet released a draft guidance on the matter, but at a hearing yesterday, members of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee's health subcommittee raised questions about the agency's authority to regulate these tests, its motivation for doing so, and the potential impact of such regulations on the diagnostic industry.

The hearing, before the appropriations subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives that oversees the HHS budget, included several questions about the 18 % cut to NIH's $ 31.7 billion budget that President Donald Trump has proposed.

«We have some work to do on this budget, I know that,» he told members of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on 21 June, adding that he «looked forward» to working with lawmakers to address their concerns about spending levels.

«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.

As a direct result of a conversation about my CTR - IN pilot work that I had with a colleague who leads the nursing subcommittee of the Southwest Oncology Group, I was invited to be the nursing coordinator for one of their studies.»

Rasch addressed the Subcommittees on Energy and Environment about the need for a research program to study geoengineering and how such a program might be designed.

He also expressed concern about increasing the workload of the Subcommittees.

The agency's November 2007 guidelines outlining humanitarian concerns to be addressed during raids «are not being followed in a consistent fashion,» said Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey, a Democrat from California and the chairwoman of the workforce protections subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee, who presided over a hearing this morning about how raids by the agency known...

Rep. Bill Emerson of Missouri, who chairs the House Agriculture subcommittee with jurisdiction over nutrition issues, has raised a fuss about a promotional campaign at the Department of Agriculture to publicize new, healthier school meals.

Rep. Todd Rokita of Indiana, the top Republican on the subcommittee overseeing K - 12 policy, also asked about language in the administration's budget request that would provide $ 389 million in assessment grants to states that have adopted college - and career - ready standards.

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).

The High School Expansion subcommittee wants to hear what people have to say about the design plans to enlarge the high school to accommodate 9th grade.

It happened, for example, during her May appearance before the House subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies to testify about the Trump administration's 2018 budget proposal.

At least one congressional Republican — U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita, R - Ind., the chairman of the House subcommittee overseeing K - 12 policy, raised big questions about pieces of the prekindergarten proposal, saying it could amount to «an alarming expansion of government power.»

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.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan faced many questions from members of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on education, where concerns about spending were heightened by the prolonged negotiations over the debt ceiling.

Having thought considerably about the trade - offs involved in the Every Child Achieves Act as recently passed through the Senate HELP subcommittee, the cons continue to out - weigh the pros enabling edu - profiteers unfettered access to a market that should remain within the public trust.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is expected to testify next Wednesday at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing about the then - released budget and may offer some insight into the proposals.

Speculation about the «tens of thousands» of dogs sold over the Internet was raised as far back as 2005, during testimony before a Congressional subcommittee on federal legislation to amend the Animal Welfare Act.

In 1954 the Kefauver subcommittee in Washington said that juvenile delinquency was partly caused by comic books, the same thing they say about video games today.

Professor Curry has led debate in the science community about the process of reviewing climate change, including giving testimony before the US house subcommittee on environment this year, remarking on the many large uncertainties in forecasting future climate.

So the little people did about as well as the C&L members who aren't on the energy subcommittee, but less well than the subcommittee members.