Sentences with phrase «subcommittee chairs»

For example, ScienceInsider opines that Rep. Randy Hultgren (R - Ill) was somehow «lost in the shuffle» in the decisions on subcommittee chairs.

Representative Lamar Smith explains the process of naming the science committee's subcommittee chairs.

To this could be added the recent congressional hearings in which militia leaders received a surprisingly respectful hearing from a subcommittee chaired by Senator Arlen Specter -LRB-!

in 1971, Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska read the Pentagon Papers into the record of a subcommittee he chaired, at a hearing he called for specifically this purpose.

Ryan has smoothed the way for Stefanik through the ranks to subcommittee chair on the House Armed Services Committee and membership on the House Intelligence Committee — a mixed blessing at best in the wake of halting its Trump - Russia investigation.

In beginning the hearing, subcommittee chair Senator Chuck Schumer (D — NY) advocated «virtually stapling a green card to [the] diploma» of anyone earning an American science or technical degree so that «the best and brightest students from around the world» can stay here and «start companies.»

As the appropriations bill heads for a possible House vote this week, Representative Ernest J. Istook Jr. (R - OK), who wrote the language, and House Labor / HHS subcommittee chair Ralph Regula (R - OH) are preparing to issue a statement on the House floor that would modify the directive.

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.

In letters sent on 18 June, Representative Joe Barton (R - TX), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and investigations subcommittee chair James Greenwood (R - PA) asked the Commerce, Energy, and Health and Human Services departments and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others, to describe their policies on outside activities by employees and report the amounts paid since 1999.

It was PIC's Celldance subcommittee chair Duane Compton who came up with the idea of directly commissioning a small number of films from ASCB member labs and then providing post-production services, according to Atkinson.

Drawing from this analysis and the roundtable discussion, committee chair Joe Barton and subcommittee chair Ed Whitfield launched an investigation of «hockey stick» authors Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes.

That prompted subcommittee chair Rep. Jose Serrano (D - N.Y.) to chime in and urge the court to allow in cameras.

In addition, she has served as vice chair of the Probate Committee, vice chair and chairperson of the OCBA's Family Court Committee, subcommittee chair and representative for the Family Court Division for a number of bench / bar retreats, liaison to the Legislative Committee, and as a member of the OCBA's nominating committee and its Public Advisory Committee on Judicial Candidates.

Queried Linda Sanchez, the subcommittee chair, «Are these people being removed for doing their job and for it doing it too well?»

Not exact matches

Additional Accountability Requirements: Statute 16 -2-9 (a)(25)(2005), Statute 16-21-28 (2005) and Statute 16 -7.1-2 (h)(2005) require the school committee of each district to establish a district - wide coordinated school health and wellness subcommittee, chaired by a member of the full school committee, to implement policies and plans to meet Section 204 requirements.

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

The College Committee is a subcommittee of the College composed of College Chair, School Administrator, Faculty Chair, Early Childhood Chair, and Grade School Chair.

In return for his decision, Felder got to chair a brand new subcommittee on NYC education that was created by the Republicans just for him.

The managers usually are the chair and ranking minority member of the reporting committee or pertinent subcommittee.

Today, the Committee also confirmed the appointments of the following six subcommittee vice chairs:

Senator Menendez serves on the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and is a chair of its Housing, Transportation and Community Development subcommittee.

I've chaired most of the county subcommittees.»

In August 2013, Ros - Lehtinen, chair of the House Middle East and South Asia subcommittee, told the Miami Herald she raised the issue while leading a congressional delegation to Israel, stressing to Israeli officials the importance of them providing the Wultz family what they need for their lawsuit.

Katko said he had to battle with the Obama administration to produce witnesses at the House transportation security subcommittee hearing he chaired Tuesday.

Rep. Kathleen Rice, the ranking Democratic member of a House subcommittee on transportation security chaired by Republican Rep. John Katko, is urging the congressman to hold a hearing on emergency response plans at U.S. airports.

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.

«This is the first step in the right direction in moving money to communities like this,» said Councilman Donovan Richards, chair of the subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises.

Katko, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, chaired a subcommittee hearing Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, that examined the insider threat to security posed by airport employees who have clearance and access to planes.

Katko, R - Camillus, submitted his legislation only two days after he chaired a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing that examined recent security breaches at airports, including one that involved an insider scheme to smuggle guns on planes.

Not a single one of King's bills has passed the House, even though he is in the GOP majority and chairs a House Homeland Security subcommittee.

Carolyn Ratcliffe, chair of the landmarks subcommittee, agreed, saying committee leadership should reflect the diversity of the community and that change obviously needed to occur.

Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) chairs a Congressional subcommittee hearing on airport security in Syracuse Monday

He chairs the Council's cultural affairs committee, which includes the libraries subcommittee.

There should be no cap on children,» said Felder (D - Brooklyn), who chairs the Senate's subcommittee on NYC schools.

Representative Joe Barton (R - TX), chair of the House Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, wrote to Donna Shalala, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on 6 March saying that he is looking into how Hughes «violated a ban on federal funding of human embryo research.»

, who chairs the Senate Appropriations subcommittee responsible for funding the Defense Department and who does not believe that warming is human - induced, has long complained that too much of DOE's budget is frittered away on programs to boost energy efficiency or alternative fuels — which he says have little to do with the military's mission.

Representative John Culberson (R - TX), who chairs the appropriations subcommittee that funds NSF, and his Republican colleagues want to make sure the bulk of the money is spent on «core sciences,» which, in their view, do not include the geological or the social and behavioral sciences.

«The bill rejects the budget request's proposal to reduce investment in the energy we use today,» Representative Mike Simpson (R — ID), chair of the House energy and water subcommittee, said at the subcommittee's markup.

Although that increase may seem like small change, it represents a vote of confidence for the Office of Science, Senator Lamar Alexander (R — TN), chair of the Senate energy and water subcommittee, said at the Senate subcommittee markup yesterday.

The Administration had sought over five percent increases for both NSF and the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and a 5.2 percent discretionary spending increase might open the door to these (as Rep. John Culberson [R - TX], chair of the NSF appropriations subcommittee, suggested back in May).

And the first to ask Varmus for his views was Representative John Porter (R - IL), chair of the subcommittee that drafts NIH's appropriation.

Although it is not the 4.2 % increase that the Obama administration proposed in February, «it represents a vote of confidence for the Office of Science, Senator Lamar Alexander (R — TN), chair of the Senate energy and water subcommittee, said at the Senate subcommittee markup.»

Their opinion may be moot, however, because senators Charles «Chuck» Grassley (R — IA) and Jeff Sessions (R — AL)-- both longstanding opponents of the H - 1B visa and increased high - skill immigration — have been named, respectively, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and head of its immigration subcommittee.

«Fusion appears to come out the loser here,» and that is a «concern,» Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R - NJ), the chair of the energy subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, told William Brinkman, the director of DOE's Office of Science.

Clapp may well stay on as clerk given that it's the chair of the Appropriations Committee — currently Senator Daniel Inouye (D - HI)-- who chooses the subcommittee clerks, not the cardinals.

Representative Tom Cole (R — OK) will chair the appropriations subcommittee that funds NIH, replacing retiring Representative Jack Kingston (R — GA).

Representative John Culberson (R — TX) will succeed retiring Representative Frank Wolf (R — VA) as chair of the subcommittee that funds the «National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.»

On the Senate side, Tom Harkin (D — IA) announced earlier this week that he will hold a hearing 16 September on stem cell legislation as chair of the House appropriations subcommittee that approves NIH's budget.

«The amount of money available for grants has increased dramatically, and we need more professional management of these funds,» says Hiroyuki Abe, a former president of Tohoku University in Sendai, who chaired a council subcommittee that made the recommendations.

Senator Roy Blunt (R — MO), chair of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that oversees NIH's budget, reiterated his opposition to a White House proposal to use mandatory funding for NIH's regular budget in 2017, calling it «risky.»