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From left, Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer, former owner James Larkin, COO Andrew Padilla, and former owner Michael Lacey, appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C..

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The subcommittee heard several witnesses who cast Eritrea's government in profoundly negative light.

Mehmet Oz, the host of the Dr. Oz show, testified in a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday and acknowledged that his backing of so - called «miracle» weight loss products have «provided fodder for unscrupulous advertisers,» Consumerist reported.

In this April 26, 2018 photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt removes his glasses as he testifies at a hearing of the House Appropriations subcommittee for the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, on Capitol Hil in WashingtoIn this April 26, 2018 photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt removes his glasses as he testifies at a hearing of the House Appropriations subcommittee for the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, on Capitol Hil in Washingtoin Washington.

«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.

After the event with Bush, Fu headed to the Rayburn House Office Building to appear in front of a subcommittee hearing on human rights to discuss the Chen case.

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-!

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.»

Strong supporting evidence that major league baseball should spread over the country in the 1960s came from Washington, where a Senate subcommittee heard testimony on two bills — S. 616 by Senator Keating and S. 886 by Senator Kefauver — both designed to prevent monopoly and preserve opportunity in professional sport.

In July 1964 a House Armed Services subcommittee heard witnesses regarding the practice of industrial firms, working on cost - plus contracts, to charge off recreation and entertainment expenses to the Government.

THE CUPCAKES ARE SAFE: The Department of Agriculture does not intend its proposed rules on the marketing or sale of junk foods in schools to prohibit class treats, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said during a hearing held by the House appropriations agriculture subcommittee Friday.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand greets panel members from the military and the Defense Department testifying on Capitol Hill on March 13 before the subcommittee's hearing on sexual assault in the military.

Sessions was originally supposed to testify in front of the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees this week, but said in a statement that he will send a deputy to that hearing instead.

Democrats, already fearful of getting throttled at the polls in November, are dreading a public airing of Rangel's ethical misdeeds at a hearing before the ethics panel's adjudicatory subcommittee — just weeks before the elections.

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.

Quinn's office distributed her letter in the wake of a star - studded City Council subcommittee hearing held earlier Wednesday on how best to renew Madison Square Garden's permit to operate as a large - scale arena.

Rice suggested the subcommittee could obtain its answers in a closed - door hearing with the witnesses.

In addition to the full panel meetings, several subcommittee meetings took place during the process, as well as three public hearings at which the plan was presented to residents.

Making sure airports are as secure as possible was the focus of a congressional subcommittee hearing held at the federal building in Syracuse Monday.

«My subcommittee hearing earlier this week stemmed from security breaches in which loaded firearms were brought onto commercial airplanes by employees with airport access privileges,» he said.

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

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.»

«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.

The recent Senate subcommittee hearing revealed the divide: Is case - by - case authorization for videos an important privacy protection, or is it an annoyance in today's digital world?

«If the solar storm of 1921, which has been termed a one - in -100-year event, were to occur today, well over 300 extra-high-voltage transformers could be damaged or destroyed, thereby interrupting power to 130 million people for a period of years,» Joseph McClelland, director of the Office of Electric Reliability at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said at a May 31 House Energy subcommittee hearing on the issue.

The hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigations subcommittee came in response to a June incident in which CDC scientists in Atlanta moved anthrax samples they mistakenly thought were inactivated from high - containment labs to less secure ones, potentially exposing dozens of workers.

At the 3 - hour - long Senate hearing — which, in an unusual move, was jointly held by an appropriations subcommittee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions — topics ranged from financing the effort to the need for a greater sense of urgency, public health and scientific issues, and personal experiences.

Given the situation, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D — CA), the chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, warned at a 9 April subcommittee hearing that the U.S. program could be in jeopardy.

Senator Tom Harkin (D — IA) called the hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education in the wake of the 23 August ruling by Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that hESC research violates a law barring federal funds for research that harms human embryos.

A reproductive specialist from Kentucky, Zavos made the prediction this past May in a hearing before a congressional subcommittee investigating the issue of cloning humans.

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.

Its costs, estimated to be around $ 1 - 2 billion, were hoped to be mostly covered by private donations, while commercial space companies like SpaceX were mentioned as possible providers for the needed hardware.Yet, during a hearing of the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee in November, Tito stressed that Inspiration Mars should essentially be a NASA mission, calling for Congress to provide most of the funding.

Convened by Senator Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa (left), who chairs the spending subcommittee that funds the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the hearing in the hoary Dirksen Senate Office Building included Francis Collins, the NIH director, and George Daley, a stem cell scientist at Boston Children's Hospital among others.

Two subcommittees of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee (Space and Environment) will hold a joint hearing on April 26, 2018 at 10:00 am in 2318 Rayburn House Office Building on «Surveying the Space Weather Landscape.»

Naylor and Finistirre spend most of the movie dimly regarding each other in the media, but they face off at the climax, when the senator calls the spokesman to his subcommittee hearings on regulating tobacco.

Moynihan in 1966, appearing before the Senate Government Operations subcommittee during hearings on urban problems

In a joint hearing held, on the day the Wirth bill was introduced, by the House Subcommittees on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance, and Elementary, Secondary, and...

In testimony before a joint hearing of two education subcommittees of the U.S. House of Representatives, newly - appointed ets President Gregory R. Anrig said the nonprofit testing organization will:

But due to remaining ambiguities in the Bush budget plan, advocates for child - nutrition programs said at two House subcommittee hearings last week that they would continue to monitor the fate of Section 4 of the National School Lunch Act.

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...

The panel does not plan to hold further hearings on bilingual education, according to a subcommittee aide, but will «almost certainly» address it in the Senate counterpart of HR 5, the omnibus education bill passed by the House in April.

During a Senate subcommittee hearing last week on research in vocational education, Marla Peterson, dean for research at the University of Tennessee, claimed that last year's bidding process on the national center's contract was unfairly affected by «the direct political action» of the American...

As CCSA prepared for the education subcommittees to vote on the charter school items, it became clear that these proposals would face an uphill battle in their subcommittee hearings.

The House education subcommittee is holding a hearing today on the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act — which expired in 2012 — and the Senate education committee has called for stakeholder input on current career and technical education issues.

ASCD shared (PDF) the publication with Rep. Todd Rokita (R - IN), chairman of the House's K — 12 education subcommittee, as well as with other subcommittee members in advance of their recent hearing on measuring teacher performancIN), chairman of the House's K — 12 education subcommittee, as well as with other subcommittee members in advance of their recent hearing on measuring teacher performancin advance of their recent hearing on measuring teacher performance.

At the US Senate subcommittee hearing on October 19, Eric Noll of the NASDAQ presented an analysis showing that «trading in ETFs varies roughly in proportion with overall trading in the market.

With a likely gap in critical weather satellite coverage beginning in 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has not developed sufficient contingency measures to ensure that weather forecasts remain as reliable as they are today, according to three new federally commissioned reports and lawmakers at a House subcommittee hearing.

In the first week of September, a U.S. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held hearings questioning a 40 - year - old law that forms the bedrock of competition in the electricity... Read MoIn the first week of September, a U.S. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held hearings questioning a 40 - year - old law that forms the bedrock of competition in the electricity... Read Moin the electricity... Read More

On the other hand, Steve McIntyre is to be applauded to have made the hockey - stick result an issue in the public debate; without his efforts, we guess, there would have been not Barton letters, thus no inquiry by the National Research Council and subsequently no hearing in a subcommittee of the House.

I imagine that the APS membership, which we don't normally hear from in public, is raining down on Koonin's subcommittee.