Sentences with phrase «subcommittee in»

Senate lawmakers can provide a much - needed boost in the affordable homeownership arena, NAR First Vice President Cathy Whatley told the Senate housing subcommittee in mid-June.
«There are many stories like this,» NAR Past President Moe Veissi said in testimony he gave before a House subcommittee in November.
JoAnne Poole, CRS ®, GRI, broker - owner of Poole Realty, went before the Senate housing appropriations subcommittee in late March to urge Congress to pass legislation that would let borrowers obtain FHA - backed mortgage financing with competitive terms like 100 percent financing, risk - based pricing, and 40 - year loans.
Mendoza urged Labor to put such data into the public domain and, when next in government, to set up a Health in All Policies subcommittee in Cabinet to match the power and purpose of the Expenditure Review Committee.
Yesterday, a new patent reform bill passed out of subcommittee in the House.
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.
The proposals were evaluated by the US delegation to the IMO, and presented to the Safety of Navigation subcommittee in early July 2012.
The IWC Bowhead, Right and Gray Whale subcommittee in 2011 reiterated the conservation risk to western gray whales is large because of the small size of the population and the potential anthropogenic impacts.
03/26/2010: LULAC and many other education reform advocacy organizations submitted ESEA priorities and recommendations to the House Education and Labor subcommittee in response to Congress» attempt to reauthorize NCLB in 2010.
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.
A group of researchers testifying before Harkin and Specter's subcommittee in March 2007 sounded a strikingly depressing note.
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.
Science lobbyists are hailing the vote of confidence in basic research from Congress and applauding the efforts of Representative Frank Wolf (R - VA) and Senator Barbara Mikulski (D - MD), who chair the relevant appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively.
But the dilemma even got the attention of the Senate subcommittee in charge of science appropriations, chaired by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D — MD), whose state includes both the STScI and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which operates the New Horizons mission.
Kadish presented the classified information to the subcommittee in a closed session the day before.
Suresh, who became NSF director last October, was questioned by Representative Frank Wolf (R - VA), the once and current chair of the commerce, science, and justice appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives.
The group's vice president for international economic affairs, Linda Menghetti Dempsey, told a congressional subcommittee in April that such an effort would be «at once both a radical idea and, in our estimation, the most pragmatic and effective way forward» on trade with China.
Richardson, the chief of US naval operations, told the House Appropriations subcommittee in March that Russia's increasing interest in undersea operations was «exactly why our investments [in European operations] are focused on the antisubmarine - warfare problem, both enhancing our undersea sensors and then... infrastructure for the antisubmarine aircraft, the P - 8.»
«We recognized that there was a potential National Service issue with respect to the subcontractor,» CEO Cliff Davis told a parliamentary subcommittee in 2012.
The company also came under the scrutiny of Congress once more and that pressure, which came from subcommittees in both the House and Senate and from both political parties, appears to have paid off.
Additional Content Requirements: None Guidance Materials: Rhode Islands» Coordinated School Health Program, THRIVE, has produced a comprehensive District Health & Wellness Subcommittee Toolkit to aid subcommittees in creating and implementing wellness policies as required by state and federal law.
As part of the budget process, each Spring the budget subcommittees in the Assembly and the Senate review the areas of the budget under their jurisdiction.
Indeed, as you will read, many of you stepped forward on incredibly short notice to do just that when the budget subcommittees in the Assembly and the Senate considered Governor Brown's proposed budget, which contains several common - sense charter school items.
Other plans have been presented already and more will come before the school board as well, because there are subcommittees in each of the five objectives of Human Capital, Learning and Teaching, Achievement, Balanced Assessment, and Community Engagement.
Subcommittees in the House will hold hearings on: Community Financial Institution Regulatory Relief, Tax Reform and Small Businesses Growth, and «The Impact of Bad Patents on American Businesses.»

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The subcommittee heard several witnesses who cast Eritrea's government in profoundly negative light.
«A major component of this resurgent Russia has been in their maritime» activity, US Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, a career submariner, told the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense in March.
Apple's general counsel, Bruce Sewell, and Amy Hess, executive assistant director for science and technology at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will testify on separate panels before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Tuesday, in addition to other law enforcement officials and technology experts.
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.
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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.
In recent testimony before a House of Representatives subcommittee, Lisa Gordon - Hagerty, the new NNSA administrator, said that method would cost billions less than completing the MOX plant.
Shortly before it entered force, Sarkis Assadourian, a Liberal MP, wondered aloud at a parliamentary subcommittee what would happen if «baksheesh» were given to a businessman in a Swiss account.
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.
The US Air Force, struggling to retain pilots and fill undesirable positions, is considering paying up to $ 455,000 in annual bonuses, the branch's personnel chief, Lt. Gen. Gina Grosso, told the House Armed Services subcommittee for military personnel on Wednesday.
A special subcommittee of Uber's board took the stage, including Ms. Huffington, Mr. Bonderman and J. William Gurley, with each addressing the crowd and highlighting different deficiencies discussed in the report, along with how the company would overcome the problems.
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.
The FTA Subcommittees on Agricultural Trade and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Matters also met in September 2012 and discussed Morocco's implementation of the tariff - rate quotas established under the FTA to afford U.S. wheat producers preferential access to the Moroccan market.
The FTC's blockchain working group parallels similar moves by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which previously established a distributed ledger technology (DLT) working group, and by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which created subcommittees on DLT and virtual currencies in February 2018.
The vast majority of proposed amendments die quiet, little - mourned deaths in committees and subcommittees.
The Ranbaxy debacle crossed a crucial threshold in the fall of 2004, when a senior company executive disclosed to a subcommittee of the Board of Directors that the company had committed a massive and ongoing fraud, and that over 200 drug products in more than 40 countries had been submitted to regulators with elements of fabricated data.
On September 7th Jason Crusan, NASA's Director of Advanced Exploration Systems confirmed in testimony before the House of Representatives space subcommittee that NASA is preparing to formally solicit commercial transportation of payloads to the Moon's surface.
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.
If applying for CYP or WLC, please rank the subcommittee of your choice, in order of preference, 1 being your number one choice.
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.
He served in the Canadian Senate as a Conservative from Ontario and was vice-chair of the subcommittee on urban poverty.
Federal officials lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children last year after a government agency placed the minors in the homes of adult sponsors in communities across the country, according to testimony before a Senate subcommittee Thursday.
«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.
Japan's Blockchain Collaborative Consortium has announced the formation of a subcommittee that will support financial service operations in Japan.
Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican representative, currently serving the Research and Technology subcommittee, strongly supported the use of cryptocurrency to empower those people living in Authoritarian governments.
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