Sentences with phrase «subcommittee last»

So, NAR Vice President for Government Affairs Sherri Meadows, a broker - owner of three real estate offices in central Florida, went before a House VA subcommittee last week to recommend improvements.

The legislation, dubbed the «Even Start Act» — HR 2535 in the House and S 1723 in the Senate — is «based on the belief that illiteracy, like many of our society's worst problems, begins in the home,» Senator Chafee told the House elementary, secondary, and vocational education subcommittee last week.

Former Representative John Brademas, one of the original sponsors of P.L. 94 - 142 and currently president of New York University, testified before a Senate subcommittee last month at hearings marking the 10th anniversary of the law.

The House measure, approved by an appropriations subcommittee last week, would inch up the current discretionary budget for the Department of Education by $ 118 million, to a total of $ 56.7 billion, or by less than 1 percent, in fiscal 2006.

Now to be clear, Secretary Duncan has been an advocate for tougher standards and high - quality assessments, as he explained to a House appropriations subcommittee last week.

A Senate subcommittee last week unanimously approved legislation to reorganize and expand the Education Department's office of educational research and improvement, although less dramatically than would a comparable House measure.

Washington — A Senate subcommittee last week adopted a bill that would revamp the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to channel a larger portion of federal funds directly to local school districts.

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.

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«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 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.

It was delivered to a special subcommittee of the board last week — Arianna Huffington, Bill Gurley and David Bonderman — which directed it.

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.

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.

A hearing last December by House Energy and Commerce subcommittee also drove home the point that the overwhelming scientific consensus is that GMO food is as safe as any other food and that a mandatory GMO warning label could be inherently misleading.

A subcommittee made the suggestion to the district's Parks, Open Space and Facilities Maintenance Committee last week.

The City Council's land use subcommittee had voted on Oct. 25 to approve the modified proposal, but the full vote was delayed by two weeks due to Hurricane Sandy and last week's blizzard.

However, the approval of the subcommittee is considered to be a last step for the project, as the full Council almost never votes against its subcommittees, Crain's reported.

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.

Debra Smith, a leader of the county's Opioid Addiction Task Force Family Support and Consumer Advocacy subcommittee, said she still lies awake at night wondering how long she must continue to carry the last message her son posted to Facebook before he died: How many of my friends have to die before the government realizes it has to fund recovery treatment?

A House appropriations subcommittee late last month approved the bill, which keeps overall funding for DOE's Office of Science flat at $ 5.39 billion but imposes deep cuts on applied renewable energy programs.

«Rather than say, «OK guys, just spread it like peanut butter,» I decided to try and look at some of the bigger things we could take off the table,» she explained last month after testifying before Culberson's subcommittee.

- David In my last post, I discussed a House subcommittee's shortsighted vote to slash funding for the U.S.

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.

- David Last month, a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives quietly voted to gut funding for the U.S.

The subcommittee said last week that it would not act on the bill until NOAA submitted comments on the measure.

As a result, the NIH grant success rate (the portion of reviewed grants that received funding) may drop from an already record - low 18 % in 2012 to 16 %, according to Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA), chair of the Senate spending subcommittee that discussed NIH's 2014 budget request last week.

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.

A subcommittee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) agreed to the Japan - sponsored draft at a meeting last week in Fukuoka.

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).

The Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on immigration held a hearing last week on proposals to reform and reduce legal immigration.

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.

Just last week, the House and Senate appropriations subcommittees with jurisdiction over education spending canceled planned «markup» hearings for their respective budget bills.

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.

Hearing The Senate education subcommittee opened hearings last week on reauthorization of the Education Department's office for educational research and improvement.

«It allows us to spotlight the integrated approach that blends strong academics with expanded vocational and technical education,» said Rep. Frank Riggs, R - Calif., the chairman of the House subcommittee that held a hearing last week at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science...

Rep. John Edward Porter, R - Ill., and Sen. Arlen Specter, R - Pa., the chairmen of their respective chambers» appropriations subcommittees with jurisdiction over education, met late last week in an effort to settle differences over programs under their purview.

A House subcommittee approved a Republican welfare - reform bill last week that would give states most of the responsibility for administering aid programs serving millions of poor children and their families.

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...

The reauthorization bill approved by the committee contained a slight modification in the measure as reported last month by the education subcommittee, which mandated that states channel 70 percent of federal vocational - education funds to secondary schools and 30 percent to postsecondary institutions.

Washington — Members of a House subcommittee on education were advised last week to reject a measure that would deny federal financial aid to schools and colleges that prohibit student and faculty religious groups from meeting on school grounds.

Republicans on a House education subcommittee quashed an effort last week by Democrats to guarantee «full funding» for special education as part of Congress» overhaul of the main special education law this year.

Last month, a House subcommittee again passed a measure that would allow states to determine whether they will offer special education services to some inmates.

Foxx, chairwoman of the House Education Committee's subcommittee on higher education and workforce training, received campaign contributions from Corinthian Colleges during her last reelection campaign in 2014 — nearly $ 20,000.

A split vote last week by State Allocation Board members, divided over a subcommittee recommendation to slow its monetary apportionments to keep the School Facilities Program active, means allocations will continue until the funds run out.

GOP leadership was quick to call the budget blueprint «dead on arrival» when the administration unveiled it last month, and chairman of the appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Roy Blunt, R - Mo., followed suit at the start of the hearing.

It also involves discussions among a subcommittee of at least four individuals that last up to an hour.

Last week, the measure cleared the panel's subcommittee on a 7 - 1 vote following a sometimes emotional debate.

The Legislature's Executive Appropriations Committee will now assemble budget recommendations from all the Appropriations Subcommittees into the State's final budget, a process that will last until the final week of the 2015 General Session.

The legislation is more stringent than a House bill that died in subcommittee during the last Congress.