Sentences with phrase «subcommittee said»

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

Members of the subcommittee said the list was preliminary, and want to study the options further before making recommendations to the full committee.

Not exact matches

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.

«We now know the depth to which drug traffickers exploit our mail system to ship fentanyl and other synthetic drugs into the United States,» said subcommittee Chairman Rob Portman.

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.

«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.

Rep. Robin Kelly, a Democrat from Illinois and a ranking member of Congress» IT oversight subcommittee, says she's pleased Facebook is taking steps to improve disclosure on candidate ads but says the company is missing a «major vulnerability» on social issue ads.

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

«When he came into Congress, and we served on the same subcommittee, I found out he was a great wrestler in high school and college,» he says.

Bettina Siegel, a blogger and attorney who also serves on the Houston school district's nutrition subcommittee, said that Miller's announcement was unnecessary political grandstanding.

said Rep. Jean Schmidt, R - Ohio, head of the nutrition subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee and the letter's author.

The commission's subcommittee on skateboarding includes four National Honor Society students, a high school band member and a cheerleader, said Commissioner Lori Anderson.

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.

Mr Mercer, former chairman of the Commons counter-terrorism subcommittee, said the attack on David Cameron's first conference as prime minister was being planned as the climax of a series of actions starting in late August.

In any case, nothing in what you said refutes the original study that I linked to, or my own experience working in the Texas Legislature, where it was a demonstrable FACT that taxes from urban areas subsidized more - conservative rural areas — a fact that we dealt with every day on an appropriations subcommittee my boss served on.

«Since becoming Speaker, I have made a special effort to create issue specific workgroups and a new subcommittee structure that promotes member participation while exploring new ideas to move New York forward,» said Heastie in a statement.

In testimony before a House subcommittee this month, Mohawk Valley Rep. Claudia Tenney (R - New Hartford) said two Department of Defense reviews of the Rome lab in 2008 and 2014 found security vulnerability risks.

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.

Sen. Mark Kirk, R - Ill., the chairman of the Senate Banking national security subcommittee, said he sees congressional hearings as necessary for answering questions.

When pressed by the moderator on what he has to show from his time on that subcommittee, Weiner says that «every member of the Democratic caucus... didn't get much done» during that time.

Regent Jim Tallon, who co-chaired the subcommittee meeting, said the Regents realize those issues.

Typically, hospitals say, the salary is set by a subcommittee of the board of trustees, based on the size and scope of the hospital and a study of what CEOs at comparable facilities earn.

Sampson said he'll be naming members to the budget conference subcommittees today (why this hasn't happened yet speaks volumes).

«I think you're going to see more children, not fewer children, exposed to lead,» said Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat [from Rhode Island] who has sought more funding for lead - abatement programs on the Senate subcommittee that funds HUD.

But Pendleton and fellow Democrat M. Saud Anwar said they are concerned the subcommittee would lead to redistricting, something they feel is unnecessary.

(a) Whenever a Party nomination for a public office to be filled at a general or special election is not made at a primary election or by judicial nominating convention, or when no valid designating petition is filed with the board of elections (1) such nomination shall be made by the Executive Committee if for a public office to be filled by the voters of a political subdivision whose boundaries are coterminous with the County of New York or the Borough of Manhattan, and any vacancy in a nomination so made shall be filled by the Executive Committee or a subcommittee appointed by the Executive Committee for that purpose, and (2) such nomination shall be made by the appropriate District Committee if for a public office to be filled by the voters of a political subdivision wholly or partly contained within, but embracing only a part of, the County of New York or Borough of Manhattan, and any vacancy in a nomination so made shall be filled by a subcommittee appointed by said District Committee for that purpose.

«Our community education work group is conducting a needs assessment of area schools,» Burstein said of the Erie County Opiate Task Force's subcommittee.

Hughes deflected praise onto the Democratic Committee and his campaign subcommittee, saying, «I was an okay candidate, but the team was a fantastic team!»

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

Silver had said he would wait for the Board of Regents to propose changes to the implementation before forcing legislative action, and a subcommittee of the policy - making panel is due back with a report next week.

Regent's Chancellor Merryl Tisch says a subcommittee of the state Board of Regents will continue to come up with ways to help with the implementation of the learning standards.

A subcommittee of the Onondaga Lake Watershed Partnership had spent nearly a year devising signs with strongly worded warnings and graphics, but said they were disappointed when the county decided to put up weaker signs.

In the Assembly, she served as chairwoman of the subcommittee on urban health and fought against the privatization of public hospitals, she said.

«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.

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?

Brown's spokesman Michael J. DeGeorge said Parking Commissioner Kevin Helfer, who sits on the mayor's finance subcommittee, will begin working with Comptroller Mark J. F. Schroeder's office on implementing the recommendations.

As such, the subcommittees met Monday evening to name their recording secretaries and allow members to say various things.

And the reason I say that is because I've been in many meetings with Republicans, as a Republican member of Congress, when they discuss certain pieces of legislation, but when they discuss how we can totally disrupt the Democratic majority from the subcommittee right on to the House floor.

King, the chairman of a Homeland Security subcommittee, said he is working with the ranking Democrat, Rep. Kathleen Rice (D - Garden City) to draw up a witness list for the four - hour hearing.

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.

During testimony before a House subcommittee on Tuesday, Carson said he left details of the dining set purchase to his wife.

«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.

The Consensus group is currently reviewing draft reports from seven subcommittees, Murphy said.

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

But they also said that as he increased his fundraising, an unusually large share of the money he raised came from the health care industry — which has a stake in Collins» work on a congressional subcommittee that legislates on health care issues.

- Buffalo millionaire Carl Paladino (better known as The Guy who Compared Health Care Reform to 9/11), in a letter to Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee, who said «every decent person should be disgusted» by Paladino's comparison.

«I'll be glad to see what happens Thursday» when the House Ethics subcommittee responsible for conducting formal hearings has its first organizational meeting, he said.

Congress's attitude has undergone «a great change» in recent years, leading to a drop in «real commitment to scientific research,» said Representative Daniel Lipinski (D - IL), the ranking member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's research and technology subcommittee and one of a dozen trained engineers in Congress.

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.»