Sentences with phrase «who said his committee»

The report's conclusion is fiercely opposed by committee Democrats, who say the committee did not interview enough witnesses or gather enough evidence to support its finding...

«It's legal, but that's the whole problem,» said Martland, who said committee chairs that control the movement of legislation should not take contributions from the interest groups they oversee.

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Hatch, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, said that whoever advised Trump on this policy «ought to be reprimanded.»

«There has to be agreement and consensus across the member countries to take a standard forward,» said Mr. Dunn, who is also the head of the Australian delegation to the committee.

Even Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa)-- the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee who up to even this year opposed reforming sentencing laws — has said he is open to the new proposals.

The House Ethics Committee launched an investigation Tuesday, following a BuzzFeed News report that said Conyers had settled a wrongful dismissal complaint with a former employee who alleged she was fired for refusing his «sexual advances.»

State Sen. Dave Lewis, a former Montana budget director who now leads the Finance Committee, said he would use his influence to make sure the windfall is used for one - time spending, such as on buildings and infrastructure.

'' [Petraeus] not only shared [classified information] with someone who was not allowed to have it, but we found it in a search warrant under the insulation in his attic, and then he lied to us about it in the investigation,» Comey said during a Thursday hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

The president, who has repeatedly said he wants to accomplish the difficult feat of winning Democratic votes, joked about the minority party's support to Sen. Ron Wyden, D - Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

«It depends what district you're coming from, I guess,» said Rep. Mark Walker, who chairs the influential Republican Study Committee.

Campaign finance experts who spoke to CNBC said this type of spending by a party committee on behalf of a campaign is highly unusual but legal, and it appears the RNC disclosed it correctly.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructure program.

In the interview, Raisman — who served as team captain at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympic games — said that she won't rest until there is an independent investigation of both USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic Committee, as well as Michigan State University, where Nassar worked as a sports physician from 1997 to 2016.

Ritchie Torres, who chairs a city council committee on public housing, said at the press conference that there was a direct link between the falsification of permits and the decline in affordable housing in New York.

Nunes has drawn sharp criticism from Rep. Adam Schiff, his Democratic counterpart on the House Intelligence Committee, who said in a statement Friday that though Nunes» memo sought to show that the FBI and the DOJ improperly sought a FISA warrant targeting Page, Nunes had not seen the underlying intelligence on which it was based.

Sen. Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, subsequently turned the floor over to the attorney general, who went on to say that he had consulted with senior Justice Department staff prior to his testimony about what he called a «longstanding policy» regarding communications with the president.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

McCain, who is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and served in the US Navy for 23 years, said Trump's statement was «unclear» and it served as «yet another example of why major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter.»

«It's a blank slate,» said Brian Screnar, who was finance director for Obama's 2009 inaugural committee.

John Manly, an attorney who represents more than 100 victims in lawsuits, said Michigan State, USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee «miserably failed children.»

«Unlike in life, we get to pick our family,» says J.P. Maychak, dean of student experience, who sits in on admission committee meetings.

Although Hensarling, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee did not respond to a request for comment, he has said the battle over the bank is one of philosophy, which for conservatives dictates that the government should stay out of free enterprise.

He said while the government will likely always participate in regulation in some form, it would «behoove investors» to come together and form some type of independent oversight committee — before Congress makes a decision as to who should regulate spot currencies and how.

«Changing careers and a changing world bring new problems and the need for new knowledge,» said G. Richard Shell, a professor and expert in negotiations who served as chair of the MBA Review Committee that created the new design.

Senator Max Baucus and Representative David Camp, who lead their respective congressional committees on taxation issues, have been working on a bill that they say would be fairer to small businesses, but both men will be leaving those posts in early 2015, so it's unclear how much success they will have.

I would talk to these older African - American women who were committee people, and they would say, «Are you the one Michael Coard endorsed?»

Nargolwala, who became chairman of the compensation committee in April, said the bank decided to simplify its compensation policy after talks with investors.

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement on Thursday that «pardoning any individuals who may have been involved» in Russia's election interference «would be crossing a fundamental line.»

«In November 2016, Grassley said he would retain the policy used in the eight Obama years when the Senate Judiciary Committee would not set a hearing unless both home state senators returned blue slips,» Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond professor who is an expert on judicial nominations, told Business Insider in an email.

President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, negotiated a $ 1.6 million payment to a former Playboy model who says a top Republican National Committee official named Elliott Broidy got her pregnant, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

«Unfortunately, it does not seem to be a coincidence that Trae and I — the two people who have made recent complaints of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation — have been kept off the committee and are relegated to more junior status,» she said.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, who did not sign the Committee's letter, this week said he was «extremely worried «about the consequences of a potential trade war.

The lawmakers, who control the tax - writing House Ways and Means Committee, said they would hold hearings on the measures, which are sure to be heavily attended by Washington lobbyists.

Cummings said in the letter, which he wrote with the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel, that «it appears that General Flynn violated federal law by omitting this trip and these foreign contacts from his security clearance renewal application in 2016 and concealing them from security clearance investigators who interviewed him as part of the background check process.»

Describing current attitudes, Pushkina, who heads the Russian parliament's committee on family, women, and children, says, «Men must be masculine and strong, and women should be feminine mothers.»

Additionally, he said the FAA created a new drone advisory committee consisting of both government and industry representatives, who will work on a new proposal involving flying drones outside a human operator's field of vision.

«I also want to say how grateful I am to the rest of our Operating Committee, the top leaders of our company, who have taken our company to the next level and who have been so supportive of this decision.

«There's a lot of frustration around town from those trade associations and different financial services lobbyists that he has been so beholden to his philosophy,» said Mills, who was a staffer for the Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2009.

Committee chair Collins asked whether he thought it was odd that Facebook now employs his former co-director at GSR, Joseph Chancellor — who works in its research division — despite Chancellor having worked for a company Facebook has said it regards as having violated its platform policies.

Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, said the tech industry «has a responsibility» to protect its users and said «the status quo no longer works.»

«On the contrary, I see the committee and any creditors who have addressed this court are asking the court to approve this plan and I think that's telling,» he said.

But Zuckerberg, who is testifying before a rare joint congressional committee on Tuesday, says Facebook needs to take a «broader view» of its responsibility in the world.

Yesterday Facebook revealed that more users than previously thought could have had their personal information passed to the company back in 2014 — saying as many as 87 million Facebook users could have had their data «improperly shared», thereby confirming the testimony of ex-Cambridge Analytica employee, Chris Wylie, who last month told a UK parliamentary committee he believed that substantially more than 50M Facebook users had had their information swiped.

Margaret Hodge, the chairwoman of the Commons public accounts committee who earlier this year accused Google of breaking its company motto of «don't be evil» said it had once again shown contempt for its customers and UK taxpayers.

State Rep. Jenifer Loon, R - Eden Prairie, who chairs the House Education Finance Committee, say schools need a long - term solution to their perennial budget problems.

I don't think he does it for the money,» said Frank, the co-author of the Dodd - Frank legislation who sparred with Hensarling for years on the Financial Services Committee.

«They promised us it would lift the economy... but instead we are still stymied in the weakest, slowest recovery in the postwar era,» said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R - Texas, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, who introduced the bill.

«There is a risk building up in this regard, and on top of that, the tricky issue is that there are many triggers that could wake up this sleeping lion,» said David Daokui Li, a prominent Tsinghua University economist who is a member of the Chinese central bank's monetary policy committee.

Rep. Ann Wagner, R - Mo., who sponsored the Retail Investor Protection Act, bipartisan legislation passed in the House that would require the Securities and Exchange Commission, not DOL, to take the lead on crafting a fiduciary rule, said Wednesday that she was «working closely with House leadership and members of the Education and Workforce Committee on using the Congressional Review Act to stop [DOL's] ill - advised rule.»

Ells, 52, also will serve on the committee, which he said would seek an experienced leader who can improve «customer experience, operations, marketing, technology, food safety and training.»