Initially, we took the administration policy and put it in the bill just to clarify and give certainty to the industry on what they could and couldn't do, ... But I have agreed to do hearings in committee, and go through the regular process, and bring it to the floor later this year as a stand-alone bill or as a part of another piece of legislation.
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The more than 100 people we had on the committee said the voting public would never go for a second high school,
The House could say, 'Well, it's not serious enough for impeachment, but this is clearly conduct that is on the margin that we don't approve of,' and the House Judiciary Committee would report out a censure resolution and the House would vote on it, ... Evans Novak.
While nobody likes a watchdog, and for that reason many investigation committees are unpopular, I thank God for men who, in the face of public denouncement and ridicule, go loyally on in their work of exposing the pinks, the lavenders and the reds who have sought refuge beneath the wings of the American eagle and from that vantage point try in every subtle, undercover way to bring comfort, aid and help to the greatest enemy we have ever known -- communism.
She's moved up steadily. Every year we've done it, the Appropriations Committee has ranked as the most powerful committee.
You have proposed a compromise which is basically acceptable, and will, I believe, both accommodate our concerns and allow the committee to proceed with its legitimate legislative purposes.
One of the most critical issues facing agriculture right now is the immigration reform that was just taken up by the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee. The House passed an immigration bill at the end of 2005 that could be very harmful to agriculture.
It's a promising start. The committee is striking a cooperative tone. We hope it continues.
I anticipate it won't make a great deal of difference. I await the findings of the Judiciary Committee.
Anwar is not only a friend and valued colleague, he was a distinguished chairman of our Development Committee, and a man who believed in speaking his mind,
For us to get a first seed, it just doesn't happen. Well, it's never happened here before. It's hard. There are only four teams that get this. I'm really proud for the respect that the committee has shown toward us.
We believe that he's Burton disqualified himself because of the way he's conducted himself he has not been shown to be impartial and objective he has put out hundreds of subpoenas without a vote from the committee for the first time in the history of the committee and lately he's been putting out edited transcripts of what should have been confidential conversations, but he's gone the further step of editing them to make them look bad for the administration,
Committee chairman Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) set the easygoing tone early on. I am sure Senator Cohen knows all the answers to the questions he will hear today he has probably asked some of them in some hearings in the past, ... We may even get to hear excerpts of some of the speeches Senator Cohen made during his tenure in the Senate. I am sure he is looking forward to hearing those words again.
We've always defeated those types of things in full committee. At least when his bills die, he doesn't rant and rave.
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
Dear Organizing Committee, friends and partners, you have succeeded brilliantly in meeting your challenge. These were truly magnificent Games. We say a heartfelt thank you to Italy, Piedmont and Turin.
After reviewing the documents produced to the Committee on Energy and Commerce in connection with our investigation into the accounting practices at WorldCom Inc., we must express our grave concerns about what we have discovered,
When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.
I think your question is generated from a statement put out from the Republican National Committee, and frankly we don't need the unsolicited advice from Mr. Nicholson.
We are worried about comments from some on the committee.
It's essentially an attempt to rationalise the number, so that you have bigger regions which have more capabilities. How many regions there are will depend on what the committee recommends and what the annual general meeting accepts,
Just look at teams like Hofstra and Michigan that didn't get in (the NCAA Tournament). We have to be happy. The Committee has a tough job.
Any pro-environmental piece of legislation has a hard road to travel in this Congress. It's not going to be a walk in the park, not with current leadership in some of these committees.
Of the five proposals made by the committee, three concerned different types of international fuel supply guarantees as an incentive for countries to forswear their own enrichment facilities, and two were based on the notion of shared ownership or control. The latter involved promoting voluntary conversion of existing facilities to multilateral nuclear approaches (MNAs), and pursuing them as confidence-building measures with the participation of non-nuclear-weapon states and nuclear-weapon states, and non-NPT states ... creating, through voluntary agreements and contracts, multinational, and in particular regional, MNAs for new facilities based on joint ownership, drawing rights or co-management.
In the 10 years, we've testified in over 50 committees. I'm not sure there are many other efforts that have had that many committees to deal with.
brought his notes and his requests, and he thanked the members of the committee.
First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.
Guarding Shaq is not a one-man job. It's going to be by committee.
Today's report provides something for both the hawks and the doves on the Monetary Policy Committee. It is, however, unlikely to precipitate a change of policy when the Bank next meets.
The Committee is placing more weight on current data releases and, therefore, less weight on forecasts of economic activity and inflation. What I'm foreseeing is that the Fed is going to keep on tightening due to the economy being stronger in the first half of the year.
The coach does not have to be local or international. As long as he's the best available. At this moment, no one has been identified and the technical committee should start doing that now.
We're going to ask them to come in and give a presentation to the selection committee, and then get down to making a recommendation to the city manager.
We have a policy, ... If you want to change the policy, go to the committee, go to the appropriate authority.
I've gotten no information on this whatsoever, ... I really don't appreciate a committee telling me how to vote. I'd like to see a comparison.
We will issue out a statement tomorrow (Wednesday) when we have concluded meetings with the technical committee.
This year still looks very much like a Democratic year, and the only question is how big a year it will be for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Committee.
I offered to permit additional members of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee to review these documents, in order to satisfy the committee's subpoena, ... I again offered to testify, to meet with members of the committee and to answer oversight questions.
For the minutes he played, he played well. I'm sure watching every minute he plays, because I don't want him to have a setback. He's still under doctor's care and he still takes medications. Very often you'll find him hyperventilating, and that's not good. We need him desperately, because we've been playing center by committee. That's not good. I don't like to do that.
I brought this matter -- which I discovered on my own -- to the attention of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to alert the chairman and ranking member,
This vote today in committee means that Judge Roberts will be voted on on the Senate floor next week, possibly on Thursday, and he is all but certain to be approved by a majority larger than 60 votes,
The red alert is on for Germany's World Cup committee.
I really have not had an opportunity to review these plans in detail. I believe we have called for the G.L.E.N. Committee to review all plans. I'd like to table this motion.
Governor Rell will not move forward with a nomination for chief justice until she is satisfied that all questions regarding the conduct of individual Supreme Court justices have been answered and all concerns addressed. She expects that these answers will come through the Judiciary Committee, the Judicial Review Board and the Supreme Court itself.
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
We really wanted, as a committee, to do a thorough job and not jump into something. We looked at a lot of great candidates, and we did our homework on them. This committee was very, very thorough.
We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it.
When the Grimes County Economic Development Committee was looking at the details of such a plant locating in the area, certain benefits were obvious. In the short term did not really see what they could do for power needs in Grimes County, ... We knew early on Mid-South and Entergy could benefit, but I probably didn't think we could have the storm of the century.
The child needs to be referred to the committee before anything can be done.
We are considering the possibility of issuing a subpoena to Martha Stewart to appear before our committee, ... However, Chairman (Billy) Tauzin (R-La.) has not made a final decision.
There was no finding by the committee that I purposely tried to deceive anyone,