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Following nearly a year of committee hearings, research, policy briefs, and discussion with agency experts, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-NC) introduced a discussion draft of bipartisan legislat...
The 68-page bill, which grew out of months of public hearings, incorporates many elements of theTRUST IT Act, which was introduced last October by Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA). Like that bill, the HELP committee measure would require the publication of EHR ratings on...
As in the House of Representatives,political partiesand thecommittee systemdominate procedure and organization. Each party elects a leader, generally a senator of considerable influence in his or her own right, to coordinate Senate activities. The leader of the largest party is known as the majorit...
Asked whether the committee had spoken to Flynn or his representatives, Burr told reporters, “It’s safe to say that we have had conversations with a lot of people, and you would think less of us if General Flynn wasn’t in that list.” ...
US foreign policy hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee included testimony, quoted in part here, from George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger, Cyrus Vance, James Schlesinger, Alexander Haig and Richard Allen. The attempt on the part of the committee is to get a new consensus on foreign pol...
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Senate Banking Committee Holds Two Hearings on Consumer Financial ServicesMelissa R. H. Hall
There are two hearings today from the new congress that are of relevance for RealClimate readers: The House Oversight Committee is having hearings on the possible suppression of climate change science by the administration (streaming from here). Witnesses include Drew Shindell (NASA GISS), Roger ...
The Senate Armed Services Committee also has held hearings on notable military issues. The group investigated the so-called “torture memos” that debated harsh interrogation tactics used on terrorism suspects throughout the early 2000s. It also looked into allegations that wounded soldiers were not ...