Testifying before Congress, Greyhound Bus Lines stated that the Act had the potential to " deprive millions of people of affordable intercity public transportation and thousands of rural communities of their only link to the outside world ".

Testifying before the House of Commons Ethics Committee on December 13, 2007, Mulroney said the cash payments were for lobbying foreign leaders to buy armored vehicles from Thyssen industries, a company Schreiber represented.

Testifying before the HSCA, Witt said " I think if the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, I would be No. 1 in that position, without even a close runner-up.

Testifying before the same committee two days later, Director of CSIS Jim Judd said that O ' Brian " may have been confused " and " venturing into a hypothetical ", and would send the committee a clarifying letter.

Testifying before the United States Congress in 2010, Neil Armstrong opposed an administrative scrap of Constellation, stating " a return to the Moon would be a most productive path to expanding the human presence in the Solar System.

Testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on August 28, 2008, Sekou Conneh said that, during the war, Sierra Leone and Guinea had allowed the LURD rebels free passage " through their borders with our arms without any questions from them ".

Testifying before the British-appointed education commission, Sir Syed controversially exclaimed that " Urdu was the language of gentry and Hindi that of the vulgar.

Testifying before the state Senate Judiciary committee, Nigel Payne, CEO of Sportingbet and owner of Paradise Poker, pledged to relocate to the state if the bill became law.

Testifying before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Chicago, President Reidy claimed, " The simple fact is that there is just too much transportation available between the principal cities we serve.

Testifying before a U. S. House committee on March 6, 1942, Olson, a longtime supporter of nearly every Roosevelt position on economics, politics and foreign policy, supported the move wholeheartedly.

Testifying again before HUAC in 1950, Lee Pressman named Witt as a member of the CPUSA and the " Ware group.

The New York Times published Miller's first-person account, " My Four Hours Testifying in the Federal Grand Jury Room ", on October 16, 2005.

Testifying on behalf of Schiavo's parents, Hammesfahr told a court that, contrary to majority medical opinion, which stated that Schiavo was in an irreversible persistent vegetative state, she was in a minimally conscious state and might recover.

Testifying at a January 29, 2008 House Judiciary Committee hearing on reform of the state secrets privilege, EFF attorney Kevin Bankston contended that the administration's interpretation of the privilege was overly broad, and failed to properly consider the evidentiary procedures provided for by Section 1806 ( f ) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Testifying as a prosecution witness, Russert said that although he and Libby did indeed speak on July 10, 2003, they never discussed Plame during their conversation.

" Testifying in a court case in Ireland in 2003, Dr Declan Fitzgerald of University College Dublin said he believed that the OCA " impinged on people's self-esteem and was highly manipulative.

Going before the Congressional subcommittee, he proceeded to charm the members with his drawings and the force of his personality.

An influential report on Contra atrocities was issued by lawyer Reed Brody shortly before the 1985 U. S. Congressional vote on Contra aid.

On February 13, 2008, Clemens appeared before a Congressional committee, along with Brian McNamee, and swore under oath that he did not take steroids ; that he did not discuss HGH with McNamee ; that he was not at a party at José Canseco's where steroids were the topic of conversation ; that he was only injected with B-12 and lidocaine ; and that he never told Pettitte that he had taken HGH.

In November 1986 as the sale of weapons was made public, North was fired by President Ronald Reagan, and in July 1987 he was summoned to testify before televised hearings of a joint Congressional committee formed to investigate Iran-Contra.

The draft constitution with this proviso was accepted by the United States Congress, but before Ohio's admission to the Union in February 1803, the proposed constitution was referred to a Congressional committee.

MacArthur was called to appear before a special Congressional committee in 1901, where he testified against cadets implicated in hazing, but downplayed his own hazing even though the other cadets gave the full story to the committee.

As dictated by southern Congressional members the route ran from St. Louis, Missouri through Arkansas, Oklahoma Indian Territory, Texas, New Mexico Territory, and across the Sonora Desert before ending in San Francisco, California.

Forrest testified before the Congressional investigation on Klan activities on June 27, 1871.

This " Congressional Reconstruction " was designed to create local civil rights laws to protect newly freed slaves ; to protect and patrol the area ; to ensure the secessionist states would show some good faith before being readmitted ; to ensure Republican control of the states ; and, arguably, to inflict some punishment on the secessionists.

Tilden denied emphatically all knowledge of such dispatches, and appeared voluntarily before a Congressional sub-committee in New York City to clear himself of the charge.

" However, press reports about possible CIA involvement in Haitian politics before the coup sparked Congressional hearings in the United States.

Later on this whole matter became an issue before Congressional Committee that questioned both Seligman and Thompson.

The proposed amendment was ratified by Wyoming in 1978 as a protest to a Congressional pay raise, but the proposed amendment was largely forgotten before University of Texas at Austin undergraduate student Gregory Watson wrote a paper on the subject in 1982.

Congressional authorization is required before oil drilling may proceed in this area.

He testified before a Congressional committee that Radner's condition had been misdiagnosed and that if doctors had inquired more deeply into her family background they would have learned that her grandmother, aunt and cousin had all died of ovarian cancer, and therefore they might have attacked the disease earlier.

On November 29, 1864, more than a decade before Colorado became a state and long before Kiowa County was formed, a massacre of Native Americans, a group of old men, women, and children, occurred on Sand Creek that initially was greeted as a victory in the Colorado War against hostile Indians ; within months, Congressional inquiries revealed the truth, and a national scandal erupted.

* George Henry White, attorney, lived in Tarboro when elected in 1898 as last black from the 2nd Congressional District to the U. S. House of Representatives in the late 19th century before the disfranchising constitution was passed in 1899.

If he agrees to this, Goodwin promises not to call Van Doren to appear before the Congressional committee.

Called to testify before the U. S. Congressional House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ), he denied Communist affiliation and refused to " name names ", effectively ending his film career.

Gold ignored the warning and testified before a Congressional committee headed by Senator Walter Mondale.

Before the Senate acted on its version of what became the Dodd-Frank Act, the Congressional Research Service issued a report describing securities activities banks and their affiliates had conducted before the GLBA.

Abernathy testified, along with his executive associate, James Peterson of Berkeley, California, before the Congressional Hearings calling for the Extension of the Voting Rights Act, which has and continues to serve as the only legal method to ensure equal and fair voting practices in the Southern States, guaranteeing that everyone born in the United States of America, regardless of race, is entitled to full citizenship and the right to vote.

The Office provides technical and consultative services to the Commissioner, to the Board of Trustees of the Social Security Trust Funds, and its staff appears before Congressional Committees to provide expert testimony on the actuarial aspects of Social Security issues.

In February 1998 Wolfowitz testified before a Congressional hearing, stating that the current administration lacked the sense of purpose to " liberate ourselves, our friends and allies in the region, and the Iraqi people themselves from the menace of Saddam Hussein.

Wexler admitted in earlier court hearings that he issued grand jury subpenas to about 200 persons involved in the election investigation, questioned the individuals in the Criminal courts building, but did not take them before the grand jury.

After the Starr Report was submitted to the House providing what it termed " substantial and credible information that President Clinton Committed Acts that May Constitute Grounds for an Impeachment ", the House began impeachment hearings against Clinton before the mid-term elections.

Protested by the Hollywood Ten before the committee, the hearings resulted in the blacklisting of many actors, writers and directors, including Chayefsky, Charlie Chaplin, and Dalton Trumbo, and many of these fled to Europe, especially the United Kingdom.

In the hearings before the Ad Hoc Political Committee that considered Israel's application for membership in the United Nations, Abba Eban said that the rights stipulated in section C. Declaration, chapters 1 and 2 of UN resolution 181 ( II ) had been alluded to in the fundamental law of the state of Israel as proposed by the resolution.

In 1964, just days before Hoover testified in the earliest stages of the Warren Commission hearings, President Lyndon B. Johnson waived the then-mandatory U. S. Government Service Retirement Age of seventy, allowing Hoover to remain the FBI Director " for life.

Landis held hearings in late January 1915, and newspapers expected a quick decision, certainly before spring training began in March.

Users and supporters included dissidents in totalitarian countries ( some affecting letters to Zimmermann have been published, some of which have been included in testimony before the US Congress ), civil libertarians in other parts of the world ( see Zimmermann's published testimony in various hearings ), and the ' free communications ' activists who called themselves cypherpunks ( who provided both publicity and distribution ), and, decades later, CryptoParty, who did much the same via Twitter.

People not really guilty are likely to be arrested and railroaded through their hearings .... We appear to be attempting to repress a political party .... By such methods we drive underground and make dangerous what was not dangerous before.

Some require court hearings and others require that treating psychiatrists comply with a set of requirements before compulsory treatment is instituted.

Minor violations are noted and corrected and more serious violations are addressed in hearings before the NGA's governing body.

The very fact that, today, victims or their families in California are able to sit before those convicted of a crime and have a voice in the sentencing at trials or at parole hearings, is largely due to the work of Doris Patti Tate.

Nonetheless, Landes defended Waksal's illegal actions at the hearings before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, portraying the forgery as " a good-faith misunderstanding ," to which Representative James Greenwood replied " My children know better than that, Mr. Landes.

Meanwhile, Goodwin proceeds with the hearings before the House Committee for Legislative Oversight, with extended proof of the show's corruption.

* By 29 March 2005, all detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base had received hearings before Combatant Status Review Tribunals.

He was accused by Russian authorities of 13 criminal acts Zakayev welcomed the British deportation hearings as an opportunity to put his case before an international public.

In January 1932, Rep. Wright Patman and others introduced articles of impeachment against Mellon, with hearings before the House Judiciary Committee at the end of that month.

After the hearings were over, but before the scheduled vote on whether to report the articles to the full House, Mellon accepted an appointment to the post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James and resigned in February.

After the National City hearings ended on March 2, 1933, the Pecora Investigation resumed in May 1933, with the examination of “ private bankers ,” covering J. P. Morgan & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and Dillon, Read & Co. before returning to a commercial bank with the examination of Chase National Bank beginning in late October 1933.

Paradoxically, some jurisdictions will allow a non-attorney to sit as a judge, usually in lower courts or in hearings by governmental agencies, even though a non-attorney may not practice before these same courts.

Handwritten caption by James A. Garfield indicates it was used as evidence before the Committee of Banking & Currency during hearings in 1870.

Hearsay is admissible as evidence in many other judicial proceedings, such as grand jury deliberations, probation hearings, parole revocation hearings, and proceedings before administrative bodies.

While Senatorial hearings sought to tar him for the success of his prudent strategy, no substantive charges were ever brought, and he actually worked closely with FDR and his administration in preparing the country's technological base for war, using his many contacts in New York finance, as well as generous sums from his own considerable fortune, to finance the early developments in radar, before government money could be provided.