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House and communications
In May 1955 McCarthy threatened to issue subpoenas to White House personnel ; Eisenhower was furious, and issued an order as follows: " It is essential to efficient and effective administration that employees of the Executive Branch be in a position to be completely candid in advising with each other on official matters ... it is not in the public interest that any of their conversations or communications, or any documents or reproductions, concerning such advice be disclosed.
Two weeks later White House officials referred to FNC as “ not a news network ", communications director Anita Dunn stating that “ Fox News often operates as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party ”.
Earlier in December 2005, the European Commission initiated the second stage of infringement proceedings against the British Government relating to Gibraltar ’ s failure to transpose five European Union directives on electronic communications, but these were closed after the relevant legislation was passed into law by the House of Assembly in June 2006.
Founded by the Romans in 268 BC, throughout their period of rule Rimini was a key communications link between the north and south of the peninsula, and on its soil Roman emperors erected monuments like the Arch of Augustus and the Tiberius Bridge, while during the Renaissance, the city benefited from the court of the House of Malatesta, which hosted artists like Leonardo and produced works such as the Malatesta Temple.
Further, the report found that the White House had " convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones " by having the National Security Council control EPA communications after the September 11 attacks.
In return Holles was charged with having held secret communications with the king at Oxford and with a correspondence with Lord Digby ; but after a long examination by the House he was pronounced innocent on 19 July 1645.
The case arose from investigations into his communications with Siobhan Gorman of the Baltimore Sun and Diane Roark of the House Intelligence Committee as part of his attempt to blow the whistle on several issues including the NSA's Trailblazer project.
In 1985, Buchanan left the show for a job as communications director in the Reagan White House.
* Robinson House on Mead Way is home to the College's communications department.
The kingdom he left with a wealthy treasury and improved communications was in his day one of the most advanced in human rights, and its Jewish Community enjoyed the best standing in Christian Europe, which after all had been the work and result of the Jimenez Royal House for centuries.
George Stephanopoulos, later White House Press Secretary and communications director under President Bill Clinton, was a 21-year-old intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace when Mayer stopped in his office several times to discuss nuclear disarmament.
The filibuster concerned documents that the White House refused to release, which Democrats suggested may contain proof of Bolton's abusive treatment and coercion of staff members or of his improper use of National Security Agency communications intercepts regarding U. S. citizens.
He entered the federal public service and rose to the position of director of communications for the Speaker of the House of Commons.
A statement issued December 29, 2006, by the House Ethics Committee Chairman Doc Hastings ( R-Wash .) and Ranking Minority Member Howard Berman ( D-Calif .), said that Conyers acknowledged what he characterized as a " lack of clarity " in his communications with staff members regarding their official duties and responsibilities, and accepted responsibility for his actions.
He served with the US Navy, NASA, the Pentagon, and the White House, where he was the Head of a Government-Industry partnership for the development of advanced communications systems as part of the White House National Technology Strategy Program.
He now sits as an Independent Labour member of the House of Lords and is an Associate Director of the Edinburgh public affairs and communications company Caledonia Consulting.
: From the start of the Bush plan, the White House communications office had been blitzing an e-mail list of as many as 5, 000 journalists, lawmakers, lobbyists, conservative bloggers, military groups and others with talking points or rebuttals of criticism ... Gillespie arranged several presidential speeches to make strategic arguments, such as comparing Iraq to Vietnam or warning of Iranian interference.
" The whole idea is to take these things on before they become conventional wisdom ," said White House communications director Kevin Sullivan.
* Royal Earl House ( 1814 – 1895 ), American engineer in communications
In the case of Scott Armstrong, v. Executive Office of the President, et al., the White House used the PROFS computer communications software.
In 1861 and 1862 he served on commissions appointed to consider the construction of embankments of the River Thames, and of communications between the embankment at Blackfriars Bridge and the Mansion House, and between Westminster Bridge and Millbank.
* Servicemembers assigned to the White House Communications Agency ( WHCA ), which supports Presidential communications worldwide,

House and subcommittee
On June 24, 2008, Lucas testified before the United States House of Representatives subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet as the head of his Foundation to advocate for a free wireless broadband educational network.
However, a subcommittee in the Virginia House of Delegates killed the bill.
He was known for his work on both domestic and defense issues, including his service on the Defense subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.
Separately, the General Accounting Office ( GAO ) submitted to a House subcommittee a report reviewing the benefits and risks of “ Glass-Steagall repeal .” The report recommended a “ phased approach ” using a “ holding company organizational structure ” if Congress chose “ repeal .” Noting Glass-Steagall had “ already been eroded and the erosion is likely to continue in the future ,” the GAO explained “ coming to grips with the Glass-Steagall repeal question represents an opportunity to systematically and rationally address changes in the regulatory and legal structure that are needed to better address the realities of the marketplace .” The GAO warned that Congress ’ s failure to act was “ potentially dangerous ” in permitting a “ continuation of the uneven integration of commercial and investment banking activities .”
In reaction to “ market developments ” and regulatory and judicial decisions that had “ homogenized ” commercial and investment banking, Representative Edward J. Markey ( D-MA ) had written a 1990 article arguing “ Congress must amend Glass-Steagall .” As chairman of a subcommittee of the House Commerce and Energy Committee, Markey had joined with Committee Chairman Dingell in opposing the 1988 Proxmire Financial Modernization Act.
In December 1912, Morgan testified before the Pujo Committee, a subcommittee of the House Banking and Currency committee.
Current House Rules also stipulate that a member cannot serve as Chairman of the same standing committee or subcommittee for more than three consecutive Congresses ( six years ).
Wellstone and Carter are working to pass the " Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act " which would require equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses when policies include both types of coverage ; both testified before a House subcommittee regarding the bill in July 2007.
In making the additional request, Johnson informed a House appropriations subcommittee that " in the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.
The first hearings on implementing free flight were held in August 1994 by Representative Collin Peterson ( D-Minnesota ), chair of the House subcommittee with investigative jurisdiction over the FAA.
Leaders of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission testified on February 4, 2009 before the United States House Committee on Financial Services subcommittee including Linda Chatman Thomsen S. E. C.
Because of the nature of its investigations, the subcommittee is considered by some to be the Senate equivalent to the older House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ).
" But on November 2, 1959, he admitted to the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, a United States Congress subcommittee, chaired by Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris, that he had been given questions and answers in advance of the show.
In January 2007, the House Committee on Science and Technology announced the formation of a new subcommittee, the Science Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, which handles investigative and oversight activities on matters covering the committee's entire jurisdiction.
Wilson also gained a position on the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee.
If the subcommittee and then the full committee conclude that new legislation is needed, they report a bill to the House or Senate for all its Members to consider.
The report was never formally published as a subcommittee report because of the 1995 change in control of the House from Democrats to Republicans.
In 2003, A. Elizabeth Jones, the U. S. assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, testified on the threat of terrorism in Central Asia before the U. S. House of Representatives ' subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, arguing that the greatest threats were the IMU, and Hizb ut-Tahrir.
The subcommittee had authorizing jurisdiction over the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy ( ONDCP, known popularly as " the Drug Czar's Office "), and it oversaw all U. S. Government anti-narcotics operations, both foreign and domestic.
It had 107 cosponsors and was referred to a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, but it was never voted upon ( either by any committee or the full Congress ), and it died when the 109th Congress finally adjourned.
Keller served as the chairman of the House higher education subcommittee.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act was introduced to House Judiciary Committee, and more specifically to the subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
Since Jan 24, 2011, the bill has been in the subcommittee, where it will be refined before being presented by to the Judiciary Committee, then later the actual House of Representatives.
On July 9, 2012, the United States House Committee on Ethics voted unanimously to form an investigative subcommittee to see whether Berkley used her official position to advocate for policy that benefited her family ’ s financial situation.

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