FBI Director Chris Wray has described white supremacist extremism as 'a persistent, pervasive threat' during a House committee appropriations hearing.
Robert S. Mueller III, director of the F.B.I., acknowledged problems in the project when he was asked about it at a House appropriations hearing on Wednesday.
"We believe that chain of command needs to change," Ms. Murray said Wednesday during a Senate appropriations hearing as she and others grilled Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, the Air Force chief of staff, about how sexual assault is prosecuted.
The issue of federal preemption emerged during a House appropriations hearing Tuesday in a heated exchange between Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn)., whose home state enacted the first servicing regulations.
Mr. Barr has tried to keep the appropriations hearing focused on the department's proposed $29.2 billion budget, which includes money for 100 new immigration judges as President Trump hardens his stance on immigration along the southwestern border.
"We plan to implement advanced clinical decision support that will compile, interpret and present actionable information from a myriad of patient data," said Lt. Gen. Charles Green, surgeon general of the Air Force, in a congressional appropriations hearing last spring.
Cover image: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2019 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. Department of Education on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 5, 2018.
DeVos reiterated last week during a Senate appropriations hearing that the Department of Education would only reconsider Upward Bound applications that had been rejected because of formatting issues ― not those that had been rejected over clerical errors.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif). was attending a defense appropriation subcommittee hearing.
