"Terrorists have shown interest in pursuing hacking skills," Mr. Mueller said Wednesday in written testimony to a House appropriations subcommittee reviewing the bureau's budget.
McQueary fleshed out that message the next day to House and Senate appropriations panels reviewing the president's request for the 2004 budget year that begins 1 October.
Other potential decision points for Congress may center on FY2011 appropriations and congressional review of the Administration's FY2012 budget request.
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.
Although Congress has approved $40 million, the first round of financing, legislators from South Jersey and Delaware say they will try to block appropriations until government auditors review plans from the corps.
If President Bush hoped to turn attention to the first topics he mentioned at the start of his news conference today, like military appropriations, trade and a review of the welfare system, he was in for a rude shock.
In a separate hearing yesterday on the proposed 2015 budget for DOE, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the chair of Energy and Water Development Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, said that a review by DOE officials suggested that the cost of U.S. ITER could rise as high as $6 billion—more, if the concerns over ITER management are not addressed.
Clinton was testifying before a US House appropriations subcommittee that is reviewing the administration's request for $7.1bn in additional money for the state department this budget year.
Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have been ardent on their position that there will be no earmarks in the stimulus, meaning that all projects and appropriations will be thoroughly reviewed to account for the proverbial "bridges to nowhere".
Anderson's movie, a work of stop-motion animation set in the fictional Japanese city of Megasaki, has spurred a debate about cultural appropriation, as discussed in a review by Justin Chang for the Los Angeles Times.
