Sentence examples for lead a hearing from inspiring English sources

On Thursday, Mr. Frank will lead a hearing on the housing crisis at which Mr. Bernanke will testify alongside Henry M. Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary.

"The whole country and every representative and Senator have seen the visuals, and at some level, it made all of us uncomfortable," said Missouri's Democrat Senator, Claire McCaskill, who will lead a hearing on the issue in September.

A bill pending in Congress from Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, Democrat of Maryland, would require the F.B.I. to begin tracking data on crimes against the homeless, and Mr. Cardin plans to lead a hearing next month in the Senate on the country's rising homeless problem, including violence against those living on the streets.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut will lead a hearing in the city next month concerning the air quality at ground zero, particularly the health effects of early exposure to dust clouds from the trade center collapse, she announced yesterday.

Sen. Herb Kohl, chairman of the Special Committee on Aging who is to lead a hearing on the issue on Tuesday, is investigating ways to counter age discrimination and boost seniors' job prospects.

Mr. Avalos, who voted for the event but now says its promoters' claims "weren't true or exaggerated," recently led a hearing on the race's economic impact.

"Time to wake up," Representative Donald Manzullo, an Illinois Republican, said as he led a hearing in July 2003 on preserving the defense industrial base.

"Generations of Americans have been asked to tolerate exposure to potentially toxic chemicals in their furniture in the name of fire safety," Senator Dick Durbin said when he led a hearing on the chemicals in July.

The two will lead a joint hearing next Wednesday, with Mr. O'Keefe of NASA as the sole witness.

For instance, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, said today that he would lead a confirmation hearing next week on the nomination of Tom Ridge as the secretary of homeland security.

Representative Ron Paul, Republican of Texas, was so alarmed by the danger of inflation that he suspended his presidential campaign to lead a Congressional hearing on the subject in June.