Senate Republicans will push a new line of attack on the Medicaid program at a hearing this morning: that expanding the federal insurance program for low-income Americans has contributed to the country's opioid overdose epidemic.
They showed excerpts from the program at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce oversight and investigations subcommittee.
"You're not the secretary of energy," Representative Randy Forbes, a Republican from Virginia, told Mr. Mabus as he criticized the biofuels program at a hearing in February.
A State Superior Court judge last week temporarily blocked Princeton Township's deer-killing program until a hearing can be held in the next few weeks.
Though last year marked the conclusion of a two-year battle over food stamp reform, the House Agriculture Committee, which oversees nutrition assistance, is poised to begin a top-to-bottom review of the $78 billion program with a hearing on Wednesday.
Congress recently reviewed the program at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, which examined the VPP in light of recent reports about horrid workplace accidents, along with criticisms that the initiative undermines both labor standards and the government's role in protecting the public from industrial exploitation.
Two years ago, the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on state, foreign operations, and related programs held a hearing on Egypt.
As the investigation into the cause of the Columbia accident continued today, an early manager of the shuttle program testified at a hearing in Houston that it should have been clear that the front edges of the wing could not withstand the hit that the Columbia apparently took on liftoff.
Representative Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican whose district includes Agate, said in an interview Monday that the House subcommittee overseeing the grant program was preparing for a hearing into possible program waste.
New Jersey's second-highest court has blocked the start of a needle exchange program in Camden and Atlantic City, pending a hearing on the program's merits and its institution by executive order.
The State Labor Department has already suspended Roy Kay's apprenticeship program, and has scheduled a hearing for Aug. 18 so the company can present its arguments against ending its program.
