The commission has previously said it had sweeping concerns that the combination of the two groups might result in higher prices and reduced choice for customers.
Warner told reporters later that he had sweeping concerns about the remarkable developments of recent days and weeks, including Trump's tweeted threats about "tapes" of him and Comey, the nature of Trump's talks with the former FBI director, and the classified information that Trump reportedly told Russian officials in the Oval Office after he fired Comey.
TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday that he would raise Japan's sales tax next year as planned in a bid to tackle the country's enormous debt, sweeping aside concerns that an increase might put the brakes on the country's nascent economic recovery.
The panel, one of the president's small promises in the wake of sweeping leaks concerning the actions of America's intelligence and surveillance apparatus, was to contain outsiders who could take a critical look at the actions of the NSA, investigating their legality and relationship to personal privacy.
The statement, calling for a new left, is sweeping in its concerns -- ending the Vietnam War, poverty, racial discrimination and the spread of atomic weapons.
With the U.S. defense secretary, Leon E. Panetta, in town talking about the dispute with his Chinese counterpart, and violent anti-Japanese — sometimes anti-foreign — demonstrations sweeping China, how concerned should the world be?
Those are legitimate concerns, but sweeping denunciations of any religious group constitute dangerous bigotry.
"Is it the tower of leaning Pisa?" inquired his brother, Ben, 7. "Yes, there's a pizza in here," Zachary replied serenely, before sweeping away all space concerns with a regal wave: "My tower can become anything".
The investigations says that Collier "did not just sweep aside bureaucracy to enable the project, he was instrumental, once he had been placed in charge of the scheme, in sweeping aside some legitimate concerns raised by statutory bodies".
The American College of Physicians wrote a similar letter to Congress on Tuesday, highlighting a host of concerns about sweeping changes to Medicaid and coverage requirements.
And the United States Commerce Department is lobbying on behalf of the Obama administration, which is concerned that sweeping new privacy controls could hurt the United States tech industry in Europe.
