Some - including the bipartisan leadership of the House Appropriations Committee and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan - have lately expressed concern about the fees the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) would be able to charge and retain to fund its operations.
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If Democrats take control of the House, Kennedy says he looks forward to moving quickly up the power structure of the House Appropriations Committee -- an inside track to clout within the institution.
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He's chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, he will offer an amendment today to a must-pass piece of legislation.
Last Friday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee that Arab support for Israel's bid to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is contingent on its agreeing to support the rapid establishment of a Palestinian state.
Three key leaders of the House of Representatives -- Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Livingston, National Security Committee Chairman Floyd Spence and Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman Bill Young -- wrote the President the attached letter last Thursday.
One such case involves Republican Jerry Lewis, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
"Revolutionizing takes some talents, many talents, " said Livingston, the 55-year-old chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Hobson is the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on military construction.
Werfel is scheduled to make his first congressional appearance as acting commissioner Monday when he appears before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.
Example: David Obey, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Rep. Hal Rogers, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee who sat in on his panel's Financial Service's subcommittee on Monday, made clear that he would assess the effectiveness and commitment by Werfel to uncover the source of the wrongdoing when considering IRS funding for next fiscal year.
Rather, he says, it is "part of the legislation" that was included in the original base of the bill that was adopted by the appropriations sub committee and remained in the bill through approval by the House.
As chairman of the Subcommittee on Defense for the House Appropriations Committee, he has done it many times.
Earlier in the day, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston of Louisiana had announced he would oppose Gingrich if he ran again for speaker.
The House Appropriations Committee launched a contentious and partisan markup of two separate fiscal 1998 supplementals, which it hoped to complete by Wednesday night.
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"We'll do what we have to do, but we have a pretty hefty amount of money in the disaster relief fund, " said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, R-Ky.
House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee have been working for weeks to move a ton of money to the devastated Northeast.
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