Levin sent out broadsides, collected signatures, summoned a committee of advocacy, lectured from pulpits, took out ads, rallied rabbis and writers (Norman Mailer among them).
Last winter, several senior H.S.B.C. executives were summoned to a committee of the House of Commons, in London, to address improprieties.
But one Israeli MP said he was so worried about the unravelling saga that he would summon a key parliamentary committee to discuss the case.
Graham, a former Air Force judge advocate general, promised to summon the lawyers to a committee hearing and to ask for an explanation of the circumstances surrounding the letter.
L.A. City Council members Bob Blumenfield, Paul Koretz and Joe Buscaino have summoned port officials to a committee hearing on Tuesday to report on steps they are taking to remedy the situation.
The relevant passages of Erskine May are: "When a committee decides to summon a witness formally, the witness is summoned to attend the committee by an order signed by the chair.
Now, in the midst of these celebrations of writing from elsewhere, he launched a sort of home talent show, adapting an original initiative from the British Book Marketing Council (allow me a brief and probably deeply unfair diversion: have four words ever so readily summoned up the image of a committee meeting with green cups and saucers and a plate of Peek Freans?).
Failure to attend a committee when formally summoned is a contempt and if a witness fails to appear, when summoned in this manner, his conduct is reported to the House.
Amid Kenyan media reports on the chaotic response to the mall massacre, the parliamentary defense committee has summoned security chiefs to appear at a committee hearing next week to explain what went wrong.
In March 2003, a committee of the House of Commons summoned the executive in charge of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers to a hearing and put him on the spot about aggressive tabloid reporting tactics.
In 1955, she received a summons from a Senate committee headed by Senator Kefauver, a Tennessee Democrat, that was investigating pornography.
