Sentence examples for a legislative inquiry from inspiring English sources

A legislative inquiry is long overdue.

Nancy L. Johnson, the third representative, said Monday night that she supported a legislative inquiry but did not call for him to step down.

Ms. Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, is the focus of a legislative inquiry into whether she abused her office by firing the public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan.

ANCHORAGE — Todd Palin, the husband of the Republican nominee for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, has refused to testify in a legislative inquiry into whether Ms. Palin or members of her administration abused their power in the dismissal of a top state administrator, a spokesman said Thursday.

The governor plans to open a legal defense fund to help pay for more than $500,000 in legal debt, principally from what became known as Troopergate, a legislative inquiry that found she had abused her power in the pressuring a former state public safety commissioner to fire a state trooper, her former brother-in-law.

PAGE A13 TODD PALIN REFUSED TO TESITIFY Todd Palin, the husband of the Republican nominee for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, has refused to testify in a legislative inquiry into whether Ms. Palin or members of her administration abused their power in the dismissal of a top state administrator, a spokesman said.

He was accused of having a conflict of interest while acting as a competition judge for a government-backed cultural development project a decade ago, for which he is currently under questioning at a special legislative inquiry that will go on until after election day.

Mr. Christie's Democratic challenger in his re-election campaign this year, State Senator Barbara Buono, accused the governor of being "driven by headlines" in his handling of the furor at Rutgers, called for a full legislative inquiry and said Mr. Christie had been too hasty to express his support for Dr. Barchi.

The ranking Democrat in the State Senate urged Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco today to reopen a long-dormant legislative inquiry into a $500 million contract for the overhaul of New Jersey's auto inspection stations, a day after reports that an engineer involved in the contract had lent Mr. DiFrancesco $150,000 to bail him out of a defaulted bank loan four years before the contract was awarded.

One day after Democrats in the House called for a special committee to decide whether to move forward with impeachment proceedings, their Republican counterparts agreed, bringing the prospect of a drawn-out legislative inquiry and impeachment hearings closer to reality.

The legislative inquiry was initiated and a federal investigation gained steam after Mr. Rowland acknowledged, last December, that he had accepted free work and gifts for his Litchfield cottage from people doing business with the state.