The phrase "attend committee" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where someone is participating in a committee meeting or activity, but it should be phrased as "attend a committee meeting" or "attend the committee."
Example: "I will attend the committee meeting on Thursday to discuss the new policy changes."
Alternatives: "participate in the committee" or "join the committee meeting."
If in the U.K. we can compel them to attend committee".
The upside is that I don't have to attend committee meetings.
A spokesman for Edinburgh council told Guardian Government Computing that 58 councillors will be given iPad 2s, along with 25 supporting staff who regularly attend committee meetings.
Given the conceit that "popular committees" — and not Colonel Qaddafi himself — ran the country, everyone was required to attend committee sessions called at random once or twice a year to discuss an agenda "suggested" by the grand guide.
She will then attend committee fund-raising dinners with President Obama on Oct. 11 in Coral Gables, Fla., and on Oct. 23 in Minneapolis, and one with Michelle Obama in San Francisco on Oct. 25.
The officials were accused, in effect, of turning this city into their personal piggy bank: misappropriating $5.5 million in city money to enrich themselves with pumped-up salaries, illicit loans and big payments to attend committee meetings that lasted just a few minutes, if they were held at all.
There is now a group of 12 young advisers at the trust who have all used services, and sit on recruitment panels, attend committees and give advice.
They attended committee hearings, Congressional debates, Supreme Court sessions, & Mrs. Kingman read the Congressional Record.
He attended committee hearings so that he could approach key officials during breaks.
Pay for attending committee meetings has been eliminated, but chairmen of important committees are paid extra.
He has been voting and attending committee meetings carrying an oxygen canister.
