Asked whether he intends to bring committee-approved sentencing legislation to the floor soon, Reid said he has been consulting with the bill's sponsor, Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., and "the answer is yes".
What also matters in the Assembly is having enough deputies to form a parliamentary group, which brings committee assignments, subsidies and other privileges.
But in 1993, ruling in a suit seeking access to information about Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care task force, the federal appeals court here held that private citizens, through close participation, could be deemed "de facto members" of a committee and bring the committee within the law's coverage.
Mr. Boehner would control whether to bring the committee's recommended contempt citation to a vote by the full House.
To watch Mr Excellent Mediocre wandering about with William Shakespeare would be a thing that might bring the committee under an indictment for inciting to riot.
The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist of Tennessee, has said he will decide next week whether to bring the committee bill to the floor or bring up the version that President Bush proposed on Wednesday.
The purpose of the meeting was to bring the committee members together in a social setting in an attempt to 'make good' the relational deficit imposed by the virtual medium through which they were communicating.
"In the matter of DoubleClick, we first brought the committee's attention to this problem at a similar hearing a year ago," he told the committee.
"We have had some problems that have brought the committee together.
You were rude, abusive and bullying in a manner which brings your committee and the proceedings of the house into disrepute," he told her.
The colorful testimony brought the committee's investigations national media attention from the outset.
