The oversight committee blocked many of those requests.
In 1990, President George Bush, acting on a case referred by the foreign-investments committee, blocked the sale of an American aircraft manufacturing company to a Chinese agency.
Indeed, beyond giving the deal a good hard look, it is difficult to see the committee blocking the sale of Smithfield.
Last week, Hackney's planning committee blocked the application, accepting officials' many concerns [pdf] including traffic congestion caused by putting the 630-pupil school on a cramped site alongside a churchyard in a conservation area.
Democrats on the Senate committee blocked a vote on Mr. Bolton this week and have been seeking to persuade Senator Lincoln D. Chafee, Republican of Rhode Island, to join them in opposing the nomination.
But in a sign of the sensitivity of UK-Saudi relations, Conservative MPs on the committee blocked a call for Britain's highly profitable arms sales to Saudi Arabia to be suspended pending clear evidence that the air campaign in Yemen was targeting civilians.
The Republicans on the committee blocked the Democrats' memo from being released simultaneously.
Democrats prepared their own memo to counter Nunes' but the Republicans on the committee blocked its release, further infuriating Democrats.
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For years, the late New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D), a member of the commerce committee, blocked anything that he thought eroded highway safety, as did other safety-conscious members on the committee.
As one of three Republicans on the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, he was involved with the investigation of Johnson aide Bobby Baker in 1964, which he decried as "a whitewash" after the committee blocked further investigation.
