Sentence examples for committee floor from inspiring English sources

"Subcommittee, committee, floor" votes, Mr. Ivey said.

A bill to outlaw abortions based on sex or race that Democratic lawmakers and advocates have called a "nightmare" made its way to the US House of Representatives committee floor late on Thursday, where Republicans invoked Frederick Douglass, the Book of Matthew and Thomas Jefferson in arguing that abortions they believe to be discriminatory should be criminalized.

In every session, the bill has died on the committee floor.

The flak catchers retreated from the Committee floor presumably to lick their wounds and share their hurt during happy hour.

While the source was speaking about the concerns expressed by members of the NYSE committee, floor members of the Pacific exchange, which operates trading floors in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, have also expressed reservations.

They describe the way a representative democracy ought to work: committee hearings, floor debate, time to read bills.

But committee deliberations, floor debate, procedural rules, give-and-take bargaining - dismaying though they often are - can separate useful sheep from political goats.

Committee and floor consideration of the annual appropriations bills occurs during the spring and summer months and may continue through the fall and winter until annual appropriations are enacted.

Although this Court has never adopted so strict a standard for reviewing committee reports, floor debates, and other nonstatutory indications of congressional intent, and we explicitly reject that standard today, see also infra, at 455, even if "absurdity" were the test, one would think it was met here.

That view led him to really dislike divining congressional intent from committee reports, floor statements and other legislative action that didn't make it into written legislation.

Nor do they distinguish between a true absence from a committee or floor session, and a momentary stepping out to confer with staff, attend to official matters of significant importance, or even to present a bill before a different committee.