Sentence examples for committee power from inspiring English sources

"Banning guns from schools is a no-brainer, and I think my bills would have easily passed if they had gotten beyond the committee to the House floor," Mr. Dillard said, underlining the statehouse mix of committee power and rural dominance.

And to support the claim that the Republican National and State Committees are too interconnected to act independently, the McGreevey campaign cited, among other things, Republican Party rules that make Mr. Kyrillos, the state chairman, a member of the national party's governing body, and party bylaws giving the national committee power to punish a state committee for breaking party rules.

Known as the National Anticorruption System, the new system gives a citizens committee power of oversight over the mechanisms in place to make corruption both more difficult and more painful for those officials who are tempted to stray.

A reorganization would require lawmakers to sacrifice committee powers they competed for years to accrue.

But the pact they forged to ensure The Wall Street Journal's integrity gave a special committee powers that could embarrass Mr. Murdoch beyond what has happened already.

Among his commission's recommendations are giving the parliament's ethics committee powers to impose fines on miscreant legislators or bar them from certain jobs like committee chairmanships; forcing them to reveal when they have been approached by lobbyists; and further limiting the posts they can hold outside parliament while serving in it.

"Consistent with the notion that lobbyists sell access to powerful elected officials, the drop in revenue increases with the seniority of and committee assignments power held by the Senator immediately prior to leaving office," the report says.

Legal experts debated whether the committee's power extends to arrest.

The board gave the real estate committee the power to decide between two sites.

Mr. Berardino gave the committee the power to mandate changes in management, as well as changes in personnel.

Consideration of a bill to give a parliamentary committee the power to vet high court nominees was postponed on Sunday by Mr. Netanyahu.