Sentence examples for committee powers from inspiring English sources

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.

"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.

The financial policy committee's powers to supplement capital requirements are wide-ranging and could have substantial unintended consequences.

He adds: "The coalition has recently given the committee more powers and resources, but we should go further.

The election of the NEC representative is considered particularly important as Corbyn's supporters attempt to increase the committee's powers over party staffing and policy making.

The Italians say that since CONI is an Olympic committee, its powers are much broader than that of a national cycling federation.

The proposals have triggered a grassroots revolt, it emerged last night, as members of the party's policy committee demanded powers to rein in ministerial independence from Lib Dem policy.