In these three regions combined, women hold only 11% of the 3,000 executive committee spots in the 300 companies surveyed.
Some Republicans on the committee spotted the issue and raised strong protests, and by the end of Thursday, Democratic managers had agreed to withdraw the provision.
As a result, newly arrived lawmakers care less and less about landing plum committee spots, another carrot that leadership had dangled in front of members in the past.
This helps lawmakers gain stature and helps them earn plum committee spots -- meanwhile giving donors a way around maximum contribution limits, as a dollar given to one member can end up backing a different campaign.
Incumbents vote a straight party line (check out maudlin Rep. Mary Bono Mack in Palm Springs who has voted the Republican line without blinking her entire career) in order to keep their committee spots and donors slap-happy.
Director Richard Hochman Richard Hochman ceded his spots on the compensation and audit committees, and director Victor Oristano Victor Oristano resigned his audit committee position.
The readers decided that committee staffers, spotting the discrepancy in Pettitte's deposition, added the year 2000 for Pettitte's affidavit to account for any question.
And the failure of companies' internal audit committees to spot the transgressions has raised doubts about the effectiveness of "independent" non-executive directors.More importantly, the very tools of the auditors' trade the accounting standards by which they measure a company's performance are increasingly being questioned.
To Dennis Skinner, "you say the cabinet committee should have spotted this – G4S only spotted it in the last few days!" I wanted to shout, "stop digging!" though she was not digging but drowning.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was named to the organization's executive committee, replacing the spot previously occupied by Mr. Christie.
"R.N.C. ad goes Tea Party," one conservative pundit declared when the committee released a spot featuring a series of faces saying "Listen to me," a refrain from a Tea Party rally outside the Capitol in December.
