Sentence examples for elect committee from inspiring English sources

Its key achievement was a rule enabling the Democratic caucus to elect committee chairmen.

In a rare defeat for Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, backbench members of his Liberal Party rebelled today in the House of Commons and voted for an opposition proposal that would give lawmakers the right to elect committee chairmen of their own choice.

A13 Canadian's Power Is Waning In a rare defeat for Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, backbench members of his Liberal Party rebelled in the House of Commons and voted for an opposition proposal that would give lawmakers, not Mr. Chrétien, the right to elect committee chairmen of their own choice.

If the House can elect committee chairs by majority vote, so can the Senate.

Their first job is to elect committee Chairs and Vice-Chairs - no information is available on candidates at the time of writing - indeed, these decisions are often not finalised until the last minute, prior to committee meetings.

At all but the smallest German companies, workers can elect committees that have a right to weigh in on policies that affect working conditions.

Once elected, committee members can be swayed by the money that readily flows from township and county-level coffers.

But at a meeting last week to seat newly elected committee members, Mr. Dinerstein focused solely on arcane procedure.

Republicans are steadily and very publicly preparing for their House ascension by making pronouncements, electing committee leaders and filling their new slots on the panels.

He said he had been invited to join an advisory group of the newly elected committee near his factory site and had already benefited.

But the solution that several Chinese officials and scholars offered -- promoting continued overlap in personnel between the party branch and the elected committee -- cannot resolve the matter.