In the future, the chairmanship will rotate annually.
The Convention on the Future of Europe, meeting under the chairmanship of former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, is currently debating the idea, with a view to making recommendations for a new draft treaty to be considered by an inter-governmental conference in 2004.What should the new constitution look like?
The commission eventually began to meet in mid-January 1998 in the Old Executive Office Building and under the chairmanship of the once and future Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
In an e-mail message to members of the committee, Mr. Duncan, right, who had been expected to seek the chairmanship again, expressed optimism about the future of the Republican Party but acknowledged what might be his biggest liability -- his leadership of the party during a period of stinging electoral defeats.
Mr. Hu's abdication of the military chairmanship sets an important institutional precedent for future successions and may put his legacy in a more favorable light.
C1 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 Querys on Rangel's Future Follow Democrats' Defeat Representative Charles B. Rangel was a step away from the chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee, but on election night, his fortunes unraveled as quickly as those of his party.
The commission consisted of seven members four Conservatives, two Labourites, and one Liberal under the joint chairmanship of the distinguished Liberal lawyer, Sir John Simon, and Clement Attlee, the future prime minister.
US Secretary of State John Kerry assumed chairmanship of the Arctic Council on Friday as an international summit on the future of the quickly melting Far North opened in Iqaluit, Nunavut, amid ongoing tensions over Russian military aggression in Ukraine.
The election of Michael Steele to the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee has raised new questions in the ongoing debate about the future of the Republican party.
Leadership roles and chairmanships can make members cash magnets, allowing them to help their current and future colleagues financially, and also to fend off potential challengers in their own districts.
