Sentence examples for held committee from inspiring English sources
The proposed merger has been a topic of robust debate in Congress, where both houses have held committee hearings on the merger.
He has held committee hearings to praise banks like J. P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America, which have instituted programs to modify the terms of some mortgages.
Dr. Frist said he intended to continue working with Mrs. Feinstein to reach a compromise that the doctors could support and would like the Senate, which has not held committee hearings on the legislation, to take up the issue next week.
When problems were encountered (i.e., how to identify treatment plans or how to create emergency plans), we held committee meetings that involved collective discussions and decisions.
Both Democrats and Republicans hold committee chairmanships.
One influential conservative organization recently urged Speaker John Boehner to drop the whole legislation idea completely and just hold committee hearings about the I.R.S. scandal and Benghazi forever.
Or Congress could just keep holding committee hearings in hopes that investigators will finally discover that the I.R.S. offices in Cincinnati are actually controlled by a pack of left-wing operatives who are not only Obamaphiles but also vampires.
One approach is to hold committee hearings that would expose the health-care law to a trial by oversight, so thoroughly revealing its flaws that Republicans could try for full repeal near the end of the session.
California and Massachusetts are holding committee hearings on bills to legalise pot outright; Oregon is expected to introduce such a bill within the next couple of weeks.One reason for the sudden popularity of cannabis is financial.
All three relevant committees held "markups" ― committee work sessions to amend the legislation ― and the full House vote on the amended legislation did not take place until November.
La Guardia spent the 1920s in Congress, but "he held no committee chairmanship, sponsored no major legislation and occupied a strategic voting position only briefly".
