Sentence examples for hold committee from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Congressional aides said that the Senate Republican leader, Trent Lott of Mississippi, had told them that when Mr. Daschle had initially proposed closing the Senate, several senators told him they would not stand for it, and that he had relented, proposing to hold committee meetings on Thursday in the Library of Congress.

The dispute, concerning a proposed $355 million sports arena for Newark, was put aside today as arena supporters led by Mayor Sharpe James of Newark agreed to support the budget in return for an agreement to hold committee hearings this summer on plans for the state's professional sports teams.

Village elections are competitive elections and to a great extent have gradually become an important way for villagers to articulate their interests and hold committee members responsible for village policies (Hu 2001, 2005).

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.

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.

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.

The NFL held committee meetings at league headquarters Wednesday and at least one owner questioned the impact of the hiring.