Sentence examples for legislative inquiry from inspiring English sources

A legislative inquiry is long overdue.

The Palins have long denied wrongdoing, and the governor initially said she would cooperate with the bipartisan legislative inquiry.

Nancy L. Johnson, the third representative, said Monday night that she supported a legislative inquiry but did not call for him to step down.

John Harris, a Republican who is speaker of the Alaska House, said Thursday that he hoped the legislative inquiry would proceed on schedule.

"For almost three months – virtually a quarter of the year, from mid-July to mid-October – the House is not sitting, bar two weeks, and hence the executive has freedom from legislative inquiry," he said.

The legislative inquiry was initiated and a federal investigation gained steam after Mr. Rowland acknowledged, last December, that he had accepted free work and gifts for his Litchfield cottage from people doing business with the state.

The other called for the immediate suspension of anyone who refused to testify before courts, grand juries or legislative inquiries into official city business.

The Scottish Executive – which pays its directly employed staff the living wage – is considering making the wage a requirement of all its government-awarded contracts, pending EU legislative inquiries.

Mr. Rowland resigned on July 1 under pressure from a legislative impeachment inquiry and a federal investigation, both probing for a link between benefits he received and the awarding of state contracts.

A number of governors greeted him warmly, and said later that they did not want to talk about the federal investigation and legislative impeachment inquiry that have clouded Mr. Rowland's political future.

In July, Gov. John G. Rowland resigned amid a legislative impeachment inquiry and a federal corruption investigation that followed his admission in December that he had renovated his lakeside cottage with the help of state contractors.