Today, as the same examiner was hauled in front of the Commons select committee on education, its main headline was "Teachers giving students exam questions".Concerns about how England's exam system works are long-standing: the Commons committee's ongoing investigation into the administration of examinations was initiated some time back.
In Ohio, a long-standing legislative-oversight committee makes unannounced prison inspections and reports their findings.
We must hope that the home secretary did not intend to destroy this most respected and long-standing of government advisory committees when he dismissed its chair in a fit of pique.
His loss to Waxman, by a margin of 137 to 122 in a secret ballot, represents a repudiation of a long-standing tradition of maintaining committee chairmanships based on seniority.
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The committee hearings, which went until 10 PM Tuesday, ranged from testy to outright hostile as the Conservative majority on the committee continued a long-standing practice of rejecting every opposition amendment introduced at committee.
Under a long-standing deal with the international committee, the United States Olympic Committee receives nearly 13percentt of American TV rights fees and 20percentt of global marketing revenues — hundreds of millions of dollars.
I'm grateful that the chancellor has offered his support for the Treasury committee's long-standing view that we should hold what amounts to a pre-appointment hearing and should report our conclusions to the whole House.
Tyrie was more forthright, reiterating the committee's long-standing concern that ministers and Bank of England policymakers were having to work with statistics tarred by poor data collection and production, or "rubbish in, rubbish out statistics", as the Conservative MP put it.
"MEAA's national media section committee has nominated long-standing MEAA member Adele Ferguson – book author, Gold Walkley winner and senior Fairfax journalist – for the position of author director on the Copyright Agency board," the union said in a special notice to members.
