The prospect of losing a committee slot may not seem shattering, but it has potentially grave political consequences.
Shareholders of Farmland Industries today lost a bid to form a committee to represent their interests as Farmland, the largest United States farm cooperative, reorganizes under bankruptcy protection.
In October, the American committee lost a bid for Chicago to host the 2016 Olympics, in the first round of voting.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash)., the top Democrat on the committee, lost a bid to restore that authority to the president.
An exasperated May moved against Gove after he wrote to the prime minister setting out his plans to tackle extremism in schools having lost a debate on the Whitehall committee which tackles the issue.
In addition, Fix The Debt Virginia lost a member of its steering committee, Delegate Ken Plum (D-Fairax), after hearing concerns about the potential impacts of the group's spending cut proposals, according to an email shared with The Huffington Post.
The American delegation has also had to expend much diplomatic capital this year to get the United States back on an important budget committee, where it had lost a seat because of other nations' anger at its failure to pay its dues.
Despite an admirable effort from Representative Denise Marcelle (D-Baton Rouge), HB 553 recently lost in committee on a 10-7 vote.
This mildly Islamist grouping had changed its name in order to apply a second time, after losing a court appeal against the committee.
But last spring an assemblyman from Buffalo, Mike Cole, lost his committee chairmanship, was publicly censured and prohibited from participating in the internship program after allegations surfaced that he had spent the night in the bedroom of a 21-year-old intern after an evening of heavy drinking.
