Sentence examples for major committees when from inspiring English sources

These are the likely leaders of the Senate's major committees when Republicans take control.

"Everything that progressives care about goes through those committees," said Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, who's been organizing to get progressives on major committees when Democrats retake the House in January.

But the difference between, say, 57 votes and 59 votes when the majority organises the Senate in January could be huge when it comes to committee assignments perhaps the difference between a two-vote majority and a six-vote one on major committees.

The latter two men both chair major committees.

It also voted to reconfigure the makeup of major committees, including the influential governance and nominating committee.

"We now have young scientists on all the major committees in polar science," Baeseman says.

There are four of these major committees -- two Senate committees, and two joint committees with the House.

Still, this bill is mostly a combination of bills moved through three major committees.

Schiff said "we need a discussion here" about the standards by which the NSA contextualizes to the oversight committee when a major foreign figure has been spied upon.

"When it comes to one member of this body, he might better have been rewarded with 30 pieces of silver rather than a major committee chairmanship," said Councilwoman Ruth W. Messinger, Democrat of Manhattan.

Dallin chaired virtually every major committee in the field and was a long-term Board Member and President of the AAASS, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, which he helped to reinvigorate when he brought its headquarters to Stanford in the 1980s.