"By blocking a bill that the majority of committee members support, Chairman Gantt undermines the Democratic process".
In a statement shortly after the committee adjourned, GlaxoSmithKline noted that a majority of committee members had voted to keep Avandia on the market.
Fano maintained that the majority of committee members were scientists with a vested interest in xenotransplantation.
After weeks of evidence taking, a clear majority of committee members said they believed it should progress to the next step.
His efforts to explain away his votes endangering abortion providers and supporting the Confederate battle symbol were equally not believable, and apparently they were not believed by a majority of committee members.
In February his absence denied the opposition the quorum necessary to take over the majority of Senate committees.
The revised bill we introduced today reflects the majority of the committees' recommendations – we have strengthened safeguards, enhanced privacy protections and bolstered oversight arrangements – and will now be examined by parliament before passing into law by the end of 2016.
Nor was she discouraged by the cautionary experience of Tim Mathern, a state senator from Fargo who in 1989 drafted two name-change resolutions, held hearings before the legislature's constitutional revisions committee, and had the majority of the committee members in his corner, only to see the full Senate trounce the idea.
A bipartisan majority of the committee voted down impeachment charges; the committee adjourned on June 3.
Some victims' relatives have complained that they do not make up a majority of the committee members, and some have also complained that several advisory committee members who have been the most vocal over the last year in public discussions about the memorial and the rebuilding were not included.
