The George and Neill bills were frustrated when the Coalition parties couldn't agree money resolutions to fund their provision - the Efford Bill was killed by a massive filibuster in committee, where a group of heavy-metal Conservative backbenchers talked and talked and talked…..*.
As with this year's prize, I don't think anyone doubted that the recipients made massive personal contributions and the committee chose well, but similarly, few would doubt that an element of the glory is rightly shared by all those members of the collaborations who contributed.
Enron's Circus Maximus 01.03.02 A Senate committee joins the massive Enron investigation.
"The CIA's unauthorized search of computer files and emails belonging to its Congressional oversight committee was a massive breach of the separation of powers and very well may have violated federal laws," Rockefeller's statement continued.
Instead of a new era of auteurs, of unique voices and stories, the entertainment industry has had enormous success doing the complete opposite: doubling down on sequels, and expanding brands and franchises into massive worlds of corporate-licensed, committee-written, producer-driven branded entertainment, often spanning movies, television, books, video games, and amusement parks.
As the debate intensifies in Congress, health care sector contributions to lawmakers on the committees overseeing the massive change to the nation's health care system are on the upswing -- rising 8% between the first and second quarter of the year, according to data compiled by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics.
That led to the advent of super PACs — independent political action committees that can accept massive donations, as long as they do not coordinate with the candidates or party committees.
It's a massive expansion, and the public accounts committee chair Margaret Hodge is right to point out that alarm bells should have sounded.
A political action committee has erected a massive billboard message in Pensacola, Florida, calling the National Rifle Association a "terrorist organization".
announced that her committee would conduct a massive study on the CIA's purported use of torture.
