Sentence examples for open committee from inspiring English sources

The grants had previously been awarded to community groups via an open committee of councillors.

Education is one of the open committee leadership slots; who gets the post will say a lot about what Mr. Dewhurst wants to do next session.

It is not unusual for lawmakers to draft major legislation in private, but they usually refine, debate and amend it in open committee sessions.

Knowing that their positions would be deeply unpopular among the public if their stubbornness were exposed in an open committee, Republicans would simply prefer not to talk at all.

Here the United States, through its legislative department, by means of an open committee hearing held shortly before the trial of a pending indictment, caused and stimulated this massive pretrial publicity, on a nationwide scale.

Open committee meetings in Congress; primary elections to select delegates to national political conventions; changes to the system of campaign funding; the rise of referendums in state and municipal politics -- together, these well-intentioned innovations have tended to debase the political process.

I see no reason why civil servants should be protected from exposure and criticism or why those with an agenda that is hostile to freedom should not be hauled before open committees.

The Open Market Committee has eight regularly scheduled meetings a year.

The next meeting of the Fed's open market committee will be Oct. 23-24.

Plosser will become a voting member of the Fed's open market committee next year.

The federal open market committee (FOMC) is meeting from Tuesday 15 December to Wednesday 16 December.