"Do they not believe that a minimum standard ought to be held for everyone's access to the ballot?" According to the Texas legislature's website, the bill was left pending in committee after the May 6 debates.
Bills requiring restaurants to post notices when using peanuts in any dish are pending in committees in both the Assembly and the Senate.
They also assert that I and a colleague, who had donated to Representative Tom DeLay's defense fund, were named to the ethics committee "when the main matter pending before the committee involved" Mr. DeLay.
The electoral committee will not carry out integrity checks on Michel Platini, the Uefa president who is currently suspended for 90 days pending an ethics committee hearing into a £1.3million payment he received from FIFA in 2011, until the disciplinary process is complete.
The pair are provisionally suspended by Fifa's ethics committee, pending further investigations.
He and Platini are both under a 90-day suspension imposed by Fifa's ethics committee pending disciplinary hearings.
Dr. Marcia Angell succeeded Dr. Kassirer as editor in chief pending a search committee's choice of a new editor.
A similar reform measure backed by the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee -- Senator Orrin Hatch, its Republican chairman, and Senator Patrick Leahy, its ranking Democrat -- is now pending before the committee.
The bill would direct the Treasury Department to license and regulate Internet gambling operations, while a companion measure, pending before another committee, would allow the Internal Revenue Service to tax such businesses.
And yes, political will plays its part in explaining why, at the end of 2011, there were some 1,337 cases raising distinct issues pending before the committee of ministers, the body responsible for overseeing the execution of ECHR judgments.
