Sentence examples for significant committee from inspiring English sources

He said that revising immigration law will also require bipartisan support and noted that significant committee work had not yet begun on the issue.

More specifically, the Queens Democratic organization's support of City Councilman Gifford Miller of Manhattan for council speaker led to significant committee chairmanships for nearly all the council members from Queens.

While Senator Frank Lautenberg has introduced a Senate version of this important chemical safety measure, the Secure Chemical Facilities Act and the Secure Water Facilities Act (PDF), there has not yet been significant committee or floor action.

A number of domestic committees have operated since the establishment of the parliament, however prior to 1970 the only significant committee to be established was the Regulations and Ordinances Committee in 1932, one of the legislative scrutiny committees (see below).

We find little evidence that a seat on an important committee makes a member of Congress more powerful, but members do experience a significant increase in power when they become chair of a committee.

"We're making significant headway," committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont). said on his way to the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon after his meeting with the rest of his self-described "coalition of the willing" -- Sens. Kent Conrad (D-N.D ., Jeff Bingaman (D-N.D ., Mike Enzi (R-Wyo)., Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine).

He was the architect of the increasingly significant Select Committees, and along with his friends, the law professor John Griffith and the political scientist Professor Bernard Crick, was the founder of the influential Study of Parliament Group.

As clerk of committees, he led a significant increase in committee activity, enhancing the house's ability to scrutinise the work of government.

Help the Hospices told the committee: "Significant resources are being used to recruit non-existent consultants".

It's certainly significant that the committee feels compelled to dig a little deeper but that's no substitute for much broader public and political debate".

The secretive nature of the meetings is even more significant because the committee was created in a private process during negotiations over raising the debt ceiling, said John Wonderlich of the pro-transparency Sunlight Foundation.