As the only surviving standing committee member, Hu's appointment was inevitable.
According to GovTrack.us, the best one, introduced by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), has just a 10percentt chance of surviving past committee, and only a 2percentt chance of becoming law.
If it survives conference committee — the House passed a nonbinding resolution to instruct its conferees to strip it — two-thirds of both the House and Senate must approve it.
It need not and, if the impetus for reform is ever to survive the committee process of constitution-making, probably had better not necessitate a detailed bill of rights.
Some bill that has survived open committee hearings and a floor vote — just like the textbooks call for — is eviscerated and amended with entirely new content.
If her proposals survive conference committee, it will be due in large part to the fact that she is still facing the voters.
Now that the bill has survived a committee vote, some Republicans are expressing dissatisfaction with the results of the compromise between Corker and the Democrats.
But if they don't, then Democrats may not offer any of their amendments, either -- particularly those that likely would not survive a committee vote, like an amendment calling for a stand-alone consumer agency, rather than as a unit housed inside the Federal Reserve.
Passing a bill by simple majority would still require that legislation survive numerous committees in both the Senate and the House, conference committees to reconcile different versions of the bill in each chamber and a final conference committee between both chambers.
Although intensivists disagree over whether glucose levels need to be maintained between 80 and 110 mg/dl in intensive care patients, Dellinger said that the Surviving Sepsis Committee felt that the evidence supports tight glucose control.
