Dubbed the 2001 Caucus, the members have been practicing their legislative skills on subcommittees, extracting palace secrets from crucial staff members of the Council and considering the weighty matters of the budget and taxes.
But under Brown they quickly became as weighty and substantive as real budget and under Osborne (who renamed them autumn statements) that is true too.
Even on such weighty matters as the state budget, lawmakers are kept in the dark, typically handed thousands of pages of legislation at the 11th hour.
The island's government is making an effort to cut its budget deficit and tackle weighty public pensions, but S&P is concerned about its ability to raise cash.Sony said that it now expects to post another annual loss for the financial year ending March 31st.
That would be enough to let the Republicans force through some weighty changes on taxes and spending, since budget measures are harder to block in the Senate than other legislation.Under a President Romney there would be much less, and possibly no, new government regulation.
In the State House, online and in the news, the chopper caper (L'Affaire Copter? Rotor Rage?) quickly overshadowed weightier matters like state budget talks.
The 18-megapixel T3i/600D is the next version in the "enthusiast" line of DSLRs, above the budget level but below the more robust and weighty 60D and 7D.
While Mr. Obama has few budget decisions left, administration officials say, those decisions are "weighty," as one put it.
That includes going over budget to double the page count for Kristen Jenkins' weighty special issue, "Teaching Evolution" (EEO, Vol. 2, Issue 3, 2009).
THE HAGUE — The International Criminal Court has all the trappings of a weighty institution: 18 judges, a large corps of prosecutors, a multimillion-dollar budget and its own prison cells.
