Sentence examples for without a committee from inspiring English sources

But Democrats argued that the bill would strip patients of their right to legal recourse, and they said that Republicans, in bringing the measure up for consideration without a committee hearing, were simply playing politics.

At the same time, the council's Iraqi sanctions committee completed work on four lists -- of food, pharmaceuticals, educational material and agricultural equipment -- that Iraq will be permitted to purchase without a committee review, although United Nations officials will oversee and approve the purchases.

Republicans could just bring the bill to the floor without a committee markup, like they did with their health care legislation, but that might raise some red procedural flags with McCain.

Mikulski, the most senior member of the Senate without a committee chairmanship, is in position to receive a committee gavel following a domino-like series of moves that began this week with the death of the Senate's most senior lawmaker, Hawaii Democrat Daniel K. Inouye.

The bill reached the Senate floor three days after it was introduced, without going through a committee or a public hearing.

Those publications, and the refusal to disclose Blair's notes, Chilcot said, "leads to the position that individuals may disclose privileged information (without sanction) whilst a committee of privy counsellors established by a former prime minister to review the issues cannot".

"So surely it is time for us to make it a criminal offence to fail to appear or refuse to appear, without reasonable excuse, before a committee of this house".

Whether it was because we were used to everyone in the family weighing in on our issues, or because being financially dependent reduced us to acting like children, my ex and I found it difficult to work through our problems without the benefit of a committee.

That is how Republicans defeated President Bill Clinton's proposal for universal health care in 1994 without a single committee vote in Congress.

This sweet-and-sour comedy opens with the band, which has traveled to Israel to perform at an Arab cultural center, arriving at an airport without a welcoming committee.

Dr. Cooperman, who said that Mr. Kean does not have the "fire in the belly" that some politicians have, added that Mr. Kean may have seen himself as a junior member of the Senate and a moderate in a party that was to the right, without a good committee assignment and the need to hit the campaign trail and raise money for the privilege.