For example, during the House investigation it was revealed that Henry Hyde, Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee and lead House manager, also had an affair while in office, as a state legislator.

For the first two years of his second stint in the House, he was chair of the U. S. House Committee on the Judiciary.

(" By comparison ", wrote Ireland, " the chief of staff to the chair of the House Judiciary Committee makes $ 126, 000, while the chief of staff to the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee makes just $ 100, 696.

While in the House, Hodges served as chair of the House Judiciary Committee from 1992 until 1994, and as House Democratic Leader from 1995 until 1997.

Drinan sat on various House committees, and served as the chair of the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the House Judiciary Committee.

After his second term, he was named floor leader to Governor Joe Frank Harris and was appointed chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

He was appointed vice-chair of the Judiciary Committee and chair of the Subcommittee on General Law.

The Senate passed the bill, but House Judiciary chair Peter W. Rodino, Jr. ( D-NJ ) declared it " dead on arrival.

Cabral's work came to the attention of Senator Orrin G. Hatch, who was chair of the Task Force as well as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In commemorating Dāvar, Reza Pahlavi is said to have told to members of the Judiciary: " Don't ever think that you can become as good as Dāvar, by merely sitting in his chair.

Previously, in the Minnesota House, he had served as chair of the House Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1991.

In the same episode, it is also stated that Vinick is the chairman of a committee which has been continually investigating the Bartlet Administration ( a role he does not like ), implying that he may be the Chair on Judiciary and possibly contradicting the website account, as senators generally only chair one committee.

In the year 2000, as the vice chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and as the chamber ’ s only openly gay member, Lippert was central to the work of drafting and passing into law the landmark Vermont civil union law which granted legal recognition to same gender couples.

Subsequently, Lippert lost his position as vice chair of the Judiciary Committee, though he easily won re-election to his seat in the house.

Following the 2004 election, the Democrats regained their majority and Lippert was appointed to chair the Judiciary Committee by House Speaker Gaye Symington.

He served this last time from March 4, 1837 until he resigned on September 15, 1841, and again was chair of the Committee on the Judiciary for the 1837 – 1839 term.

** Peter W. Rodino Jr. – former United States representative ( D-NJ ); former chair, House Judiciary Committee during Watergate presidential impeachement hearings

The chair of the House Judiciary Committee in the 109th Congress, F. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, proposed a comprehensive revision and modernization of the federal criminal code in 2006.

* Lamar Smith of Texas is the chair of the Judiciary Committee.

She served as chair of the Committee on Government Operations from 1997 through 2000, the Committee on the Judiciary from January 2001 through 2004, and finally the Committee on Education, Libraries, and Recreation.

Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.

The Arkansas Education Standards Committee, chaired by Clinton's wife, attorney and Legal Services Corporation chair Hillary Rodham Clinton, succeeded in reforming the education system, transforming it from the worst in the nation into one of the best.

In Congress, he was chair of the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, the Committee on Indian Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In August 1833, after being elected to this fifth term, Polk became the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.

At the time of Cannon's election the Speaker of the House concurrently held the chair of the Rules Committee, which determined under what rules and restrictions bills could be debated, amended, and voted on, and in some cases whether they would be allowed on the floor at all.

The chair of the State CMC is chosen and removed by the full NPC while the other members are chosen by the NPC Standing Committee.

Indeed, Stevens's definition of measurement was put forward in response to the British Ferguson Committee, whose chair, A. Ferguson, was a physicist.

He has also been an IETF security area director, a member of the Internet Architecture Board, chair of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee, a board member of the Internet Society and numerous other Internet-related volunteer positions.

She was a Patron of the International Red Cross Committee, honorary chair of the British United Aid to China Fund, and First Honorary Member of the Bill of Rights Commemorative Society.

He has also served as the chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Professional Practices Committee.

The president of the National Academy of Sciences is the chair of both the Governing Board and Executive Committee ; the president of the National Academy of Engineering is vice chair.

Once the convention came to order, Arkansas Senator James K. Jones, chair of the Committee on Resolutions, read the proposed platform to cheers by many delegates ; the reading of the pro-gold minority report attracted less applause.

He continued in this new term to expect the Chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee, but again this was misplaced, due in large part to his shortcomings as a parliamentarian ; he was given the chair of the Banking and Currency Committee, but regretted having lost the Military Affairs Chairmanship.

It is named for William L. Wilson, Representative from West Virginia, chair of the U. S. House Ways and Means Committee, and Senator Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland, both Democrats.

In September 1922, the Fordney – McCumber Tariff bill ( named after Joseph Fordney, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Porter McCumber, chair of the Senate Finance Committee ) was signed by President Warren Harding.

Leading the merger effort were Elmer Kelm, the head of the Minnesota Democratic Party and founding chairman of the DFL party ; Elmer Benson, effectively the head of the Farmer-Labor Party by virtue of his leadership of its dominant left-wing faction ; and rising star Hubert H. Humphrey, who chaired the Fusion Committee that accomplished the union and then went on to chair its first state convention.

Throughout 1970, Ellsberg covertly attempted to persuade a few sympathetic U. S. Senators — among them J. William Fulbright, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and George McGovern, a leading opponent of the war — to release the papers on the Senate floor, because a Senator could not be prosecuted for anything he said on the record before the Senate.

She grasped the chair arms and brought her thin body upright, like a bird alert for flight.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

After the Aër is taken from the candidate to cover the chalice and diskos, a chair is brought for the bishop to sit on by the northeast corner of the Holy Table ( altar ).

As the first King of the Scots in Scotland, he is recorded to have brought the stone ( and some claim the coronation chair as well, though this is unlikely ) from Ireland to Argyll, and was crowned in it.

Their industry brought about many inventions like Babbitt metal, the rotary harrow, the circular saw, the clothespin, the Shaker peg, the flat broom, the wheel-driven washing machine, a machine for setting teeth in textile cards, a threshing machine, metal pens, a new type of fire engine, a machine for matching boards, numerous innovations in waterworks, planing machinery, a hernia truss, silk reeling machinery, small looms for weaving palm leaf, machines for processing broom corn, ball-and-socket tilters for chair legs, and a number of other useful inventions.

In the late 1970s he became the chair of NCJAR, which brought a class-action lawsuit against the US Government on March 16, 1983, asserting that it had unjustly incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II.

The satrap was in charge of the land that he owned as an administrator, and found himself surrounded by an all-but-royal court ; he collected the taxes, controlled the local officials and the subject tribes and cities, and was the supreme judge of the province before whose " chair " ( Nehemiah 3: 7 ) every civil and criminal case could be brought.

His liberalism in politics having brought him into conflict with the university authorities of Giessen, he exchanged that university for Göttingen in 1816, and three years later received a chair at the new University of Bonn, where he established the art museum and the library, of which he became the first librarian.

Sir Galahad is then brought to King Arthur's court at Camelot during Pentecost, where he is accompanied by a very old knight who immediately leads him over to the Round Table and unveils his seat at the Siege Perilous, an unused chair that has been kept vacant for the sole person who will accomplish the quest of the Holy Grail.

They had a son and a daughter, but the son's death in 1809 was a severe blow to his father, and brought about his retirement from the active duties of his chair.

This achievement brought him the reputation that secured his election as successor to Louis Jacques Thénard in the chair of chemistry at the faculty of sciences in Paris, and in 1851 he was appointed professor of chemistry at the College de France, where he had M. P. E.

Then a chair is placed for the bishop in Golgotha behind the Cross, which is now standing ; the bishop duly takes his seat in the chair, and a table covered with a linen cloth is placed before him ; the deacons stand round the table, and a silver-gilt casket is brought in which is the holy wood of the Cross.

Clemenceau was in the chair ( 1 December 1917 ), and his speech, drafted by Hankey, tasked the military representatives with studying the prospects for the 1918 campaign, and in particular whether German defeat would be best brought about by attacks on her allies.

Later on in the tour, Johnny is brought before God, who is a lazy, obese man sitting in a chair in a state of exhaustion.

Then al-Mu ’ tasim appeared and sat on the chair and said, ‘ Bring Ahmad ibn Hanbal .’ So he was brought and when he stood in front of him al-Mu ’ tasim said to him, ‘ How were you in your cell during the night, 0 son of Hanbal ?’ He said, “ In goodness, and all praises are due to Allaah .” Al-Mu ‘ tasim said, ‘ 0 Ahmad, I saw a dream yesterday .’ He said,

Chairs and tables for members were brought in, as well as the speaker's chair for both the Senate and Commons.

The 1952 election produced an almost evenly-divided Senate ; Morse brought a folding chair when the session convened, intending to position himself in the aisle between the Democrats and Republicans to underscore his lack of party affiliation.

Bryan Head was then brought in to fill the drum chair.

In 1839 – 1840 the Director of Education, Gaetano Giorgini, brought about the most important reform in the University of Pisa by raising the number of faculties to six ( Theology, Law, Literature, Medicine, Mathematics and Natural Sciences ) and created the world's first chair of Agriculture and sheep farming.

These lawsuits ultimately came to the Florida Supreme Court in the fall of 1999, when a bare majority ( 4 of the 7 Justices ) found that the electric chair was constitutional in a case brought by death row inmate Thomas Provenzano.

He also brought new life to the chair in delivering his rulings and remarks with a sarcastic humour.

Jack Fischel, former chair of history at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, writes that new antisemitism is a new phenomenon stemming from a coalition of " leftists, vociferously opposed to the policies of Israel, and right-wing antisemites, committed to the destruction of Israel, were joined by millions of Muslims, including Arabs, who immigrated to Europe ... and who brought with them their hatred of Israel in particular and of Jews in general.

She served on the search committee that brought Drew Faust to the presidency of Harvard, on a subsequent governance committee that brought about changes in the Corporation of Harvard, and is the chair of the Visiting Committee to the Harvard Library.