Adams persuaded the committee to choose Jefferson, who was reluctant to take the assignment, and promised to consult with the younger man.

His most important committee assignment was as a senior member on the House Intelligence Committee in the months and years prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City, Washington, D. C., and Pennsylvania.

Somervell met Groves outside the hearing room where Groves had been testifying before a United States Congress committee on military housing and informed him that " The Secretary of War has selected you for a very important assignment, and the President has approved the selection ...

Members of the West Caldwell Township Council ( with term-end years and committee assignment chairmanships listed in parentheses ) are Council President Stanley W. Hladik ( 2012 ; Finance & Welfare ), Dominick J. Aiello ( 2014 ; Parks & Recreation ), Joseph P. Cecere ( 2013 ; Legal & Personnel ), Thomas M. O ' Hern ( 2012 ; Public Works & Water ), Richard C. Otterbein ( 2014 ; Public Safety ) and Stephen P. Wolsky ( 2013 ; Community Planning, Development & Technology ).

As minority leader, Robinson took over the distribution of patronage appointments and reformed the committee assignment process, decreeing that no senator would hold the top Democratic position in more than one important committee.

Because the Republicans did not assign him to any committees either, Traficant became the first member of the House of Representatives in over a century outside the top leadership without any committee assignment.

Due to the various powers of committee selection and bill assignment, the lieutenant governor is arguably considered more powerful than the Governor of Texas, and is considered one of the most powerful lieutenant governorships in the United States.

Republicans generally leave assignment decisions to the committee leader to determine, although most employ a bidding approach that allows members to select subcommittee slots.

On 26 April 1897 the Norwegian Parliament accepted the assignment and on 5 August the same year it formalized the process of election and service time for committee members.

At this point, George Barnett was to succeed William Biddle as Commandant as Captain Ellis had orders for special assignment as a member of a special committee established by the Joint Army-Navy Board to study the defense of Guam.

A committee was established in May 1983, which gave Engineer Harald Møyner the assignment of to making a new report.

In 1925 a special committee was inaugurated to build the city ; city expansion plans were designed and city rights were granted in 1926, and tax privileges were granted for investors in 1927.

But he annoyed a number of ministers and was heavily censured by the privileges committee for a leak about the biological weapons research establishment Porton Down to the newspapers ( though he claimed that he thought the minutes were in the public domain ).

A series of reports on its development since the India Act of 1784, written by a select committee which he chaired, concluded that it should give up its inefficient trading privileges, at least in the subcontinent.

Following the 2007 Welsh Assembly elections, a UK parliamentary standards and privileges committee found Plaid MPs Llwyd, Adam Price and Hywel Williams guilty of improperly advertising during the elections.

He has been a member of both the home affairs select committee and the standards and privileges committee since the 2005 general election.

Because of other privileges associated with seniority, the Dean is usually allotted some of the most desirable office space, and is generally either chair or ranking minority member of an influential committee.

A hearing of parliament's privileges committee found that Kopu had not resigned from parliament, and that her pledge to the Alliance did not constitute a constructive resignation.

Shortly thereafter, he was named to the parliamentary standing committee on elections, privileges, procedures and private members ' business.

* Full, which has additional privileges such as the option to chair a committee

Bradstreet in 1661 headed a legislative committee to " consider and debate such matters touching their patent rights, and privileges, and duty to his Majesty, as should to them seem proper.

He was named the secretary of the Finance Committee, a member of the committee on national education, and a member of the committee on parliamentary privileges.

The Student Life committee focused on things such as social events, and student privileges.

The incident was referred to a sitting of the Dáil committee on procedure and privileges, when it emerged that " fuck " is not included among the list of forbidden words set out in the Salient Rulings of the Chair, the document which regulates the behaviour and conduct of TDs.

During his single term, he served on the committee on privileges and election and on several special committees, including one that recommended that President George Washington supply a military guard at Big Bone Lick to facilitate the establishment of a saltworks there.

He was once again appointed to the committee on privileges and election.

When Congress began considering a resolution of independence in June 1776, Adams ensured that Jefferson was appointed to the five-man committee to write a declaration in support of the resolution.

When the third Caliph Uthman began noticing slight differences in pronunciation of the Quranic Arabic by those whose dialect was not that of the Quraish, he sought Hafsa's permission to use her text and commissioned a committee to produce a standard copy of the text of Quran to which added diacritical marks ensured correct pronunciation, and to be set as the standard dialect, the Quraish dialect, now known as Fus ' ha ( Modern Standard Arabic ) ( see Origin and development of the Quran ).

Johnson's brilliant handling of the press, the efficiency with which his committee issued new reports, and the fact that he ensured every report was endorsed unanimously by the committee all brought him headlines and national attention.

Dr J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth, then secretary of the Privy Council education committee, ensured that the inspectors were appointed by Order in Council to guard their independence.

A committee of the MPNP proposed the development of a collection of " constitutional principles " with which the final constitution would have to comply, so that basic freedoms would be ensured and minority rights protected, without overly limiting the role of the elected constitutional assembly.

An expansion programme continued and the club's directors ensured that the initial success was built upon, employing a " ground committee " to oversee developments.

The team's artistic freedom, so rare in the hard-line communist regime of the 1950s, was ensured by the government committee for exhibitions chairman František Kahuda.

The select committee of 1849 produced a report in which Edwards and Ewart ensured that “ no stone was left unturned ” in proving their case that existing public library provision was inadequate and that provision in other countries was far superior.

" DPP Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen followed with a public statement on behalf of the party: " In regard to Chen and his wife's decision to withdraw from the party and his desire to shoulder responsibility for his actions as well as to undergo an investigation by the party's anti-corruption committee, we respect his decision and accept it.

Crane, who in the 1970s had been the party's first Executive Director, and some of his allies resigned from the Party in 1983 when their preferred candidates for national committee seats lost in the elections at the national convention.

They gained control of the party organization through the creation of a committee called the Komitet Zagraniczny-KZ, which dealt with the party's foreign relations.

They also chair the majority party's House steering committee.

Zhou helped draft the party's charter and was elected to the three member executive committee as director of propaganda.

A month after his arrival he was elected to the central committee of the newly formed branch of Poalei Zion in Jaffa, becoming chairman of the party's platform committee.

The party's leader Nigel Farage pledged to support him in the election for the National Executive Committee. Hamilton was elected to the committee on 1 November 2011.

But finding it impossible to work with or under any post-Parnell leadership especially Dillon, he was expelled in 1895 from the INF executive committee, having previously been expelled from the Irish party's minor nine member pro-Parnellite Irish National League ( INL ) under John Redmond.

However, his support of expanded social-welfare programs didn't sit well with some of the party's more conservative members, and he lost his post in the party's executive committee in 1912.

The aim was to improve the party's reputation, as the central committee had gained a reputation for corruption.

In 2001, he served as the party's Finance and Industry critic, and was vice-chairman of the House of Commons Finance committee.

In 1919 he was chosen as chair of the party's executive committee, and was also elected to the National Assembly as a representative of Paris.

In 1951, Kirk became Chairman of the party's Hurunui electorate committee.

After the New Zealand Social Democratic Party was formed in 1913 in an attempt to unify various groups within the labour movement, Hunter represented the miners on the party's executive committee.

The crisis was already festering during the 12th plenum of the party's central committee held in Budapest between 5 and 15 February 1968 in which three members of the politbureau ( M. Partsalidis, Z. Zografos & P. Dimitriu ) were expelled for fractionist activity and was further triggered by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

In early 1994 a group of prominent members including Ivan Šiber, Stjepan Ivanišević, Ivo Družić, Vjeran Zuppa, Ivan Matija and Ivo Josipović left the party after expressing disagreement with the party's main committee.

On February 10, 2006 the party's General Assembly agreed to dismiss Gomaa from the Wafd presidency and appointed Mustafa al-Taweel ( a member of al-Wafd supreme committee ) as an interim president till the next elections on July 2006.

However, the party's stance has to be decided by its central policy making committee.

In the New Democratic Party and some of its provincial branches, the position of party leader was treated as all other positions on the party's executive committee, and open for election at party conventions generally held every two years, although incumbent leaders rarely face more than token opposition.

Immediately after his return to Budapest, Kádár headed the communist party's military committee.

She served on the National Executive committee of the party for a number of years and as the party's environmental spokesperson, writing a column " One World " for the Scottish Socialist Voice.

Aflaq was elected to the party's executive committee and was elected "' Amid " ( meaning the party's leader ).