The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

In 1952, he was brought before a United States Senate investigative committee.

* 1815 – the U. S. Senate created a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.

" The bill was referred to committee on first reading in the Senate and has been there ever since.

* 1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the " Nixon tapes " to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.

Roosevelt transmitted the nomination to the Senate, which confirmed Landis the same afternoon, without any committee hearing.

In November 2003, Zubrin was invited to speak to the U. S. Senate committee on the future of space exploration.

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On December 4, Lansing announced in a Senate committee hearing that no one in the cabinet had spoken with or seen Wilson in over sixty days.

A Senate committee ruled that it was correct procedure for the President to terminate treaties after being authorized by the Senate alone, and not the entire Congress.

Once the committee reports out the nomination, the full Senate considers it.

Although Senate rules do not necessarily allow a negative vote in committee to block a nomination, a nominee may be filibustered once debate has begun in the full Senate.

He continued his campaign as a non-partisan independent but ceased the campaign soon thereafter and returned to the Republican party to assume a Senate committee chairmanship.

Cramer, at the time of his death, was being investigated by a Senate committee and had been criticized and personally attacked.

On other matters, he was content to wait until legislation reached its final stage in a joint House – Senate conference committee.

* The Roman Senate appoints a twenty-man committee to co-ordinate operations against Maximinus.

Daley chaired the Senate judiciary committee.

Numerous party leaders privately told Roosevelt that they would fight Wallace's renomination as VP and proposed Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, a moderate who had gained favorable publicity as the chairman of a Senate wartime investigating committee, as FDR's new running mate.

From 1871 to 1877 he was again a member of the United States Senate, in which he was prominent in debate and in committee work, and was chairman of the U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs during the Alabama Claims negotiations.

The party is presently run by a provisional committee, known as " the Senate " ( Senato ), led by Marco Pannella himself along with other members of the party.

Furthermore, as the president pro tempore is now usually the most senior senator of the majority party, he or she most likely also chairs a major Senate committee and has other significant demands on his or her time.

In the last eight years, all Presidential appointments, including those of cabinet rank, have been denied immediate action because of a Senate rule requiring at least a 24 hour delay after they are reported to the floor.

The U. S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Frank Church ( the Church Committee ) reported in 1975 that it had found " concrete evidence of at least eight plots involving the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro from 1960 to 1965.

The controversy, as reported in Time, centered on Capp's portrayal of the United States Senate.

The controversy, as reported in Time, centered on Capp's portrayal of the U. S. Senate.

These deliberate acts of violence against civilians were acknowledged by the CIA as early as late 1983, when Duane Clarridge, Latin America division chief of the CIA ’ s Directorate for Operations, reported in a secret briefing to the Senate subcommittee that his contras had murdered " civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces, as well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges.

During Senate hearings in 1921, the commandant of the Marine Corps reported that, in the twenty months of active resistance, 2 250 Haitians had been killed.

A Senate committee reported that, " To some extent the complaint that WPA workers do poor work is not without foundation.

On April 10, 2006, the New York Times reported that members of the Democratic Party in Ohio had contacted Sheen, attempting to persuade him to run for the United States Senate in Ohio.

On May 18, 2006, the Judiciary Committee reported to the Senate and the bill was placed on the legislative calendar.

At last the Praetorians, having received assurances that they would suffer no punishment – provided they surrendered the actual murderers of Pertinax – seized the ringleaders of the conspiracy and reported what they had done to Silius Messala, the consul, by whom the Senate was summoned and informed of the proceedings.

The deed itself is first reported by Coluccio Salutati ( died 1406 ), Chancellor of Florence, in his letter to King Tvrtko I of Bosnia ( r. 1353-1391 ), dated 20 October 1389, on behalf of the Florentine Senate.

Meanwhile, in 1997 Congressional Quarterly reported Senate Banking Committee Chairman Al D ’ Amato ( R-NY ) rejected Treasury Department pressure to produce a financial modernization bill because banking firms ( such as Citicorp ) were satisfied with the competitive advantages they had received from regulatory actions and were not really interested in legislative reforms.

After these compromises, a joint Senate and House Conference Committee reported out a final version of S. 900 that was passed on November 4, 1999, by the House in a vote of 362-57 and by the Senate in a vote of 90-8.

* The Special Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs reviewed Canada's current anti-drug policies and legislation and reported in September 2002 that marijuana is not a gateway drug and should be treated more like tobacco or alcohol than harder drugs.

It was in part out of public concern over the sale of pets to research facilities that the 1966 Laboratory Animal Welfare Act was ushered in — the Senate Committee on Commerce reported in 1966 that stolen pets had been retrieved from Veterans Administration facilities, the Mayo Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, and Harvard and Yale Medical Schools.

In April 2003, after being provided documents by a former Iraqi General, several news organizations ( including the Monitor ) reported that George Galloway was accused by a U. S. Senate Committee led by Norm Coleman of personally profiting from corruption within the United Nations Oil-for-Food program.

Nelson's campaign for election to the United States Senate was reported to have begun early in 1894.

The controversy, as reported in Time, centered on Capp's portrayal of the US Senate.

On January 7, 2009, The New York Times reported that Matthews told his staffers that he would not run for the Senate.

Shortly after withdrawal of the nomination, the press reported on several other incidents which might also have posed difficulties in gaining confirmation by the Senate.

After being reported favorably by the Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in July 2005, the bill was never considered by the full Senate for a vote.

On August 7, 2009, CNN and the Orlando Sentinel reported that Martinez would be resigning from his Senate seat.

Two weeks after resigning his Senate seat, The Hill reported that Martínez would become a lobbyist and partner at international firm DLA Piper.