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" The committee, five Republicans and four Democrats, investigated whether the Clinton Administration's waivers allowing U. S. military contractors to transfer military technology to China damaged national security. According to officials who have been briefed about its contents, the report concludes that Beijing's acquisition of secret American weapons designs was part of an intelligence collection effort that spanned 20 years, including both Republican and Democratic Administrations.
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And in the last five years, the `` Methodist chapel committee has authorized the demolition or, more often, the sale of 764 chapels ''.
This committee was headed by Anatolius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and was given five days to carefully study the matter ; Cyril's Twelve Chapters were to be used as the orthodox standard.
The FOMC is the committee responsible for setting monetary policy and consists of all seven members of the Board of Governors and the twelve regional bank presidents, though only five bank presidents vote at any given time.
The committee, composed of 19 prominent members of the local media chooses a Saints all-time team every five years.
They therefore suggested that he place the office in " commission ", meaning that a committee of five ministers would perform its functions together.
In 2007, by government initiative, the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education employed an international expert committee to find and award the top five highest quality education areas among all universities and colleges in Sweden.
As of 2010, the Chargers ' policy was to have the Chargers Hall of Fame committee evaluate candidates for a player's number to retire after the player has retired from the league after five years, Seau was the only exception to this policy.
It also established a ' committee system of government ' where all members of the Council sat on one or more of five committees.
The delegates selected a committee of five to draft a declaration of independence ; the committee was led by George Childress and also included Edward Conrad, James Gaines, Bailey Hardeman, and Collin McKinney.
On July 24, a committee of five ( John Rutledge ( SC ), Edmund Randolph ( VA ), Nathaniel Gorham ( MA ), Oliver Ellsworth ( CT ), and James Wilson ( PA ) was elected to draft a detailed constitution.
In February 2006, a committee of twelve baseball historians elected 17 more people from black baseball to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, twelve players and five executives.
On July 18, 2008, Purdue University announced that a committee with members from five institutions has investigated 12 allegations of research misconduct by Rusi Taleyarkhan.
The standing committee includes the premier, one executive vice premier, three vice premiers, and five other state councilors ( one of whom serves as Secretary General of the State Council, and two of whom concurrently serve as ministers ).
Innocent X agreed to the majority's request, but in an attempt to accommodate the view of the minority, appointed an advisory committee consisting of five cardinals and thirteen consultors to report on the situation.
Governing functions of the Legislature rely on a committee system ; currently, there are five standing committees and one long-term ad hoc committee.
There was considerable acrimony between the two very high-profile senators during the life of this committee, which reached a level of public disagreement between the five leaders of a congressional committee seldom seen in recent years, amid allegations that Glenn suppressed these issues prior to his subsequent space shuttle flight which had to be approved by President Clinton.
In the meantime, a smaller thirty-member committee which included ten New York-based Academy members was formed, and spent three days viewing the shortlisted films before choosing the five official nominees.
The bill originally proposed that a committee of five members ( one member representing each time zone ) would given the power to regulate radio waves and licenses.
Barton then came up with another design, which the committee submitted back to Congress on May 9, 1782, just five days after being formed.
Argument in the case was heard on 13 and 14 July 2005 by a large committee of nine Law Lords, rather than the normal five.
Among the nine standing committees at the Politburo, there are four Tsinghua graduates ; among the 24 Politburo committee members, there are five ; and of all the " leaders of the party and the country ", there are 10.
To be considered for induction by a screening committee, a player must be fully retired from play for at least five years, while a coach or referee must be fully retired for at least five years or have been active full time in his / her respective craft on the professional, collegiate or high school level for at least 25 years.
committee and Republicans
In 1910, however, Democrats and several dissatisfied Republicans joined together to strip the Speaker of many of his powers, including the ability to name committee members and chairmanship of the Rules Committee.
Once Republicans regained control of the Senate, Glenn also served as the ranking minority member on a special Senate investigative committee chaired by Tennessee senator Fred Dalton Thompson that looked into illegal foreign donations by China to U. S. political campaigns for the 1996 election.
Hunterdon County is represented exclusively by Republican Freeholders and the majority of township committee and borough council seats are held by Republicans.
Monsanto gave $ 186, 250 to federal candidates in the 2008 election cycle through its political action committee ( PAC ) – 42 % to Democrats, 58 % to Republicans.
Dirksen successfully united the various factions of the Republican Party by granting younger Republicans more representation in the Senate leadership and better committee appointments.
The Congress's joint committee visited the abandoned Confederate lines and radical Republicans introduced a resolution demanding the dismissal of McClellan, but it was narrowly defeated by a parliamentary maneuver.
After Nixon released the infamous " smoking gun " transcripts ( which proved Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up ), however, Lott announced that he would vote to impeach Nixon when the articles came up for debate before the full House ( as did the other Republicans who voted against impeachment in committee ).
Democrats agreed to support the bill after Republicans agreed to strengthen provisions of the anti-redlining Community Reinvestment Act and address certain privacy concerns ; the conference committee then finished its work by the beginning of November.
She formed a political action committee called It's My Party Too ( IMP-PAC ), intended to help elect moderate Republicans at all levels of government.
DeLay was known to " primary " Republicans who resisted his votes ( i. e., to threaten to endorse and to support a Republican primary challenge to the disobedient representative ), and, like many of his predecessors in Congress, used promises of future committee chairmanships to bargain for support among the rank-and-file members of the party.
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.
In 1868, he became the chairman of the state Democratic Party central committee, which lost to the Radical Republicans in the election.
Calling the delay " outrageous, incomprehensible, unconscionable " at a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where she is chairwoman, Ros-Lehtinen brought the pressure of committee Republicans to bear on the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs and spur them to action.
Democrats cast this a partisan move, while Republicans pointed out that such a change in staff is the norm with the naming of a new committee chairman.
Dave Camp became the committee chair for the 112th Congress, after the Republicans won control of the House in the 2010 election.
As Chairman, Shaw and his fellow Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee voted the trade agreement out of committee on a straight party line vote.
" The committee will have twelve members, six from the House and six from the Senate, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.
For Republicans, in 2012, there are potentially 3 superdelegates in each state, consisting of the state chairman and two RNC committee members.
A national electoral committee was established, comprising CEDA, Alfonsist, Traditionalist, and Agrarian representatives-but excluding Miguel Maura's Conservative Republicans.
Though it was believed that Republicans in general, including their representatives on the committee, were disposed to accept Crittenden's compromise or one substantially similar to it, President-elect Lincoln had already instructed his trusted allies in the legislature to resist any plan to extend slavery into the territories.
Republicans also limit members to a single committee or subcommittee chairmanship ; the chairmanships of the Standards of Official Conduct Committee and the House Administration Committee are exempt, thereby allowing a Member to chair either of these panels and an additional panel.
Republicans generally leave assignment decisions to the committee leader to determine, although most employ a bidding approach that allows members to select subcommittee slots.
With Republicans winning control of Congress in the 1946 election, Vinson served as ranking minority member of the committee for two years before becoming Chairman in early 1949.
As one of three Republicans on the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, he was involved with the investigation of Johnson aide Bobby Baker in 1964, which he decried as " a whitewash " after the committee blocked further investigation.
By the secession of the Southern senators the Republicans acquired control of the senate, and placed Fessenden at the head of the finance committee.
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