Committee Quotations

The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents.

Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation.

Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open,

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.

The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.

In Nueva Esperanza, Honduras, community members pooled their resources and organized a local water committee that with CARE's technical guidance built a gravity-fed water system that now provides clean water directly to people's homes.

Once you hit 40, being in a band - a committee voting constantly on what you're going to be doing next month - it's more of a challenge. And when you have a kid as well.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

There's probably a little more creative freedom in cable versus network, a little less of a committee looking over everyone's shoulder, but it depends on the network; it depends on the show; it depends on who the head writer or show runner is and what track record they have.

I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to become a good terrorist.

The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.

For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.

African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs.

It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons.

There's rule changes every year. I do wish, however, that the NFL did have a voice from the players' side, whether it's our players' union president, or team captains, or our executive committee on the players' side. Because we're the guys that realize the risk; we're the guys on the field.

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.

In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified.

The PM may have said it, but the civil aviation minister has not said anything about employee's demand for the committee yet.

We appreciate the chairman's willingness, and that of his staff, to devote the time and effort to resolve this matter and believe that our agreement ensures that the needs of both the committee and the White House will be met,

We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.

We believe that if one of these bills passes through the committee, it's going to pass. The pressure has to be brought on the committee members.

We've appointed a committee to look at our needs. We post the meetings and the public is welcome to come and voice their opinion. The public is always welcome. We need to find enough property where we can build as we need. We'll get it done.

We've always had a School Committee member or two on these committees, and I feel very strongly that should continue. We need to know what we're bringing in.

We broke it down into indoor facilities and outdoor facilities. The (high school athletic facilities) committee listed what we felt every school needed in priority order.

We believe we have crafted a bill that reflects the priorities of the committee as well as those of the entire Senate,

unless the nominating committee of our board of directors decides otherwise in accordance with our corporate governance guidelines.

With UK growth remaining weak and below trend, and with inflationary pressures easing, we urge the (Bank of England's) monetary policy committee to consider an early interest rate cut.

Work safety incidents, which always involve losses of human lives, attracted wide public attention. Therefore, in 2005, the NPC Standing Committee examined the work safety law implementation from various aspects.

We're going to be working with a community committee, a committee of people from the school district, teachers, support staff, all of them will collaborate to look through the applications, then we will umm whittle it down to a group of 6 we hope sometime toward the end of September.

We express our appreciation to voters who participated in the recent election process. The county committee system can only work effectively with strong producer involvement.

We're getting literally hundreds of calls about passengers frustrated with flight delays and taking it out on the flight attendants. We've asked the attendants to document each situation and forward onto our safety and health committee to investigate.

Three years into a phase, we begin to gather information to determine if there continues to be a need for the program and what work to include in the next phase. At the end of any five-year program, it could be that the committee says, We don't feel there are other thoroughfares we think we should spend money on and make that recommendation,' or the voters could decide that.

Three years ago, Tim was a candidate and did a real god job. Everyone on the search committee was real impressed with him. It just wasn't going to work from a time and commitment standpoint due to his high school duties.

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

We requested that the committee defer its request for a staff interview at least until after the August recess or until such time as we were better informed. We never received a response to this letter.

With this win against Maryville I think the national committee is going to have a hard time not selecting us.

With this first initiative from the Finance Committee - and there will be more in other areas where we have jurisdiction - we want the victims through all of the affected areas to know that they can count on us to create a set of measures that will return vitality and vigor to the Gulf region.

We've got a very good cross-section, some large land owners, Conservation Committee members. Basically every viewpoint has been represented. The committee has worked extremely well together and balanced all of the view points.

We have no money, so the committee will have to go out and raise it, period.

We have no complaints about our bracket. The committee did what they did for a reason and we're happy where we're seeded and we're happy we have a chance to do what we hope to do, which is to come back home and play in front of our crowd.

We were trying to go hard to get guys in here for competition. Instead of one guy, we may go by committee to try to replace Antoine.

We want the new cabinet to succeed. But this requires an understanding on many issues, especially the nature of the Palestinian political system and the role of the president of the Palestinian Authority, who is also the chairman of the executive committee of the PLO.

We are all prepared to meet with the special committee and its legal and financial advisors at your earliest convenience,

Therefore, the committee believes that a majority of the commissioners court that will be in office in January opposes the current bond election. Consequently, the No No Committee believes that the current jail proposals do not accurately reflect the will of the citizens of Smith County.

We also think it can be a good training committee to see if they might be interested in serving on the school board at a future date.

We are not apologetic of appointing a committee to look into the economic, social, education and cultural conditions of the single largest minority group.

We are holding active consultations with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) about how to let the people in Taiwan share the Olympic glory.

We did not have in the past few days any meetings of the coordinating committee as there were no issues on the table and this is a comfort factor for IOC.

We did get a little bit of respect from the selection committee as far as the five seed, but we played ourselves into that respect. We played a great season.

We did face a lot of adversity at Brevard and our guys did a good job bouncing back. We were playing fullback by committee there so it was a true team win.

The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.

We hope to discuss the issue in the next executive committee meeting and once we have agreed we shall make the recommendation to the council before we reply to the request.

We have philosophical differences on how to run the campaign. If the committee wanted to withhold money to make it more difficult for me to run my own campaign, I won't ask for any now.

The fact it's repeatedly passed Chairman Pombo's committee would advocate for a vote, as would the fact the CNMI is the only U.S. territory without nonvoting representation.

The creation of the special committee reflects the serious commitment by all of our trustees to ensure that the J. Paul Getty Trust, its board and each of its members and employees meets all legal requirements as well as the highest ethical standards while carrying out the trust's mission,

The CPPCC National Committee will continue to actively develop its friendly exchanges with foreign parliaments, international organizations, as well as non-governmental organizations.

The procedure is that the committee makes its recommendation to the City Council and, of course, the City Council has the final authority on this.

The people of Spokane, like they always do, again stepped forward to support a very worthy cause. This event continues to grow and everyone involved is grateful for the support from the Spokane community. We have a great committee that takes a lot of pride in this event.

We're just trying to help these offices. All we're interested in is trying to help these offices with their needs. The committee can only make recommendations. But you're either gonna have to buy, lease or build.

We have asked Norway to announce a fresh date for the talks because we are going to have a central committee meeting before that.

We have a safety committee that meets at least once a month. Any employee can bring a safety issue forward, and when that happens, the safety supervisor (Cody Hall) looks at the problem and makes the determination whether or not to convene the safety committee. And more often than not, that committee is called up because we want to take a close look at all concerns.

We have it in a committee right now and we're going through all the pros and cons. We think it makes a lot of sense for us from a business standpoint, with sponsors and facilities like this one.

We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what.

This problem is finished for now, but there will be a committee and a procedure for dealing with this kind of matter.

We've talked about no fewer than six and no more than eight (members). But that's not set in concrete. We had some discussion with the owners about whether the committee should be one owner for each division, or whether there was any one factor that could determine how the committee would be composed.

We very strongly want to see good financial services modernization legislation passed this year, ... The bill that came out of the Senate banking committee does not meet these requisites.

We might do some field trips. Once we choose the six or so, we will invite more than just the committee to interview candidates.

We won some big games against some big quality opponents. Hopefully, we've done enough to get in the tournament, but it's out of our hands right now. Hopefully, the committee will look at our record and who we've played and put us in.

What I am hoping we can do in the conference committee is to find another way that is not the credit rating way.

We need between three to six months. I am not going to specify the periods now because we have an international committee actually involving the European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan and Norway who work with us in the local government elections. I will convene this committee as soon as possible.

When we saw the subject matter we decided to work together with the cinema committee and do some of the movie.

When the selection committee took the decision, they conveyed it to me. It was a unanimous decision.... I don't want to interfere in the selection process.

We want to make sure we do this right and not rush through it. It won't leave my Finance Committee $100 million out of balance.

The planning committee is the first step to making us better prepared, ... We must continue to stay alert and work closely together.

The planning committee for the grant project decided that the resident companies should be allowed to apply for special-project grants.

Like all our volunteer committee chairs, Alan Silverman has devoted an enormous amount of his time to this year's AES Convention program. The workshops he has developed reflect this combination of knowledge and dedication, and we greatly appreciate his effort.

Making important energy policy that affects national security, the economy and public health is too important to be done behind the closed doors of a conference committee that avoids public hearings or the scrutiny of the full committees of each chamber. This is coming at a time when members of both parties are talking about their commitment to reform Congress to make their work more transparent and to curtail the influence of lobbyists.

Let staff look into the participants in the committee to make sure they are diverse and make recommendations to the council.

Last year, the NPC Standing Committee set the issues relating to resources and environment on top agenda on its supervision work. The legislature assigned a group to examine the law enforcement on water pollution prevention and control, and heard and discussed the report on current energy security situation made by the State Council.

Let's declassify that memo I sent on January 25. And let's declassify the national security directive that Dr. Rice's committee approved nine months later, on September 4. And let's see if there's any difference between those two, because there isn't,

Let's change the law so that the governor can't just sail in and change the leadership at the Committee of Consumer Services.

Many Veterans Committee members have spoken publicly or privately against letting Rose in. Some have even threatened to boycott the Hall of Fame ceremonies if he is elected. So his best chances of getting into the Hall are during the next two years.

Several questions concerning the status of veteran's benefits, the construction of veteran's homes, and suitable mental health services face our veteran population and necessitate action, ... As chair of the Assembly committee on veterans affairs I will fight to provide first-rate care for California's 2.5 million veterans and will pursue increased benefits for the brave men and women serving in the California National Guard.

Sen. Leahy and I have our differences, but when it comes to procedures on the committee and setting how things are going to be done, I consult with him at every turn,

Sen. Kennedy hopes we have a national policy in place soon. But in the interim, he feels it's understandable why members of the committee would want to look at navigational safety issues that accompany these kinds of projects.

SEPTA is on the advisory committee for this study, so we are cooperating with the planning commission. They haven't started the planning study yet or the process of hiring a consultant, so we won't know what SEPTA's final role will be until then.

Sentiment is not too positive and people are quite cautious ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Tuesday.

Sen. Allard testified in front of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee last year that a number of hurdles have to be cleared before he could support this legislation, including putting it to a statewide referendum. The issue is larger than just Pueblo County.

She wants to know why this committee continues to focus so much on the style of a man's jacket that was only popular for a few years in the 1960s.

She was very passionate about the Children's Clinic. She served on the Special Projects Committee that helped raise funds for five years.

She was a student member of the promotions committee for Rocky Dailey. I was supposed to get in contact with her but couldn't reach her. The police told the dean who told me that she had just died.

She's moved up steadily. Every year we've done it, the Appropriations Committee has ranked as the most powerful committee.

Some museum boards think that choosing an architect can be reduced to a science, but it comes down to a matter of taste, pure and simple. A shortlist of prospective designers speaks volumes about the likely outcome. If the candidates' styles are too divergent, the search committee doesn't know what it wants.

Since coming to Congress in 1993, I have witnessed this committee struggle with VA's inability to adequately manage its IT funding and IT modernization efforts, ... This lack of accountability in VA IT spending must stop.

She has made this a referendum on herself, ... I expect to be on the search committee for a new CEO. This time around we do not want someone learning on the job.

She has a burden. Everyone who comes before this committee has a burden, but I think her burden is perhaps higher.