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subcommittee

suhb kuh mi tee

  • n  a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose

  • Testifying before a Senate investigative subcommittee last week, Blandon said Noriega and his henchmen had turned Panama into a "criminal empire," a "gigantic machine" that .
  • The subcommittee had originally submitted its queries to the White House; what it got in reply was a handful of presidential statements and transcripts of news conferences.
  • For 17 months, the Senate subcommittee on Privileges and Elections fitfully investigated Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joe McCarthy and Connecticut's Democratic Senator William.
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  • Herb Kohl in Reuters
    We discussed ways forward, and one of the issues we discussed was the formation of a security subcommittee that would address at a expert or technical level some issues relating to security, be that support for violent militias, al-Qaida or border... Ryan Crocker http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Crocker&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE76wqtf-GsQghk4EcAyhT8wl02mQ International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/24/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-US-Iran.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNErzMryNfgxDgHyxa8yIJXbYeN5gg Jul 23, 2007 95771 127142 subcommittee The consequences for advertisers and consumers could be far-reaching and warrant careful review, and we plan to investigate the competitive and privacy implications of this deal further in the Antitrust Subcommittee," Kohl said in a statement.
  • Nita Lowey in FOXNews
    Clinton "would be an outstanding secretary of state and frankly in my position as the chair of the subcommittee that funds the Department of State and all foreign aid, I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to work with her in the future," Lowey said.

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