Others, like Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Sub-committee on Crime and Drugs, have recently complained about what they deem to be inadequate sentencing in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases.
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The House of Lords was due to spend a couple of days in October discussing the way community sentences operate as part of its detailed committee stage scrutiny of the Crime and Courts Bill - but no more.
He was the former chair of the ABA White Collar Crime Committee and is currently the First Vice-Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section.
"Based on the preliminary investigation's results, a decision was taken to end the criminal case due to a lack of evidence of a crime, " the Committee said.
The Investigative Committee said no crime was committed against him.
This is somebody that has a long history with these issues from being the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and intimately involved in the passage of the first crime bill that included an assault weapons ban.
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In July 2001 Mr Pecorella, who chairs the lower house's justice committee, also sponsored a law to downgrade the crime of false accounting, for which the prime minister was then on trial.
He wrote his own version, but the one that passed was sponsored by the then-chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's crime subcommittee, Rep. Bill McCollum, a Florida Republican.
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In the process, the committee destroyed the lives of over 300 motion picture and literary artists whose only crime was refusing to turn in their friends as communist sympathizers- whether they were sympathizers or not.
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The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons, David Davies, argues that the rise in crime justifies a 25% increase in police numbers.
To this end, the committee has been too willing to dilute the constitutional standard of what makes up a high crime and misdemeanor by equating a violation of a statute -- even a criminal statute -- to a violation of Article II, Section 4.
Apparently, the 2007 tenure committee was unconvinced that Massad's work excusing Arab males for murdering their womenfolk for the "crime" of "dishonoring" them was up to Columbia's traditional academic standards.
The Illinois committee's report points out that Blagojevich does not need to be found guilty of a crime for the House to impeach him.
Labour's Joanne McCartney chairs the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee.
Ted Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee, working on issues ranging from crime to immigration to bankruptcy and fighting tirelessly to protect civil rights, women's rights and religious freedom.
The sentencing proposals meant the Scottish government had "turned its back on those campaigning on knife crime", according to the Conservative MSP and convener of the Justice Committee, Bill Aitken.
Although the South African bid committee have put a great deal of energy into their security plan, the country's terrible crime rate remains a problem.
The House of Commons science and technology committee is conducting an inquiry into the impact of closing the Forensic Science Service (FSS) which analysed crime scene evidence in England and Wales.
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, said she was crafting a bill that would make it a federal crime to sell tickets to the historic event.
Six months later, the PSNI say their investigation into hate crime allegations remains active, while the psychiatrist who served as an advisor to the Assembly health committee chaired by Mrs Robinson has resigned from that role.
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