Specter serves as the temporary chair of the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts.

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Soufan was hidden behind a protective screen during his testimony before the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts.

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The Budgets Committee has recommended that the administrative budget - covering the Parliament's internal costs - should not exceed the EU-wide inflation rate of 1.9%, which means a real terms freeze.

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"The committee wants to assure you that it intends to focus solely on the administrative process of the case assignments, and will not make any queries which go to the substance of these or any other cases before the (court), " Burton said in his letter requesting testimony from Judge Johnson.

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While administrative names can endure (Prince George's County, Md.), the committee has granted only five possessive apostrophes in 113 years: Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

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At a recent hearing, Democratic Rep. Kay Floyd, who was an administrative law judge before winning election to the Legislature, expressed concern that several bills the committee passed appeared to be unconstitutional.

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The assembly would, in Mr Donaldson's scenario, work in a committee-like structure to advise the ministers of the Northern Ireland Office, but would not have administrative powers or make executive decisions.

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