University academic Graham Gudgin made the claim while giving evidence to the Scotland Bill committee.
This means that any member can contribute to the debate, and not just members of the public bill committee.
Representatives of religious organisations were giving evidence to the End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill Committee on 21 September 2010.
The SNP amendment, which stated the improvements to the bill suggested by the Scotland Bill Committee did not go far enough, was defeated.
The convener of the Forth Crossing Bill Committee, Jackson Carlaw, said all the committee unanimously backed a replacement bridge and could see no alternative to it.
The Scotland Bill Committee in the last parliament called for the devolving of the aggregates levy and air passenger duty following a UK government review of the issues.
In the Commons, a public bill committee is usually set up to examine the bill, with the power to make amendments provided they are relevant to the bill's subject matter.
It's also worth keeping an eye on the Public Bill Committee dealing with the detailed scrutiny of the Children and Families Bill Committee (at 8.55am and 2pm and also on Thursday).
The comments provoked concern among MSPs on the Scotland Bill Committee who are investigating the pros and cons of the policy, which forms a key SNP demand for inclusion in the legislation.
For comparison, the Bill committee had 28 sessions on the original, pre-paused, version of the Bill, running through February and March, considering 300 amendments and holding more than a hundred votes along the way.
In the meantime, the only changes likely to be made at the bill committee are ones offered up by the government itself, if they happen on some technical issue that needs to be addressed.
Mr Swinney was giving evidence to the Scotland Bill Committee alongside Parliamentary Business and Government Strategy Secretary Bruce Crawford on 17 November 2011, as the committee gave the legislation its final public scrutiny.
In the Lords (starting at 3pm) it's Day 11 of the Health and Social Care Bill Committee Stage - looking in detail at the provisions on provider regulation, licensing and pricing - some amendments may be pushed to a vote.
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As Andrew Lansley sends sections of his Health and Social Care Bill back to a Commons public bill committee, to be re-written according to the dictates of the NHS Future Forum, can this be considered a triumph for Parliament, as opposed to the Government?
She has emerged as a trenchant critic of the Government's Health and Social Care Bill, asked, rather innocently, asked if she could be put on the Public Bill Committee considering it, because she had a couple of amendments in mind, and complained when she was kept off.
And as the Lib Dem MP John Pugh, who sat on that bill committee, pointed out, around 70 per cent of the amendments proposed by Labour during the committee process, on subjects like integration and collaboration, and then rejected, are now to be incorporated in the new improved version, by the Government.
The Public Bill Committee will convene under the chairmanship of the Conservative Gary Streeter, and includes some of the prominent combatants from last Tuesday's second reading debate, David Burrows the Conservative backbencher who organised the vote against on the Tory benches, and former minister turned awkward squaddie Tim Loughton will be ranged against prominent supporters of the bill, like Labour's Chris Bryant.
By returning parts of the bill to committee stage, it means it is likely to take longer to become law.
The former Labour minister was giving evidence to the Draft Defamation Bill Joint Committee, which has been set up to investigate the proposals.
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Earlier in March, the Lords sat for nearly four hours beyond the usual finish time for a Thursday to scrutinise the bill in committee.
As MPs completed consideration of the bill at committee stage on 26 July 2010, Mr Pugh warned that supporting "inconsistency and duff argument" in the bill would not help the coalition.
According to provision 7.130 of the "Rules of the Council, " a majority of the 51-member council has the power to discharge a bill from committee for consideration by the full body.
During resumed debate on the Academies Bill at committee stage on 22 July 2010, Mr Coaker said he feared any watering down of playing field regulations could be "very damaging" to pupils' education.
While some lawmakers would like to bring more jobs to state, the violence of the sport can overwhelm the economic argument, said Rep. Brenda Kupchick, a Republican who voted against the bill in committee earlier this week.
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Republican critics made no claim they can defeat the bill in committee and concentrated instead on casting doubt on assertions that it will secure the U.S.-Mexican border before it allows immigrants illegally in the United States to take their first steps toward legal status.
But the Lords (starting at 11am) plough remorselessly on with the committee stage of the Health and Social Care Bill - day six, and from 2pm they will be considering the Welfare Reform Bill in grand committee.
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MPs were debating the European Union Bill's committee stage for a fifth day - the government says the bill will stop more UK powers being handed to Brussels without a public vote but Labour argues it is a political gesture aimed at appeasing Eurosceptic Tories.
Then it's on to the fourth day of Report Stage consideration of the Localism Bill - the third of 12 days of Grand Committee debate on the Welfare Reform Bill will be held in a committee room upstairs.
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The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is reportedly looking at moving a new, six-year highway appropriations bill out of committee some time this spring.
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On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee begins two days of hearings with regulators and housing authorities to discuss a bill introduced by Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass.
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