• But unicameralists are hard-pressed to cite specific failures of the bicameral, conference committee system.

    ECONOMIST: State legislatures

  • Last year, the government urged councils to abolish the century-old committee system of local government.

    ECONOMIST: Provincial cities

  • "With the committee system all 84 members of the council will have an input on decisions, " she said.

    BBC: George Nobbs

  • Members will form a full cabinet by early next week with Mr Nobbs as transitional leader to oversee the implementation of the new committee system.

    BBC: George Nobbs

  • When Kevin Keegan quit as England coach less than a year into Mr Crozier's tenure, he indicated his attitude towards the FA's committee system by announcing he would personally head-hunt a replacement.

    BBC: Profile: Adam Crozier

  • There is no shortage of evidence that the current system of local government could be improved: last year, an Audit Commission report criticised the committee system as an enormous waste of time and money.

    ECONOMIST: Local government

  • The hard-won increase in the credibility of the select committee system during this Parliament could easily be squandered if the report is too hard, too soft, is fudged, or is seen to depart from the evidence.

    BBC: Draft dodging

  • And the Commons hierarchy is clearly worried that the outcome could be a report which either by being too soft or by going beyond what the evidence justifies, damages the new and hard won credibility of the select committee system.

    BBC: Plenty at stake for hacking report

  • Even though Congress is different in this era -- with both parties deeply divided internally and a closed committee system that dampens the power of party leaders to control members -- those historical struggles offer some instructive lessons for today as to how to seize a great opportunity that emerges.

    CNN: Seize the immigration deal

  • That was all written into the rulebook in the last parliament by the Wright Committee, which designed the new system of elected committee chairs, with the aim of preventing party political attacks on them.

    BBC: Can Ian Davidson stay as chair after neo fascist jibe?

  • Tabrani Rab, a Riau native and member of the central-government committee overseeing the devolution system, is more worried about corruption.

    ECONOMIST: Devolution isn't working as planned

  • The committee also criticised the ticketing system used for the London Olympics, which saw the public unable to buy a large proportion of tickets for major events.

    BBC: MPs warn on London 2012 volunteering legacy

  • This would be followed by the independent review of the system by the Committee on Standards in Public Life, which he urged to report as soon as possible.

    BBC: Leaders in Commons expenses clash

  • The situation reached a boiling point in the 1970s, when in the aftermath of Watergate, reformers transformed the system by weakening committee chairs, empowering party leaders and opening up the legislative process through sunshine rules and more.

    CNN: Gridlock in Congress? Blame the GOP

  • The decision coincides with LDP resistance to efforts to allow a jury system in Japan, says Kohei Nakabo, the former head of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and now the chair of a committee to reform the legal system.

    FORBES: Japan's Dirty Secrets

  • The House of Commons education select committee recently called for a pay system that reflected the different contributions of school staff.

    BBC: Michael Gove pushes for performance pay for teachers

  • In November, the Senate voted to set up a select committee to examine the new tax system and take evidence from independent economists.

    ECONOMIST: Australia

  • Sir Ian was selected to head the new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which will run a new expenses system, by a committee of long-serving MPs.

    BBC: MPs' second home profits 'should be surrendered'

  • There was also a backlog of a quarter of a million cases waiting to be processed, and around 36, 000 cases were "simply stuck in the system", the committee's report said.

    BBC: Parents and staff suffered during the CSA reforms, MPs say

  • Committee chairman Paul Burstow said the current system was a "dog's breakfast" and needed reforming.

    BBC: Care costs cap 'will cause disputes'

  • The new chairman of the Senate armed services committee Carl Levin has said the rendition system "needs a thorough review".

    BBC: The CIA is believed to have flown at least 1,200 flights

  • The cross-party committee said an efficient and transparent tax system was of "fundamental importance" to a country's economic and social development.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • Soon afterward, he accepted a request to build a communications system for the International Rescue Committee that would allow it to share child refugee data with other agencies using IBM's Lotus Notes.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Holyrood's health committee heard last year that the IPTR system was an "inequitable process" that favours young, middle-class and articulate applicants over more suitable vulnerable people who cannot speak up for themselves.

    BBC: Kalydeco tablets

  • Susan Archibald appeared before Holyrood's public petitions committee calling for radical improvements to the current system.

    BBC: Chronic pain campaigner makes emotional plea to MSPs

  • The incoming chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Skelton said the all-volunteer system should not change.

    CNN: Pelosi says no to draft legislation

  • The Cubie committee's paper catalogues how the new system is deterring some people from going into tertiary education.

    ECONOMIST: Universities

  • Previous recent efforts to overhaul the system never made it out of committee.

    FORBES: Patent Fight Pending

  • "But they are going to be affected by the climate change that is already in the (atmospheric) system, " the minister told committee members.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | UN to talk on climate adaptation

  • The Labour AM for Swansea West told the committee that his criticism was levelled at the system rather than at all civil servants.

    BBC: Public Accounts Committee

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