• The States Assembly and Constitution Committee (SACC) said it hoped to overcome restrictions on broadcasting debates to launch the service.

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  • And so the United States Constitution was certainly a major document that inspired and that was referred to by the constitution committee.

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  • Neither House is due to sit on Thursday or Friday - but watch out for the Lords Constitution Committee report on the Legal Aid Bill.

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  • But the Lords Constitution Committee has warned the proposals could make politicians less accountable to voters, because the five year gap between elections would be too long.

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  • Lord McNally, replying for the government, stressed that the Lords constitution committee's report had influenced the Parliamentary Voting and Constituencies Bill, which was being debated in the Commons.

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  • In a debate on the Lords constitution committee's report on 12 October 2010, a number of peers disagreed with the written response sent by Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper.

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  • Broadcasting traditionally falls under the umbrella of the Home Department but because the streaming would specifically involve States meetings, it was agreed the States Assembly and Constitution Committee should take it on.

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  • Peers later passed, without a vote, an amendment agreed between the government and the Lords Constitution Committee, specifying that the health secretary retains "ministerial responsibility to Parliament for the provision of the health service in England".

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  • But the matter was discussed again last October after changes in the council's constitution and committee membership, and it was rejected.

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  • Constitution drafting committee head Anand Panyarachun dismisses Somchai's assertion, but acknowledges a distinction between father and sons, both of whom sit in Parliament.

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  • In 1944, Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reached agreement on the constitution of the French Committee of Liberation under their joint presidency.

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  • The draft constitution, written by a committee of experts after extensive public consultation, is popular.

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  • Having spent the past several months assisting the NHLPA with a rewrite of its constitution and heading the search committee for a new executive director, Fehr seems to have brought some hope to an association some thought was falling apart following the firing of former association head, Paul Kelly.

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  • He describes the process of drafting the constitution -- there was a committee that referred to the constitutions of the world.

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  • But Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the Constitution Party and a member of the National Salvation Front, reiterated two demands before the front would engage in dialogue: the formation of a new government and a committee to amend the constitution.

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  • Several members of the committee drafting Iraq's constitution say they've agreed to extend the deadline for as long as 10 days.

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  • So it was decided that a committee should prepare a draft constitution by November, which would then be taken to the people for discussion.

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  • He helped draft the country's new constitution and was a member of a committee, set up by the US, tasked with purging Iraq of its Baathist legacy.

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  • But it remains to be seen what provisions would be contained in the new constitution, to be drafted by a committee chosen by the newly elected congress, said Eltahawy.

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  • Carl Levin, for instance, the highest-ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said that the Iraqi constitution needs to be changed to include more Sunnis in the government.

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  • In Baghdad today, the head of the committee drawing up Iraq's new constitution said the group will meet its deadline to have a draft ready by mid-August.

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  • But after the court decisions, an Egyptian general said on television that the generals had assumed all legislative powers, and would begin appointing a committee to draft the country's new constitution on Friday.

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  • This national dialogue has focused on the setting up of a constitutional committee that will look into the required amendments of the constitution and the needed legislative reforms.

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  • In particular, the totality of what is now known about her views concerning the role of foreign law in American courts suggest both a lack of candor before the Judiciary Committee and a judicial philosophy that is at odds with the Constitution of the United States.

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  • In the first phase of hearings in the impeachment inquiry against Bill Clinton, constitutional experts told members of the House Judiciary Committee that a halfway reprimand, such as censure, would have no basis in the constitution.

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  • At a March 19 hearing on election problems, Michigan Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, pressed New York Rep. Gerald Nadler, chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, to hold a hearing on Acorn.

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  • Timothy Geithner, claiming that the executive order as well as a previous order issued by the Committee On Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) violate the U.S. constitution.

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  • Conversely, at Sedgley Working Men's Club, which, like many in the Midlands, has already given women equal rights, the committee is pessimistic about the chances of securing the two-thirds majority required to alter the constitution.

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  • After weeks of wrangling and missed deadlines, a draft constitution was agreed upon by Iraq's Shia Arab and Kurdish politicians but not by Sunni Arabs on the drafting committee.

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