Neither Riddell nor the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment have taken a position on the Udall-Pascrell bill.

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In DeLay's case, he presumably could seek to restore the House Ethics Committee to operating condition.

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Meanwhile Mr Maliki is also co-operating with a shadowy parliamentary committee controlled by the INA that has the power to banish politicians for alleged sympathies with Saddam Hussein and for senior membership of his Baath party.

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Northern Ireland Electricity's (NIE) Chief operating officer, Billy Graham, told the Enterprise Committee that he struggled to see the 40% target of alternative energy being achieved by 2020, on 18 November 2010.

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Former finance ministers Jack McConnell MSP, Andy Kerr MSP and Tom McCabe MSP told the Finance Committee the tartan tax was fully functioning and ready to implement within its ten month operating window, when they were in power from 1999 - 2007.

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The House Appropriations Committee has attached an amendment to a Pentagon spending bill that would stop Dubai Ports World from operating the terminals at six American ports.

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