The committee had six members from slave states and six from free states.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Then seven members of the center's executive committee make the final choices.

VOA: special.2010.12.06

Treasury Secretary Geithner told members of the Senate banking committee that economic recovery efforts are beginning to take effect.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Thousands of Egyptians helped out with the organization of this three-week event as volunteers and members of the local organizing committee.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Some members of the U.S.Olympic Committee have indicated Mr.Obama's absence in Copenhagen would be noticed, and could have an impact on the decision making process.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

And Brown notes that even among members of the president's own Democratic Party, only 49 percent of voters say the Nobel Committee made the right choice.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Among several members of Congress at the event was the ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who stressed the fact that an estimated 80 percent of trafficking victims are women and half are children.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

"Clearly the pictures are disturbing," "but what I would also say to people is that as I think members of the committee have correctly pointed out, pictures are a snapshot,all right, and what we will not do and what I will not do is make assumptions prior to the completion of our investigation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21