Quotes About Committee

I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon.

What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

A Church committee.

As he continued, one could see obvious disappointment on the faces of the white committee members. By trying to convince the Negroes that I was the main obstacle to a solution they had hoped to divide us among ourselves. But Ralph's statement left no doubt. From this moment on the white group saw the futility of attempting to negotiate us into a compromise.

All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses to fill that nothing. It's a tough battle. The toughest. It's simple enough to fight any enemy, so long as he's there to be fought. But when he isn't. . .

Hillary began to home in on one line of inquiry. Do I have to build a big national footprint or can I rely on the Democratic National Committee, state parties, and outside groups to shoulder some of the burden?

One of the songs I wrote while living there was called "Tearing Us Apart," which was about "the committee," the group of Pattie's friends whom I now blamed for coming between us.

The books we are required to teach frequently have nothing to do with anything except the fact that they have always been taught, or that there is an oversupply of them, or that some committee or other was asked to come up with some titles.

John Masterman, an Oxford history don, part-time detective novelist, and sportsman, was appointed chairman of the Twenty Committee, which included directors of intelligence for the army, navy, and RAF and representatives of MI5, MI6, Home Forces, and Home Defence.

My assignment to the consumer committee reflected my lack of seniority, but I didn't object.

But the vote didn't capture the extent of the concern and skepticism on the Committee.

The Committee approved the package unanimously.

the Committee would take a "balanced approach" in pursuing both price stability and maximum employment.

Speakers are expected to make clear that they are expressing their own views and not those of the Committee as a whole.

In 2000, Trump could have won the Reform Party nomination. I chaired his presidential exploratory committee.

The work of the Energy Subcommittee of the Science, Space and Technology Committee is critical to our region.

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

I've served on the International Relations Committee.

If one committee controlled your entire budget, I think you might make some effort to build up personal relationships. I think it is a no-brainer.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified.

Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.