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Recent Examples of standing committee
Tuesday’s City Council meeting agenda also includes 20 items on the consent calendar, including the confirmation of mayoral appointments for vice mayor, mayor pro tem, city council standing committees, various regional authorities, agencies and commissions.
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Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 3 Jan. 2025
And the chairs of House GOP standing committees met with Trump on Saturday evening.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2025
The South Carolina senator has also become the first black chairman of a Senate standing committee, assuming the top spot on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Jan. 2025
Altogether, there are 72 delegates, five alternates, 10 standing committee members, and five staffers attending the convention, according to the Tennessee Democratic Party.
—Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 19 Aug. 2024
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Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 3 Jan. 2025
And the chairs of House GOP standing committees met with Trump on Saturday evening.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2025
The South Carolina senator has also become the first black chairman of a Senate standing committee, assuming the top spot on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Jan. 2025
Altogether, there are 72 delegates, five alternates, 10 standing committee members, and five staffers attending the convention, according to the Tennessee Democratic Party.
—Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 19 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for standing committee
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Assembling Your Governance Committee A cross-functional steering committee is vital, including legal, compliance, data, cybersecurity and business stakeholders.—
Blake Gibson,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Abu Rass, a member of the steering committee that oversaw this initiative, told me that the number of Palestinian citizens seeking advanced degrees grew from twenty-four thousand in 2010 to sixty-four thousand last year.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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The epiphany of common sense came late in an otherwise tedious congressional subcommittee hearing, and from a Democrat, Representative Jim Costa.—
Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
19 June 2025
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The subcommittee’s draft work plan calls for preparing a white paper later this year and then presenting its results before the city council in November or December.—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 2025
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“Standing committee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/standing%20committee. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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