How to Use subcommittee in a Sentence

subcommittee

noun
  • The Senate has formed a subcommittee to set up an investigation.
  • The last effort, in 2022, died in a House subcommittee.
    Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And last week the House Oversight subcommittee chimed in.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
  • The committee assigned the bill to a subcommittee for more work.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Derek Myers, 31, told staff of the House’s ethics subcommittee during an int ...
    Jake Offenhartz, ajc, 1 June 2023
  • Raskin was given time to criticize the creation of the subcommittee.
    Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The bill is scheduled to be discussed in a subcommittee on January 26.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Joe, 50, and Irma, 48, were both active members of their church, too, serving as leaders on one of the church subcommittees.
    Emilie Eaton, San Antonio Express-News, 24 May 2023
  • Jordan, who will chair the weaponization subcommittee, did not respond to a request for comment.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Wenstrup said the subcommittee will be under the umbrella of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
    Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The subcommittee's review of the movement and construction of the gallows produced several grainy images of the faces of people believed to be near the assembly of the gallows.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • McClain was a member of the board’s audit and governance subcommittee.
    Lia Russell, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Smith and Lummis are the chairperson and ranking member of a Senate subcommittee on housing.
    Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 16 June 2023
  • Three measures for such orders authored by Freeman failed in a House subcommittee on Tuesday.
    Sanya Mansoor, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Neighbors in past council subcommittee meetings have opposed the project.
    Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 19 Jan. 2024
  • David Ortiz, a member of the planning group’s project review subcommittee, worried the pipeline would help New Leaf scale up its overall production.
    Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The subcommittee members discussed whether federal or state laws ought to apply to these deals and how consumers can be better protected.
    Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 12 July 2023
  • The subcommittee chairman has previously said as many as 19 FBI whistleblowers have made contact with his team.
    Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In 2015, an attorney for the group testified before a House subcommittee to oppose the policy.
    Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Kieckhefer said Willden was already part of the transition team’s budget subcommittee when Kieckhefer was named chief of staff and took over management of the budget process.
    Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Bunch said the council will be missing a member throughout most of the rest of the year and encouraged her fellow members to attend all regular and subcommittee meetings in order to do business.
    Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 7 July 2023
  • The spokesperson for the Democratic members of the subcommittee did not respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment.
    Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But the act died in subcommittee, along with several more modest immigration bills.
    Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The Stumos returned to Washington a month later, for a hearing before the House aviation subcommittee.
    James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, antitrust advocates are watching the break-up of the bipartisan trustbuster duo who sat atop the antitrust subcommittee.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Kranz and Councilman Bruce Ehlers served on the council subcommittee that negotiated the land purchase.
    Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In the subcommittee hearing, there was a whole lot of discussion about transparency, the need for it, space information shared not just among government officials but also with the public.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2023
  • The bill has been floated in recent years without success but reached the first step in Iowa’s lawmaking process Wednesday, when it was rejected by three members of a House Judiciary subcommittee.
    Hannah Fingerhut, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Days later, the separation was made formal when the budget chairman moved oversight of the Department of Justice to a different subcommittee.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Klobuchar leads the Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee after Democrats retained control of the Senate in the midterm elections.
    Chad Pergram, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2023

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