I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee. – Howard Fast
I think that where I’ve watched a movie go wrong, it’s usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. – John le Carre
But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic. – John L. Lewis
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is committed to policies that promote maximum employment and price stability, consistent with our mandate from Congress. – Janet Yellen
Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn’t let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman. – John Dingell
On the Agriculture Committee, I will be an ardent and strong champion for our farmers to ensure that they are treated fairly, particularly in regards to how their products are priced. – Chris Gibson
Each university should have a Young Scholars’ Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted. – Anatoly Chubais
Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I’ve seen the promise and the peril of divided government before. – Ari Fleischer
I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship. – Bill Flores
Jim, I’m not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents. – Alberto Gonzales
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function. – Arlen Specter
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy. – Ben Macintyre
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. – Frank Moore Colby
That’s because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals. – Mary Lou Retton
As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law. – Norman Lamm
The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century. – Charles Bass
Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation – the backup to everything it does. – M. Stanton Evans
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings. – Elliott Abrams
The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents. – Ellen Ochoa
