单词 | committee of the whole house |
释义 | > as lemmasCommittee of the Whole House Committee of the Whole House (also Committee of the Whole; also with lower-case initials) a committee (sense 1b) formed of all the members of a legislative or deliberative body sitting to consider a proposal, measure, bill, etc.In the British Parliament, the committee stage of all public Bills in the House of Lords takes place in a committee of the whole House; in the Commons the committee stage is normally taken by a standing committee, but major Bills are sometimes referred instead to a whole House committee. The U.S. House of Representatives may sit as a committee (officially called the Committee of the whole House on the State of the Union but more usually referred to as the Committee of the Whole) in order to be able to suspend its usual rules and move ahead quickly on major bills. ΚΠ 1620 Orig. Jrnls. House of Lords 24 Apr. 3 82/2 The Lords will give Meeting unto the Commons..in the Painted Chamber, with a Committee of the whole House. 1689 E. Bohun tr. J. Sleidane Gen. Hist. Reformation of Church vi. 103 They understood there was a Committee of the whole appointed to confer among themselves about the matters proposed. 1702 W. Nicolson London Diaries 22 Dec. (1985) 150 The Money-Bill read a second time, and Committed to a Committee of the whole House. 1776 Extracts Jrnl. Proc. Provinc. Congr. S.-Carolina 1 Feb. 103 The Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the Committee of the whole, on a plan or form of government. 1803 Cobbett's Ann. Reg. 3 814 Order of the day for a committee of the whole on the consolidation of the Custom-Duties. 1834 Hist. Congr. I. v. 514 This motion was committed to a committee of the whole house. 1921 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 15 377 The rule permitting the House to go into committee of the whole House to consider business on the private calendar. 1950 Times 27 Nov. 6/7 The Bill will then be considered by a committee of the whole House. 2001 S. Bach in N. O. Sneider House of Representatives U.S. iii. 46 The House transacts much of its business on the floor by resolving itself into the Committee of the Whole—formally, the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. 2010 Toronto Star (Nexis) 19 May b1 He had chaired the committee of the whole at the second United Nations conference on biodiversity in 1995. < as lemmas |
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