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6 unusual facts about Committee


Art Hanger

During the 1st and 2nd Session of the 39th Parliament he served as Chair of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, and also chaired the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

Fang Liufang

He is a member of the Expert Consultancy Committee of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Committee (CIETAC) and an Arbitrator for the Beijing Arbitration Commission.

Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau

Initially, it was called Bureau of Investigation and Statistics subordinated to the Central Executive Committee of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).

Robert Lush

Sir Robert Lush (1807–1881) was an English judge who served on many Commissions and Committees of Judges.

Willis H. Stephens, Sr.

As Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Stephens was considered one of the most powerful and influential men in New York State.

Xie Xuejing

Member of the Central Executive Committee and the Chairman of the Analytical Technology Committee of the Global Geochemical Mapping Working Group, IUGS.


Alastair Balls

Alastair Balls served as secretary to the U.K. government's Channel Tunnel advisory committee of experts (the Cairncross Committee of 1974-75) chaired by another Scottish economist Sir Alexander Cairncross, also a former pupil of Hamilton Academy.

Alt.sex

The University of Waterloo in 1994 ceased carrying alt.sex-bondage, alt.sex.bestiality, alt.sex-stories, and alt.sex-stories.d upon the recommendation of its ethics committee, which had expressed concerns that the content of those newsgroups may have violated the Criminal Code of Canada.

André Sapir

He is Member of the King Baudouin Foundation’s Board of Trustees and Chairman of its Selection Committee for the King Baudouin International Development Prize; and of the International Scientific Advisory Councils of the Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies (WIIW), of Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII) in Paris, and of Fundacion Ideas in Madrid.

Andrei Shleifer

During the early 1990s, Andrei Shleifer was an advisor to Anatoly Chubais, the then vice-premier of Russia, handling the portfolio of Rosimushchestvo (the Committee for the Management of State Property), and was one of the engineers of Russian privatization.

Barbara Doherty

In 1982 Doherty was on the steering committee to found the Women of Providence in Collaboration, an association of religious congregations related to Providence.

Battle of Kilsyth

His orders were subject to the approval of the "Committee of Estates", consisting of the Earls of Argyll, Crawford and Tullibardine, and the Lords Elcho, and Balfour of Burleigh, together with a number of Calvinist clergymen.

Cadillac V8 engine

White was appointed to a committee of three to supervise the development of the V12 Liberty Aircraft Motor.

Charles Bennett Smith

He served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty-fourth Congress), Committee on Patents (Sixty-fifth Congress).

Christopher Ward

Christopher J. Ward, American politician, former treasurer of the National Republican Congressional Committee

Committee of Five

On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

Cumberland Presbytery

History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988, by Matthew H. Gore, Joint Heritage Committee of Covenant and Cumberland Presbyteries.

Elijah Mudenda

He was a UNIP member of the central committee in charge of the party control commission when he retired from politics, after the party lost the 1991 general elections to the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) Party.

Eugene R. McGrath

McGrath was a member of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, the Development Advisory Council for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the National Academy of Engineering, and the New York City Public/Private Initiatives.

European Network for Training Economic Research

From March 1, 2011 Richard Blundell (UCL, London), Torsten Persson (University of Stockholm) and Jean Tirole (Université de Toulouse I) agreed to form the new scientific committee at ENTER.

Helene Raynsford

Raynsford was appointed to UK Anti-Doping's newly formed Athlete's Committee along with Paralympic swimmer Graham Edmunds, football player Clarke Carlisle and former England rugby union captain, Martin Corry.

Independent Highlander Group

This candidature was registered in the Electoral Committee of Béjar’s Area.

International Association of the Congo

It was not made clear to Henry Morton Stanley, who signed a five-year contract to establish bases in the Congo in 1878, whether he was working for the International African Association, the Committee for Study of the Upper Congo, or Leopold himself.

J. Barry Griswell

He has been inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the United Way of Central Iowa Alexis de Tocqueville Society award, a 2004 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a 2004 recipient of the Central Iowa Philanthropic Award for Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser, and a 2006 recipient of the Business Committee for the Arts Leadership Award as well as a 2008 recipient of the American for the Arts Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award.

James A. Thurber

He was the principal investigator of a seven-year grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to the Campaign Management Institute to study campaign conduct and a four-year study of lobbying and ethics from the Committee for Economic Development.

James P. Maher

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses).

JISC

Jisc, formerly known as Joint Information Systems Committee, the UK body concerned with information and communications technology in education

John W. Langley

Langley was elected in March 4, 1907 as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the nine succeeding Congresses where he became known as "Pork Barrel John." He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses).

Joseph Grundfest

Professor Grundfest is also a co-founder and director of Financial Engines, Inc., chairman of the board nominating committee of the NASDAQ Stock Market, and was formerly a director of Oracle Corporation

Joseph V. Graff

He served as chairman of the Committee on Claims (Fifty-sixth through Fifty-eighth Congresses).

Ligue de Football Professionnel

Another committee, which monitored professional clubs and the status of professional players also existed during this time and was headed by Gabriel Hanot, who was later responsible for the creation of the European Cup, now the UEFA Champions League.

Marc Stanley

Stanley is a founding and current partner of Stanley, Mandel & Iola, L.L.P. and serves on the Credential Committee of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, is co-chair of the board of the Foundation for Jewish Culture, is a partner of Democracy Alliance, and a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional, Senate and National Committees.

Marietje Schaake

She is a member of the parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), as well as the Committee of International Trade (INTA) and the Committee on Culture, Media and Education (CULT).

Martin D. Foster

He served as chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses).

Milenko Vlajkov

In 1998 he was elected as Member of the International Training Standards and Policy Review Committee of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York.

Military government

Military junta, extralegal rule of a country by military committee, usually after a coup d'état

Mountain Village Operation Unit

On 6 June 1950 Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, ordered a purge of 24 members of JCP’s Central Committee and forbid them to engage in any political activities.

Nicholas Bonanno

Bonanno was also engaged in other labor movement activities, including the American Trade Union Council for Histadrut, Atlanta’s Community Relations Committee, and the United Italian American Labor Council.

Niel Nielson

Since coming to Covenant, he has served on the boards of directors for Good News Publishers/Crossway Books, Allied Arts of Chattanooga, the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, and Covenant Transportation Group, Inc., where he currently functions as chairman of its compensation committee.

Peak Forest Canal

Outram was somewhat delayed by a request from the committee to report on ideas by Robert Fulton who had been awarded the contract for the cuttings at Werneth.

Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China

According to informed academic observers such as Cheng Li, a scholar at Brookings Institution, and Susan Shirk of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, rise in the Chinese political system and selection to the Standing Committee depends more on family connections and loyalty to powerful patrons than on ability.

Poplar by-election, 1914

He also worked for ten years as Chairman of the Poplar Distress Committee, a body set up under the Unemployed Workmen Act of 1905 to provide grants to create jobs.

Rio Grande Foundation

During the 2009 legislative session, State Representative Janice Arnold-Jones made arrangements to Webcast legislative committee meetings herself.

Roads Committee

In Jersey, the Roads Committee (French: Comité des Chemins) is the highway authority for Parish roads in each Parish.

Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy

This committee took on the name "The River School Project", owing to the school's location on the banks of the Saginaw River near downtown Saginaw.

Solar compass

The instrument was then submitted to a committee at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

SV40 Cancer Foundation

On September 10, 2003, the Horwins were successful in getting Congressman Dan Burton, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness, U.S. Government Reform Committee to hold a hearing into SV40 contamination of vaccines.

Swords, Dublin

In attendance at this Presidential ceremony was Admiral Sir Jock Slater, R.N., a former British First Sea Lord then serving as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the R.N.L.I..

Sylvia Friedman

She served on Community Board 6 in Manhattan, at various times chairing the Housing Committee, the Homeless Committee and the Parks, Recreation and Landmarks Committee.

Talat Ahmad

Talat Ahmad was recommended for the position by a search committee headed by former member of Planning Commission, Prof. Abid Hussain, former Indian Ambassador to USA, and comprising Professor G. K. Chadha, CEO, South Asian University and former Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Prof. Seyed E. Hasnain, an eminent Scientist and former Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad.

Tengri

In Kyrgyzstan, Tengrism was suggested as a Pan-Turkic national ideology following the 2005 presidential elections by an ideological committee chaired by state secretary Dastan Sarygulov.

Tim Walberg

Entering the 2008 race, Walberg was identified by Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Chris Van Hollen as one of the most vulnerable Republican incumbents in congress.

United States House Committee on Accounts

In 1947, the duties of the Committee on Accounts were moved into the newly formed Committee on House Administration.

United States House Committee on Commerce and Manufactures

The United States House Committee on Commerce and Manufactures was a standing committee of the U.S. House from 1795 until 1819, when the two initially related subjects were split into the Committee on Commerce and the Committee on Manufactures.

United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce

The United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce was a special committee of the United States Senate which existed from 1950 to 1951 and which investigated organized crime which crossed state borders in the United States.

Vartry Reservoir

Between 1862 and 1868 the lower reservoir was formed by constructing an earthen dam across the valley of the River Vartry after a Dublin Water Works Committee was established to develop a new water supply to Dublin and suburbs.


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