#committee

Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home. ↗

— Leverett Saltonstall

#committee #gone #hearings #home #long

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#administration #capitol #chairman #committee #concerns

A committee is an animal with four back legs. ↗

— John le Carre

#back #committee #four #legs

Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short. ↗

— Susan Collins

#bill #broken #care #colleague #committee

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#buying #committees #decisions #each #fundamental

There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known. ↗

— Robert Torricelli

#committee #everything #evidence #gifts #i

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#committees #companies #greatest #greatest things #individual

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#committees #found #i #parks #searched

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#cabinet #committee #created #did #environment

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes. ↗

— Ross Perot

#committee #just #kill #see #snake