Senate Armed Services Committee | ... nate stayed Democratic and McCain continued to be the ranking member of the | . As the 2011 Middle East and North Africa protests took center stage, McC ... |
United States Olympic Committee | ... the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, which resulted in the establishment of the | |
American Legion | The | is active in the community. Since Damascus Post 171 was founded after Worl ... |
committee of the whole | ... having tabled the draft of the declaration, Congress resolved itself into a | , with Benjamin Harrison of Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee' ... |
Indian Affairs Committee | ... y done his Navy liaison work; he also joined the Commerce Committee and the | . McCain continued to support the Native American agenda. As first a House ... |
Hallstein Commission | ... Euratom in 1967. The Commission's first president was Walter Hallstein (see | ) who started consolidating European law and began to impact on national l ... |
American Legion baseball | ... with the Mustangs to Billings. Cobb Field also hosted home games for local | teams. In 2006, Billings voters approved $12 million to be spent on constr ... |
County Donegal Railways Joint Committee | ... he LMS together with the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) jointly owned the | lines |
National Science Board | The NSF's director, deputy director, and the 24 members of the | (NSB) are appointed by the President of the United States, and confirmed b ... |
American Legion | ... o leave prison being Peiper in December 1956. There was a schism within the | and Veterans of Foreign Wars because World War II veterans who were member ... |
Foreign Relations Committee | ... a prominent role in military affairs as well as serving as chairman of the | in 1881 |
Hoover Commission | ... chairman, to reorganize the executive departments. This became known as the | . He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by President Dwight D. ... |
Santer Commission | ... enjoy the same support and in 1999 parliament used its powers to force the | to resign |
Committee for the Re-Election of the President | In January 1972, G. Gordon Liddy, general counsel to the | (CRP), presented a campaign intelligence plan to CRP's Acting Chairman Jeb ... |
Senate Appropriations Committee | Stevens chaired the | from 1997 to 2005, except for the 18 months when Democrats controlled the ... |
Democratic National Committee | ... nal Action for 1977, and was ranked fourth-most conservative by others. The | targeted Helms, as did President Carter, who visited North Carolina twice ... |
American Legion | ... to the concert, which was initiated, principally, by local residents of the | and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the concert was postponed. Robeson p ... |
Church Committee | The U.S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Frank Church (the | ) reported in 1975 that it had found "concrete evidence of at least eight ... |
NOCs | The top ten ranked | at these Games are listed below. The host nation, China, is highlighted |
Republican National Committee | ... eckers" Speech led hundreds of thousands of citizens nationwide to wire the | urging the GOP to keep Nixon on the ticket, and Eisenhower stayed with Nix ... |
Republican National Committee | The | (RNC) is responsible for promoting Republican campaign activities. It is r ... |
National Republican Senatorial Committee | As the chairman of the | , he helped Republicans win back the Senate in the 2002 midterm election. ... |
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary | ... calling for registration of Communist Party members and appeared before the | . Questioned about his affiliation with the Communist Party, he refused to ... |
conference committee | The bill then moved to a joint | to work out the differences between the Senate and House versions. Democra ... |
Homeland Security Committee | Sanchez is the second-ranking Democrat on the | . She is also a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, and the mos ... |
Chinese Taipei | ... athletes from the Republic of China (Taiwan) competed at the 2008 Games as | (TPE) under the Chinese Taipei Olympic flag and using the National Banner ... |
Justice Kapur Commission | ... published by India's Ministry of Home Affairs in the year 1970. Accordingly | noted the following |
House Committee on Un-American Activities | In 1951 Larry Parks was summoned to appear before the | , under threat of being blacklisted in the movie industry, but he begged n ... |
Schieder commission | ... and 170,000 Germans still remained in Poland. According to the West German | of 1953 5,650,000 Germans remained in Poland in mid 1945, 3,500,000 had be ... |
Constitutional Council of France | Member of the | : Since 2004 |
Armed Services Committee | Senator McCain became a member of the | , with which he had formerly done his Navy liaison work; he also joined th ... |
House Un-American Activities Committee | ... 'Dell, was also linked to the Communist Party by sworn testimony before the | (HUAC). However, by 1976 the FBI had acknowledged that it had not obtained ... |
Schieder commission | C. Yugoslavia- The | report for Yugoslavia put the number of German speaking Jews at 10,026 in ... |
committee | ... esolution earlier in the year which made a formal declaration inevitable. A | was assembled to draft the formal declaration, to be ready when congress v ... |
United States Sentencing Commission | The 1989 case of Mistretta v. United States challenged the | , an independent body within the Judicial Branch whose members (some of wh ... |
National Labor Relations Board | ... withdrew their labor, striking on June 12. Immediately, the U.S. Government | ruled that the owners had not been negotiating in good faith, and installe ... |
American Legion | ... ts communist sympathies, and the FBI investigated the film's financing. The | called for a nation-wide boycott of the film. Film-processing labs were to ... |
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission | Switzerland is part of the | (NNSC) which was created to monitor the armistice between North and South ... |
Royal Commission on the Constitution | ... its own independent legal, administrative and fiscal systems. In 1973, the | set out the duties of the Crown as including: ultimate responsibility for ... |
White House Conference on Aging | ... ld Lesbians Organizing for Change. In 1995 they were named delegates to the | , Martin by Senator Dianne Feinstein and Lyon by Congresswoman Nancy Pelos ... |
White House Conference on Aging | ... outlaw employment discrimination for gays and lesbians. Both served in the | in 1995 |
Nye Committee | The | hearings between 1934 and 1936 and several best-selling books of the time ... |
NPCs | The top 10 | by number of gold medals are listed below. The host nation, Italy, is high ... |
Gomery Commission | Public hearings of the | inquiry into the sponsorship scandal involving alleged kickbacks and "dona ... |
House Un-American Activities Committee | ... ossing movies of 1947. The political nature of the film, however, upset the | , with Elia Kazan, Darryl Zanuck, John Garfield, and Anne Revere all being ... |
International Whaling Commission | ... lved in 2000. Certain environmentalists are concerned that Iceland left the | (IWC) in June 1992 in protest of an IWC decision to refuse to lift the ban ... |
Senate Judiciary Committee | ... en. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the | chairman, was especially poignant coming one day short of the fifth annive ... |
Armed Services Committee | ... crat on the Homeland Security Committee. She is also a senior member of the | , and the most senior woman on that committee. Loretta has fought to refor ... |
Democratic National Committee | ... ceed.) The law was amended, and on September 24, 2009, Paul G. Kirk, former | chairman, and former aide to Kennedy, was appointed to occupy the Senate s ... |
Santer Commission | ... in the Commission, although curbed by crises such as the resignation of the | |
Schieder commission | ... . The sources for these figures cited by the authors of the report were the | and the 1965 study by the German Red Cros |
American Legion | ... Sons and Daughters of the Golden West and the California Department of the | , which in January demanded that all Japanese with dual citizenship be pla ... |
World Commission on Environment and Development | ... including 1972's United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, 1983's | , 1992's United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and 2002 ... |
National Republican Congressional Committee | ... and Senate caucuses have separate fundraising and strategy committees. The | (NRCC) assists in House races, and the National Republican Senatorial Comm ... |
United States House Select Committee on Assassinations | ... colleague who was present at the assassination, testified under oath to the | that King and his entourage stayed at room 306 at the Lorraine Motel so of ... |
Thorn Commission | ... economic difficulties and disagreements on the Community budget, and by the | the President was unable to exert his influence to any significant extent |
Republican National Committee | ... ed Roy as pro-abortion. While in the Senate, Dole served as chairman of the | from 1971 until 1973, the ranking Republican on the Agriculture Committee ... |
Schieder commission | According to the West German | there were 4.5 million German civilians present in Bohemia-Moravia in May ... |
Belgian Olympic Committee | ... on the Belgian national rugby union team. Rogge served as President of the | from 1989 to 1992, and as President of the European Olympic Committees fro ... |
Osmotherly Rules | The | set out guidance on how civil servants should respond to Parliamentary sel ... |
Schieder commission | ... ed death toll of the flight and expulsions are not directly comparable. The | (1953-1961), which consisted primarily of distinguished historians with a ... |
Democratic National Committee | ... ioners. Its first guest was James Farley, who served as Postmaster General, | Chairman, and campaign manager to Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the firs ... |
Dardanelles Commission | ... of the Australian troops in December 1915. The report was also used by the | on which Fisher served, while High Commissioner in London |
Democratic National Committee | ... the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the | headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the ... |
American Legion | ... e ACLU itself came under heavy attack from conservative groups, such as the | , the National Civic Federation, and Industrial Defense Association and th ... |
House Un-American Activities Committee | After the Second World War the | (HUAC) began an investigation into the Hollywood motion picture industry. ... |
National Republican Senatorial Committee | ... l Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) assists in House races, and the | (NRSC) in Senate races. They each raise over $100 million per election cyc ... |
American Legion | ... the north end of the War Memorial Plaza is the national headquarters of the | and the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library's Central Library |
National Labor Relations Board | ... eared the increased power the bill gave to the government. The newly formed | (NLRB) posed a dilemma for the ACLU, because in 1937 it issued an order to ... |
Schieder commission | ... pelled and 910,000 remained in Poland by 1950. According to the West German | of 1953 the civilian death toll was 2 million. However in 1974 the estimat ... |
House Foreign Affairs Committee | ... cCain won re-election to the House easily in 1984, and gained a spot on the | . In 1985, he made his first return trip to Vietnam, and also traveled to ... |
conference committee | ... he penalties on investors, and it passed by 74 to 24 on October 19, 1995. A | was scheduled to convene, but did not until February 28, 1996, by which ti ... |
NOC | ... other half would follow the Greeks' idea of a permanent home with the Greek | as experienced organizers. This was a departure from the ancient schedule, ... |
Central Committee | In 1952, Voroshilov was appointed a member of the Presidium of the | . Stalin's death on 5 March 1953 prompted major changes in the Soviet lead ... |
9/11 Commission | ... hen-Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman wrote the legislation that created the | , while he and Democratic Senator Fritz Hollings co-sponsored the Aviation ... |
House Un-American Activities Committee | ... Robinson) as a "swimming-pool pink" by Time magazine and called before the | in 1958 due to her vocal liberal activism in this period |
Royal Commission | ... -railway engineer Robert Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead Railway. A | inquiry found that the trusses were made of cast iron beams that had inade ... |
Liberhan Commission | The | report accused the Sangh Parivar of being the chief architect of Babari Ma ... |
Democratic National Committee | ... Angeles and Boston. The creation of his Chicago paper was requested by the | and Hearst used this as an excuse for Phoebe Hearst to transfer him the ne ... |
United States House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security | ... ates Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, or the | |
American Jewish Committee | ... ace Prize, in 1965 King was awarded the American Liberties Medallion by the | for his "exceptional advancement of the principles of human liberty". In h ... |
Senate Ethics Committee | ... s also served as Chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the | , the Arms Control Observer Group, and the Joint Committee on the Library ... |
Kerner Commission | Johnson created the | to study the problem of urban riots, headed by Illinois Governor Otto Kern ... |
Schieder commission | The | prepared reports that documented the fate of the ethnic Germans in eastern ... |
Senate Intelligence Committee | ... lomacy to strangle freedom in the night". A CIA operative testifying to the | was alleged by Helms to have admitted rigging the election, but senators t ... |
conference committee | ... to 42, with 39 Republicans and 5 Democrats voting in favor of the bill. The | then aligned the two versions, largely by moving to the greater House tari ... |
Hoover Commission | ... ht him back to help make the federal bureaucracy more efficient through the | . The consensus among historians is that Hoover's defeat in the 1932 elect ... |
Senate Judiciary Committee | ... on and Brezhnev and dissidents there again. Kennedy did become chair of the | in 1978, by which time he had amassed a wide-ranging Senate staff of a hun ... |
National Speleological Society | ... nderneath the surface, as is common in karst areas. The headquarters of the | are located in Huntsville |
Judiciary Committee | ... 3; instead of confirming him immediately, it referred the nomination to the | . Black was criticized for his presumed bigotry, his cultural roots, and h ... |
Election Committee | ... vernment and an independent judiciary. The Chief Executive is elected by an | , an 1200-member electoral college consisting of individuals and bodies (i ... |
National Science Board | ... institutions on temporary duty, 200 contract workers, and the staff of the | office and the Office of the Inspector General, which examines the foundat ... |
Committee for the Re-Election of the President | ... tion (FBI) connected cash found on the burglars to a slush fund used by the | , a fundraising group for the Nixon campaign. In July 1973, as evidence mo ... |
Flemish Community Commission | ... e painting - Flemish Brabant - Flemish Council for Science and Innovation - | - Flemish movement - Flemish National Union - Flemish Region - Flemish Sec ... |
Republican National Committee | ... Task Force from 1992 to 1993, joined the National Steering Committee of the | 's Health Care Coalition, and was deputy director of the Tennessee Bush-Qu ... |
Senate Foreign Relations Committee | He joined the | , being one of four Carter-critical voices new to the committee. Leader of ... |
Directorate of Military Intelligence | The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) | 's (abbreviated as "Aman") Research Department was responsible for formula ... |
Constitutional Council | ... éopold Sédar Senghor had held. As a former President, he is a member of the | |
' Commission | However the Commission began to recover under President Jacques Delors | . He is seen as the most successful President, being credited with giving ... |
Senate Watergate Committee | ... imony provided by former staff members in an investigation conducted by the | , it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape-recording system in his ... |
Dardanelles Commission | The | , including Fisher, interviewed witnesses in 1916 and 1917 and issued its ... |
Constitutional Council of France | ... sident of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981. , he is a member of the | |
House Committee on Interior Affairs | ... d the incoming group of Republican representatives, and was assigned to the | . Also that year, he opposed creation of a federal Martin Luther King, Jr. ... |
World Commission on Protected Areas | ... w South Wales, Australia, 35 km north of Lismore. It is classed by the IUCN | as Category II. It is part of the Shield Volcano Group of the World Herita ... |
Royal Commission | ... d his first book, Indian Currency and Finance. He was then appointed to the | on Indian Currency and Finance – the same topic as his book – where Keynes ... |
Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China | ... metimes described as "techno-nationalism". Almost all of the members of the | have engineering degrees. Since the end of the Cultural Revolution, China ... |
Advisory Committee on European Affairs | ... perations and Training - Action of 19 February 1639 - Admiral of Flanders - | - African rap in Belgium - Albert I of Belgium - Albert II of Belgium - Al ... |
American Legion | ... the United States to execute the first atomic bombing in World War II. The | and Air Force Association believed the exhibit put forward only one side o ... |
Republican National Committee | ... Herbert Brownell, by Senator William F. Knowland of California, and by the | , (Alaska itself had no Senators at this time, as it was still a territory ... |
Warren Commission | Johnson created a panel headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, known as the | , to investigate Kennedy's assassination. The commission conducted hearing ... |
United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency | ... n comics which followed Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent and the | hearings on the dangers of comic books, the content of comics faced radica ... |
International Whaling Commission | ... Union, World Health Organization, World Meteorological Organization and the | . The Icelandic government currently finances two Programs of the United N ... |
United States Sentencing Commission | ... as A&M University, and Rice University. Lott was the chief economist at the | (1988–1989). He spent five years as a visiting professor (1994–95) and as ... |
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee | Chairman of the | from 2001 to 2003, Murray assumed the role again in early 2011, for a term ... |
Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies | ... the Mall after police directed them there (see Purple Tunnel of Doom). The | subsequently announced that ticket holders that were not admitted would re ... |
Constitutional Council | ... rch 2004, he decided to leave partisan politics and to take his seat in the | as a former president of the Republic. Some of his actions there, such as ... |
House Un-American Activities Committee | ... orean War. Writer, producer, and partner Carl Foreman was called before the | (HUAC) while he was writing the film. Foreman had not been in the Communis ... |
arcade board | ... his own custom hardware and development tools for the game. He created the | using new microprocessors from the United States. The game uses an Intel 8 ... |
Royal Commissions | ... Parliamentary Triangle. The building is named for Justice Hope, who led two | into Australia's intelligence and security agencies and operations, the fi ... |
Schieder commission | ... rom Romania with the retreating German forces. According to the West German | report of 1957, 75,000 German civilians were deported to the USSR as force ... |
Canadian Wheat Board | ... everal agreements and arbitration cases. Other notable disputes include the | , and Canadian cultural "restrictions" on magazines and television (See CR ... |
House Un-American Activities Committee | ... the ten filmmakers who were blacklisted for refusing to cooperate with the | (HUAC). This Special Edition with the Hollywood Ten film is still availabl ... |
French Community Commission | ... bsburg rivalry - Franco-Dutch War - Francqui, Emile - Free Belgian Forces - | - French Community of Belgium - French fried potatoes - Frenchification of ... |
Winograd Commission | ... ccess for Israel and a Hezbollah defeat. He was also highly critical of the | 's report for its failure to note the many successes brought about by Isra ... |
La Follette Committee | ... rmed in the Frontier Films production of Native Land which was based on the | 's investigation of the repression of labor organizations. The FBI labeled ... |
Agranat Commission | ... , President of the Israeli Supreme Court, was asked to lead an inquiry, the | , into the events leading up to the war and the setbacks of the first few ... |
House Un-American Activities Committee | ... the Communist party. In the 1950s both his parents were blacklisted by the | and lost their jobs. As a child Appleton studied piano with Jacob Gimpel a ... |
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 | ... become) developed a new garden at South Kensington on land leased from the | (the Science Museum, Imperial College and the Royal College of Music now o ... |
Boards of Canada | ... O.S.T., Aube, Andrew Deutsch, Leif Elggren, Robin Rimbaud, Alva Noto, Oval, | , DJ Spooky, Florian Hecker, Farmers Manual, Negativland, Thanasis Kaproul ... |
American Legion | ... came under heavy criticism as a "front" for communism. Critics included the | , senator Joseph McCarthy, the HUAC, and the FBI. Several ACLU leaders wer ... |
Republican National Committee | ... There were exceptions, Leonard W. Hall, for example, who as chairman of the | , tried to open the administration's eyes to the political facts of life, ... |
Republican National Committee | ... that date to a political party for a single election – $2.5 million to the | – and was the number one corporate political donor in the U.S. In the 2004 ... |
Select Committee | ... s surrounding climate change. In 2005, the House of Lords Economics Affairs | , with Lawson as a member, undertook an inquiry into climate change. In th ... |
Trilateral Commission | He has also served on the | after being president, writing papers with Henry Kissinger |
Schieder commission | ... o Haar points out that the figures in the Gleitze study were ignored by the | report, issued in 1953, which gave a figure of 1.7 million civilian deaths ... |
Senate Foreign Relations Committee | Soon after becoming the chair of the | , in February 1995, Helms announced that he wished to strengthen the spiri ... |
Santer Commission | ... happening in 1999 due to allegations of financial mismanagement led to the | resigning on its own accord, before the Parliament forced them out |
National Olympic Committee | ... hina, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 | s (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events (a total of one event more t ... |
National Science Board | ... tific and policy communities since its inception in 1997. In June 2010, the | (NSB), the governing body for NSF and science advisers to both the legisla ... |
Schieder commission | ... Overall, some 60,000 ethnic Germans had fled. According to the West German | report of 1956, in the spring of 1945, between 30-35,000 ethnic German civ ... |
Queens Community Board 4 | ... and Recreation. The park is at the eastern edge of the area encompassed by | |
National Olympic Committee | All but one of the 205 | s (NOCs) that existed as of 2008 participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics, ... |
IUCN Species Survival Commission | ... World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and many Specialist Groups within the | (SSC). Collectively, assessments by these organizations and groups account ... |
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision | The BIS provides the | with its seventeen-member secretariat, and with it has played a central ro ... |