How to Use subcommittee in a Sentence

subcommittee

noun
  • The Senate has formed a subcommittee to set up an investigation.
  • The bill was left to die in subcommittee limbo in the U.S. House.
    The Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The last effort, in 2022, died in a House subcommittee.
    Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And last week the House Oversight subcommittee chimed in.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
  • The $2 million request passed his subcommittee and the House as a whole.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The fact is that the subcommittee has wasted nearly a year and a half chasing a chimera.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • Members of the subcommittee questioned whether Red Hill was too much of a risk to keep open.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The bill that emerged from the subcommittee was as remarkable as the process that produced it.
    Beth Gardiner, Scientific American, 15 July 2022
  • The House report from the CDC marks the third in a series from the coronavirus subcommittee.
    Jeannie Baumann, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The committee assigned the bill to a subcommittee for more work.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Derek Myers, 31, told staff of the House’s ethics subcommittee during an int ...
    Jake Offenhartz, ajc, 1 June 2023
  • Lee, the vice chair of Unicode’s emoji subcommittee, gave him the green light to move forward with the proposal.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The bill was referred to a House subcommittee in February 2021 and hasn’t been discussed since.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Raskin was given time to criticize the creation of the subcommittee.
    Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In remarks before the subcommittee, Helmer did not hold back.
    Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2022
  • In September, the subcommittee will present three final designs to the task force.
    Kim Bojórquez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The bill is scheduled to be discussed in a subcommittee on January 26.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Joe, 50, and Irma, 48, were both active members of their church, too, serving as leaders on one of the church subcommittees.
    Emilie Eaton, San Antonio Express-News, 24 May 2023
  • Tuesday’s hearing was the subcommittee’s fourth, the second this year.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024
  • The subcommittee is working to find savings that would lower the cost of construction.
    Barbara D. Hathaway, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The bill failed in the subcommittee on a 5-5 vote, with one Republican joining all four Democrats in supporting it.
    Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The bill has been referred to the House natural resources subcommittee.
    Nicole Chavez, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022
  • In the afternoon, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, faced a Senate subcommittee.
    Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The subcommittee’s vote was along party lines, with Republicans opting to kill the bill.
    Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Jordan, who will chair the weaponization subcommittee, did not respond to a request for comment.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • So there was little doubt about the outcome Tuesday, as the same subcommittee took up identical measures that had crossed over from the Senate.
    Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Andy Wiese, chair of that subcommittee, said the current proposal is too intense.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
  • This month, a House subcommittee held a hearing on the progress made on that legislation, and heard startling anecdotes about problems in the system.
    Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2024
  • New York Mets’ Max Scherzer, far left, was one of eight players on the union’s executive subcommittee.
    Jared Diamond, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Duffy served in the House for nearly nine years, was a member of the Financial Services Committee and was chairman of the subcommittee on insurance and housing.
    Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2024

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