But in committee room one this morning, we saw the collision of real life and legislation close up.
Spectators cramming the committee room applauded and cheered loudly following the vote.
Listening from the gallery above the committee room - and listening to government sources afterwards - I'd say it was less a "Let's go for it!"
At Energy and Commerce in the 1980s and early 1990s, Mr. Dingell would burn the paint off the committee room walls with his interrogations of energy, insurance and drug company executives.
It was easy to find Committee Room 2322 in the drab Rayburn office building - just follow the mass of television crews who were milling outside its entrance two hours before the hearing began.
Today, under a trial scheme, MPs use a Grand Committee Room off the hall (a) to hold debates in parallel with the House of Commons, while the main hall is often used for public ceremonies and displays.
Then it's on to the fourth day of Report Stage consideration of the Localism Bill - the third of 12 days of Grand Committee debate on the Welfare Reform Bill will be held in a committee room upstairs.
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Almost all of the Lib Dems' 46 MPs, including Mr Ashdown, and many peers crowded into a Commons committee room to hear addresses from the six challengers - Charles Kennedy, SImon Hughes, Jackie Ballard, Don Foster, Malcolm Bruce and David Rendel.
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The hearing was held on Thursday, June 26, at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room.
In the Lords, committee stage usually takes place in a committee of the whole House or in Grand Committee in the Moses Room, a large room away from the main Chamber, and rarely to other types of committee.
For a House committee meeting, the room was surprisingly crowded.
Ambassador Scobey was well aware of that, and Ambassador Scobey takes part in the daily deputies committee meetings in the Situation Room run by the NSC in order to assess the situation on the ground in Egypt.
At a one day workshop held at the FND conference room, the Executive Committee of the St.
Last week, the Met opened a joint war room with the London Olympic committee.
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In a symbolic gesture, the commission's opening session was held in the same Senate hearing room used by the Truman Committee, believed to have recovered billions of taxpayer dollars by investigating military profiteering during World War II.
It's not often that journalists are invited to appear before lawmakers to plead their case, so Matthew Cooper of Time magazine could be excused for seeming a bit uncomfortable in the formal hearing room of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
At the hearing, the spectator gallery was standing room only, but Specter and fellow committee member Sen.
That's right -- a congressman who sits on the House Judiciary Committee is talking about a shootout in a dark room filled with tear gas and panicked, innocent people.
Wednesday morning, he'll be ushered into a congressional hearing room to answer questions from a congressional committee on allegations he boosted his pitching career with steroids and human growth hormone (HGH).
The humanitarian organisation started life as The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in October 1942 at a meeting room at St Mary's church.
These meetings are held frequently in the Situation Room here at the White House, principals committee meetings -- I believe there was one just a couple of weeks ago -- and they are evaluating the various options in the situation in Libya and the broader region, and the various options that we have taken and are implementing, and others that remain on the table.
Separately, the London Organizing Committee said in January that roughly 20% of the hotel room nights it had reserved in London eventually will be returned to the hotels, making more accommodations available.
There was a principals committee meeting that lasted two hours or so in the Situation Room earlier today that ended not that long ago -- again, one of the reasons why I wanted to wait for that to end before I came out here.
Having solved that issue, the committee then moved on to parades which rather raised temperatures in the room.
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After questions, Lord Foulkes of Cumnock cast doubt on whether the government had been sincere in its commitment not to use the Moses room - which is not wheelchair accessible - for grand committee consideration of the Welfare Reform Bill, which makes significant changes to disability benefits.
Joe, but the company has room for further improvement, particularly when it comes to Audit Committee oversight.
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Members of the committee, you are not being watched only by the individuals in this room or even by the immense television audience throughout the world.
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Committees have been described as the "engine room" of Assembly scrutiny and for weeks now, the cross-party Business Committee has been locked in discussions about their future structure.
Based on documents released by the House Oversight Committee, the day of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, September 11, the White House situation room starts receiving emails at about 1 pm that the mission is under hostile surveillance.
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