But in committee room one this morning, we saw the collision of real life and legislation close up.
The question was still hanging in the air as the Minister and her officials filed out of the committee room.
Into the Assembly committee room seeped real life, the sort of real life that makes scrutinising complex, controversial bills pretty tough.
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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" When he left the committee room that day in 1973, Thompson wrote later, he barely realized he had in hand the evidence to determine, in the words of his boss, Senator Howard Baker, "what did the President know and when did he know it.
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.
On that particular morning, anything can happen but at least it's up to the participants themselves and not some committee in a conference room.
In this committee's hearing room, the vitriol hangs in the air.
For a House committee meeting, the room was surprisingly crowded.
The rode to dishonor in office can end in this committee, in this room, on this very day: because what an impeachment is, of course, is the single device to remove from the office the chief executive who you decide is constitutionally disqualified to serve, and by doing so, overturn two national elections.
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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Last October, he had Capitol police throw out 10 Congresswomen who barged into his hearing room demanding he allow the committee to vote on a U.N. treaty that urges countries to end discrimination against women.
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.
As a general rule, such a powerful political coalition is able to work its will in the smoke-filled room of a House-Senate conference committee on the foreign operations appropriations bill.
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.
Chairman Conrad, Ranking Member Gregg, and distinguished members of the Committee, it is good to be back in the hearing room with you.
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