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
  • All three Democrats on the subcommittee opposed the move.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • As part of this effort, A2020 subcommittee chair Williams worked with the Intl.
    — Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 5 Apr. 2023
  • On Monday, Reinbold was asked on the Senate floor and in a subcommittee to wear a mask instead of her face shield.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The Safe Routes to School subcommittee has met and discussed ways of making streets around the schools safer for pedestrians.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Derek Myers, 31, told staff of the House’s ethics subcommittee during an int ...
    — Jake Offenhartz, ajc, 1 June 2023
  • Cicilline who chairs the House antitrust subcommittee is one of the sponsors.
    — David McLaughlin, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Tuesday’s hearing is the fourth in less than a month hosted by this subcommittee.
    — Abram Brown, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Forbes did not sit on the subcommittee but urged his colleagues to push the proposal forward.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Torres sits on the subcommittee that decides how, and where, foreign aid flows.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2021
  • 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 city of Coronado has created a subcommittee to explore the pros and cons of joining one of the two community choice aggregation energy programs in the San Diego area.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2025
  • The epiphany of common sense came late in an otherwise tedious congressional subcommittee hearing, and from a Democrat, Representative Jim Costa.
    — Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 19 June 2025

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