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Committee chair selection under high informational and organizational constraints
This article draws on major theories of committee organization to explain committee chair selection in contexts with high informational and organizational constraints. We test our theoretical expectations through a series of fixed effects conditional logit models ran on an original data set which includes all legislators who have served in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 2012. The findings indicate that sector knowledge matters more for committee chair selection in the first post-communist terms, while chair seniority and party credentials acquire relevance later on. The effect of sector knowledge is stronger than that of chair seniority for the committees that the members of parliament perceive to be the most important, while party leaders have privileged access to the chair position irrespective of how salient the committee is
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House Committee Organization and Process: A Brief Overview
This report provides a brief overview o the six features of the committee system in the House: organization, hearings, markup, reporting, oversight, and publications
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Senate Rules Affecting Committees
This report identifies and summarizes the provisions of the Senate's standing rules, standing orders, precedents, and other directives that relate to legislative activity in the Senate's standing committees. It covers four main issues: committee organization, committee meetings, hearings, and reporting
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Senate Rules Affecting Committees
This report identifies and summarizes the provisions of the Senate's standing rules, standing orders, precedents, and other directives that relate to legislative activity in the Senate's standing committees. It covers four main issues: committee organization, committee meetings, hearings, and reporting
The Echo: March 24, 1953
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Department of Homeland Security: Options for House and Senate Committee Organization
With the passage of H.R. 5710, to create a new Department of Homeland Security, Congress has begun discussions regarding the appropriate congressional structure to conduct oversight and fund the new department. Section 1503 of the legislation states the sense of Congress that each chamber should review its committee structure in light of the reorganization of the executive branch. This report addresses some of the options currently being discussed and provides information on legislation in the 107th Congress that attempts to alter the current committee system
TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS TO IMPROVE READING SKILLS FOR THE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SD NEGERI 11 NGRINGO, JATEN, KARANGANYAR
This final project report is written based on the job training that which was
carried out by the writer at SD Negeri 11 Ngringo, Jaten. The purposes of the
project are to describe the process, method and the problems and the solution in
teaching and learning process to improve reading skill for the fifth grade students
of SD Negeri 11 Ngringo, Jaten, including its problems faced by the students and
also the solutions for those problems. In writing this final report, the writer
collected the data by observing the class, interviewing to the students, library
study and directly teaching in the classroom.
The writer found difficulties aced by students in the way to read the text
covering the pronunciation and understanding the text. The writer used direct
method in teaching and learning process. Moreover, the writer taught them
systematically based on the lesson plan. It consist of three main steps namely, Pre
Teaching, the process of teaching implementation and closing activity of the
lesson. Pre-teaching was beginning activity of the lesson. The process of teaching
implementation was the main steps of teacher duties that consisted of four steps
namely, Building Knowledge of Field, Modeling Text, Join Construction and
Individual Construction. The third step was closing activity where the writer could
assess whether the objective of the lesson was adequately reached or not.
Based on the job training experience, it can be concluded that the problems
faced by fifth grade students in learning reading were from the students itself such
as the low students’ interest and motivation. So, they were difficult to pronounce
and understand the text. The writer tried to solve this problem by creating fun and
communicative situation in the class related on the skill learned
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