Standing committee: A standing committee of a state legislature is a committee that exists on a more-or-less permanent basis, from legislative session to session, that considers and refines legislative bills that fall under the committee's subject matter. The cycle ... [100%] 2023-09-09 [Standing committees of state legislatures]
Standing committee: A Standing committee is a permanent congress committee which deals with legislation in a special area. They can also hold investigations or oversight of agencies within their jurisdiction. [100%] 2023-06-27 [United States Congress]
Standing committee (parliamentary system): A standing committee is a permanent committee made up of a small number of parliamentary members appointed to analyse and opine on issues in a specific area of government, such as, for example, finance, justice, or education. Its counterpart is ... (Social) [100%] 2024-09-02 [Political terminology]
Standing committee (Canada): In Canada, a standing committee is a permanent committee established by Standing Orders in the House of Commons or the Senate. It may study matters referred to it by special order or, within its area of responsibility in the Standing ... (Canada) [100%] 2025-04-30 [Standing committees of the Parliament of Canada]
Judiciary Committee, West Virginia State Senate: The Judiciary Committee is a standing committee of the West Virginia State Senate. Per the Senate Rules, committees of the West Virginia State Senate are assigned by the president of the Senate. [93%] 2022-05-24 [State senate standing committees] [Standing committees, West Virginia State Senate]...
Finance Committee, West Virginia State Legislature: The Finance Committee is a joint standing committee of the West Virginia State Legislature that no longer fell within Ballotpedia's coverage scope as of March 2021. The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2013 legislative ... [93%] 2022-06-12 [Joint legislative committees] [Select committees of state legislatures]...
Red House, West Virginia: Red House is a small unincorporated community located in Putnam County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. [88%] 2024-06-23 [Unincorporated communities in Putnam County, West Virginia] [Unincorporated communities in West Virginia]...
West Virginia State Auditor: The West Virginia State Auditor is an elected, state executive position in the West Virginia state government. The auditor is the state's official bookkeeper and chief inspector, and is responsible for conducting audits of county governments, county boards of ... [87%] 2022-11-04 [West Virginia] [Offices of the American auditors]...
West Virginia State University: West Virginia State University (WVSU) is a public historically black, land-grant university in Institute, West Virginia. Founded in 1891 as the West Virginia Colored Institute, it is one of the original 19 land-grant colleges and universities established by ... (Organization) [87%] 2023-11-20 [Land-grant universities and colleges] [Public universities and colleges in West Virginia]...
West Virginia State Museum: The West Virginia State Museum, formerly the West Virginia Science and Culture Center, is a history, culture, art, paleontology, archaeology and geology museum at the West Virginia Capitol Complex in Charleston, West Virginia. It was founded in 1890 and is ... (American museum in Charleston, West Virginia) [87%] 2024-06-01 [1890 establishments in West Virginia] [Museums in Charleston, West Virginia]...
Federal Stimulus Utilization Committee, West Virginia House (Decommissioned): The Federal Stimulus Utilization Committee is a former standing committee of the West Virginia House of Delegates. It was decommissioned in the 2011 legislative session. (Decommissioned) [87%] 2022-08-30 [Standing committees, West Virginia State House (decommissioned)]
Standing: Standing is the legal right to bring a lawsuit. Only a person with something actually at stake in a dispute has standing to bring a lawsuit. [86%] 2023-02-26 [Law] [Establishment Clause]...
Standing: STANDING stand'-ing. See ATTITUDES. stand'-ing. See ATTITUDES. [86%] 1915-01-01
West Virginia: West Virginia is one of the states constituting the United States of America. It was admitted to the Union as the 35th state on June 20, 1863; the initially proposed name was Kanawha, which is now the name of one ... [85%] 2023-08-03
West Virginia: West Virginia, the north-westernmost of the so-called Southern states of the United States of America, lying between latitudes 37° 10' and 40° 40' N., and longitudes 77° 40' and 82° 40' W. It is bounded on the north ... [85%] 2022-09-02
West Virginia: West Virginia is a state in the Southern or Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest ... (U.S. state) [85%] 2024-01-13 [West Virginia] [States and territories established in 1863]...
West Virginia: One of the east-central states of the American Union; formerly part of Virginia; made a separate state on June 19, 1863. While individual Jews went farther West as early as 1825, there seem to have been no communities before ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [85%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
West Virginia: West Virginia is a state in the Appalachia/Upland South region of the United States. West Virginia broke away from Virginia during the American Civil War and was admitted to the Union as a separate state on June 20, 1863 ... [85%] 2023-02-03
West Virginia: West Virginia became the thirty-fifth state on June 20, 1863, after separating from Virginia during the American Civil War. Its official nickname is "The Mountain State," which is apt considering that West Virginia has the highest mean elevation of ... [85%] 2023-02-27 [States of the United States] [Red States]...
West Virginia (U.S. state): West Virginia is one of the states constituting the United States of America. It was admitted to the Union as the 35th state on June 20, 1863; the initially proposed name was Kanawha, which is now the name of one ... (U.S. state) [85%] 2023-08-11
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