Below you will find example sentences with "congressional committee". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Congressional Committee in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: congressional
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.7 words

Words in this phrase

congressional committee

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • congressional can mean: Of or relating to a congress. Frequent word
  • committee can mean: A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

national republican congressional committee 5× a congressional committee later held 1× a special congressional committee in 1901 1× a us congressional committee which suggested 1× national republican congressional committee and others 1× national republican congressional committee chairman richard 1× national republican congressional committee said this 1× national republican congressional committee the gop 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

the national republican 2× a congressional committee 1× another lawmaker illinois 1× at a closed 1× emmer the house 1× flipping the alaska 1×

Common sentence endings:

republican congressional committee 5× a congressional committee 1× a state government 1× american activities committee 1× committee and others 1× could be involved 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

republican 12× national 11× house 4× week 3× though 3× hearing 3× foot 2× capitol 2× next 2× helped 2× served 2× cadets 2×

Related phrases

olympic committee congressional district advisory committee congressional republicans planning committee congressional delegation committee members intelligence committee parliamentary committee select committee

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around congressional:

congressional district 20× congressional republicans 18× congressional delegation 14× congressional hearing 7× congressional democrats 6× democratic congressional 5×

Just before it in the phrase index:

congress tuc congress president congress nlc congress leader congress committee congress apc

Just after it in the phrase index:

congressional delegation congressional democrats congressional district congressional hearing congressional republicans connect people

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

congressional district congressional republicans congressional delegation congressional hearing congressional democrats

Same ending:

olympic committee advisory committee planning committee intelligence committee parliamentary committee select committee

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "congressional committee" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as national republican congressional committee, a congressional committee later held, republican, national and house stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with olympic committee, congressional district, advisory committee, congressional district, congressional republicans and congressional delegation, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with congressional committee

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

A congressional committee later held a hearing on the Luzerne paper shortages. (12 words)

Flipping the Alaska seat is a of the National Republican Congressional Committee. (12 words)

Emmer, the House Republican majority whip, previously chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

In a strongly worded statement Tuesday, a Congressional committee said it will proceed with next week’s hearing about Luzerne County’s November 2022 election paper shortage at the U.S. Capitol, even though invited county officials won’t be appearing. (41 words)

MacArthur was called to appear before a special Congressional committee in 1901, where he testified against cadets implicated in hazing, but downplayed his own hazing even though the other cadets gave the full story to the committee. (37 words)

Last week, a North Carolina legislative committee approved a scale model of the 10-foot, 10-inch Graham statue, which would be placed at the Capitol sometime next year pending the approval of a congressional committee. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

According to the Washington Post, as of February 27, Saccone-allied groups had spent a total of $9.1 million on the race, between the Congressional Leadership Fund, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and others.

Last week, a North Carolina legislative committee approved a scale model of the 10-foot, 10-inch Graham statue, which would be placed at the Capitol sometime next year pending the approval of a congressional committee.

Samuel Dickstein helped establish and served on the original congressional committee on Russian Tampering (The House Un-American Activities Committee).

MacArthur was called to appear before a special Congressional committee in 1901, where he testified against cadets implicated in hazing, but downplayed his own hazing even though the other cadets gave the full story to the committee.

A congressional committee later held a hearing on the Luzerne paper shortages.

Even before his first election to Congress in 2006, McCarthy demonstrated his value by raising money and sending funds to fellow candidates and the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Flipping the Alaska seat is a of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

His brother, Stan Anderson, sent the judge a letter saying Mark had served on the business advisory council of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

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In a strongly worded statement Tuesday, a Congressional committee said it will proceed with next week’s hearing about Luzerne County’s November 2022 election paper shortage at the U.S. Capitol, even though invited county officials won’t be appearing.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, the GOP’s House campaign arm, postponed its upcoming fall gala in Dallas that McCarthy was supposed to headline.

The National Republican Congressional Committee went on the attack against Golden, calling him “Joe Biden’s loyal foot soldier” who had backed inflation-boosting policies earlier in his presidency.

Another lawmaker, Illinois Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi - who is on a congressional committee that looks at China's Communist Party - told media outlet NewsNation that there is a "non-trivial" chance that China could be involved.

At a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Richard Hudson, R-N.

Emmer, the House Republican majority whip, previously chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee.

This led her to write a letter to a congressional committee, which held a hearing in September to investigate organ procurement agencies.

His actions helped ensure an inquiry by the U.S. Senate, the first time a congressional committee ever investigated a state government.

In 2018, for example, former CIA analyst Peter Mattis gave testimony at a US congressional committee which suggested New Zealand’s role in the well-established global Five Eyes alliance should be reviewed.

In the 1970s, President Ford asserted executive privilege over national security letters relating to wiretaps that a congressional committee had subpoenaed from AT&T.

Justin Richards, political director for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said this week that though the group does not reveal its internal polling, there is evidence that Valadao is doing well.

Midway through the film, says he was delivered the “somewhat unfortunate news” during a monthly party meeting for Republican members of Congress that he still owes $124,500 in dues to the National Republican Congressional Committee.

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