#Committees

Two Seattle city council committees have passed a one-year moratorium and a resolution on data centers. The measures are still up for a vote in the full council, but many consider that simply as a formality.

The guidelines suggest that the principal or head of the school be the member secretary of the committee, which will have two sub-committees – an academic committee and a school building committee.

From Reddit - r/canadapolitics: Liberals use majority to move some parliamentary committees behind closed doors

Beneath the partisan acrimony and overheated language, there are useful and important questions about how Canada's parliamentary democracy works and how it is supposed to work.

Conservatives say the Liberals are trying to "stack the deck" by moving to seize control of House committees, and are proposing to leave three oversight committees intact.