As a result of the furor, in which the committee charged him with violating House rules, the speaker resigned from Congress in 1989.

The measure would have created a 9-member governing committee charged with administering the fund.

The committee charged that the project was "billions of dollars over budget and plagued by poor management".

The committee charged the Senator with expanding his privacy requests, and he accused the committee of demanding irrelevant information.

The committee charged him guilty of plagiarism in his thesis.

The committee has charged these sales were a scheme to evade the limits on earnings from outside appearances.

During last year's elections, the committee charged that a student government presidential and vice-presidential ticket had violated several election rules, including starting the campaign too soon.

The committee charged that Mr. Wright should have disclosed this income as a gift.

If the royalty payment was actually a speaking fee, as the committee charged, then it violated the overall limit on fees he could receive that year.

After he fell into debt, a parliamentary committee on the administration of the law charged him with 23 separate counts of corruption.