Abante's committee also scrutinized the Right of Reply Bill that was criticized by the media organizations as a curtailment to the freedom of the press.

The committees scrutinise local services, formulate community action plans and liaise with the community.

Other committees scrutinize various Government agencies and ministries.

The committee has also scrutinized a condo in Washington that Mr. Rowland used to own.

Mr. Pierro said his committee has been hearing witnesses and scrutinizing issues, some of which are complex.

No less than four committees scrutinized the proposal.

It then enters the committee stage, when standing committees within the House scrutinize the bill.

"The Congressional committees will be scrutinizing it like never before."

Finally, the change will force Parliament to sharpen up and upgrade the way the committees sift and scrutinise the product of comitology.

By now a third committee had scrutinized the experiments, confirming that the chains didn't exist in the raw data files.