Senate Modernization Committee formed, chairman Sen. McInnis chosen without election

A new Senate committee has been formed to make the institution more democratic, though its chairman was selected without a vote from committee members.

Conservative Senate Leader Claude Carignan said that if the Senate Modernization Committee recommends the idea of electing committee chairpeople and this is approved by the Senate, this committee will be able to elect its own chairperson.The Hill Times Photograph by Jake Wright

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BY ABBAS RANA

February 22, 2016

After months of delay, the Senate last week formed a special committee to modernize the Red Chamber, but already some committee members are questioning why the Senate's party leaders have chosen a chairman without an election when the committee is mandated to find ways of making the Senate mo...

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