[Vision2020] Moscow City Council

[Philip Cook]

On 3 Feb 2004 at 13:34, Dan Carscallen wrote:

> You can have all the subcommittees you want, it still has to go before
> the council to make the final decision, right?  

Not necessarily. One of the disadvantages of the committee system 
(IMHO) is that a minority of Council members can control whether some 
issues make it to the full Council. A committee majority of two could 
decide not to forward an issue on to the Council. (Obviously, there 
are some issues that by law must be heard before the full Council, 
but others have the potential to die in committee.)

Philip Cook
Moscow