The key export control decision making is in a Cabinet-level committee made up of representatives from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Industry, Finance, and Foreign Trade.

The Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission meets every six months and incorporates Cabinet-level committees on scientific, technological and economic issues.

The trust corporation has had two masters, the independently run Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Oversight Board, a Cabinet-level committee that sets overall policy for the bailout.

Traditionally the most important part of the Cabinet Office's role was facilitating collective decision-making by the Cabinet, through running and supporting Cabinet-level committees.

Some lawmakers and the local irrigation district in Oregon had urged Ms. Norton to convene a Cabinet-level committee that could override the Endangered Species Act.

Yet it also recommends that Congress convene a Cabinet-level committee to make exemptions from the Endangered Species Act should it prove economically or socially necessary.

For only the third time in history the Cabinet-level committee known as the "God squad" began deliberations today on whether certain economic activities of man are more important than the potential extinction of an animal species.

Connaughton coordinated the Cabinet-level committee addressing climate change and energy security policy.

While the Bush Administration has had Cabinet-level committees studying the issue, most logging on Federal lands in the Northwest has been halted because of lawsuits.

In September, he asked me to chair a Cabinet-level committee - the Community Enterprise Board - to develop the program.