This committee can summon and hear witnesses.

As part of the Senate's constitutional role of advice and consent, the committee can summon nominees, sit them down before the glare of television lights, probe their records and pepper them with questions.

On March 1, a parliamentary select committee summoned Mark Miller, Cuadrilla's chief executive, to a hearing on shale gas and asked him what would happen to the waste products from fracking.

The parliamentary committee, headed by a Social Democratic politician, Volker Neumann, has summoned 26 people to testify, including Mr. Kohl and several of his former ministers.

The committee, on 4 April 2011, summoned Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, and Niira Radia, corporate lobbyist regarding the scam.

Mr. Hyde today underscored his goal to wrap up the inquiry this year, announcing that the committee would very likely summon only one witness, Mr. Starr, on Nov. 19.

The provincial committees of the nobility summoned to discuss the peasant question rapidly became involved in a wide-ranging dialogue with the government.

Soon after the meeting of the Long parliament, the committee for depriving scandalous ministers summoned Hammond, but he declined to leave Penshurst.

The committee has once again summoned the county health commissioner, Dr. Brian Harper, this time for its March 9 meeting.

In August 2012, while playing for Marathón, Brown was involved in an incident in which Motagua goalkeeper Kerpo de León was critically injured and a committee summoned an investigation.