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Former headquarters of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in Brooklyn, New York. Jehovah's Witnesses operate 87 branch offices worldwide, [24] under the oversight of headquarters representatives who visit each of their assigned branches every few years, auditing operations, counseling branch committee members, department heads and missionaries, and reporting back to the Governing Body.
On January 5, 2021, acting head of the DC U.S. attorney's office Channing Phillips obtained a court order from a magistrate judge under seal requiring Google, which operates The Times's email system, to secretly turn over email logs of the four reporters. Contractually obligated to inform NYT of the effort, Google resisted the order.
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision making body. Usually, an assembly or organization sends matters to a committee as a way to explore them more fully than would be possible ...
The Office of Management and Budget ( OMB) is the largest office [ a] within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, [ 2] but it also examines agency programs, policies, and procedures to see whether they comply with the president's policies and ...
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights[ a] ( OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. The office was established by the United Nations ...
A ways and means committee is a government body that is charged with reviewing and making recommendations for government budgets. Because the raising of revenue is vital to carrying out governmental operations, such a committee is tasked with finding the ways and means with which to raise that revenue. The term "ways and means" originated with ...
The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives.The committee has jurisdiction over all taxation, tariffs, and other revenue-raising measures, as well as a number of other programs including Social Security, unemployment benefits, Medicare, the enforcement of child support laws, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, foster ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. [2] It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has six regional offices [3] and 150 field offices worldwide.