Under committee rules, decisions will be made by majority vote.

Mayor Bloomberg, who has often shown impatience with government process, wants to change the committee rules to expedite its work.

The provision for individual committee rules took effect in 1970.

"In other words," said Miro, "when we do follow the committee rules."

Some advisory committee rules may impose too heavy a disclosure requirement in light of the committee's purposes and composition.

Under committee rules, a preliminary inquiry is the first formal phase of any ethics investigation.

Under committee rules, the Republicans needed the votes of least 2 Democrats on the 16-member panel to grant immunity.

Under the committee rules, there are many procedural rights available to me which could postpone final committee action for months.

They noted that committee rules prevented them from publicly discussing matters pending before the panel.

It uses committee rules rather than House procedures.