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Ten parliamentary committees forgo scrutiny of $25-billion in spending estimates

The House Foreign Affairs Committee also didn't finish its review of $8.5-billion of planned spending.

Nine House committees and a joint parliamentary committee—chaired by MPs Lena Metlege Diab, top left, Ben Carr, René Arseneault, Judy Sgro, Shelby Kramp-Neuman, Ron McKinnon, Sukh Dhaliwal, Sean Casey, Angelo Iacono, and Francis Scarpaleggia, and ISG Senator Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia—failed to complete a review of the government's planned spending. The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia and Andrew Meade, and photographs courtesy of X and Sen. Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia's office

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