1.   At Harvard, coho is just gibberish, but hoco is the house committee, the student government within a dorm.

2.   A lower house committee is already investigating.

3.   Commenting on the parliamentary impasse over the budget bill, Kubo said he has no intention of forcing a vote in the lower house budget committee.

4.   For the first time in decades, women led house committees.

5.   The State Department rented it to the show house committee for the month.

6.   Approval by the house committee means a virtual passage of the bill because they cannot be blocked by the weaker upper house.

7.   Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka told the lower house committee Tuesday that the two countries have discussed the possibility of changes in the past.

8.   On Wednesday, a lower house committee is expected to approve a separate bill establishing punishments for noncompliance with the fiscal responsibility law.

9.   She said she would seek seats on the house committees for natural resources and for commerce.

10.   The house committee on legal affairs recommended Tuesday that Skuratov be dismissed, suggesting the full house would vote the same way Wednesday.