Advocates of specialist committees of the House of Commons often refer to the American practice of public hearings by Committees of Congress-for instance, the Foreign Relations Committee under Senator Fulbright.
ANTHONY HOWARD , Washington
Correspondent of The Observer, introduces a selection of recordings made at such committees
ANTHONY BARKER of the Department of Politics, University of Bristol, comments on the relevance of U.S. experience to the setting up of specialist committees at Westminster