Sentences with phrase «jurisdictional authority over»

Rep. Collin Peterson (Minn.), the outspoken Democratic chairman of the Agriculture panel, has been making it well - known that he wants his committee to have full jurisdictional authority over whatever climate change bill emerges from Chairman Henry Waxman's (D - Calif.)

The question of whether this innovation, as well as the elevation of the bishop of Rome to jurisdictional authority over the whole church, is a genuinely catholic move remains to be resolved.