come to order

“The Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will come to order and let me get to the point of this hearing. Today in our country, over 60 percent of our people are living paycheck to paycheck, and millions are working for starvation wages,” he began.

“You read a rule and it says, the committee will come to order,” Ms. Lofgren said.

“The Senate will come to order and the clerk will read a communication to the Senate,” said Rubio.

So the Los Angeles Democrat cleared her throat, prepared her notes and adjusted a thin microphone before declaring, “the committee will come to order.”

“The House will come to order,” Pelosi said.