Caps, lowercase

Use Cabinet (C upper case) when referring to the Cabinet of President Arroyo.

A cabinet (c in lower case) is an upright, cupboardlike repository with shelves, drawers, or compartments for the safekeeping or display of objects.

A Cabinet (C in upper case) is a body of persons appointed by a head of state or a prime minister to head the executive departments of the government and to act as official advisers.

Legislative committees, when not an official name, must be in lower case.

Thus, the Senate blue ribbon committee must be in lower case.

A blue ribbon committee is defined as “an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue.”

In the Senate, the proper name of the blue ribbon committee is the Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations.

Other legislative bodies must be in lower case too when these are written in the following form: appropriations committee, budget committee etc.

These should be in Clc (Caps lower case) when written in the following form: Committee on Appropriations, Committee on Budget, Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

Names of government agencies must be in Clc when written in the following form: Commission on Human Rights, Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), Department of Agrarian Reform, etc.

These should be written in lower case when written as agrarian reform department, health department, human rights commission, commission on good government.