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He said in a campaign speech, also emphasized that his children should not be accounted for others in this respect the child's lower house.

Russia's pro-Kremlin Duma or lower house of parliament rushed through the necessary legislation in less than a week.

Visibly shaken, Mr. Berlusconi left the lower house without speaking publicly, while members of the opposition called on him to resign.

A member of the U. S. House of Representatives or of the lower house of a state legislature.

Under the revised electoral law, the lower house of the Parliament of Kazakhstan must be at least two political parties members.

The CDU and FDP were expected to win 323 out of 614 seats in the new Bundestag, or lower house, giving it a 16-seat majority.

Should the poor, defenceless question survive that mangle, the speaker of the lower house still has the right to reject it, with no appeal.

It was the first time the lower house had removed the fuero of a sitting member in its history.

It had already secured the second-largest number of seats in Congress's lower house.

House of Representatives The lower house of the U. S. Congress and of most state legislatures.

His party, itself a makeshift coalition, has only a fifth of the seats in the lower house and a third in the upper.

It has just nine seats in the 480-seat lower house, and is hampered by an electoral system that penalises minor parties.

There are some who signal the matter still must be voted on yet again by the country's lower House, which narrowly had approved the plan.

He is expected to be approved as prime minister on Tuesday through a vote in the Diet's lower house, where the DPJ has a majority.

The reforms have passed through the lower house of parliament and are expected to be passed by the Senate within days.

A bill that would, among other things, solidify their land claims has passed in Brazil's lower house and is now in the Senate.

Even if allies of the al-Khalifa family were to lose control of the lower house, the appointed upper house can overrule it.

A bill to that effect was introduced in the lower house of Congress in 2007, but it is not expected to be voted on any time soon.

This is intended to help the party retain a two-thirds majority in the lower house and prepare for him to become premier.

Going forward, improved affordability--the result of lower house prices and record-low mortgage rates--should boost the demand for housing.

It has already been passed by the lower house of parliament, and the upper house is due to conclude its voting this week.

Whoever wins the lower house at the next general election, due by 2013, is unlikely to hold a majority in the upper house.

A: As a friendly neighbour of Thailand, China expresses congratulations on the smooth election of the lower house of the Thai Parliament.

Later the lower house will weigh in on the next tranche of aid to Greece, plus a second Greek rescue package.

So let's move on to talk a bit about how lower house elections actually work.

If lower house prices and a contraction in credit push America into recession, the industry will undoubtedly face a grimmer future.

However, its leaders still drone on about the need to dissolve the lower house. They see that as their quickest route back to power.

The DPJ will now step up its preparations for lower-house elections, which are to be held before October, probably in July or August.

These were approved by the lower house yesterday in an emergency session that cleared the way for Mr Berlusconi's departure.

In the lower house, the DPJ lacks the magic two-thirds majority that would have allowed it to bypass the upper house.

In accordance with the constitution, Mr Komorowski, the speaker of the Sejm (the lower house of parliament) is already acting president.

Burma's legislature has four hundred forty seats in the lower house and a two hundred twenty-four seat Senate.

Losing Dunwoody's seat in parliament's lower House of Commons would be a further stinging blow.

Russia's lower house of parliament has given a preliminary approval to a nuclear arms pact with United States.

Months ago, gaining a majority in the upper house to add to its lower-house one was considered a safe bet.

It lacks enough votes in the lower house to override upper-house opposition to its legislation.

Wednesday, Italy's lower house of parliament approved a security bill that redefines illegal immigration as a criminal offense.

Sharply lower house prices and ultra cheap mortgages were bound to spark bargain hunting.

The legislation will be examined by the Justice Commission of the parliament's lower house until tomorrow for possible amendments.

When a lower house majority failed to emerge, Ms Gillard withheld the bill from a vote.

Since 2008, she had served as the spokeswoman for the Popular Party in the lower house of parliament.

Now, Germany's increasingly sceptical Bundestag (lower house of parliament) is about to weigh in.

On paper she has a powerful grip on the legislature, with over 70% of the lower-house and a majority of the senate backing her coalition.

It's a fight that is expected to come to a head in the next few weeks, as the newly elected lower house of parliament convenes January 23.

The lower house is called the National Assembly and has 342 seats including reserved seats for religious and ethnic minorities and women.

When news reached the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, scuffles broke out between government and opposition.

After that, while the MDC and its allies had a slim majority in the lower house of parliament, Zimbabwe's slide into ruin continued.

The Howard government the new asylum law, passed by the lower house last week, after a diplomatic dispute earlier this year with Indonesia.

Italy's lower house of parliament has approved a new security bill by that redefines illegal immigration as a criminal offense.

Since the DPJ has a huge majority in the more-powerful lower house, it will remain the ruling party despite Sunday's setback.

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso bites his finger as he attends the lower house budget committee in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan.

He fanned the Lower House into a blaze of resentment.

The lower house of congress had passed the new tax structure after adjusting it to include breaks for smaller farmers.

Indian politics traditionally turn on Uttar Pradesh, which contributes almost 90 seats to the lower house of the national parliament.

Brazil's lower house has passed legislation that would loosen restrictions on how small farmers use their land in the Amazon forest.

Though the ruling coalition controls the more-powerful lower house, the upper house can delay legislation and veto key appointments.

He is a six-term elected member of the lower house of the Diet and has served in prominent posts within the DPJ.

This week the lower house passed a bill proposing stiff fines for immigrants without papers and high charges for residency permits.

Those that cannot service their mortgages will default, causing more trouble for banks and, via lower house prices, other homeowners.

Pollsters say Labor may prevail by a few seats in the lower house.

Crucially, newly-elected Greens lawmaker Adam Bandt, who won his party's first-ever lower house seat, has committed to supporting Labor.

Community image, the ultimate impact of the intangibles area, the lower house's reputation.

Meanwhile, lower house prices will reduce both homeowners' wealth and their potential collateral.

A majority of lawmakers in the lower house refused to vote. It appeared Mister Berlusconi had lost their support.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has won a critical confidence vote in both the Senate and the lower house of parliament.

The Senate passed the bill last week and sent it back to the lower house to approve minor amendments.

The annual budget needs simply to pass the lower house. But all sorts of supplementary bills need upper-house approval.

The speaker of the lower house of parliament was investigated this month for "misappropriating" $140m.

Mr. Berlusconi's governing coalition garnered 308 votes, seven votes shy of a majority needed in the 630-member lower house of Parliament.

Japan's lower house of parliament has approved Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's controversial plan to double sales tax.

It has already passed the lower house, the National Assembly.

Kazakhstan has a bicameral Parliament, comprised of the lower house (the Mazhilis) and upper house (the Senate).

The lower house followed the senate in giving his government an overwhelming vote of confidence.

The PdL is still the biggest party in parliament, with around 250 of the 630 seats in the lower house.

In a legislative election in March his party won just five seats in the 102-seat Senate and only four in the lower house.

The bill is returned to the lower house later this morning and then sent off for royal assent, completing its transition into law.

Oleg Morozov is the first deputy speaker of the Russian Duma, the lower house of parliament.

Italy's lower house passed a bill that would in effect end a bribery case against Silvio Berlusconi.

over the new abortion proposals in the lower house tomorrow.

Voters will be electing members to the four provincial assemblies and the lower house of parliament.

Mr Berlusconi was forced out because he had lost his majority in the lower-house Chamber of Deputies.

The lower house, the National Assembly has already approved the package.

Preliminary results give the PDPT, led by Emomali Rakhmon, the president, 53 seats out of 63 in the lower house of parliament.

THE results of elections to Afghanistan's lower house of parliament, which took place on September 18th, will become clear this week.

The 2008 constitution reserves one-quarter of lower-house seats to serving military officers, and one-third of upper-house seats.

Mr Ozawa may have helped win the DPJ's thumping majority in last August's lower-house contest.

The DPJ is set to use its majority in the lower house to appoint him as premier to succeed Naoto Kan as soon as tomorrow.

Poland's Lower House of Parliament would like to contribute to continuous development of Poland-China relations.

The ruling party could even lose its majority in the lower house of parliament, starting a period of prolonged struggling.

Merkel's coalition can reject the compromise in the lower house, or Bundestag, which will debate the amended bill on July 8.

The Houses of Parliament consist of the House of Lords and House of Commons, which are also called the Upper House and the Lower House.

Nevertheless, the PAN could lose a score or more of its 206 lower-house seats.

Voters in Pakistan are set to go to the polls Monday in elections for the lower house of parliament and the four provincial assemblies.

On Saturday they unveiled a six-party coalition government that controls more than 300 of the lower house's 480 seats.

He held the position until winning a seat in the lower house of the national parliament in 1993.

MPs from the three nominal opposition parties in the Duma, the lower house of parliament, staged a walkout in protest.

Labor won a majority in the lower House of Representatives in a 2007 election.

This week, Mister Berlusconi won a budget vote in Italy's lower house of parliament.

Italy's lower house backed a bill that would fine illegal immigrants and those who rent houses to them.

On paper, the rebellion cost the prime minister his lower-house majority.

However the potential loss of the lower house to DPJ will create uncertainly for LPD to enact fiscal stimulus.

Abe made the remark during a press conference as his party won a majority in Sunday's lower house election.

Lower house price figures landscape area is the world's original "building area. "

But Kang's concessions and compromise was tantamount to the denial or abandonment of opening a Lower House in the future.

The lower house of the Italian parliament has approved a tough austerity package, which was passed on Thursday by the Senate.

The House of Representatives qualifies as the lower house because its 435 members are elected from districts based on population size.

In Monday's polls, voters elected 47 members of the lower house of parliament.

The prime minister's near defeat in Italy's lower house means that Mediaset is more vulnerable.

The lower house of Uruguay's Congress has voted to legalise abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

His Thai Rak Thai ( TRT ) party won 375 of the 500 lower-house seats in the last valid election, in 2005.

Lawmakers in the lower house of parliament voted for Merkel, with 323 of the 612 votes cast in favor, 285 against and four abstentions.

Silvio Bersulsconi faces two awkward no-confidence votes in Italy's lower house.

The House of Representatives, the lower house, passed the emissions-trading bill on June 4th.

The DPJ appeared set to gain more 300 out of 480 lower house seats in play.

If the historical pattern holds, it could win 130 seats in the lower house, and control 390 via its partners.

Another obstacle is that once the Senate approves the bill, it must return to the lower house for approval.

However, its leaders still drone on about the need to dissolve the lower house.

What the "house" stands for in "Lower House" is its sense rather than its signification.

In 2003 the lower house of the advisory council was freely elected for the first time.

The plan authorizes ministers to draft a bill, which is expected to go to the Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament, this summer.

As a result, the Greens hope to capture Melbourne as their first-ever seat in the country's lower house.

The 150 members of the Lower House (Tweede Kamer, or Second Chamber) are elected every four years in direct elections.

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Under the Constitution, the lower house is more powerful and holds the final say.

This should have a smoother passage once it reaches the lower house.

But the Samajwadi Party, alone, cannot take the government past the half-way mark in the 545 member lower house of parliament.

The Senate is the one that matters: in the lower house, the government has a comfortable majority.

The Samajwadi Party controls 39 members of parliament in the 543 lower house of parliament.

This is a tragedy and we express our condolences, " Boris Gryzlov, speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, told journalists. "

The center-right parties have a comfortable majority with 332 seats in the 622-seat lower house of parliament.

The poll of more than 190, 000 voters suggested the DPJ could win 321 seats in the more powerful lower house, up from the 112 it holds now.

The PT now has 79 of the 513 lower-house seats and 10 of 81 in the Senate, and has relied on a big, fractious coalition.

This week, after 18 years of dithering and doubts, the Duma (the lower house of parliament) voted to ratify WTO entry,

Power in the UK parliament rests with the lower house, known as the Commons

Viewing Japan's Political Circle from Its Lower House Election

Lower House Fiscal, Monetary and Financial Policy Committee

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Railroad a bill through the Lower House

December fifth lower house election

Deputy speaker of the lower house

The Speaker of Britain's Lower House of parliament

The lower house of Japan's parliament