the upper house

Mr Steele said the upper house of jazz, this "marathon debate" simply to the lawmakers on the age of life.

He may also be sweating it out, hoping that success in the upper-house elections will enable him to eject his awkward bedfellows.

If he resists, the LDP might censure him in the upper house, producing a similar outcome.

Similarly limited elections for members of the upper house of parliament also are under consideration, he said.

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.

The extraordinary session was a consequence of the Democratic Party of Japan's victory in the upper-house elections last July.

The government lacks control of the upper house and may not be able to push through its current modest stimulus plans.

From yesterday evening, the archaeologists concluded that the initial, mainly excavated from the burial of the upper House.

But it will become much harder for the party to govern, as most legislation needs the approval of the upper house.

The ruling camp of Japan failed to gain enough seats in Sunday's election to retain a majority in the upper house, local media reported.

That would deprive the DPJ and its tiny coalition partner, the People's New Party, of a majority in the upper house.

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

A majority supports term limits and the election of senators; about 30% (rising to 43% in Quebec) would like the upper house abolished.

It was the first non-confidence motion in the upper house since Japan's current pacifist Constitution took effect in 1947.

The upper house in the bicameral legislature of many states in the United States.

Mr Ozawa has said that the upper house will vote down any extension of operations not countenanced by the United Nations.

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

Labor lacks a majority in the upper house and needs the support of seven non-government senators to have its bills passed.

But he has so far failed to persuade opposition MPs, who control the upper house of parliament, to approve his 92. 4tn yen spending plans.

Last summer the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won unprecedented control of the upper house of the Diet (parliament).

It depends on unelected life senators for its majority in the upper house and so is vulnerable to even a small rebellion on its own side.

The upper house of Russia's parliament is set to begin debate Monday on recognizing the independence of the two republics.

The upper house is likely to vote on the law in the next few weeks.

'I thought he was a Japanese citizen, ' Mr. Kan said before the Upper House Budget Committee.

Elections for the upper house of Japan's Diet (parliament) brought gloom to the governing Democratic Party of Japan.

The Dutch government looked set to lose its majority in the upper-house Senate after its coalition partners did badly in regional elections.

But it was not until the Life Peerages Act 1958 that women were finally allowed to sit in the Upper House.

Legislating may become more complicated, however, once the newly-elected batch of senators take their seats in the upper house next July.

Each member would serve a single 15-year term and thereafter would be barred from standing for election to the upper house again.

Next year, there will be a vote for the Upper House and Hatoyama needs to gain an absolute majority there.

He adds that throughout his political career, he has felt that the upper house should be not simply reformed but abolished.

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

A loss in North Rhine-Westphalia would demoralise the new government and erase its majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house.

But the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which controls the upper house of parliament, rejected them.

A loss would cost her government its majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the legislature.

This month he is expected to name Conservatives to fill five senate vacancies, making his party the largest in the upper house.

Last month polls were held for half the elected seats of the upper house, the Shura Council.

Although the Senate is considered the upper house of the chambers has equal power.

A divisive race could split the party, which already lacks a majority in the upper house.

Wasim Sajjad is the opposition leader in Senate, the upper house of Pakistani parliament.

To placate them, Mr Turnbull committed his coalition to voting against the bill when it came before the upper house, on August 13th.

That is when the Senate, the upper house, convenes with its new political complexion from the federal election last August.

The next election to the House of Councillors (the upper house) is due in mid-2010.

The government has already introduced an insurance bill allowing more foreign direct investment in the sector into the upper house.

The constitution gives the upper house near equal powers to the lower one.

Twenty members of the upper house were elected, earlier this year.

Passage of the reconstruction funding bill by the Upper House, which is controlled by the opposition, is expected as soon as next week.

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.

But he has not lost control of the upper-house Senate.

In last summer's election for the upper house, its 500, 000-odd voters sent one representative to the Diet (parliament).

The election will leave the Greens with the balance of power in the Senate, the upper house, from mid-2011.

Union bosses were due to meet on October 21st to decide what to do once the upper house votes.

On deregulation, it is true, there is unlikely to be much headway while the opposition controls the upper house.

Though the DPJ is the largest party in the upper house, with 106 seats, it lacks a majority there.

a bill goes to the upper house for further discussion.

But the Senate, the upper house, where the government lacks a majority, could kill it.

When the new members take their seats in mid-2011, Greens will hold the balance of power in the upper house.

On March 27th the upper-house Senate voted to keep paying for Italian troops abroad.

In Australia the 507, 600 people of Tasmania have the same weight in the upper house as the 7m who live in New South Wales.

Last year her government lost its majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, which represents the states.