Nor were the divisive moves confined to the legislative chamber.
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So we are not a legislative chamber during these proceedings.
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Around half have made it through at least one legislative chamber.
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Kentucky's House is the only Southern legislative chamber the party holds.
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The victory gave Republicans control of every state legislative chamber in the South.
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They also called for the removal of the crucifix from the legislative chamber.
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The incident, which was recorded on video, sparked outrage in the legislative chamber.
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Around half of the bills have made it through at least one legislative chamber.
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Simply controlling more seats in a legislative chamber does not necessarily guarantee a majority.
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Only one legislative chamber has ever been made up of a majority of women.
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Snyder's budget address was greeted by protests outside Michigan's legislative chamber, according to Dow Jones.
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Six of those bills have passed in at least one legislative chamber, and on Friday Gov.
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It also held onto all but one state legislative chamber it had controlled in the Midwest.
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For the first time in history, they do not control a single legislative chamber in the South.
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The opposition four-party Alliance won 143 seats in the 349-seat legislative chamber in the Sept.
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It could even push them toward contention to flip a state legislative chamber or more in 2020.
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Twenty-five states this year passed a private school choice bill out of at least one legislative chamber.
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While applause was light in the legislative chamber during most of Murphy's speech, he found support in other quarters.
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British lawmakers used a similar maneuver to bring their upper legislative chamber to heel in the early twentieth century.
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Inside the legislative chamber, someone had blacked out Hong Kong's emblem — a white bauhinia flower on a red background.
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Each legislative chamber had a pot of health care money that, for a few years, the leadership alone controlled.
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Republicans now control the governor's house or the state legislative chamber in 44 states, with full control in 25 states.
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And laws restricting abortions have passed one legislative chamber in Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina and Tennessee -- all death penalty states .
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But none of these presidents ever vowed to fight all subpoenas from a legislative chamber controlled by the opposing party.
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The unarmed protesters, most of them wearing yellow helmets and face masks, carried on into the building's main legislative chamber.
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It accused Saraki of plotting to "foment violence in the legislative chamber all in a bid to stop his impeachment".
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In a significant wave, Forward Majority says, Democrats might even win back a legislative chamber in both North Carolina and Texas.
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That result leaves Republicans in control of every legislative chamber in the U.S. South for the first time in history, Storey said.
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Democrats may end up in control of the House of Delegates, Virginia's lower legislative chamber, for the first time in two decades.
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The Senate, the country's most powerful legislative chamber, grants the same representation to Wyoming's 579,315 residents as it does to 39,536,653 Californians.
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Republicans are most concerned about a collection of big states where they hold at least one legislative chamber by a narrower majority.
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It is expected to pass the country's lower legislative chamber sometime after two rounds of municipal elections slated to end on Oct. 30.
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What's next: The law has been passed by France's National Assembly, according to AP, but still requires approval from a second legislative chamber.
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Kentucky Republicans have won a majority in the state House of Representatives, the last legislative chamber in the South where Democrats held control.
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She had to release her policy address on Wednesday as a video after pro-democracy lawmakers shouted her down in the legislative chamber.
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"This morning it is hard for me to keep my thoughts just on California," Mr. Brown told a legislative chamber crowded with lawmakers.
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The bill has made significant progress in this direction by already passing one legislative chamber in 6900 additional states with 2628 electoral votes.
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Just before publication, Paul Ryan, the Republican leader of the country's lower legislative chamber, announced that he will no longer publicly defend Mr. Trump.
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In Hawaii, the only Senate Republican was ousted, making the Democratic-controlled chamber the nation's first all one-party state legislative chamber since 1980.
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If Democrats were able to win a state legislative chamber and have a seat at the redistricting table, that would be a huge opportunity.
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Another party, Milliy Tiklanish (National Revival), nominated its own leader, Sarvar Otamurodov, deputy speaker of the legislative chamber of parliament, the election commission said.
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Bass was formerly the speaker of the California state assembly and the first African-American woman in history to lead a state legislative chamber.
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"For the first time in a quarter-century, Florida Democrats have a genuine chance of seizing control of a state legislative chamber," he wrote.
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He said that on Friday the Government had backed a plan to bring in the ruling through the Russian State Duma, the upper legislative chamber.
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TWO YEARS after a bitter defeat in America's presidential election, the Democrats have won back control of the lower legislative chamber, the House of Representatives.
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In Hawaii, the only Republican in the Senate was ousted, making the Democratic-controlled chamber the first all one-party state legislative chamber since 1980.
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If Democrats were united, Stewart-Cousins would be the first black woman in history to lead a legislative chamber in the state of New York.
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"(Customs agency) HMRC is preparing for all eventualities, including for a no-deal scenario," Hammond told the economic affairs committee of Britain's upper legislative chamber.
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For a second day, chaos ruled as protesters staged sit-ins, chanted "shame" and "let us in," and knocked on the doors of the legislative chamber.
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"It's often cheaper to create an entire legislative chamber than to win a single congressional seat," said Alyssa Cass, Future Now's director of politics and communication.
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Duterte's approval ratings remained high in recent months, and polls pointed to his allies retaining majority control of the legislative chamber, according to Maybank Kim Eng.
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An alternative proposal was launched in October 22019 by the country's upper legislative chamber, which demanded a total phasing out of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2030.
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Overall, a record 28 female delegates were sent to legislative chamber, and all but one of the female newcomers were Democrats who took over Republican seats.
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Florida's legislature put a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot mandating a two-thirds vote by each legislative chamber to pass new or increased taxes or fees.
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The bill was approved by the State Duma, and it will now head to the upper legislative chamber before going to President Putin's desk for a signature.
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By contrast, between 1965 and 1975, over 70 percent of each legislative chamber had served in the military, peaking at 85033 percent in 1975 for the Senate.
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Kathy Tran, a Democrat, was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 22014, one of a record 28 women chosen for the legislative chamber that year.
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On Sunday, accompanied by soldiers carrying automatic rifles, Mr. Bukele walked into the legislative chamber and occupied the chair of the body's president, who did not attend.
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One legislative chamber is controlled by a small cadre of the majority's leadership, who are in turn at the mercy of a rump faction of arch ideologues.
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The assembly, still recognized as the primary legislative chamber, is boycotted by many of its members and controlled by factions that have spurned the U.N. process and the GNA.
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Beijing was incensed by the unprecedented show of defiance, in which protesters raised the British colonial-era flag and spray-painted "HK is not China" inside the legislative chamber.
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Democrats not only swept Virginia's statewide races but neared a majority in the House of Delegates, a legislative chamber that was gerrymandered to make the Republican majority virtually unassailable.
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Jeers for Hong Kong's leader: Carrie Lam attempted to give her annual policy address today but was driven from the legislative chamber by pro-democracy lawmakers demanding her resignation.
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A small group of hard-core protesters stormed and vandalized the legislative chamber on July 1, the anniversary of the former British colony's handover to Chinese control in 1997.
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Since the proposed reforms would basically make the Chamber of Deputies the dominant legislative chamber, to many of Renzi's critics, this looks like a major opportunity for a power grab.
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Women also made gains in specific chambers across the U.S. Before 2018, the only state legislative chamber to have a female majority was in the New Hampshire Senate in 2009.
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In Kentucky's house of representatives they lost their last legislative chamber in the South, a region in which their demographic hopes were strongest, but which instead remains a Republican bulwark.
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Protests against a proposed Chinese extradition bill in Hong Kong have continued as groups of protesters occupied and ransacked the city's legislative chamber Monday and were met with tear gas.
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With nearly nine months to go before the presidential election, he told America that his legislative chamber would take no action on any Supreme Court nominee named by Barack Obama.
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Ms. Stewart-Cousins is expected to become the Senate majority leader, making her the first woman to lead either legislative chamber and the first black woman to lead the Senate.
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By the usual laws of Albany, Mr. Nojay, a junior upstate Republican in a legislative chamber dominated by New York City Democrats, should never have come within sniffing distance of prominence.
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When the electors cast Pennsylvania's 20 votes for Mr. Trump, the legislative chamber echoed with a long round of applause, followed by shouts of "shame on you" from the visitors' gallery.
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Philippines: Allies of President Rodrigo Duterte swept the Senate elections, according to unofficial results, strengthening his grip over a legislative chamber that had remained an independent check on his authoritarian rule.
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The democrats won only two of four seats up for grabs, with the opposition now left one seat short from having the power to block most bills in the legislative chamber.
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Two pro-independence politicians, Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus Leung, and three of their assistants were also charged last month over their attempt to enter Hong Kong's legislative chamber last year.
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That decree came Tuesday just hours after the assembly delegates took control of a legislative chamber and put up pictures of the late President Hugo Chavez, who installed Venezuela's socialist system.
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A special committee to investigate the claims was formed in the legislative chamber, which took its recommendations to the full session where an overwhelming majority voted in favor of opening impeachment proceedings.
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The measure, also known as House Bill 177, passed the legislative chamber in a 51-46 vote on Tuesday after clearing the body's Privileges and Elections Committee in a vote last week.
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State Senate President Thomas "Mike" Miller (D) said Thursday he will step down after 32 years on the job, ending the longest consecutive leadership run of any legislative chamber in the country.
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Differences discussed in hearings last week addressed less controversial issues such as the level of the proposed quotas for women in parliament and the choice of name of a second legislative chamber.
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Democrats are close to regaining control of at least one legislative chamber and maintaining the governorship in the state, which would allow them to veto and redraw Republican-favored maps in 85033.
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Theatrical protests that others staged on Wednesday spoke to the grievances that have remained unresolved since the protests in 2014 and presaged more clashes to come in and outside the legislative chamber.
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His iron grip on the Senate's flow of business amid the current shutdown shows how Republicans' structural advantage in one legislative chamber gives them an undemocratic veto on the country's political agenda.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Democrats won three of four special House elections on Tuesday, blocking a Republican takeover attempt and solidifying power in the last legislative chamber in the South that the Democrats control.
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From the occupied legislative chamber, the protesters issued a list of demands, including a call for universal suffrage, an investigation into police brutality during recent protests, and the resignation of senior officials.
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As I entered the legislative chamber, what struck me was the chasm between the ideals of the supposed democratic institution and the bitter realities that Hong Kong has endured over two decades.
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It was that sense of idealism for an open society that compelled me to take off my gasmask and expose my face when I was in the legislative chamber on July 1st.
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Guaidó later tried to force his way into the legislative chamber by jumping on top of a fence, but was blocked by members of the National Guard branding plastic shields and batons.
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They were presented lock, stock and barrel by GOP leaders and zipped through the legislative chamber before some Democrats said they had a chance to fully analyze the nearly 100 pages of legislation.
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The parliamentary vote came a couple days after one member, Tim Wilson, became the first person to propose to someone in the legislative chamber—his long-term partner, Ryan Bolger, who said yes.
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Puerto Rico Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz asked the high court to hear the lawsuit he filed on behalf of his legislative chamber, and San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz filed the second.
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I argued that it would warp the nation's constitutional structure by turning the Supreme Court into a third legislative chamber, shaped only by the whims of whoever controls the other two branches simultaneously.
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More than a dozen deputies followed Abadi into the legislative chamber, clapping, slamming their hands on desks and chanting slogans like "invalid" and "treachery" for nearly an hour before the session was adjourned.
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The democrats won only two of four seats up for grabs, with the opposition now left one seat short from having the power to block most bills in the 70-seat legislative chamber.
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"His base is loyal and support is strong, giving him the leverage to move votes — at the ballot box and the legislative chamber," said Brian O. Walsh, who runs the president's main super PAC.
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A second legislative chamber was to be created that would have provided the Kurdistan Region with equal representation, in the same way that the U.S. Senate is comprised of two members from every state.
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Instead, tensions broke out on the House floor between House Republican Leader Jim Durkin and Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan, who initially informed the legislative chamber that no budget votes would be taken on Sunday.
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Given that the GOP — which, after all, just benefited from the current system — will have majorities in the House, Senate, and at least one legislative chamber in 37 states in January, this isn't going anywhere.
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"That argument has now been contradicted by the President's counsel's statements to the Senate, which confirm that the Senate sits as a 'court' rather than a 'legislative chamber' during an impeachment trial," the filing reads.
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After securing a majority in this year's midterm elections, Democrats in New York's state Senate announced Tuesday that Andrea Stewart-Cousins will lead the New York state legislative chamber beginning in January, The Journal News reported.
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Noel Canning took its case to the Supreme Court, which in 2014 ruled that Obama's appointments were unlawful because he had circumvented the Senate by naming the board members when the legislative chamber was not formally adjourned.
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Only two other states have ever had a female majority in a single legislative chamber: Colorado currently has a female majority in its state House, and New Hampshire previously did in its Senate from 2009 to 2010.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said he would not back slashing State Department funding as the Trump administration is expected to propose, adding that deep cuts would not pass the legislative chamber.
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Today, all ten states with a Democratic governor and at least one Democratic-controlled legislative chamber already have universal or expanded background checks, thanks to the spread of those laws at the state level following Sandy Hook.
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Female delegates from opposing parties disagreed over how to implement a sexual harassment policy for the legislative chamber, according to the Washington Post, but the state House still ended up instituting its first sexual harassment training program.
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In other words, stop treating Congress as a place to legislate and compromise; instead, make it an arena for permanent, all-out partisan warfare, waged both in the legislative chamber and on the proliferating 24-hour news channels.
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Lawyers for Ms. Yau and Mr. Leung had argued that a court ruling on their tenure as lawmakers violated the separation of powers and that their speech in the legislative chamber was protected and immune from legal action.
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Spokesmen for House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton, both Democrats, declined to speculate on the chances of either legislative chamber granting the Rauner administration the spending authority it needs to fully tap the bond issue.
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Democrats and some Senate Republicans raised the possibility of a special session to consider ways to rebuke the governor, but such a session could be held only with the approval of half of both caucuses in each legislative chamber.
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They will also expand Mr. el-Sisi's authority, along with the military's, at the expense of the judiciary and legislature, placing top judicial officials under his control and allowing him to appoint some members of a new legislative chamber.
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Two other states — New Hampshire in its Senate in 2009-10 and Colorado in its House this year — have had female majorities in one legislative chamber, Katie Ziegler, a program manager at the National Conference of State Legislatures said.
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In Hong Kong, the chief executive would be elected by a 1,200-member electoral college from a pool of candidates approved by the Chinese government and would preside over a system modelled roughly on Britain's, though with a single legislative chamber.
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MOSCOW — The Ukrainian Parliament on Thursday began enforcing a new law requiring lawmakers to check guns, explosives and other weapons at the door before entering the legislative chamber, after a member arrived this month with a pistol and three hand grenades.
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As the two World War II combat veterans entered the legislative chamber of the magnificent Iowa State Capitol for the Laureate Award Ceremony, they received a standing ovation from the over 800 guests in attendance from more than 50 countries.
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With police nowhere in sight, the anger among the breakaway protest group exploded, as the mostly young, masked protesters smashed windows of the government building, forced their way inside through metal shutters and then trashed nearly everything in sight, including the legislative chamber.
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Instead, for more than two hours, China's main legislative chamber reverberated on Saturday with the sounds of violins, electric bass, French horns and drums for a rare event: a joint concert by a group of the country's leading classical and popular musicians.
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The unlikely alliance would in theory enjoy a relatively comfortable majority in the parliament's lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, but would rely on a handful of sympathetic but unaligned senators if it were to win votes in the upper legislative chamber.
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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has transformed the Senate from a legislative chamber into a machine for confirming judges whom conservatives hope will roll back abortion rights; it's unlikely that he would turn around and embrace reproductive-rights legislation under a Democratic president.
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MANILA — Allies of President Rodrigo Duterte appear to have swept the elections for the Philippine Senate, according to unofficial results on Tuesday, giving him a stronger grip on the one legislative chamber that had shown some degree of independence from his authoritarian rule.
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The unlikely pact would in theory enjoy a relatively comfortable majority in the parliament's lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, but would rely on a handful of sympathetic but unaligned senators if it were to win votes in the upper legislative chamber.
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Instead, the annual policy address by Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, on Wednesday turned into a political fight on the floor of the legislative chamber, highlighting the stark divisions that could make it difficult to resolve the tensions underlying the monthslong protests.
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Rauner and the Democratic legislative leaders met for less than a half hour on Monday with House Speaker Michael Madigan declaring plans to keep his legislative chamber in session during June, when a tougher three-fifths majority vote is required to pass a budget.
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"I can confirm today that amendments to Clause 11 of the bill will be brought forward in the House of Lords (Britain's upper legislative chamber), allowing for further discussions to take place between the UK government and Scottish government," David Mundell said in a statement.
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Comparing special election results to an upcoming midterm election is always fraught: A mere fraction of the electorate turns out in low-profile special elections, and parties rarely spend significant resources on contests that would not put control of a legislative chamber in jeopardy.
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In June, Christopher Cheung, who represents financial services and business interests in Hong Kong's legislative chamber, called on Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission to more tightly scrutinize short sellers, saying they had caused "serious disturbance to market order" in Hong Kong and hurt investors.
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The Republican Party has captured more seats in culturally conservative red America than it has relinquished in culturally liberal blue America, allowing it to control at least one legislative chamber in all but four years since 1994 after six decades of near-permanent minority status.
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Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the head of the Senate Democrats, is the first woman to lead a New York legislative chamber, and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes, a Democrat from Buffalo, is the first woman to serve as the second-most powerful member of her chamber.
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"When one takes on the burden of the speakership they subjugate many of their personal political goals in order to accomplish the task of finding compromise across the disparate opinions of a 400-plus legislative chamber," said one former chief of staff to a House Republican.
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The constituent assembly, as the group is called, took a symbolic jab at their political rivals, parading through the gates of the legislative chamber holding portraits of former President Hugo Chávez, which were taken down just last year after opposition parties won control of the National Assembly.
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On Wednesday, two pro-independence politicians, Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus Leung, and three of their assistants were charged over their attempt to enter Hong Kong's legislative chamber after it refused to swear them in because they inserted anti-China snubs into their oaths of office.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez celebrated an electoral triumph in Madrid Sunday night, after his earlier decision to call a snap poll in February during a moment of parliamentary deadlock resulted in his Socialist party - known as the PSOE - significantly consolidating their presence in the lower legislative chamber.
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But lawmakers will not be able to address the island's fiscal crisis before May 1, when Puerto Rico is due to make a smaller $422 million payment that Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla says it cannot meet, said the California Republican, who is second only to Speaker Paul Ryan in the legislative chamber.
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In the legislative vote to choose 96 members of parliament, the ruling party lost its two-thirds majority after the ruling party secured 63 seats, down from 77 seats, while the official opposition party, Venaani's Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) party, will hold 16 seats, improving from its 2014 total of five in the legislative chamber.
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The bill—put forth by House Speaker Paul Ryan and praised by President Donald Trump—was criticized by both Democrats and many Republicans, and despite efforts by House leadership to ram it through the legislative chamber as quickly as possible, it died a sputtering death when it was abruptly pulled before it could be voted down.
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