It was a legislative body really reflecting the country. Finally.
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The council, the "true legislative body," meets behind closed doors.
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Without such a power, a legislative body could not function.
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In a unanimous vote, the newly-elected legislative body fired Ortega.
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Back home, Puerto Rico has its own governor and legislative body.
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Fifty years ago we did not even have a legislative body.
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His victory was expected, since the opposition controls the legislative body.
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The House of Commons, Canada's legislative body, also decided to investigate.
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Murphy said he encourages "the legislative body to look at" the issue.
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The coronavirus has already affected at least one legislative body in 2020.
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America's senior legislative body must act now, before it is too late.
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Obama then took the issue to the highest legislative body, the Supreme Court.
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The Parliament, the Islamic Consultative Assembly or Majlis, is Iran's principal legislative body.
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Even so, could the legislative body vote quickly enough before Washington is lost?
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Can Congress survive this clash and still function as an effective legislative body?
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He was, in effect, encouraging Floridians to circumvent the legislative body he oversaw.
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The legislative body is controlled by the pro-Kremlin ruling United Russia party.
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The legislative body was controlled by the pro-Kremlin ruling United Russia party.
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The standing committee for China's top legislative body will meet next Monday, Feb.
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And in 2016, six pro-democracy lawmakers were expelled from the city's legislative body.
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The way the Senate -- and every other legislative body -- works is trust and goodwill.
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In July, a shocking "nation-state" law made its way through the legislative body.
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It's the only legislative body in the world where the majority is not enough.
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He was a relative unknown until he was chosen to lead Venezuela's legislative body.
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Cox gained his role after a coin toss decided which party controlled the legislative body.
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But the reality we face today is a legislative body entirely paralyzed by partisan division.
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But volume isn't a very good way to judge the effectiveness of a legislative body.
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The District's legislative body on Wednesday tweeted out a graphic of a "no tanks" symbol.
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But of course, the House isn't Walmart or Goldman Sachs — it's a major legislative body.
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It was always meant to be the legislative body where consensus, not pure partisanship, reigned.
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Thurston on Thursday filed a formal complaint to have Artiles expelled from the legislative body.
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Mark Meadows of North Carolina, a Trump ally, said the legislative body could take part.
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An earlier version of this article gave an incorrect name for Liberia's national legislative body.
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From January there will be no legislative body, meaning Moise will rule by executive decree.
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This is not surprising given how that legislative body foiled reform efforts this past year.
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Maybe the best was State Senate, because it's a legislative body, as is the Congress.
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In that context, a 435-member legislative body voting in the House chamber carries risks.
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So, talking specifically about Congress, women make up only 20 percent of the legislative body.
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Their absence left the legislative body two senators short of a quorum, blocking the chamber's proceedings.
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Tim Scott, president of the Common Council, the city's legislative body, prefers a business-friendly term.
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It's going to be brought up because it has to be brought by their legislative body.
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Critics think Venezuela's new legislative body, the Constituent Assembly, will rewrite the Constitution at Maduro's behest.
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A new legislative body linked to the GNA was ousted from the Rixos buildings in October.
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The National Constituent Assembly, a pro-Maduro legislative body, stripped Guanipa of his immunity on Oct.
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BEIJING, Feb 17 (Reuters) - A top legislative body of the Chinese parliament will meet on Feb.
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Matt Shea, engaged in domestic terrorism against the U.S., a report from the legislative body concluded.
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Would this help make Congress a more effective and efficient legislative body to implement real policy changes?
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And it's likely to pass, since Santos' coalition holds the balance of power in the legislative body.
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The five of them appeared to have had access to the computer network of the legislative body.
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For example, all districts for a state legislative body must have approximately the same number of people.
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Leading the charge was Aaron Peskin, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors, the legislative body.
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It will most likely pass, given that the city's legislative body is stacked with pro-Beijing politicians.
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Vermont would have been the first state to legalize marijuana by vote of a state legislative body.
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Ellison, sources say, has also grown tired of Congress, feeling that the legislative body gets little done.
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She'll be the first openly transgender candidate to be elected and serve in a state legislative body.
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Still the bill remained set to go through the city's top legislative body, Legco, in early June.
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The senators' absence left the legislative body one senator short of a quorum, blocking the chamber's proceedings.
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He understands that in a legislative body, sharing power with so many people, you need to compromise.
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It "gravely affects the human right Venezuelans have to be informed," the legislative body said in a statement.
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Last year, Maduro essentially replaced the legislative body with a Constituent Assembly made up almost exclusively of allies.
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Congressional leader Pedro Olaechea said the legislative body is "still functioning" despite President Martin Vizcarra's decision on Monday.
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The Mexican Senate, constitutionally modeled after its American counterpart, is the legislative body in charge of foreign relations.
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For the first time ever, Democrats do not control a single legislative body in Southern or border states.
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It was a proud moment for a legislative body that was rocked by gun violence just months ago.
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The article also misidentified the Brazilian legislative body that has 513 members, 10 percent of whom are women.
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"It should be a national debate, and I encourage the legislative body to look at that," Murphy said.
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In the first eight months of 2017, prices rose a cumulative 4313 percent, according to the legislative body.
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On Tuesday, the state's House of Representatives became the first legislative body to pass a $15 minimum wage.
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His appointment reinvigorated that opposition-dominated legislative body, which had become ineffectual and deeply unpopular in recent years.
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In 2009, there were 503 women on the City Council, making up 35 percent of the legislative body.
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But it is harder when one thinks about how they might apply to actions of a legislative body.
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The votes on the articles of impeachment fell largely along party lines in the Republican-led legislative body.
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To do so, he created a new legislative body: the Congress of People's Deputies, consisting of 2,250 delegates.
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Hope springs eternal among lawmakers that the Senate could regain its former distinction as an active legislative body.
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Members of the Knesset, the country's legislative body, failed to agree on a majority leader by yesterday's deadline.
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In fact, sometimes I think the Senate isn't a legislative body; it's the world's most expensive writer's colony.
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The Missouri House is the legislative body that has to act first, by voting on articles of impeachment.
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" (Idaho Statesman) Trump: "I always prefer Congress remain a legislative body that advances legislation to benefit the American people.
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According to the law, the head of the legislative body acts as interim president until elections can be held.
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"When you move on to the larger body, you just have a more consumer-friendly legislative body," he says.
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It is the first time the group takes control of the legislative body since Chavez was elected in 1998.
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Their removal follows Sunday's controversial election establishing a new legislative body made up entirely of President Nicolas Maduro's supporters.
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In learning to navigate Congress' diverse legislative body, the President's unique comfort around New Yorkers has also been evident.
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It will be revealed in the not too distant future and will need a vote by Mexico's Legislative body.
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It can only be lifted by an act of Congress, an unlikely proposition while Republicans control the legislative body.
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It will be revealed in the not too distant future and will need a vote by Mexico's Legislative body!
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The legislative body also formally decided to ban all illegal wildlife trade and consumption in China, the report said.
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Venezuela's top court took control of the legislative body earlier this week in what critics described as a coup.
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The news agency added a ban bill "could take months or even years" to pass the country's legislative body.
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But whoever is responsible, this is the Senate now and in the future: an unrepresentative, tightly controlled legislative body.
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It will be revealed in the not too distant future and will need a vote by Mexico's Legislative body!..
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has encouraged Congress to raise the limit before the legislative body leaves for their August recess.
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The news was met with applause by the more than 500 members of the legislative body, known as the Constituents.
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Roberts' nomination passed before the Senate in 2005 and Cruz ascended to the legislative body more than seven years later.
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It also would allow for the reshaping of the current legislative body, as well as redefine the President's executive powers.
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No legislative body in America "has ever done so much, so fast, to restrict access to the franchise," she added.
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But these are properly questions for the legislative body, which is where reforms to the program ought to be decided.
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But as the chairman of the legislative body of military affairs, McCain also had to account for the military's failures.
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That would give the legislative body clearer powers to command information from the executive branch, including secretive grand jury material.
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Following the election of the new, all-powerful legislative body, the Constituent Assembly, Mr. Maduro started releasing opponents from prison.
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The Court is not a legislative body, and it can't simply undo all of the conservative rulings of recent decades.
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You should obey the law and if you don't like the law, get your legislative body to change the law.
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The US and others now recognize Guaidó, the leader of the country's opposition-controlled legislative body, as Venezuela's rightful president.
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This is, after all, a legislative body that passed a tax reform bill it had just finished writing that night.
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The US and others now recognize Guaidó, the leader of the country's opposition-controlled legislative body, as Venezuela's rightful leader.
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What is the name of the legislative body of 215,230 politicians who recently gathered in Beijing, China for their annual meeting?
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The state's legislative body, which is held by Republicans with comfortable majorities in both chambers, is not on the ballot today.
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They also harshly questioned Amazon's engagement with the legislative body and the necessity of a helipad that could accompany its office.
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Separation of powers The move by the administration to seek to overrule the legislative body sparked shock among the city's lawmakers.
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By marginalizing his rivals and creating a new legislative body stacked with his supporters, Maduro cut the legs off the opposition.
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It has its own governor and legislative body and it became a US commonwealth territory with its own constitution in 1952.
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There's been, I think, the most profound display of collective cowardice that I've ever seen in terms of a legislative body.
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The newly elected Venezuelan legislative body will meet for the first time Friday morning, Maduro said in a speech broadcast nationwide.
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No legislative body in America, the court concluded, "has ever done so much, so fast, to restrict access to the franchise".
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With a leadership change coming in the House of Representatives, will the legislative body launch its own ethics investigation of Jordan?
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According to the state's election site, Democrats won 21 of the 40 State Senate seats, meaning they flipped the legislative body.
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Instead the "diet" here is defined as assembly or government body — in this case, the legislative body of Israel, the KNESSET.
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But dozens of other countries, including neighboring Colombia, have said they will not recognize Parra as president of the legislative body.
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What could create such a sense of urgency and desperation among a legislative body with a 28503-percent-plus reelection rate?
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Alternately, the legislative body might treat the Internet as a public utility, much like the water, gas works or electric grid.
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That vote will determine the future of Trump-style politicians' efforts to increase their clout in Europe's pan-national legislative body.
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Utah's House of Representatives in 2016 became the first legislative body in the U.S. to declare porn a public health crisis.
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The Senate is the only legislative body on earth where a majority is not enough-most things require sixty votes to pass.
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The legislative body has been politicized following the Chief Justice's removal by former President Benigno Aquino in 2012, Thompson and Holmes noted.
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During that time, Democrats have lost only one legislative body — a shift to a power-share arrangement in the Alaska State House.
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House Democrats last week approved guidelines formalizing the impeachment inquiry over the lockstep opposition of virtually every Republican in the legislative body.
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When Roem takes office, she will be the first openly transgender candidate to be elected and serve in a state legislative body.
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A spokesman from the group vowed that if the legislative body proceeded with the repeal that the sit-in would last indefinitely.
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But the cost will be that the legislative body he leads and has long claimed to deeply value will be changed forever.
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The US and others now recognize Juan Guaidó, the leader of the country's opposition-controlled legislative body, as Venezuela's rightful interim president.
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Leaders of 145 companies wrote a letter to the Senate on Thursday, urging the legislative body to take action on gun safety.
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In July, the country elected an all-powerful legislative body called the Constituent Assembly, a vote that was boycotted by the opposition.
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Watching a legislative body maul, maim and paralyze itself through grotesquely irrational infighting probably doesn't sound like your idea of summer escapism.
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In Oregon, a quorum is two-thirds of the legislative body — 40 out of 60 representatives or 20 out of 30 senators.
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It worked so well that no legislative body wanted it, because it left no time for lobbying amid the yeas and nays.
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China's top legislative body, the National People's Congress, warned that it would use its authority, if necessary, to overrule the territory's judiciary.
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"The participation of the whole or a portion of the legislative body in the office of making them," he wrote of treaties.
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Mr. Gorbachev wanted to invigorate the Soviet system by making it more competitive and allowing some nonparty members into its legislative body.
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If necessary, each Party shall provide suggestions for the amendment of laws to its legislative body according to its domestic legislation procedure.
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If the vote were held today, the deployment would likely be endorsed in the legislative body controlled by conservative and moderate politicians.
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Venezuela held a highly contentious vote Sunday to create a new legislative body that supersedes others, including the opposition-led National Assembly.
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Maduro then endorsed a fraudulent election to create the new Constituent Assembly, a super-legislative body that intends to change the constitution.
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In a 1975 case that she cited, a California appeals court judge wrote that "nature, not the legislative body" made that distinction.
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"We're talking about $11 billion they cannot justify," he added, as he presented a report by the legislative body that audits the state.
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It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body.
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Mr. Van Bramer said that he was proud the workers were "speaking truth to power," and that the legislative body must now act.
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"Diversity matters because you want people of the United States to look at this legislative body and say, 'Oh, they represent me,'" Rep.
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When the monarchy began to feel the pressure, Louis tasked the Estates-General, the country's legislative body, with drafting a new tax plan.
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Critics have said it would also allow for the reshaping of the current legislative body, as well as redefining the President's executive powers.
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The election could replace the current legislative body, the National Assembly, with a new, 545-member Constituent Assembly, all nominated by his administration.
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Finally, several states prohibit lobbying any agency or legislative body during the cooling off period, so no lobbying on behalf of paying clients.
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No democratically elected legislative body has ever voted to take control of their nation's "means of production," except to the most modest extent.
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The new guidance was devised after the legislative body of the Church voted last year to welcome transgender people into the Anglican community.
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The main center-right and center-left blocs have lost their majority, but they will continue to dominate the 751-member legislative body.
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It is almost certain that the party would have succeeded in passing the no-confidence vote, given its dominance in the legislative body.
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"It will only make people more furious with the government," said Lam Cheuk-ting, a pro-democracy lawmaker in Hong Kong's legislative body.
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The city council is exploring overseeing its own investigation that would include subpoena power to bring in witnesses before the city's legislative body.
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"You can't have the White House telling a legislative body how to operate," the first congressional source familiar with the matter told Buzzfeed.
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Your legacy will be that of turning the House of Representatives from a revered legislative body into a Star Chamber of partisan persecution.
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"Your legacy will be that of turning the House of Representatives from a revered legislative body into a Star Chamber of partisan persecution."
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They refuse to account for their action and appear before the legislative body who have the constitutional right to inquire about their activities.
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Rohrabacher said he received a package of documents as he was ending a meeting in the Russian legislative body known as the Duma.
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This is a critical time because each bill must pass one side of the legislative body during this period or it will die.
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Ideally, at minimum, the legislative body should appoint a bipartisan committee to screen allegations of misconduct and determine whether further investigation is warranted.
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Since 2017, the National Assembly has been effectively sidelined by a new legislative body created under Mr. Maduro and packed with his supporters.
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The Trump administration now backs Juan Guaidó, the leader of the country's opposition-controlled legislative body, who claims he is the country's rightful president.
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Gerrymandering can affect any legislative body that has to have districts drawn — which includes both the US House of Representatives, and every state legislature.
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The US and others now support Guaidó, the leader of the country's opposition-controlled legislative body, who claims he is the country's rightful president.
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Trump also wrote that the measure would need to be voted on by Mexico's legislative body, which he did not foresee being a problem.
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The sacking added to unhappiness with Corbyn's leadership among Labour members of the Lords - an unelected legislative body which shapes and revises new laws.
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Washington imposed sanctions on eight Venezuelan officials on Wednesday for their role in creating an all-powerful legislative body loyal to President Nicolas Maduro.
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A Russian flag — white, blue and red stripes – went up over the building of the Russian Supreme Soviet, the nominal legislative body, in Moscow.
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The court on Tuesday asked Venezuela's Constituent Assembly, a pro-Maduro legislative body, to determine whether to open criminal proceedings against seven opposition lawmakers.
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It also plans for the creation of a legislative body, with two-thirds of the seats going to the Alliance for Freedom and Change.
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He has experience dealing with a legislative body — the city council — and all that entails, and with competing stakeholders inside and outside the government.
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"When you delegitimize the courts, you delegitimize the legislative body," Biden said at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., according to ABC News.
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Abortion will remain illegal in the country in almost all circumstances until Ireland's legislative body, the Oireachtas, passes a law legalizing the practice nationwide.
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Under Peru's constitution, presidents can dissolve Congress if the legislative body delivers two votes of no-confidence in his government or its proposed policies.
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The legislative body recently wrapped up an 18-month investigation into the social media site, finding that it violated data privacy and competition laws.
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The reality is that the process of passing legislation is long and incremental and the Department of Cultural Affairs is not a legislative body.
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In two weeks, the N.C.A.A.'s primary legislative body, the Division I Council, will vote on a measure that could severely restrict graduate transfers.
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And Congress isn't the only legislative body that has to approve NAFTA — the Canadian parliament and Mexico's legislature have to ratify it as well.
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JULY 2017: Venezuela calls a referendum, boycotted by the opposition, to approve the creation of an all-powerful legislative body called the Constituent Assembly.
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The judicial branch really has the power of neither, it only has the power of persuasion, but the judicial branch has become a legislative body.
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Trump will likely need the help of a few Democratic senators if he wants the legislative body to approve Neil Gorsuch, his Supreme Court pick.
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A man without a party, without a president, and with almost nobody else in the legislative body he cherishes to turn to as an ally.
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In a hearing in May, the president's lawyers argued that the Democrats' actions fell far afield of Congress' legitimate oversight functions as a legislative body.
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Yesterday, the acting speaker of Brazil's lower house said he wanted to annul a vote by the legislative body approving a motion to impeach Rousseff.
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"This has never been done before for the longest-running, oldest legislative body, if you will, in the New World," she said after the drawing.
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On Wednesday, the court ruled that all powers vested under the legislative body would be transferred to the court, which is stacked with government loyalists.
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The detentions come after Venezuelans elected members of a new legislative body in a Sunday vote called for by Maduro and boycotted by the opposition.
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She has been working as an intern for a French right-wing lawmaker, Aymeric Chauprade, in the European Parliament which is the EU's legislative body.
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Fu told a news conference the defence budget would be released on Saturday, when the annual session of China's largely rubber-stamp legislative body opens.
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House members who grew weary of scandalous reports turned on him after his 1966 re-election and voted to exclude him from the legislative body.
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The change will be presented at the World Health Assembly, the WHO's legislative body, in 2019 and will go into effect on January 1, 2022.
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The head of the rubber-stamp legislative body (the Supreme People's Assembly) attended the welcoming ceremony at the Olympics but was sent home immediately after.
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The mayor's Senate effort, which failed in its goal to wrest the legislative body from Republican control, has proved damaging to him in multiple ways.
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The leader of the country's legislative body, Guaidó has called Maduro a "usurper" and said Wednesday that he would assume the duties of the presidency.
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Now called the Hamilton House, the building also houses the Museum of Nevis History, and serves as the meeting place of the island's legislative body.
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Mr. Morrison was Lindsay's liaison to the City Council and the Board of Estimate, the legislative body that voted on city contracts, franchises and zoning.
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It could also restore some confidence among members of the Senate that the usually dysfunctional institution can still occasionally act like a true legislative body.
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"I am flying to Moscow on the 18th for a Valdai meeting, plus other meetings at the Duma," a reference to a Russian legislative body.
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Rising to the top of a legislative body that had to impose a gender quota just to ensure minimal female representation has not been easy.
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Worse still, Maduro has seasoned his economic misrule with political repression, holding scores of political prisoners and stripping the nation's legislative body of its authority.
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That's been especially true at meetings of the church's top legislative body, the General Conference, where factions have fought for decades about sexuality and Scripture.
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China's legislative body criticized a court ruling overturning a ban on wearing masks, signaling that it was the final arbiter of law in Hong Kong.
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The legislative body of the European Union on Thursday voted against a law that would have significantly reformed copyright rules on the internet, Politico reported.
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"I don't know if you can find a legislative body in the history of the country that passed so many pro-life bills," Patrick said.
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Once formed, the ANC will be able to rewrite the country's constitution and will supersede any other legislative body, including the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
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The impeachment question was always a question for Congress, a legislative body tasked by the Constitution with deciding when and if to remove a sitting president.
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As the province's legislative body, the NPC also recommended creating new aquaculture-based industries, seeing as the province boasts 40 percent of Sri Lanka's renowned coastline.
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But they also eliminate the oversight roles of the chief executive's cabinet and the city's legislative body, which can currently step in to evaluate extradition arrangements.
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"It's unfortunate that a small group of violent people volunteered to block work for thousands of Guatemalans and the Legislative Body," he said in a statement.
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It ruled that all powers vested under the legislative body, the Venezuelan National Assembly, be transferred to the court itself, which is stacked with government loyalists.
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Venezuela's political crisis explained The newly elected Venezuelan legislative body will meet for the first time on Friday morning, Maduro said in a speech broadcast nationwide.
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The speaker of the House of Commons in Great Britain on Monday separately said that Trump should not be invited to speak to that legislative body.
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Britain recently elected a record number of women to Parliament -- more than ever before -- to make up a bit more than 22018% of the legislative body.
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Our research reveals startling links between wages for black versus white workers, the demography of these cities, and the racial makeup of their state's legislative body.
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First, it's critical to understand that the European Union, and particularly its executive body the European Commission, are unlike any legislative body in the United States.
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Massachusetts just had a revenue-neutral carbon pricing bill pass the state Senate, marking the first passage of such a plan by a U.S. legislative body.
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Hof acknowledges Trump's agenda has hit roadblocks on Capitol Hill, and that the transition from brawling businessman to member of a legislative body wouldn't be easy.
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A day earlier, the Venezuelan Supreme Court ruled the National Assembly is illegitimate, and that no law discussed in the legislative body holds any legal value.
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Especially in a legislative body purposed to represent the people who make up a nation, that's a crucial reminder -- that women's lives and experiences matter, too.
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He also chose a role he feels is more focused on implementing solutions rather than running for a legislative body, which is focused on representing constituents.
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The National People's Congress, the country's legislative body, also announced that it was preparing to postpone its annual meetings, scheduled for the first week of March.
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Some analysts have said he could consider becoming the speaker of the reformed legislative body, a role that would also allow him to perpetuate his influence.
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The National People's Congress, the country's top legislative body, has the authority to interpret legal matters involving national issues — and to change the Basic Law itself.
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The election arose out of a Parliament vote in October after Johnson's Brexit deal failed to pass the legislative body in time for his Halloween deadline.
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Sessions, neither of them ever served in a legislative body or voted to pass or defeat the legislation the Department of Justice is charged with administering.
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The Latin American nation also sparked outrage in the international community after the creation of a new legislative body — composed mainly of Maduro supporters — last month.
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"We've made significant progress as a legislative body in recent years to give a voice to the unborn," Republican representative Matthew Hill said in a statement.
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On Friday, Henry Ramos, the speaker of the Assembly, said the actions of the president and the court were an attempt to render the legislative body useless.
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The European Union is weighing potential tariffs on U.S. goods ranging from Levi's jeans to Harley-Davidson motorcycles, the president of the EU's legislative body said Friday.
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Lawmakers loyal to Maduro generally do not attend the sessions but go to meetings of the Constituent Assembly, a legislative body that meets in the same building.
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But they pick up just one seat in the Senate, allowing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to exploit that more powerful legislative body to guard the White House.
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Activists had pledged mass demonstrations and some Members of Parliament were determined not to give Trump the opportunity to address the legislative body, according to the report.
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"You know a legislative body has the votes for a piece of legislation when they pass the bill," Rich Azzopardi, a senior adviser to Mr. Cuomo, said.
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As a legislative body that relies upon consensus to function, a coalition of Democrats and renegade Republicans are poised to block Trump at every twist and turn.
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It is a path the current White House is following now as it "runs the risk of alienating a legislative body" that could help build a legacy.
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He said its goal was to persuade the country's highest legislative body, the People's Consultative Assembly, to convene to impeach Mr. Joko and appoint a caretaker government.
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"That's where Donald Trump the CEO versus a legislative body that tends to procrastinate when they don't want make a decision will be butting heads some," he said.
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This was understood as a matter of collegiality in what was at the time a very small legislative body, and not as a requirement that legislation be unanimous.
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It came after Ortega said she would open an investigation into fraud allegations surrounding last Sunday's election, which led to the creation of the controversial new legislative body.
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Vestager has challenged the idea that it will be solely down to the European Parliament — the EU's legislative body — to say who will be the next Commission chief.
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Congress should support such an effort as it will protect America's interests while also saving the legislative body from the political problems inherent in attempting to negate JASTA.
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The legislative body will more closely resemble the makeup of the United States, though its overall composition will still tilt white and male compared to the general population.
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Its unofficial legislative body is the floating quid pro quo Favor Bank that has always made New York tick at its highest levels, however corruptly, since Tammany Hall.
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CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to clarify that Roem will be the first openly transgender candidate to both be elected and serve in a state legislative body.
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Each member of Congress swore to do this when he or she entered our legislative body, and many have taken this oath to serve our country multiple times.
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But DC residents still have to, for example, pay federal taxes, even as they have little to no voice in the legislative body that sets those tax rates.
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Everyone who voted in these elections, regardless of what country they were in, was voting for representatives to serve them in a central legislative body: the European Parliament.
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The rally is mostly in support of Juan Guaidó, the leader of the country's opposition-controlled legislative body, who has asked anti-government Venezuelans to demonstrate against Maduro.
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Ms. Lam's next move will be to secure approval for the agreement from the rubber-stamping Standing Committee of the National People's Council, China's top-level legislative body.
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The legislative body passed the Monday Holidays Act that year, which said existing federal holidays would now be observed on Mondays to give government workers a long weekend.
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In the September election for LegCo, Hong Kong's 70-member legislative body, the separatists won six of the 30 seats that were open to a direct popular vote.
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The billionaire backed 15 Democratic candidates in the state's election this year that saw that state's legislative body flip from Republican the Democratic control, according to Bloomberg's campaign.
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The short-term agreement comes after a weekend on intense debate on Capitol Hill, with Democrats arguing that the legislative body ought to make immigration policy a priority.
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Bills are brought before the legislative body — by the government in Britain, by majority parties in the United States — and various lawmakers have the right to offer amendments.
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If his party manages to breach the 10 percent threshold needed to enter parliament, he could cost the winner dozens of seats in the now 0003-member legislative body.
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But for now it is probably unrealistic for Democrats to expect Ms Ford's 35-year-old allegations to bring Mr Kavanaugh down in a legislative body controlled by Republicans.
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Diosdado Cabello, head of the Constituent Assembly, a legislative body that acts in support of the government, said the opposition had not been able to takeover the air base.
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The National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC)—the mainland's top legislative body—also began a meeting to discuss the matter on Thursday, according to the South China Morning Post.
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More than others on this list, Ayotte would have a good chance of getting through the Senate because she is a former member of the traditionally collegial legislative body.
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Gallup's most recent poll taken in April 2018 found only 18% of Americans approve of the way Congress is handling its job, with 78% disapproving of the legislative body.
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As nominee to be Secretary of State Pompeo should, in the face of a fair and reasonable legislative body, glide through to his cabinet post as America's chief diplomat.
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The 545-seat legislative body, filled with Maduro's supporters, has the power to rewrite the country's 1999 constitution and effectively place all branches of Venezuela's government under Maduro's control.
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Newt Gingrich pulled off a similar feat in the 1980s and 1990s in the House, transforming the people's chamber from a functional legislative body into a crass partisan arena.
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The common theme is the potential of the new members of Congress and their "finally bringing diversity to the legislative body that reflects us as a whole," Blaylock wrote.
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On Monday, 11 Senate Republicans walked out in a bid to stop the passage of a cap-and-trade bill, leaving the legislative body one member short of quorum.
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Broadly popular legislation passed by one legislative body is dead on arrival in the other chamber, blocking progress not by the people's choice but by an algorithm of absurdity.
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In bond markets, investors remained firmly focused on Venezuela after the United States slapped sanctions on President Nicolas Maduro following the controversial creation of an all-powerful legislative body.
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The editorial comes a week after the president vowed the U.S. will defend itself and its allies against Pyongyang's nuclear aggression in a speech to South Korea's legislative body.
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China's National People's Congress, the country's national legislative body, voted on Sunday to change the country's constitution to allow Xi to remain in power beyond his scheduled 2023 departure.
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On Monday, 27 people were detained after security forces surrounded the military installation, according to Diosdado Cabello, president of the Constituent Assembly, a legislative body packed with Maduro loyalists.
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With control of the Senate expected to come down to as little as one or two seats, losing either election could doom Democrats' chances of controlling the legislative body.
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And last year, he held a rigged election for a special legislative body that supplanted the country's parliament — the one branch of government that was controlled by the political opposition.
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All 11 GOP senators failed to appear later Thursday for floor proceedings, leaving the legislative body two senators short of a quorum, according to Kate Kondayen, a spokeswoman for Brown.
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China, which has bristled at being ostracised over the virus, was considering delaying an annual meeting of its highest legislative body, the National People's Congress, from March 5, sources said.
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This makes it not just the biggest state legislature in America, but the third-biggest legislative body in the Anglophone world, behind only the United States Congress and Britain's Parliament.
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But the vote to select members in the legislative body roughly mid-way through Duterte's six-year term is seen by some analysts as a referendum on the president's policies.
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Congress sank to a 276% approval rating in a new Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday, with roughly five in six Americans saying they disapprove of the country's legislative body.
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"At the end of the day, in a legislative body, you do the best you can with whatever opportunity you have to affect things in a positive way," Corker said.
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Organization of American States General Secretary Luis Almagro and many of Venezuela's neighbors expressed support for Guaido, whose opposition-controlled legislative body called for nationwide marches against Maduro's embattled administration.
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And last year, he held a rigged election for a special legislative body that supplanted the country's parliament — the one branch of government that was controlled by his political opposition.
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One year ago, he held a rigged election for a special legislative body that supplanted the country's parliament — the one branch of government that was controlled by his political opposition.
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Sakellaropoulou, who is not a member of a political party, earned support from 261 members in the 300-seat legislative body during the historic parliamentary vote, The Associated Press reported.
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When a legislative body does not look like the people it is intended to represent, its priorities differ from, or even directly contradict, those that the general population cares about.
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And yet, when the election took place in March 1989, there were big surprises: 300 candidates, or about 16 percent of the new legislative body, had defeated party-endorsed candidates.
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The U.S. Treasury Department instead sanctioned embattled President Nicolas Maduro after he held a vote over the weekend to overhaul the nation's legislative body and sweep away the political opposition.
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Just like when people go into their school or public library and have information professionals to help them, their legislative body has people just like that to help inform Congress.
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And in July he held a rigged election for a special legislative body that supplanted the country's parliament — the one branch of government that was controlled by his political opposition.
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The EU is a political and economic organization of 28 European countries, or member states, with its own bureaucracy and legislative body — the European Parliament — which is headquartered in Brussels.
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Still, the bill may face some hurdles in the independent Senate, a legislative body that traditionally is more ceremonial in function but is recently doing more to assert its authority.
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Zhang serves on the Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, or CPPCC, a legislative body that's meant to forge and maintain alliances with other countries, including the United States.
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Guaidó claims the 2018 election was rigged and that he, as the head of the National Assembly (the country's legislative body), is now the rightful president according to the country's constitution.
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Citizens from every country in the European Union have the right to choose lawmakers to represent them at the European Parliament — the EU's legislative body and its only directly-represented chamber.
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The confusion began Monday when Waldir Maranhao, acting speaker of Brazil's lower house, said he wanted to annul last month's vote by the legislative body approving a motion to impeach Rousseff.
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Twitter said it shared the information with Congress, telling the legislative body that it found an additional 13,512 Russia-linked bots since its last analysis, bringing the total number to 50,258.
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He does provide another clue, but like Trump, Jair Bolsnaro, the right-wing member of Brazil's lower legislative body, is pretty much a walking dumpster fire of misogyny, racism, and homophobia.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy confirmed on Friday that Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Americo De Grazia has entered the Italian embassy in Caracas after a pro-government legislative body stripped him of parliamentary immunity.
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Mr. Zhang, as chairman of China's top legislative body, the National People's Congress, presided over a decision limiting the scope of electoral overhaul in Hong Kong, which set off the protests.
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LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Venezuelan dollar bonds fell further on Tuesday after the United States slapped sanctions on President Nicolas Maduro following the controversial creation of an all-powerful legislative body.
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This is the principle behind "Bicameralism" - two branches of the legislative body answering to two separate constituencies, the Senate to the elected state governments and the House directly to the people.
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In Philadelphia's suburbs, Democrats won all five seats on the Delaware County Council, a Republican stronghold for over a century, and also took control of the legislative body in Chester County.
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The interim Haitian president and the head of the country's legislative body tried repeatedly to set a new date for the elections, but subsequent efforts have been cancelled, rescheduled, or postponed.
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Venezuela: The National Assembly, the opposition-controlled legislative body, declared President Nicolás Maduro illegitimate, setting in motion an uncertain plan to create a caretaker government until new elections can be held.
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The judgment on Friday was handed down just days after China's top legislative body, the National People's Congress, said that it would step in, if necessary, to overrule the city's judiciary.
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They were considering striking last July, when the election was held to replace the National Assembly with a new pro-Maduro legislative body called the National Constituent Assembly, the Times reported.
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A week earlier, elections had been held for the European Parliament, the main legislative body of the European Union , and turnout was more than fifty per cent, the highest in decades.
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Mr. Guaidó argues that, as the president of the National Assembly, an opposition-controlled legislative body, he has the constitutional authority to assume power because Mr. Maduro had taken office illegally.
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At least 16 people were killed during violence in Venezuela on Sunday, as protesters demonstrated the election of a new legislative body that will be able to rewrite the country's constitution.
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The National Assembly, the opposition-controlled legislative body, declared Mr. Maduro illegitimate, hoping to trigger a constitutional mechanism that would allow the head of the assembly to take over the leadership.
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With the growth of the U.S. population, it would have resulted in about 6,000 members of Congress today — more than double the size of China's Parliament, the world's largest legislative body.
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Guaidó claims the 22009 election was rigged and that he, as the head of the National Assembly (the country's legislative body), is now the rightful president according to the country's constitution.
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As a result, Guaidó says that, based on Venezuela's constitution, he, as the head of the National Assembly (the country's legislative body), is now the rightful — albeit temporary — president of the country.
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Citing Venezuela's constitution, Guaidó and others say the sham vote means that he, as the head of the National Assembly (the country's legislative body), is now the interim president of the country.
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Another possible roadblock would be the existence of the Constituent Assembly, an all-powerful legislative body controlled by Socialist Party supporters that opposition leaders say could also intervene in any potential vote.
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On April 24, 2007, the Legislative Body of Mexico City approved a reform of the Criminal Code to allow for the legal termination of pregnancy up to the 12th week of gestation.
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While close to 200 parliament members sought the creation of a committee of inquiry to investigate, Schulz steered the legislative body towards looking into the matter via a less powerful special committee.
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The Republican majority in the House of Delegates was decided by a name being drawn from a bowl to break a tie in a race for one seat in that legislative body.
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Rashida Tlaib — the first two Muslim women in Congress — are also the only members in the legislative body that support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
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The Trump administration has instituted a travel ban on members of Venezuela's Constituent Assembly, the legislative body convened in 2017 by President Nicolás Maduro to replace the country's opposition-held General Assembly.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday, a day after her government's plan for leaving the European Union was defeated by the same legislative body.
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"When a legislative body does not look like the people it is intended to represent, its priorities differ from, or even directly contradict, those that the general population cares about," they write.
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The legislative body passed the symbolic resolution "expressing the city's opposition" to the bill banning abortions in the state once a fetal heartbeat is detected in a 13-0 vote on Monday.
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Not against President Trump, per se, but against the presidency in general, reestablishing the Congress as a thorough legislative body it was meant to be — and not letting executive orders go unchallenged.
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It thought little of them when it allowed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carve unnatural shipping canals like the Intracoastal Waterway, which the legislative body signed off on in 1925.
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Both leaders in recent days have called on Venezuelans to join protests against Maduro over the creation of an all-powerful legislative body called the constituent assembly, which was elected on Sunday.
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Guaidó and other lawmakers were prevented from entering the country's National Assembly on Monday after other lawmakers, including some supporting Maduro, elected Luis Parra as the new head of the legislative body.
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Despite wielding little real power, the mostly ceremonial legislative body has been a thorn in the side of Maduro and what critics call his stranglehold on power in the crisis-torn country.
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On October 21, the National People's Congress, the country's top legislative body, reviewed revised drafts of the Law on the Protection of Minors and the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency.
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The rule, which took more than a year to pass through the city's legislative body, follows similar attempts by cities across the United States to rectify the gender gap in public art.
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Partisan trust in Congress has shifted in the past year, according to a new poll, with Democrats now saying they're more trusting of the legislative body and Republicans saying they're less so.
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The interim Haitian president and the head of the country's legislative body tried repeatedly to set a new date for the elections, but subsequent efforts have been either cancelled, rescheduled, or postponed.
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Fortunately, the president's political rhetoric has not matched congressional willpower; the legislative body actually added $3 million to the NEA's budget for a total $153 million in its March 2018 omnibus spending bill.
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Over the course of two hours, it became clear that many lawmakers see interference as a nearly impossible task to conquer for both the platforms and the legislative body that could regulate them.
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Justice Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (yes, that's the proper spelling) ordered that, because Parliament passed the law granting the U.K. entry into the EU in 1972, only that legislative body can unwind it.
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The election would allow President Nicolás Maduro to replace Venezuela's current legislative body -- the National Assembly -- with a new institution called the Constituent Assembly that will have the power to rewrite the constitution.
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The election will allow President Nicolás Maduro to replace Venezuela's current legislative body -- the National Assembly -- with a new institution called the Constituent Assembly that will have the power to rewrite the constitution.
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Nevada's state Senate leader has resigned over accusations of financial misconduct, paving the way for the state's highest legislative body to be led by a woman for the first time in state history.
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Blackburn, however, looked to highlight Bredesen's party affiliation at every turn, regularly tying him to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and some of the more high-profile liberal members of the legislative body.
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Such extreme proposals would trample Congress' Article I power of the purse authority, set a terrible precedent and further diminish the role of the legislative body within our system of checks and balances.
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Another legislative body in the predominantly Muslim nation is the Halk Maslahaty, or People's Council, chaired by the president, which has more powers than parliament and consists of deputies elected by local councils.
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Congress is the Article 1 branch because the framers wanted the people's elected legislative body to be "first among equals" with a primacy over the President whose powers are described in Article 2.
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Congress is perhaps most to blame, however, since the legislative body did nothing to prevent this usurpation of its authority over immigration, having done nothing in 2012 to stop the original DACA amnesty.
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With the growth of the U.S. population, that would have resulted in about 6,000 members of Congress today — more than double the size of China's parliament, the largest legislative body in the world.
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Thank you for understanding that sending a credibly accused child molester to represent Alabama in the U.S. Senate would not only have denigrated your state, it would have denigrated that whole legislative body.
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While that's far from gender parity — men still outnumber women four to one in Congress — it is already true that having more women in Congress has changed the way the legislative body works.
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Meanwhile, a top commodities strategist told CNBC last week that Venezuela could become the first sovereign oil producer to "fully fail" if Maduro decided to move ahead and form a new legislative body.
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" Mr. Moore's team was saying that the leader of his own party in the legislative body he wanted to join was an "evil" part of "powerful forces who hate our Christian conservative values.
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In response to his decision to hold a vote for the new legislative body, Washington slapped sanctions on Maduro, many of his senior officials, and the country's state-owned oil company this summer.
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Jean Lambert is a London-based Member of the European Parliament, the directly elected legislative body of the EU. She says that she's disappointed with how the referendum has been depicted in the press.
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The new body -- called the Constituent Assembly -- will have the power to rewrite the Venezuelan Constitution, which Maduro desires, and is expected to replace the previous legislative body, where the opposition has a majority.
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The legislative body often feels the need to push back when it's been leaned on too hard, demonstrating its ability to govern and its independence from the president in the service of the people.
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Last year's midterm elections saw Democrats capture six of the island's nine State Senate seats, helping the party gain control of that legislative body for only the third time in the last 278 years.
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The British government has until the end of March to pass a plan to leave the EU after voters passed a referendum in 2016 calling for the U.K. to exit the European legislative body.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Americo De Grazia entered the Italian embassy in Caracas on Thursday after a pro-government legislative body stripped him of parliamentary immunity, three sources close to the legislator said.
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At least 545 people were killed in violence in Venezuela Sunday as the government pressed ahead with hugely unpopular plans to elect a new legislative body, in a vote labelled a "sham" by Washington.
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At least 10 people were killed in violence in Venezuela Sunday as the government pressed ahead with hugely unpopular plans to elect a new legislative body, in a vote labelled a "sham" by Washington.
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Assembly Bill 5 is was passed by the legislative body in May, and now depends on the Senate's appropriates committee to bring it before a full vote of the second chamber, The Verge reported.
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The poll showed that approval of Congress's job performance spiked specifically among Democrats, with 2628 percent of the respondents saying they now approve of the legislative body, up from 28503 percent a month ago.
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Harold L. Wood, the first black member of the legislative body of Westchester County, N.Y., and later the first black State Supreme Court justice in the county, died on Thursday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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Speaking to the Palestinian legislative body, Mr. Abbas, 82, said the mass murder of European Jews in the Holocaust was the result of the victims' financial activities, not their religious identity and anti-Semitism.
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But the Oregon Democrat says in the video that he believes Democrats need leadership in the Oval Office and the Senate and that he believes he could be most effective in the legislative body.
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Passage of the Securing America's Future Act would represent a win for the American people, for 690,000 DACA beneficiaries, and a legislative body that could use some positive achievements to bring home to voters.
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The first-term senator recently introduced a bill for a potential constitutional amendment that would require at least 50 percent women in the chamber before the legislative body can vote on bills concerning abortion.
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The legislative body met to discuss a bill to give the city the authority to remove shared scooters without permits or parked in the public right-of-way, and penalize the companies that own them.
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This boots-on-the-ground look at the Sunflower Movement, where students occupied the main legislative body of Taiwan to protest the growing influence of Beijing, follows two activists from opposite sides of the strait.
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This year's speech stands apart for Trump, not only because it comes during an election year but also because he will address members of the legislative body that impeached him less than two months ago.
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John Carman, a Republican member of the Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders, a county legislative body in New Jersey, posted a meme on his Facebook page in January making fun of the Women's March.
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But the law passed through what's called unanimous consent — a procedure that's used to pass uncontroversial bills in which no votes are recorded but members of the legislative body are given a chance to object.
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But in a country as diverse as ours—and in a legislative body as complex as our Congress—we need leaders capable of bridging differences, crafting compromises, and putting the country's interests above their own.
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Since no serious debate will take place, Americans will again forfeit consenting to the future character of our nation, leaving it to be determined by a legislative body whose approval rating stands at 15 percent.
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Of course, while several Congress members share a desire for paid parental leave and more affordable child care, Trump's "Budget for a Better America" is unlikely to pass the legislative body in its current form.
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Once the sporting spectacle is over in late August, the Senate will render its final verdict, at which point a legislative body overrun by corruption will remove a twice-elected president guilty of none herself.
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In what became known as the Pollution Diet (the Diet is the national legislative body in Japan), the Japanese government passed 14 laws in quick succession that took a hardline approach to curbing industrial pollution.
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But in the wake of the 2017 elections, the GOP still held narrow majorities in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly (the oldest continuous legislative body in the nation), so Northam's plan went nowhere.
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Veil left the government in 1979 to run for the European Parliament, in the first direct elections to that legislative body, for what was then the European Economic Community, a precursor to the European Union.
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The legal filings represent the paper version of the arguments that will play out on the Senate floor starting next week, previewing the proceedings in the chamber that's being transformed from legislative body to courtroom.
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As well as the alarming Jan-Sept cumulative rise, the legislative body - which has been sidelined by President Nicolas Maduro's government - put monthly inflation at 36.3 percent for September, compared with 2743 percent in August.
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Democrats' efforts to retake the legislative body hinges on hanging onto the seats they have and flipping three to four additional ones, some of which are in suburban districts that the party dominated in 2018.
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The ANC is a new legislative body that was created late last month in a vote marred by fraud allegations; it comprises mostly Maduro loyalists and supersedes the country's popularly elected, opposition-led National Assembly.
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In October, for instance, the Board of Aldermen, the city's legislative body, voted unanimously to acquire all of its electricity from renewable sources by 2035, joining other cities around the nation committed to that goal.
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The American people expect Congress to write smart legislation that a simple majority can support; 51 percent is not too a high hurdle for a legislative body that is tasked with governing for the common good.
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China, which has bristled at some measures to close borders to its travellers, was considering delaying an annual meeting of its top legislative body set to begin on March 5, people familiar with the matter said.
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" In a piece published in the Washington Post Thursday, days before Congress returns from its August recess, the Republican Arizona senator says the legislative body has begun to "lurch from one self-created crisis to another.
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Even if the proposal were approved by congress it would have little immediate impact, given that President Nicolas Maduro considers its rulings null and void and has created a parallel legislative body friendly to the government.
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Mitchell are serious about seeking compromise, which is a worthy goal in what's designed to be a deliberative legislative body, they ought to embrace Amash's adage that in the House, outcomes should be discovered, not dictated.
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"When a legislative body attempts to dismantle a separate branch of government, the immediate effects as well as the precedent it sets for the future can only be deemed disastrous," she read in a prepared statement.
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Washington imposed sanctions on eight Venezuelan officials on Wednesday for their role in creating an all-powerful legislative body loyal to President Nicolas Maduro, but stopped short of action against the OPEC nation's vital oil industry.
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Prices first rose above $50 in overnight trade against the backdrop of U.S. threats to slap sanctions on Venezuela's energy sector after embattled President Nicolas Maduro proceeded with a vote to replace the nation's legislative body.
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In 2017, as protests escalated, Mr. Maduro sidelined the opposition-controlled legislature, the National Assembly, by ordering the creation of a new legislative body, known as the Constituent Assembly, which was asked to rewrite the Constitution.
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The state Capitol is filled with promotional materials trumpeting the 453th anniversary of the first representative assembly in the new world, which is what makes the General Assembly here the oldest continuous legislative body in America.
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When the Senate ultimately convenes to consider whether to remove the president from office, for just the third time in its history, it will convene not as a legislative body, but as a court of impeachment.
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While Szydlo's socially conservative, eurosceptic ruling party improved its score, liberals hailed the election of Robert Biedron: He will stand out among Polish MEPs - though not among the legislative body as a whole - for being openly gay.
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The Historian of the United States Senate, the official record keeper of the legislative body, said they have yet to find a case where the Vice President was required to break a tie on a cabinet nomination.
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Congressional aides' overwhelming dissatisfaction with their institution is at least partly the result of decades of policy decisions to cut funding from the legislative body, says Daniel Schuman, policy director of the good-government group Demand Progress.
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Ho, who has deep ties to China and was on the committee of the mainland's prestigious legislative body, said local youth could resist the influence of Hong Kong's protesters and supported measures to boost patriotism in Macau.
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BEIJING — In the lofty chambers of the Great Hall of the People, delegate after delegate to China's legislative body brushed aside questions this week about the constitutional change on the table that could extend Xi Jinping's presidency.
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Race has played a significant role in the contest as many council members, and some groups outside the body, expressed an interest in having a person of color atop the legislative body given the city's diverse population.
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European Parliament: Nationalists from across the 28-country bloc are heading into this week's election as a united front, and polls suggest they may win seats from centrists that have long dominated the E.U.'s legislative body.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's parliament will not hold a special session on Monday to decide on the next prime minister, its speaker said, a day after interim premier Mahathir Mohamad said the legislative body would do so.
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Knowing all of this, it takes a special kind of audacity on Mr. Felder's part to successfully strong-arm the state's highest legislative body to legally deprive his own constituents' children of an education and a future.
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There are then plans for the Palestine Liberation Organization's top legislative body, the national council, to meet for the first time in 20 years and potentially elect a new executive committee, which is also headed by Abbas.
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Even a handful of political renegades can have a crippling effect on a legislative body, which is one reason Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, was desperate to keep Roy Moore of Alabama out of the Senate.
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Anti-government protests have escalated in recent days, ahead of Maduro's plans to hold a vote Sunday to establish a powerful new legislative body — the National Constituent Assembly — that opponents fear will consolidate the country's slide towards dictatorship.
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CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington imposed sanctions on eight Venezuelan officials on Wednesday for their role in creating an all-powerful legislative body loyal to President Nicolas Maduro, while a mayor-turned-fugitive called for more anti-government protests.
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"He apparently hasn't served in a legislative body because had we not had the filibuster rule this country would have been gone a long time ago -- would have gone straight to socialism," the Utah Republican told CNN Tuesday.
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This legislative body was formed to provide the direct voice of the people not a political party, or organized minority factions as George Washington put it, into the actual formation of the laws that will govern the nation.
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"Unaccountable, secret money in elections has not only undermined people's faith in our democracy, it has prevented our nation's highest legislative body from fully addressing some of the most critical issues facing the country," the incoming lawmakers wrote.
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The party used a similar tactic in the nearby 49th Congressional District, where the committee aired ads -- to the tune of $1.6 million -- against California Assemblyman Rocky Chavez, a Republican, for voting with Democrats in the legislative body.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Church of England's legislative body on Wednesday voted against a report from bishops that rejected the idea of blessing same-sex marriages, the latest row over an issue that has divided the Church for years.
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New York's offer: $2102,213 per job The combined offer from New York State and New York City is considerably richer than the one offered by Virginia, and does not require approval by any local or state legislative body.
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What it's like to go from governor to senator Hickenlooper and Bullock have both talked about how as governors they are used to serving as executives, not as part of a legislative body with a reputation for gridlock.
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The election of the National Constituent Assembly, a powerful new legislative body of 545 members which will rewrite the country's constitution, further exacerbated the country's spiralling political crisis, which has resulted in more than 120 deaths so far.
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Those cases were typically brought under state law, like a tort claim for trespass, and therefore involved an exercise of judicial power similar to the Bivens case in recognizing a remedy not specifically authorized by a legislative body.
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Advocates for the raise, including some of the brash new members of the 116th Congress, argue that the frozen pay has contributed to high turnover rates and a legislative body that does not match the people it represents.
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Citing Venezuela's constitution, Guaidó and others say the sham vote means that he, as the head of the National Assembly (the country's legislative body), is the rightful — albeit temporary — leader of the country since there's no legitimate president.
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The budget was the first that Mr. de Blasio had to negotiate with Mr. Johnson, who was selected as the Council speaker in January on a pledge to make the city's legislative body more independent of the mayor.
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Imagine how legislative priorities around paid family leave would shift if more members of a legislative body were also moms, or how the conversation around criminal justice reform would sound if more state-level executives were people of color.
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Meanwhile, Israel's Knesset, its legislative body, will soon discuss a bill that would exceed the current law, according to Haaretz, by "subject[ing] activists convicted of promoting a boycott of Israel to prison terms of up to seven years."
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The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions against eight more Venezuelan officials — including Hugo Chavez's older brother — punishing them for bolstering the dictatorship of President Nicolas Maduro by helping create a new legislative body via a "sham" vote last week.
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A record number of women were elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, for instance, including the first Latina women, first Asian-American woman, and first trans woman to serve in that state legislative body, according to EMILY's List.
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Photo: Peter Endig/dpa (AP)The European Parliament approved a massive, sweeping overhaul of online copyright rules on Tuesday, leaving the extremely controversial Articles 211 and 13 untouched on as the EU Copyright Directive cruised through the legislative body.
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At that time, the American people's elected officials and Congress as an institution were largely treated as sideshows, a legislative body of government to be ignored instead of the co-equal and independent branch of government it really is.
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After the Germans left, the palace was turned into the home of the French Senate, where the legislative body has been ever since — and ever since, the rumors of the Nazi leader's bust have persisted but never been proven.
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This meeting came a day before the Standing Committee of China's top legislative body, the National People's Congress, is due to consider delaying the annual meeting of the parliamentary session, originally expected to get under way on March 5.
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Likewise, it seems no accident that the UK was both the first nation in the world to have an independent legislative body to regulate human embryo research and IVF treatment, and also a pioneer of IVF and engineering human embryos.
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Now, in an open letter to the Council and its speaker, Corey Johnson, more than 100 current and former employees are calling for sweeping changes that better protect the well-being and safety of those who work for the legislative body.
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Functional constituencies (FCs), first introduced in 1991, are designed to encourage the "balanced participation of all sectors and groups" in society, according to the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, and make up around half of LegCo's 70 seats.
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Widodo's cabinet ministers met members of the Legislative Body, a parliamentary group that sets legislation priorities, seeking support on a plan to revise and combine many existing laws by applying "omnibus laws", or legislation that encompasses diverse and unrelated issues.
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On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Council, the legislative body for the consolidated city-county government here, will vote on a proposed ordinance that would give the police an alternative to criminally charging people caught with a half-ounce of marijuana or less.
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Venezuela's Supreme Court, which is stacked with Maduro loyalists, issued a ruling in Caracas on Monday stating that the National Assembly is invalid and that any agreement presented by the leadership of the legislative body after January 5 would be nullified.
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Now that we've very lightly publicly admonished a legislative body that saw fit to pass a law concerning who uses what bathroom, we've got a business to run and hearts and minds to change through the power of exhibition basketball.
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Leftist Maduro has previously said that governors not sworn in by the pro-government legislative body will not be allowed to take their posts in a country reeling from widespread food and medicine shortages, a collapsing currency and soaring inflation.
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"Each time King immerses himself in controversy, he holds up this district to ridicule and marginalizes himself within the legislative body he serves," the newspaper's editorial board wrote, "neither of which provides benefit to Iowans who live and work here."
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Some in the Chinese Bitcoin community believe that business will be allowed to resume after the annual meeting of the People's Congress, the national legislative body, takes place in mid-October — but there have been no clear indications of that.
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Historically, quotas for women could be pure window dressing, as, for example, in the Soviet Union, where for decades women made up a fixed 26 percent of the Supreme Soviet, the country's highest legislative body, an institution that had no power.
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According to Politico, the legislative body has a record-breaking number of women and people of color: 23 percent of the new Congress members are women, and 21 percent are Hispanic, Native American, or otherwise identify as people of color.
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The council, referred to almost universally as "the R.T.M.," consists of 230 volunteer members serving two-year terms — making the legislative body larger than the State Legislature in Hartford and the United States Senate, but governing a town of 60,000 people.
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One of his key political allies, the speaker of Israel's Knesset, blocked the legislative body from meeting — and has been governing more or less by the prime minister's personal orders in what some Israeli observers are terming a kind of coup.
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The paradox of impeachment is that it relies on a legislative body that represents the public to solve a crisis that the public helped set in motion — in some cases, one could argue, with foreknowledge of the potential for disaster.
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"Early American practice reveals that the Framers viewed the Congress not only as a legislative body but also as one charged with constitutional duties of oversight deemed essential to preserving the separation of powers and guarding against tyranny," they wrote.
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A spokesperson for the State Department said they were not concerned about minor opposition parties making deals with Mr. Maduro, adding that the majority of Venezuelans support Mr. Guaidó, and that he has a comfortable majority in the legislative body.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top legislative body has formally decided to postpone the annual meeting of parliament originally scheduled to start on March 5, state TV reported on Monday, amid a coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 70,000 in the country.
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Last week's installation of an all-powerful new legislative body run by leftist President Nicolas Maduro's Socialist Party loyalists, despite massive protests and a global outcry, has left many Venezuelans feeling there are no more democratic options to oppose the government.
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Instead of heeding the growing social discontent and working with the new National Assembly to pass corrective economic policies, Mr. Maduro moved to dissolve the legislative body, ultimately creating the Constituent National Assembly in 2017, a legislature packed with Maduro loyalists.
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DECEMBER 2015: The opposition Democratic Unity coalition wins control of Venezuela's legislative body, the National Assembly, for the first time in 16 years, riding a wave of popular discontent with a prolonged recession and rising inflation after oil prices collapsed.
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It goes without saying that the current celebrity candidate is Donald J. Trump, a reality television star who has never cast a vote in a legislative body, providing him with the ultimate protection against anyone trying to pin him down on his positions.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is considering delaying the annual meeting of its top legislative body, five people familiar with the matter said, as it grapples with a virus epidemic that has forced drastic curtailment of travel and other activity to curb its spread.
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The European Union's legislative body has threatened Spain with fines and other penalties if it doesn't reduce pollution, which is linked to some 30,000 deaths in the country each year, according to a 2015 air quality report from the European Environment Agency.
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"We acknowledge the charged nature of accusations of racism, particularly against a legislative body, but we must also face the sad truth that racism continues to exist in our modern American society despite years of laws designed to eradicate it," the court said.
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It is the second-largest legislative body in the world, after the Chinese National Congress, with more than 800 members, scores of whom avail themselves of the £300 ($400) daily attendance allowance and free parking in central London without opening their mouths.
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"The Secretary General does not have the authority to do it (an investigation) without a mandate given to him by a legislative body," U.N. spokesman Dujarric said on Friday, citing as examples the Security Council or the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council.
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He also touched on Latin America, saying that the US is "very, very troubled" by events in Venezuela, where opposition leaders were taken into custody after an election that created a legislative body made up entirely of supporters of President Nicolas Maduro.
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San Francisco's primary legislative body voted Tuesday to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day in order to recognize the "historic discrimination and violence" against Native Americans in the U.S. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 10-85033 to make the change.
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He has angered lawmakers from the right and left since assuming the post in January 2015, putting his own stamp on a legislative body that has garnered its share of attention for its far-right leanings on issues like immigration and abortion.
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Corbyn reacted to the vote by calling on May to guarantee that the U.K. will not exit the European Union without her government first reaching a deal with the legislative body to secure better economic opportunities and other benefits for British citizens.
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"I did the work of significantly changing the criminal justice system and I'm proud of that work, to not just give fancy speeches or be in a legislative body and give speeches on the floor but actually doing the work," Harris said.
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The statement, which was distributed to its joint venture partners and which Reuters saw, comes after a prominent government-allied lawyer said a new legislative body could rewrite parts of the constitution to ensure the state has full ownership of the oil industry.
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Despite this trepidation from the only party they can realistically participate in, American Muslim politicians have fought for and earned seats in the land's highest legislative body, while American Muslim voters have established themselves as a key voting bloc in several battleground states.
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The effort at damage control came after a storm of international criticism and condemnation and calls for Mr. Abbas, who is in his 80s, to resign after his remarks to the Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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Mr. Juncker, who leads the executive arm of the European Union, said he was miffed that only about 30 of the 751 members of the legislative body were present on Tuesday morning for a meeting at the legislature's headquarters in Strasbourg, France.
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It might be the first time a legislative body has jumped into the debate about safety at Major League Baseball stadiums and what should be done to protect fans closer to the action — and more readily distracted by mobile devices — than ever before.
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Door knocking efforts like the one organized by Planned Parenthood, Organizing for Action and Swing Left are an effort to turn those fears into reality, especially in key House races where the balance of the legislative body could be determined in November.
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BEIJING, Feb 24 (Reuters) - China's top legislative body formally decided to postpone the annual meeting of parliament originally scheduled to start on March 5, state television reported on Monday, amid a coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 70,000 in the country.
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LIMA (Reuters) - The Lima Group regional bloc said on Monday it backed the re-election of opposition leader Juan Guaido as head of Venezuela's Congress after Nicolas Maduro's socialist government forced a separate vote imposing a new leader of the legislative body.
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However, in becoming the latest legislative body to draw this faulty conclusion and consider stripping away the key ability of prosecutors to decline certain prosecutions, the Indiana senate has badly misjudged prosecutorial discretion and what should be done to address this issue.
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Adama Iwu, a California lobbyist and cofounder of the "We Said Enough" movement that spotlighted sexual abuse in Sacramento, said de León was "lacking in credibility" after having presided over a legislative body roiled by accusations of harassment and rooming with Mendoza.
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If members of Congress are abusing their staff, this matters—not just as a campaign issue and not because we should feel especially bad for congressional staff—but because it contributes to the overall decay of our legislative body and is morally wrong.
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In a session that ran past midnight, Johnson, a staunch Brexit supporter, called for a snap election to break the deadlock on leaving the European Union, but Parliament rejected his request, leading to the government's suspension of the legislative body until Oct.
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BEIJING, Feb 6 (Reuters) - China is considering delaying the annual meeting of its top legislative body, five people familiar with the matter said, as it grapples with a coronavirus epidemic that has forced drastic curtailment of travel and other activity to curb its spread.
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Opponents fear Maduro's plan to create a powerful new legislative body called the Constituent Assembly later this month will bring the once prosperous country of 30 million a step closer to dictatorship by boosting the president's executive powers, and overriding the existing powers of parliament.
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" But this time around, Josh Blaylock, the publisher of Devil's Due Comics, said in a statement that the company wants to "create something that celebrates the fresh new energy and diversity of the stagnated legislative body, and help some good causes at the same time.
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So the drawing is on, a spectacle whose rarity is compounded by the fact that it is not just one seat at stake, but the balance of power in the state's lower chamber, which calls itself the oldest elected legislative body in the United States.
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It all comes down to what happens in the Senate, the legislative body that votes on whether to elevate nominees to the Supreme Court and which is currently controlled by President Trump's Republican Party with a whisper-thin majority of 51 out of 100 seats.
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China's top legislative body postponed the annual full meeting of the National People's Congress and ordered a temporary ban on the consumption of all wildlife until officials draft new laws regulating the trade, which has been identified as a probable source of the new coronavirus.
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"After my son's death, I dedicated my entire life to advocating for common-sense gun safety solutions, but it was the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that finally motivated me to join this legislative body," McBath said in her testimony on Wednesday.
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National Review editor Charles C.W. Cooke tweeted that Mueller's press conference made clear "why Congress must be restored" as a legislative body and a check on the executive branch (of which the Justice Department is a part.) Today underscored once again why Congress must be restored.
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The country's top legislative body has seen numerous and — let's go with colorful — scuffles over the years, from politicians pelting each other with hardboiled eggs in 2004 to a DPP deputy snatching a written proposal of a bill and shoving it into her mouth in 2006.
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"The accumulated profits overseas of multinational American corporations are huge, but not all of it will return to the U.S.," Norman Chan, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the territory's de facto central bank, told reporters after a briefing to the city's legislative body.
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Republican media consultant Mike Murphy, an adviser to Dole in his 1996 presidential race, said long-time members of Congress like Dole and Biden face a another fundamental challenge: the skills required to succeed inside a legislative body are often antithetical to succeeding as a presidential candidate.
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"I understand that the PEIA insurance issue is not something that can be solved in the few days remaining in session, but I question why this legislative body did not do more to seek a permanent solution," Ashlea Bassham, who teaches at Chapmanville Regional High School, said.
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In the final minutes of the Maryland General Assembly's 2018 session last month, the legislative body approved $15 million a year in scholarships -- as much as $5,000 per student -- for Marylanders starting community college within two years of graduating from high school or obtaining their GED.
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"I did the work of significantly changing the criminal justice system and I'm proud of that work, to not just give fancy speeches or be in a legislative body and give speeches on the floor but actually doing the work," Harris said on the debate stage.
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A bitter feud with the Democratic state House Speaker Michael "Boss" Madigan, the longest-serving member of any state or federal legislative body in US history — and arguably one of the most powerful politicians in the country — left the state without an annual budget for two years.
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SAN JUAN, Jan 503 (Reuters) - An agreement to restructure more than $8 billion of bonds issued by Puerto Rico's bankrupt electric utility needs more time to obtain approval from the U.S. commonwealth's legislative body, a lawyer for the island's federally created financial oversight board said on Wednesday.
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A bitter feud with the Democratic state House Speaker Michael "Boss" Madigan, the longest-serving leader of any state or federal legislative body in US history — and arguably one of the most powerful politicians in the country — left the state without an annual budget for two years.
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The trio of rejections gets at an issue for Democrats hellbent on taking back the Senate in 2020: Much of the party's top talent is either eyeing the nation's top executive office or uninterested in joining a legislative body that has become known for gridlock rather than actual accomplishments.
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"It's the very first time that a US legislative body has recognized that intersex children deserve bodily autonomy and the right to make decisions about their own bodies just like everyone else," said Kimberly Zieselman, executive director of interACT, the intersex youth advocacy group that authored the legislation.
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While the party finds itself with difficult races in Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota, the possibility that Democrats could unexpectedly win in Tennessee and Texas and flip seats in Nevada and Arizona has opened up the narrow possibility that the party could control the legislative body come 2019.
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"In the face of unprecedented uncertainty from the federal level, your partnership is more important than ever," Mr. de Blasio told his audience, making a plea for unity to a legislative body that — on the Republican-controlled State Senate side, at least — has never had much use for him.
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And because scientists generally don't think of their work as subject to the whims of a given administration or legislative body (in much the same way we don't think of the weather as being susceptible to such whims), they are not usually well organized to respond to direct political attacks.
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STEP TWO: Pass the legislation New laws in Britain require the approval of both houses of parliament - the elected House of Commons, the main legislative body, and the unelected House of Lords, which is principally seen as a revising and refining mechanism, but does technically have the power to block laws.
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STEP TWO: Pass the legislation New laws in Britain require the approval of both houses of parliament - the elected House of Commons, the main legislative body, and the unelected House of Lords, which is principally seen as a revising and refining mechanism, but does technically have the power to block laws.
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The speaker pushed a $17 million increase to the Council's own budget — a 27 percent increase and the largest in at least a decade — to help pay for more staff and support Mr. Johnson's goal of establishing the city's legislative body as a viable counterweight to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Earlier in the year, French King Louis XVI had summoned a long-defunct legislative body, the Estates General, to try to solve the desperate financial situation the government had gotten itself into, not least as a result of excessive spending on backing the American side in the War of Independence.
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While the main narrative of the wave of victories in the Virginia House of Delegates last November was its potential as a predictor of the 2018 midterms, Election Night also brought eleven women—the first trans woman and the first Asian-American and Latina women among them—into that state's legislative body.
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"When 600,000 citizens can elect one representative to a legislative body, whereas their neighbor next door requires 750,000 citizens to elect one representative, this is in my opinion — and I think in the opinion of others — intrinsically unfair," said Ed Blum, the director of the conservative legal advocacy group Project on Fair Representation.
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"I am proud of making a decision to not just give fancy speeches, or be in a legislative body and give speeches on a floor, but actually do the work of being in the position to use the power that I had to reform a system that is badly in need of reform," she said.
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That leaves the A.N.C., which dominates the legislative body, with two options if it wants to recall Mr. Zuma before the end of his term in 2019: Order him to step down and avoid bringing the matter to Parliament; or allow the anti-Zuma camp to join forces with opposition lawmakers to impeach him.
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Opening a rare gathering of the Palestine Liberation Organization's legislative body in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday night, Mahmoud Abbas, the chairman of the group and the president of the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, also declared that he wanted the Palestinians to live in peace in an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
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Then again, the state House is enormous (it has 400 members, making it the fourth-largest English-speaking legislative body in the world after the US House of Representatives and the UK Houses of Commons and Lords) and its districts are tiny, so those wins might not be too indicative of Democratic success to come.
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It's a rare situation for the 21881-year-old legislative body and, while the Senate historian's office recounts "The Great Senate Deadlock of 20013" and another smaller impasse in 22001, arguably the real precedent for figuring it out is relatively recent history that happened in the wake of the most extraordinary presidential election of modern times.
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The Constitution requires the federal government to count every person inside the United States every ten years for representational and redistricting purposes: With the sole exception of the U.S. Senate, every federal and state legislative body uses census data when redrawing its seats and districts—and thus the geography of American political power—once every decade.
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In particular, the paralysis of Congress, it's abdication of power to the presidency and its inability to function as a legislative body — plus the ideological sclerosis of the Republican Party, its collapse into an entertainment-wing-driven grift — these have been defining features of life under President Trump, as they were under President Obama before him.
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While drawing names to determine an election has happened before in Virginia, what made today's luck-of-the-draw unique was that it also determined whether the Virginia House of Delegates would be split down the middle between Democrats and Republicans or if Republicans would continue to control the legislative body, something the GOP has done for nearly two decades.
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This time around, the man party was in celebration of House Republicans pushing through a health care bill they threw together in an effort to save face, without bothering to allow the Congressional Budget Office to fully evaluate its costs and impact and lay them before the American people -- much less the legislative body, some of whom admit not reading the bill.
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Salt Lake City (CNN)President Donald Trump has taken an intense interest in whether Utah Republican Orrin Hatch runs for Senate re-election in 2018, sources tell CNN, a fact that has some in Washington thinking the concern is part of an effort to keep former Republican presidential nominee and on-again-off-again Trump critic Mitt Romney from the legislative body.
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Helima Croft, global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, said in a note that Venezuela, which has the largest oil reserves in the world, could become the first sovereign oil producer to "fully fail" as a state if President Nicolas Maduro moves forward with the vote to form a new legislative body named the National Constituent Assembly (ANC).
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New Clean Energy Report: America May Not Be Screwed After AllFor the past sixteen months or so, it's felt as though our planet has been shaking us by the…Read more ReadGermany's Spiegel Magazin reported this morning that the country's top legislative body was able to reach a bi-partisan agreement that hopes to allow only zero-emission vehicles on EU roads in 14 years.
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However, cities are proving to be a growth center for women and people of color: 51 of America's 200 most populous cities are led by mayors of color, with 13 African-American women running the show, including in Chicago, Charlotte, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. For all the crowing about women in Congress this year, they still make up less than one-quarter of that legislative body.
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