Micra only paces the lower chamber of the heart, so it can't be used for patients who need pacing in both the upper and lower chamber.
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Democrats could gain nearly 40 seats in Congress's lower chamber.
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Democrats hold a majority in the lower chamber of Congress.
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At both times, the lower chamber was under GOP control.
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Thornberry was first elected to the lower chamber in 220006.
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Leadership cannot afford more than 22 defections in the lower chamber.
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He later won election back to the lower chamber in 2012.
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They even won support for the bill in the lower chamber.
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Should Democrats retain control of the lower chamber in 2020, Rep.
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The Democrats have no easy task in retaking the lower chamber.
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The bill must now go to the lower chamber for approval.
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The state's lower chamber, the Assembly, is overwhelmingly held by Democrats.
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The first session of the lower chamber is scheduled for May 21.
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ANO has 78 lawmakers in the 200-seat lower chamber of parliament.
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Abe's ruling bloc holds a two-thirds majority in the lower chamber.
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Senate Democrats, meanwhile, have largely echoed their counterparts in the lower chamber.
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These bills are the centerpieces of the effort in the lower chamber.
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Political forecasters give them a strong chance of retaking the lower chamber.
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The measure had already been approved in the lower chamber of Congress.
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This forced Republican leadership to seek Democratic support in the lower chamber.
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John Lewis, has occupied the lower chamber for more than 20 hours.
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John Lewis, has occupied the lower chamber for more than 603 hours.
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The lower chamber approved the measure with an overwhelming 3003-2300 vote.
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The measure easily passed the lower chamber by a 2023-47 vote.
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The GOP lawmaker was first elected to the lower chamber in 22019.
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Democrats need to flip 23 seats to take back the lower chamber.
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But there's no guarantee the proposal can easily pass the lower chamber.
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A political faction in the lower chamber have succumbed to partisan rage.
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The lower chamber decides whether a Brazilian president can be put on trial.
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Historically, control of the lower chamber has been a foregone conclusion as well.
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A group of 2628 fiscal conservatives in the lower chamber — including then-Reps.
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Twenty-two percent say it doesn't matter which party controls the lower chamber.
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They need to gain 23 seats in the lower chamber to take control.
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Chief deputy whip is the highest-ranking appointed position in the lower chamber.
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Democrats need 28500 seats to regain control in the Lower Chamber and FiveThirtyEight.
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But the lower chamber at least went through a facsimile of regular order.
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Republicans have commanded the lower chamber with substantial and unbroken majorities since 2117.
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The Wisconsin Republican, 2202, was first elected to the lower chamber in 2628.
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Canceling recess has received some bipartisan support in the lower chamber, with Rep.
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Democrats will need to flip 24 seats to take back the lower chamber.
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The lower chamber approved the short-term spending fix in a 231-192.
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Democrats have a tough path ahead for taking back control of the lower chamber.
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But House Republicans, firmly in control of the lower chamber, want to aim higher.
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They need to gain 23 seats to win the majority in the lower chamber.
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While the legislation easily passed the lower chamber, some measures faced opposition from Democrats.
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Democrats will need to flip 24 seats to regain control of the lower chamber.
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But it's unclear whether it would have enough votes to pass the lower chamber.
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The lower chamber voted to hold two top Cabinet officials in contempt of Congress.
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The legislation has garnered more than 100 Democratic co-sponsors in the lower chamber.
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Just 34 percent said they think Democrats will retake control of the lower chamber.
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The lower chamber of Congress is expected to vote on the issue next month.
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The lower chamber voted on articles alleging Trump abused his power and obstructed Congress.
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Currently, Republicans are eyeing 18 additional seats in the lower chamber to regain control.
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Mr. Abe dissolved the lower chamber before the bill came up for a vote.
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They also provide legal representation for the lower chamber in the case of litigation.
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While the Senate doesn't take its cues from the lower chamber, all politicians are copycats.
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After months of deadlock, the lower chamber of parliament approved modified versions on December 8th.
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The measure passed Brazil's Senate on Wednesday following approval by the lower chamber on Tuesday.
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His colleagues in the lower chamber "more reflect the passions of the people," he added.
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Republicans are expected to retain the lower chamber, while the Senate is up for grabs.
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The lower chamber is slated to take up two pieces of immigration legislation on Thursday.
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Democrats are feeling emboldened about their chances of taking back control of the lower chamber.
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He also blamed a volatile stock market on Democrats taking control of the lower chamber.
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Last week, however, the Senate Intelligence Committee broke with its counterpart in the lower chamber.
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After a breakthrough in the House, the lower chamber unanimously passed the bill last month.
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The lower chamber is supposed to vote on a GOP "compromise" immigration bill on Wednesday.
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Still, Ryan said Thursday morning that he's confident the bill will clear the lower chamber.
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It faces at least one more vote in the lower chamber before going to Gov.
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Barbara Comstock (R-Va.), could decide to leave the lower chamber and run for Senate.
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Few Republicans in the Senate rose up to defend their colleagues in the lower chamber.
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Between them, they can hope to elect at most 20 members of the lower chamber.
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Prior to his time in the lower chamber, Yoho worked as a large animal veterinarian.
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Democrats will need to flip 23 seats in order to take back the lower chamber.
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House lawmakers have characterized that bill as dead on arrival in the lower chamber. Sens.
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Democrats need to flip 23 seats in the fall to take back the lower chamber.
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The lower chamber, the Wisconsin Republican said, would "return to regular order" under his leadership.
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Democrats need to win 24 seats to win control of the lower chamber from Republicans.
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Given Democrats' 233-member majority in the lower chamber, the measure is likely to move forward.
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On Tuesday evening, the lower chamber voted overwhelmingly to overturn an executive order on state secrets.
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But Republicans, who then controlled the House, did not allow a vote in the lower chamber.
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Kennedy announced his retirement the same day a House immigration bill failed in the lower chamber.
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Republicans need to pick up roughly 20203 seats to win back control of the lower chamber.
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Democrats need a net gain of 23 seats to win back control of the lower chamber.
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Democrats will need to net 30 House seats to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
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Before their August break, lawmakers in the lower chamber are expected to have a busy week.
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Democrats are feeling increasingly comfortable about their chances to retake the majority in the lower chamber.
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The Georgia Republican has been a key player in defending the president in the lower chamber.
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Democrats need to flip 23 seats in order to regain the majority in the lower chamber.
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According to Time, she said she would make that decision once she joins the lower chamber.
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For the speaker of the lower chamber, it could take several days of the next week.
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The lower chamber will instead have its first votes of the week at 6:30 p.m.
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In Ivory Coast's powerful executive presidential system, the lower chamber was already seen as a rubber stamp.
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Democrats need to pick up 30 House seats to win back the majority in the lower chamber.
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Late Sunday night, the country's lower chamber voted 367 to 137 in favor of ending Rousseff's mandate.
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Democrats need to gain 23 seats in Republican-held districts in order to take the lower chamber.
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The opposition welcomed the move but demanded the lower chamber also re-run the disputed budget vote.
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Democrats have an uphill battle to regain control of the lower chamber, needing to net 30 seats.
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Democrats need to flip 23 seats in November to win back the majority in the lower chamber.
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Thirteen House Republicans joined with Democrats to pass a resolution in the lower chamber blocking the emergency.
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Democrats are hoping to pick up 23 seats to flip the lower chamber in Tuesday's midterm elections.
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The government forced the legislation through the lower chamber of Parliament using a rarely invoked executive power.
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"We're tackling an urgent issue," Giulio Centemero, a member of the lower Chamber of Deputies, told Reuters.
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Once the Senate has finished, the draft will go back to the House of Commons lower chamber.
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Earlier this month, May won approval for the legislation from parliament's lower chamber, the House of Commons.
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The lower chamber isn't scheduled to be back in session until Wednesday evening despite the looming shutdown.
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Still, Republicans in the lower chamber are hoping they can change the minds of their Senate colleagues.
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The move will likely invite a constitutional clash between the president and the lower chamber of Congress.
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It is expected to pass through the lower chamber, but face more opposition in the upper chamber.
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This September, Russia will hold national elections to the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian legislature.
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House Democratic leaders have consistently downplayed talk of impeachment since Democrats took over the lower chamber of Congress.
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The dean of the lower chamber pointed to Ellison's work leading the Congressional Progressive Caucus in his endorsement.
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Filemon Vela told Politico on Wednesday that Pelosi's leadership makes a Democratic majority in the lower chamber impossible.
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With Democrats in control of the lower chamber, Republicans are powerless to block the disapproval resolution, which Rep.
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The party needs to gain at least 24 House seats to earn a majority in the lower chamber.
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Democrats need to pick up at least 24 House seats to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
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The lower chamber was not in session Monday or Tuesday in honor of the Rosh Hashana Jewish holiday.
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The House's version mirrors a bipartisan proposal for a Space Corps that passed the lower chamber in 2017.
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After a House GOP version of the bill failed, the lower chamber ended up passing the Senate's version.
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Historically, the Speaker of the House only closes votes during significant bills and resolutions in the lower chamber.
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Democrats need to pick up at least 23 seats in November to win control of the lower chamber.
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Senate and House Republicans both introduced disapproval measures last week, with the lower chamber expected to vote Friday.
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The bill is anticipated to be the first climate bill passed in the lower chamber in a decade.
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They need to take 23 seats from Republicans in order to secure a majority in the lower chamber.
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The lower chamber passed multiple bipartisan bills in support of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong in October.
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Wojciech Hermelinski told reporters that the bill approved by the lower chamber of parliament will "incapacitate" the PKW.
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The former congressman served three terms in the lower chamber before mounting an unsuccessful bid to unseat Sen.
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Protesters reportedly chanted "we will not comply" after hearing that the state's lower chamber had approved the legislation.
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The Democratic-controlled lower chamber is widely expected to approve the articles of impeachment with no Republican support.
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Senate Republicans, meanwhile, are hammering the idea that the articles would sit idle in the lower chamber. Sen.
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The House and Senate are both in town after the lower chamber returns from its two-week recess.
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Biggs, a Trump ally in the lower chamber, argued the move was "inexcusable" given the gravity of impeachment.
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Cheney is one of just 13 Republican women in the lower chamber — and the only woman in leadership.
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MORE. McSally was first elected to Congress in 2014 when Republicans made major gains in the lower chamber.
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Mike Johnson (R-La.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, brought companion legislation in the lower-chamber.
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Democrats will need to flip 24 seats next year if they want to take back the lower chamber.
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In the lower chamber, both House Democrats and conservative Republicans had threatened to withhold support for the spending plan.
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However, he said he believes that the impeachment trial reflects poorly on lawmakers in the lower chamber of Congress.
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House Democrats also have said they want to prioritize the issue when they take control of the lower chamber.
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The bill has passed the lower chamber and faces the first of two votes in the Senate on Tuesday.
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The Diet, Japan's parliament, debated the measure for around 200 hours, even though Abe's party controlled the lower chamber.
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Democrats on Tuesday picked up more than the 23 seats needed to wrest back control of the lower chamber.
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They're choosing lawmakers to fill all 650 seats in the House of Commons, the lower chamber of Britain's Parliament.
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He's planning to give a similar amount to Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC focused on the lower chamber.
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Yet Democrats still appear far short of flipping the 220006 seats they'd need to win back the lower chamber.
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In the Senate, any senator cane force the vote, but only the House speaker can in the lower chamber.
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House Republicans have warned that there aren't the votes in the lower chamber to pass the bills Collins supports.
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The Sunday vote will determine 500 members of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Thailand's legislative branch.
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House Democrats are thinking the once unthinkable: They have a real shot at winning the lower chamber next month.
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Because it was rushed through the lower chamber, the bill hasn't been scored yet by the Congressional Budget Office.
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In New Jersey, Democrats were expected to maintain their majority in the state's general assembly, the legislature's lower chamber.
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With the final votes still being counted, the coalition was expected to secure a majority in the lower chamber.
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When the Democrats last controlled the lower chamber, in 2010, some liberal members requested hearings on universal background checks.
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But moves by the House had raised questions about whether the lower chamber might just approve the Senate bill.
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Republicans need a net gain of roughly 20 seats to win back control of the lower chamber next year.
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Democratic women are set to take control of six full House committees if the lower chamber flips in November.
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If Simonds were to win, Democrats will be sharing power with Republicans in the state's lower chamber (50-50).
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The constitutional amendment is expected to face the first of two floor votes next week in the lower chamber.
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Democrats secured sweeping victories this month in House races to secure a majority in the lower chamber of Congress.
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The party needs to pick up at least 24 House seats to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
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The race for control of the lower chamber of Congress is a toss-up, according to a new poll.
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He is the president of the lower chamber of the Austrian parliament; he is no longer the interior minister.
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The encryption bill had passed the lower chamber of Parliament, the House, and was being debated in the Senate.
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The lower chamber on Wednesday officially transferred the articles to the Senate for Trump's trial after weeks of delay.
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But House members said it violated the constitutional requirement that all revenue-raising measures originate in the lower chamber.
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The bill's failure in the lower chamber means that Senate Republicans have avoided taking any votes on the legislation.
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Joe Martin, was the first Republican to take on the role since Democrats dominated the lower chamber in 1933.
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But moderate Senate Democrats who spearheaded the compromise pledged to abandon the legislation if the lower chamber amended it.
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Forty-seven percent of respondents say the lower chamber has enough evidence, while 48 percent say it does not.
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The measure is expected to pass through the lower chamber but face a more difficult path in the Senate.
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Government whips were negotiating with lawmakers for further concessions to make the bill more palatable to the lower chamber.
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The overall balance of power in the House would shift, but control of the lower chamber wouldn't actually shift.
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But running for Senate would also have meant forgoing a higher position in the lower chamber, and she would have been expected to relinquish her current posts in the lower chamber given that House Republican conference rules mandate lawmakers relinquish their leadership and committee chairs once they announce a bid for higher office.
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HR 1 was one of the earliest agenda items House Democrats passed after retaking the lower chamber during the midterms.
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However, a year ago betting markets only gave the opposition a 50/50 chance of re-taking the lower chamber.
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Before the referendum on the Senate, his government passed a separate electoral law for the lower chamber, called the "Italicum".
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Paul Ryan, as speaker of the House of Representatives, is the leader of his party's caucus in the lower chamber.
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But the Democrat's recent surge of hope in regaining control of the lower chamber isn't so far-fetched any more.
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The lower chamber passed legislation late last year that would have targeted Russia and Iran for their backing of Assad.
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House staff have raised a "blue slip" violation -- a constitutional requirement that bills raising revenue originate in the lower chamber.
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But the party faces an uphill battle; Democrats need to net 30 seats to take control of the lower chamber.
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Haspel's briefing in the House on Wednesday, though, did not appear to have a similar effect in the lower chamber.
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TV's Joe Concha on "What America's Thinking," when asked whether she thought Democrats would regain control of the lower chamber.
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The vote marked the first time members of the lower chamber voted on matters pertaining to the Trump impeachment inquiry.
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Democrats need to pick up 23 seats in the House next month to win back control of the lower chamber.
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He's held multiple seats in public office in the state of Querétaro and served in the lower chamber of Congress.
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Just a week earlier, only 65 House Republicans voted for the package when it passed the lower chamber (The Hill).
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The bipartisan bill, titled the Water Resources Development Act of 85033, passed the lower chamber on a 408-2 vote.
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Though it passed overwhelmingly in the lower chamber, Senate Democrats have steadfastly refused to publicly warm up to the legislation.
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In that previous survey, 40 percent said they wanted the Republican Party to win a majority in the lower chamber.
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The Intelligence panel's probe is one of numerous Democratic-led investigations the White House is fighting in the lower chamber.
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Political handicapper FiveThirtyEight says that it is a 75 percent chance that Democrats take back control of the lower chamber.
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Ryan left the House in January after seeing Republicans lose control of the lower chamber during last November's midterm elections.
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Bolsonaro's party rose from nowhere to gain 52 seats in the lower chamber, four short of the leftist Workers Party.
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New York's state Assembly, the lower chamber, is overwhelmingly Democratic, and, no matter what, will remain so after April 24.
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"I will vote to keep in this amendment," Anna Soubry, a Conservative lawmaker in the lower chamber, told Sky News.
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Conservatives want a vote on that measure, but it doesn't appear to have the support to pass the lower chamber.
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In a vote held on Wednesday, Democrats in the lower chamber voted to again make Pelosi the House minority leader.
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The House will consider the agreement first under the Constitution's provision mandating that revenue bills originate in the lower chamber.
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But doing so would likely reopen an internecine fight over the filibuster with the lower chamber — and the president. Sen.
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House staff have raised a "blue slip" violation — a constitutional requirement that bills raising revenue originate in the lower chamber.
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Even so, Democrats seem to be eyeing a plan to wrap up their inquiry in the lower chamber by Christmas.
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FiveThirtyEight, the data and prediction site, gave Democrats a roughly 70 percent chance to take control of the lower chamber.
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She is by no means guaranteed to win key votes when the legislation returns to the more powerful lower chamber.
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Almost half — 49 percent — said lawmakers in the lower chamber should impeach Trump and call for his removal from office.
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House lawmakers then flagged it as violating the constitutional requirement that all revenue-raising measures originate in the lower chamber.
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But House lawmakers said it violated the constitutional requirement that all revenue-raising measures must originate in the lower chamber.
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The Senate bill faces opposition from House conservatives who want the measure to include more input from the lower chamber.
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Barring some big and unforeseen political shock, the GOP's hold on the lower chamber appears likely to extend into 223.
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In the 650-member lower chamber, May has a working majority of 13 only with the support of Northern Ireland's DUP.
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It sought to constrain governments by spreading power equally between the lower Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, the upper house.
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The bill has to pass two more readings in the lower chamber of parliament, with the final vote expected in December.
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The measure was approved by the Alabama state Senate 25-6 on Tuesday after passing in the lower chamber last month.
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At the moment, these three parties have a clear majority of 320 seats in the lower chamber of the German Parliament.
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After that, King Felipe will consult with party leaders to find a prime ministerial candidate who the lower chamber will support.
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ON FEBRUARY 24th, Ireland will go to the polls to elect 21920 representatives for Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of parliament.
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Trump had previously praised the legislation, calling it "a great plan" after it passed through the lower chamber in early May.
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RATE-SETTERS Poland's lower chamber of parliament, the Sejm, will swear in two new rate-setters Grazyna Ancyparowicz and Eryk Lon.
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The speaker of parliament's lower chamber, the House of Commons, chairs debates, calling members of parliament to speak and keeping order.
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They would need to win back 10 of the 100 state House seats up next year to reclaim the lower chamber.
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The Saint Paul Pioneer Press earlier this month reported that the legislation passed through the lower chamber despite opposition from Democrats.
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Brown, who served 14 years in the House, said the new pact will have a tough time passing the lower chamber.
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But many election prognosticators predict Democrats will pick up the 23 House seats need to gain control of the lower chamber.
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Scalise, the House majority whip and the third-highest ranking Republican in the lower chamber, is among those who were shot.
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A generic House ballot survey earlier this month showed Democrats with a 10-point advantage for control of the lower chamber.
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Democrats hold 54 of the 80 seats in the state's lower chamber, all of which are up for election this year.
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Pay raise The lower chamber is scheduled to have a short week with members flying back to their districts on Wednesday.
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But she's also the third-ranking House Republican leader, meaning she could also have a bright future in the lower chamber.
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The forecast projects Democrats will pick up 34 seats, 21625 more than they need to regain control of the lower chamber.
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Separately, the House Oversight and Reform Committee has already launched an investigation into the security clearance process in the lower chamber.
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Democrats made a similar promise when they won the House in 22019, and quickly passed a bill through the lower chamber.
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Democrats are hoping to overcome a 23-seat gap in the House to retake control of the lower chamber this fall.
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But John Boehner, then the House speaker, refused to bring it up for a vote in the Republican-controlled lower chamber.
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Differences in the legislation mean is must be voted on by the lower chamber before it heads to the president's desk.
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If it did move through the lower chamber, Democrats have warned that it would be dead on arrival in the Senate.
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The lower chamber is expected to vote on articles charging Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress on Wednesday.
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Pelosi reclaimed her gavel as Speaker after Democrats won back the majority in the lower chamber during the 2628 midterm elections.
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As the president and his cabinet entered the lower chamber, the crowd reacted as if hyping an NBA team's starting lineup.
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The measure's passage comes roughly 120 years after a committee in the lower chamber defeated legislation that would have criminalized lynchings.
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In the survey, 49 percent said lawmakers in the lower chamber should impeach Trump and call for his removal from office.
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If GOP leaders can pass the bill solely with Republican votes, the Democrats in the lower chamber will have no sway.
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Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), who has been critical of Pelosi and challenged her for the party's leadership in the lower chamber.
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House members at first said the bill violated the constitutional requirement that all measures raising revenue originate in the lower chamber.
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But after it sailed through the lower chamber earlier Tuesday, that should be just a brief detour before the legislation reaches Trump.
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The controversy is likely to be probed by House Democrats, who will take control of Congress's lower chamber early next year. Rep.
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The prime minister told Parliament's lower chamber that her Conservative government "will listen" to lawmakers' concerns over the deal following the vote.
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Any new government would immediately have to revise the electoral law, which currently applies only to the lower chamber, not the Senate.
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She is likely to become the chairwoman of the panel following the GOP's loss of the lower chamber in the midterm elections.
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With Democrats controlling the lower chamber of a split government, Trump could be forced to soften his aggressive trade strategy with China.
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Lawmakers expect McConnell to bring the House healthcare bill — should it pass the lower chamber — directly to the Senate floor, bypassing committee.
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Aides for Republican leadership and the Appropriations Committee didn't comment, and a Democratic aide said there's no deal in the lower chamber.
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When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell discusses the AHCA now, he mischievously notes that the process fell apart in the lower chamber.
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The crucial battle will be in the lower chamber, where lawmakers are playing for time to obtain more concessions from the government.
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The House version, though, which easily passed the lower chamber in May, does not include a provision setting forth a cyber policy.
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Andrea Leadsom, leader of the House of Commons, said the lower chamber will debate the amendments on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
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If the governance bill is passed by parliament's lower chamber, the House of Representatives, it would require presidential approval to become law.
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Kevin McCarthy to serve as the No. 1 House Republican in the next session of Congress, when Democrats control the lower chamber.
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The House passed a resolution Monday expressing the sympathy of the lower chamber following the death of former President George H.W. Bush.
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Thirty-four House Republicans oppose the legislation, according to The Hill's latest Whip List, making its passage in the lower chamber uncertain.
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Bishop, who serves as the top Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee, was first elected to the lower chamber in 2002.
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With 198 co-sponsors, the bill is just 20 votes shy of the number needed to push it through the lower chamber.
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Like a similar Senate measure passed earlier this month -- the resolution does not become law and only applies to the lower chamber.
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The different approaches will lead to a battle between the House and Senate in September, when the lower chamber returns from recess.
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Democrats in the lower chamber have already hauled in Mnuchin to testify on the sanctions behind closed doors and left voicing dissatisfaction.
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McHenry, the House GOP chief deputy whip, was poised to climb the leadership ladder if Republicans maintained control of the lower chamber.
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House Democrats have declined to publicly predict outright that they will win back the lower chamber in next year's midterm elections. Rep.
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The lower chamber adjourned in a further mark of respect for the North Carolina Republican, who passed away on his 76th birthday.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she didn't think the NRA's pushback would affect the law's chances of getting through the lower chamber.
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In hasty proceedings on Friday, the lower chamber of parliament approved amendments enabling a swift appointment of a new Supreme Court head.
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Republicans hold two-seat majorities in both the Senate and the House of Delegates; they have controlled the lower chamber since 2000.
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"The letter of resignation has been considered and approved by a majority," said Sergio Choque, head of the lower Chamber of Deputies.
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With 22015 out of the 460 seats in the Sejm, the lower chamber of parliament, PiS retains its majority, though only just.
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Once the call become public, Democratic opposition in the House to impeachment cooled and Trump's fate in the lower chamber was frozen.
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The amendment was submitted as part of the upcoming spending package the lower chamber is expected to weigh after the congressional recess.
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It's no guarantee, but bills that pass the lower chamber by suspending the rules are hard for the "other body" to ignore.
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" He downplayed the chances of passing gun control measures through the lower chamber, declaring "we shouldn't be banning guns for private citizens.
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Since 2012, the 37-year-old pediatric anesthesiologist has had ventricular tachycardia, causing the lower chamber of his heart to beat abnormally fast.
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In addition to 24.1 seats in the Senate, all 21940 seats in the lower chamber—the House of Representatives—are up for election.
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Some even wondered, albeit briefly, whether Democrats could win control of the lower chamber, where House Republicans hold a massive 21996-22008 majority.
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MacArthur played an important role in amending the House ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill that ultimately helped it pass in the lower chamber.
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If the motion clears the lower chamber, which could vote by late April, it will be politically tricky for senators to oppose it.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told Republican members Tuesday the lower chamber would not be passing the ObamaCare bills without Hyde language.
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House Democrats will need 25 Republicans to join them in backing the bill in order to force a vote in the lower chamber.
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Since being sworn into the lower chamber, she has become a vocal proponent of progressive polices and a consistent critic of the GOP.
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The ObamaCare bill cleared the lower chamber 85033-213 while the final tax bill cleared by a more comfortable margin — 224-201. Rep.
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While the hard-line bill failed in the lower chamber Thursday, lawmakers are negotiating in hopes of achieving passage for a compromise bill.
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But it's unclear if either of the two Dreamer bills can win enough support to pass the lower chamber, let alone the Senate.
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Meanwhile, lawmakers are grappling with compromise immigration legislation in the House after a more hard-lined bill failed Thursday in the lower chamber.
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Steve Scalise (R-La.), the Republican whip, are both guaranteeing they can rally the votes to pass the measure through the lower chamber.
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It was the first time the lower chamber has successfully passed a War Powers Act resolution since the law was enacted in 1973.
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TV co-hosts Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on election night as Democrats appeared poised to retake the majority in the lower chamber.
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Nearly 100 Democrats in the lower chamber have signed on as co-sponsors to the Green New Deal, a resolution introduced by Rep.
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Still, it's a tall order for the Democratic Party which will need to net 30 seats to regain control of the lower chamber.
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Redistricting has eliminated many swing districts, and Democrats would need to flip 30 GOP-held seats to win control of the lower chamber.
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But Hensarling, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, has been adamant that the lower chamber will not rubber-stamp the Senate version.
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While Solidarity won a significant victory with a majority in the upper chamber of parliament, the communists retained control of the lower chamber.
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This means the legislation will have to be sent back to the lower chamber for approval before it arrives at the president's desk.
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Democrats in the lower chamber also passed legislation last month that would require all gun sellers to conduct background checks on firearm buyers.
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Al Green (D-Texas), have called for members to move to impeach Trump if the party wins back the Lower Chamber in November.
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While Democrats gained at least six seats in the lower chamber, that number fell well short of the double-digit gains they'd expected.
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With 198 co-sponsors, the bill is just 20 votes shy of the number needed to push the bill through the lower chamber.
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"This is really narrow," Kerry Donovan, communications director for Assemblyman David Buchwald, who sponsored the bill in New York's lower chamber, told me.
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Whatever the outcome will be in the litigation going forward, the lower chamber should certainly take a second to contemplate the recent past.
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The lower chamber is seen as Trump's best shot for passing the proposal, as the Senate has remained largely opposed to the idea.
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Even if the lower chamber does decide to impeach Trump, the GOP-controlled Senate is likely not to convict Trump of any wrongdoing.
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Some members are planning on sending a letter to leadership in the lower chamber Wednesday calling for the congressional calendar to be revised.
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In fact, impeachment refers only to the House, the lower chamber of Congress, bringing charges - similar to an indictment in a criminal case.
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But House lawmakers said the bill ran afoul of the constitutional requirement that all revenue-raising measures must originate in the lower chamber.
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House Democrats would need to flip 85033 seats to win back control of the lower chamber — a bar they're not expected to reach.
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If LeBon wins, Republicans will hold 21 seats in the state's lower chamber — the minimum needed for a majority, according to the paper.
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But three weeks into their negotiations, senators still sound stuck on many of the same issues that fractured Republicans in the lower chamber.
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ON NOVEMBER 6th 2018 the United States will hold elections for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Congress.
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Since the budget is different from the House's version, it needs to go back to the lower chamber and receive approval before being enacted.
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The full Assembly, the legislature's lower chamber, is expected to approve it in a vote toward the end of August, after the summer recess.
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A former army captain, he was elected seven times to the lower chamber of congress thanks largely to votes from police officers and veterans.
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Meanwhile, in the lower chamber, a House Transportation subcommittee will hold a hearing Wednesday to examine safety regulations for hazardous materials, railroads, and pipelines.
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The second-ranking House Democrat on Tuesday said it's "possible" that his party could win back control of the lower chamber in November. Rep.
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McCarthy did not rule out the House still moving first but suggested the lower chamber was more likely to act on the Senate's version.
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Democrats are hoping to pick up the seat in their uphill battle to flip 30 House seats to regain control of the lower chamber.
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Last year, retailers strongly backed a data breach bill from the House Energy and Commerce Committee that almost made it through the lower chamber.
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The lower chamber voted 393-13 on the legislation, introduced by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill ShusterWilliam (Bill) Franklin ShusterEx-GOP Rep.
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The government entered the campaign with 90 seats, giving it a majority of 15 in the 150-seat lower chamber, the House of Representatives.
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So far, almost two dozen Republicans have announced this cycle that they are retiring from the lower chamber, resigning or running for other offices.
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A new House rule would automatically send a debt limit extension to the Senate if a budget passes the lower chamber, expediting the process.
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The bill, passed by voice vote in the lower chamber, advanced as the program was set to expire at the end of the month.
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The GOP-led panel shuttered its probe last year, but Schiff is reviving it now that Democrats have the majority in the lower chamber.
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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday approved its bipartisan water infrastructure bill, sending it for a floor vote in the lower chamber.
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The measure condemning "anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, and other forms of bigotry" easily passed the lower chamber in a vote of 2023-23. Rep.
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In other words, the Senate needs to be able to pass a version of Graham-Cassidy that the lower chamber will take as is.
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The House National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) — which cleared the lower chamber on Wednesday — would elevate U.S. Cyber Command to a standalone warfighting entity.
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Congressional committees have canceled public hearings and the Senate and lower chamber leaders are discussing whether to suspend all sessions due to the epidemic.
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Retailers last year offered their support to a competing bill from the Energy and Commerce Committee that almost made it through the lower chamber.
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The House National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) -- which cleared the lower chamber on Wednesday -- would elevate U.S. Cyber Command to a standalone warfighting entity.
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BALTIMORE, MD. — Vice President Biden is urging House Democrats to own President Obama's policy achievements as a route back to the lower-chamber majority.
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Cheney is currently one of 13 GOP women in the lower chamber, and two of her female colleagues have announced they won't seek reelection.
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Ryan has restored order in the lower chamber in a number of ways, including giving more power to committees and communicating with his conference.
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The Senate passed legislation in 2018 to make lynching a federal hate crime, but it ultimately did not make it through the lower chamber.
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Sanders's success today might not lead to his nomination tomorrow, but it has already had an impact on the race for the lower chamber.
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These Democrats saw Pelosi, who remains focused on maintaining the party's majority in the lower chamber, as undermining the party's efforts to defeat Trump.
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House Democrats are heading into 2018 feeling the wind at their backs and sensing their best chance in years to retake the lower chamber.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Thursday that the lower chamber would consider another stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown.
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This strategist argued that historical statistics combined with the wave of House Republican retirements makes keeping control of the lower chamber all but impossible.
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LoBiondo oversees two subcommittees in the lower chamber, including the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Aviation Subcommittee and the House Intelligence Committee's CIA Subcommittee.
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But a top House GOP source said the lower chamber has passed a number of bills this year with little media coverage or fanfare.
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CNN reported in early November that Trump also blamed Ryan for not doing enough fundraising and costing the GOP control of the lower chamber.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says FBI Director James Comey hurt House Democrats' chances to win back control of the lower chamber.
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Rousseff herself has taken particular aim at the unpopular president of the lower chamber, Eduardo Cunha, who has spearheaded the impeachment proceedings against her.
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McMorris Rodgers, the chair of the House Republican conference and the fourth-ranking Republican in Congress's lower chamber, has been in office since 2005.
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The decision robs the center-right coalition, comprising the Liberal Party and the National Party, of its one-seat majority in the lower chamber.
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It must be passed by the House of Representatives and the lower chamber of parliament, and needs the approval of the president before becoming law.
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They saw the archconservative House Freedom Caucus hold out for more concessions in the lower chamber, and they may decide they should do the same.
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Given that a bare majority can move a bill in the lower chamber, Republicans would have had nobody to blame but themselves in that case.
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Eduardo Cunha, the former speaker of Brazil's lower chamber, was arrested on charges of corruption, sparking worries that a spending cap may be voted down.
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Democratic candidates referenced health care more than any other issue during the 2018 midterm races that saw the party seize control of Congress's lower chamber.
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Image 2 of 2 ROME – Italy&aposs new populist government has easily won its second, and final, mandatory confidence vote in Parliament&aposs lower chamber.
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On Wednesday February 13, Tepco sent a probe equipped with a remotely operated robotic hand down into the No. 2 lower chamber, Japan Times reports.
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The alliance projected that it has at least 255 out of 500 seats in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Thailand's legislative branch.
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If the Senate changed the House bill, it would have to be bounced back to the lower chamber to be passed for a second time.
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Democrats clinched 6900 seats, more than enough to regain control of the lower chamber of Congress, while Republicans slightly expanded their majority in the Senate.
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It has earned a reputation for being a thorn in the side of GOP leadership during Republicans' time in the majority in the lower chamber.
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The measure easily passed the lower chamber by a 369-85033 vote after overwhelmingly passing the Senate the previous day, capping off months of negotiations.
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Yes, Republicans could conceivably hold the House but one thing is pretty certain, they are going to lose seats in the lower chamber of Congress.
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Steve Scalise (R-La.) will continue as the top Republicans in the lower chamber, taking on the roles of House minority leader and minority whip.
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While Pelosi won two-thirds of House Democrats, Ryan captured 63 votes, signaling that the party sought a restructuring of leadership in the lower chamber.
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The measures have encountered internal opposition in the House, and it is not clear if the bills have the votes to pass the lower chamber.
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The Democrats picked up 40 seats in the House to take back the majority in the lower chamber for the first time in 8 years.
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The Utah Republican, who is the state's longest serving member in the lower chamber, hasn't ruled out a gubernatorial bid if the circumstances are right.
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At the same time, even senior lawmakers couldn't absolutely rule out the possibility of a wave election that hands Democrats control of the lower chamber.
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Scalise — one of Trump's top allies in the lower chamber — politely dismissed the suggestion, a source with knowledge of the talk also told the publication.
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Waxman, Miller MORE (D-Calif.) introduced them at a weekly dinner of House Democrats in 1987, when Pelosi was first elected to the lower chamber.
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Background checks The lower chamber is scheduled to bring two bills to the floor aimed at strengthening background checks on those looking to purchase firearms.
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In 2017, Democrats in New Hampshire won four GOP-held state House districts, though Republicans still maintain a significant majority in the state's lower chamber.
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The executive director of the House Democrats' campaign arm is making a bullish prediction about the party's prospects to retake the lower chamber next year.
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While the Senate is likely to eliminate the deductions, the lower chamber has suggested keeping the deductions in place for property taxes up to $10,000.
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Coming off a big win in the House, Democratic leaders in the lower chamber will be quite entrenched in their opposition to Trump's wall initiative.
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House Freedom Caucus members said Tuesday that the GOP's ObamaCare repeal-and-replace plan does not have the votes necessary to pass the lower chamber.
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In North Carolina, Democrats won 51 percent of the popular vote for the lower chamber in the statehouse but just 45 percent of the seats.
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But House Republicans flagged the bill as failing to comply with the constitutional requirement that all revenue-raising measures must originate in the lower chamber.
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And other lawmakers point out that it makes sense that House Republicans are on the frontlines defending Trump since impeachment starts in the lower chamber.
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The Democratic takeover of the lower chamber makes it even less likely that anything controversial in Trump's budget proposal end up in a funding bill.
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Observers believe the acrimonious atmosphere in Congress' lower chamber and frustration with being in the minority are the chief factors in the slate of retirements.
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House passage of the deal, which now goes to the Senate, came less than 24 hours after the lower chamber voted to impeach the president.
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In fact, impeachment refers only to the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Congress, bringing charges - similar to an indictment in a criminal case.
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The Senate, which is historically less prone to partisan bickering than the House, has remained somewhat above the fray that has consumed the lower chamber.
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But there is plenty of smoke feeding the Senate's fears that the lower chamber is ready to pass their bill and call it a day.
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Forming a minority government would require support from other parties as ANO's 78 seats do not make up a majority in the 200-member lower chamber.
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Forming a minority government would require support from other parties as ANO's 78 seats do not make up a majority in the 200-member lower chamber.
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Maintaining the American ratio of 4.35 members of the lower chamber for each of the 36 senators, the French House of Representatives would have 157 seats.
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Hill was one of the co-sponsors of House Resolution 8, which passed the lower chamber in February and would expand background checks for gun purchases.
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Democrats picked up 12 seats in the Texas House—not enough to flip the lower chamber of the state legislature, but enough to give them hope.
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Meanwhile, political analysts believe that Temer could assume power as early as next weekend, given the wide margin of the vote passed in the lower chamber.
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Macri's coalition won close to 42 percent of the national vote on Sunday, when Argentina elected a third of the Senate and half the lower chamber.
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Conservatives in the House, many of them representing safe districts, are much less worried about their elections or the GOP's large majority in the lower chamber.
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Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, told reporters on Friday the government and the lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, were working on the pension reform.
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He told British media he was walking with a colleague to parliament's lower chamber, the House of Commons, from nearby Portcullis House when he heard gunfire.
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Aides to the Wisconsin Republican insist he isn't going anywhere and that he's completely focused right now on protecting the GOP's majority in the lower chamber.
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Trump hailed Election Day as a "tremendous success" on Twitter, even though Democrats picked up at least 26 House seats and control of the lower chamber.
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Still, most election forecasters believe Democrats remain on pace to flip at least the 23 seats they need to claim a majority in the lower chamber.
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The historic action, which establishes rules for open hearings and the questioning of witnesses by lawmakers and congressional staff, passed the lower chamber 232 to 6900.
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Many warn that the current 61-seat Republican majority, much of it achieved by post-403 gerrymandering, has made flipping the lower chamber an unrealistic goal.
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Flood insurance The lower chamber is set to take up on Tuesday a measure that extends funding for the nation's National Flood Insurance Program through November.
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He met with the conservative House Freedom Caucus on Monday, a day on which he was also spotted in the GOP cloakroom in the lower chamber.
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House Democrats have repeatedly passed legislation to reopen the government since taking over the majority in the lower chamber and continue to do so this week.
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Ken Buck, a Republican, and Jared Polis, a Democrat, to address the pervasiveness of these budget gimmicks has been picking up steam in the lower chamber.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - The sitting of Poland's lower chamber of parliament - the Sejm - has been postponed until 1000 GMT, Deputy Speaker Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska said on Thursday.
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A year later, Virginia played a critical role in helping to deliver Democrats the lower chamber, while also solidifying the swing seat as a blue state.
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Democrats picked up at least the necessary 23 seats to gain control of the lower chamber, while Republicans are projected to keep control of the Senate.
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The lower chamber approved technical corrections to the bill in a vote late Monday, and the Senate passed it in a 90-8 vote Wednesday afternoon.
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Even in the House, Democrats would have to pull off several impressive wins to win the 24 seats they need to take over Congress's lower chamber.
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He ran unsuccessfully for a House seat in 1992 but won two years later in a conservative wave and spent a decade in the lower chamber.
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In the 28500 midterm elections, 6900 Democrats took House seats away from the Republicans, giving them more than a 2628-28503 majority in the lower chamber.
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In terms of policy, Amash remains one of the most conservative members of the lower chamber, but no Republicans have joined him in calling for impeachment.
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House members cannot stage filibusters in the same way as senators, given that the majority has tight control of the floor in the majoritarian lower chamber.
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Tim Walz (D) delivered a similar message, warning that the Democrats simply can't win back the lower chamber without picking up swing districts in the Midwest.
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Despite Republican leadership whipping the bill, it lacks even enough Republican votes to pass the lower chamber, and would be dead on arrival in the Senate.
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Republicans currently hold 22019 seats in the lower chamber, meaning Democrats need to flip at least 24 seats in the 2018 midterms to gain the majority.
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Ossoff has raised more money than any candidate ever running for the lower chamber, and the race is the most expensive House race in U.S. history.
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GOP leadership in the lower chamber remained optimistic Tuesday afternoon, saying they think it's premature to call for a CR since appropriators are nearing a deal.
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The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act is expected to easily make its way through the lower chamber despite some conservatives pushing stronger deregulation.
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" Johnson's lower chamber counterpart — House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) — has also spoken in opposition of the Burr-Feinstein bill, calling the concept "problematic.
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The House will also need to resolve an issue regarding the Constitution's "origination clause," which requires any bills affecting revenue to start in the lower chamber.
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Lawmakers in the lower chamber will instead take its pieces one at a time, and have already passed the Syria piece by voice vote this month.
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The two restrictions, which have hampered some internal communications in the lower chamber, have both been implemented within the past two weeks and are still in place.
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A prominent 5-Star figure, Roberto Fico, who is president of Parliament&aposs lower Chamber, has opposed Salvini&aposs policy of denying ports to humanitarian rescue boats.
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It was not the first time the House of Commons had considered the legislation: an identical bill had already sailed through the lower chamber on February 8th.
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Despite a few vows from some strident left-wingers, the new Democratic majority in the lower chamber has shown little appetite for trying to remove the president.
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The week also saw a lot of global market action, mainly U.S. President Donald Trump getting his new healthcare bill passed in the lower chamber of Congress.
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The decision to scrap the controversial bill came after Trump issued an ultimatum that the lower chamber vote on it, though many remained opposed to the legislation.
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The measure initially passed the lower chamber in a voice vote on Thursday, but Republicans called foul when their request for a roll call was not granted.
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"Minibus" The lower chamber could potentially take up the appropriations legislation some refer to as a "minibus" bill, that is being worked on by a conference committee.
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The lower chamber is expected to vote on its final standalone spending bill to fund the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday.
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Because the lower chamber will be on recess all of next week for Yom Kippur, there are just seven legislative days remaining in the month of September.
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Conor Lamb (D-Pa.) during his special election campaign earlier this year notably said he would not back Pelosi as the party's leader in the lower chamber.
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The speaker will also have the ability to set the agenda in the lower chamber and decide whether and to what extent Democrats reach across the aisle.
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But the Jackson Lee bill could have a far better chance of being signed into law after Democrats took back control of the lower chamber this year.
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Border communities have complained about the move however, prompting Nigeria's lower chamber of parliament on Tuesday to call on the customs service to lift the indefinite ban.
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Rose and other members-elect are set to be sworn in on Thursday, giving Democrats control of the lower chamber for the first time in eight years.
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At the end of the last parliamentary mandate this year, there was just one woman, serving in the lower chamber of the Tynwald, the House of Keys.
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Democrats nationwide managed to flip dozens of House seats in the midterms, winning back the majority in the lower chamber heading into the next session of Congress.
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Independent observers see a similar pattern nationwide, including in the House, where Democrats need a net gain of 23 seats to take control of the lower chamber.
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Those differences have not been as pronounced as the discord that faced GOP leaders — largely emanating from their party's conservative flank — when Republicans controlled the lower chamber.
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But Democrats are now in control of the lower chamber, which voted 248-177 last week to approve the resolution, sending the measure over to the Senate.
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House Democrats, who control the lower chamber, are expected to pass the resolution and Schumer can force a vote on the Senate floor because it is privileged.
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Schiff took over as the committee's chairman in January after Democrats secured a sweeping victory in the November midterm elections, winning back control of the lower chamber.
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"That's not going to happen," Trump said multiple times during the meal, the Times reports, referring to the possibility of the GOP losing its lower-chamber majority.
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The legislation, which some Russian media have likened to an online "iron curtain," passed its first of three readings in the 450-seat lower chamber of parliament.
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The first snag came from House lawmakers, who noted that the Senate bill violated the constitutional requirement that all revenue-raising measures originate in the lower chamber.
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The president and House GOP leaders are trying to shepherd the American Health Care Act (AHCA) through the lower chamber amid fierce party infighting over its contents.
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The House is slightly more challenging since districts only have one representative, but half the seats in the lower chamber could also be effectively "reserved" for women.
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The House of Commons lower chamber, which had weeks of deliberations left, agreed the instant approval on Friday as part of measures to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee approved an annual intelligence policy bill on Tuesday, the same day that the House version of the legislation passed through the lower chamber.
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The narrow 217-213 vote is a victory for GOP leaders, who faced an uphill battle clearing the American Health Care Act (AHCA) in the lower chamber.
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With 85033 Republicans on board and all 193 Democrats demanding a solution in December, the idea of a DACA fix has majority support in the lower chamber.
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Estimates show a slight majority against legalization in the lower chamber and a larger majority against in the Senate, but undecided lawmakers could still swing the vote.
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But Pelosi also ushered ObamaCare through the lower chamber in 2009 and 2010, and she's since focused her energy touting the benefits of the law she championed.
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Democrats in the lower chamber are slated hold their leadership elections later this month, but jockeying for the positions is expected to heat up in coming days.
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Democrats need a net gain of 23 seats to win control of the lower chamber, and the president's party typically loses around 85033 seats in the midterms.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel (D-NY) told Vox he expects a Turkey sanctions bill to come to the floor next week in the lower chamber.
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They called him a thief, a conspirator, and a fraud, noting that 303 of the lower chamber deputies deciding Rousseff's fate are themselves being investigated for serious crimes.
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He would need more than one-third of the votes in the lower chamber to block impeachment, which he may not have if his coalition continue to crumble.
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Correction: A previous version of this article stated all members of the Virginia general assembly are up for re-election, when it is actually only the lower chamber.
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The leader of an influential group of conservatives on Friday said the House healthcare reform bill still doesn't have the votes to pass the lower chamber despite changes.
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A freedom of information request by The Economist to the House of Commons canteen shows that employees of Britain's lower chamber have a sweet tooth of their own.
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Fine Gael was expecting more than 30% of the vote and to emerge the largest party in the Dáil, Ireland's lower chamber of parliament, by a large margin.
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House lawmakers will explore more than a dozen driverless car bills next week, formally kicking off an effort in the lower chamber to craft major autonomous vehicle legislation.
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PiS, which has 235 seats in the 460-strong lower chamber and 63 in the 100-strong upper chamber, denies accusations that its moves go against democratic standards.
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The House's health care legislation had a tumultuous time getting passed this spring, though Ryan and GOP leadership helped guide the bill through the lower chamber in May.
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After the secret ballot, some lawmakers challenged the result with claims that it was unclear how many in the 200-seat lower chamber actually participated in the election.
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She is considered to be a rising star in the party and has been outspoken about a range of matters since being sworn in to the lower chamber.
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The final agreement reportedly does not include the House welfare-reform language, coming as a blow to conservatives who had pushed the provisions that passed the lower chamber.
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Although it faces slim odds of passing the lower chamber — the Senate bill also encountered unlikely chances of success — pro-net neutrality advocates are still holding out hope.
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If a blue wave materializes, GOP women could see their ranks shrink to somewhere between 10 and 15 members in the lower chamber, according to The Hill's analysis.
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Of more than 50 reforms recommended by McCaul's task force, for instance, 85033 have been incorporated into bills that are moving through the lower chamber, his office notes.
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Since Democrats took control of the House, there has been no shortage of bad legislation that has either been pushed through the lower chamber or advocated by progressives.
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Instead, the lower chamber will have its first votes of the week at 6:30 P.M. on Tuesday, and finish up its last set of votes on Thursday.
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The must-pass spending bill could be the last chance for Republicans to secure wall funding before Democrats take back the majority in the lower chamber in January.
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Jordan placed blame on current House leadership for not pursuing more stringent cuts to nondefense spending and for not doing more to marginalize Democrats in the lower chamber.
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The president's criticisms of the measure heightened the possibility that it would fail to garner the two-thirds majority needed to pass the lower chamber under suspension rules.
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In the lower chamber, Republicans will return to Washington this week to try once again to pass a compromise immigration measure worked out by conservative and centrist Republicans.
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On Wednesday, the lower chamber approved a bill to reopen the Treasury Department, IRS and Small Business Administration, among other federal agencies, with the help of eight Republicans.
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To take office, he needs to win votes of confidence in both houses of parliament and easily won the first in the lower chamber by 368 to 105.
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Dingell, the former dean of the House and longest-serving member in the lower chamber, died following a battle with cancer at the age of 92 on Thursday.
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It deals a major blow to Republicans who will lose their majority in the lower chamber and is a significant setback for President Donald Trump's agenda in Congress.
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The poll's results come as Democrats and Republicans prepare for November's midterm elections, when Republicans will defend their majority against a Democratic attempt to flip the lower chamber.
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Jucá said the government is working on an agreement between the Senate and lower chamber on the proposal which established a minimum retirement age among other unpopular changes.
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Waters, the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, is in line to take control of the panel if her party captures the lower chamber in November.
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If Democrats manage to flip the lower chamber or even the Senate, they could essentially rule out major legislation, as Republicans did during most of Barack Obama's administration.
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But the lower chamber then waited until mid-January to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate for a trial on whether to remove him from office.
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Republicans are viewed as more likely to retain the Senate than the House and Democratic leaders are projecting confidence that they will win the lower chamber of Congress.
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"If the [presidential] election were held this weekend, I'd have to say the right would win," Socialist Party lawmaker Osvaldo Andrade, president of Congress' lower chamber, told Reuters.
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Democrats in November flipped 40 House seats to secure a majority in the lower chamber, while Republicans picked up two seats in the Senate to expand their majority.
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This makes them more likely to pass the House, but they'd fare better in the GOP-controlled Senate if they had the support of Republicans in lower chamber.
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The lower chamber already passed the CHOICE Act in 2017, a much more conservative bill revamping Dodd-Frank that had no chance of making it through the Senate.
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With Democrats taking back control of the House, women are on track to head up at least six of the most influential committees in the lower chamber. Rep.
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The big picture: Democrats campaigned on health care as a major priority during the midterm elections, which helped them flip 40 seats and take control of the lower chamber.
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Now that the resolution has passed the Senate, it will go to the House of Representatives, where it overrides a similar resolution introduced in the lower chamber last month.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the lower chamber, said he opposed any foreign interference in US elections but blasted the Democrats in the same breath.
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The Speaker of Brazil's lower chamber of Congress, Rodrigo Maia who aims to stay in the job, said he intends to move ahead with the issue after Sunday's vote.
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WARSAW, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The Polish parliament's lower chamber appointed Grazyna Ancyparowicz and Eryk Lon to the central bank's rate-setting panel on Saturday, state news agency PAP reported.
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Ramos told Reuters he estimates that pension reform has the support of no more than 200 votes in the lower chamber, well short of the 308 needed to pass.
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At the time, we called the Democrats a "clear but narrow favourite" to regain control of the lower chamber of Congress, with a 65% chance of securing a majority.
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On Tuesday evening, the lower chamber handed Bolsonaro his first legislative defeat, overturning an executive order on state secrets and underscoring the resistance he faces in a fragmented Congress.
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But the chamber can reject other bills approved by the lower house, and the legislation can then only be enacted by a two-thirds majority of the lower chamber.
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But earlier this month, the office provided the House Administration Committee with details on taxpayer-funded settlements processed in the lower chamber just one day after they were requested.
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The education committee in Congress' lower chamber is due to vote later Tuesday on a bill that would lower costs for some students and limit profit-making in education.
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"The situation is becoming more serious ... as tension and threats are already palpable in the Niger Delta Region and amongst the beneficiaries of the program," said the lower chamber.
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All this even though Mitch McConnell made it clear that he wasn't interested in the Senate taking on Obamacare repeal after it bombed so spectacularly in the lower chamber.
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As the top-ranking House Democrat, Pelosi would regain the speakership if her party takes control of the lower chamber, though she is likely to face a leadership challenge.
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Two Republicans also say they will vote against the bill, leaving it short of the 60 votes necessary to pass it if it can get through the lower chamber.
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The Senate had made some changes to an earlier version of the House-passed bill, which required it to be sent back to the lower chamber for final approval.
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The Hill's Mike Lillis, Scott Wong, and Lisa Hagen report: House Democrats are thinking the once unthinkable: They have a real shot at winning the lower chamber next month.
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In 2007, after Democrats took control of the House, they adopted a pay-go rule, which governed legislation moving through the lower chamber while Pelosi held the Speaker's gavel.
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The legislation's passage in the lower chamber comes amid multiple investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and any ties between members of Trump's campaign and Moscow.
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California is home to 85033 of the most competitive House races this November, as Democrats try to overcome a 23-seat deficit and retake control of the lower chamber.
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Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) says he would only serve one term as House minority leader if Democrats do not retake the majority in the lower chamber in 2018.
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If senators recommend amendments, the bill will be sent back to the House of Commons lower chamber for review, and would then have to go back to the Senate.
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After the Senate passed its sanctions bill last month, House members subsequently flagged that it violated the constitutional requirement that all revenue-raising measures originate in the lower chamber.
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As Phase III moves closer to the House, Pelosi said she's hoping it wins enough support from her caucus to move it through the lower chamber by unanimous consent.
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Sensenbrenner become the 28500th House Republican to announce plans to retire this year as GOP incumbents adjust to life in the minority after losing the lower chamber last year.
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House members left Washington 10 days ago, but the lower chamber could quickly pass the bill without requiring them to return if all 430 members agree to do so.
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House Democrats' campaign arm is launching new online tools aimed at providing national resources for grass-roots efforts to help take back control of the lower chamber in 2018.
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House Democrats mocked Republicans after the lower chamber passed legislation to overhaul the tax code on Thursday, implying that they would pay for the vote at the ballot box.
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The lower chamber passed a War Powers Resolution by a vote of 224-194, which would limit the President's ability to use military action against Iran without congressional approval.
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The Commission said its move was not linked to the new Polish draft law which has now cleared the lower chamber of parliament in which PiS has a majority.
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After Clinton was impeached by the House in 1998, Republicans — who held the majority in the lower chamber — managed to keep it in the election that followed in 2000.
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House lawmakers have characterized Burr's legislation as dead on arrival in the lower chamber, where there is a larger group of reform advocates — but Burr dismissed those concerns Tuesday.
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Of the five, Collins is the only one who did not sign onto a resolution condemning the House impeachment effort and calling for a vote in the lower chamber (Politico).
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In 22006 of the 250 mid-terms held since 250, when the House of Representatives was fixed at 235 members, the president's party has lost ground in the lower chamber.
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The Democratic-controlled lower chamber voted 245-182 to approve a resolution that would terminate the national emergency, sending the measure over to the Senate, where its fate remains uncertain.
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Leading House Democrat Steny Hoyer on Tuesday said his party may not seat Harris if the election remains in question when Democrats take control of the lower chamber in January.
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Restive rank-and-file House Democrats, after briefly considering a move to challenge all three of the top leaders in the lower chamber, settled instead on a challenge to Rep.
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Finally, visitors are led down to the lower chamber, where they enter a room with an interactive forest that rains petals on them and sprouts new trees as they approach.
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The lawmakers say it's well too early to predict whether they have a shot at winning control of the lower chamber, something they've failed to do the past four elections.
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The lower chamber of the French parliament voted on a proposal to write into the constitution the power to strip French nationality from dual citizens who are convicted of terrorism.
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With Democrats now controlling the lower chamber of Congress, the White House is about to be hit with a torrent of document demands and subpoenas from a half dozen committees.
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Pelosi told The San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board that forcing Trump to release his tax returns "is one of the first things we'd do" if Democrats control the Lower Chamber.
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Because Democrats are overwhelmingly opposed to the bill, judging it too lax, Ryan and GOP leaders don't have the 218 votes needed to move the bill through the lower chamber.
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Due to the presidential election, the lower chamber is out for seven weeks, starting in mid-July, to allow for the party conventions and for members to campaign back home.
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Democrats have hoped that a collapse of support for Trump could put them in striking distance of the 2628 House seats they'd need to flip control of the lower chamber.
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Democrats see Faso's district as one of many that are needed to retake the lower chamber of Congress, where they hope to retake 23 seats to claim the House majority.
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Pollsters like Lake see the potential for the abortion fight to boost Democratic candidates among female voters in suburban House districts — which could help flip control of the lower chamber.
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But after seven months, Ryan is on track to be the first Speaker in modern times to fail to pass an official budget for his party through the lower chamber.
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House Republicans led an investigation into the FBI's handling of the Russia and Clinton probes that was quietly shuttered last year, shortly before Democrats took control of the lower chamber.
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The lower chamber on June 21 narrowly approved in a 213-85033 vote a five-year farm bill that would impose new work requirements on people who receive food stamps.
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Pelosi told The San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board that forcing Trump to release his tax returns "is one of the first things we'd do" if Democrats control the Lower Chamber.
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Opposition lawmakers, who have warned that up to 150,000 jobs could be lost this year, approved the bill on Thursday in the lower chamber of Congress, where they hold control.
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Thirty-eight percent said they would like the GOP to keep control of the lower chamber, while nine percent said they did not know or did not provide an answer.
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Hurd said he left a job in the CIA to run for Congress in 28503 to help give the lower chamber leadership in areas related to intelligence and national security.
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TV, Michael Blake vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee said he thought there was "no way" that Republicans would be able to preserve their majority in the Lower Chamber.
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The lower chamber on June 21 narrowly approved in a 213-211 vote a five-year farm bill that would impose new work requirements on people who receive food stamps.
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Democrats are hoping to win a net gain of 23 House seats this November to retake control of the lower chamber, while facing a two-seat gap in the Senate.
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During a briefing on Thursday, Hensarling told reporters the lower chamber is insisting on negotiations in an effort to add roughly 30 measures to the bill the Senate passed Wednesday.
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Mr. Cunha, the speaker of Brazil's lower chamber of Congress, postponed addressing the request while focusing his attention on trying to oust Ms. Rousseff, a bitter political opponent of his.
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The bill faces two more votes in the lower chamber, before it is voted on in the upper house of parliament and then signed into law by President Vladimir Putin.
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The House of Commons, the lower chamber, also voted late on Tuesday in favor of an amendment ruling out a no-deal Brexit, though that measure is not legally binding.
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He's already on a leadership track in the lower chamber, but he's also not ruling out a shot at the Senate or the governor's mansion — should the opportunity someday arise.
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Brexit minister David Davis said the government would seek to overturn the changes when the bill is presented for approval to the lower chamber, where May has a slim majority.
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The State Assembly has been slower to publicly embrace the bill, though lawmakers there seemed likely to pass it as well, given the dominance of Democrats in the lower chamber.
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Even with the Senate commitment, there was no such indication from the House -- leaving senators relying on hope that the lower chamber could follow suit should senators pass a bill.
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K Street sources told The Hill that the bill faces a growing chance of dying in the House unless senators agree to go to a conference with the lower chamber.
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The House passed a year-end tax package on Thursday that addresses several Republican priorities, in one of the GOP's last acts as the majority party in the lower chamber.
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Nearly every Democrat in the lower chamber is expected to vote in favor of the articles, which will make Trump just the third president in U.S. history to be impeached.
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In that survey, 22019 percent of respondents said they did not believe the House should consider impeaching Trump, while just 32 percent said the lower chamber should consider the move.
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The poll comes as the Senate is slated to reveal its own tax-reform legislation, which is expected to differ from the bill unveiled last week in the lower chamber.
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With roughly 550 House bills ending 2016 stuck in Senate limbo, lawmakers will need reintroduce their legislation next year and have it clear the lower chamber for a second time.
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He urged senators to put the bill to a vote in the Senate plenary this week so that the lower chamber can deal with it before the year is over.
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The lower chamber will also take up a petition in favor of Trump's visit to the U.K., which surpassed the necessary 100,000 signatures to warrant a government response on Monday.
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Two more PiS-backed candidates to join the MPC in February - Grazyna Ancyparowicz and Eryk Lon - are expected to be appointed by the lower chamber of parliament later this week.
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Members of the House have argued that the Senate approach didn't go far enough to protect potential victims, compared to the one the lower chamber green-lit earlier this year.
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Simply fill the lower chamber with boiling water, the upper with espresso-grind coffee, and place on a medium flame until pressure causes the water to filter through the coffee grounds.
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Feingold asked senators to vote in favor of hearing witnesses during the trial, noting that the House was unable to hear from firsthand witnesses during the hearings in the lower chamber.
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Simply fill the lower chamber with boiling water, the upper with espresso-grind coffee, and place on a medium flame until pressure causes the water to filter through the coffee grounds.
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As president, he has yet to earn a majority of the public's support and in the last national election, his party suffered a decisive defeat, losing the lower chamber of Congress.
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Last September, a lower chamber of the ECHR ruled that U.K. surveillance practices violated human rights law but did not find bulk collection itself to be in violation of the convention.
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But to put him on trial, the charges against the president would have to be approved by two-thirds of the lower chamber of Congress, where Temer's coalition retains a majority.
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Republicans currently hold 22019 seats in the House, meaning Democrats need to flip at least 25 seats in the 2018 mid-term elections to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
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No single party has so far emerged as a clear winner in the lower chamber vote, setting the stage for further uncertainty and political wrangling that could stretch on for months.
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McConnell's dilemma is similar to what House Speaker Paul Ryan faced earlier this year when he struggled to get enough votes to get the House Republican bill through the lower chamber.
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The original version of the AHCA stalled in the lower chamber six weeks ago, with Republican leaders pulling the measure once it became clear it lacked the needed votes to pass.
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The Speaker of Brazil's lower chamber of Congress, Rodrigo Maia who aims to stay in the job, said on Wednesday he intends to move ahead with the issue after Sunday's vote.
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When House Republicans debated healthcare reform earlier this year, some of their Senate colleagues said privately that they thought it might be better if the legislation died in the lower chamber.
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Half of those surveyed, 50 percent, said that they expect Republicans to maintain control of the House, while 44 percent said they thought that Democrats would likely retake the lower chamber.
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House Republicans were able to torture the policy into something that won enough votes from the far-right and centrist wings of their conference to pass it in the lower chamber.
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Collins said she liked the revisions that appeared in the House bill, which passed the lower chamber last week and differs from the bill currently making its way through the Senate.
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Those three states have a number of closely-watched House and Senate races next month, including races that could decide whether Democrats obtain a majority of seats in the lower chamber.
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Washington (CNN)A leadership shakeup is coming to the House of Representatives after Democrats won enough seats to take back the lower chamber of Congress from Republicans in this year's midterms.
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Democrats picked up 16 Republican-held seats, giving them control of 50 out of the 100 seats in the lower chamber, with three more GOP-held districts likely headed for recounts.
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Addressing reporters in the Capitol — a rare event during the long pre-election recess — the California liberal stopped short of saying the Democrats will win back control of the lower chamber.
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While supporters of the bill are calling for immediate passage in the House to preserve its delicate bipartisan support, the lower chamber is loath to simply advance the Senate-passed measure.
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Those three states have a number of closely watched House and Senate races next month, including races that could decide whether Democrats obtain a majority of seats in the lower chamber.
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That means Ryan and his leadership team will need to rely on dozens of Democratic votes to help get the spending deal through the lower chamber to avert a government shutdown.
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If ANO's 78 lawmakers were allied with 15 from CSSD in parliament, the support of 15 additional Communist votes would give the government a majority in the 200-strong lower chamber.
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Senators Mike Braun and Joni Ernst have introduced the Define Waters of the United States Act, which is similar to legislation introduced in the lower chamber by Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler.
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After losing the lower chamber in a 2010 clobbering, they lost additional seats in 2014 to give the Republicans a 58-member advantage, the GOP's largest majority since the Great Depression.
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Opioids After passing dozens of bills to alleviate the opioid crisis last week, the lower chamber is expected to take up additional bills aimed at tackling the crisis in coming days.
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New bills are expected to be introduced in the coming year and House Democrats will likely push to get a bill that tackles foreign lobbying regulations out of the lower chamber.
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Yet Clyburn made waves over the weekend when he said that Democrats should clean house in their leadership ranks if the party fails to retake the lower chamber in November's midterms.
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Leading Wednesday's procession were House Clerk Cheryl Johnson, who's in charge of record-keeping for the lower chamber, and House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, who heads the body's law enforcement.
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The head of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said on Thursday that there is little appetite in the lower chamber right now for a hike in the federal gasoline tax.
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But if the impeachment push fails to pick up any Republican support in the lower chamber, then it's unlikely any Senate Republicans will back the call for a lengthy Senate trial.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who manages the floor schedule, has said that the lower chamber will take up multiple bills to address the opioid crisis in May. Sen.
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Conyers, who until Tuesday was the longest-serving current member of the lower chamber, announced his immediate retirement earlier in the day during a phone call to a local radio station.
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The lower chamber early in the afternoon advanced the first of two year-end funding bundles, passing 297-120 a domestic spending package with money for health, transportation, education and more.
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"We agreed there will no consideration of an amnesty for slush funds or any other electoral crime," he said, flanked by the leaders of the Senate and lower chamber of Congress.
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Speaker Paul Ryan announced last week that the lower chamber would alter the rules to force offices to complete the training, which was previously optional and rarely required by Hill offices.
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President Michel Temer, however, is expected to line veto the diesel provision inserted by the lower chamber because it did not cut the price by the 46 cents per liter agreed upon.
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But the resolution — which can pass with a simple majority, or 218 votes — is intended to provide clarity on the procedures that the lower chamber plans to follow as the inquiry continues.
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WARSAW, June 10 (Reuters) - Poland's lower chamber of parliament appointed on Friday former rate-setter Adam Glapinski as the country's new central bank governor for a six-year term, voting results showed.
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Madrid's parliamentary mathematics has rarely been in his favor, with a 176-seat majority needed in a lower chamber of 350, and his own PSOE holding just 84 seats on its own.
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Such a sweeping proposal would likely spark opposition from Republican members of the house who are keen on innovation, and would likely struggle to gather enough votes to pass the lower chamber.
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The last four elections have not been kind to Democrats in the House (and that's putting it mildly), but it's hard to blame Pelosi, who is widely beloved in the lower chamber.
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Democrats hoping that the controversial bill's passage in the House will help them take the lower chamber next year are now looking for any signs of voter pushback in the special elections.
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Damian Collins, chair of the committee which is investigating the use of data and digital adverts in the referendum, brought the motion to parliament, and it was passed by the lower chamber.
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The House is expected to vote Thursday afternoon on the GOP's healthcare bill, which has been stalled in the lower chamber ever since leaders yanked it off the floor six weeks ago.
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"We believe we should be able to go through 55,000 (tax defaulters) before the middle of this year, June 30th," Fowler told the committee in the House of Representatives, parliament's lower chamber.
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Republican senators say the House bill will have to undergo substantial revision if it ever passes the lower chamber, and they have serious doubts about whether the House will accept those changes.
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The Speaker is the arbiter of procedural disputes in the House of Commons, parliament's lower chamber, and has the power to decide which challenges to the government's plans are allowed to proceed.
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House Republicans are amplifying an old but frequently reliable script as they fight to win back the lower chamber in 2020: Democrats, they contend, are simply too extreme to lead the country.
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In 2010, after enacting ObamaCare and passing climate-change legislation through the House, the Democrats were walloped at the polls, losing the lower chamber and cutting the Blue Dog membership in half.
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The Republicans currently hold 22019 seats in the lower chamber — their largest majority since the Great Depression — and the Democrats would have to flip 30 of those to reclaim the Speaker's gavel.
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The House is going first, hoping to quickly pass a repeal-and-replace package and build some momentum for Senate action, but GOP fissures have already started forming in the lower chamber.
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Advocates believe it will get a vote in the lower chamber as soon as Thursday as lawmakers aim to wrap up their work this week before leaving town for the holiday recess.
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The lower chamber is slated to finish consideration of a $220006 billion package that includes funding for commerce, justice, science, agriculture, interior, military construction, veterans affairs, transportation, and housing and urban development.
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Two immigration bills that call for major changes to immigration law — including allowing detained parents to be with their children — don't appear to have the votes to pass the lower chamber. Sen.
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For the top court to put him on trial, the charges would have to be authorized by two thirds of the lower chamber of Congress, where his allies are still a majority.
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And even if a bill passes the lower chamber, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, is unlikely to let his troops take a politically noxious vote during a high-stakes election cycle.
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With the Five Star Movement only garnering around 230 seats in the lower chamber, short of the 316 majority threshold, it is thus imperative that Di Maio finds partners during the process.
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But the lower chamber must vote on the bill again after the Senate parliamentarian ruled that two provisions in the House legislation were not compliant with budget rules for the reconciliation process.
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The measure is expected to boost federal budget revenues by 100 billion roubles ($1.52 billion), Medvedev told the lower chamber of Russia's parliament as he reported on the performance of his cabinet.
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The Senate will likely take up whatever short-term aviation bill the House ends up passing this week, despite concerns in the lower chamber over the current measure, said one GOP chairman.
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House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey said on Friday that there's no talk of another continuing resolution in the lower chamber, and she's optimistic about fully funding the government before the Christmas break.
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If the party gains control of the lower chamber of Congress, several Democratic lawmakers have said they plan to subpoena as many documents and witnesses from the White House as they can.
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In the House, a cohort of conservatives are reluctant to vote for major funding packages, a political reality that often forces Republican leaders to turn to Democrats in the lower chamber as well.
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The lower chamber in December voted to impeach Trump following an inquiry into allegations that he leveraged nearly $400 million in military aid to get Ukraine to announce investigations into his political rival.
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Speculation has grown over whether Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House, will enter the open Senate race or look to continue to climb in the leadership ranks in the lower chamber.
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The idea is to reform the Senate—making the lower chamber decisively more powerful than the upper one—and to bring back many decision-making powers from the regions to the central government.
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Faultlines in the PSL became clear on Wednesday as Bolsonaro asked allies to back his son Eduardo to become chief party whip in the lower chamber, trying to depose Bivar loyalist Delegado Waldir.
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Everybody is waiting to see if House leadership and the White House can convince enough Republican moderates to support the American Health Care Act and get the bill out of the lower chamber.
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Many political analysts agree the Senate battle will be close, but few think Democrats can pick up the nearly 30 seats they would need to return them to power in the lower chamber.
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Rota 2030 was voted on by Brazil's lower chamber on Wednesday, by the Senate on Thursday and then signed by Temer, who also attended the inauguration of the Sao Paulo International Motor Show.
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Another 22019 percent say they want control in the lower chamber to be split between the two parties, while more than 20 percent of respondents didn't have a preference between the two parties.
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The House speaker will be the highest position of power for the Democratic Party in the next Congress after Democrats won back control of the lower chamber in the midterm elections last week.
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But in the end, an overwhelming majority of House Democrats sided with Pelosi, moving the bill to an easy 300-128 vote in the lower chamber, and advancing the package to Trump's desk.
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During that initial summit, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell laid out the "biggest asks" needed to protect the Senate majority, and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy did the same for the lower chamber.
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Maxine Waters is the Wall Street sheriff the people deserve Ex-GOP congressman heads to investment bank MORE (R-Texas) urged the lower chamber to repeal the CFPB guidance as soon as possible.
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Ryan sought to distance the House from the Senate GOP's failure, noting that Republicans in the lower chamber passed their own version of legislation to repeal and replace the law earlier this year.
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Trump, however, downplayed the loss in the lower chamber on Wednesday, stating that he feels pleased with the results in the Senate, while also knocking the GOP members who failed to "embrace" him.
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Obama played a visible role in helping Democrats take back control of the lower chamber, having provided key endorsements, hit the campaign trail and raised funds in the party's efforts to flip seats.
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She could be in line for the speakership if House Republicans take back the House in one of the coming campaign cycles, giving her enough reason to stick around in the lower chamber.
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The lower chamber passed passed its $717 billion defense policy bill for fiscal 2019 in a 351-85033 vote in May while the Senate easily passed its $716 billion defense bill last week.
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Kicis, who is urging a "mixed" agenda that will keep voters happy, aims to become chair of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs committee that is key to passing legislation in the lower chamber.
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This can be done via secondary legislation, known as a Statutory Instrument, and would need the approval of both parliament's lower chamber, the House of Commons, and upper chamber, the House of Lords.
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When Democrats claimed over two-dozen seats in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, clawing their way back to controlling the lower chamber of Congress, it was in many ways a major victory.
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This week, she marked the first 150 days of the Democrats' House majority by rattling off a slew of proposals already passed by the lower chamber that now sit idle in the Senate.
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While the blueprint is likely to be the starting point for a tax-reform bill in the lower chamber, it's not clear that Senate Republicans would want to rubber-stamp the House bill.
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McConnell is expected to hold a vote to acquit Trump should the president ultimately be impeached in the House rather than move to dismiss any articles of impeachment sent from the lower chamber.
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"There's no question that you'd see a map that elected more Democratic members," Matt Angle, a veteran Democratic operative in the state, said of the prospect a Democratic majority in the lower chamber.
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That means Ryan and his leadership team will need to rely on at least dozens of Democratic votes to help get the spending deal through the lower chamber to avert a government shutdown.
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Although these parties have joined forces in the lower chamber of parliament when filling some posts, reaching any form of government cooperation deal would be difficult due to internal opposition within the parties.
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K Street sources told The Hill that the measure faces growing opposition in the House, but Senate Democrats backing the bill have opposed reopening the bill after sending it to the lower chamber.
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The comments from one of President Trump's former top aides come as Senate Republicans prepare their own tax-reform bill that is expected to differ from the legislation currently in the lower chamber.
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The total doesn't include resolutions only taken up by the lower chamber, or concurrent resolutions, which aren't sent to President Obama's desk Many of the proposals are currently stalled at the committee level.
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At one point, Pence — who served in the lower chamber for a dozen years — quipped that House Republicans were his "favorite group," which prompted some laughs and applause from members in the room.
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With her Green Party days in the past, Sinema is now a member of the Blue Dog Coalition in the House — a collection of some of the most conservative Democrats in the lower chamber.
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Democrats want to oppose Trump's policies they consider dangerous, but look for ways to cooperate with the GOP to tout progress to the moderate and independent voters who helped them regain the lower chamber.
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Conservatives in the lower chamber typically take their cues from Trump on hot-button issues and don't seem likely to support the health care fixes in sufficient numbers if the White House is opposed.
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But as currency traders have discovered, a little knowledge of the protocols used by the 650 elected members of the lower chamber - the House of Commons - can win them a useful edge over rivals.
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But for Mississippi Republicans, the ouster of Mr. Eaton is only good news, granting them a three-fifths majority in the lower chamber, the threshold needed to pass revenue-related bills over Democratic opposition.
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In Utah, one of the most Republican states in the country, the lower chamber has passed a bill mandating RCV in elections, though it failed to get out of committee in the state senate.
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Democrats are aiming to pick up 23 seats in the House to win a majority in the lower chamber, something political analysts have said is more likely than gaining an edge in the Senate.
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If that occurs and the Supreme Court votes to accept the case, Temer would be suspended and the speaker of the lower chamber of Congress, Rodrigo Maia, would take over as head of state.
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Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party holds 151 of the 342 seats in the lower chamber of parliament, short of a majority, but is expected to form a coalition government with smaller parties.
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The liberal party appeared to have won control of Congress's lower chamber during Tuesday's election, marking a triumph that gives the Democrats real levers of power to check President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers.
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So Democrats are calling to attach an immigration bill to some kind of must-pass spending or budget bill to ensure that it gets a vote in the lower chamber and sees Trump's signature.
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" In an interview Tuesday, McMorris Rodgers downplayed the idea of a House GOP glass ceiling, calling the lower chamber "a farm team where people always come to get experience to run for higher office.
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Democrats ran on enthusiasm for health care and ObamaCare to gain control of the House, eight years after they lost control of the lower chamber largely because the law was unpopular at that time.
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If Republican candidates fail to put their constituents on alert and are unable to convince them of what is in store if Democrats take back the House, then the lower chamber is already lost.
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Critics of the $26 billion T-Mobile-Sprint merger are pushing House Democrats to take a closer look at the mega-deal when they take control of the lower chamber in the new Congress.
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That will probably go: the LDP is likely to win an outright majority of seats in the upper house, as it already has in the lower chamber, for the first time in 27 years.
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On Thursday, twelve years later, she's poised to take the gavel once more, following a midterm wave that will give Democrats control of the lower chamber for the first time in nearly a decade.
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Macri's government is confident it can corral the votes needed to win approval even though the opposition holds a majority in the Senate and Macri holds only the largest minority in the lower chamber.
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The shutdown is likely to last for at least several more days after GOP leadership in the House said Thursday they don't expect any votes to be held in the lower chamber this week.
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While Clinton managed to approve legislation and work through an agenda throughout his impeachment process, Trump has said multiple times he will not work with Congress while the Democratic-controlled lower chamber investigates him.
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In an interview with John Catsimatidis on New York radio station AM 2628, Lewandowski said that Democrats have some "good opportunities" to win the 28503 seats the party needs to retake the lower chamber.
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Republicans were able to fend off major losses in the 2016 election in an election that saw Democrats only flip six seats, barely chipping away at the GOP's historic majority in the lower chamber.
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Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said last week that there is still little appetite in the lower chamber for a hike in the gas tax right now.
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The Senate's health committee announced Tuesday it will not take up a major House-passed biomedical research package known as 21st Century Cures, dealing a major blow to leaders in the lower chamber. Sen.
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ABUJA, June 9 (Reuters) - Nigeria's presidency is expected to sign the 2017 budget into law next week, the speaker of the lower chamber of parliament, Yakubu Dogara, and two presidency sources said on Friday.
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Republicans held a 51-85033 margin in the House before the recount, and a victory by Simonds would have given Democrats 50 seats in the lower chamber for the first time in two decades.
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Henry Cabrera, the vice president of the house of deputies, said the Senate is expected to pass a bill late on Friday and the lower chamber will give its green light on Saturday afternoon.
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At the start of the week, one of them defected to an opposition party in clear view of the British leader, as he stood to address the legislature's lower chamber, the House of Commons.
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Bim Afolami, a loyal Conservative lawmaker in Westminster's lower chamber, the House of Commons, acknowledged ahead of the meetings that the prime minister might not be hoping to achieve a "huge amount" in Luxembourg.
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The measure had been expected to pass the House with at least a two-thirds majority since it was considered under a process used in the lower chamber for legislation with broad, bipartisan support.
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With the left's 14% and the agrarians' almost 8%, the fragmented opposition would have roughly 50% of the vote, but PiS would still have a majority in the Sejm, the lower chamber of parliament.
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Pelosi did not threaten to rescind Trump's invitation, but she alone controls the lower chamber, and the short timeline she established for ending the shutdown suggests she could take that step by the weekend.
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House Democrats on Wednesday impeached President Trump for abusing his power, the first of two impeachment articles the lower chamber is poised to adopt in historic votes alleging the president is unfit for office.
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If senators make any changes to the House bill, the legislation will require another vote in the lower chamber, guaranteeing it doesn't get to President Obama's desk until after the deadline: http://bit.ly/29hOTg9.
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The Republicans not only won control of the Senate in 2014, but they picked up 13 additional seats in the House, giving the GOP their largest lower-chamber majority in more than 80 years.
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The ads will target states that are home to some of the most competitive House races of the cycle as Democrats look to flip 24 seats to regain a majority in the lower chamber.
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Some House members will still be involved in making the case for the articles of impeachment as part of the trial, but the lower chamber won't be the focal point of the action anymore.
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Republicans in the lower chamber have also taken issue with the Senate bill's preservation of a process through which the federal government can dismantle a failing bank before it can cause a credit freeze.
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GOP lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee, and other key Republicans in the lower chamber, emerged from a strategy meeting in the Capitol basement Tuesday expressing confidence in their readiness for Wednesday's impeachment hearing.
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Democrats have sought documents from the White House, including Pence, in connection with the inquiry, but the administration has refused to furnish them, accusing the lower chamber of engaging in an "illegitimate" and partisan effort.
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Waldir Oliveira, the head of Bolsonaro's own PSL party in the lower house, said on Friday that the bill would not pass Brazil's lower chamber unless a proposal to reform military pensions was also included.
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Earlier this week, the lower chamber in Congress, controlled by Lopez Obrador's MORENA party, voted to pass a bill that would classify tax evasion of at least 7.8 million pesos ($406,513) as a serious crime.
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But the House of Lords last week challenged May's refusal to remain in a customs union with the EU after Brexit, and the lower chamber is expected to hold a follow-up vote next month.
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If impeachment fails to get two thirds of the votes in the lower chamber, some of Rousseff's opponents hope Brazil's top electoral court will annul her election for allegedly being funded by Petrobras bribe money.
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The spinoff proposal is generally more preferred by Republicans in the lower chamber, where the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is preparing to unveil a long-term FAA bill soon that will include spinoff language.
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The head of the House GOP's campaign arm will step down from his post after losing control of the lower chamber on Tuesday, according to a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). Rep.
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D.) says the House has to act first on a short-term aviation bill, but he hopes the lower chamber passes legislation to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for as long as six months.
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This can be done via secondary legislation, known as a Statutory Instrument, or SI, and would need the approval of both parliament's lower chamber, the House of Commons, and upper chamber, the House of Lords.
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Though Republicans overall are optimistic about Trump's reelection prospects, they see holding the Senate, where they have a 220006-2202 edge, as crucial given the shape of races for the White House and lower chamber.
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That strategy, backers argue, would demonstrate to voters that they're making good on the campaign promises that won them the lower chamber last year — and remain focused on those bread-and-butter issues looking ahead.
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Amash, a member of the Freedom Caucus and the Liberty Caucus, was elected to the House in 22019 as part of the anti-establishment libertarian wave that returned control of the lower chamber to Republicans.
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GOP leaders stressed to the rank-and-file during a conference meeting Friday morning that they should focus on the bills that have made it through the lower chamber but await action in the Senate.
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NDAA conference While it hasn't been scheduled yet, House GOP leadership said it's possible the lower chamber could vote to go to conference with the Senate on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2019.
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Spending bills have screeched to a halt in the lower chamber as a result of explosive policy debates on issues as varied as LGBT protections and gun violence, the Zika virus, and Planned Parenthood funding.
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The House also adopted a resolution that requires each employing office in the lower chamber to adopt anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policies, which will go into effect immediately without needing action by the Senate.
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News of the ads come as Democrats look to expand their majority in the House in 2020, while Republicans aim to take back the majority in the lower chamber despite a recent wave of retirements.
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Tensions ran high during the legislative debate — which lasted well into the morning — with some members of the lower chamber being barred from the Argentine Senate and the vice president hurling insults at a senator.
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King's amendment didn't make it into the final farm bill in 2013, and the legislation being worked on by the Senate now is likely to be vastly different from what the lower chamber is considering.
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But McConnell has refused to hold Senate votes on House-passed bills unless Trump approves, and on Wednesday batted down a fourth attempt from Democrats to vote on a funding bill form the lower chamber.
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News Analysis NEW DELHI — Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, is returning to power by an astonishing margin — defying expectations, leaving the political opposition gutted and securing nearly two-thirds of the lower chamber of Parliament.
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A small blue flame compels Scotch and other ingredients in the lower chamber of a vacuum coffee maker to ascend to an upper chamber filled with fruit tea, as dry-ice fog carpets the table.
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He noted that the House did not subpoena Bolton — the lower chamber asked him to testify but he refused on instructions from the White House — and insisted that calling witnesses would set a bad precedent.
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Bercow steps down from the job of moderating debate in Britain's occasionally rowdy lower chamber after a decade on Thursday, the day Britain had been due to leave the European Union before the latest extension.
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The trade agreement, designed to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, was also passed in the lower chamber last month after negotiations between the administration and lawmakers, the day after the president was impeached.
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While the Burr-Feinstein efforts have proved divisive, the McCaul-Warner legislation was introduced last week with a plethora of bipartisan co-sponsors, including seven in the upper chamber and 28503 in the lower chamber.
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Top Republicans in the lower chamber are considering waiving a rule requiring bills to be posted for three days before it can be considered on the House floor, allowing them to pass the legislation Thursday.
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Trump's relationship with Pelosi has been tumultuous since the start of the year, when the top Democrat reclaimed control of the lower chamber following a resounding victory for House Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections.
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He even held a party for House Republicans in the White House Rose Garden when the lower chamber of Congress narrowly passed a proposal that slashed more than $800 billion from Medicaid over 10 years.
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Legislatures where Democrats or Republicans hold slim majorities include the state senates in Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Nevada, New York and Washington, along with single-digit lower chamber majorities in Connecticut, Maine, New Mexico and Washington.
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"Trump's cancellation of a meeting with Putin is another [instance of] Twitter anti-diplomacy," said Leonid Slutsky, a Russian member of parliament who chairs the foreign affairs committee in the Duma, the lower chamber of parliament.
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According to multiple media reports, the procedure to obtain the documents was attended by the serjeant at arms, an official responsible for maintaining order in the House of Commons, the lower chamber of the U.K. parliament.
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Any changes in the Senate to the current bill would require subsequent approval in the lower chamber, delaying a reform process economists consider an urgent priority to stabilize Brazil's public finances and kickstart an economic recovery.
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"Neither the Polish Sejm (the country's lower chamber of parliament), nor the Lithuanian Sejm took the decision to start the war," said the head the influential Church, resurgent since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
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In a carefully worded article for the Telegraph newspaper, Chris Grayling, the leader of the House of Commons lower chamber of parliament, said the European Union was heading toward further integration that Britain should not follow.
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The Supreme Court will meet on Wednesday to decide on the rules of the impeachment process that was launched against Rousseff in December by her political archenemy in the lower chamber of Congress, Speaker Eduardo Cunha.
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By comparison, current President Michel Temer's Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), for decades a major force in governing coalitions across the political spectrum, is expected shrink to fourth place in the lower chamber with just 33 seats.
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Washington (CNN)The main super PAC defending House Republicans has more than $15 million in its arsenal to spend in the final weeks of what looks to be an increasingly tenuous hold on the lower chamber.
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The parliamentary inquiry's recommendations on Funai will add momentum to a constitutional amendment before the lower chamber that would remove from the executive branch the final word on land dispute decisions and give it to Congress.
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Drivers, users and even the speaker of the lower chamber spoke out against the bill that gives cities more power over online ride-hailing services, particularly by classifying them as public transport - not a private service.
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A survey of the lower chamber completed last week by Arko Advice consultancy, however, found that 83 percent of the 201 lawmakers surveyed from 25 parties do not believe pension reform will be passed this year.
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Earlier, the lower chamber entrusted oversight of the police force to Zdenek Ondracek, former member of a Communist-era special unit which tried to crush the peaceful 1989 uprising that helped to bring down Communist rule.
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House seats held by Republicans generally have significantly lower foreign-born populations than those held by Democrats, a likely indication of why the two parties are so far apart on immigration — especially in the lower chamber.
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The bill will now go to the House of Lords — Parliament's upper house — for further debate on Wednesday, although this is unlikely to derail the decision made by MPs (Members of Parliament) in the lower chamber.
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The lower chamber passed an amended version of the Senate-passed continuing resolution just ahead of their Christmas recess that would provide $5.7 billion in border wall and security funding and $8.7 in emergency disaster relief.
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The final week of the midterm election has seen a flurry of last-minute, behind-the-scenes jockeying in House leadership races, even though it's unclear which party will control the lower chamber after Election Day.
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But the administration was proceeding on the assumption that legislation based on the Senate bill, when it was passed, would be able to clear the lower chamber with the backing of most Democrats and some Republicans.
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Democrats point to the historical trend that the party of the incumbent president typically loses seats in midterm elections, though it would still be an uphill battle for them to regain control of the lower chamber.
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Leading House Democrats, weeks away from taking over the majority in the lower chamber, are demanding records and information from the Trump administration's rollbacks of numerous climate change policies at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Rep.
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There aren't enough GOP-held toss-up seats to win back the majority, so the Democratic Party will need to tap into districts like Garrett's in order to have a shot at capturing the lower chamber.
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As chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Nunes has fought tooth and nail against allowing the lower chamber to conduct a full-throated Watergate-style investigation into what kind of interference occurred in the 2016 election.
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An outsourcing bill will be put to a vote this week in the Senate and merged with another proposal from the lower chamber, so that it can be quickly sent to Temer to sign into law.
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Due to differences between the Senate bill and the version passed by the House on April 245, the Senate measure will be sent back to the lower chamber so it can vote on the amended bill.
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The decree, which was approved by the lower chamber of Congress on Wednesday, allows the government to waive fiscal spending limits so it can resort to funds needed to contain the epidemic and fight the virus.
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If House Democrats -- who now hold a majority in the lower chamber of Congress -- decide to make use of their subpoena power to target the NRA, that could create another headache for the gun rights group.
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Maxine Waters is the Wall Street sheriff the people deserve Ex-GOP congressman heads to investment bank MORE (R-Texas) said he's willing to work with Crapo on a version that could pass the lower chamber.
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The move could strike a blow to GOP fundraising efforts in the lower chamber, pushing more money away from House candidates and toward the Senate, where the GOP has a better shot of keeping its majority.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has listed 79 districts as targets for the 2018 midterms as the party seeks to flip the lower chamber and gain from the historic pattern of the president's party losing seats.
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"This month is our deadline to finish work on the budget and return it to the executive," Senate President Bukola Saraki said after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari and the head of parliament's lower chamber.
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But using a House-passed bill also helps bypass a procedural hang up known as a "blue slip," which requires that any new revenue or spending — for instance, on border security — starts in the lower chamber.
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A similar Democratic provision offered in the House that would have blocked the administration from eliminating the cybersecurity coordinator role was never voted on when the lower chamber debated and passed its version of the NDAA.
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But the lower chamber cobbled together the votes, and the bill passed 240 to 186: 0003 Republicans and 73 Democrats voted to reopen the government at about 5:30 am, ending the second government shutdown of 25.
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And more women than men would like to see the House kick off impeachment proceedings for Trump if the Democrats were to retake the lower chamber this November: 46 percent of women versus 29 percent of men.
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Back in November, during Virginia's 211 election night, it was clear Democrats had not only held the governorship but had made huge, stunning gains in the state's House of Delegates — the lower chamber of the state legislature.
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They won a Senate seat in deeply conservative Alabama, a House district in Pennsylvania that Mr Trump had carried by 19 percentage points, and came stunningly close to winning control of the lower chamber of Virginia's legislature.
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Hard to believe any, but there are some who are...well, confused Amash is a House Freedom Caucus member and a leading critic of the legislation Republican leaders are currently struggling to pass in the lower chamber.
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The Republican bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare appears to lack sufficient votes to pass the House, despite hopes from GOP leaders and the White House that it might be approved by the lower chamber this week.
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One month after House Republicans narrowly passed a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, GOP lawmakers in the Senate are confronting similar roadblocks that made health care reform such a difficult political task in the lower chamber.
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For the first time in recent memory, it was Democrats who impeded that chamber from doing business, an occupation of the lower chamber by the opposition party, and the result was a thrilling example of heroic politics.
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Max Greenwood has five things to watch in the next race for the House, as Republicans aim to take back the lower chamber for what they hope will be the beginning of Trump's second term (The Hill).
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The House speaker wields considerable power in the lower chamber, including the ability to shape the agenda on the House floor by determining which bills come up for debate and a vote and which ones do not.
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Many of them say they believe the California Democrat, who has led the party in the lower chamber since 2003, should step aside to allow for a younger, and potentially more progressive, leader to take her place.
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Mr. Crowley, who is twice Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's age, is the No. 4 Democrat in the House of Representatives and had been favored to ascend to the speaker's lectern if Democrats retook the lower chamber this fall.
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Both men were instrumental in overseeing the lower chamber&aposs investigation into the president&aposs conduct, and Schiff, as a former prosecutor, is widely expected to be the tip of the Democratic spear in the Senate trial.
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While the role of Republican House members hadn't been decided, Trump has already made clear he wants his top allies in the lower chamber defending him on the airwaves whether they play a formal role or not.
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Luján, a staunch Pelosi ally, just came off a successful stint as House Democrats' campaign chairman in the 6900 midterms, where the party picked at least 2628 seats to win back the majority in the lower chamber.
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House Democrats have dropped their bid to include key provisions regulating PFAS in the annual defense bill, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations — a move that could imperil the bill's chances in the lower chamber.
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The two-term congresswoman was elected to serve as the House Republican Conference chairwoman in 2018 — a position once held by her father that is responsible for helping lead the party's messaging efforts in the lower chamber.
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The Senate will likely rework an aviation bill passed in the House in order to strip out controversial flood insurance provisions, after the lower chamber tried to jam senators with the legislation before leaving town Thursday morning.
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Maxine Waters is the Wall Street sheriff the people deserve Ex-GOP congressman heads to investment bank MORE (R-Texas) opened a new path Thursday for the Senate bill through the lower chamber and onto Trump's desk.
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The budget package will require Democratic support to pass the lower chamber, since dozens of conservatives are expected to oppose the legislation over the increase in both the debt ceiling and spending caps governing nondefense domestic programs.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bank lobbyists are setting their sights on the U.S. House of Representatives, hoping the lower chamber will push the Senate to further relax regulatory oversight of larger banks, several people familiar with the situation said.
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Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, who lost to Pelosi when he challenged her to be the House minority leader, is open to the idea of vying to lead Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress, an aide told CNBC.
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Democrats face long odds in the Senate, but political pundits give them much better chance of picking up a net gain of 23 seats in the House, which would give them a slim majority in the lower chamber.
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Many Republicans who are leaving the House of Representatives in the new year have come down with senioritis, and their absences may mean that a spending bill will have to attract more Democratic support in the lower chamber.
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At a news conference the day after Democrats won enough House seats to capture the lower chamber, she said she expected to return to the post and congratulated the many women who would join her in the chamber.
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The controversial plan for a "recall vote" now goes to the lower chamber of Congress, where it is expected to pass given the large majority held by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's leftist MORENA party in both houses.
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Critics say the mid-term presidential vote would let Lopez Obrador put himself at the center of the campaign for mid-term elections for the lower chamber of Congress, which are due to be held around June 2021.
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ONE PARTY WINS THE MOST SEATS BUT FALLS SHORT OF A MAJORITY To govern Canada, a prime minister must show that he or she has the confidence of the House of Commons, the elected lower chamber of Parliament.
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Maia, 46, promised to make the lower chamber a "protagonist" in Temer's reform agenda and give priority to passage of a bill modernizing Brazil's outdated labor laws, a major demand from businessmen struggling with a two-year recession.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's anti-corruption agency is investigating the speaker of the lower chamber of parliament, according to a document seen by Reuters on Monday, part of a campaign against graft being waged by President Muhammadu Buhari's government.
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Democrats need to pick up 23 seats to regain control of the lower chamber and prediction models, such as FiveThirtyEight's House forecast and the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, favor Democrats in the fight for control of the House.
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The bill, unveiled last week, is expected to pass the House, but may face an uphill battle in the Senate, which repeatedly failed to repeal and replace ObamaCare earlier this year despite legislation passing in the lower chamber.
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A candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates was reportedly cut off and removed from a hearing last week in the state's lower chamber on a piece of legislation regarding oil and gas drilling on private land.
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Will HurdWilliam Ballard HurdDemocrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges Republicans offer support for Steve King challenger House Democrats target 2020 GOP incumbents in new ad MORE, the only GOP African American in the lower chamber.
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Election observers are predicting that even more contenders could emerge from the lower chamber, especially after New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D) shock victory over a longtime Democratic incumbent made her an overnight sensation last month.
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In her report, the commissioner, Kathryn Stone, concluded that Johnson was in breach of the rules of the House of Commons, parliament's lower chamber, for a failure to fulfil his responsibilities, saying it was neither "inadvertent" nor "minor".
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The final count is likely to leave Democrats with a narrow majority in the lower chamber, and some new members have complicated Pelosi's path to reclaiming the Speaker's gavel by vowing not to support her in leadership elections.
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Two groups have traditionally had less leverage in spending fights: House Democrats, who don't have enough votes to threaten a shutdown in the lower chamber, and House conservatives, who don't have enough votes to kill a bipartisan bill.
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Mr. Zeman said he would give Mr. Babis another chance to form a government, but he added that at least 101 votes — a majority — would be needed in the lower chamber to reappoint Mr. Babis as prime minister.
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The Democratic win means a deadlocked Congress — with Republicans in control of the Senate and Democrats in the lower chamber — and is a setback for the Trump administration, which is likely to face an onslaught of congressional investigations.
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But they said they would be willing to back a temporary extension of the provisions if Senate GOP leaders allow amendment votes on the House bill, which passed in the lower chamber last week with a bipartisan majority.
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The lower chamber approved the Combat Terrorist Use of Social Media Act last month, which would commission a number of reports on the subject and require Obama to follow through on a commitment to present a broad strategy.
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Democrats and Republicans are expected to spend roughly six hours on the House floor debating the propriety of Trump's contacts with Ukraine, before the final votes on the articles of impeachment are taken up by the lower chamber.
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Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani from the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) addressed the lower chamber of parliament late Wednesday, after which the 395-seat chamber voted in favor of the new cabinet and government program.
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The lower chamber, however, must vote again on the bill Wednesday because the Senate parliamentarian found that two provisions in the House legislation don't comply with the budget rules for the reconciliation process, which prevents a Democratic filibuster.
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The legislation, approved in an overwhelming 98-2 vote in the Senate last month, was held up in the House when lawmakers said it violated the constitutional requirement that all revenue-raising measures originate in the lower chamber.
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But that bill differs from the one that just passed the lower chamber and Baldwin hopes the completed version will include her provisions, which Trump backed last April when he signed his "Buy American, Hire American" executive order.
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The growing list of GOP retirements and resignations has complicated the Republicans' bid to retake the lower chamber, which they lost in last year's midterms, and suggests that even some GOP lawmakers consider the gavel out of reach.
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He commands strong support in both houses of Parliament, and for the complaint to move forward, it would require the support of at least a third of the members of the lower chamber — which is unlikely to happen.
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Answering questions in parliament, May told the leader of the main opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, that she was working with the EU to gain the assurances she believes are necessary to win the support of the lower chamber.
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With conservatives still at the negotiating table, Democrats want GOP leadership to attach an immigration bill to a "must-pass" spending or budget bill to ensure that it gets a vote in the lower chamber and sees Trump's signature.
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The final tally showed 263 deputies voting in favor of Temer, 227 voting against him - well below the 300 votes in favor of the president that Beto Mansur, the government's deputy whip in the lower chamber, predicted earlier Wednesday.
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The Democrats need a net gain of 23 seats to take back the lower chamber, but it remains highly speculative whether Pelosi could subsequently win the 218 votes needed to regain the Speaker's gavel with such a slim margin.
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Babis has denied any wrongdoing, but almost all other parties have declined to cooperate with his ANO movement which has only 78 seats in the 200-strong lower chamber of parliament and thus needs partners to form a majority.
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Rahm Emanuel (D), now the Chicago mayor, told Democrats in a briefing earlier this year that the political environment is similar to that of 2006, when he chaired the DCCC and the Democrats took control of the lower chamber.
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The lower chamber passed the measure in October, but the Senate tacked on a heavily debated amendment before passing its companion version this week, necessitating either a second vote in the House or a conference committee between the chambers.
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Lawmakers in the lower chamber of Congress last week approved the temporary decree that reduced the number of ministries to 22 from 29, but they kept the COAF out of Moro's hands by restoring it to the Economy Ministry.
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The committee voted strictly along party lines in early May to hold Barr in contempt for not complying with the subpoena, but the lower chamber has not yet taken up the resolution for a vote by the full House.
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The lower chamber passed the measure in October, but the Senate tacked on a heavily debated amendment before passing its companion version this week, necessitating either a second vote in the House or a conference committee between the chambers.
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Some of May's opponents in the lords have signaled they will not seek to prolong or thwart the legislative process, meaning they could back down and accept an unamended bill if their changes are overturned in the lower chamber.
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Within one month of officially retaking the lower chamber, the Democrats have managed to do something that proved to be almost impossible in the past two years -- they have constrained President Donald Trump's ability to dominate the national conversation.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's lower chamber handed right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro his first defeat in Congress on Tuesday, the day before his government presents its most important legislative proposal to rein in a gaping budget deficit and spur growth.
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Shrugging off an outcry from opposition politicians and rights activists, the 450-seat lower chamber of parliament voted in a second reading to pass a largely unchanged version of the bill that aims to beef up Russia's Internet "sovereignty".
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While leaders in the Senate reached the two-year budget deal in an effort to avert a government shutdown this week, its future in the House remains uncertain, as lawmakers in the lower chamber continue to battle over immigration.
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There will be three more rate setters to join the MPC at the March rate meeting, one appointed by the lower chamber and two by president Andrzej Duda, who will also name a new central bank governor in June.
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A new law passed last year, ostensibly to make Italy more governable, calls for a combination of direct and proportional voting for both the lower Chamber of deputies, which has 630 seats, and the Senate, which has 315 seats.
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In a move just days before the Senate was expected to vote to put Rousseff on trial, Waldir Maranhao said there were procedural flaws in a lower chamber vote on April 17 that approved the impeachment charges against the leftist president.
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Both Democratic and Republican appropriators in the lower chamber have said that a narrower system of earmarked spending would help members better deliver on their districts' needs, sweeten major legislative deals and strengthen congressional control over how federal cash is spent.
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In her role as Commons leader, Leadsom acted as the interface between the government and the lower chamber of the British parliament, a polarizing and at times difficult role during a period of heightened confrontation between the executive and legislature.
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It involves four main heart problems: interference from the heart to the lungs, a gap between the heart's lower chambers, the aorta lying over the heart's gap in the lower chambers, and excessively broadened muscles surrounding the heart's right lower chamber.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - A constitutional amendment proposed by interim President Michel Temer to put a ceiling on Brazil's public spending will pass the lower house this year but not the Senate until 2017, lower chamber Speaker Rodrigo Maia said on Wednesday.
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Saturday's vote, which saw a 5-Star politician take charge of the lower chamber while a center-right veteran became head of the upper house Senate, raised speculation the two blocs might move on and try to forge a coalition.
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Mr Straus, whose control over his fellow Republicans in the lower chamber is comparatively weaker than Mr Patrick's is over their colleagues in the Senate, made it clear that he saw no particular reason for the House to follow suit.
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Remember that in 2009, Senate Democrats concerned about their own re-election prospects let a cap and trade bill passed by the House wither on the vine -- leaving Democrats who voted for in the lower chamber in a terrible political position.
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Macri garnered enough votes to push the vote through the lower chamber after making last minute concessions to secure the support of dissident Peronist Sergio Massa and his lawmakers, plus a group of legislators which split with Fernandez last month.
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The constitutional reform was based on eliminating the upper house Senate as a directly elected chamber and when Renzi drew up his electoral reform he only had the lower chamber in mind, confident that voters would back him in the referendum.
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The compromise is expected to pass the House—though Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi opposes it, she won't try to whip other Democrats into voting against it, and Republicans don't need any Democratic votes in the lower chamber of Congress anyway.
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Both countries are headed for high-profile elections later this year: France will elect a new president, and German voters will cast ballots for the lower chamber in parliament, where Chancellor Angela Merkel is hoping to hang on to her seat.
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DEMS PROBE EPA CLIMATE ROLLBACKS: Leading House Democrats, weeks away from taking over the majority in the lower chamber, are demanding records and information from the Trump administration's rollbacks of numerous climate change policies at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Rep.
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Recent polling suggests that many of the House districts where Republican members have historically been safe bets for reelection could turn blue in November, raising the possibility of Democrats winning the lower chamber for the first time in eight years.
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A fight has been percolating between House Democrats and the president since the November midterm elections, when Democrats captured the majority in the lower chamber and took control of all of the oversight and investigative powers that come with it.
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A bill with a similar deal fell flat in the House, with lawmakers saying that a deal to reopen the government by trading wall funding for immigration benefits for so-called Dreamers doesn't stand a chance in the lower chamber.
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The minority leader is the most visible face of the minority party in the lower chamber and works to advance the party's objectives, despite being shut out of control of the House -- with the ultimate goal of taking back the chamber.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) informed lawmakers at a GOP conference meeting Wednesday morning that the lower chamber wouldn't cancel any part of the August break unless the Senate passes its bill to partially repeal and replace ObamaCare.
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The lower chamber already passed a Zika funding bill, and Republicans blamed Senate Democrats for holding up a House-Senate conference report that provides $1.1 billion to fight the virus; but Democrats don't like how it's paid for, among other objections.
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The House is also expected to adopt a resolution requiring each employing office in the lower chamber to adopt anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policies, as well as establish an office to provide legal consultation for staffers for workplace disputes.
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WARSAW, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Poland's lower chamber of parliament, the Sejm, removed a temporary ban on access for the media on Tuesday and said any changes to rules governing journalists' access would not be implemented without prior consultations with reporters.
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It will be one of the first major public confrontations between a top Trump administration official and House Democrats after they captured the majority in the lower chamber — and the oversight powers that come with it — in the November elections.
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In a "Dear Colleague" letter sent Wednesday afternoon, the Louisiana Republican wrote that the party needs to improve its messaging and draw a sharp contrast with the Democrats' agenda if they are going to earn back the lower chamber in 2020.
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The bill passed through the lower chamber, the House of Commons, by a single vote late on Wednesday and is now in the House of Lords, an unelected body whose role is to refine and scrutinize legislation before it is approved.
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MOSCOW — Numerous Russian news media outlets vowed on Thursday to curtail their coverage of the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament, a day after its ethics commission exonerated a lawmaker accused of sexual harassment by several female journalists.
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House lawmakers have warned that if the bill passes the Senate without more money for Puerto Rico, it will not make it through the lower chamber, and another round of negotiations would be needed before any relief could be disbursed.
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Putin, 67, who has dominated Russia's political landscape for two decades as either president or prime minister, made a dramatic appearance in the lower chamber a day earlier to argue that term limits were less important in times of crisis.
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In announcing plans to dissolve the lower chamber of Parliament, the House of Representatives, and call for a snap election next month, Mr. Abe said that an aging society and a tense situation with North Korea were the country's biggest problems.
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After his failed run for the delegate seat representing Pinal de Amoles, Mr. Anaya sprinted from political job to political job, first in the state and then in the federal government, including serving a term in the lower chamber of Congress.
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer also said Tuesday that the lower chamber could vote on a two-year budget agreement as soon as next week if congressional leaders and the White House can clinch a deal in the coming days.
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" And House Majority PAC, another leading Democratic super PAC focused on the lower chamber, also made a small TV ad buy last week attacking GOP Speaker Paul Ryan and highlighting "the Wall Street millionaires that Ryan gave billions in tax breaks.
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As part of this formality, the seven House impeachment managers solemnly formed a line to walk the articles of impeachment, effectively a sheaf of papers enclosed in two folders, over from the lower chamber to the Senate side of the Capitol.
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TV. Schneider acknowledged that the House still has a number of bills on the docket, adding, however, that lawmakers in the lower chamber have already passed more than 28503 pieces of legislation that are now waiting action in the Senate.
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Maxine Waters is the Wall Street sheriff the people deserve Ex-GOP congressman heads to investment bank MORE (R-Texas) told reporters Thursday that the manager's amendment didn't include enough input from the lower chamber to win him over, however.
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The bill, unveiled last week, is expected to pass the House, but may face an uphill battle in the Senate, which repeatedly failed to repeal and replace ObamaCare earlier this year despite legislation passing in the lower chamber: http://bit.ly/2AnZX8L.
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White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told CNN Tuesday that negotiators are getting closer to reaching an agreement, but there are "too many obstacles to tackle" for the omnibus bill to make it out of the lower chamber by Thursday.
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"Last week we had 261 lawmakers for Temer and 171 against him," said Beto Mansur, the government's deputy whip in the lower chamber, who said he handed the president a computer spreadsheet with the names of the 80 undecided politicians.
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Senior ministers in May's Conservative government, which had been expecting to lose the case, have already drawn up a series of options, including a short, tight bill which will quickly be put before parliament's lower chamber, the House of Commons.
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The House Freedom Caucus, the right-fringe of Republicans in the lower chamber, called on the president to veto McConnell's proposal Wednesday night, and cited Trump's previous remarks saying he would not sign another spending bill that did not include wall funding.
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The British government of Theresa May has publicly and repeatedly refused to say what course of action it will pursue if the lower chamber in the U.K.'s Parliament, the House of Commons, votes against May's plan for Brexit on December 11.
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After May's misadvised decision last year to call a General Election, which robbed her Conservative Party of the legislative seats necessary to push through new laws under its own steam, her governing majority in Parliament's lower chamber had already grown razor thin.
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The two main issues to be decided are reform of the Senate's powers—whether to let the lower chamber pass future laws, even when opposed by the Senate—and whether decision-making powers should be brought back from regional governments to the centre.
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Despite the declining popularity of Putin's United Russia party – although not of Putin himself – it is still expected to win the September 225 elections to the lower chamber of parliament (the State Duma) and gain an absolute majority of mandates, analysts predict.
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Public prosecutor for Santiago's eastern district, Manuel Guerra, told CNN Chile that Insunza was being investigated for counsel he provided Antofagasta Minerals through his company Virtus Consultores between 2007 and 2014, when he was a member of the Lower Chamber of Congress.
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Democrats don't want to water down the power of such congressional orders — particularly ahead of their soon-to-be return to power in the lower chamber — but the New York lawmaker disagrees with Goodlatte for the purposes of which they are being used.
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The donations span candidates in six different states who are all hoping to unseat incumbent Republican lawmakers in their districts as Democrats hope to make up a 23-seat gap in the House in next month's elections to retake the lower chamber.
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Even if the bill passes the Senate, House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE would never bring it for a vote in the lower chamber.
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The lower Chamber of Deputies, where debate on the bill will begin at committee level on Wednesday, said in a statement that 500 demonstrators, most of them off duty police officers, tried to invade the building but were repelled with no injuries reported.
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Other members of Senate GOP leadership said they would tune out this week's House hearings and would only pay attention to the arguments of House prosecutors after the House passes articles of impeachment, if the lower chamber in fact goes that far.
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The lower chamber passed four clean individual spending bills last week, a legislative package aimed at providing funding for the majority of agencies through the end of the fiscal year and a CR to fund the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 8.
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Founded in the years following the 2010 Tea Party wave that put Republicans back in charge of the lower chamber, the group has earned a reputation on Capitol Hill for staking out strict conservative positions and effectively bending the party to their will.
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The strategy effectively extinguished a bid by centrist Republicans to force action on a series of proposals to rescue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, including two bipartisan bills deemed to have the best chance of moving through the lower chamber.
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The searches were conducted at the homes and offices of former senator Vital do Rego, who chaired the 8-month inquiry in 2014, and Workers Party congressman Marco Maia, a former speaker of the lower chamber who drafted a report to the committee.
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The bigger picture: While Republicans held onto another vacant seat in the Wisconsin legislature's lower chamber, Democrats managed a repeat of the January special election when they flipped a district that had long been held by Republicans since 2000 and won by Trump.
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The actions are part of a larger political strategy aimed, in part, at showing that Republicans are more willing to directly tackle anti-Semitic hate speech and anti-Israel language than divided Democrats in the lower chamber, Republican aides and operatives said.
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The reversal of the lower chamber's decision was widely viewed as a vindication of complaints by rights activists and legal scholars, who said that the lower chamber had buckled to intimidation by the Trump administration and had raised doubts about the court's independence.
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Democratic opposition to a far-reaching DACA bill would likely prove consequential, since House GOP leaders will almost certainly need a significant number of Democratic votes to move such legislation through the lower chamber, where Republicans are sharply divided on immigration issues.
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" Yoho recounted the issues he is proud to have worked on during his tenure in the lower chamber, highlighting his work on foreign policy and economic reforms, but added he feels it's time to "pass the baton on to a new generation.
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She later became the first woman to serve as Speaker and took the lead in pushing President Obama's biggest legislative initiatives — healthcare reform, a cap and trade program for carbon emissions, the fiscal stimulus and Wall Street reform — through the lower chamber.
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The party won governor's mansion in 2017 and flipped 15 GOP-held state House seats, but fell short of capturing the lower chamber when Republicans won a random drawing after the candidates in one district were precisely tied in the vote count.
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A groundbreaking number of women filed to run for the House this midterm cycle — and now it's official: A record number have secured major party nominations for a seat in the lower chamber, per data from Rutgers's Center for American Women and Politics.
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Though this seems unlikely, rumors have started to spread that Cunha, having secured the impeachment vote against Rousseff, could step down as president in the lower chamber in an attempt to step out of the spotlight and retain what dwindling support he enjoys.
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Many House Democrats — whose votes will be needed — have been digging in against the plan, too, trying to secure assurances that the lower chamber will advance an immigration bill in the coming weeks to protect people who were brought to the country illegally as children.
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The pension reform is expected to face a vote in the lower chamber in the next two weeks but, since it amends Brazil's constitution, it will require approval by three-fifths of the lawmakers or 308 votes which the government may not have yet.
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A reversal from Shimkus would be welcome news for the House GOP, which has been hit with a slate of retirements heading into the 2020 race, a sign of how difficult it could be for the GOP to retake Congress' lower chamber next year.
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Ramos told Reuters that he estimates that pension reform has the support of no more than 200 votes in the lower chamber, well short of the 308 needed to pass, and he blamed Bolsonaro's poor relations with Congress for holding back the reform process.
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The lower chamber passed legislation by voice vote on Tuesday that would require the General Services Administration (GSA) to issue regulations clarifying that federal workers should be reimbursed for using transportation services Uber and Lyft and any similar technology that emerges in the future.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee said on Thursday morning that it would reschedule the full committee markup of five bills touching on the FTC, which acts as America's top consumer protection agency, after House Republicans decided to adjourn action in the lower chamber early.
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Her announcement comes after the House failed Tuesday to override Trump's veto of a resolution that initially passed the lower chamber in a 245-182 vote and would have blocked his declaration to reallocate billions of dollars in Pentagon funds for a border wall.
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She has represented Ohio's 11th Congressional District since 2008 and is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of progressive Democrats in the House, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, an influential voting bloc in the lower chamber.
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Letwin also said the question of parliamentary approval was "entirely academic" as both the lower chamber, the House of Commons, and the upper chamber, the House of Lords, would have to approve repealing the European Communities Act, under which Britain joined the bloc in 1972.
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Democrats touted the bill as a significant shift from eight years of GOP rule in the House, a period when the nation experienced the most deadly incidents of gun violence in its history but saw zero action on the issue from the lower chamber.
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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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The poll found that 28503 percent of voters said they want to see the Democratic Party gain control of the House of Representatives in the November midterms, while 22019 percent of those polled said they wanted to see Republicans maintain control of the lower chamber.
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Supreme Court Chief Justice Dias Toffoli said the AI-5 decree was "incompatible with democracy" and lower chamber Speaker Rodrigo Maia said Guedes had sown doubts about the democratic intentions of Bolsonaro, a former army captain who has frequently praised the past military regime.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threw his support behind top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi, saying she ought to be U.S. House Speaker, one day after Democrats won enough seats in the midterm congressional election to take control of Congress' lower chamber.
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But the furore over the report and Finance Minister Taro Aso's refusal to accept its findings have set back Abe's coalition as it prepares for the upper house poll amid speculation that the premier may also call a snap election for the more powerful lower chamber.
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But the furore over the report and Finance Minister Taro Aso's refusal to accept its findings have created a headache for Abe's coalition ahead of the upper house poll and amid speculation that the premier may also call a snap election for the more powerful lower chamber.
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After comedian and fund advocate Jon Stewart gave emotional testimony last month accusing lawmakers of failing to support the bill, the measure was swiftly approved for to a floor vote in the House and passed the lower chamber last week on an overwhelmingly bipartisan 402-12 vote.
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Thursday evening, a few hours before Ryan's statement, three Republican senators — Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, John McCain of Arizona, and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin — said they would oppose the Senate bill without assurance from House leadership that the lower chamber would agree to enter those talks.
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The governance bill - which must be passed by the lower chamber of parliament and receive the president's approval before becoming law - deals with management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the powerful state oil company which critics say is opaque and retains too much power.
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Top nonpartisan election handicappers like Sabato's Crystal Ball and Cook Political Report have yet to see substantial evidence of a huge wave forming, which underscores the near-impossible tas k for Democrats to net the 30 seats needed to win back control of the lower chamber.
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Polling from Gallup going back to 2628 shows that a president whose approval rating is below 28503 percent in midterm elections loses an average of more than 22019 House seats, which is more than enough for Democrats to win control of the lower chamber this fall.
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Similarly, without much hope for passing legislation through a Republican Senate and White House, Democrats need to figure out what issues they will focus public attention on in the lower chamber, so that they can generate debates that better position the party for victory in 2020.
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Mel Hall said in a statement Wednesday that "career politicians" in both major political parties deserve blame for Washington's state of affairs, adding that he would support an alternative to Pelosi for Speaker of the House if Democrats are successful in taking back the lower chamber.
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House Republicans can afford to lose roughly 21 votes on a short-term spending bill, meaning without the support of Freedom Caucus members and defense hawks, the short-term spending bill dies in the lower chamber, and with it any hope of keeping the government open.
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Republicans hold a 22010-seat majority in the 22016-seat House, far wider than their two-seat majority in the 100-seat Senate, but are more vulnerable in the lower chamber where they are defending 41 seats without an incumbent on the ballot, the most since 1930.
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With the impeachment trial set to begin in earnest Tuesday in the Senate, the seven House impeachment managers previewed their opening arguments Saturday with an 11-page trial brief featuring the evidence that has emerged since the lower chamber voted to impeach the president on Dec. 18.
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Earlier this week, the lower chamber of Russia's parliament approved legislation that would give prosecutors leeway to pressure American news outlets to register, though other international news organizations may trigger requirements "if there are unfriendly actions" from media companies based in those countries, The Guardian reported.
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House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) told Republican members Tuesday the lower chamber would not be passing the ObamaCare bills without Hyde language.
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But the furor over the report and Finance Minister Taro Aso's refusal to accept its findings have created a headache for Abe's coalition ahead of the upper house poll and amid speculation that the premier may also call a snap election for the more powerful lower chamber.
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Following the midterms and the surge of women Representatives — many of whom are mothers — in the House, the lower chamber is due to make some key changes to how the Capitol is set up in order to make it friendlier to parents, according to a Politico report.
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As Vox's Li Zhou wrote: A groundbreaking number of women filed to run for the House this midterm cycle — and now it's official: A record number have secured major party nominations for a seat in the lower chamber, per data from Rutgers's Center for American Women and Politics.
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The Speaker of the U.K.'s lower chamber said that he would not support the plan for Trump to speak in Westminster Hall due to the country's opposition "to racism and to sexism" as well as support for "equality before the law" and "an independent judiciary", The Guardian reports.
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Democratic candidates' performances in special elections for vacant legislative seats, and Mr Trump's approval rating of just over 40%, are also consistent with a wave election roughly of the magnitude seen in 2006, the last time the party re-took the lower chamber in a mid-term election.
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He was photographed smiling during the impeachment vote in the lower chamber and last week, in a leaked audio file ahead of the committee vote, he referred to a "significant vote" as though the impeachment had already taken place, and outlined policies for a government under his command.
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The problem, of course, is that the Senate was envisioned by our founders as being a different sort of institution than the House, one less subject to the partisan winds and, therefore, more able to act as a sort of check on the actions of the lower chamber.
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In an interview, the Texas Republican said the 28503-member caucus discussed a 22019-week continuing resolution, or CR, at its weekly lunch meeting and came to the consensus that the House should vote first so the lower chamber doesn't get jammed with a Senate bill it doesn't want.
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While the GOP picked up two seats in the Senate to grow its majority, Democrats picked up at least 40 seats in the House to regain control of the majority in the lower chamber, setting up the prospect of partisan gridlock and investigations into the Trump administration in 2019.
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Sheila Jackson LeeSheila Jackson LeeJackson Lee: 'Racism is a national security threat' Most oppose cash reparations for slavery: poll Poll: Most Americans oppose reparations MORE (D-Texas) is all but certain, with Democrats now in control of the lower chamber and the idea gaining prominence on the national stage.
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Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the House of Representatives, which is the lower chamber, said Buhari had briefed lawmakers "on what he saw first hand when he visited Plateau yesterday and measures he is putting in place to ensure that we do not have a relapse or a recurrence".
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In an interview, the Texas Republican said the 178-member caucus discussed a 10-week continuing resolution, or CR, at its weekly lunch meeting and came to the consensus that the House should vote first so the lower chamber doesn't get jammed with a Senate bill it doesn't want.
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And lower-chamber conservatives, encouraged by what they consider a clear victory in the shutdown fight, are pressing harder than ever for consideration of a Republican DACA bill that includes a long list of tough enforcement measures anathema to both Democrats and moderate lawmakers in the GOP conference.
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A voice vote means the legislation is approved if the majority of lawmakers who are present vocalize their support for it — a test of House protocol during a time when most lawmakers in the lower chamber are working remotely to protect themselves and their staffers from the disease.
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But if it did that alone, and he rammed it through the lower chamber, the bill would be all but certain to die in the Senate, where the bill has come under fire from many Republicans for not doing enough to offer government assistance for health care recipients.
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As well as being the deputy prime minister, the No. 2 elected official in Australia and the highest-ranking politician so far to become embroiled in the citizenship scandal, Mr. Joyce is the key to the government's majority in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Parliament.
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The aide said that on "big ticket questions" there isn't "a lot of daylight" between the existing Senate bill and the one that will be produced by the House Judiciary and Intelligence panels, though an eight-year extension of the other authorities isn't likely to pass the lower chamber.
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During House floor debate on a resolution naming the seven House lawmakers who will serve as prosecutors — also known as impeachment managers — in the Senate trial, Pelosi said that the outcome in the upper chamber won't change the fact that the lower chamber voted to impeach the president.
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The LIS total doesn't include resolutions only taken up by the lower chamber, or concurrent resolutions, which aren't sent to President Obama's desk The slow path for House bills has drawn frustration from lawmakers, who repeatedly urged Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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Currently, there are 233 Democratic lawmakers in the lower chamber, meaning they could only afford to lose 17 members at most in order to approve this step, a far smaller number than the 98 members who are part of the CPC, assuming that no House Republicans join the Democrats.
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At the same time, however, House Republicans recognize that some of their Senate colleagues might not be comfortable with the kind of scorched-earth defense tactics that they practice in the lower chamber — such as storming a secure facility in the Capitol basement to disrupt closed-door impeachment depositions.
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Senate Republicans tried to do their part in the messaging wars on Thursday as Graham announced a resolution condemning the House's inquiry and calling on the lower chamber to "vote to open a formal impeachment inquiry and provide President Trump with fundamental constitutional protections" before going further into the impeachment inquiry.
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Hoping to expand the battleground, the House Majority PAC, which works to help Democrats retake the lower chamber, launched a series of ads this week targeting not only toss-up races, but also second-tier seats thought to be safely Republican just a few months ago, including those held by Reps.
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