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| | United States House of Representatives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Like the Senate, the House of Representatives meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. At one end of the chamber of the House is a rostrum from which the Speaker presides. | | | The chamber of the United States House of Representatives is located in the south wing of the Capitol building, in Washington, D.C. This photograph shows a rare glimpse of the four vote tallying boards (the blackish squares across the top), which display each member's name and vote as votes are in progress. | | | Under article one, section two of the constitution, seats in the House of Representatives are apportioned among the states on the basis of population, as determined by a census conducted every ten years. |
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| | Member FAQs - Office of the Clerk |
| | A Member of the House of Representatives is referred to as Representative or Congressman or Congresswoman, and a Member of the Senate is referred to as Senator. | | | The Speaker acts as leader of the House and combines several roles: the institutional role of presiding officer and administrative head of the House, the partisan role of leader of the majority party in the House, and the representative role of an elected Member of the House. | | | House candidates of major political parties are nominated by primary election in most states. |
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| | Currently on the House Floor - Office of the Clerk |
| | An amendment numbered 4 printed in House Report 109-450 to advise that the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security should, in consultation with appropriate federal, state and local officials including the Captain of the Port from the United States Coast Guard and representatives from the maritime industry to determine protocols. | | | An amendment numbered 2 printed in House Report 109-450 to require the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to submit to the appropriate congressional committees an assessment study of the National Targeting Center and recommendations to strengthen the center, six months after implementation of the Act. | | | 1:56 P.M. The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. |
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| | CNN.com - GOP projected to retain control of House - Nov 3, 2004 |
| | Nearly all incumbents were projected to win re-election, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois; Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California; and former Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. | | | A 12-seat Democratic gain would have put the House at an even 217-217 partisan split, but Sanders votes with Democrats, which would have given them the edge. | | | Before that election, they had not been the majority party in the House since the Eisenhower landslide of 1952. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/02/house.main
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| | South Carolina Legislature Online |
| | The South Carolina House of Representatives consists of 124 members elected November 2, 2004, to serve until Monday after the General Election in November of 2006. | | | The 2005-2006 House of Representatives is currently made up of 74 Republicans and 50 Democrats. | | | Pursuant to Section 2-1-10 of the 1976 Code, amended by Act 991 of 1974, Act 173 of 1981 and Act 312 of 1982, beginning with the 1974 General Election, members of the House of Representatives are elected from 124 single member districts. |
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| | Georgia House of Representatives |
| | At the top you will find our global menu bar that takes you to the House, Senate and joint offices of the Georgia Legislature. | | | Welcome to the newly revised Georgia House of Representatives Website! | | | On behalf of the 180 elected members of the House, as well as the professional staff, we hope you enjoy your virtual visit and come see us in person at your earliest convenience. |
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http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2003_04/house
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| | Georgia House of Representatives |
| | Here you will find information on Georgia's elected House members, legislation pending before the House, and historical information relating to the House. | | | Please visit this site often and drop by for a visit the next time you are in Atlanta - after all, this is the "people's house". | | | Welcome to the virtual home of the Georgia House of Representatives. |
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http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2005_06/house
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| | House of Lords - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The House of Lords is an unelected body, consisting of two archbishops and 26 bishops of the established Church of England ("Lords Spiritual") and 706 members of the Peerage ("Lords Temporal"). | | | The House of Lords was not the only court of last resort in the United Kingdom; in some cases, that role was fulfilled by the Privy Council. | | | The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. |
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| | House of Representatives of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Members of the House of Representatives, who are elected to a maximum of four years, sit for a shorter term than members of the House of Councillors, who are elected to full six-year terms. | | | The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for four-year terms. | | | If a bill is passed by the lower house, the House of Representatives, but is voted down by the upper house, the House of Councillors, the House of Representatives can override the decision of the other chamber by a two-thirds vote in the affirmative. |
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| | Parliament of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Parliament of Northern Ireland was bicameral, consisting of a House of Commons with 52 seats, and an indirectly-elected Senate with 26 seats. | | | The House of Commons had 52 members, of which 48 were for territorial seats and four were for graduates of Queen's University, Belfast. | | | The Government of Ireland Act prescribed that elections to the House of Commons be by the Single Transferable Vote (STV), though the Parliament was given power to alter the electoral system from three years after its first meeting. |
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| | House of Braganza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | IPA: /bɾɐ.'ɣɐ̃.sɐ/) was the royal house of Portugal from 1640 to 1910 and ruled the Empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1889. | | | It was a collateral line of the House of Aviz, which ruled Portugal from 1385 until the Habsburg seizure of the Portuguese throne in 1580. | | | After the accession of the House of Bragança to the Portugese throne in 1640, following the Philippine Dynasty of Spanish Habsburgs, the heir of the Portuguese Crown has been known as the Duke of Bragança together with, or alternately to Prince of Beira. |
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| | Upper house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Also, the upper house of many nations is directly elected, but in different proportions to the lower house - for example, the Senates of Australia and The United States have a fixed number of elected representatives from each state, regardless of the population. | | | However, it is also common that the upper house consist of delegates who are indirectly elected by state governments - for example, in the German Bundesrat. | | | In these systems, the seats are sometimes hereditary, as was the case in the British House of Lords (until 1998), and the Japanese House of Peers (until this house was abolished in 1947). |
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| | Welcome to the Missouri House of Representatives Bill Tracking |
| | The official list of Members of the Missouri House of Representatives for the 93rd General Assembly. | | | Former House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, who selected Buck for inclusion in the Hall, was on hand with current House Speaker Rod Jetton, R-Marble Hill, to unveil the bust during the induction ceremony on Tuesday, April 11. | | | Welcome to the Missouri House of Representatives Bill Tracking |
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| | House arrest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In justice and law, house arrest is the situation where a person is confined (by the authorities) to his or her residence. | | | In January 5, 2005, former dictator Augusto Pinochet was placed under house arrest by orders of the Supreme Court of Chile. | | | Galileo Galilei was put under house arrest for his belief in Copernicus's theory of the sun in the middle of the universe and all the planets and stars revolving around it. |
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| | United States House of Representatives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Like the Senate, the House of Representatives meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. At one end of the chamber of the House is a rostrum from which the Speaker presides. | | | The chamber of the United States House of Representatives is located in the south wing of the Capitol building, in Washington, D.C. This photograph shows a rare glimpse of the four vote tallying boards (the blackish squares across the top), which display each member's name and vote as votes are in progress. | | | Under article one, section two of the constitution, seats in the House of Representatives are apportioned among the states on the basis of population, as determined by a census conducted every ten years. |
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| | Government House, Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The nature of the event under application must be well-matched with the identity of Government House as an important historical monument of Hong Kong and with its status as a dignified location for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government to hold official functions. | | | According to an urban legend, the nearby Bank of China Tower was deliberately designed to shape like a blade so as to bring bad Feng Shui to the Government House and its British administration. | | | The Government House (Chinese: 香港禮賓府;formerly, 香港總督府 or 港督府 in short) was the residence of the Governor of Hong Kong from 1855 to 1997. |
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| | Virginia General Assembly |
| | The House of Delegates consists of 100 members who are elected by the qualified voters of their districts to serve for terms of two years. |
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| | Encyclopedia: White House |
| | The White House was built after Congress established the District of Columbia as the permanent capital of the United States on July 16, 1790. | | | The Dáil Chamber Dáil Éireann is the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Republic of Ireland. | | | The walls were repainted white, but it is important to point out that the White House was always painted white as early as 1798, and the repainting from the fire damage did not originate the term "White House" as a popular urban legend claims it did. |
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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 159, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | As a compromise, the large state plan was followed so far as to erect two houses, but with a proportionate vote in the lower only; and the smaller states were placated by an equality of representation in the senate, but with permission to the senators to vote separately, not by states. | | | The list of members of a new house is, by law, made up by the clerk of the last house, who calls the members elect to order at noon of the day on which they are to meet. | | | Nevertheless, the greater number of members in the house, their comparative brevity of service (two years, as compared with six in the senate), and the consequent consciousness of inexperience in many of the members, has always put the house at somewhat of a disadvantage when it has undertaken to run counter to the senate. |
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| | Welcome to the White House |
| | President Celebrates Cinco de Mayo at the White House | | | Watch Thursday's Press Briefing with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. | | | President Bush Welcomes President Vázquez of Uruguay to the White House |
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| | Hexapedia - White House (disambiguation) |
| | An important Moscow building is also called the White House. | | | White House, Tennessee, is a city in the United States. | | | The official residence of the President of the USA is known as the White House. |
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| | Bahá'í Faith - Biocrawler |
| | Commisioned by the Universal House of Justice (2001). | | | With the unexpected Passing of Shoghi Effendi in 1957, the question of successorship was left to the decision of the Universal House of Justice, which was not scheduled to be elected until 1963. | | | In this document `Abdu'l-Bahá established the twin institutions of the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice, and he appointed his eldest grandson, Shoghi Effendi, as the first Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith. |
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| | A Guide to Leinster House, and Tour of the Parliament |
| | It has been claimed that it formed a model for the design of the White House, the residence of the President of the United States. | | | On becoming the Duke of Leinster in 1776 (Dublin and Kildare are in the province of Leinster) the house was renamed Leinster House. | | | A number of Monuments and memorials are located in the garden of Leinster House. |
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| | Country house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Also, many country house owners and members of their families served as Lord Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace, and local courts were still sometimes held in country houses well into the 19th century ; this practice was a holdover from the Medieval manor courts. | | | So necessary was the country house deemed to be, that following the election of the first Labour Government in 1921, Lord Lee of Farham donated his country house Chequers to the nation for the use of a Prime Minister who might not possess one of his own. | | | Chequers still fulfils that need today as do both Chevening House and Dorneywood country houses, donated for sole use of high ranking ministers of the crown. |
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| | Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online |
| | Lauriers major speeches and particulars of the incidents and circumstances that marked his political life can be found in the Debates and Journals of the Quebec Legislative Assembly, the Debates of the House of Commons and Senate, the Canadian census returns, and the electoral returns for the Quebec Legislative Assembly and the House of Commons. | | | Laurier had to intervene in order to clarify both the position of his party and his definition of the nation that was to be built. | | | Laurier was recognized as the undisputed, indeed indisputable, leader of all the countrys Liberals. |
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| | Chevening - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Since then, Chevening has been used by the British government to house successive Foreign Secretaries. | | | The house was the family seat of the Earls Stanhope, and was bequeathed to the Nation by the 7th and last Earl Stanhope (who was also 13th and last Earl of Chesterfield). | | | Chevening, also known as Chevening House, is a country house in Chevening, Kent, in the United Kingdom. |
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| | Jordan - Government - The Legislative Branch |
| | A bill approved by the House of Deputies is passed on by the House Speaker (an elected official) to the Senate for debate and a vote. | | | The Upper House of Parliament, or the Senate, is viewed as an extension of the king’s legislative powers because it is appointed by the king and enjoys his confidence. | | | While senators are appointed by the King, deputies of the lower house are directly elected by universal suffrage. |
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| | Encyclopedia: List of official residences |
| | Government House is the name usually given to the residence of British Governors, Lieutenant Governors and Governors General and other colonial administrators in the former British Empire and now the Commonwealth. | | | Built in 1855, the Government House was the residence of the Governor of Hong Kong from 1855 to 1997. | | | Old Government House, Fredericton, New Brunswick (lieutenant governor of New Brunswick) |
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