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 | | The Speaker is also responsible for the administration of the House and its staff and has many diplomatic and social duties. | | | The Speaker represents the Commons in dealings with the <b>Canadianb> Senate and the Crown. | | | The Speaker presides over the House of Commons and ensures that everyone respects its rules and traditions. |
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| | <b>Canadianb> House of Commons |
| | The Deputy Speaker of the House, the position I held in the last Parliament, is not an elected one, as the Speaker& office is. Instead, the newly elected Prime Minister appoints a Member to this position, as well as appointing Members to other positions, such as Assistant Speakers. | | | The Act also delineates that the Speaker is to preside at all meetings of the House of Commons, and establishes the Speaker& right to a casting vote in the event of ties, which is the only time when the Speaker has a right to vote. | | | The Board is responsible for the House budget and the establishment of guidelines for the use of all resources provided to the Members for use in carrying out their parliamentary functions. |
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| | House of Commons on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Blair is making his weekly visit to the House of Commons to attend Prime Ministers Questions. | | | House Of Common Rejects Blair's Appointed House Of Lords | | | The House of Commons rejected Blair's choice for an all appointed House of Lords. |
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| | Wikinfo Member of Parliament |
| | The members of the House of Lords are appointed by the Queen or King, but the selection is done by the British Prime Minister. | | | A Member of Parliament, also known as an MP is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house, or House of Commons. | | | The British Parliament is divided into the House of Commons and the House of Lords and it is often assumed that an MP is a member of Commons, but they can be a member of either house. |
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| | Wikinfo Prime Minister of Canada |
| | In particular, their goal is to find ways to change the insignificant and ineffectual role of elected members of the House of Commons, to create a Parliamentary committee to review appointments to the Supreme Court, and the need to abolish or radically restructure the appointed Senate. | | | The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the <b>Canadianb> government, is the leader of the political party with the most seats in the <b>Canadianb> House of Commons. | | | If a minority government is in power, a vote of non confidence in the House of Commons may lead to a quick election (9 months in the case of the most recent <b>Canadianb> minority government, the Clark government of 1979-1980). |
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| | Parliament of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The lower house, the House of Commons, is the dominant branch of the <b>Canadianb> Parliament. | | | Most amendments require the consent of the <b>Canadianb> Senate, the <b>Canadianb> House of Commons, and the Legislative Assemblies of two-thirds of the provinces representing a majority of the population. | | | Where a Government has lost the confidence of the House of Commons, the Prime Minister is obliged to either resign (allowing the Governor General to appoint the Leader of the Opposition to the office), or seek the dissolution of Parliament and a new general election. |
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| | Canada Funds Female Pols; Yet Another Abortion Ban |
| | <b>Canadianb> voters go to the polls to elect new members of the House of Commons on June 28. | | | Though the majority of the Michigan House and Senate approved the bill, it failed to get the necessary two-thirds vote to make it effective immediately. | | | "This is a call to arms to elect pro-choice representatives and get a pro-choice president into the White House this November," said Rebekah Warren, executive director of MARAL Pro-Choice Michigan, in a phone interview. |
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| | Carolyn Parrish: <b>Canadianb> Leftist Mouthpiece |
| | Only Cabinet ministers, Ministers of State, parliamentary secretaries, the Speaker of the House, the Dean of the House (the MP with the longest continuous service who's not a Minister) and the Leader of the Opposition are given the title of Honorable. | | | <b>Canadianb> Liberal Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish, a backbench member of Canada& ruling Liberal Party, outdid her usual crude and boorish self last week when she appeared on a comedy show televised by the leftist, taxpayer-funded <b>Canadianb> Broadcasting Corporation and stomped on a George Bush doll with her boot. | | | Two years ago, Parrish even headed a nine-member parliamentary delegation of leftist and liberal MPs on a trip to Palestine and Israel that was funded by a Palestinian cultural center, the Palestine House, in Mississauga. |
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| | House of Commons -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the seat of the bicameral Parliament, including the House of Commons and the House of Lords. | | | Although it is technically the lower house, the House of Commons is predominant over the House of Lords, and the name “Parliament&; is often used to refer to the House of Commons alone. | | | Searchable pages including postings of the transcripts of parliamentary debates and weekly and sessional information digests, names of members of Parliament with their electoral districts, information on visiting both houses of Parliament, the text of public bills currently before Parliament, and reports from certain select committees of the House of Commons. |
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| | Speaker (politics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Often the speaker performs his duties in a non-partisan manner, but in the United States, the Speaker is the most powerful position in the United States House of Representatives and participates in legislating. | | | The term Speaker is usually the title given to the presiding officer of a country's lower house of parliament or congress (i.e., the House of Commons or House of Representatives). | | | For example, the House of Lords in the United Kingdom has a Lord Chancellor and upper houses in Australia have presidents. |
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| | <b>Canadianb> House of Commons approves same-sex marriage - Wikinews |
| | The bill presented to the House of Commons by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin has passed mainly because of support by the left-wing New Democratic Party of Jack Layton and the support of the separatist Bloc Québécois, which enabled it to overcome the staunch opposition of the Conservative Party. | | | The adoption of this bill ends a longstanding political and judicial debate in Canada, with the House of Commons referring the issue to the Supreme Court of Canada last year, only to have it handed back to them by the judges. | | | While this vote is historic, gay weddings had already been legalized by the Supreme Courts of most <b>Canadianb> provinces. |
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| | Encyclopedia: <b>Canadianb> Senate |
| | The Speaker of the <b>Canadianb> Senate is the presiding officer of the <b>Canadianb> Senate. | | | Moreover, the Government of Canada is responsible solely to the House of Commons; the Prime Minister stays in office only as long as he or she retains the support of the Lower House. | | | The <b>Canadianb> Parliament was based on the Westminster model (that is, the model of the Parliament of the United Kingdom). |
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| | <b>Canadianb> House of Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The new <b>Canadianb> Parliament consisted of the Queen (represented by the Governor General), the Senate and the House of Commons. | | | The House of Commons came into existence in 1867, when the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the British North America Act, uniting the Province of Canada (which was separated into Quebec and Ontario), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into a single federation, called the Dominion of Canada. | | | The Speaker's chair is at one end of the Chamber; in front of it is the Table of the House, on which rests the ceremonial mace. |
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| | The Speaker is the chief officer of the House. | | | Ministers are responsible to the House, not to the Senate. | | | The decision of the House to publish its debates in the form of HANSARD and to use television were prompted in part by dissatisfaction with the news media. |
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| | <b>Canadianb> House of Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The new <b>Canadianb> Parliament consisted of the Queen (represented by the Governor General), the Senate and the House of Commons. | | | Members of the Government sit on the benches on the Speaker's right, while members of the Opposition occupy the benches on the Speaker's left. | | | The House of Commons came into existence in 1867, when the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the British North America Act, uniting the Province of Canada (which was separated into Quebec and Ontario), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into a single federation, called the Dominion of Canada. |
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| | <b>Canadianb> House of Commons - definition of <b>Canadianb> House of Commons in Encyclopedia |
| | Seated at a long table in front of the speaker are the clerk and other procedural officers of the House. | | | In this respect, he or she is considered "the first commoner." The speaker is also responsible for the administration of the House and its staff and has many diplomatic and social duties. | | | The speaker represents the Commons in dealings with the <b>Canadianb> Senate and the Crown. |
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| | The Deputy Speaker of the House, the position I held in the last Parliament, is not an elected one, as the Speaker’s office is. Instead, the newly elected Prime Minister appoints a Member to this position, as well as appointing Members to other positions, such as Assistant Speakers. | | | The Act also delineates that the Speaker is to preside at all meetings of the House of Commons, and establishes the Speaker’s right to a casting vote in the event of ties, which is the only time when the Speaker has a right to vote. | | | However, the Deputy Speaker is entitled to engage in debate and participate in voting, unless acting in the role of Speaker in the Speaker’s absence. |
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| | April 25, 1996-Vol27n27: Six to receive awards from UB Alumni Association |
| | She is speaker of the House of Delegates for the New York State Medical Society. | | | Gilbert Parent has been a member of Parliament since 1974, and was elected speaker of the House of Commons two years ago. | | | A FORMER MEMBER of the State University of New York Board of Trustees, the speaker of the <b>Canadianb> House of Commons and an Emmy Award-winning director will be among those honored when the UB Alumni Association holds its annual awards dinner in May. |
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| | Vacancies in the House of Commons caused by death or resignation | | | Recorded Votes in the House of Commons Where the Cabinet did not Vote with the Majority | | | Suspended from their Caucus or who quit their Caucus - Members of the House of Commons |
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| | MarijuanaNews.Com, Freedom has nothing to fear from the truth |
| | <b>Canadianb> House Of Commons Votes 204 to 29 To Urge The Health Ministry | | | The House of Commons is exactly where issues of this nature should be discussed and where regulations and legislation should be passed. | | | Yes, we have to make sure that the safeguard of all Canadians, especially when it comes to their health, is paramount in any decisions that the House makes or in any recommendations from individuals. |
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| | He was first elected to the <b>Canadianb> House of Commons in the 1891 <b>Canadianb> election as Liberal Member of Parliament for Rouville, Quebec and represented the riding continuously until his retirement prior to the 1911 <b>Canadianb> election. | | | After the Liberals won the 1896 <b>Canadianb> election, Brodeur was appointed deputy speaker and became Speaker of the <b>Canadianb> House of Commons following the 1900 <b>Canadianb> election. | | | Prior to the 1911 <b>Canadianb> election, Brodeur retired from politics and was appointed by Laurier to a seat on the Supreme Court of Canada. |
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| | Gerald Regan |
| | Members of the <b>Canadianb> House of Commons from Nova Scotia | | | Regan returned to the federal House of Commons in the 1980 federal election, and was appointed Minister of Labour and Minister of State for International Trade in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. | | | He was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1963 federal election. |
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| | Roles of an M.P. and Responsibilities as a Cabinet Minister |
| | The Deputy Speaker of the House, the position I held in the last Parliament, is not an elected one, as the Speaker& office is. Instead, the newly elected Prime Minister appoints a Member to this position, as well as appointing Members to other positions, such as Assistant Speakers. | | | The Act also delineates that the Speaker is to preside at all meetings of the House of Commons, and establishes the Speaker& right to a casting vote in the event of ties, which is the only time when the Speaker has a right to vote. | | | In Great Britain, there is a principle of continuity of office whereby the Speaker, upon election, "renounces all party affiliation and, when seeking re-election to the House, runs as Speaker." Re-election of the Speaker is almost certain since he is not usually opposed. |
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