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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. | | | It can be dissolved by the Prime Minister at will, as it was by Junichiro Koizumi on August 8, 2005, due to a divide within his Liberal Democratic Party. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_Japan
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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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http://legis.state.va.us/House/Delegates.htm
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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 159, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | The principal officers of the house are the speaker, the clerk, the sergeant-at-arms, the doorkeeper, the postmaster, and the chaplain. | | | 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. |
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http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy550.html
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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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http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/government3.html
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| | The Japan Times Online |
| | The general election of the Lower House, which elects the prime minister, is the first since Koizumi took office in April 2001. | | | At stake in the election are 480 seats in the Lower House and the fate of the Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition, with the Democratic Party of Japan, the No. 1 opposition force, hoping to unseat the Koizumi administration. | | | The last general election of the Lower House was held in June 2000, under Koizumi's predecessor, Yoshiro Mori. |
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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20031011a1.htm
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| | UNI : Lower house narrowly approves plans to privatise Japan Post |
| | The lower house voted 233 for and 228 against the privatisation. | | | If the Upper House rejects the bills, they will be sent back to the Lower House for a second vote, which then will be decisive. | | | Lower house narrowly approves plans to privatise Japan Post |
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http://www.union-network.org/unipostal.nsf/1/E96B2B76813B8246C12570350045F6E5?OpenDocument
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| | Employees of the House are prohibited from lobbying during the term of their employment, and a violation of this Rule will be sufficient cause for the summary discharge of the offending employee. | | | The Chief Clerk shall transmit all messages from the House to the Senate and Governor, unless the House shall otherwise direct, and shall perform such additional duties as may be assigned by the House or Speaker. | | | The House shall elect as an officer of the House a Speaker, and shall elect a Chief Clerk and such other employees as the House directs. |
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http://www.azleg.state.az.us/formatdocument.asp?indoc=/members/46leg/hrules.htm
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| | Japanese Lower House elections |
| | The 26-year-old daughter of the late former Prime Minister Obuchi, Yoshiro, was easily elected the the Lower House, despite the fact she acknowledges to not have the faintest idea about politics. | | | In early July, the government lead by Yoshiro Mori, won the confidence of the Lower (284 out of 479 votes) and the Upper House (133 out of 242 votes). | | | By the way, already former Prime Minister Obuchi himself "inherited" his seat at the age of 26 after his father's death. |
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http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo8/japanelection.htm
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| | Maaytah wins Lower House election |
| | In the past two weeks, there were speculations that the House was leaning towards electing a woman for the vacant seat. | | | “The result of the elections is a surprise to the government and to the Lower and Upper Houses speakers who were exerting pressure on some deputies to elect this candidate,” Kharabsheh told the Jordan Times. | | | AMMAN — It took four rounds of voting, but in the end, Lower House deputies elected Nuha Maaytah on Tuesday to fill the seat vacated by the late Deputy Lutfi Barghouti. |
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http://www.jordanembassyus.org/03212001006.htm
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| | Newman Reader - Convocation of Canterbury - Chapter 2 |
| | Accordingly, to this parallel the champions of the Lower House had recourse, in order to establish their independence; while the Bishops appealed first to the original state of the Convocation, next to the principles of episcopacy and the precedents of primitive Synods. | | | It was called by the Archbishop's mandate, directed to the Bishop of London as Dean of the Province; to the Archbishop the returns of members were made, and before him, as President of Convocation, the members appeared on the day fixed for assembling. | | | Meanwhile, the Archbishop surely might be allowed to preside over his own provincial Council, according to custom. |
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http://www.newmanreader.org/works/historical/volume3/canterbury/chapter2.html
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| | Kuna siteStory pageVoting begins in Japan''s Lower House election ...9/11/2005 |
| | Before the election, Koizumi's LDP had 212 seats in the 480-seat lower house and its coalition partner the New Komeito had 34. | | | Election experts have predicted a heavier turnout than the 59.86 percent in the 2003 lower house election. | | | Koizumi said he will step down if the coalition of his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the New Komeito party fails to win at least a majority of 241 seats in the strong lower house, which has the power to appoint a prime minister. |
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http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=768296
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| | Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy |
| | Ever since the Lower House narrowly approved the postal bills on July 5, the LDP has been in a state of severe crisis. | | | Despite a comfortable majority in the Lower House, the postal bills were only approved by a mere five ballots in a truly cliff-hanger vote. | | | This forced Koizumi to declare that he would take a rejection of the bills by the upper chamber as a vote of no confidence in his administration and call an election. |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/GH09Dh01.html
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| | UNI : Campaign steps up against postal privatisation in Japan |
| | Outside observers say that in view of the close vote in the lower house - unprecedented in modern Japanese political history - the outlook next week in the upper house (where the LDP majority is slimmer) is now uncertain for Prime Minister Koizumi who has staked his reputation on his unpopular privatisation plan. | | | They did so in spite of threats by the Prime Minister to dissolve the lower house and hold new elections. | | | Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won a majority of only five for his plan that would split Japan Post into four operating units and privatise it all by 2017. |
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http://www.union-network.org/uniflashes.nsf/1/9A455E8CD12344CFC1257036002FFF08?OpenDocument
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Koizumi wins postal reform vote |
| | He had said that if the lower house failed to pass the reform, it would be tantamount to a vote of no confidence, raising the threat of new elections. | | | Japan's lower house of parliament has narrowly approved plans to privatise the country's huge postal system. | | | Mr Koizumi made privatisation one of his earliest priorities when he came into office in 2001. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4651155.stm
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| | [House Aspis, Lower Lounge] |
| | The mage will be chosen by a house Workshop Committee, under the supervision of the house officers. | | | Review of the House Mage appointment and or Workshop Guidelines will also occur at the request of the House Mage, the House Officers, or the Workshop Committee. | | | Should a review result in the decision to change the appointment of House Mage, the incumbent House Mage will have a maximum of thirty (30) days to conclude work in progress and return the key to the Workshop Committee Chairman. |
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http://www.geocities.com/argentaspis/lowerlounge_desc.html
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| | Bloomberg.com: Latin America |
| | Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil's lower house president, Severino Cavalcanti, resigned from congress, stepping down as federal police investigate allegations he took kickbacks to grant a restaurant concession in the congressional building. | | | Cavalcanti, who started his political career in 1964 as mayor of his hometown, Joao Alfredo, in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, rose to the presidency of the house on Feb. 15, unexpectedly defeating Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh of Lula's ruling party in a 300-195 second-round vote. | | | The resignation of Cavalcanti, who between 1966 and 1995 served seven consecutive terms in the Pernambuco state legislature before wining his lower house seat, prevents him from being ousted and banned from running in any election for eight years. |
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aqVhUFIVxCr8&refer=latin_america
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com Kazakh lower house of parliament approves amnesty affecting 14,000 people |
| | The amnesty, if approved by the upper house and signed by the president, would apply to convicted minors, women and the elderly, the lower house's press office said. | | | The amnesty, if approved by the upper house and signed by the president, would apply to convicted minors, women and the elderly, the lower house's press office said More details... | | | The head of the Russian parliamentary commission investigating last year's Beslan school siege said Wednesday that the operation to free hostages was riddled by "miscalculations and shortcomings," the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. |
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http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/12/28/70618.html
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| | MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News |
| | The lower house decision will force the measure back to the Senate for further consideration. | | | While the legislators voted, thousands of peasants and workers protested against the plan outside Congress. |
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http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=5950
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| | asahi.com：LDP obtains 296 Lower House seats for first majority in 15 years. - ENGLISH |
| | The LDP's 296 seats in the Lower House are the party's second most, following 300 in 1986, when simultaneous elections of the Lower House and the Upper House were held under then Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. | | | The Liberal Democratic Party clinched 296 seats in Sunday's Lower House election, giving the ruling party its first majority in the Diet chamber in 15 years. | | | LDP obtains 296 Lower House seats for first majority in 15 years. |
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http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200509120188.html
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| | Pravda.RU Lower House Speaker pronounces in favour of speedy extradition of Ahmed Zakayev to Russia |
| | Gennady Seleznev, speaker of the State Duma (Lower House of the Russian parliament), urges not to yield to panic over the seizure of hostages in Moscow's Theatre Centre. | | | Sharing the responsibility for the situation that is unfolding in the country, the Federation Council (the Upper House of the Russian parliament) is ready to take "adequate measures" for heightening national security and eradicating the causes of terrorism. | | | On Wednesday a law giving an exceptional right to young people aged from 14 to 16 to marry at their own request has passed the third reading in the State Duma. |
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http://english.pravda.ru/politics/2002/10/30/38875.html
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| | Headline News The Kathmandu Post (Nepal) |
| | Kathmandu, March 14 : The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a controversial Bill that guarantees equal property rights and conditional abortion rights to women with an overwhelming majority, ending months of speculations. | | | According to a cabinet source, the Corruption Control Bill, 2002 and Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) (Second Amendment) Bill, 2002, will be introduced in the Lower House of the parliament soon. | | | So, I declare that the Bill has been passed, as per the Clause 69 (7) of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal 1990," Deputy Speaker Chitra Lekha Yadav, who conducted Wednesday’s sitting, announced after the voting. |
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http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishdaily/ktmpost/2002/mar/mar15
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| | Bloomberg.com: Asia |
| | April 26 (Bloomberg) -- Japan& ruling Liberal Democratic Party fended off a challenge from the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan to retain three lower house seats in elections yesterday, the last scheduled polls before a national vote in July. | | | ``This should strengthen the view that the LDP will also win the July upper house election decisively,'' said Shigenori Okazaki, a political analyst at UBS Securities Japan Ltd. in his report to clients, referring to the July polls. | | | The July election will select half the lawmakers of what will become a 242-seat upper house. |
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| | Koizumi dissolves lower house, sets November polls - Oct. 11, 2003 |
| | The House of Representatives was dissolved shortly after it opened a plenary session at 0400 GMT with lower house speaker Tamisuke Watanuki reading out an edict approved by the government and signed by Emperor Akihito. | | | It will be the first time that Koizumi will face a direct verdict from voters since he took office in April 2001 promising reform. | | | TOKYO - Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the lower house of parliament Friday and called a general election for November 9 which is likely to be fought on the state of the economy. |
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http://www.inq7.net/wnw/2003/oct/11/wnw_3-1.htm
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| | Maryland House of Delegates - Organizational Structure |
| | Michael E. Busch, House Speaker (elected by House of Delegates) (410) 841-3800, (301) 858-3800 | | | Kumar P. Barve, Majority Leader (appointed by House Speaker) (410) 841-3464, (301) 858-3464 | | | Adrienne A. Jones, Speaker Pro Tem (elected by House of Delegates) (410) 841-3391 |
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| | Jordan Times (Home News Section) |
| | The draft law governing the agreement with the US was voted down by an overwhelming majority of the Lower House during its extraordinary session last summer. | | | But the Senate later approved the agreement, and according to procedures the draft law was sent back to the deputies when the ordinary session started on Jan.1. | | | The Lower House then turned the draft law over to its Legal Committee for examination, which in turn approved the agreement after finding that it did not “jeopardise Jordan's sovereignty.” |
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Mexico -- Mexico's lower house approves voting for Mexicans living abroad |
| | MEXICO CITY – The lower house of Mexico's Congress overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to approve voting by Mexicans living abroad in the country's 2006 presidential elections. | | | The bill, which must also be approved by the Senate, also provides for the registration of voters abroad and campaigning outside Mexico. | | | Mexico's lower house approves voting for Mexicans living abroad |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20050222-1743-mexico-votingabroad.html
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| | Japan Policy & Politics: DPJ to win 308 lower house seats in simulation based on Sunday polls |
| | The election outcome, in which the DPJ narrowly defeated the ruling Liberal Democratic Party with 50 to 49 seats among the 121 seats contested, translates to a whopping 308 seats for the DPJ in the lower house through a simple calculation of votes won in the proportional representation section of Sunday's election. | | | The New Komeito, which currently holds 34 seats in the lower house, would have only 27, while the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party would get the same number of seats as they now have of nine and six seats, respectively. | | | According to the test calculations, if the LDP were to tackle the lower house election on its own, it would lose in all of the single-seat district races in 15 prefectures, including Hokkaido, Tokyo and Osaka, and win only 68 seats in such constituencies nationwide. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2004_July_19/ai_n6280816
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| | CNN - Obuchi wins vote in Japanese Parliament's lower house for prime minister - July 30, 1998 |
| | Obuchi, 61, who served as foreign minister until resigning along with the rest of the Cabinet this morning, would succeed Ryutaro Hashimoto, who was forced to quit after voter outrage over the stumbling economy dealt the ruling party a painful defeat in July 12 upper house elections. | | | If no compromise was struck, the lower house winner -- Obuchi -- officially would be declared prime minister. | | | Obuchi was almost certain to become prime minister, however, since the lower house has the power to overrule any upper house decision. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Spanish MPs approve gay marriages |
| | Spain's lower house of parliament has voted in favour of allowing gay couples to marry and adopt children. | | | The controversial decision overrules last week's rejection of the bill by the upper house, the Senate. | | | The bill will become law in a month's time, making Spain Europe's third nation after the Netherlands and Belgium to allow same sex marriages. |
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| | CBS News Japan's Lower House Approves Bank Bill July 5, 2005 09:46:26 |
| | The close 233-228 vote, which reflected deep divisions in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was a bittersweet victory for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who had made the reform the centerpiece of his government since winning re-election last year. | | | The Cabinet decided to dismiss four dissenting LDP lawmakers from administrative posts after the vote. | | | But even rejection by the upper house would not block the legislation, since the lower house can override that with a second vote. |
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| | Catholic World News : Spanish parliament approves same-sex marriage |
| | The bill, which passed by a vote of 187- 147 despite heavy opposition from Catholic leaders and lay activists, will become law in one month. | | | Madrid, Jun. 30, 2005 (CWNews.com) - The lower house of Spain's parliament has approved legislation that will allow same-sex couples to enter into legal marriages. |
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| | Thirty-Thousand.org - Legislatures Around the World |
| | Consists of members who serve longer terms than those of the lower house | | | The U.S. legislature is bicameral, comprised of the Senate (the “upper house”) and the House of Representatives (the “lower house”). | | | The United States has the second largest legislative districts in the world. |
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http://www.thirty-thousand.org/pages/world.htm
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| | Kyodo World News Service: Voting begins for lower house by-elections in Miyagi, Shiga@ HighBeam Research |
| | Four candidates are vying for the Miyagi seat, vacated by the Sept. 4 death of Soichiro Ito, a former lower house speaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),... | | | Early election results are expected to be known by 10 p.m. | | | TOKYO, Oct. 28 (Kyodo) -- Voting began Sunday to fill two of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives through by-elections in Miyagi and Shiga prefectures. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:47788501&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | Jordan Times (Home News Section) |
| | The House needed three more deputies for a quorum. | | | Deputies were also supposed to vote on military retirement legislation and endorse the election results of 12 House committees. | | | The House was scheduled to ratify several international agreements between Jordan and Arab countries, including an amendment to the Riyadh Judicial Agreement, extradition treaties with Algeria and Kuwait, as well as a settlement to a commercial dispute with the latter country. |
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| | Lower House approves Telstra sale - Telecom Asia |
| | The 75 to 58 vote in the House of Representatives, where the governing coalition holds a comfortable majority, came a day after the legislation eked through the Senate by a vote of 37-35. | | | (Associated Press via NewsEdge) Australia's lower house of parliament passed legislation to sell the government's controlling stake in Telstra, clearing the way for the privatization of the former state-owned telecommunications monopoly. | | | The votes allow the government to proceed with plans to sell its 51.8% stake in Telstra for as much as $23 billion late next year. |
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| | The Lower House: Heroin Junkets |
| | In the lower house, President Thieu relies on members of the Independence Bloc to do the bargaining and make the payments, rather than negotiating personally or working through his military advisers. | | | Although the bloc is nominally independent, its leader, Rep. Nguyen Quang Luyen, met with President Thieu soon after it was formed and "verbally agreed" to support the president in exchange for unspecified favors. | | | The representative paid a rather nominal fine, and the whole matter was hushed up until it was revealed during the height of the smuggling controversy several months later. |
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| | Japan's lower house of Parliament passes pension reform bill amid scandal |
| | Public broadcaster NHK said lawmakers from the Democratic Party, Japan's largest opposition party, boycotted Tuesday's lower house session to protest the vote. | | | Japan's lower house of Parliament approved a bill Tuesday that would reform the country's rickety pension system, amid a scandal over missed payments that has led to the resignation of two high-profile politicians from their leadership posts. | | | On Monday, Naoto Kan, head of the Democratic Party, announced he would resign as party chief after admitting he missed payments to the national pension system. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/05/11/international0321EDT0435.DTL
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| | Fifth House · Astrological definition of Fifth House · Astrology Encyclopedia |
| | In a National Figure: the upper legislative house - in contrast to the Eleventh House which rules the lower house; although the Eleventh represents the legislative branches as a unit, as distinct from the administrative branch of the government. | | | In an Organization: the executive personnel, its officers and Board of Directors as distinguished from the President or Chairman of the Board; the governing body in a collective sense; any attitude or action of the stockholders or Board of Directors in opposition to the President. | | | Planets in the Fifth and Eleventh Houses are an index to emotional desires, not infrequently expressed in the more sublimated form of platonic friendships and affiliations. |
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http://www.astrologyweekly.com/dictionary/fifth-house.php
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| | Planet Ark : Brazil lower house clears genetically modified soy decree |
| | BRASILIA - Brazil's lower house of Congress approved a government decree authorising the sale of genetically modified soy until March 31, 2004, instead of Jan. 31 as originally envisaged. | | | Provisional measure 113 published on March 26, which must still be approved by Senate upper house, requires all soybeans harvested this year to carry a label saying that they may contain GM material. | | | Brazil lower house clears genetically modified soy decree |
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| | Japan Lower House Passes Privacy Law |
| | The lower house of Japan's Diet has passed legislation intended to protect individual privacy despite protests the law will restrict freedom of speech, according to wire service reports. | | | This law prohibits companies from sharing personal information without an individual's prior approval and limits the use of the information to specific purposes. | | | The legislation must still go to the upper house, which was expected to pass it during the current session of Parliament that runs through mid-June. |
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| | The Manila Times Internet Edition OPINION > Wiretap hearing gives new meaning to Lower House |
| | News of a top US ambassador jetting into town tomorrow was the dominant topic of conversation at weekend diplomatic soirees. | | | For this performance, the term Lower House took on a new meaning. | | | But back to the House hearing—though some might prefer to call it the House dilly-dallying. |
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| | Italy Lower House Approves Funds for Extended Iraq Deployment |
| | Defense Minister Antonio Martino expressed satisfaction at the lower house result. | | | Martino said this will allow them to continue with their work, which he said is absolutely necessary for the future of a democratic, free and prosperous Iraq. | | | Cabinet ministers also reached agreement on a new anti-terror package, which had caused some friction within the ruling coalition government. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2005/07/iraq-050721-2dbd14ea.htm
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| | House of Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The leader of the majority party in the House of Commons usually becomes the prime minister. | | | The name was never used for the Australian House of Representatives, United States House of Representatives or New Zealand House of Representatives. | | | The House of Commons was created to serve as the political outlet for this "commons" class, while the elite estates were represented in the House of Lords. |
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| | Lower House again rejects cancelling Article 340 of Penal Code |
| | What has worsened the situation is the senators' acceptance of the cancellation of the article,” stated Deputy Mohammad Ra'fat, representative of the Balqa Governorate. | | | Speaker of the House Abdul Hadi Majali called for a vote on further discussion of the bill. | | | I recommend referring the draft bill to the Legal Committee for examination,” Haddadin said. |
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