Phrases with «revising chamber»

Sentences with «revising chamber»

  • Wall reminds us that according to Delors» plan, the Council of Ministers would have become a mere revising chamber, rather like the current role of the House of Lords! (totalpolitics.com)
  • As I have said before on this site, The West Lothian question should be sorted by having English votes for English laws, and Scottish MPs acting as a proper revising chamber for the Scottish parliament to give them something to do, when they are not sitting during «English» sessions! (conservativehome.blogs.com)
  • Subsequently matters settled down, and the Joint Committee on Conventions (which considered the relations between the two chambers in 2006) noted that «the House of Lords should not regularly reject Statutory Instruments» (para 227) but «There are situations in which it is consistent both with the Lords» role in Parliament as a revising chamber, and with Parliament's role in relation to delegated legislation, for the Lords to threaten to defeat an SI» (para 229). (constitution-unit.com)
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