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The Lords, as its referred to, is the upper house of Parliament in the British system.

Nowadays, however, the upper house wields far less power than the lower, and the hereditary members are slowly being phased out, replaced by Lords appointed by the Prime Minister or the House of Lords Appointments Commission, an independent body.

Labor doesn't control the upper house, where the Liberals, Nationals, One Nation and Greens have 21 MLCs to Labor's 12 voting ones.

Spain's upper house is due to approve the imposition of direct rule over the region later Friday.

Downing Street has ruled out such membership, preferring to be able to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world, but the majority of members in the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the issue.

While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

«I think we can see... the effect of lessons they learned from the first Abe administration, which gave up mid-stream,» said Tetsuro Fukuyama, an upper house lawmaker whose Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) ousted Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 2009, only to be crushed themselves at the polls in December.

He's clearly decided that at least until the upper house election (in July), he is going to focus on the economy,» said Gerry Curtis, a Columbia University political science professor who has watched some two dozen Japanese prime ministers come and go during his career.

Abe's ruling camp controls the lower house but lacks a majority in the upper house, so needs the support of opposition parties to pass the nomination.

Both the lower and upper houses will then vote on the nominations.

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

But striking a more conciliatory tone, PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski moved to organise a meeting between the speaker of the upper house of parliament and the media late on Saturday night to discuss the new plan for journalists» access.

«When the town asks regional authorities for funding for a project, it's told: you have Rusal, go work it out with them,» said Erik Chernyshev, a local Communist Party politician, former member of the region's upper house, who also worked as an engineer at the factory for 18 years.

Brexit poses a fundamental challenge to the future of the United Kingdom by removing the European Union law that has helped to bind it together, a committee of lawmakers from the British parliament's upper house said on Wednesday.

Russian lawmaker Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the international affairs committee of Russia's upper house of parliament, described the action as baseless and unfriendly, Interfax news agency reported.

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlsuconi's center - right gained ground in the upper house, known as the Senate.

The Senate, Nigeria's upper house, is expected to approve the bill on Wednesday.

Pier Luigi Bersani's center - left coalition won a slim majority in the lower house but no party won enough seats to win a majority in the country's upper house, the Senate.

OPINION: Labor will need to compromise if its budget plans are to pass the parliament, and a push for upper house reform may not be out of the question.

India's Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu told reporters the government might reconvene parliament to try to pass the GST after it failed to clear the upper house earlier this month.

Mr Marshall's Liberal Party secured 25 seats in the 47 - seat lower house, but he doesn't have the numbers in the upper house to push legislation through without the assistance of minor parties and two SA Best politicians.

A daunting list, but shorter than it was two years ago and it would be shorter still if it were not for political obstructions to proposed reforms such as the GST in the upper house of parliament where Mr. Modi's government does not have a majority.

WA has not ruled out implementing a state - based bank tax after a similar proposal was blocked in South Australia's upper house.

The British government's recent setbacks are also weighing on the pound, a typical tailwind for shares in dollar earnings British companies, after Britain's upper house voted to give parliament powers to block or delay a final deal on departure from the European Union.

The legislation, which still needs upper house approval before becoming legal, was passed by the German lower house of Parliament.

In his maiden speech — which, following a tradition now rarely observed, he waited a year after his election to deliver — Sasse argued that the upper house of the U.S. Congress was intended specifically by the framers to preserve minority opinion by enshrining a process of long - form debate to preclude a legislative fast track.

He lost his seat in the upper house at the 2016 federal election after being bumped down the ticket.

Senator Lambie, who has a crucial vote in the upper house, threatened to withdraw all support of union interests when the AMWU launched industrial action at Simplot in NSW and Tasmania in October.

In a late - night address to the upper house on Tuesday, the outspoken independent senator questioned whether halal certification funds militants in Syria and Iraq.

As the above diagrams show, bills can start in either the lower or upper houses (commons or lords) and are then passed to the other house before final consideration of amendments followed by royal assent.

Lib Dem peers had planned to support a Labour amendment to the electoral reform bill currently in the upper House.

More tentatively, an elected body replacing the House of Lords could have the important function of serving as a single upper house for all these various national and regional assemblies.

She also used this opportunity to slam Gillibrand for the Senate's failure to pass a budget since the junior senator replaced Hillary Clinton in the upper house in January 2009.

This debate is just getting ridiculous.Tredinnick says the upper House will get «Lords creep» - a corruption of «mission creep».

Members of the House of Lords came in for criticism in January when it was revealed that average attendance at votes in the upper house was 55 per cent for Labour peers, 54 per cent for Liberal Democrats and just 29 per cent for Conservatives.

The upper house of the legislature is elected on an ethnic basis, similar to the presidency; each voter in the Federation can either vote for Croat or for Bosniak candidates, not for both; the Federation elects 10 members.

There was intermittent voting on budget bills today in the Assembly, which followed the lead of the Senate, approving legislation that the upper house took up late yesterday.

In countries with a bicameral legislature, there is often no guarantee that the governing party also has a majority in the upper house, so some negotiation with other parties may still be necessary.

But the latest fundraising totals seem to indicate Republicans will have no problem raising the money they need to compete and hold onto their control of the upper house.

It creates the intriguing prospect of yet another parliamentary battle, this time in the upper House, which will be much harder for the Tories to win.

Who made affordability the only barrier to a seat in their (supposedly reformed) upper house?

Whereas most bills go through a full set of parliamentary stages in both Houses, Finance Bills and other tax bills get just a cursory debate in the Lords, with no ability for the upper House to reject or amend.

By the end of the session in June, nothing had been voted on by the upper house so Cuomo created the now infamous Moreland Commission to «use as a hammer» against the legislature.

This wrinkle also occurs to me: to the extent that state Senate districts and state House districts (or the upper / lower equivalents everywhere but Nebraska) are less than conveniently overlapping, you might find that the required votes to get 51 % in the lower house districts will push the upper house districts beyond 51 %.

(Ackerman 2000) One function of upper houses is to hold diverse nations together.

The other really significant position in the upper house is Senate Finance Committee chair, which is currently occupied by Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse - area Republican.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins is using Gov. Andrew Cuomo's free college tuition plan as yet another example of how much more the governor might be able to accomplish if only his fellow Democrats controlled the upper house.

One of the most interesting aspect of the debate, however, was in the arguments in favour of the Baroness» request by the Bishop of Blackburn, who sits in the upper house ex officio as one of the Lords Spiritual (one of the twenty six senior bishops in the Church of England), and Baron Cormack, a long - time member of the joint Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament, which includes members of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords and is responsible for reviewing internal legislation of the Church of England (Church Measures).

However, the results of these elections will also determine the composition of the Eerste Kamer, the Netherlands» legislative upper house.

After the November elections, the IDC forged a deal with Senate Republicans for control of the upper house.