Sentences with phrase «bicameral federal»

On Sept. 18, Russians went to the polls to elect the State Duma — the lower chamber of the bicameral Federal Assembly.

Russian voters will elect 450 deputies to Russia's State Duma on Sunday, in the seventh election for the lower chamber of Russia's bicameral Federal Assembly since the legislature's founding in 1993.

Not exact matches

The bicameral Belgian Federal Parliament, by contrast, has a building in the classical style.

Last week, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrandannounced key provisions from their legislation to help increase employment among at - risk youth passed Congress as part of a bipartisan, bicameral deal — the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)-- which reauthorizes federal job -LSB-...]

At the federal level, voters elect the 222 - member House of Representatives (Malay: Dewan Rakyat, literally «Hall of the People») of the bicameral Parliament.

I think this is in part because I don't see the point of bicameral legislatures, especially in a federal system.

This bicameral, bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps. Michael Grimm, R - N.Y., and Maxine Waters, D - Calif., and by Sens. Bob Menendez, D - N.J., and Johnny Isakson, R - Ga., would delay further implementation of major rate changes until the Federal Emergency Management Agency completes an affordability study required by Biggert - Waters; creates an office of the Advocate to investigate flood insurance rate increases; and reports to Congress with proposed solutions to any identified problems.