Sentences with phrase «changed in the house chambers»

In New York, Rhode Island and South Carolina, it's been years since party control has changed in the House chambers.

Not exact matches

Reformed second chamber should be 80 per cent or 100 per cent elected Bishops should not retain reserved places in a 100 per cent elected House Link between a peerage and place in the second chamber should be broken Government should not hold a majority in the second chamber No changes to the powers of the second chamber and the House of Commons should retain its primacy

By 2017 Labour's policy had changed to a «belief» in an elected second chamber but a commitment only to stopping hereditary peerages and reducing the size of the House of Lords:

Those reluctant for change in the upper House are preparing themselves for a bitter fight to keep the Lords an appointed chamber.

Finally, I suggested that with Lord Mandelson refusing to debate Ken Clarke on television, that it was time to change the Standing Orders of the House of Commons to allow Lord Mandelson to answer questions at the Despatch Box in the Commons and be held to account for his department's actions in the elected chamber.

Though the events that prompted the review — in which the House of Lords derailed the government's changes to working tax credits — most obviously invite discussion of the unelected nature of the second chamber, they also highlight a deeper problem with our democratic system.

Even the seating arrangements in the Commons have changed, with the SNP occupying the front benches on the opposition side of the House and the Liberal Democrats being pushed into the far corner of the chamber.

Washington — House and Senate education committee members last week sharply criticized the Reagan Administration's proposed changes in regulations governing programs for handicapped schoolchildren, and both chambers set legislative actions in motion that signaled their displeasure.

Although that bill passed the Senate and the House, the two chambers couldn't come to an agreement on all the other changes that had been made in the process, so it did not make it to the Governor's desk.