Sentences with phrase «democratic second chamber»

And then unlike the last election we will ask for a clear mandate to make the House of Lords an accountable and democratic second chamber for the very first time.

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It could represent a compromise between those wishing to create a strong democratic mandate for the second chamber, those wishing to ensure Commons supremacy, and those wishing to maintain a deliberative and «expert» - influenced revising and scrutinising legislative body.

ALBANY — Sen. Neil Breslin has been tapped as deputy leader of the 26 - member Democratic Conference, a post that requires him to coordinate the legislative flow on the chamber floor and serve as the second - in - command to Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn.

Labour is committed to replacing the House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and Regions, to represent every part of the United Kingdom, and to improve the democratic legitimacy of the second chamber.

All three Democratic incumbents are running for a second term and are top targets for Senate Republicans, who are trying to maintain control of the chamber after the Independent Democratic Conference announced it would end its majority coalition agreement with the GOP.

Simon Hughes, Lib Dem constitutional affairs spokesman, said: «It would be a serious setback to our democratic credentials as a country if the Commons does not vote this week for a wholly or predominately elected second chamber.

, or without a vigorous opposition press, or with a slanderous and irresponsible opposition press, or which have signed up to supranational bodies outside democratic control, or which have signed up to international treaties ditto, or which make use of protected seats for women or ethnic minorities, or where the if the prime minister is one ethnic group the president is conventionally always another, or where unlimited campaign donations are allowed, or disallowed, or where significant numbers question the legitimacy of the polity holding the vote, or where voting is compulsory, or where non-citizens can not vote, or where they can, or where there is (or is not) a second chamber or supreme court that can block popular legislation...

(CNN)- The Democratic incumbent in what's turning into a crucial Senate race that could decide which party controls the chamber the next two years goes up Monday with the second television commercial of her re-election bid.

It's a democratic outrage that we have a second chamber of unelected Lords.

It is the only second chamber in the democratic world which is larger than its respective first chamber.

Also, having a second chamber too big to be effective might give the government an easier ride (and in general governments are much less interested in constitutional reforms to strengthen democratic accountability than oppositions).

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.

Yet on the other hand, the Government is prepared to use the democratic argument in order to weaken the second chamber's powers.

Second, any plan that stipulates a state must first «opt in» before that state's federal taxpayers may receive the national K — 12 scholarship tax credit will effectively give the teachers unions the ability to stop the scholarship tax credit in virtually any state that has a Democratic governor or Democratic control of either legislative chamber.