Sentences with phrase «elected house members»

Republican Scott Jones was at the orientation for newly elected House members Monday, even though he doesn't yet know if he defeated Democratic Rep. Ami Bera in California's 7th District.

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Ms. Unger was chosen as one of Alberta's Senators - in - Waiting in the 2004 election and is the third elected Senator to be made a member of Canada's appointed Upper House.

Most Americans, 60 %, know that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is a Mormon; he would be the first member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints elected to the White House.

Rep. John Katko stands out among House members elected to Congress in 2014 for his reliance on campaign contributions from special interest groups, according to an analysis by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Grace Meng was elected to Congress last year, and is New York's first Asian - American member of the House.

No BNP member has ever been elected to the House of Commons.

On Wednesday night, I posted a blog about recorded racially charged comments made by a Buffalo Common Council Candidate and elected member of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority Board.

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.

I do also have to disagree strongly and fundamentally with Harry Barnes regarding his proposal to either emasculate or abolish the House of Lords, even if it is composed of elected members.

The Eerste Kamer (Upper House) are not elected directly by the people, but they are elected by the members of the provincial parliaments.

Article 271 (2) provides that, «The House of Chiefs of each region shall elect as members of the National House of Chiefs five paramount chiefs from the region,» and 271 (3) provides that «Where in a region there are fewer than five paramount chiefs, the House of Chiefs of the region shall elect such number of divisional chiefs as shall make up the required representation of chiefs for the region.»

Although their official report isn't due to be published until the 23rd of April, on Wednesday the Guardian reported that the Joint Committee on Lords Reform has decided to back an «open preferential voting system» rather than the government's preferred Single Transferable Vote (STV) for electing members to a reformed House of Lords.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, unless -

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

Members would be elected exactly as now, but where their party was under - represented nationally this would be corrected by giving them an additional voting strength in the division lobbies of the House of Commons.

At noon, elected officials, including LG candidate and Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams, tenants from rent regulated and NYCHA apartments and Upstate / Downstate Housing Alliance members, deliver thousands of signatures to the governor, demanding that housing be a priority in this year's budget, Cuomo's office, 633 Third Ave., ManHousing Alliance members, deliver thousands of signatures to the governor, demanding that housing be a priority in this year's budget, Cuomo's office, 633 Third Ave., Manhousing be a priority in this year's budget, Cuomo's office, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.

U.S. Congressman Adriano Espaillat took elected officials and community members on a walking tour this Sun., Mar. 18th of vacant lots where he said that the city could build 100 percent affordable housing.

General elections occur every 4 or 5 years, and elect Members of Parliament to the UK House of Commons, determining who forms the UK government.

Of the 150 current members of the lower house, 124 were first elected to office after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver became speaker.

If the Electoral Commission is satisfied that the name of a member declared to be elected is not correctly recorded on a return forwarded to the Clerk of the House of Representatives under section 193 (5)(b), --

The 2000 royal commission report proposed a new House of Lords with no more than a third of elected members.

But Rep. Steve Stivers of Ohio, who heads the National Republican Congressional Committee - with overall responsibility for electing GOP House members - said that although 2018 is a challenging election year for Republicans, he is not worried about Faso.

US citizens vote on the first Tuesday in November at the general election to elect the various members of the Senate and the House of Representatives as well as state and local government officials.

In 1992, there were 103 members of the House of Representatives elected from what might be called swing districts: those in which the margin in the presidential race was within five percentage points of the national result.

Instead he joined six current New York Democratic House members, former Rep. Charles B. Rangel and former Rep. (and current Lieutenant Governor) Kathy Hochul in urging a crowd of 500 or so to work toward electing a Democratic House majority in 2018.

Liberia's National Elections Commission (NEC) has presented certificate of return to the President - elect, George Weah; Vice President - elect, Jewel Howard - Taylor, and the newly elected members of the House of Representatives.

President - elect, Nana Akufo - Addo, is already being accused of nursing the ambition to stampede the independence and authority of the August House of Parliament and that of yet to be sworn - in New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament (MP).

In the Lok Sabha (the Lower House of the Indian Parliament), 76 of the 543 members elected in 2009 had been charged with serious criminal offences such as murder, rape and dacoity.

Kathy Hochul, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, was joined at an Upper West Side rally today by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and a group of Manhattan Democratic elected officials that included Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Assembly Members Keith Wright and Linda Rosenthal, Council Members Dan Garodnick and Inez Dickens and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

Also at 11 a.m., Queens Rep. Joe Crowley, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, along with local elected officials, housing advocates, and community members hold a press conference to announce legislation creating two new refundable tax credits for people who live in rental or government - subsidized housing, Woodside Houses Park, 50th Street between Newtown Road and Broadway, Queens.

The Australian federal senate is a house of review, elected from multiple member state electorates.

The first elections to the House of Lords, with members being elected for 15 - year terms, are expected to take place at the same time as each of the next three general elections, with the first being held in 2015.

The Commons Speaker, John Bercow, has called it absurd that the unelected House of Lords is substantially larger than the 650 - member elected House of Commons, and has said he thinks its membership should be cut in half to about 400.

Senators are elected from the same legislative districts as are members of the Arizona House of Representatives.

During his flirtation in 1999 with a run for White House as a member of the Reform Party, however, Trump was on the opposite end of similar criticisms, targeting former - Republican turned Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan as too controversial to be elected.

One change, a few months ago, meant that the BBBC's members were no longer elected by the whole house but the Tory members by Tory backbench MPs only and Labour representatives by Labour backbench MPs etc..

Regardless of the actual voting patterns in this case, any voting system in which individual members are all elected from a single geographical region, as is used in the Australian House of Representatives can easily have the party with most seats (and perhaps an overall majority / plurality) not be the party which received most votes.

And given that Paul Ryan has just been elected as Speaker of the House promising to «take the fight to the Democrats», and Tea Party members are already angry at the GOP leadership about the budget deal, I think there's a significant chance that of a Shutdown threat.

I'd like to also see the House members elected to 4 - year terms, rather than 2 years.

The referendum is May 5th and the question is «Do you want the United Kingdom to adopt the «alternative vote» system instead of the current «first past the post» system for electing Members of Parliament to the House of Commons?».

«There is no section or clause of the 1999 Constitution (As Amended) that provides that one must be a member of the ruling party before he could be elected into any position in the Senate or the House of Representatives.

[1] For budget bills or supplementary appropriations bills, two - thirds of the members elected to each house are required to override the governor's veto of a bill or line - item veto.

Ithaca Congressman Tom Reed supported the President - elect early on, and now is a member of the Steering Committee in the House.

Rep. Pete Sessions (R - TX)-- the chairman of the Republican committee tasked with raising funds to elect more House Republicans — told us that he saw no conflict with his members raising money from the oil industry just about an hour before BP was scheduled to appear for questioning.»

We have decided on balance that we should provide a single list for these elections, including those parties that won seats in 2009, and remind people that the system for electing members of the European Parliament is different from that for electing MPs to the House of Commons.

At 31 — the youngest woman House member ever elected — she projects the kind of youthful vitality that Republicans see as an antidote to the party's stodgy, elderly - white - male image.

At present not every party is represented on every committee, when there may be only 12 members, and this would not change whether DPR Voting or any other electoral system is used to elect the lower House.

A member of the House of Representatives elected under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Johnson Agbonayinma, representing Egor / Ikpoba - okha in Edo State has defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

They had argued that the judgement barred members from leaving the party upon which they were elected to the House, saying that the consequence was to lose their seat.

The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.