Sentences with phrase «elected chamber of»

The deputy prime minister published a plan last month to replace the Lords with a wholly — or 80 % — elected chamber of about 300 peers.

Result — a directly elected chamber of 120 Senators, who would be broadly reflective of public opinion.

Not exact matches

Jorge Lima, the Executive Director of the LIBRE Initiative, said that in addition to working with both chambers of Congress and the White House on a bill, his organization would mobilize its grassroots efforts to hammer home their principles to elected officials and individual communities.

Only a handful of Alberta's elected Senators have actually been appointed to the upper chamber, as the election process exists outside of the Constitution and can be ignored by the federal government.

Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.

A committee will look into ways of creating a wholly or mainly elected upper chamber on the basis of proportional representation.

Ben Duckworth and Katy Scholes investigate the secret art collections deocrating the offices and chambers of our elected representatives across the UK

On the point about legitimacy: I think you are being very optimistic in assuming that the Commons will continue to be seen as properly superior to the second chamber when the latter is elected on the basis of PR and the Commons is elected on the basis of AV.

«New Yorkers elected a Democratic majority to represent them in both chambers of the legislature, and Gov. Cuomo has an obligation to stand up and ensure that the will of the voters is respected in the New York Senate,» said the group's executive director, Jessica Post.

There is no point having PR for both the Commons and Lords — every voting system has some flaw or other, so it's better to have different means of election to both chambers if both are elected, with the purpose of each correcting the other's flaws.

He's a longstanding opponent of an elected second chamber.

Benjamin, elected to fill a vacant Harlem Senate seat, gave Democrats a 32nd enrolled member in the chamber, kicking of a sustained campaign by liberal groups to push the Independent Democratic Conference toward reconciliation with the mainline conference.

Most U.S. states elect one of their two legislative chambers on an overlapping basis, just as the U.S. Senate does, often a four year term with half of state senators elected every two years.

The only promise there was to «establish a committee to bring forward proposals for a wholly or mainly elected upper chamber on the basis of proportional representation».

Bailey, a Bronx district leader, has close ties to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who was chair of the Bronx committee until he was elected to the chamber's top post last year.

More specifically, the chamber would be directly elected by a form of proportional representation.

I believe that they also show that a second chamber elected in the way described above can broadly be seen to exhibit each of the desirable properties enumerated above.

A straight forward solution to the problems that you highlight would be to change the US government from having a nearly directly elected president to a single chamber parliamentary system based on the House of Representatives.

The ERS's main objection is that the introduction of above the line voting is that closed list PR systems would increase the power of political parties to influence who gets elected, which, in the words of their chief executive Katie Ghose, would result in the Lords being «a mini-replica of the commons, full of party - politicians with pre-set loyalties» whilst «STV would help create a chamber free to provide objective scrutiny».

Proportionality of the (positively) elected portion of the chamber provides representativeness as well as the direct democratic connection.

Levi, Sen. Tom Duane, (the chamber's first openly gay and HIV - positive member); NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, (the first lesbian and woman to hold her leadership post); Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, (one of the first gay elected officials to represent Queens) and Marty Rouse of the Human Rights Campaign Fund will hold a pre-Columbus Day press conference to denounce Paladino's «homophobic comments» at 11 a.m. in Manhattan.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced his party's intention to block boundary changes, thought to be worth around 20 MPs to the Tory party at the next election, as a direct response to the failure of his plans to make the Lords reform a mainly elected second chamber.

If we are to have two elected chambers, then we should at least use the opportunity not just to remove Peers from the legislature but also to get rid of all Peers titles.

The eighth link features a photo of Heastie himself, standing on the rostrum at the front of the Assembly chamber on Feb. 3, 2015 — the day he was elected to replace Assemblyman Sheldon Silver as speaker, becoming the first African - American in New York history to hold that leadership post.

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.

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

Morse again would not commit to supporting Senate Minority Leader John Sampson for majority leader if he's elected and the Democrats re-take control of the chamber.

The problems of race, lack of access to opportunity and economic disparity in New York existed long before anyone was elected to this chamber, and to the extent they persist in many ways we are all complicit.»

The Clegg proposals, like those of the Gordon Brown government in 2008, sought to replace the Lords with an 80 % elected chamber.

Just on constitutional reform, which continues to be a big interest for you: looking back at the sweep of New Labour in office under Blair and now Brown, hasn't it been a big failure really on what Roy Jenkins called «breaking the mould» issues: Lib - Labbery, elected second chamber - you must be disappointed with that record.

Queens Democrat Cathy Nolan in a radio interview on Thursday said electing a woman speaker of the state Assembly would bring a more «collaborative style» to the chamber's leadership.

Hayes also questioned why Cuomo has thus far declined to intervene in the post-election jockeying for votes, in which Senator - elect Simcha Felder recently defected from the Democrats to join with the GOP, putting them just one vote shy of the 32 necessary to control the chamber.

Caroline Lucas has led the way on this; her amendment to the programme motion suggested an extra three days of scrutiny on the composition of the elected second chamber, the primacy of the Commons and methods of accountability.

The first and second days would cover the relative merits of an 80 % elected chamber.

Who leads that chamber is up to the 150 people elected to it (and in reality, the 100 - some - odd members of the large Democratic majority).

Deputy PM's speech advocating a mainly elected second chamber jeered by Tories and Labour on eve of crucial vote

Mayor of London pours scorn on coalition plans to replace House of Lords with elected second chamber

The collapse of coalition plans for an elected second chamber — with formal last rites likely to delivered next week by a rueful Nick Clegg — is triggering another bout of speculation about the survival of the coalition.

Actress Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging Cuomo in a primary, has been highly critical of the governor's history of warm relations with the Republicans in the Senate, and his perceived lack of effort to get more Democrats elected to the chamber.

Lazy peers will be the first to be ousted from the House of Lords under highly controversial proposals to create a mostly elected second chamber, the Observer has been told.

Ed Miliband will broaden his drive for the devolution of political and economic power to the cities and regions, and away from London, by saying he wants an elected second chamber completely recast as representative of the cities, regions and nations of the UK.

The Labour leader said: «We had a very clear manifesto position, which was for a referendum, a 100 % wholly elected second chamber and proper codification of powers.

A briefing paper prepared by the Cabinet Office asserts that the bill would not change the powers and functions of the Lords, but many MPs believe that any newly elected second chamber would inevitably increase in authority, so setting up a clash with the Commons.

A significant stage will come on Monday when a joint parliamentary committee will recommend that a second chamber should have 80 % of its members elected.

The leaders in the House of Commons and the Scottish Parliament are the leaders of the federal party and the Scottish Party; the leaders in the other two chambers, and the officers of all parliamentary parties, are elected from their own number.

The prime minister is demanding that Tory MPs support the reform plans to shore up the coalition as Clegg has made clear that introducing a «wholly or mainly elected upper chamber» remains a vital element of the agreement between the two parties.

The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

Former Liberal leaders makes strongest criticism yet of Nick Clegg's bid to make the upper chamber at least 80 % elected by 2025

Yet the Coalition is preparing to replace that House with a new second chamber elected by means of regional party lists.

The statement comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who liberal advocates have accused of not doing enough to help his own party take control of the Senate, begins a push to elect a pair of Democrats ahead of an April 24 special election, triggering a unity plan that could shift control of the chamber away from Republicans.