Sentences with phrase «elected house»

Allen is a proponent of democratic reform [5] and supports independent local government, some proportional representation and a fully elected House of Lords.

Instead of the Queen having to decide who should be Prime Minister before parliament meets, the first business of a newly elected House of Commons should be to select the Prime Minister, who would then be formally appointed by the Queen.

A survey published yesterday by the Hansard Society reveals that 42 per cent of the public would support a fully elected House of Lords, and 40 per cent want a mixture.

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.

The group, which is tasked with electing House Democrats, paid canvassers to collect signatures to help the Syracuse Democrat secure a spot on the primary ballot.

• Rightwing Tory MPs complain that a reformed, democratically elected House of Lords would compete with the House of Commons (70 Tory rebels sign letter opposing Lords reform, 9 July).

She's done that job for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2008, for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — charged with electing House members — in 2012, and for victorious Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in 2013.

The main report by the joint committee of peers and MPs published on Monday broadly welcomes the coalition's proposals, but calls for a post-legislative referendum and says «a concordat» will have to be agreed between the two elected houses on their respective powers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today joined New York City members of the House of Representatives in urging newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan to pass legislation permanently reauthorizing and fully funding the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act.

And in the following century, Canada's Fathers of Confederation set up «a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom,» consisting of a popularly elected House of Commons, an appointed Senate and an appointed Governor General to represent the Queen.

The Lib Dems would be guaranteed a presence in parliament through a proportionally elected House of Lords and the Tory party would boost its MPs by at least 20 via the boundary review.

The coalition is also proposing measures to reduce the size of the House of Commons, to directly elect the House of Lords and to strengthen localism.

«It was in the last three Conservative manifestos, it's been Conservative policy to have a mainly elected House of Lords since 1999.

Three (support for a wholly elected House of Lords, opposition to PR at local government level, fur labelling) were endorsed.

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

Texas Congressman says giving NASA a «unifying mission» would be a priority if elected House science committee chair

Wisconsin Congressman says stretching tight science budgets would be a priority if elected House science committee chair

Another failure for the Liberal Democrats has been in relation to their pledge to deliver «a fair deal by cleaning up politics», following the 67.9 % vote against the introduction of the alternative vote system in the May 2011 referendum and the absence of the promised elected House of Lords.

In discussing the coalition agreement last year, a leading Conservative minister told me when we spoke about the proposed constituency boundary reviews how he felt that Liberal Democrats «underestimated the progress that the Conservatives had made in going for a largely elected House of Lords using the Lib Dems» preferred system of proportional representation».

In order to change the state's constitution, the measure must be passed by two consecutively elected houses of the legislature, then go before voters, where polls show it would likely be approved.

Asked what sort of reform the government should pursue, 38 per cent of users called an entirely elected House of Lords.

Several members of the cabinet are thought to be in favour of a majority elected House of Lords, including international development secretary Hilary Benn, who has previously argued for 80 per cent of members to be elected and the remainder co-opted.

We currently have one elected house rife with cronyism, dishonesty and second - rate corruption; do we want another?

2 December 1998: Tony Blair turns his back on the idea of a completely elected House of Lords, instead opting for a majority coming from indirect regional elections and a pool of life peers.

Cameron says he is in favour of a predominantly elected House of Lords.

It is clear that, despite committing to a mostly elected House of Lords in their last three manifestos and the coalition agreement, many Conservatives are likely to give in to their instincts and defend the establishment.

In 2012, he was elected House Democratic Leader by his colleagues replacing Pat Bauer.

And I believe keeping hereditaries will help us to achieve a democratically elected house sooner rather than later.»

This latter option is consistent with the manifesto commitment detailed in the Conservative Party's 2005 general election manifesto «for a substantially elected House of Lords».

House Majority PAC, a super PAC that aims to elect House Democrats, announced Thursday it will unleash a major advertising campaign against nine House Republicans over the shutdown.

If anyone believed the clear vote by MPs for a fully elected House of Lords would mark the end of this historic battle, they should think again.

on North Dakota: Newly elected House member proposes (literal) military takeover of Judicial Conduct Commission

This seems to me a flawed interpretation of British democracy, which allows the judiciary to overrule the popularly elected House of Commons, and which then allows the unrepresentative House of Lords to overrule both the House of Commons and the judiciary.

Hopefully this defeat will lead a reformed, Proportionally elected House of Lords as Lib Dem consolation prize.

A bicameral parliament (House of Representative and Senate)(in 2014 this will be a directly elected house and an indirectly appointed Senate of the regions)

«At the last election, all political parties put forward in their manifestos proposals for a partly or mainly elected House of Lords.

Shadow Commons leader Theresa May said: «The House of Commons has clearly expressed a preference for a substantially or wholly elected House of Lords.

If control orders are sufficiently watered down — and the word is they may be — that will count as a victory for him, as will the paternity leave extension he outlined yesterday and the 80 per cent elected House of Lords now in prospect.

As a former leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords and one of the SDP gang of four, I told Nick two years ago that I was against a wholly or partially elected house.

Michael Ellis, Tory MP for Northampton North and parliamentary aide to Theresa May, told Sky News: «We can not have a situation where the unelected [House of Lords] overrules the democratically elected House of Commons.

A Prime Minister and Cabinet make up the executive branch, while a 28 - member elected House of Representatives and eight - member appointed Senate form a bi-cameral legislature.

It's not clear whether the amendment will be approved by lawmakers when the bill goes back to the elected House of Commons.

Yes, by all means, right when it becomes obvious that the newly elected House has no interest in representing anyone other than the wealthiest 2 - percent, roll out the same old «liberals just want to destroy Christmas» story.

Such an event would have made passing it through the Lords much easier, especially since Peers had already seen these proposals and have a tendency to give favour to the elected House's decisions.

A new assisted suicide proposal could hardly be brought up too soon if the issue had been decided by the elected House comparatively recently.

In an earlier interview Ms Jowell said the government had «no plan B» if parliament rejected the order and last night the culture secretary said: «Ministers will want to reflect and come back to this elected house in due course with proposals as to how to take this policy forward.»

But he says he's a democrat, and says he will continue to support a 100 % elected House of Lords.