Sentences with phrase «for upper house»

As for the upper house: in the UK, the House of Lords has only attempted to block supply once in the last 300 years, when it attempted to reject the «People's Budget» of 1910/11.

Writing in the Sunday Times (paywall), the prime minister acknowledged there were «profound areas of disagreement» between the Liberal Democrats and members of the Conservative party, 91 of whom rebelled last week against a reform package for the upper house championed by Nick Clegg.

Whereas most bills go through a full set of parliamentary stages in both Houses, Finance Bills and other tax bills get just a cursory debate in the Lords, with no ability for the upper House to reject or amend.

OPINION: Labor will need to compromise if its budget plans are to pass the parliament, and a push for upper house reform may not be out of the question.

Not exact matches

Unlike the 18 - storey student residence rising at the University of B.C., or the 25 - storey office tower planned for Vienna, the proposed Terrace House is not entirely wood - framed; developer PortLiving is calling it a «hybrid timber structure» — wood framed on its upper floors, but using more conventional steel and concrete construction methods lower down.

But striking a more conciliatory tone, PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski moved to organise a meeting between the speaker of the upper house of parliament and the media late on Saturday night to discuss the new plan for journalists» access.

«When the town asks regional authorities for funding for a project, it's told: you have Rusal, go work it out with them,» said Erik Chernyshev, a local Communist Party politician, former member of the region's upper house, who also worked as an engineer at the factory for 18 years.

Respondents to the Palo Alto Weekly's survey cited the area's chronic housing crisis and high cost of living as reasons for identifying as middle - class instead of upper - class.

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

A daunting list, but shorter than it was two years ago and it would be shorter still if it were not for political obstructions to proposed reforms such as the GST in the upper house of parliament where Mr. Modi's government does not have a majority.

The British government's recent setbacks are also weighing on the pound, a typical tailwind for shares in dollar earnings British companies, after Britain's upper house voted to give parliament powers to block or delay a final deal on departure from the European Union.

While Hager and Ismael were living in Mecca... Sara was living with him in another place upper north... When Ismael grew up Abraham visited Mecca and started with Ismael to clean and mend the worship house of Mecca... for which then he had a revelation of sacrificing Ismael...

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing, and does not give him his wages;... Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness?

Fans are housed in both the upper and lower tiers, with tickets for the upper sections sold first.

Hershey Montessori School's Huntsburg campus includes the upper school classroom building, a middle school classroom building and housing for boarding students.

Adjustment for family history of asthma, house dust mite allergy, and hay fever did not materially change the effect sizes for the duration of exclusive breastfeeding with upper and lower respiratory tract infections.

North of the Strathmores, where a fixer - upper can be had for less than $ 230,000, the prices of Buffalo Grove houses are higher.

More tentatively, an elected body replacing the House of Lords could have the important function of serving as a single upper house for all these various national and regional assembHouse of Lords could have the important function of serving as a single upper house for all these various national and regional assembhouse for all these various national and regional assemblies.

The substantial financial earnings made by individual Church of England Bishops from their privileged place within the House of Lords have come under scrutiny, leading to further calls from the British Humanist Association (BHA) for their removal as a part of the impending reforms to the upper chamber.

She also used this opportunity to slam Gillibrand for the Senate's failure to pass a budget since the junior senator replaced Hillary Clinton in the upper house in January 2009.

Members of the House of Lords came in for criticism in January when it was revealed that average attendance at votes in the upper house was 55 per cent for Labour peers, 54 per cent for Liberal Democrats and just 29 per cent for ConservatHouse of Lords came in for criticism in January when it was revealed that average attendance at votes in the upper house was 55 per cent for Labour peers, 54 per cent for Liberal Democrats and just 29 per cent for Conservathouse was 55 per cent for Labour peers, 54 per cent for Liberal Democrats and just 29 per cent for Conservatives.

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.

As I stated:... you can not judge the merits of a proposed electoral change for the House of Commons without considering how such a change interacts with the electoral process for the upper chamber (assuming we ever get one).

It creates the intriguing prospect of yet another parliamentary battle, this time in the upper House, which will be much harder for the Tories to win.

One of the most interesting aspect of the debate, however, was in the arguments in favour of the Baroness» request by the Bishop of Blackburn, who sits in the upper house ex officio as one of the Lords Spiritual (one of the twenty six senior bishops in the Church of England), and Baron Cormack, a long - time member of the joint Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament, which includes members of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords and is responsible for reviewing internal legislation of the Church of England (Church Measuhouse ex officio as one of the Lords Spiritual (one of the twenty six senior bishops in the Church of England), and Baron Cormack, a long - time member of the joint Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament, which includes members of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords and is responsible for reviewing internal legislation of the Church of England (Church MeasuHouse of Commons and the House of Lords and is responsible for reviewing internal legislation of the Church of England (Church MeasuHouse of Lords and is responsible for reviewing internal legislation of the Church of England (Church Measures).

After the November elections, the IDC forged a deal with Senate Republicans for control of the upper house.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) said the Senate plan, like the House bill, would harm middle and upper middle - class taxpayers on Long Island and in suburbs across the country — and warned House Republicans voting for their bills they could face defeat next year.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Albanese holds a press conference on building market rate housing on public land; market rate tenants to occupy upper floors; «poor floors» for everyone else, NYCHA Holmes Towers, 1780 First Ave., Manhattan.

Toby Helm, Anne Perkins and Randeep Ramesh join Tom Clark to discuss plans for an elected upper house; Cameron's welfare speech; and another budget u-turn

The Conservatives became, for the first time in many years, the largest single party in the upper house, with 222 members taking the Tory whip including 49 hereditary peers.

The new organization — which would be empowered by the US Supreme Court's controversial 5 - 4 «Citizens United» ruling in June, which gave corporations the green light to run «issues advertising» targeting specific candidates on TV and radio — would initially focus on state Senate races in hopes of seeing the Legislature's upper house return to Republican control, said a source familiar with the planning for the group.

While almost a month has passed, ballots for two upstate seats are being still counted, leaving the control of Albany's upper house in flux.

The 11 chambers without elections in 2010 (except for an occasional special election), were the upper houses and lower houses in Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia, and the upper house (state senate) in Kansas, New Mexico and South Carolina.

Tory peer speaks in favour of plans to democratise upper house but undermines one of the main arguments for reform

Critics within the Lords say that a byelection for a hereditary position will strike some members of the public as baffling, especially at a time when the upper house is swamped with political appointments.

The coalition had pledged to bring forward proposals for a wholly or mainly elected upper House by December 2010, but has still not done so.

Instead of being a vibrant advertisement for a lively democracy, the upper house would risk becoming a rest home for second - rate party hacks.

Left - leaning healthcare workers union 1199 SEIU has endorsed Brooklyn GOP State Senator Martin Golden for re-election — in spite of a vow earlier this year to work exclusively toward helping the Democrats win control of the upper house of the state legislature.

The funding will create 10 permanent and seven temporary housing units for homeless veterans in the center's headquarters, which is a former YMCA that already has older individual units in the upper portion of the building.

The Hollis motion said the upper house would decline to approve the tax credit cuts until the government delivered a «scheme for full transitional protection for a minimum of three years for all low - income families and individuals currently receiving tax credits before April 6 2016».

It recommends that upper house peers — for which no name has yet been suggested — do no constituency case work, but focus on revising legislation.

The government is happy for Tories to speculate that the prime minister will fill the Lords with up to 100 new Conservative peers in a bid to neutralise Labour and the Liberal Democrats in the upper house.

While many Democrats are just coming to the realization that they need to hammer the economy in this mid-term election season, the veteran Brooklyn lawmaker, who took a pass in 2006 on running for governor and instead rose to become third - highest ranked senator in the upper house, has been talking about the need for his party to talk about endangered middle class for some time now.

Trump may think McConnell and his Republican Senate colleagues are occasionally a headache for him now, but a GOP - controlled upper chamber will be a major asset for the president if Democrats take control of the House next year.

Watch out for silver - tongued eulogies to a dignified upper house replete with experts far above the fray of politics.

Given that the last parliament's MPs have already voted for both an 80 % elected upper House and a 100 % elected Lords, public opinion is likely to be on the side of the coalition government.

Once the law has passed the parliament's upper house in a few weeks — a vote seen as all but assured — the bill will be presented to the German president Joachim Gauck for signature.

However, the motion calls for future reforms to «include the status of members of the upper House who have been convicted in a court of law and that the same rules that apply to honourable members in such circumstances should apply to members of the upper House».

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

The district is likely to be a battleground again next year as the Democrats and Republicans stage yet another re-match for control of the upper house.