Sentences with phrase «independent second chamber»

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Far better to choose Party List PR (including the Independent list) It is the most common form of PR and most appropriate for 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.

16 July 2003: Responding to the report by the joint committee on Lords reform, the government says that there is no consensus in parliament for introducing any elected element into the second chamber, only for removing the remaining 92 hereditary peers and establishing a new independent appointments commission.

Politics professor Meg Russell has clearly distinguished the various potential functions of a second chamber — representing different interests (regional or religious, for example); being more independent of the executive than the first chamber; acting as a «veto player», and performing different parliamentary duties such as more detailed scrutiny of legislation.

The prime minister also proposed legislation to introduce a largely elected second chamber, but skirted around plans to make the attorney general independent of the government.