Sentences with phrase «lower house of the legislature»

The relationship between Cuomo and the Democratic Assembly is close to toxic, as symbolized by the lower house of the legislature holding up the naming of the new Tappan Zee Bridge after Mario Cuomo last spring.

As in most countries with a British heritage, the speaker presides over the lower house of the legislature.

It involves challenges to remaps for the state's congressional districts and the lower house of its legislature.

According to Reuters, the bill cleared the Mexican Senate on Dec. 5, setting the stage for its consideration and potential passage in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the legislature.

Not exact matches

Two bills relating to cryptocurrencies and ICOs have been submitted to the lower house of Russia's legislature, the State Duma.

Elena Sidorenko, who heads an interdepartmental working group on cryptocurrencies at the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's legislature, said it is widely known that Chinese traders use cryptocurrencies to send their revenues abroad.

It was on the 2th of March that this bill had been submitted to what is the lower house in the Russian legislature.

In 2012, though not a single Libertarian candidate won election to either upper or lower house of any state legislature, two came quite close.

The Senate is coequal with the House of Delegates, the lower chamber of the legislature, except that taxation bills must originate in the House, just like in the U.S. Congress.

Also indicated is the majority party of the state legislatures» upper and lower houses as well as U.S. Senate representation.

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives — the lower chamber — comprise the legislature of the United States.

In April of this year the lower house of the Tennessee legislature voted to repeal the statute; in May the Senate agreed and the governor approved the repeal.»

Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the legislature's lower house, announced on Feb. 15 the proposed elimination of the current board structure by 2000 as part of an overall plan to reorganize the governance of the nation's largest school system.

«Everybody wants appropriately high standards,» said state Assemblyman Steven Sanders, the chairman of the education committee in the legislature's lower house, «but what we're hearing is it is ultimately unfair and ultimately arbitrary... having every student in the state having their abilities defined by one particular exam on one particular day.»

The Parliamentary Blockchain Forum will be held on 4th October at the Maison de la chimie, a conference site located near the French National Assembly, the lower house of the country's legislature.