Sentences with phrase «of the upper house»

We asked him what plan he has to regain control of the upper house in 2012.

Someone can be a lord without being a member of the upper house.

The main vote on the second reading of the bill will pass because Ed Miliband, who supports reform of the upper house, has instructed Labour MPs to vote with the coalition.

Some critics have argued that Mr. Cuomo — who reportedly facilitated the arrangement between the GOP and the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to maintain control of the upper house of the legislature — created the Women's Equality Party as a means to siphon support away from the Working Families Party, in order to deny them the 50,000 votes needed to remain on the ballot.

This was an occasion when the rules of the upper House were put to one side.

So what ministers do about the size of the upper House in the interim really matters.

The arguments over the future of the upper House have led to deadlock in the past - several attempts to continue the reform in 2003 and 2004 failed because MPs could not agree - but the government is keen that this attempt should get through.

The leader of the upper house notched up a record or two, a Companion of Honour and helped defer Lords reform

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 questioned in Buffalo about the timing of his events, which just so happen to coincide with his re-election bid — not to mention his push to become majority leader, should the Democrats take control of the upper house next month — Schumer reminded reporters this is nothing new for him.

(Ackerman 2000) One function of upper houses is to hold diverse nations together.

«However, Senator Steinberg has said that while the political advantage of the supermajority matters, the integrity of the upper house is more important.»

So it is no surprise that radical measures are being considered to bring the size of the upper House down to size.

The peer made clear he was ready to pay full UK tax if the law is changed to bar non-doms from membership of the upper house, saying: «I agree with this change and expect to be sitting in the House of Lords for many years to come.»

Not only has he had one of his more popular climate change debunking presentations itself thoroughly debunked, but now the UK House of Lords has had the audacity to remind him, that despite his claims to the contrary, he is in no way a member of the upper house of Parliament.

Labour peer and leader of the House of Lords who failed to secure his proposed reforms of the upper house and was sacked by Tony Blair

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.

Lady Royall, the leader of the House of Lords, said that the four peers could be «named and shamed» in the Lords if they were found to have broken the rules of the upper house, but could not be expelled from parliament.

19 June 2002: MPs announce the membership of a new committee on the future of the upper house.

Her lead role on the health portfolio will be taken over by Lord Hunt, a former minister in several departments under the previous Labour government, now shadow deputy leader of the upper house and Labour's spokesman on Lords reform.

The perception that de Blasio might be trying to ivolve himself in this battle is not sitting well with Assembly Republicans, who, no doubt, recall the Democratic mayor's heavy — and ultimately unsuccessful — involvement in last year's fight for control of the state Senate, in which he raised campaign cash for the Democrats to aid their effort to re-take full control of the upper house.

But the latest fundraising totals seem to indicate Republicans will have no problem raising the money they need to compete and hold onto their control of the upper house.

With a delicate coalition that includes Democrats keeping Republicans in control of the upper house, it's probably fair to say that there was concern within Republican ranks about whether the ship could quickly be steadied.

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

Many Tory MPs simply can not support a measure which is dear to the hearts of all Lib Dems — completing the reform of the upper house that has been stalled since Herbert Asquith embarked on the journey in the wake of the row over David Lloyd George's 1909 «people's budget».

«Does the PM think it's right some members of the upper house can use non-domicile status to get out of paying their taxes in this country?»

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».

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.

However, shadow Commons leader Theresa May warned that with only 20 per cent non-political members, the reforms would «put parties even more in control of the upper House and risk the independence that has seen it defeat the government 415 times».

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former state senator, said NYC has «lost billions» due the Republicans» ongoing control of the upper house, and, in his opinion, the governor is to blame.

The coalition is prepared to use the Parliament Act to force the changes through against the will of the upper House, which is bitterly opposed to the government's proposals.

Republicans also won a pair of hotly contested open Senate races elsewhere in the state to maintain control of the upper house, state GOP officials announced.

If Republicans can pick off first - termers Terry Gipson in Dutchess and Tkaczyk, they regain absolute control of the upper house.

In some countries, such as Australia and India, members of the lower house of parliament are elected from single - member districts; and members of the upper house are elected from multi-member districts.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is very suspect in the continued Republican control of the upper house.

«I obviously have real political differences with the governor and I'm very uncomfortable with how he's handled the Republican state Senate and the IDC, for example,» de Blasio said, referring to the group of breakaway Democrats who are allied with Republicans, buttressing their control of the upper house.

And if their Lordships don't submit, we've been threatened with a shower (in both sense of the word) of new Tory peers and / or some sinister - sounding reform of the upper house.

Although this first Bill was also in Lord Steel's name (hence the sobriquet «the Steel Bill»), it was the result of an all - party group of both houses — the Campaign for an Effective Second Chamber — concerned to secure immediate and effective reform of the upper house.