Lawmakers vote to reform House of Lords
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British lawmakers voted Wednesday to radically overhaul Parliament's unelected House of Lords, approving a proposal to evict all remaining hereditary peers and to elect at least 80 percent of members.
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The French parliament ratified a European  Union reform treaty to overhaul the bloc's institutions on  Friday, nearly three years after France rejected a planned EU  constitution in a referendum.
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Washington, DC, Oct. 01  - A majority of representatives in the US House voted on Thursday to approve a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, but failed
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II reads the legislative program from the throne to the assembled House of Lords in London in this Wednesday, June 20, 2001 file photo.Comment
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Influential committee of MPs says there is 'no material difference' between new measure and the old constitution
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The House last night passed a sweeping rewrite of corporate tax law, a measure designed to end a trade war with Europe and shower $136 billion in new tax breaks on businesses, farmers, and other groups.
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Legislation designed to overhaul the U.S. patent system was approved by the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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House Democrats yesterday opted to keep their current leadership for the next Congress, while House Republicans voted to change their internal rules in an attempt to ensure that their team is not disrupted.
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LONDON - Visitors to Parliament are strangers no more. In a bid to modernize Britain's ancient Parliament, legislators voted Tuesday to scrap the 400-year-old tradition of referring to visitors as strangers.
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House leaders today overcame GOP resistance to a major bill revamping the nation&#39;s intelligence operations, scheduling a late-afternoon vote that they predicted would pass comfortably.
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Technology and financial services firms won a key patent reform victory Friday when the House approved legislation the industries have pushed for years by a vote of 220-175.
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The government unveiled its new plans to reform parliament's upper chamber of parliament, the House of Lords, introducing elections and phasing out peers with hereditary seats.
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Prime Minister John Howard has won control of both the upper and lower houses of parliament, clearing the way for the conservative leader to push through reforms including relaxing media ownership laws.
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Tokyo, Dec. 15 (Jiji Press)--Japan's House of Councillors on Friday passed into law a bill to revise the copyright law, mainly to facilitate the Internet technology-based distribution of video and audio content.
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MPs vote in favour of plans for a reformed House of Lords with 100% of members elected.
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Members of the House of Lords were on Monday warned of the possible negative consequences of a fully-elected second chamber.
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Taiwanese lawmakers have amended their constitution to change the way the island&#39;s lawmakers are elected. Taiwan&#39;s Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng announces the results of Monday&#39;s vote to his colleagues