Commons accepts throne speech amendment, avoids confidence vote
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OTTAWA (CP) - The House of Commons has agreed to accept a Conservative amendment to the throne speech, avoiding a showdown that threatened Paul Martin's minority government.
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Pakistani Prime Minister- elect Shaukat Aziz Saturday secured vote of confidence in the National Assembly (NA), the powerful lower house of the parliament,a requirement under the country&#39;s constitution.
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abdication have cleared a last legal hurdle after the country&#39;s top constitutional body ruled the process valid. law did not breach the constitution, which states that the monarch rules for life.
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Parliament defused a 24-hour constitutional crisis Thursday by halting the deportation of rejected asylum seekers and stripping the hard-line immigration minister of responsibility for most immigration policy.Comment
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WASHINGTON - The House followed the Senate in decisively rejecting a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, ending for this year debate on what has become the dominant issue for the Republican Party's conservative base.    The 227-186 vote in the House Thursday was well short of the two-thirds majority needed to advance a constitutional amendment, but fulfilled a promise by backers to get lawmakers on the record on the highly sensitive issue in the run-up to Election Day...
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The PM gives the secretary for work and pensions, Peter Hain - who failed to declare campaign donations - a vote of confidence in the Commons
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Singapore's parliament votes against a controversial proposal to decriminalise sex between men.
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Israel's parliament on Monday voted  to reject a session-opening speech by Prime Minister Ariel  Sharon, dealing a symbolic setback to his disputed plan to  withdraw from some occupied territory.
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Ukraine&#39;s parliament has narrowly passed a no-confidence motion in the government of pro-Moscow Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.
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Israel's parliament on Monday voted to reject a session-opening speech by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, dealing a symbolic setback to his disputed plan to withdraw from some occupied territory.
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Constitutional reform plans will expand MPs' powers and end a protest ban.
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Ukraine&#39;s parliament on Wednesday passed a no-confidence motion in the government on its second try. The motion, put forward by the opposition, was supported by 229lawmakers in
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Parliament was suspended after five protestors got in to the Commons chamber. What is your reaction?
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WASHINGTON - The House passed legislation Thursday that would prevent the Supreme Court from ruling on whether the words "under God" should be stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance.    In a politically and emotionally charged debate, Democrats said majority Republicans in the chamber were debasing the Constitution in order to force a vote that could hurt Democrats in the election...
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Lawmakers have approved a measure that would only allow a state-appointed council to issue religious edicts, a move aimed at denying Islamic hard-liners a forum for disseminating extremist ideology.
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MPs look set to say goodbye to the term 'Strangers' - the centuries-old Commons name for members of the public.
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Constitutional amendments that critics say are meant to boost the ruling party's power passed a parliamentary hurdle Tuesday without challenge from the main opposition, which cited progress in talks on easing Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis.