The March 1989 election of the Congress of People's Deputies marked the first time that voters of the Soviet Union ever chose the membership of a national legislative body.

) The primary legislative responses to the crisis were the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 ( FIRREA ), and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 ( FDICIA ).

Uno's main action as prime minister was to institute the country's first consumption tax, which immediately caused an uproar among many voters and led to the Japan Socialist Party's victory in the Tokyo metropolitan legislative election of 1989.

According to the legislative history of the 1989 amendment to the POW Medal statute, internees were intended beneficiaries of the POW Medal so long as they were treated comparably to POWs during periods of armed conflict.

Following the many repercussions of the so-called Koskotas scandal, the Greek legislative election, June 1989 elections produced a deadlock, leading to a prolonged political crisis.

In the subsequent Greek legislative election, November 1989 Papandreou's PASOK's won 40 % of the popular vote, compared to the rival New Democracy's 46 %, and, due to changes made in electoral law one year before the elections by the then reigning PASOK administration, New Democracy was not able to form a government.

The inclusion of the defence has been a subject of debate in the legislative process of the Official Secrets Act 1989 of the United Kingdom.

He was also a staff member of the U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations ( 1987 – 89 ), and a legislative advisor for federal affairs to Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer ( 1989 – 91 ).

Distinguished Service Award, by the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, in 1981 ; Governor's Award as Legislator of the Year, by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in 1985 ; Award of Excellence, by the Triangle J Council of Governments, in 1985 ; Distinguished Service Award, by the Research Triangle Group of the Sierra Club, in 1986 ; Service Award, by the Orange-Chatham Alliance for the Mentally Ill ; Triangle Conservation Award, by the Triangle Land Conservancy, in 1987 ; Consumer Advocate of the Year, by the North Carolina Consumers Council, in 1987 ; Honorary Citizenship of the City of Raleigh, by Mayor Avery Upchurch, in 1987, for efforts in the passage of the phosphate detergent limitation ; Resolution of Appreciation, by the Governor's Crime Commission, in 1987 ; Service Award, by the Joint Orange Chatham Community Action, Inc. Board of Directors, in 1988 ; Service Award, by the North Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club, in 1988 ; Legislative Award, by the North Carolina Chapter, American Planning Association, in 1989 ; Legislative Award, by the N. C. Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the N. C. Pediatric Society, in 1989 ; Appreciation Award, by the Chatham County Advisory Council of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, in 1990 ; " Best Bets For 1990 ", by the Center For Policy Alternatives, Sustainable Growth Program, in 1990, " For Leadership in Reducing Environmental Hazards by Sponsoring Legislation to Establish Free Disposal Sites for Used Tires "; Service Award, by the Environmental Quality and Natural Resources Committee of the Southern Legislative Conference, in 1991, " In Appreciation For His Outstanding Leadership As Chairman .... 1989-1991 "; Recycling Merit Award, by the North Carolina Recycling Association in 1991 ; Appreciation Award, by the North Carolina Property Mappers Association, in 1993 ; Jake Alexander Public Service Award, by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Students Against Driving Drunk, and the Governor's Highway Safety Program, in 1993 ; Distinguished Service Award, by the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, in 1996 ; Legislator of the Year, by North Carolina Citizen Action, for " your years of outstanding leadership and dedication to the fair protection of North Carolina families, workers and environment ", in 1996 ; Certificate of Commendation, by the North Carolina Psychiatric Association, for " persistence and legislative commitment to improving mental health in North Carolina ", in 1997 ; Governor's Award as Legislator of the Year, by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in 1998 ; Friend of Education Award, by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Association of Educators, in 1999 ; Public Service Award, by the Child Care Services Association, for " outstanding advocacy and service on behalf of young children and their families ", in 2003.

It is estimated, based on actual results obtained after the fall of Communism in 1989, that should the referendum have been fairly organised, the real outcome would have shown that 73 % of respondents were in favour of retaining the Senate in the legislative system and the institution would not have been abolished.

The Greek legislative election, June 1989 left the PASOK party of Andreas Papandreou in the minority, following a series of government scandals.

In 1989, however, a legislative researcher discovered that the bill as sent to and signed by the Governor did not accurately reflect the 1929 legislative agreement.

On November 14, 1989 the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union ( the supreme legislative body ) declared that deportation of kalmyks and other soviet minorities was a " barbaric action of the Stalin's regime " and a very serious crime.

A profile of Rostenkowski in the July 1989 issue of National Journal said “ The chairman is a man of action, not words ; a doer, not a rhetorician ; one who thrives at the negotiating table, not the speaker ’ s lectern .... he has nourished an image as a legislative strategist that is perhaps unsurpassed on Capitol Hill.

In 1989 legislative election in Poland voters were able to vote against the only candidate running, often from the ruling Polish Communist Party by crossing out the candidate's name on the ballot.

As it was the final legislative group in the Soviet Union, those elected in 1989 played a vital part in continuing reforms and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union over the next two years.

In December 1988, board members reached merger agreement with the University of Texas System pending state legislative approval ( one of a series of similar mergers among state universities during that time period ), granted in September 1989.

Between his appointment in 1989 and his leaving his role on September 30, 1994, Norris was forced to set out new protocols for the role of the Commissioner, as the position had some legislative function up until three years prior to Norris taking up the job.

References to records or songs being " banned " in Ireland refer to one or more radio stations refusing to play the songs rather than any legislative ban, although prior to 1989 it may have been a moot point given that the only legal broadcasting stations in Ireland were those operated by state broadcaster RTÉ.

* Police and Criminal Evidence ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1989, a Statutory Instrument of the United Kingdom which instituted a legislative framework for the powers of police officers in Northern Ireland.

In the 1989 Soviet legislative election the Soviet people, for the first time, elected candidates democratically.

After the murder of Luis Carlos Galán in 1989 ( and later those of Bernardo Jaramillo and Carlos Pizarro in early 1990 ) and his replacement as the Liberal presidential candidate by César Gaviria, a civic movement made up of different academic and student sectors, some of which had backed the former candidate, eventually proposed that a nonbinding " seventh ballot " ( séptima papeleta ) should be included in the March 1990 legislative elections, asking the electorate to pronounce itself in favor or against the future convocation of a National Constituent Assembly.

It first entered Parliament in 1989 when Deborah Grey won a by-election in an Edmonton-area riding.

An ominous sign was a 1989 by-election in the Alberta riding of Beaver River.

Deborah Grey's 1989 by-election victory in Beaver River was seen as evidence that the newly formed Reform Party of Canada would be a serious political contender and that it posed a serious political threat for the ruling Progressive Conservatives.

Educated at Wath-upon-Dearne Grammar School, a state grammar school, then the University of Oxford ( graduating with First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics ) and INSEAD, Hague was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1989.

He was first an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for Wentworth in 1987, but was then elected to Parliament in a by-election in 1989 as member for Richmond, North Yorkshire, succeeding former Home Secretary Leon Brittan.

It first entered Parliament in 1989 when Deborah Grey won a by-election in an Edmonton-area riding.

In 1989, following the sudden death of John Dahmer, PC MP for Beaver River in Alberta, the Reform Party gained its first MP when Deborah Grey won the resulting by-election.

The party polled well at its first election, its candidate coming a close second in the 1989 Richmond by-election, but thereafter a string of poor and ultimately disastrous by-election results followed, including coming behind the Official Monster Raving Loony Party in the Bootle by-election of May 1990, prompting Owen to wind up the party in 1990.

Getty was also facing political problems within Alberta, including a defeat in his home riding of Edmonton-Whitemud in the 1989 election ( leading to a successful by-election in Stettler, vacated by a P. C.

His government was re-elected twice with reduced majorities, in the 1986 and 1989 elections, though Getty lost his own Edmonton-Whitemud seat in 1989 and had to run in a by-election in Stettler, which was vacated by Progressive Conservative victor Brian C. Downey.

Neil would go on to become the SNP's Publicity Director, and then in charge of the party's policy, as well as a candidate in the 1989 Glasgow Central by-election and candidate in the Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency in both the 1992 and 1997 General Elections.

He narrowly lost the seat at the 1984 election but was returned to serve as an MEP in 1989 election where he sat with the regionalist Rainbow Group He also canvassed for IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, in which Sands was elected to Westminster.

At the 1989 Glasgow Central by-election, the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) candidate Alex Neil called himself and the then SNP MP for Govan, Jim Sillars, the " new Clydesiders ".

In early 1989, Deborah Grey won a by-election in an Edmonton-area riding to become the first Reform MP in parliament.

In 1989, Reform made headlines in the political scene when its first MP, Deborah Grey, was elected in a by-election in Alberta, which was a shock to the PCs which had almost complete electoral dominance over the province for years.

After unsuccessfully contesting the Isle of Wight in the 1983 General Election ( 34, 904 votes ), she was elected to Parliament with 21, 545 votes in a by-election in 1984 ( filling the seat left vacant by the death of Maurice Macmillan, son of former prime minister Harold Macmillan ), as the Member for South West Surrey, received her first ministerial position in 1988 as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of the Environment and was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1989.

In the 1989 Vauxhall by-election, Harrington stood as the Official National Front candidate against Ted Budden for the Flag NF, both sides cat-calling at one another during the declaration of the result.

The party contested only one parliamentary seat, Glasgow Central at the 1989 by-election, when its candidate Bill Kidd received 137 votes ( 0. 5 %).

On several occasions he has enabled the defeat of moves to reduce the number of weeks at which termination of a pregnancy can be legally performed in Britain by " talking out the measure " ( filibustering ), as on 20 January 1989, when he held up proceedings by trying to move a writ for a by-election in the constituency of Richmond.

Grey won a by-election in March 1989, becoming Reform's first MP.

Herb Gray served as parliamentary leader of the Liberals following the selection of Jean Chrétien as leader in 1989, until Chrétien could run in a by-election to enter the House of Commons.