In September 2008, Barnaby Joyce replaced CLP Senator and Nationals deputy leader Nigel Scullion as leader of the Nationals in the Senate, and stated that his party in the upper house would no longer necessarily vote with their Liberal counterparts in the upper house, which opened up another possible avenue for the Rudd Labor Government to get legislation through.

* Senator the Hon John Herron, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs to the Senate Legal And Constitutional References Committee, " Inquiry Into The Stolen Generation " Federal Government Submission, March 2000

Senator Lowell Murray wrote in 2003: " The Crown has become irrelevant to most Canadian's understanding of our system of Government ," which he attributed to the " fault of successive generations of politicians, of an educational system that has never given the institution due study, and of past vice-regal incumbents themselves.

Fearing that the strike would spread to other cities, the Federal Government of Canada ordered Senator Gideon Decker Robertson to mediate the dispute.

University of California Berkeley's Institute of Government Studies claimed that Davis ' fundraising skills were " second to none in the political arena " while Senator John McCain called Davis ' 2001 goal of $ 26 million " disgraceful.

The original land was seized by the Government from the Honorable Jesse D. Bright, United States Senator, a sympathizer of the Confederate cause.

* Jim Vickerman ( born 1931 ) long-time Minnesota State Senator, first elected in 1986, chaired the Senate's State and Local Government Operations, Rules and Administration, and Agriculture, Veterans and Gaming committees before retiring in 2011.

When the news was received by the then Naval Minister of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, he ordered Kolchak to leave immediately for America ( Admiral James H. Glennon, member of American mission, headed by Senator Elihu Root invited Kolchak to go to America in order to give the American Navy Department information on Bosphorus ).

Each fall, JINSA presents an annual Distinguished Service Award, named in honor of the late-Senator Henry M. " Scoop " Jackson to U. S. government leaders ( generally a senior U. S. Government or Armed Forces official, a Senator or two Members of the United States House of Representatives ) for their career dedication to U. S. national security.

The Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Rod Kemp, announced on 13 December 2006 that the Australian Government would provide $ 92. 9 million for a major building enhancement project at the National Gallery of Australia, including around $ 20 million for previously approved building refurbishments.

In ' The Washington Pay-Off ; An Insider's View of Corruption in Government ' ( Copyright 1972 ; Lyle Stuart, Inc .), author and former lobbyist Robert N. Winter-Berger, wrote about Senator Pell's arrest, during a raid on a New York gay bar, in the early 1960s.

In October 1963, Valachi had testified before Arkansas Senator John L. McClellan's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U. S. Senate Committee on Government Operations that the Mafia did exist.

The conservative fiscal watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste awarded Ensign a 92 % lifetime rating — the fourth highest Senator after Jim DeMint, Tom Coburn and Jon Kyl — as of 2007.

* November 6-Joyce Fairbairn, Senator and first woman to serve as Leader of the Government in the Senate

After the February Revolution in Russia, Avalishvili was named a Senator by the Provisional Government in May 1917.

He was a Member of the European Parliament, an Italian Senator, and Minister of the Prodi Government.

As a United States Senator, Butler continued to advocate for workable reforms from the Populist Party Platform, including the regulation or outright ownership by the United States Government of railroads and telegraphs, as well as for a silver-based currency system.

* Joyce Fairbairn ( 1939 – ), Canadian Senator and first woman Leader of the Government in the Senate

In the Rudd Labor Government, Senator Bishop is Chair of the Senate Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, as well as being a member of a number of other Joint House and Senate committees.

In response to the legislation, Government Senator Jim Walsh put forward a party motion to counter the Bill.

He then was elected Senator ( 1987 – 1992 ), authoring the seminal Local Government Code.

As Senator, he authored and sponsored several key pieces of legislation, among them the Local Government Code of 1991, the Cooperative Code, the Philippine Sports Commission Act, the Act Creating the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and the People ’ s Small-Scale Mining Act.

Senator Alan Cranston of California led Democrats in drafting legislation to make the Peace Corps completely independent again, saying the Peace Corps could not operate with the necessary credibility and independence from the Government if it were organizationally under the direction of Mr. Pauken.

On September 18, 1994 President Bill Clinton sent former president Jimmy Carter, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell, and Sen. Sam Nunn, at the request of U. S. Senator Bob Bennett of Utah, to negotiate the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide with Emile Jonassaint, Head of the Provisional Government in Haiti.

The United States might well have exploited the opportunity provided by the European Recovery Program to push the hesitant European nations toward political federation as well as economic cooperation, but all proposals to this effect were rejected by the United States Government at the time.

This, in more diplomatic language, is what Adlai Stevenson told the newspaper men of Latin America yesterday on behalf of the United States Government.

If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??

All research within the United States contracted for, sponsored, cosponsored, or authorized under authority of this Act, shall be provided for in such manner that all information, uses, products, processes, patents, and other developments resulting from such research developed by Government expenditure will ( with such exceptions and limitations, if any, as the Secretary may find to be necessary in the interest of national defense ) be available to the general public.

The Attorney General shall assign such officers and employees of the Department of Justice as may be necessary to represent the United States as to any claims of the Government of the United States with respect to which the Commission has jurisdiction under this title.

Any and all payments required to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury under this title pursuant to any award made by the Commission to the Government of the United States shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts.

The Commission shall, as soon as possible, and in the order of the making of such awards, certify to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the Secretary of State copies of the awards made in favor of the Government of the United States or of nationals of the United States under this Title.

and ( 2 ) such other special funds as may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be required each to be a claims fund to be known by the name of the foreign government which has entered into a settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.

a special fund created for that purpose pursuant to subsection ( A ) of this section any amounts hereafter paid, in United States dollars, by a foreign government which has entered into a claims settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.

The two Governments agree that the issuance of purchase authorizations for wheat and rice providing for purchase after June 30, 1961, shall be dependent upon the determination by the United States Government that these commodities are in surplus supply and available under Title 1, of the Act at that time.

The United States Government shall have the right to terminate the financing of further sales under this Agreement of any commodity if it determines at any time after June 30, 1961, that such action is necessitated by the existence of an international emergency.

The two Governments agree that the rupees accruing to the Government of the United States of America as a consequence of sales made pursuant to this Agreement will be used by the Government of the United States of America, in such manner and order of priority as the Government of the United States of America shall determine, for the following purposes in the amounts shown: ( A )

In the event that agreement is not reached on the use of the rupees for grant or loan purposes within six years from the date of this Agreement, the Government of the United States of America may use the local currency for any purposes authorized by Section 104 of the Act.

Government ministers are from the Social Democratic Party of Croatia ( SDP ), and the Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats ( HNS ) and Istrian Democratic Assembly ( IDS ).

The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was installed in August 1995.

On 22 October, the Committee became the Democratic Government of Albania after a meeting in Berat and Hoxha was chosen as interim Prime Minister.

Hoxha with members of the Provisional Democratic Government of Albania.

* The Government of British Trade Unions: A study of Apathy and the Democratic Process in the Transport and General Worker Union by Joseph Goldstein

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan which currently holds the Iraqi presidency and the Kurdistan Democratic Party which governs the Kurdistan Regional Government both explicitly commit themselves to the development of Kurdish self-determination, but opinions vary as to the question of self-determination sought within the current borders and countries.

Armed opposition to the Sandinista Government eventually divided into two main groups: The Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense ( FDN ), a U. S. supported army formed in 1981 by the CIA, U. S. State Department, and former members of the widely condemned Somoza-era Nicaraguan National Guard ; and the Alianza Revolucionaria Democratica ( ARDE ) Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, a group that had existed since before the FSLN and was led by Sandinista founder and former FSLN supreme commander, Edén Pastora, a. k. a. " Commander Zero ".

# The establishment of a temporary National Armenian Government formed by deputies elected in accordance with democratic principles ( the Armenian National Council became the Armenian Congress of Eastern Armenians, which established the Democratic Republic of Armenia ).

In December 1999, the Belgian Federal Government announced that it would again pursue an active foreign policy, particularly in Central Africa where among others Belgium's former colony, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is situated.

Since the Whitlam Government, the ALP has moved towards Social Democratic and Third Way ideals which are found among many of the ALP's Right Faction members.

A longtime protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 to his assassination, and was a two-term Prime Minister of Sweden, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet government from 1982 until his death.

The XV Constitutional Government was led by José Manuel Durão Barroso, leader of the Social Democratic Party in coalition with the People's Party, whose leader, Paulo Portas, became Minister of Defence.

" Breen specifically objected to " the generally unflattering portrayal of our system of Government, which might well lead to such a picture being considered, both here, and more particularly abroad, as a covert attack on the Democratic form of government.

The Finnish Democratic Republic was also known as the " Terijoki Government " ( Terijoen hallitus ) because Terijoki was the first town captured by the Soviets.

British Government papers released in 2002, show that in 1971 Paisley attempted to reach a compromise with the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ).

Flag of Albania 1944. svg | Flag of the Democratic Government of Albania ( 1944 – 1946 ).

He held that post until April 1992 when the first Government of the Democratic Party, led by Aleksander Meksi, was formed.

After the occupation of GDR by the Bolsheviks in 1921, many Georgian Mensheviks led by Zhordania fled to Leuville-sur-Orge, France where they set up, in a small castle, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Exile.

In April 1945, just before the collapse of the Third Reich, the defeat of Germany and the end of the war, Renner set up a Provisional Government in Vienna with other politicians from the three revived parties Social Democratic Party ( SPÖ ), Austrian People's Party ( ÖVP, a conservative successor to the Christian Social Party ) and Communist Party ( KPÖ ).

* Bessette, Joseph ( 1980 ) " Deliberative Democracy: The Majority Principle in Republican Government ," in How Democratic is the Constitution ?, Washington, D. C., AEI Press.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China under the Democratic Progressive Party Government now considers North and South Koreas two separate countries.

However, there were many vocal critics of the Government action, including New Democratic Party leader Tommy Douglas, who said, " The government, I submit, is using a sledgehammer to crack a peanut.

Unstable coalitions and divisiveness in the Diet led the Kenseikai ( 憲政会 Constitutional Government Association ) and the Seiyū Hontō ( 政友本党 True Seiyūkai ) to merge as the Rikken Minseitō ( 立憲民政党 Constitutional Democratic Party ) in 1927.