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Representatives and states
The Committee of Permanent Representatives ( COREPER ) is a body composed of representatives from the states ( ambassadors, civil servants etc.
The United States Constitution mandates that a census be taken every ten years in order to apportion the number of members of the United States House of Representatives among the several states.
In the United States, elections are held between every three and six years in most states, with exceptions such as the U. S. House of Representatives, which stands for election every two years.
On September 24, 1789, the House of Representatives voted to recommend the First Amendment of the newly drafted Constitution to the states for ratification.
Section 5 states that " the Governor-General may appoint such times for holding the sessions of the Parliament ... prorogue the Parliament dissolve the House of Representatives.
Jefferson's Manual, which is integral to the Rules of the House of Representatives, states that impeachment is set in motion by charges made on the floor, charges preferred by a memorial, a member's resolution referred to a committee, a message from the president, charges transmitted from the legislature of a state or territory or from a grand jury, or from facts developed and reported by an investigating committee of the House.
In 2009, Dan Itse, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Fremont, New Hampshire, led a national movement to restore the powers of the states through the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.
The first known use of the term was by Congressman Davy Crockett, who said on the floor ( of the U. S. House of Representatives ) in 1835, " my people don't like me to log-roll in their business, and vote away pre-emption rights to fellows in other states that never kindle a fire on their own land.
Registered voters of age 21 and above may vote for the members of the House of Representatives and, in most of the states, for the state legislative chamber.
Since clause 3 provides that Members of the House of Representatives are apportioned state-by-state and that each state is guaranteed at least one Representative, exact population equality between all districts is not guaranteed and, in fact, is currently impossible, because while the size of the House of Representatives is fixed at 435, several states had less than 1 / 435 of the national population at the time of the last reapportionment in 2000.
However, the Supreme Court has interpreted the provision of Clause One that Representatives shall be elected " by the People " to mean that, in those states with more than one member of the House of Representatives, each congressional election district within the state must have nearly identical populations.
" The Supreme Court, as well as other federal courts, have repeatedly barred states from additional restrictions, such as imposing term limits on members of Congress, allowing members of Congress to be subject to recall elections, or requiring that Representatives live in the congressional district in which they represent.
The three-fifths clause was a compromise between Southern and Northern states in which three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.
This compromise had the effect of increasing the political power of slave-holding states by increasing their share of seats in the House of Representatives, and consequently their share in the Electoral College ( where a state's influence over the election of the President is tied to the size of its congressional delegation ).
When nobody has a majority, the House of Representatives, voting by states and with the same quorum requirements as under the original procedure, chooses a President.
This dilemma was seen most notably in 1861 and 1933, as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt ( plus the newly elected Senators and Representatives ) had to wait four months before they, and the incoming-Congresses, could deal with the secession of Southern states and the Great Depression respectively.
The U. S. Constitution states that all justices of the Court " shall hold their offices during good behavior ," meaning that the appointments only end when a justice dies in office, resigns, or is impeached by the United States House of Representatives and convicted at trial by the Senate.
Except for Nebraska, which has unicameral legislature, all states have a bicameral legislature, with the upper house usually called the Senate and the lower house called the House of Representatives, the House of Delegates, Assembly or something similar.
After the secession of the southern states, the House of Representatives on May 6, 1862, and the Senate on June 20 finally approved it.
The members of the House of Representatives balloted as states to determine whether Jefferson or Burr would become president.
Modern democratic states with bicameral parliamentary systems are sometimes equipped with a senate, often distinguished from an ordinary parallel lower house, known variously as the " House of Representatives ", " House of Commons ", " Chamber of Deputies ", " National Assembly ", " Legislative Assembly ", or " House of Assembly ", by electoral rules.
The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which states in part, " The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker ..." The current speaker is John Boehner, a Republican who represents Ohio's 8th congressional district.

Representatives and backing
Garrett led nineteen US lawmakers to introduce a bill in the House of Representatives backing UN membership for Taiwan, contrary to U. S. policy since Nixon.

Representatives and independence
" The House of Representatives passed a nonbinding resolution criticizing the citing of foreign law and " reaffirming American independence.
A report from the United States House of Representatives detailing their investigation of the United States Steel Corporation asserted that there were two general types of loose associations or consolidations between steel and iron interests in the 1890s in which the individual concerns retained ownership as well as a large degree of independence: the " pool " and the " gentleman's agreement ".
* William Atkinson Jones-member of the United States House of Representatives, sometimes called the architect of Philippine independence
In a House of Representatives of Japan-hearing April 8, 2008, Shirakawa said he would maintain the bank's independence and transparency.
Though in ill health, Albizu was arrested at once when Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irving Flores, unfurled a Puerto Rican flag and opened fire on the members of the Representatives of the 83rd Congress with the intention of capturing world wide attention to the cause of Puerto Rican independence on March 1, 1954.
The House of Representatives in its present form dates from 10 October 1970, when Fiji attained independence from the United Kingdom.
A grandfather clause in the 1970 Constitution, which was adopted on independence, provided for the old Legislative Council to be renamed as the House of Representatives and remain in office, pending the first post-independence elections in 1972.
In 2002, a nationalist assembly of Papuans led by independence activist Theys Eluay declared the New York Agreement " unlawful and morally unacceptable, because Representatives from New Guinea were not involved in it ".
*** Representatives of South Africa, United States of America, Angola and Cuba meet in London to search for a solution to the Angolan war and independence for Namibia
( Excerpt from the writings of Raja Dato Nong Chik, leader of the Malaysian independence movement and former member of the Malaysian House of Representatives )" ( p. 54 )
The American philhellenes arrived to advocate for the idea of Cretan independence, and in 1868, a question of recognition of independent Crete was addressed in the House of Representatives, but it was decided by a vote to follow a policy of non-intervention in Ottoman affairs.
Representatives of the local Jewish merchant associations adopted a resolution declaring their participation in the struggle for Poland's independence and issued an appeal to the Jewish masses.
In 1989, the Cyprus House of Representatives approved legislation providing for the operation of the Cyprus News Agency as a " semi-governmental " news organisation with full editorial independence.

Representatives and expressed
Election statistics show that, while the LDP had been able to secure a majority in the twelve House of Representatives elections from May 1958 to February 1990, with only three exceptions ( December 1976, October 1979, and December 1983 ), its share of the popular vote had declined from a high of 57. 8 percent in May 1958 to a low of 41. 8 percent in December 1976, when voters expressed their disgust with the party's involvement in the Lockheed scandal.
In a 2011 press release, McCarthy expressed her sentiments on the Tea Party, saying “ It's time to stop letting the Tea Party hold the House of Representatives hostage.
Representatives of Canada's business community also expressed concern about changes to disclosure laws, arguing that their commercial secrets could be exposed to competitors.
On April 13, 2007, a " Coalition of Patent Examiner Representatives " expressed concern that
Representatives of the Stanley family expressed their " bitter disappointment " and stated the case was a failure of the criminal justice system.
Representatives of the Portuguese Left Bloc, the German Left Party, and the French Left Party expressed interest but said they would need to consult.
Representatives from most of Georgian opposition parties attended the presentation ; most of them expressed their interest in cooperating with Alasania's newly formed party.
Both parties have expressed optimism about their gambits, with Prime Minister Qarase saying on Radio Sargam ( affiliated to Fiji Village ) on 5 October that the SDL expected to win an absolute majority in the 71-member House of Representatives, and regarded as many as 50 seats as a real possibility.

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