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House and Commons
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
By this time, as we shall see, the Tories were already planning to `` punish '' Steele for his political writing by expelling him from the House of Commons.
He did not mind the Line itself, which Churchill declared in the House of Commons, on February 27, 1945, he had always believed to be `` just and right '', but he did not want it called by a hated name.
The use of anagrams and fabricated personal names may be to circumvent restrictions on the use of real names, as happened in the 18th century when Edward Cave wanted to get around restrictions imposed on the reporting of the House of Commons.
This provision was inserted to avoid unwelcome royal influence over the House of Commons.
* No pardon by the monarch can save someone from being impeached by the House of Commons.
In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.
* 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
* 1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).
Aberavon ( Welsh: Aberafan ) is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Feeling against Catholics, and especially against James, Duke of York, was running strongly ; the Exclusion Bill had been passed by the House of Commons, and the popularity of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, was very great.
In 1876 Disraeli was raised to the peerage as the Earl of Beaconsfield, capping nearly four decades in the House of Commons.
Though he initially stood for election, unsuccessfully, as a Radical, Disraeli was a Tory by the time he won a seat in the House of Commons in 1837 representing the constituency of Maidstone.
However, he would take office with a group of men who possessed little or no official experience, who had rarely felt moved to speak in the House of Commons before, and who, as a group, remained hostile to Disraeli on a personal level, his assault on the Corn Laws notwithstanding.
Disraeli spoke in favour of the measure, arguing that Christianity was " completed Judaism ," and asking of the House of Commons " Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?
The first opportunity for the protectionist Tories under Disraeli and Stanley to take office came in 1851, when Lord John Russell's government was defeated in the House of Commons over the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851.
Disraeli had offered to stand aside as leader in the House of Commons in favour of Palmerston, but the latter declined.
Because of the split in the Conservative Party and because of Disraeli's unpopularity, arising from the budget fight of 1852, which is outlined above, no Conservative reconciliation remained possible so long as Disraeli remained leader in the House of Commons.
Disraeli remained leader of the House of Commons and returned to the Exchequer.
However, the Conservatives were still a minority in the House of Commons, and the passage of the Reform Bill required the calling of new election once the new voting register had been compiled.
After six years in opposition, Disraeli and the Conservative Party won the election of 1874, giving the party its first absolute majority in the House of Commons since the 1840s.
The admission of the middle classes to the franchise and to the House of Commons led eventually to the development of a systematic middle class liberalism and the end of Whiggery, although for many years reforming aristocrats held senior positions in the party.
As early as 1839 Russell had adopted the name Liberal Party, but in reality the party was a loose coalition of Whigs in the House of Lords and Radicals in the Commons.
In the 1885 general election this party won the balance of power in the House of Commons, and demanded Irish Home Rule as the price of support for a continued Gladstone ministry.

House and Environment
* " Agent Orange in Vietnam: Recent Developments in Remediation: Testimony of Ms. Tran Thi Hoan ", Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, U. S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs.
* " Agent Orange in Vietnam: Recent Developments in Remediation: Testimony of Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong ", Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, U. S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs.
* Stratospheric ozone, myths and realities: Testimony of S. Fred Singer, Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates: Case Study 1 — Stratospheric Ozone: Myths and Realities, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, US House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Sess., September 20, 1995 31 ( Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1996 ).
( See GAO Report — Perchlorate: A System to Track Sampling and Cleanup Results is Needed — Report to the Chairman, Dr. Adam Dierkers, Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives — May 2005 ).
Watson then became Associate Director for Environment in the Office of the President of the United States in the White House.
One such example occurred October 26, 2006, when he spoke for almost 120 minutes to prevent the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development from studying a private member's bill to implement the Kyoto Accord.
On March 31, 2009, in testimony that the LA Times viewed as " remarkable ", Ronstadt spoke to the United States Congress ' House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment & Related Agencies, attempting to convince lawmakers to budget $ 200 million in the 2010 fiscal year for the National Endowment of the Arts.
Three weeks after the government's massive loss in the by-election, on 27 May 1993, Lamont was sacked, ( technically resigning from the government because he declined a demotion to become Secretary of State for the Environment ), throwing ( by his own account ) Major's letter of regret at his departure unopened into the wastepaper basket, and giving a resignation speech in the House of Commons on 9 June, that made clear his feeling that he had been unfairly treated, saying that the government ' gives the impression of being in office but not in power '; the then Party Chairman Norman Fowler dismissed the speech as " dud, nasty, ludicrous and silly ".
In May 2000, he joined the House of Commons Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee and in July 2003 he was elected Chairman of the Conservative Middle East Council, a position he still occupies.
Bradshaw became the Deputy to the Leader of the House of Commons Robin Cook in 2002, and was an Under Secretary of State at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2003 until 2006, when he was made a Minister of State at the same department.
Initially the President of the Board of Trade, she was later the Leader of the House of Commons and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
The Custom House () is a neoclassical 18th century building in Dublin, Ireland which houses the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.
On March 4, 2009, a bill to increase the enforcement capabilities of Environment Canada was introduced into the House of Commons.
On April 15, 2002, Eves appointed Stockwell as Government House Leader and Minister of Environment and Energy.
He returned to the House of Representatives afterward, and worked his way up the party's internal ladder, serving as Director-General of the Environment Agency under Takeo Fukuda ( 1976 ) and Minister of Transport under Noboru Takeshita ( 1989 ).
* The GeoMaths Library, which is situated in the basement of Senate House on East Campus and serves a range of schools within the faculties of Science, Engineering and the Built Environment, and Humanities.
After the defeat of the Conservatives, William Hague made her Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, and then Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
Before the Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives in 1995, Waxman was a powerful figure in the House as chair of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Environment from 1979.
On March 25, 2009, in introductory remarks made to Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, during a United States House Energy Subcommittee on Energy and Environment hearing, Shimkus made the following statement regarding the role of carbon dioxide in global warming: " It's plant food ...
Wynn was a member of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he chaired the Subcommittee on the Environment and Hazardous Materials.
He then served in the Department of the Environment and the Department of Trade and Industry before being appointed Conservative Chief Whip in the House of Lords in 1994, succeeding Lord Ullswater.
In the House of Commons, he currently leads the Liberal Democrats DECC ( Department for Energy and Climate Change ) and DEFRA ( Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ) policy team.
Representative Moore presently serves a member of the following House committees: Rules, Judiciary, Judiciary Subcommittee C, Finance, Elections, Environment, University Board of Governors Nominating, Public Utilities, and Redistricting.
As an active member of the House of Lords, Sewel chairs the European Union Select Committee in Agriculture, the Environment and Fisheries and is a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

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