The panel's action depends on the return of Representative James W. Trimble, Democrat of Arkansas, who has been siding with Speaker Sam Rayburn's forces in the Rules Committee in moving bills to the floor.

Each human being has the task to find a balance between these opposing influences, and each is helped in this task by the mediation of the Representative of Humanity, also known as the Christ being, a spiritual entity who stands between and harmonizes the two extremes.

Since 1995, the High Representative has been able to bypass the elected parliamentary assembly or to remove elected officials.

In 2003, U. S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives describing him as " one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations ".

The exception however is the foreign affairs council, which has been chaired by the High Representative since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.

As a colony or other dependent state or territory lacks the authority to vest in a true head of state of its own, it either has no comparable office, simply receiving those roles exercised by the paramount powers ( in person or, most of the time, through an appointed representative, often styled governor or lieutenant-governor, but also various other titles, on the Cook Islands even simply King / Queen's Representative ) or has one, such as a formerly sovereign dynasty, but under a form of metropolitan guardianship, such as protection, vassal or tributary status.

Peter Kropotkin thus suggested that " Representative government has accomplished its historical mission ; it has given a mortal blow to court-rule ; and by its debates it has awakened public interest in public questions.

The first two candidates in a constituency, who have won the largest number of votes in the first round shall participate in the second round. The candidate who has won the largest number of votes from the votes cast in the second round shall be elected Representative.

States are currently required to use a single-member district scheme, whereby the State is divided into as many election districts for Representatives in the House of Representatives as the size of its representation in that body ( that is to say, Representatives cannot be elected at-large from the whole State unless the State has only one Representative in the House, nor can districts elect more than 1 Representative ).

Since the 1996 reorganization, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ), while leading an independent agency, has also reported to the Secretary of State, as does the United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( also known as the Permanent Representative ).

Membership with the World Bank, under the aegis of Ranjit Nayak, the World Bank Representative in Kosovo ( since February 2007 ), has resulted in Kosovo being treated by the World Bank as its 186th member country, and no longer under the United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 1244.

Bildt has also been noted internationally as a mediator in the Balkan conflict, serving as the European Union's Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, co-chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995 and as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War.

Representative of Hanseatic League city brick construction as well as the German brick churches, the city has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since 2002.

Each campus has a Student Representative Council and there is a national student body, ACUNSA ( Australian Catholic University National Students ’ Association ).

Recent bilateral activities between the United States and North Korea have included an April 2011 visit by former President Jimmy Carter, a July 2011 meeting between U. S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Stephen Bosworth and North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan, and a February 2012 bilateral meeting in Beijing that resulted in an agreement to halt uranium enrichment in exchange for U. S. food aid ( which has now been cancelled due to North Korea's April 2012 long-range missile test ).

The town has three Selectmen and a Representative Town Meeting ( RTM ).

* Jerry Huckaby, Former U. S. Representative, has retired to Choudrant.

He is currently " The Voice of the Pirates " ( and has been since 1964 ) at football games and a state Representative.

On the state legislative level, Kingston has long been called home for State Representative Phyllis Mundy, a nearly lifelong resident of the town who has served as an extremely popular Democratic state legislator from Kingston for over two decades.

Representative government was introduced to Bermuda in 1620, when its House of Assembly held its first session, and it became a self-governing colony.

Additionally, the Roman model of governance inspired many political thinkers over the centuries, and today's modern representative democracies imitate more the Roman than the Greek models because it was a state in which supreme power was held by the people and their elected representatives, and which had an elected or nominated a leader .. Representative democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives as opposed to a direct democracy, a form of democracy in which people vote on policy initiatives directly.

The American premiere was held on October 12, 1984 at the Houston Grand Opera, where Glass's opera The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 also premiered.

The elections were held in November 1989 and were certified as free and fair by the UN Special Representative, with SWAPO taking 57 % of the vote, just short of the two-thirds necessary to have a free hand in revising the framework constitution that had been formulated not by UN Commissioner Bernt Carlsson but by the South African appointee Louis Pienaar.

In 20 November 1915, Yuan held a specially convened " Representative Assembly " which voted unanimously in favor of having Yuan become emperor.

It is one of three parishes — the others are neighboring Red River and St. Bernard near New Orleans – to have rejected the successful GOP gubernatorial candidate, U. S. Representative Bobby Jindal in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007.

Former U. S. Representative James H. Morrison, who held Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat from 1943 to 1967, was born in 1908 in Hammond.

McClure is in the United States House of Representatives 10th Congressional District held by Representative Chris Carney.

The Amsterdam Treaty created the office of the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy ( held by Javier Solana until 1 December 2009 ) to co-ordinate and represent the EU's foreign policy.

On 1 December 2009, Catherine Ashton took over Javier Solana's post as the High Representative, who has held the post since 1999.

Unofficial women's European tournaments for national teams were held in Italy in 1969 and 1979 and won by Italy and Denmark, but there was no formal international tournament until 1982 when the first UEFA European Competition For Representative Women's Teams was launched.

In the House of Representatives in particular, the influence of a single member individually is relatively small and therefore depends a great deal on the Representative's seniority — that is, in most cases, on the length of time he has held office ( which usually depends on how well the Representative pleases his constituents, rather than on how well he pleases the other members of his party ).

The first hearings on implementing free flight were held in August 1994 by Representative Collin Peterson ( D-Minnesota ), chair of the House subcommittee with investigative jurisdiction over the FAA.

After Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down in 1983, with U. S. Representative Larry McDonald aboard, a special election was held to fill his seat in Congress.

Topsfield is part of the Second Essex state senate district ( seat held in 2011 by Senator Frederick E. Berry ( D )) and the Thirteenth Essex state congressional district ( seat held in 2011 by Representative Theodore C. Speliotis ( D )).

Congress is part of the Sixth Congressional District of Massachusetts ( seat held in 2011 by Representative John F. Tierney ( D )).

The Endowment's board includes a wide range of people who have previously held positions in Congress such as former Congressman Richard Gephardt and Martin Frost ; Senator Norm Coleman, and U. S. Representative Gregory Meeks.

The parliamentary seat for Ipoh Timur is held by DAP Representative, Lim Kit Siang while the seat for Ipoh Barat is held by fellow DAP leader, M. Kulasegaran.

On September 18, 1975, he was appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Cyprusa post he held until December 1977, when he rejoined the Peruvian Foreign Service.

Sponsored by Representative Les Aspin, the bill added the fourth paragraph to Title 10 § 1128 and authorized the POW Medal for those captured “ by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .” This amendment was the result of congressional recognition of multiple groups of individuals who were not originally authorized to receive the medal after Department of Defense review, such as the < i > USS Pueblo </ i > crew detained in North Korea in 1968, the US Navy and US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Russia during World War II, the US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Switzerland during World War II, US Marine Corps Col. William R. Higgins who was kidnapped in 1988 and executed by Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists, and the U. S. Marines from the U. S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran who were held hostage by terrorists from 1979 – 1981 in the Iran Hostage Crisis.

After serving in the Spanish government under Felipe González ( 1982 – 1995 ) and Secretary General of NATO ( 1995 – 1999 ), he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009.

Stone went with her daughter to Chicago in May, 1893 and gave her last public speeches at the World's Congress of Representative Women where she saw a strong international involvement in women's congresses, with almost 500 women from 27 countries speaking at 81 meetings, and attendance topping 150, 000 at the week-long event.

The primary responsibility of the Presidency is to organise and chair all meetings of the Council, apart from the Foreign Affairs Council which is chaired by the High Representative.

Each Representative must write or co-write a bill, debate it in committee and on the floor, participate in all legislative meetings, and behave as if they were a " real " legislator.

Just as in the Regular House, each Senator or Representative must write a bill, debate it in committee and on the floor, participate in all legislative meetings, and behave as if they were a " real " legislator.

The U. S. Permanent Representative, currently Susan Rice, is charged with representing the United States on the U. N. Security Council and during almost all plenary meetings of the General Assembly, except in the rare situation in which a more senior officer of the United States ( such as the U. S. Secretary of State or the President of the United States ) is present.

The president's role is largely political, preparing the work of the European Council, organising and chairing its meetings, seeking to find consensus among its members and reporting to the European Parliament after each meeting ; the president will also " at his level and in that capacity, ensure the external representation of the Union on issues concerning its common foreign and security policy, without prejudice to the powers of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security ".

The thirteen MPs sat as the Democratic Representative Caucus ( DRC ) and eventually decided to affiliate themselves with the Tories, sitting as one group in the House of Commons and holding joint meetings.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, joint meetings of both Convocations formed a Representative Council which, having no power or legal authority, was superseded in 1920 by the Church Assembly.

Derby got the Prime Minister to agree that Robertson should accompany Wilson ( British Military Representative ) to all Supreme War Council meetings, although Lloyd George then restored Wilson's freedom of action by instructing Wilson to send his reports directly to him.

A story about the diary made its way into a John Birch Society publication Review of the News and a Republican House of Representative staffer passed a copy on to the FBI. The diary was said to outline Farid's visit to the US and his meetings with Sandy Pollack, representing both the U. S. Peace Council ( USPC, the national chapter of the then Soviet directed World Peace Council ) and the Communist Party USA ( CPUSA ), and with others, with the expressed and sole purpose of creating a solidarity network in the US for the Salvadoran rebels.

Representative town meetings ( RTMs ) vary from town to town, and can vary widely in terms of rules and bylaws.