The House of Delegates was elected directly by the voters ( male, propertied ) and the equivalent to the Senate was the Cabinet appointed by the Governor and by the President of the United States.

The Council is equivalent to the Roman Senate ; the Captains Regent, to the consuls of ancient Rome.

The Clerk of Senate, who has status equivalent to that of a Vice-Principal and is a member of the Senior Management Group, has responsibility for regulation of the University's academic policy, such as dealing with plagiarism and the conduct of examanitions.

In 1816, this institution was renamed to the Senate by the tsar, to demonstrate that it was equal to, rather than subsidiary to its Russian equivalent.

Because of the nature of its investigations, the subcommittee is considered by some to be the Senate equivalent to the older House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ).

The less controversial accomplishments of the Bertrand administration include the abolition of the Legislative Council of Quebec, the provincial equivalent of the Canadian Senate.

When the upper house is called a senate, the equivalent title is often President of the Senate.

in regard to donations ), and to elect members of the University's governing body ( known variously as the Senate, Council, Board, etc., depending on the particular institution, but basically equivalent to a board of directors of a corporation.

The title of ' Lambardar ' is only available to a powerful family of zimindar this is a state-privileged status which is generally hereditary and equivalent to an English Duke, there can only be one Lambardar of the village / city, who in many cases has wide ranging governmental powers, i. e. the policing authority of the village, and many other governmental and administrative perks, this has resulted in a feudal system perpetrating the Pakistan Senate and its elected representatives.

The program was designed to bring college-age students to Washington, D. C., to work in Laxalt's Senate office for the equivalent of a college semester.

He served as the party's first leader in the Senate and first Deputy Leader ( at the time, the two posts were equivalent ).

He was pensioned, joined the Russian Senate, and retained his royal style until May 6, 1833 when he was demoted from tsarevich ( the Russian equivalent of batonishvili ) to " prince " ( knyaz ), along with other members of the deposed dynasty, following an abortive uprising in Georgia led by David ’ s uncle, Prince Alexandre Bagrationi.

* Grand Commander ( Marangal na Komandante ) – Conferred upon a civilian for singular acts of service with a tangible impact on the Philippine military sphere ; or upon a Crown Prince, Vice President, Senate President, Speaker of the House, Chief Justice or the equivalent, foreign minister or other official of cabinet rank ; or upon an Ambassador, Undersecretary, Assistant Secretary, or other person of a rank similar or equivalent to the foregoing for life achievement in the military field

What is existing is Parliamentary Bill No. 1200 ( equivalent to that of a Senate or House Bill today ) which is the proposed law / bill creating the said municipality which upon approval, has become BP 171.

There is an equivalent office in the upper house: the Manager of Government Business in the Senate.

In the interim between now and next year, we trust the House and Senate will put their minds to studying Georgia's very real economic, fiscal and social problems and come up with answers without all the political heroics.

Twice previously the Senate has approved measures backing ETV and the House has let them die.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of July 3, 1952 ( 66 Stat. 328 ) as amended ( 42 U.S.C. 1952-1958 ), is further amended to read as follows: Section 1.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make or cause to be made a study covering -- ( 1 )

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a program of stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small domestic producers on public, Indian, and other lands as provided in this Act.

This section prevents the military departments and the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization from carrying out certain transactions involving real property unless they come into agreement with the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The Department's constant fight with the House for money is a polite minuet compared with its periodic bloody engagements with the Senate.

There was no debate as the Senate passed the bill on to the House.

Senate Republican Leader Dirksen ( Ill. ) and House Republican Leader Charles Halleck ( Ind. ) said the message did not persuade them to change their opposition to compulsory medical insurance.

-- Acting hastily under White House pressure, the Senate tonight confirmed Robert C. Weaver as the nation's federal housing chief.

The Senate ( by voice vote ) and the House ( by 224-170 ) passed and sent to the White House the compromise farm bill which the President is expected to sign, not too unhappily.

After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.

" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.

The bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate ( seventeen-member body appointed by the Governor General ) and the House of Representatives ( seventeen seats ; members are elected by proportional representation to serve five-year terms ).

Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen ( newly freed slaves ), and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U. S. House of Representatives ; he was acquitted by the U. S. Senate.

The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.

The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.

Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a series of resolutions, the Compromise of 1850, to allow admission while addressing concerns of both sides of the issue ; at the same time Johnson introduced a similar more streamlined version of compromise in the House.

He immediately set about introducing the Homestead Act in the Senate, just as he had ushered it to passage in the House years before.

The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; nevertheless, his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.

* Stephen M. Sweeney ( born 1959 ), current President of the New Jersey Senate and the Gloucester County, union boss and Financial Secretary / Treasurer, Ironworkers Union Local 399 Board of Chosen Freeholders.

The House passed its version of the Financial Services Act of 1999 on July 1, 1999, by a bipartisan vote of 343-86 ( Republicans 205 – 16 ; Democrats 138 – 69 ; Independent 0 – 1 ), two months after the Senate had already passed its version of the bill on May 6 by a much-narrower 54 – 44 vote along basically-partisan lines ( 53 Republicans and 1 Democrat in favor ; 44 Democrats opposed ).

The Senate passed the Proxmire Financial Modernization Act of 1988 in a 94-2 vote.

Financial problems plagued her Senate campaign from the start.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have given contributions to lawmakers currently sitting on committees that primarily regulate their industry: The House Financial Services Committee ; the Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee ; or the Senate Finance Committee.

Governor, Commissioner of Agriculture, Chief Financial Officer, Attorney General, Chief Justice, Two Senior Justices, Williams Senate President, Williams Speaker of the House, Sullivan Senate President, Sullivan Speaker of the House, and Editor in Chief.

On the Senate Homeland Security Committee he chairs the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information and International Security, and on the Environment and Public Works Committee he chairs the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety.

On November 4, 2010, while in the midst of a battle for the chairmanship of the House Financial Services Committee with Rep. Ed Royce ( R-CA ) and immediately following the 2010 general election, Bachus told the South Shelby ( Ala .) Chamber of Commerce that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and candidates she endorsed cost the Republican Party control of the U. S. Senate.

He is the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government and has a strongly conservative voting record.

The 2011 US Senate Permanent Select Committee on Investigations report on Wall Street and the Financial Crisis analyzed Deutsche Bank as a ' case study ' of investment banking involvement in the mortgage bubble, CDO market, credit crunch, and recession.

Garn was chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and served on three subcommittees: Housing and Urban Affairs, Financial Institutions, and International Finance and Monetary Policy.

The statute requires that the Chairman appear before the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services in February and July of odd numbered years, and before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in February and July of even numbered years.

Per committee rules, legislation bestowing a Congressional Gold Medal upon a recipient must be co-sponsored by two-thirds of the membership of both the House of Representatives and the Senate before their respective committees ( the House Committee on Financial Services and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ) will consider it.

The site has a link to the " United Nations Watch " of the Republican Office of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs ' Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information and International Security, of which he is the ranking minority member.

In addition to her leadership roles, Cafaro has previously served as the ranking member of the Senate Finance and Financial Institutions Committee and served on the Senate Health, Human Services and Aging Committee, Highways and Transportation Committee and the Joint Legislative Ethics Committee.

CPI's report, Who ’ s Behind the Financial Meltdown ?, looking at the roots of the global financial crisis, was featured in numerous media outlets, leading Columbia Journalism Review to ask, “ Why hasn ’ t a newspaper or magazine done this ?” More than 100 newspapers, magazines, wire services and web sites cited CPI's report, The Climate Change Lobby Explosion, an analysis of Senate records showing that the number of climate lobbyists had grown by three hundred percent to four for every Senator.

In 2011, the US Senate released the Levin-Coburn report on " Wall Street and the Financial Crisis "; it did a case study of the behavior of some of the credit ratings agencies during the crisis.

U. S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government is one of twelve subcommittees of the U. S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.