* November 5 – The U. S. Republican Party maintains control of the House of Representatives and gains control of the United States Senate.

He pursues the policy of his predecessor and maintains good relations with the Senate.

With the secretary and sergeant at arms, the president pro tempore maintains order in Senate portions of the Capitol and Senate buildings.

The president presides over the plenary assembly of the Senate, guides and controls debates in the assembly, is responsible for ensuring the democratic functioning of the Senate, maintains order and security in the assembly and for enforcing the Rules of the Senate, and represents the Senate at both the national ( to the other institutions ) and the international level.

The Library also maintains several special collections and self-developed databases, including a comprehensive Standards Collection, the PolyU Examination Paper Database, the PolyU Course Scheme Database, the Senate Paper Database, a Digital Image Gallery, and a Slide Collection.

Leavitt ’ s office maintains that the use of the aircraft was necessary and legal since the Senate Appropriations Committee approved his use of the aircraft, and commercial services could not meet the deadlines required by his engagements.

The party maintains majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and controls 11 of the 12 statewide offices.

In recognition of the immediate and historical significance of Senate bills, resolutions, hearings, and reports, the secretary oversees the Office of Printing and Document Services, the Office of Senate Security ( which maintains classified documents ), the United States Senate Library, the Office of Senate Curator, and the Senate Historical Office.

The secretary also maintains the Office of Interparliamentary Services to provide support for those interparliamentary conferences in which the Senate participates and to assist senators in international travel.

The Senate's chief administrative officer is the Secretary of the Senate, who maintains public records, disburses salaries, monitors the acquisition of stationery and supplies, and oversees clerks.

Another official is the Sergeant at Arms who, as the Senate's chief law enforcement officer, maintains order and security on the Senate premises.

The Faculty Senate maintains all faculty committees and the faculty constitution, and assists the university administration with the academic operations and calendar for the school.

The ancient historian Tacitus describes Domitian's first speech in the Senate as brief and measured, at the same time noting his ability to elude awkward questions.

It is worth noting that convention does not give the Governor-General the ability to dissolve either the House of Representatives or the Senate without advice.

While Senate customs have created supermajority rules that have diminished this Constitutional power, the Vice President still retains the ability to influence legislation ( e. g. the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 ).

A government that is unable to obtain supply can be dismissed by the Governor-General: however, this is generally considered a last resort and is a highly controversial decision to take, given the conflict between the traditional concept of confidence as derived from the lower house and the ability of the Senate to block supply.

The Constitution forbids the Senate to originate or amend a money bill, but places no limitation on the Senate's ability to defeat one.

During Fujimori's first term in office, APRA and Vargas Llosa's party, FREDEMO, remained in control of both chambers of Congress ( the Chamber of Deputies and Senate ), hampering the government's ability to enact economic reforms.

More important was his Congressional career, where he served long terms both in the House and Senate, where he was elected Minority Whip and Majority Leader, reflecting his ability to manage legislation and build deals.

* PAS-President has the ability to appoint officials with the advice and assent of the Senate.

The emperor's tribuneship granted him the right to convene the Senate at his will and lay proposals before it, as well as the ability to veto any act or proposal by any magistrate, including the actual tribune of the plebeians.

Since most of the military power within the Republic's territory was not actually controlled by the Republic, but as depicted in Attack of the Clones, by member planets such as Naboo or organizations such as the Techno Union and the Intergalactic Banking Clan, the ability of the Senate to enforce its decrees was severely limited, and it was forced to rely on the Jedi.

* Amended Article I Section 6 ( 2 ) to allow the House of Representatives and Senate the ability to grant seats to the heads of each Executive Department in order to discuss issues involving their departments with Congress.

The Vice President would then become Acting President until the President submits a declaration to the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate that affirms his ability to discharge his duties.

The Washington Post raised questions about Minton's ability to be confirmed by the Senate due to the power many of his foes held in the body.

On October 19, 2011, William D. Shaddox of the National Park Service testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and raised concerns regarding the ability of the National Park Service to provide the funds required by S. 1537.

Inhofe campaigned for his Senate seat in 1994 using the phrase " God, guns, and gays ," reflecting his ability to master political support in opposition to gay rights in general ( and gays in the military in particular ).

As of January 2012, the Republican Party holds the majority in the House of Delegates, and exactly 50 % of the Senate ( with the ability to break tie votes falling to the Republican Lieutenant Governor ).

Red Jacket's " Speech to the U. S. Senate " narrates his ability to use a distinct form of rhetoric that distinguishes the difference in religious tolerance between the Indians and United States citizens.

272 during the 82nd Congress, the committee was granted subpoena power, and the ability to " sit and act at such times during the sessions, recesses, and adjourned periods of the Senate.

The Lieutenant Governor has the sole ability to appoint the chairmanships or vice chairmanships of various Senate committees, regardless of party size.

As of 2010 elections, this is the last time either party has had a two-thirds majority in the Senate, although with a Democratic president the ability to override a veto or to impeach a President was not particularly relevant.

Justice Scalia took a position as a judicial conservative, citing that the U. S. Constitution gave consolidated power to enforce the law to the Executive Branch, while splitting the power to legislate between the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, and that Legislative Branch ’ s ability to start an investigation was a breach of the separation of powers.

By Monday November 21, the bill reached the Senate where it was revealed by Democratic Senator Kent Conrad that among the many overlooked provisions, the bill gave two committee chairmen, the chairmen of the House or Senate Committee on Appropriations, the ability to access anyone's tax returns.

The Senate also has the ability to create student commissions, composed of Senators and non-Senators, to advocate for specific issues, such as alcohol policy reform, Code of Conduct reviews, and diversity recommendations.

A similar resolution passed in the Senate by a vote of 29-5.

When the shouting ended, the bill passed, 114 to 4, sending it to the Senate, where a similar proposal is being sponsored by Sen. George Parkhouse of Dallas.

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.

It is largely based on the British Westminster System, adopting many of its practices and precedents, but with a similar structure — House of Representatives, and Senate — to the U. S. Congress.

Although that bill was never voted on in the Senate, a similar Senate bill was passed after his death and named the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in his memory.

Proponents for popular election noted that ten states already had non-binding primaries for Senate candidates, in which the candidates would be voted on by the public, effectively serving as advisory referenda instructing state legislatures how to vote ; reformers campaigned for more states to introduce a similar method.

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.

Rule XIX, which governs debate, does not authorize the Vice President to participate in debate, and grants only to members of the Senate ( and, upon appropriate notice, former presidents of the United States ) the privilege of addressing the Senate, without granting a similar privilege to the sitting Vice President.

A similar deal had been struck by COPEI in 1968 on behalf of Rafael Caldera, promising Miguel Angel Capriles a Senate seat and the right to designate eleven Congressional candidates.

Garfield showed improvement in handling this on the House floor and it was passed there, although it was stopped in the Senate ; ten years later, a similar bill became law, with most of his groundwork in place.

Catiline began to attach many other men of senatorial and equestrian rank to his conspiracy, and like him many of the other leading conspirators had faced similar political problems in the Senate.

With a mission similar to that of the Truman Committee in the Senate, he probed into the peacetime " business as usual " inefficiencies that permeated the naval war and demanded that admirals shape up and get the job done.

The vote in the Senate, which took place a month later, revealed a similar partisan divide.

A similar version was included in the " Stop Over Spending Act of 2006 ", authored by Senator Judd Gregg, in the Senate and approved by the Senate Budget Committee, but the full Senate failed to approve it, thereby preventing the Legislative Line-Item Veto Act from becoming law.

Something similar took place in the Senate, where the Kirchners ' Front for Victory secured 36 of 72 seats ( losing 4 ), the UCR / CC / PS grouping secured 23 ( gaining 7 ), and the Justicialist Party wing opposed to the Kirchners maintained their presence of 9 seats.

In 1964, Mansfield, as Senate Majority Leader, filed a procedural motion to have the proposed Civil Rights Act discussed by the whole Senate rather than by the Judiciary Committee, the latter having killed similar legislation seven years prior.

This association of the Golden Eagle with Rome has also led to the adoption of similar symbols in other countries ; for instance, the adoption of the related and physically similar Bald Eagle as the national bird of the United States was inspired by the conception of the United States as a modern reincarnation of the Roman Republic, a theme that recurs in other elements as well ( including the prevalence of neoclassical architecture in American public buildings and the use of Roman terminology — such as naming the upper house of Congress the Senate — to hark back to the Roman model ).

There was some discussion at various times about whether this clause would allow something similar to a Westminster style question time – for instance, having Department Secretaries being questioned by the House of Representatives or the Senate – but the discussions on this issue have never gotten past an exploratory stage.