Following the destruction of the Commons Chamber, the Lords offered their own debating chamber for the use of the Commons ; for their own sittings the Queen's Robing Room was converted into a makeshift chamber.

The debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament.

Wide, quarter-sawn boards of oak have been prized since the Middle Ages for use in interior paneling of prestigious buildings such as the debating chamber of the House of Commons in London, and in the construction of fine furniture.

* In Wales, the National Assembly for Wales debating chamber is called the Senedd, pronounced ' Seneth '.

The Federation Chamber, formerly the Main Committee, is a second debating chamber that considers relatively uncontroversial matters.

Also, New Zealand's free-to-air digital television network, Freeview, provides live coverage of the debating chamber when it is in session on Parliament TV.

On 29 October 1957 he suffered a broken arm after a ' Mills grenade ' was thrown into the debating chamber of the Knesset.

The debating chamber of the European Parliament in Espace Léopold, Brussels

The stage of Conron Hall at University College, the main debating chamber of the University of Western Ontario Debating Society

The more proportional a representative system, the greater the likelihood of multiple political parties appearing in the parliamentary debating chamber.

Included among the building's many rooms are the famous debating chamber, a dining room, bar, snooker room, the Keynes Library and various offices.

The Cambridge Union Society debating chamber during the 2011 Cambridge Festival of Ideas.

Seats in the debating chamber form a horseshoe pattern, with members of the governing party or coalition sitting on the right hand of the Speaker and members of the opposition sitting opposite.

The States continued to use the Royal Court as their debating chamber until the construction of a dedicated States Chamber on an adjacent site in 1887.

All members were directed to the Noes lobby, where the Clerk of the House recorded each member's vote ( either for keeping the age at 18, raising the age to 20, or raising the off-licence age to 20 while keeping the on-licence age at 18 ) as they passed back into the main debating chamber.

It was made into a debating chamber after Henry VIII became the last monarch to use the Palace of Westminster as a place of residence and following the suppression of the college there.

From 1809 it was the debating chamber of Dublin Corporation for nearly a century, and was the scene of many famous speeches by Daniel O ' Connell.

Over its history the Parliament is said to have evolved from being " a debating chamber for notables ," to " a club for the shah's placemen " during the Pahlavi era, to a body dominated by members of " the propertied middle class " under the Islamic Republic.

Included in these rules are certain powers available to the Speaker to ensure reasonable behaviour by MPs, including the ability to remove disruptive MPs from the debating chamber.

The Speaker presides over the business of Parliament from the elevated ' Speaker's Chair ' behind The Table in the debating chamber.

It eventually became above that the system of alternating with the Sejm in using the latter's debating chamber was becoming more and more problematic, and so, after another 18 months, during which the Senate made use of the Hall of Columns in the Sejm, work on the new Senate chamber finally began.

On 13 August 2007, Wilkie was ordered to leave the debating chamber by the Speaker David Hawker for heckling Deputy Liberal leader and Treasurer Peter Costello.

However, the Assembly proved to be unable to make any resolute decisions and degenerated into a mere debating club.

Austria and Prussia withdrew their delegates from the Assembly, which was little more than a debating club.

Most students form delegations and represent member countries ' interests in the General Assembly by drafting and debating resolutions.

While related sections of the law made references to sex, a State Assembly committee that was debating adding sex-specific terms to this section in 1977 noted: " Under existing law it is not clear whether partners of the same sex can get married ".

From 1999 until the opening of the new building in 2004, committee rooms and the debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament were housed in the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland located on The Mound in Edinburgh.

On 22 December 1789, the Jewish question came again before the Assembly in debating the issue of admitting to public service all citizens without distinction of creed.

Defending himself against the charges that he had " insulted " the National Assembly by dismissing it as a mere debating society, Marković answered that he had written the truth.

After the Rising, some Dubliners spat, threw stones at them, and emptied chamber pots down on the rebels as they were marched towards the transport ships that would take them to the Welsh internment camps, while others looked on with sympathy.

Welsh remembered that flowers came from all over the world and extended from the House of Representatives to the Senate chamber.

The Debating chamber of the Welsh Assembly.

In 1993, she played the lead as a Welsh maid who gets in over her head in the Bush Theatre's production of Lucinda Coxon's Waiting at the Water's Edge ; in 2002, she was cast as Creusa in a Gate Theatre production of Euripides ' Ion ; and in early 2005, she appeared as Dora, a woman incarcerated in a 1920s asylum in the Salisbury Playhouse's production of Charlotte Jones ' chamber drama, Airswimming.

The word Mŵd in early Welsh means ' vault ' or ' chamber ', and there is no evidence that there was ever a motte and bailey castle at Aber.

After finding the door to their chamber locked and guarded, the Assembly met nearby on a tennis court and pledged the Tennis Court Oath on 20 June 1789, binding them " never to separate, and to meet wherever circumstances demand, until the constitution of the kingdom is established and affirmed on solid foundations.

The legislative power is constituted by the General Assembly, composed of two chambers: the Chamber of Deputies of 99 members representing the 19 departments, elected based on proportional representation ; and the Chamber of Senators consisting of 31 members, 30 of whom are elected for a five year term by proportional representation and the Vice-president, who presides over the chamber.

On 21 January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs ( who became known as Teachta Dála, TDs ) refusing to sit in the British House of Commons at Westminster, assembled in Dublin and formed a single chamber Irish parliament called Dáil Éireann ( Assembly of Ireland ).

Five states designate the larger chamber the Assembly and three states call it the House of Delegates.

While the treaty for the latter was being drawn up by the Common Assembly, the ECSC parliamentary chamber, the EDC was rejected by the French Parliament.

The legislative branch consists of a bicameral Legislative Assembly made up of a Senate upper chamber and a House of Representatives lower chamber.

State Rep. Bobby Piece, a Democrat, represents the Grant, Dallas, and Cleveland Counties in the lower chamber of the State Assembly.

When the Republican Party gained a majority in both houses of the General Assembly in 2005, the procedural rules previously used to prevent a vote by the full chamber were changed so that the bill was handled as a state bill and not as a local bill.

The legislature of the Estado Novo regime in Portugal was dubbed National Assembly, while the Chamber of Corporations was a purely advisory chamber.

The term continued to be used after this First Dáil and was used to refer to later members of the Irish Republic's single chamber Dáil Éireann ( or " Assembly of Ireland ") ( 1919 – 1922 ), members of the Free State Dáil ( 1922 – 1937 ), and of the modern Dáil Éireann.

At the front of the chamber, is the rostrum containing the green marble desk for the President of the General Assembly, Secretary-General and Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Services and matching lectern for speakers.

Model United Nations conferences sponsored by UNA-USA, the National Collegiate Conference Association ( NCCA / NMUN ), and the International Model UN Association ( IMUNA / NHSMUN ) hold part of their sessions in the General Assembly chamber.

André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin ( February 1, 1783 – November 8, 1865 ), commonly called Dupin the Elder, was a French advocate, president of the chamber of deputies and of the Legislative Assembly.

Although not noted as a speaker ( he spoke rarely and briefly ), Sieyès had major influence, and he recommended the decision of the Estates to reunite its chamber as the National Assembly, although he opposed the abolition of tithes and the confiscation of Church lands.

Typically the Legislative Assembly was partially or wholly elected by popular vote ; this was usually in contrast with the other chamber of the legislature, called the Legislative Council, whose membership was generally either nominated by the Governor, or indirectly elected.

Conflict between the two chambers frequently led to the Legislative Council being reformed, or even abolished outright, thus leaving the Legislative Assembly as either the more powerful chamber in the parliament, or the only one.

In contrast, the state of Queensland has abolished the former upper house of its parliament, leaving the Legislative Assembly as the sole chamber.

In an address to the Assembly, he urged the chamber to allow a delegation to go: " Yes, Stockholm, in response to the call of the Russian Revolution ....

By 1938, the National Assembly began consideration of these proposals, which included restoring the Senate as the upper chamber of Congress.

Under the new constitution, there was to be a single permanent assembly of 750 members elected for a term of three years by the < span lang =" fr "> scrutin de liste </ span >, which was to vote on the laws prepared by a council of state elected by the Assembly for six years ; the executive power was delegated to a president elected for four years by direct universal suffrage, i. e. on a broader basis than that of the chamber, and not eligible for re-election.

Further to the WJC ’ s and other international organizations ’ calls, representatives of many Western countries either did not show up or walked out of the conference chamber when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked Israel in his speech to the Durban Review Conference in Geneva in April 2009 and to the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York in September 2009.