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...unfair. And the governor has the ability to persuade some of the swing voters in my committee - and I only need one - to get the bill onto the floor. " If the bill is passed by the senate, it will then continue to the legislature's other chamber, the house of delegates, where house speaker Michael E. Busch has said he believes there are enough votes for approval...
...Governor O'Malley can't budge any of those swing voters, there are still parliamentary moves at his disposal that could allow him to bring the bill to the full chamber without a committee vote. One of them would be to persuade lawmakers on the committee who oppose the bill to release it anyway without a recommendation of any kind from their body. Some anti-repeal committee members are already said to be warming to that idea...
...brought but the episode adds to sensitivities about the House of Lords. In 1997, Labour came to power promising to abolish hereditary peers. In 1999, it expelled most of the hereditary peers, but attempts to complete the reforms by replacing the Lords with a partially or wholly elected Upper Chamber have run into the sand. In May 2008, Gordon Brown announced that the government would issue a report updating its position on Lords reform, but it has not yet materialized...
Britain may have lost some of its olde-worlde charms to the dual forces of modernizing government and globalization, but there's one corner of the nation left largely untouched by progress. Parliament's Upper Chamber, the House of Lords, with its 743 members, including 92 who are there only by dint of their aristocratic lineage, remains a byword for tradition and gentility. Those qualities were at least partially reflected in a recent headline from The Sunday Times: "Whispered over tea and cake: price for a peer to fix the law." According to the article, the polite rituals of afternoon...
...This just can't be a grab bag of spending desires that have been unfulfilled for the last several years," Senator Evan Bayh, an Indiana Democrat, warned reporters in a corridor outside the Senate chamber. "It must create jobs...