Nebraska's legislature, a single-chamber assembly unique among the states, recently passed a two-year moratorium on executions.
The latest targets are a new single-chamber National Assembly, set up under Mr Chavez's constitution, and the trade unions.
It's unlikely the language of dance will ever make it into the Assembly chamber but on Sunday Politics Wales you'll find out just how keen some Assembly Members are to, well, liven things up a bit.
First Minister Rhodri Morgan is to make a statement in the assembly chamber on Tuesday.
With six AMs, Lib Dem formed the smallest group in the assembly chamber after the 2003 election.
The plans for the 30, 400ft turbines will be up for discussion in the assembly chamber again on Tuesday.
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Or it might be delayed until Monday morning, shortly before the matter is brought to the assembly chamber.
So back to the assembly chamber on Monday when, I imagine, Jim Allister might have something more to say.
Carwyn Jones made the remark during the previous first minister question session in the assembly chamber on 19 June.
Opposition leaders rounded on Mr Jones in the assembly chamber on Tuesday.
"That has always been there, " he told reporters outside the Assembly chamber.
This is a view held not just by Sinn Fein but is one which is shared by parties and individuals across the assembly chamber.
The issue has been raised within the Assembly chamber by Richard Edwards, AM for Preseli, where the issue has been of concern to farmers in his constituency.
Mr Melding said that when computers first arrived in the assembly chamber it was "ground-breaking - we had people coming from all over the world to look at that".
That's the maths in the Assembly chamber and for the first time since Carwyn Jones formed his government (a budget aside) he's being reminded of how the figures add up.
Mr Edwards has questioned Ms Gwyther in the Assembly chamber on what plans she had to discuss the future of the dairy industry in Wales, following publication of the MMC report.
Lord Rogers' debating chamber for the Welsh Assembly and Swansea's new waterfront museum are nearly finished.
But the most heat being generated this week will surely come from within the debating chamber of the General Assembly, where once again Mr Bush and Mr Ahmadinejad will try to capture the world's attention with their version of what is the world's most worrisome brewing conflict.
The committee will decamp to the Senate Chamber in Stormont, to quiz the Assembly Clerk, Trevor Reaney, and the leaders of its smaller parties.
Should the Assembly vote Monday to pass the resolution and send it to the chamber's ethics committee, the committee's recommended sanctions would then come back to the Assembly for a full vote.
The report said that in the past year the failure to find compromises on contested issues means that the assembly has faltered as a political chamber.
At a plenary session in the Senedd chamber last Wednesday, AMs endorsed a report by the assembly's standards committee which said she had brought the institution into disrepute.
Libous and the Senate Republicans who share control of the chamber haven't acted on a bill by the Assembly's Democratic majority for a moratorium on fracking as more studies are completed.
In effect, though, the government, formed from a majority in the assembly, calls the shots, playing one chamber off against another to block anything introduced by backbenchers it does not like.
Although a debating chamber was built in the 1970s, before plans for an assembly were scrapped in 1979, it is now deemed to be fit only for committee meetings.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, longtime leader of that chamber's Democratic majority, didn't respond to a request for comment Friday on what else Albany needs to fight corruption and whether he plans anything.
Some members, who've been around a little longer than 12 months, think it's time for a pretty radical look not just at how the business is divvied up between Government and Assembly matters, but how AMs behave in the chamber, what they can discuss, what impression you get when you watch them at work and how the chamber itself is set up.
In an unedifying end to this gripping chapter in the assembly's history scuffles broke out between members outside the chamber after his re-election.
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The assembly administration had argued that the original estimates for the new chamber, made back in 1998, were too low and on this count the Richard Rogers Partnership was found guilty.
Roberta Alma Anastase, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania, Justin Koumba, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Congo, and Rajkeswur Purryag, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Mauritius, will participate in the opening ceremony.
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