It would add a second chamber to Congress, and create a first-past-the-post electoral system.
The counter-argument is that the benefits of a second chamber are not that clear.
The similarity of the two chambers has prompted some Italians to ask why a second chamber is needed at all.
But, compared with the alternative of a second chamber with real power and real legitimacy, it's a sad end to the hopes and promises of the first term.
Many MPs, especially Tories, worry that a second chamber with an electoral mandate would challenge the primacy of the Commons and substitute Britain's tradition of strong government for American-style legislative gridlock.
So you can see there are various ideas going around this business of having a second chamber but the common theme is that they want people from national governments, national parliaments, to be involved.
But, if proportional representation solves some of the difficulties of not having a second chamber, there is still the problem of stopping the Scottish parliament from tampering with or even gerrymandering its electoral system.
That quibble aside - and it is an important quibble - I welcome the report as an excellent exposition of the role, powers and functions of the second chamber and (elections apart) and as the basis for ensuring a transition to a second chamber that will be better than any of the alternatives on offer.
The European Parliament would be more important, and national governments would be more like a second legislative chamber.
Opening the debate, committee chair Lord Richard said that the members had voted that "a reformed second chamber should have an electoral mandate" with 13 in favour and nine against.
The recommendation is almost certain to be accepted by the government, which is due to publish its plans for a largely elected second chamber in May.
Meanwhile a cross-party group, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, is drawing up legislation to replace the existing House of Lords with a mainly elected second chamber.
That means scrapping the House of Lords and replacing it with a new, elected second chamber.
Election would give the second chamber a greater legitimacy, and that would give it more clout.
But Lords reform is likely to prove the most hotly-contested measure, with some Conservative MPs likely to fight plans for a smaller and mostly-elected second chamber.
For a government with little interest in an effective second chamber, say sceptics, delay may be an advantage.
On October 14th, Baroness Jay, the Lords leader, announced a Royal Commission to propose changes to the second chamber once hereditary peers have been removed.
Members have been told to return to the Senedd chamber to vote on the regulations a second time.
So, the command was given to drill a second hole that was deep enough to push some cuttings into the tool's sample acquisition chamber.
In the second part of the debate, John Swinney told the chamber the budget settlement had been a "major challenge" so far due to a "tight financial settlement" from Westminster.
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