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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She argued that the existing settlement was unsustainable, and that the vote today was the most important vote in the history of the assembly.

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Mr. FABIAN NUNEZ (California Assembly Speaker): California has had a history of taking leadership on environmental issues, but this, we believe, is going to have not just national but worldwide implications, with the goal of convincing the federal government that this country, who is the number one emitter of greenhouse gases, has to play a leadership role in curbing greenhouse gas emissions throughout the globe.

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For the first time in history, more than half the people represented in this assembly freely choose their own governments.

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She was joined by other Plaid Cymru AMs as she made history as the first AM to be expelled from the assembly.

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Earlier this month, Libya's interim National Transitional Council handed power to a newly elected assembly, in the first peaceful transition in the country's modern history.

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One month later, Welsh assembly Presiding Officer Rosemary Butler presided over "a historic day in the history of devolution and of Wales" as a Bill was passed to ensure equal treatment of Welsh and English.

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Development and assembly of the International Space Station now culminates the largest, most complex initiative in human history, a testament to great potentials and peaceful benefits of multi-national collaboration.

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Ian Paisley Jnr, a DUP member of the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Policing Board, said the shooting could prove to be a defining moment in Northern Ireland's history.

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