And if the Harmans both win, they'll become the second bicameral couple in Sacramento.
But unicameralists are hard-pressed to cite specific failures of the bicameral, conference committee system.
We're not insisting that all societies be governed by a bicameral legislature and a term-limited chief executive.
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Respectable bicameral democracies around the world confine direct election to one chamber only.
Hopefully our bicameral intelligence recently, the reports coming out now, will help, hopefully the 9-11 Commission, and will further help.
The House of Representatives, the lower house in Egypt's bicameral system, will hold its first session July 6, the decree said.
It based the draft legislation on proposals created by 16-member bicameral working groups on the topics of gun violence, school security and mental health.
The House of Representatives, the lower house in Egypt's bicameral system, will hold its first session July 2 instead of July 6, the agency said.
Fifteen seats of the 28-seat bicameral parliament are up for election.
The fact that many lobbyists and senior legislators support bicameralism is a sign, unicameralists claim, that bicameral, murky government is well-suited to career politicians and special interests.
Despite such misgivings, every state eventually accepted the bicameral system.
The next step is to nail down the remaining specifics on a bipartisan, bicameral agreement to move forward with all three agreements and with TAA, trade adjustment assistance, in a timely fashion.
"I'd want to look at the language, but I think it's very important that the oversight of the intelligence committees continue on and this joint bicameral, bipartisan investigation is allowed to do its work, " he said.
MPs of both parties for a part-elected upper house, has said in a thoughtful pamphlet that careful design could prevent Britain from moving all the way from its existing near-unicameral system right over to the American extreme of bicameral gridlock.
In the 2010 mid-terms Democrats lost 63 House seats, six Senate seats, six governorships and a whopping 680 seats in state legislatures, giving Republicans bicameral legislative and executive control in 15 states and the biggest tally of state legislators since 1928.
Therefore, we respectfully request that you immediately take steps to establish a bicameral investigative committee with subpoena and deposition powers and with the requisite staff needed to conduct such hearings as are necessary to prepare a truly authoritative and independent report as soon as possible.
As more fully detailed in my earlier commentaries, following a primary in which the electorate would designate the two favored proposals through the two largest votes, Congress would then be given a period of time, say 90 days, to promulgate its own bicameral, super-majority legislation.
He points out that only works when one party (or coalition) is in charge, whereas "in a system built around an administration and a bicameral Congress, everybody is part of the government - and the government only functions if there exists a certain baseline spirit of co-operation between the mutually indispensable parts".
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