But the significance of the interim House of Lords goes beyond its ability to defeat the government.
The interim house will be more party political, and possibly more partisan.
And although the interim house is only a step towards full reform, the government that created it will be less able to brush off defeats as illegitimate.
And by that stage the new peers in the interim House of Lords will have grown comfortable in their ermine, and could be reluctant to make way for a reformed chamber.
So is he then ruling out White House support for an interim increase in the debt ceiling?
Five committees of the House of Representatives recently issued an interim report on the Benghazi tragedy, which clearly indicated that the highest levels of the State Department were involved in not only denying security resources but reducing them at our facilities in Libya, including the Benghazi Special Mission Compound.
The current House of Lords is the result of interim legislation introduced in 1911.
The White House has delivered a much-awaited, interim report card on President Bush's troop surge strategy.
"And I believe that if we wilt or leave, America's security will be much worse off, " Bush said, in a joint appearance with Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi before reporters in the White House Rose Garden.
Now some in the administration want the White House, the president, to consider writing an interim Iraqi constitution, and evennaming an interim Iraqi appointed leader.
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who remained under house arrest Thursday, said she is working to form an interim national unity government that would replace President Gen.
The leader of the House of Commons Sir George Young has held a meeting with the interim chief executive Andrew McDonald.
Instead, following the precedent established with the 1972 Interim Agreement on Offensive Arms (SALT I), both the Senate and the House of Representatives would be encouraged to pass a symbolic joint resolution endorsing the bilateral chemical weapons pact.
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