Only one lawmaker in the lower chamber voted against impeachment, while 76 voted in favor.
Republicans control the House of Representatives - the lower chamber of Congress - but not the Senate.
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Before it becomes law, it must be passed by the lower chamber and then signed by the president.
Voters will elect representatives for half of the Argentine lower Chamber of Deputies and a third of the Senate.
Giovanni Sartori, a former professor at Columbia University, foresees endless disputes between the lower Chamber of Deputies and a new federal Senate.
The prosecutors are all members of the lower chamber who happen to be lawyers, and some of their courtroom skills are pretty rusty.
Opposition is concentrated in the lower chamber, where conservatives are concerned about Medicaid's large and growing costs and the Florida budget's dependence on federal funds.
The lower chamber of Congress has frequently served as a foil for Presidential candidates trying to distance themselves from the more radical elements in their party.
Rangel, one-time chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was censured by the lower chamber in 2010 after he was found guilty of ethics violations.
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In a surge in support, Beppe Grillo's anti-austerity Five Star Movement attracted 25.54% of the vote, making it the most popular single party in the lower chamber.
The House of Representatives voted down the bill at the start of last week, sending shares sliding, but after the Senate passed it, the lower chamber reconsidered.
In a surge in support, Beppe Grillo's anti-austerity Five Star Movement attracted more than a quarter of the vote, making it the most popular single party in the lower chamber.
Moreover, because tax legislation by law must originate in the House, the Senate bill, even if it passes in its present form, cannot simply be approved by the lower chamber.
With the help of a bonus given to the winning party, the pro-Berlusconi camp has a 98-seat majority in the 630-member lower chamber, with all but a few thousand votes counted.
Ryan, who chairs the House Budget Committee, has at least fulfilled the legal obligation for annual budget resolutions in the lower chamber, but he's gone far beyond that to provide leadership on the long-term fiscal crisis facing the nation.
Of course I am referring to the bill to raise the consumption tax from the current 5% to 10% by October 2015 which was passed in the lower Diet chamber on June 26 and the upper chamber on August 10.
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Even its current, diminished performance, repeated at the general election that has to be held by next spring, would give M5S about 80 of the seats in the 630-seat lower house Chamber of Deputies and, perhaps, the balance of power.
On Wednesday, Taoiseach Enda Kenny told the Irish Republic's lower parliamentary chamber, the Dail, that Mr Halappanavar had said that he did not want anyone from University Hospital Galway taking part in the inquiry, and that was no longer the case.
An LV lead (a thin, coated wire) is placed on the lower left chamber of the heart (the left ventricle) to stimulate the two sides of the heart to beat in synchronization with each other, which helps the heart to beat more efficiently.
Around 30% of the party's candidates for the lower-house Chamber of Deputies are under 40, and 42% are women.
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With returns from almost all districts processed, Mr Bersani's centre-left bloc had won 29.57% of the vote for the lower house (Chamber of Deputies) to 29.15% for Mr Berlusconi's bloc.
His government's use of procedural devices to cut short parliamentary debate has even been criticised by his ally, Gianfranco Fini, former leader of the National Alliance and now speaker of the lower-house Chamber of Deputies.
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The centre-left won the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, with a wafer-thin margin of the nationwide vote.
After a contentious battle, the Dominican Republic's Constitution was amended several years ago to allow for seven members of its Lower House, or Chamber of Deputies, to be elected from abroad.
On Aug. 4 they filed a 44-page complaint with the Civil Chamber of the lower court of Dusseldorf, a wealthy city in western Germany.
Eleven air pillars now hold up the pyramid's roof, with another six, flatter, bespoke columns currently being manufactured to support the lower corners of the burial chamber.
Joe Biden should heed the call of our United States Chamber of Commerce to lower corporate tax rates (and, yes, effective rates as well) to help restore our jobs market.
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Already, the Ozawa party seems likely to become the third largest in the lower house, the key parliamentary chamber, coming after the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) crowding out the New Komeito (NK).
Those conciliatory words may help lower the rising temperatures in the Senate chamber.
Under Italy's new electoral system the Italian senate has similar powers and electoral arrangements to the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house.
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