The elections are staggered so that about one-third of the "upper" chamber faces a challenge in any given election cycle.
The researchers used a biological air chamber to replicate conditions in one- and two-bed hospital rooms.
Liberal Democrat, Conservative and Green councillors loudly opposed the Labour plan and one anti-cuts protester had to be ejected from the chamber.
By contrast, their away record is a chamber of horrors - 38 games, one win, two draws and 35 defeats, with 21 goals for and 104 against.
Labour's submission to the commission made clear the party preferred a wholly appointed chamber to an elected or part-elected one.
MPs will vote for some kind of democratically-elected element, the notion of an entirely-appointed second chamber (not very different from the existing one) will win more support than any of the hybrid options.
One recent weapon is what frog-busters are calling a "hot shower chamber, " a modified freight container used by nurseries to ship plants, with multiple heads that spray heated water onto the plants and kill any coquis that might be lurking there.
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The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats agreed in their coalition deal to set up a committee to examine proposals for a "wholly or mainly elected upper chamber" - but the issue is seen as one that is driven more by the Lib Dems.
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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The security staff - wearing their traditional black tails and at least one sporting a sword - did stop three protesters and quickly wrestled the five who broke into the chamber to the ground and out of the chamber as MPs looked on in shocked disbelief.
In Westminster Hall, the Commons parallel debating chamber, one of the subjects will pick up complaints about the Legal Aid etc Bill - the effect of changes to legal aid on the not-for-profit advice sector.
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