It passed in the upper chamber, 68-31, in late April with bipartisan support.
The Diet's less powerful upper chamber has sometimes been a bellwether of popular opinion.
The upper chamber of Congress was a constitutional compromise between popular sovereignty and state sovereignty.
The last senator to become an independent had a more dramatic effect on the upper chamber.
He is obliged, therefore, to form alliances with opposition parties to get legislation through the upper chamber.
But Mr Heller may prefer the safety of the House to a risky run for the upper chamber.
It is now expected to be passed by the upper chamber and signed off by President Vladimir Putin.
Lord Dubs said peers should be told they will lose their titles if they remain in the upper chamber.
Ministers may be more alarmed by evidence of changing sentiment inside the Commons about what should replace the existing upper chamber.
When the new charter was drafted, it was thought that none of these responsibilities could be entrusted to an unelected upper chamber.
As a giant Royal Standard fluttered from the flagpole above the parliament building, peers gathered in the Upper Chamber to await her arrival.
Only a year ago, Mr Bush was in a pickle, after the defection of Senator Jim Jeffords handed the upper chamber to the Democrats.
Democratic senators would retaliate against any nuclear attack by using all the other delaying tactics open to them to close down the upper chamber.
She told delegates that the best way to make the upper chamber more representative was by allowing a proportion of members to be appointed.
The Senate should take up a budget resolution next week, and Senate leaders fanned out across the upper chamber Wednesday in search of votes.
He made his calculations based on there being 450 members of a new upper chamber or senate, 150 more than initially proposed by the government.
But Barack Obama captured the open Senate seat in Illinois for the Democrats, becoming only the fifth black ever to sit in the upper chamber.
Senior Senate Democrats said the upper chamber would vote on some sort of compromise proposal at the weekend, and invited Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for talks.
The ceremony brings MPs and peers together in the upper chamber to listen to the speech, which sets out the government's legislative plans for the forthcoming session.
Britain should join them, with a wholly elected upper chamber.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has unveiled plans to reform the upper chamber, which include replacing the current lords and baronesses with 300 paid, elected "senators" serving 15-year terms.
Former President Daniel arap Moi's shadow is also back in parliament and the new upper chamber, the Senate, in the form of his two sons, Alexander and Raymond Moi.
Peers in parliament's upper chamber voted by 212 to 92 on Monday to allow research using stem cells to develop treatments for killer diseases such as leukaemia, Parkinson's and cancer.
They emphasise the fact that the Democrats need a clean sweep of six Senate seats (and must save an iffy seat in New Jersey) if they are to take over the upper chamber.
According to Mr Tyrie, this marks a shift of opinion inside his own party: when he published a pamphlet last year suggesting that the upper chamber should be directly elected, virtually no Conservatives agreed.
Senate talks with House leaders last week produced tentative plans to allow proceedings to move straight to conference committee, but an agreement stayed out of reach as the upper chamber adjourned for the weekend.
With their increased powers, Britain's top judges should be removed from the House of Lords, and this change should not wait for the government to decide what next to do about the upper chamber.
Evidently, this misconduct was deemed necessary because, even with control of both the House and Senate infriendly hands, President Obama required Republican votes in the upper chamber to secure passage of his repeal initiative.
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For Republicans, who hold a 55 to 45 majority in the upper chamber, it is a chance to widen their majority if they are not stung too badly by any potential backlash from the impeachment proceedings.
The two current Senate bills are now being reconciled into a version that the upper chamber will vote on soon, and the outcome of that process must be reconciled with whatever merged bill passes the House.
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