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The chamber of the Council of States (Rajya Sabha), the Indian Parliament's Upper House. Even without a veto, an upper house may defeat legislation. Its opposition may give the lower chamber a chance to reconsider or even abandon a controversial measure.
The upper chamber shall continue to be known as the House of Lords for legislative purposes. The reformed House of Lords should have 300 members of whom 240 are "Elected Members" and 60 appointed "Independent Members". Up to 12 Church of England archbishops and bishops may sit in the house as ex officio "Lords Spiritual".
The House of Lords is the upper chamber of Parliament, [10] comprising two types of members. The most numerous are the Lords Temporal, consisting mainly of life peers appointed by the sovereign on the advice of the prime minister, [11] plus up to 92 hereditary peers.
The unelected upper chamber of Parliament is packed with almost 800 members – largely lifetime political appointees, with a smattering of judges, bishops and hereditary aristocrats. Starmer has ...
The United States Congress is comprised of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate, or upper chamber, has 100 seats — two per state. Of these, 34 are up for ...
The upper house may add to them what it pleases; may go altogether outside of their original provisions and tack to them entirely new features of legislation, altering not only the amounts but even the objects of expenditure, and making out of the materials sent them by the popular chamber measures of an almost totally new character. [26]
However, the bill could still be altered or even voted down as it makes its way through both the House of Commons and the unelected upper chamber of parliament, the House of Lords.
' Second Chamber ') Lower 4 Party-list proportional representation: 150 111,533 Senate (Eerste Kamer, lit. ' First Chamber ') Upper 4 Indirect party-list proportional (by members of the states-provincial and the Caribbean Electoral colleges for the Senate) 75 223,066 New Zealand: Parliament (Pāremata) [note 2]