WASHINGTON, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed a disaster aid bill after conservative lawmakers blocked the bill last week. The bill, designed to provide funding for regions hit by natural disasters, was approved in a 354-58 vote. It will be sent to t...
The meaning of HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is the lower house of a legislative body —often used in capitalized form to refer to a specific lower house. How to use house of representatives in a sentence.
“The House of Representatives is a rough and rowdy place,” he said. “This is only the beginning.” Gonzales cited cuts totaling $75 billion to national security funding, reportedly agreed to in McCarthy’s numerous concessions to far-right lawmakers last week, in ...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at slapping sanctions on Turkey over its military offensive in northern Syria. The vote was 403 to 16, with only 15 Republicans and one Democrat voting against the measure. The bill...
After the U.S.House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at retaliatory(报复的)action against China for its“significantly undervalued”currency, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged the IMF to pressure China to adopt“more flexible, more market-directed exchange-rate management”.This is a co...
The U.S. House of Representatives greenlighted the bill by a 360-58 vote Saturday. The bill would give ByteDance up to a year to divest its U.S. assets including TikTok, otherwise the Chinese tech giant would face a ban on its app being available in U.S. app stores or on U.S. ...
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House of Representatives A number of studies suggest that the gender of a legislator affects his or her congressional ideology. We argue that these studies may have produced mislea... LA Schwindt-Bayer,R Corbetta - 《Legislative Studies Quarterly》...
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed an immigration bill that could offer path to citizenship to undocumented immigrants in defiance of U.S. President Donald Trump's opposition. The 237-187 vote was largely along party lines with only seven Repub...
The bill has been repeatedly refiled for the past 17 years but failed to take off. Last year, Roman, the first transgender member of the House of Representatives in the Philippines' history, took to the podium to urge other representatives in the House to finally pass the bill. A similar...