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Representatives in the House will debate and vote Friday on the Inflation Reduction Act. The event is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. ET. Watch the video above.
The House of Commons accepted a House of Lords amendment to Dominic Grieve's amendment, further strengthening Parliament's power to sit despite prorogation, 315–273. [120] In addition, three humble addresses were passed without division. Unlike Opposition Day motions, these are binding.
The Speaker presides over debates in the House of Commons, as depicted in the above print commemorating the destruction of the Commons Chamber by fire in 1834. At the beginning of each new parliamentary term, the House of Commons elects one of its members as a presiding officer, known as the Speaker.
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the lower house and primary chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. [3] The current speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, was elected Speaker on 4th of November 2019, following the retirement of John Bercow.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters amid work on a coronavirus relief package and a Democratic effort to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., from committee ...
BBC Parliament is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel from the BBC that showcases parliamentary content from across the United Kingdom. It broadcasts live and recorded coverage of the British Parliament (House of Commons, House of Lords and Select Committees), the Scottish Parliament, the London Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Senedd.
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After a new Petitions Committee is set up by the House of Commons, closed petitions are not reopened. Petitions which reach 100,000 signatures are considered by the committee for debate. Petitions may not be put forward for debate if the issue has been debated recently, or is already scheduled for debate in the near future.