Similar words: representative, representation, misrepresentation, proportional representation, presentation, represent, in the presence of, for the present. Meaning: n. the lower legislative house of the United States Congress.
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91 In a rare Sunday session, the US House of Representatives is debating the health care reform bill at the centre of President Obama's domestic agenda.
92 S. House of Representatives, his party won't be in the minority much longer.
93 Emily's father also served in powerful positions on the General Court of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives.
94 The United States Senate and House of Representatives are due to vote on a bill to raise the limit on US borrowing ahead of a deadline to avert an unprecedented debt default.
95 Before he was vice president, LBJ had served for many years in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
96 Democrats lost strength in the Senate and their majority in the House of Representatives on November 2 in elections Obama described famously as a "shellacking", or heavy beating.
97 These steps include the recent passage through the House of Representatives of amendments to the ESOS Act that will require re-registration of all providers of international education in Australia.
98 European Parliament adopted resolutions in support of Tibetan independence for Beijing to discredit United States House of Representatives passed a resolution to boycott Chinese Olympic!
99 The House of Representatives passed health care legislation earlier this month.
100 We look forward to working with him in the United States House of Representatives as well as with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton," he said.
101 The US House of Representatives approved a cap-and-trade bill to fight climate change in 2009, but the Senate never approved such a measure.
102 Mezvinsky, 31, is an investment banker whose parents, Edward Mezvinsky and Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, are both former Democratic members of the US House of Representatives.
103 McKinney represented a suburban district of Atlanta, Georgia, as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives for six terms -- five consecutively.
104 On the approval by the US House of Representatives concerning the US-India civilian nuclear cooperation accord, Liu Jianchao said that China has taken note of the report.
105 Republicans also increased their majority in the House of Representatives.
106 Serving in the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1821, Tyler voted against most nationalist legislation and opposed the Missouri Compromise.
107 Similarly, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, Sander Levin, said the United States should keep "all options" open to pressure China on its currency.
108 "The area is highly militarized, " says Satur Ocampo, a longtime foe of the government who now serves as deputy leader of the opposition in the Philippines House of Representatives.
109 The U.S. House of Representatives adopted a similar motion on the sex slaves -- known euphemistically in Japan as "comfort women" -- in late July.
110 Some years ago, the House of Representatives established a sort of automatic mechanism for raising the debt limit and has voted to raise it to $13,000bn.
111 Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
112 It enabled the Democrats to capture the House of Representatives in the congressional elections.
113 "One look at the jobs report should show the White House it's time to get serious about cutting spending and healing our ailing economy," said U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner.
114 Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, is somewhat better-known, partly because she is the first woman to fill that post.
115 Today he represents Georgia’s 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
116 Analysis, the Cabinet Office vice minister of the use of close relationship with the House of Representatives Ozawa mound a macro,(http://sentencedict.com/house of representatives.html) followed the focus on party unity cabinet personnel policy.
117 China's government is expressing anger with the U.S. House of Representatives.
118 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton.
119 The ACT was given its first federal parliamentary representation in 1949, when it gained a seat in the House of Representatives, the Division of Australian Capital Territory.
120 When she became the first woman of color and first Asian-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1964, she championed the rights of immigrants, minorities, women and children.
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