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lower chamber
[ loh-er ]
lower chamber
Word History and Origins
Origin of lower chamber1
Example Sentences
A similar bill cleared a House committee earlier in the day and could come up for a floor vote in the lower chamber by Friday, the midpoint of the General Assembly session and the deadline for bills to clear one chamber and “cross over” to the other.
Never mind that the Republican Party controlled the lower chamber of the legislature for eight years of the decade and the upper chamber for six.
Drucker held a similar role in the House GOP's 2012 and 2014 campaigns, both of which ended with the party in firm control of the lower chamber.
Even though Democrats lost seats in the lower chamber, there were very few people who voted for opposite parties for president and House.
The GOP is eyeing five DFL-held Senate seats and would love to flip the state House as well, although the math — the DFL has a 16-seat advantage in the lower chamber — makes the latter more unlikely.
The lower chamber had voted to approve the latest GOP continuing resolution by a vote of 228-201 on Monday evening.
Decent reform legislation passed its lower chamber 165 to 1.
A hole is punched in the side of the lower chamber with an awl, and the fuse inserted through this opening.
The lower chamber is then loaded with powder and closed by turning over the paper at the end.
There is also a fuse extending from the powder in the lower chamber through the side of the cracker.
Clinton Paige, and myself, were in the lower chamber, and Moseley on the Senate side.
We are assured that the king's warrant decreeing the dissolution of the Lower Chamber will be officially published to-morrow.
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