• When you get specific feedback from your audience, you can refine, tweak, and improve your product in this case your presentation much in the same way cars and expensive household appliances even ordinary house- hold products are improved by using feedback from expensive focus group testing.

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  • Mr Boehner, the Republican likely to become speaker of the House when the next Congress convenes in January, said four legislators - one from each party from both the House and Senate - would hold talks soon with the White House to negotiate a resolution to the tax issue.

    BBC: Obama says talks with Congress leaders 'a good start'

  • They note that President George W. Bush's Justice Department refused to take any action after a Democratic-controlled House voted in early 2008 to hold then-White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and then-White House Counsel Harriet Miers in contempt for actions relating to the controversial dismissal of several U.S. prosecutors.

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  • Unofficial forecasts suggested little overall change in the more important, and less tractable, lower house, with pro-government parties continuing to hold around 380 out of its 513 seats.

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  • The ECBs policy-setting council will hold a rare Sunday conference call to talk its own in-house problems, Reuters reported on Saturday.

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  • Right now, Democrats hold a 78-vote margin in the House, and 18 in the Senate, larger margins than President Bush ever had.

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  • Though ballots were still being counted in some races Wednesday morning, CNN projects that Democrats will hold a 234-201 advantage in the House.

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  • Democrats hold a 253-177 advantage in the House, with four seats that they once held vacant and one seat that the GOP held vacant.

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  • On Monday the White House announced Vice-President Dick Cheney would visit Tbilisi next month and hold talks with President Mikhail Saakashvili, in a move analysts say will further irritate the Kremlin.

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  • Washington (CNN) -- The top Republican on the House Oversight Committee is moving to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate in the panel's investigation of the controversial "Operation Fast and Furious" weapons sting.

    CNN: House committee weighs Holder contempt resolution

  • The Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees the IRS, will hold a hearing on Friday.

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  • Last year, her party lost its majority in the Upper House after failing to hold on to another highly populated region, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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  • There are three residential care homes in St Helier - St Helier House which houses 56 people, Maison de Ville which can hold 50 residents and St Ewolds which accommodates 66 people.

    BBC: St Helier parishioners asked to approve ?15m for care

  • In 2003 the government proposed stripping the prime minister of the powers to decide how many peers are created, but the package was put on hold amid opposition to the idea of an all-appointed House of Lords.

    BBC: Guide to peers and House of Lords

  • House Speaker Gordon Fox, D-Providence, who is gay, had vowed to hold a vote on gay marriage early in the session.

    NPR: RI On Way To Be 10th State To Allow Gay Marriage

  • In an interview with CNN, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, also called on the administration to hold a budget summit with members of Congress.

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  • It said the money saved by cutting the size of the House of Lords could be spent on a bigger assembly - something that was needed to hold the Welsh government to account.

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  • Filling a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year can be tricky business, with the party that does not hold the White House preferring to delay in the hope that a like-minded president will be elected.

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  • The House subcommittee on forests, which Mr McInnis heads, will hold a hearing on eco-terrorism in February.

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  • The Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees the IRS, announced it will hold a hearing Friday.

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  • Those which performed poorly would have to take swift action to improve, or be instructed by the government to hold a competitive tender--or even to disband their in-house provision altogether.

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  • The auction house has seating for about 150 people, and can hold an estimated 500 people for standing-room crowds, he said.

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  • The local authority will hold workshops at Lochaber House in Fort William on 18 April from 15:00-19:00 to help residents draw up plans.

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  • Even the recent historic Mar. 4 poll for Thailand's upper house -- which people somehow thought would be clean -- saw dozens of putative Senators put on hold by the Election Commission subject to investigation into vote-buying allegations.

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  • Any deal needs to pass the 100-member Senate, which is controlled by Democrats, before heading to the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold the majority.

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  • About three dozen House races and a dozen Senate races will determine the final make-up of Congress, with Republicans slightly favored to hold their majorities but perhaps by very slender margins.

    CNN: Final day of tight race for power in U.S. Congress

  • We hold this hearing because Rule 10 of the House of Representatives requires us to exercise continuing oversight over the -- quote -- "application, administration, execution and effectiveness" -- close quote -- of the laws under our jurisdiction.

    CNN: Transcript: House Judiciary Committee

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