"Democratic Party and LDP defense policy is basically the same, " says Seiji Maehara, a Democratic Party lower house member.
"We don't have any qualified candidates, so he'll have to do, " said lower house member Kazuo Aichi last week.
With the help of a bonus given to the winning party, the pro-Berlusconi camp has a 98-seat majority in the 630-member lower chamber, with all but a few thousand votes counted.
Musharraf's party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam (PML-Q), conceded defeat and the main opposition parties -- PPP and Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) - together emerged with a majority in the 342-member lower house of the National Assembly (NA).
This week the parties agreed that the number of seats in the 500-member elected lower house which are reserved for the armed forces should be cut by half, to 38.
"It's an embarrassment, " says Mayumi Moriyama, a member of the lower house of parliament and a former education minister.
The European Union instituted regulations requiring its member states to lower emissions.
WSJ: Rise in U.S. Gas Production Fuels Unexpected Plunge in Emissions
Anvar Batalov, a member of the lower house, says that Kazakhs do not want to be influenced by Russia, which is due to hold elections in the summer of 2000.
Your argument is that almost all administrative cost is fixed and thus on what you define as total cost the private sector administrative cost on a per member basis is lower.
"We think it is fundamental to clean up this situation, " says Cecilia Merchan, a member of the lower house of the Argentine Congress and a leading voice in the pro-choice debate.
BBC: Debate over legalising abortion intensifies in Argentina
The new finance minister has held a number of cabinet posts, including the transport and education portfolios and is currently a member of the Lower House budget committee and was manager of Koizumi's campaign to head the LDP.
Around 70 proposals are on the table, most of which will decide whether member nations increase or lower the level of protection on various species.
"We want to avoid being called merchants of death, " says Akihisa Nagashima, a pro-defense Democratic Party member of Japan's lower house.
But more to the point, as a member of the WTO China currently enjoys lower trade barriers with the U.S. than it would otherwise.
We were also pleased to note the admission of Myanmar as sixth member of the LMI at the 5th Lower Mekong Initiative Ministerial Meeting on 13 July 2012 in Phnom Penh.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
The EEF also urged the government to deal with the UK's "woeful" levels of research and development investment, which remain lower than levels in the US and all but one member of the European Union.
In their absence, recent pay awards have been lower in Germany than elsewhere, says Peter Bofinger, a member of the government's committee of economic wise men.
One mayoral hopeful, former City Council Member Sal Albanese, a Democrat who is polling lower than Mr. Liu, urged the comptroller to drop out of the race.
As such, she becomes the first third-party member of the Assembly, the state's lower legislative house, since 1917, and the first Green elected to partisan office in the United States.
According to Zulaie Cobra, the member of the judicial-reform committee in the lower house of Congress who presented the latest proposals this week, the first priority should be to set up a new body to investigate allegations of corruption and other misbehaviour by judges.
As a member of the euro currency, Cyprus can raise or lower taxes whenever it wants.
The five-member commission acts as both judge and jury, applies lower standards of evidence and allows no appeal to civilian courts.
Virden is a member of the Homeowners' Hurricane Insurance Initiative, a group seeking lower rates and more justification for pricing.
According to court documents obtained by CNN, the victim argued in her appeal that the real reason the lower court tossed out the case was that the alleged perpetrator was a powerful member of the Saudi royal family.
He also said the 23-member governing council was looking at "various tools" that go beyond lower interest rates in case the economic recovery doesn't turn out as expected.
Proponents of the pact say it would lower prices for consumers and provide new markets for the strongest industries in each of the member countries.
Because all member states share the same nominal interest rate, slow-growing economies with lower inflation, such as Germany and Italy, have higher real interest rates than fast growers, such as Spain and Greece.
One of the candidates was running as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan (the current governing majority in the Diet lower house).
Balotelli's Milan teammate Kevin-Prince Boateng, a member of the task force, walked off following racist chanting during an exhibition match against lower division team Pro Patria in January.
We welcomed increasing regional cooperation under the U.S.-Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) in the areas of energy security, health, agriculture and food security, education, connectivity, environment and water, which significantly contributes to quality of life and capacity building among the Lower Mekong Basin countries, and supports ASEAN's aim of narrowing the development gap among its Member States and addressing the common challenges.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
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