house of representatives
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Roughly 52 million of Thailand's 65 million population are eligible to cast votes for members of a new 500-seat house of representatives for the next four years.
From Reuters ● May 12, 2023
They had 18 candidates to choose from for president and people also voted for senators and members of the house of representatives.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2023
Hiromichi Watanabe, a member of Japan's more powerful lower house of representatives for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was in Myanmar from Aug 7 to Aug 12, his office confirmed on Friday.
From Reuters ● Aug. 12, 2022
Her goals shifted over time – she published eight romance novels rather than spy novels, and she was elected to the Georgia house of representatives in 2007.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2019
So far as federal officers are concerned this power belongs exclusively to the house of representatives, which acts somewhat as a grand jury does in finding indictments against ordinary criminals.
From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner
