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
C Denise Marcelle, who has represented East Baton Rouge in the Louisiana house of representatives since 2015, testified against the state’s six-week ban in May.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2019
In the house of representatives there is this difference, that the people of one State do not, as in the case of president and vice president, all vote for the same officers.
From The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met by A. D. Steight
