bicameral

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The bipartisan, bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China, where we serve as chair and ranking member, has worked to expose this threat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

These include expanding parliament into a bicameral system, with a new 100‑seat upper house allocated according to each party's share of the national vote.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

About two-thirds of the world’s countries have only one legislative house—not counting technically bicameral countries such as the U.K., where one house holds nearly all real legislative power.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2025

“I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan, bicameral and utterly fantastic bill,” said Representative Lloyd K. Smucker, Republican of Pennsylvania.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2023

The bicameral system of 1795-1799 was succeeded by the anomalous legislative r�gime of Napoleon, but under the Constitutional Charter of 1814 the two-house principle was revived and continuously applied through a period of thirty-four years.

From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin