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
Voters also cast their ballots for for 109 federal senators and 360 members of the house of representatives, with another vote for state governors in March.
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 son, Tom, a member of Mississippi’s house of representatives, called her one night to remind her she did not need to go to work.
From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2020
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 Steight, A. D.