Article: FED: Senate in danger of becoming Howard's "rubber stamp":Greens

Article: Fed: Senate in danger of becoming Howard's rubber ...
AAP General News (Australia);  September 26, 2004 ;     405 words ... ... 09-26-2004 Fed: Senate in danger of becoming Howard's rubber stamp: Greens SYDNEY, Sept ... close to turning the senate into a rubber stamp. "He's made the ... Howard wants to make the Senate a rubber stamp. "The only real insurance ...

Article: Fed: Fraser hopes Senate won't be just a rubber ...
AAP General News (Australia);  October 19, 2004 ;     438 words ... ... Fed: Fraser hopes Senate won't be just a rubber stamp SYDNEY, Oct 19 ... today he hoped the Senate would not become just a rubber stamp under the Howard ... radio 2UE if the Senate could now become a rubber stamp for the government ...

Article: Fed: Clerk says Senate change would make rubber ...
AAP General News (Australia);  June 10, 2003 ;     529 words ...00-00-0000 Fed: Clerk says Senate change would make rubber stamp CANBERRA, June 10 AAP - Prime Minister John Howard's plan to reform the Senate would result in parliament becoming a rubber stamp of the type that produced the Bjelke ...

Article: Fed: Senate not rubber stamp: Brown
AAP General News (Australia);  May 13, 2009 ;     268 words ... ... Australia) 05-13-2009 Fed: Senate not rubber stamp: Brown CANBERRA, May 13 ... reminded the prime minister the Senate is not a rubber stamp for his government's second ... Kevin Rudd has called on the Senate to pass the budget in its ...

Article: FED: ALP Senate plan would turn chamber into rubber ...
AAP General News (Australia);  March 17, 1999 ;     636 words ... ... 17-1999 FED: ALP Senate plan would turn chamber into rubber stamp By Stephen Spencer CANBERRA ... s plan to strip the Senate of its powers to reject ... chamber into a meaningless rubber stamp, a key senate official warned today ...

Article: No time for a Senate CWC rubber ...
The Washington Times;  June 26, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... have their way, the Senate will soon be asked to rubber-stamp one of the most recklessly ... The Republican Senate's advice and consent ... for Mr. Lugar's rubber-stamp rather than Mr ... awaiting the full Senate's considerat

Article: Not a rubber-stamp Congress; House and ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  January 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Republican-majority House and Senate - a Congress his campaigning ... high ground, will not find a rubber stamp at the end of every gavel on ... White House goals, whether by Senate filibusters or peeling some ... to the Bush agenda. In the Senate, many incoming GOP committee ...