But St Petersburg lawmaker Vitaly Milonov, who is known for drafting legislation that inspired Russia's 2013 law against gay propaganda, praised the administrative arrest and recommended that the women face "corrective labour".
Bachmann, a member of the House intelligence committee, made the allegations in a June letter to the state department as well as in a letter Wednesday to fellow Minnesota lawmaker, represenative Keith Ellison, a Democrat.
A group of Russian MPs have formally requested prosecutors to investigate former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for treason over the breakup of the Soviet Union, a lawmaker said on Thursday.
John McCain took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to repudiate suggestions by his fellow Republican lawmaker, Michele Bachmann, that the family of a longtime aide to secretary of state Hillary Clinton had ties to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
Unions have gone all-out to block the deal, warning that they might withhold endorsements from any lawmaker who votes for fast track.
No, nor even as lawmaker, policeman, jury, judge and executioner to planet Earth.
Other SDP candidates include a lesbian-rights activist who is expected to run in a glitzy commercial district of Taipei, possibly against a stuffy KMT lawmaker who opposes gay marriage.
AS RETIREMENTS and primary contests have chipped centrists away from Congress one by one, usually to be replaced with an ideologically purer lawmaker, voting in the House and the Senate has become drearily predictable.
So it is inevitable that pachinko will come under similar scrutiny, says Takeshi Iwaya, a lawmaker with the ruling Liberal Democrats.Pachinko bosses insist the game is played for fun and for trivial prizes.
He also complained that a federal court edict legalising the use of contraception by unmarried couples was "illogical .As a lawmaker and, later, Virginia's attorney-general, Mr McDonnell did not forget his research paper.
"Some people, including me, regard Mr Ozawa as the symbol of old politics," says Keisuke Tsumura, a DPJ lawmaker.
