On the same day, Italy's upper house began voting on amendments to a bill to reduce the senate from 315 members (excluding senators for life) to 100 and fill it with lawmakers from municipal and regional government or presidential appointees rather than elected representatives.
A 200 million DM (US$100 million) deficiency in AOK's budget for the current fiscal year is forcing the senate to reduce the number of beds at Buch's two university hospitals, the Robert Rößle Klinik and the Franz Volhard Klinik, from 315 to 150.
The government wanted to create a post of prime minister and reduce the role of the senate in overseeing the ethnic balance in state institutions but it fell one vote short of the required 80% majority.
Thus, the letter continued, "the Senate-passed act would reduce both illegal entry into the country and the number of people who stay in the country beyond the end of their authorized period".
Two months later, the families of the children who perished in the Sandy Hook shooting watched as the US senate failed to advance a single measure to reduce gun violence – despite holding consecutive votes on bills designed to expand background checks, ban assault weapons, limit high-capacity ammunition and prevent illegal gun trafficking across state lines.
In Liberia, senate elections due next week have been postponed to help reduce the risk of voters spreading the virus.
Liberia's senate elections due next week have been postponed to help reduce the risk of voters spreading the virus.
"We've got a clear mandate to repeal the carbon tax, we've got a clear mandate to repeal the mining tax, we've got a clear mandate to stop the boats, we've got a clear mandate to build infrastructure, to reduce red tape, and I'm confident that minor parties in the senate understand that and will support that".
The cuts were required in 2011 when a special House-Senate committee was unable to come up with a compromise plan to reduce the deficit.
The MPG's senate decided on further consolidation measures during its annual assembly in Hamburg in order to reduce annual operation costs by up to ?50 million.
In France, backed by a commission of the senate, they vehemently protested that it would make their work more, rather than less, dangerous: it would reduce the number of punters, they say, and leave them facing greater competition, the more vulnerable because they would have less choice.
