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.
The proposed new senate will have drastically reduced legislative powers.In this section The ex-Cavaliere is back on his horse A mighty mess A front-line state Still tightly monitored Alone at the top ReprintsFor some critics, particularly in the populist Five Star Movement, this is a lurch towards authoritarian government.
Although Mrs. Clinton has reduced her first lady duties since starting her New York Senate campaign, the White House social office has remained up and running, providing Mrs. Clinton with a series of marquee social occasions to break up the monotony of the campaign trail.
"We have successfully delinked G.D.P. from carbon, and what that means is that we have had continued economic growth, we added 498,000 jobs, more jobs than any other state in the country in 2014, and at the same time we have greatly reduced carbon emissions," Kevin de León, president pro tempore of the state senate, said in a phone interview.
Images from the country's capital show the ornate presidential palace and national cathedral reduced to rubble, along with the country's parliament building, where the senate president was among those trapped.
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.
Maurizio Sacconi, senate head of the government's coalition partner the New Centre Right party, demanded the number of amendments be "drastically reduced" or a system of time limits be imposed to make sure a vote was held on time.
By the end of the day, Republicans had passed bills which reduced the number of potential gubernatorial appointees from 1,500 to 300 (there are currently roughly 1,400 McCrory hires working in state government), mandated that the governor's cabinet picks be approved by the state senate, and took away the governor's ability to appoint trustees to the University of North Carolina system.
But she was not particularly worried that the referendum – on measures intended to make Italy easier to govern by reducing the power of the senate – could hasten a general election and open the door to a victory for the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, the second most popular party in Italy.
