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Upper Houses in Legislatures: who and what do they actually represent? India Updated: Friday, January 8, 2021, 16:24 [IST] The heart-beat of representative democracy is the working of legislative institutions which represent the citizens. In recent times, the role and functioning of such legislative bodies have come under close scrutiny. The recent suicide by the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council in Karnataka, a few weeks after he was dragged out of the Presiding Officers Chair, is still fresh in public memory. The unseemly events witnessed in the Karnataka Legislative Council raise ...

Separated at the border. >> i would say that none of this reflects well on congress or the administration in terms of our inability to solve the problem. >> the upper chambers top republican, senator mitch mcconnell says that nobody will be tarred by this crisis because they're going to come up with a solution. his counterpart, democratic senator chuck schumer says he's not interested in negotiating a new bill because congress doesn't have a good track record on immigration so schumer would let it play out. the longer it does, the more opportunities rank and file democrats have to criticize th...