Tag: house of representatives

For Disgraced Congressman Who Ousted Brazil’s President Is Revenge Time

On September 12, in an overwhelming vote of 450 to 10, the Brazilian House ...

Brazil President’s Mandate Is Now in the Hands of the Senate

Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies approved the admissibility of President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment request. With ...

Despite Mounting Evidence of Corruption Brazil’s House Speaker Says He Won’t Quit

Lower House Speaker Eduardo Cunha declared earlier this week he is fully entitled to ...

Brazil Won’t Consider Venezuela’s Admission to Mercosur Before 2008

Venezuela will not be considered by Brazil's Congress for a vote of incorporation as ...

Brazil Congress’s Special Session Will Give 310 Legislators Money for Doing Nothing

The president of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, Aldo Rebelo from the São Paulo PCdoB ...

Brazil Can’t Answer This Question: Where Did the Corruption Money Come From?

While the Brazilian Lower House bickers about who will be the successor of House ...

Minister Pans Brazil’s Law Giving Congressmen Right to Be Judged by Supreme Court

The president of Brazil’s Federal Elections Court (TSE, Tribunal Superior Eleitoral), Minister Carlos Velloso, ...

Brazilian Congressmen Want End to Nepotism

Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies’ Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) approved yesterday, unanimously, the Constitutional ...

Brazil’s Lula Tries to Rebuild a National Alliance

Brazil’s political scenery has been redesigned, for all practical purposes, with the inauguration of ...