1.   The President, who is head of state, is elected by the federal legislature for a term of five years.

2.   Ultimately, however, the talks foundered on the issue of how to reform the Senate, the unelected upper house of the federal legislature.

3.   Election officials have also overturned PRI victories for two seats in the federal legislature from the states of Jalisco and Michoacan.

4.   Fernando Rodrguez Gonzalez is a consultant to the water commission of the lower house of the federal legislature, which is headed by Munoz Rocha.

5.   Some states have voted to limit their U.S. senators and representatives, but that raises a constitutional question whether states can set conditions for members of the federal legislature.

6.   The Court stated with absolute clarity that the qualifications for the federal legislature were determined by the Constitution alone and that individual states may not tamper with them.

7.   As federal president, Milosevic was voted into office - and also can be voted out of it - by federal legislature.

8.   Extending Powers of Civil Protection The Committee on Government and Constitutional Points sponsored an initiative to grant the federal legislature greater power in times of national emergency.

9.   Passage of Sports Initiative This bill will allow the federal legislature greater power in updating sports laws.

10.   Some of them have threatened to try to unseat him in a vote during the current session of the federal legislature, which began Monday.