61.   Communists could regroup to combat the executive branch in the Duma, the lower house of parliament, which they control.

62.   Communism may be dead, but Communists and their ideological allies still control the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.

63.   Commenting on the parliamentary impasse over the budget bill, Kubo said he has no intention of forcing a vote in the lower house budget committee.

64.   Cubas was impeached by the lower house of Congress on Wednesday, a day after Argana was killed.

65.   Currently, the lower house nominates and appoints the council members.

66.   Debate in the lower house of parliament will begin tomorrow, with a vote scheduled for Saturday.

67.   Deputies in the lower house rejected a measure to establish a minimum retirement age and maintained special pension benefits for college professors.

68.   Earlier this year, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver introduced into the lower house a bill that would force statewide officeholders to disclose contributors to out-of-state political committees.

69.   Electoral changes increased the size of the Senate and removed provisions that for years automatically gave the PRI a ruling majority in the lower house.

70.   Esteemed deputies of the lower house, the present conditions are anything but simple.