Northern Ireland's hardline Protestant cleric and lawmaker Ian Paisley praised Blair for his role in brokering peace in Northern Ireland.
And in the Ukraine, Parliament was briefly suspended. That's after a lawmaker brawled with opposition politicians over the language used in a speech.
What's more, it's clear the lawmaker lied about his personal misconduct, blatantly and repeatedly.
The seat had previously been held by his father, Ichiro Nakagawa, who was also a senior LDP lawmaker.
Negotiations reconvene one day after the top Republican lawmaker suggested an ambitious effort to trim future indebtedness by more than $4 trillion may be unworkable.
Not surprisingly, America's sixteenth President is a hero of another former Illinois lawmaker.
Mr Kan again faced criticism in parliament on Monday - with one opposition lawmaker suggesting he had been ill-prepared from the outset.
The Panama deal has been on ice since a Panamanian lawmaker — accused in the U.S. of killing an American soldier in 1992 — was tapped to lead that nation's Legislature.
Yasar Yakis, a lawmaker in the governing party and the former foreign minister, confirmed that no agreement had been reached but said the two sides would continue talks.
Coakley's challenger, the pickup-driving Republican State lawmaker Scott Brown, has the backing of frustrated Tea Party voters.
The party's most flamboyant lawmaker is a transvestite actor and singer.
A former U. S. lawmaker who played a key role in the ouster of Soviet forces from Afghanistan has died.
Massey's plea agreement says he offered a state senator $1 million for a favorable vote, and he authorized his assistant to tell the lawmaker as much as $2 million of Gilley's money was available.
After all, it is hard to negotiate with a fellow lawmaker if the next minute "you walk out on the steps and call [him] a weasel," says Ross Ramsey, the editor of Texas Weekly, a political newsletter.
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